Sitting under the tree, Giyu Tomioka looked at Takeshi, and after a long silence, he asked, "Why did they all leave?"
From the last time he had taken the initiative to go have tea with the Hashiras, Takeshi understood that in Giyu Tomioka's mind, his relationship with the Hashiras was fine.
Today, he had come uninvited, clearly not knowing that he had been excluded and hadn't been invited at all.
"Well..."
Takeshi couldn't find the right words to answer him.
Leaving aside the others, Obanai, for one, must have a strong dislike for him.
Seeing that Takeshi wasn't giving a specific answer, Giyu continued, "Takeshi, am I... am I being disliked?"
When he said this, Giyu Tomioka's expression was still blank, but not completely blank. He had frowned a little in the middle.
He seemed to be hesitating, not sure if he was being disliked by the Hashiras.
"Mr. Tomioka, you're really feeling it this time?"
Takeshi was surprised for some reason, and quickly asked him back.
"Not really, I'm just different from them."
Giyu dropped these words, stood up, and left from under the cherry blossom tree.
"Ha!"
Watching Giyu Tomioka leave, Takeshi opened his mouth. It was useless to say more. He hadn't realized it himself, and his own chatter was just a waste of breath.
Under the cherry blossom tree, only Takeshi was left.
Leaving, Giyu couldn't help but feel that he was indeed different from them. He hadn't passed the final selection with his own strength, and standing with them, he wasn't worthy.
In the hospital room, Zenitsu was, as usual, unwilling to take his medicine obediently.
"No! I can't drink anymore!!!"
"Don't force me! I'll really suffocate myself with a pillow!!!"
A person who was always crying and afraid of dying would actually suffocate himself with a pillow because the medicine was bitter?
"You say the same thing every day. If you have the guts, suffocate yourself and show us all!"
"The medicine is here. Mr. Zenitsu, it's up to you whether you drink it or not. If you die, it's your own business, after all."
The newly assigned nurse was much stricter than the previous one. More often than not, she would even use force to solve this problem with Zenitsu.
Seeing that his plan of crying, making a fuss, and threatening to suffocate himself wasn't working, Zenitsu turned away with a pale face.
"You, you, you're too heartless! I demand a new nurse!"
Slap! It would have been better if he hadn't said that. Saying that earned him a loud slap on the face.
"You pervert! You even made my sister scared to come here because of you!!!"
Zenitsu was stunned by the slap, covering his red and swollen face with his hand, and looking at Tanjiro, who was taking his medicine obediently on the other side.
Another helper handed the medicine to Zenitsu.
The nurse looked angry and disgusted. A man, always crying and making a fuss, making such a big deal out of taking medicine. She didn't know how he had gotten into the Demon Slayer Corps.
She came to Tanjiro's bed, her tone a bit softer. "Mr. Tanjiro, this is your medicine. Please take it."
Tanjiro took the medicine, thanked her, and drank the medicine that had been given to him.
The nurse glanced at Zenitsu, who was still holding the medicine and not drinking it, her eyes filled with open contempt.
"Ah!!! What kind of look is that? I don't like your look, not at all!!!"
The nurse coldly retorted, "When you act like a man, then you can tell me how I should look at you."
Speaking, she left the hospital room with the helper.
"Eh!"
Zenitsu received 10,000 points of damage, trembling as he held the medicine. She had actually said that he didn't act like a man.
"Hey!!!, hey!!!, Tanjiro, your medicine must be sweeter than mine! I suspect she's deliberately giving me the most bitter medicine."
Tanjiro, seeing the nurse walking in with a spiked club, quickly winked at Zenitsu, telling him not to continue.
But Zenitsu lowered his head and muttered to himself, not looking at Tanjiro at all.
The nurse slowly approached Zenitsu, holding the spiked club, leaned down, and asked through gritted teeth, "Is that so?"
"Yeah, that's ri- uh uh, hehehe..."
Zenitsu turned his head to answer, his face hitting something soft and warm that was blocking his face, and also his mouth, preventing him from speaking.
His face rubbed against it, and when he realized what it was, his heart was filled with joy. This was the closest he had ever been to a girl in his life.
"Ah—"
The nurse hadn't expected this to happen. She had actually been, assaul-assaulted!!! After a shrill scream, she swung the spiked club in her hand mercilessly at Zenitsu.
Tanjiro tried to reach out to help Zenitsu, but seeing him being beaten with blood coming out of his nose, and still having a bright smile on his face,
Tanjiro understood that he didn't need his help at all.
But this time, he really deserved to be beaten.
The hospital room became chaotic because of Zenitsu.
Inosuke, who had mostly recovered, was still lying quietly on the bed, not saying a word.
Inosuke, who was usually full of energy, shouting "Pig Assault," reflected on himself as he listened to the noisy sounds in the hospital room.
His proud twin swords were cut off, and he had ended up badly injured, without killing a single demon. He had never thought he would be so weak.
Takeshi stood at the door of the hospital room, watching the show. He hadn't been able to see the fight between the Sound Hashira and the Wind Hashira at Rengoku's place, so watching Zenitsu get beaten up here wasn't bad.
The nurse was tired of hitting him, and had hit him enough, so she left, carrying the spiked club.
Zenitsu, bruised and swollen, huddled into a ball on the bed, with a smile on his face that was barely visible.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Zenitsu! The price you paid was too high. You can't treat girls like that."
Zenitsu wiped the blood that was flowing to his lips. "It was worth it! It was totally worth it! Senior Takeshi, you don't know what I..."
A dangerous glint of light shot in from the door of the hospital room. It was the gaze of the nurse who had suddenly returned.
Zenitsu quickly swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
"Drink the medicine!"
A roar came in.
Zenitsu picked up the medicine, not caring about the bitterness, and gulped it down.
After drinking the extremely bitter medicine, he collapsed on the bed, and something floated out of his mouth.
"The medicine, the medicine is too bitter..."
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