Chapter 13: Fear.

Inside the room.

Warm light filled the bedroom.

Saburo was running around in the narrow corridor, looking for the charcoal that was always available in the Kamado house.

But due to long-term fatigue, Saburo was already exhausted, he suddenly softened his feet.

Thud!

On the side, Tomioka Giyu, quick-eyed and quick-handed, reached out to support Saburo who was about to fall.

After helping Saburo sit down, he replaced Saburo, walked to the corridor, and looked for the remaining charcoal.

Saburo stared blankly at Tomioka Giyu, who was silent, but busy running around the room, fetching water and finding things.

— This kid.

— Turns out he's a good kid!

Next to him.

"Ah..."

Tanjiro opened his eyes, looking at his own ceiling, his head a bit dizzy.

"Not good, You are lying in the snow and You already have a fever" Goto felt the temperature of Tanjiro's forehead with his hand, frowning slightly:

"But, it's just a fever, that's great."

"Better than losing a life."

"Cough cough... cough!" Tanjiro coughed lightly, he felt his head was very heavy, but still turned his head, looked at Goto, and asked weakly:

"Father... is father okay..." He reached out his hand, his consciousness blurred, trying to reach for Goto.

Slap.

Goto held Tanjiro's hand, nodded at him, affirming with a firm tone:

"Your father is just overworked, plus weak, he's asleep, he'll be fine soon."

"Even his situation is more optimistic than yours."

Upon hearing this, Tanjiro straightened his head, breathed heavily, and spoke with difficulty and hoarseness:

"...Thank... you."

He was silent for a while, then looked at Tomioka Giyu standing on the side, who was about to leave, and called out to him:

"Just now... I heard..."

Tanjiro looked at the back of Tomioka Giyu who stopped, quickly took a few deep breaths, then said:

"What you said... demon... what... is it?"

"Was our home... attacked by a demon?"

"My... mother, sister, brother, they..."

"Tomioka Giyu stopped in his tracks, standing at the entrance of the bedroom.

After seeing the condition of Tanjuro and Tanjiro, he understood that it was impossible to find out the trace of the demon from here in a short time.

He still had other tasks on him and couldn't delay like this.

After hearing Tanjiro's hoarse voice, Tomioka Giyu turned around, his eyes were calm and looked at him:

"Um."

He nodded, then turned his gaze to Goto, signaled him to explain, and then turned and left.

Outside the door, a peculiar tone of voice faintly came.

"Caw! Caw!"

"The swordsman of the Demon Slayer Corps! Tomioka Giyu!"

"Pass the order! Pass the order!"

"Hurry to the northern snow mountain!"

...

Inside the house.

Goto stared at the direction where Tomioka Giyu left, and his heart could not calm down for a long time.

This Water Hashira has a strange temperament, but after getting along for a long time, Goto also found some clues.

Tomioka Giyu, he just doesn't speak much.

In fact, he is a very gentle person at heart.

Turning his head, Goto smiled helplessly at Tanjiro:

"I'm sorry, Tomioka-sama is just that kind of person, in fact, he is not bad in nature."

"...Please don't be prejudiced against him, otherwise..."

Goto said, suddenly thinking of the awkward relationship between Tomioka Giyu and other pillars, he touched the back of his head:

"...He would be too pitiful."

Tanjiro was panting, he looked at the direction where Tomioka Giyu left, his nose moved slightly, because of the fever, his sense of smell was somewhat dull.

But even so, Tanjiro also smelled the suffocating sadness emanating from Tomioka Giyu.

—Ah... so sad.

Goto was sighing, he lowered his head, and saw the clear tears gradually flowing from the corner of Tanjiro's eyes, and he was immediately in a hurry:

"Wait! Why are you crying all of a sudden?!"

...

After a while.

Goto was sitting next to Tanjiro, telling him about the "demon" and the "Demon Slayer Corps".

He raised a finger and told the story he had told countless times:

"The so-called 'demon' is a man-eating monster, they have amazing strength and vitality, even if their limbs are broken, their stomachs can be regenerated..."

...

...

"How scary!"

Takeo frowned, listened attentively to the story of the demon told by Urokodaki Sakonji, and clenched Shigeru's arm next to him:

"Then, wouldn't the demon never die!"

"Hands and feet can grow back!"

"That's not the case." Urokodaki Sakonji's tone was heavy, and his voice was low: "Being exposed to sunlight, or being beheaded by a sun wheel sword, the demon will die."

"The Demon Slayer Corps uses these methods to fight and kill demons."

Inside the room.

Takeo, Shigeru, Hanako, Nezuko, Rokuta, and Kie were surrounding Urokodaki Sakonji, listening to him talk about demons.

"Aren't you afraid?"

Kamado Shigeru had been silent on the side, he suddenly spoke, immediately attracting the attention of everyone in the room.

Shigeru hesitated for a while, his two hands were scared and clenched together, he looked up at Urokodaki Sakonji and continued to say:

"People from the Demon Slayer Corps... facing such a terrifying monster, aren't they afraid?"

"I... just listening to it, I feel so scared."

Urokodaki Sakonji lowered his head, looking at Shigeru's cautious appearance, he reached out his hand and gently stroked Shigeru's head:

"Of course they are afraid."

He said affirmatively.

"Eh?" Suddenly, almost all the children were stunned, they didn't expect Urokodaki Sakonji to give this answer.

"Anyone would be afraid when they meet demon," Urokodaki Sakonji continued:

"But even if you are afraid, you have to fight."

"Why?" Hanako asked this on the side, she was hugging Nezuko, shivering.

"Everyone fights for different reasons and beliefs."

"But most of them are because they have experienced the pain of losing someone they cherish."

Urokodaki Sakonji said this with a calm tone:

"The beautiful things that one cherishes as the most precious treasures can also easily turn into bubbles under the attack of demons."

"They don't want others to have the same experience as themselves, they want to protect that weak, but only beautiful thing."

"Their feeling will far exceed the fear of demons in their heart."

...

...

"Then... was my father also a swordsman of the Demon Slayer Corps?"

Tanjiro tried hard to lift his head to look at the unconscious Tanjuro next to him.

But Goto decisively shook his head and pressed him back onto the bed:

"I'm not sure, but I don't have an impression of your father."

"However, your father must be a master with sharp senses, and he must know some people in the Demon Slayer Corps."

"He was able to survive in front of a demon with such a weak body, and he protected you." Goto looked back at Kamado Tanjuro, smacked his lips, and said:

"He is a formidable guy."

"Is that so..." Tanjiro lay back down.

...

...

"Yes." Urokodaki Sakonji nodded at Kamado Kie, affirming Kamado Kie's thought:

"This is everything your husband didn't have time to explain."

"Your home was attacked by a demon last night."