Chapter 38

【"[Tokito Muichiro]."

"[Tokito Ichiro]."】

Tomioka Giyu locked the door.

He was now in a room in Kyogokuya in Hanamachi, and sitting in the back was Fuzugawa Shigeya, who was about to meet him.

"Fuzuigawa, tea." Tomioka Giyu handed the teacup to the other party.

Fuzugawa Miyako: "Thank you."

For a moment, only Tomigoka Giyu and Fushigawa Sane were in the room. Fushigawa Sane was a little embarrassed: So the Uzui guy... why on earth did I have to meet with Tomigoka Giyu! This guy is my mortal enemy... my former mortal enemy!

In fact, he also said the same thing when Uzui Tengen assigned him the task. Uzui Tengen glanced at him and then answered seriously:

"You also said that we were once mortal enemies."

"There are only four of us sneaking into the red-light district. Apart from Tomioka who has already gone to Kyogakushiya as an insider, I want to go and pick up my wives in a fancy way, and Butterfly will also find a place to do fancy research on drugs. In the end, there is only one idle person who is not fancy and has nothing to do. If you don't go to pick them up, who will?"

"Besides, if you go at that time, you can still catch up with the screen, and you two won't be super awkward and stare at each other, right?" Uzui Tengen looked at Tomioka Giyu, "How about asking Tomioka what he thinks? Tomioka?"

"...Hmm?" Tomioka Giyuu seemed to have just come back to his senses from his trance. He tilted his head slightly towards Uzui Tengen and Fushigi Kusanagi with a puzzled look and uttered a short nasal sound.

"Look, Tomiokana has agreed!" Uzui Tengen pretended not to see Tomiokana Giyuu's puzzled expression, "Busigawa, go and meet him beautifully!"

"But this..."

Fuzugawa Mitsuya strongly suspected that the other party did it on purpose, but unfortunately there was no evidence.

"Buzukawa, no matter what you say, you are the only one left standing! Protesting against Huali is futile!"

Just like that, the idle Fushigawa Saneya's protest was in vain, and he was captured by Uzui Tengen gorgeously to serve as a backup.

The memory ended, and Fuzugawa Shima returned to the present. Now there were only the two of them in the room. Although the screen was showing something, he still felt awkward. There was no other sound except the voice of the [Tokito] brother on the screen.

"Tomioka... did you bring your notebook?"

He originally wanted to ask if he had brought a notebook so that he could write down any key information. But before he could finish, he saw Tomioka Giyuu suddenly realized something. Fuzugawa Mitsuya understood - the other party knew what he meant.

This Tomioka guy is quite nice sometimes, and he still understands what he means, Fuzugawa Saneya thought.

It was not until he saw the other person rummaging around in his bag and found a small pack of Hagi mochi that he realized how ridiculous he had been the previous second.

"Buzukawa, have some Hagi mochi." Tomioka Giyu handed him the Hagi mochi, thought for a moment, and added, "I just forgot."

Fuzugawa Mitsuya: “…”

On the other side, Tokito Muichiro, who was far away at the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters, looked at the screen with bright eyes, while Tokito Ichiro beside him excitedly pulled his parents' sleeves: "Father! Mother! Look! It's [me] and [Muichiro] from another world!"

[Two young men who were in the same boat appeared on the screen.]

Both have long black hair with long bangs on the sides of their heads. The ends of their hair are mint green, and their eyes are also a beautiful mint green color.

The one with the high ponytail is [Tokito Ichiro], who snorted softly, "Today, [Muichiro] and I will be the ones to live stream for you all."

[Tokito Muichiro] had his long hair loose. He stood up and poured a glass of water for [Tokito Ichiro], saying, "We were arranged by [Sanyashiki] to do the live broadcast. My brother accidentally broke his leg, so he took a few days off. It just so happened that [Sanyashiki] had a live broadcast assignment, so we took it over."】

Broke your leg?

Tokito Muichiro almost instantly thought of the figure of his brother sitting in the Kocho Shinobu's infirmary during the last live broadcast.

"Damn it." Looking at Tokito Muichiro's worried look, Muichiro scratched his head in embarrassment and muttered, "Why does this screen always mention this?"

【“[Muichiro], stop talking.” [Tokito Ichiro] said angrily, and then changed the subject, “I think every time you broadcast live, you should talk about the original content of the characters you play, right?”

"Then let's do this, we'll talk about the original story first, and then talk about other things." [Yuichiro] shrugged, "I don't have much to say about the original story, after all, I died at the beginning."

“Brother!” [Tokito Muichiro] suddenly said in a serious tone, “Don’t say that!”】

It's really a scene where brothers meet again after a long time of not seeing each other. Tokito Muichiro thought, even though I am the only one meeting you, even though you are my brother from another world.

Tokito Muichiro stared closely at "Tokito Ichiro" on the screen - his grown-up brother, this was the first time he saw him so clearly.

In his world, Tokito Ichiro, his older brother, has completely lost the right to grow up slowly.

【［Tokito Ichirō］ said nothing more. Under his brother’s angry gaze, he shut up.

Humph, he is a qualified brother! He will not make [Muichiro] angry!

——Wait, is [Muichiro] really angry?

Without even glancing at his brother, [Tokito Muichiro] began describing the original story to the camera: "My first appearance was at the Hashira Council."

"Those who have read the original novel should know that because of the tragic experience in the past, I lost my previous memory, so I unconsciously became closer to my brother's personality."

"Wait a minute," [Ichiro] retorted, "Isn't that my personality?"

[Muichiro] ignored him and said, "So when we first met, I didn't treat Tanjiro well because he had offended my lord, so I threw a stone and knocked Tanjiro unconscious."

[Yuichiro] who was ignored by [Muichiro] said: ...Wait, it looks like [Muichiro] is really angry! 】

"[Muichiro] cares about [Ichiro] a lot." Tokito's mother touched Ichiro's head, "Don't say such things anymore, [Muichiro] is very angry."

"I didn't say that!" Tokito Ichiro retorted angrily, "I won't make Muichiro angry!"

Tokito Muichiro could understand why his other self was angry with his brother.

That was his twin brother. He didn't want anyone to say easily that his "brother" was dead, not even his brother himself.

[“The second time we met was in Forge Village.”

"I came to the Sword Forging Village to reforge my own Nichirin Sword. I found Kotetsu who is in charge of the fighting doll "Yuichi-Shiki" and hoped that he could activate Yuichi-Shiki to train me."

"By the way, the En-10 is a fighter made by previous craftsmen based on the En-1 from Jikoku. It can help us improve our strength."

"However, Tetsu refused to give me the key because he was worried about the damage to the Type-10. I was going to use force, but Tanjiro stopped me."

“I’m a little embarrassed to say this, but at the time I thought swordsmiths were useless except for making weapons,” [Tokito Muichiro] said, “and then Tanjiro refuted that.”

"I knocked Tanjiro unconscious and started fighting with Enichi-Shiki. Although I succeeded in defeating Enichi-Shiki, my Sunflower Blade was also broken. I took the Sunflower Blade from Enichi-Shiki's hand and took it away."

"But to be honest, Xiaotie didn't tell me how to use the true power of Yuan 10 Style, so my training with Yuan 10 Style is just a waste of time."】

In the room on Flower Street——

Fuzugawa Mitsuya: “…”

Even though he was looking at the screen, he still felt awkward.

"..." He made small talk, "Will this Yuan Yi Shi 0 be as strong as the real Yuan Yi Ji Guo?"

"How is that possible?" Tomioka Giyuu quickly retorted, "Fighters can't be compared to real people."

Fuzugawa Shigeya: “Oh…”

After saying this, the room fell silent again.

Fushigi: ...Damn it, this is even more embarrassing.

Tokito Muichiro was very interested in the fighter mentioned above. He secretly decided that when he had time, he would go to the Swordsmith Village once to test the true level of this Origin 10-style.

[“After that, I originally wanted to find my new swordsmith, Tetsunamori Kozo, but I accidentally got lost and bumped into Tanjiro in the house.”

"Tanjiro said he wanted to go with me to look for it. I asked Tanjiro why he cared about other people's affairs. Tanjiro answered me: 'Helping others brings happiness and you will also receive rewards.' This sentence is very similar to what my father usually says, which makes me feel familiar even though I have lost my memory."

"While we were talking, Upper Four appeared and opened the door."】

"That's right." Tokito's father smiled at Muichiro and Ichiro with a gentle look, "If you help others, you will also gain something and be happy."

Tokito Ichirō didn't pay attention to what his father was muttering - all his attention was now on Tokito Muichirō's experience.

"Wait!" He couldn't help but yelled out, "I remember that the one Muichiro met was the Upper Five, the one called Tamao, right?"

If Muichiro met Upper 4, why was he not there when they were fighting, but was killing Upper 5 alone? Did Upper 5 suddenly appear and separate them, or...

Tokito Ichiro was thinking.

It’s not that I haven’t thought of that possibility, it’s just... Ichiro doesn’t dare to think about it.

Iguro Obanai, who was leaving for Momoyama, also questioned this. "It's not right," he said, "Tokito should have met Tamao, Upper Five, not Upper Four."

[“Since we didn’t notice his presence at first, we were sure it was an upper-rank demon. I quickly used Kasumi Breathing, but Hantengu dodged it.”

"Tanjiro and Kamado Nezuko made a feint attack, and I took the opportunity to chop off Hantengu's head. However, the clone "Cola" that split from Hantengu's head slapped me away with a fan."】

Yuichiro's eyes went dark.

——The most terrifying possibility has come true.