"Please forgive us for breaking into your home yuuji san."
The pregnant woman spoke with a teary eyes.
Is this pregnancy brain or something? Both of them don't seem to be unnerved by my horn.
"Don't worry about it, I found this hut last night so it's not actually 'my' place.
"But.."
"You two don't have a place to stay right."
Both of them flinched at my words. Looks like they realized how bad their situation actually is.
Homeless, broke, and a kid on the way.... perfect recipe for a disaster. I was still thinking about what to do with them. It's okay to just kick them out since I have no obligation to keep them.
But I still want to do something good for once. Till now, all I've done is stir things up to explode into a big soup of chaotic convoluted mess that's probably still going on from the aftereffects.
Of course, it's not my fault things turned out that way, but I still played a small part in it. So I guess it was 0.005% my fault.
I mean.....why should I be held accountable for destroying naruto's planet? Humans constantly do the same, just at a very slow rate. Thus instead of being regarded as the cause for the destruction, I'm like a catalyst that accelerated it.
Breaking away from that train of thought I looked at them and spoke out.
"I can let you two stay, but before that I want to ask you why you two are so carefree . Do you even know who I am?"
Their ears perked up and the woman started looking at me with starts in her eyes.
Was this all it took to impress her? Is my charm that high?
"I know that you are not human yuuji-san but I also feel that you're not evil. I do now know how to explain it but I feel that you will not harm us unless provoked."
"Since my husband yoriichi thinks you're a good person, I have nothing to worry about."
Isn't that just blind faith in your husband though?
"Well, whatever just don't bother me. Don't make too much noise and don't bother preparing food for me. I don't need any sustenance. Also, I'm a demon, the man eating demons in folklore, are you still okay with being near me."
"If you'd allow us we'd be happy to stay here with you yuuji san."
Yoriichi said while slightly leaning down to show respect. He was surprised when he heard that I was a demon but there were no further emotions noteworthy.
He really is a simple man huh....
The woman on the other hand was a little scared but it faded just as quickly as it appeared.
What a strange couple.
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"Huff....huff....huff"
A tired breath escaped from koko as she swung her sword.
It really had been a long day for her....or maybe it's a long night?
The guy who she met at the forest took her to their headquarters and she met a sick looking person claiming to be their boss.
They explained to her everything they knew about demons, although it wasn't much...but it still helped. She then accepted their invitation to join the demon slayer corps.
The organization was relatively new so due to the lack of experts she was put up as a hashira.
Some old coots objected to this saying a woman couldn't handle this demon business but a good beating quickly shut them up.
Right now, she was training with the sword to recreate that phenomenon she experienced when she was fighting.
Abundant life force coursing throughout her body as she executed superhuman feats to dodge those lewd tentacles.
It was hard. As if trying to hold water with a fork. Possible, but temporary. All she felt was a feeling of power rush inside her body and leave as soon as she tried multitasking.
With a lot of experimenting she realized it was her breathing that caused this. She figured this technique might be useful to everyone if she can properly master it and teach it to the others.
With new vigor she started practicing, trying her best to improve than she was before.
As long as there was progress it was okay, no matter how small.
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"Is something bothering you yuuji-san."
Yoriichi spoke out from behind after closing the door. He sat down on the ground and observed the stars waiting for my answer.
"Nothing you should be bothered about yoriichi."
"You look very distressed yuuji-san. I wish to help you."
"Why would you go out of your way to help a stranger?"
*Chuckle*
"I cannot possibly think of you as a stranger after you let us stay in your home."
"Well...I guess it wouldn't hurt to rant a little."
He then looked at me with anticipation, much like his wife.
These two are just made for each other.
"I don't know how to die."
"....Is that bad?"
"Depends on how much you cling to life. To some, it's a blessing while some think of it as a curse."
"I see, so you are worried because of your immortality."
"Yea."
"Yea?"
"Well...'yea' is another way of informally saying 'yes'."
"I see. Yuuji-san is also a scholar."
"No. You have it.....actually you what, Yea I am a scholar. In fact, I'm prolly the most educated person in 'this' world."
"Prolly?"
"Prolly is another informal way of saying....
And just like that we spent the entire night talking about random shit. At some point I told him about the other worlds. There were many things he was not able to understand but he did comprehend the jist of it.
I don't know how but as we kept talking I felt more energized. My gloomy thoughts no longer haunted me. I felt as if a burden was slowly getting lifted off.
"You are a good man yuuji, a good man with a rotten personality. I am amazed at how someone can express two contradictory traits but it is what it is."
"Huh? What are you saying? How can you say such cold words with such a straight face? You're the creepy one here. Going around living with demons who are the embodiment of evil in lores."
"You killed a world and started war in another one while using the fragments of the previously killed world to beat up the pirate world and getting rid of the king."
"They were corrupt."
"And that is why I said you are a good man. Ignoring the fact that your killed trillions of living beings in the shinobi world who were controlled by a god, you did not cause unnecessary bloodshed."
"I feel like something is wrong in your statements but I cannot identify it.."
"What do you plan to do with your lover yuuji?"
"Don't just change the topic you creep!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I CAN'T SLEEP WITH YOU TWO BICKERING LIKE LITTLE GIRLS."
Uta came out with a pan in her hands charging at yoriichi while I bolted. The look of betrayal yoriichi had when I left him was funny.
I was finally able to get that creep to break his poker face.
Take that you bastard.