Chapter 86 Please Marry Me.
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Inside the house.
Creak...
Tanjiro gripped Inosuke's arm tightly, his expression resolute, his eyes met with him, not backing down at all:
"Let him go!"
"This is a ward, he is a patient!"
He spoke seriously and earnestly, the strength in his hand gradually increasing:
"Kocho-san diagnosis is not over yet, you rude guy!"
- After a period of training, and occasionally receiving guidance from the Hashira at the Butterfly Mansion.
- Tanjiro's basic physical fitness has reached the level to start practicing Breath Styles.
Behind several people.
Tanjuro watched his son's back, standing behind him, smiling contentedly, without taking action.
Kaigaku heard the words, the fierceness in his eyes became more intense, his face darkened:
"Bastard--"
He jerked his arm hard, but couldn't pull it away.
"Hmm!" Tanjiro's expression was serious, his clenched hand never loosened.
At this moment.
A cane was constantly magnifying in Kaigaku's field of vision.
Bang!
"Ouch!"
A crisp sound came from the top of Kaigaku's head.
Jigoro looked at Kaigaku with disappointment, he knocked his peach wood cane on his head, scolding angrily:
"Blah blah blah! What a mess!"
Bang!
He knocked hard again, causing Kaigaku to let go of Zenitsu's collar:
"Apologize to others!"
Seeing this, Tanjiro also let go of Kaigaku's arm, keeping a serious expression, his eyes never moved away.
Kaigaku was in pain, holding his head, he didn't dare to look at his master, just glared at Tanjiro, then clicked his tongue unwillingly.
Seeing this, Jigoro's eyebrows stood up in anger.
Bang!
"Ouch!"
"Apologize!"
Finally.
Kaigaku, with several red bumps on his head, bowed to Tanjiro and Kocho Shinobu with a stiff expression, gritting his teeth:
"...Sorry."
Upon hearing this.
Clap! Clap!
Tanjiro, who had just been serious, immediately melted like snow, laughing and patting Inosuke on the shoulder, nodding, and saying very cheerfully:
"Well, that's good."
This made Kaigaku's eyebrows jump, if it weren't for the dull pain on his head, he would probably still be bristling.
After snorting, Kaigaku shook his sleeves, squeezed through the crowd.
He left the ward and stood in the corridor.
Jigoro watched Kaigaku's back, withdrew his gaze, and apologized to several people:
"Sorry, that kid is not usually like this."
Kocho Shinobu smiled and nodded, looking completely unconcerned.
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After a while.
Inside the ward.
"That's good." Kocho Shinobu slowly stood up from the stool, Zenitsu on the hospital bed had been tightly bandaged.
She treated Zenitsu according to the usual methods for burns.
Although it seemed that he was really fine after the diagnosis.
"Thank you very much." Jigoro closed his eyes and bowed slightly to Shinobu Kocho.
Shinobu Kocho quickly stepped forward, reached out to support Jigoro, and softly replied, "It's what I should do."
Soon.
After Shinobu Kocho left the room.
Jigoro sat worriedly next to Zenitsu, occasionally glancing at Kaigaku in the corridor outside the door.
Step,
Footsteps came from the door.
"...Brother?" Nezuko stopped at the door, she saw Tanjiro's back, poked her head into the room in confusion:
"What are you doing here?"
Then, her gaze swept across and also saw Tanjiro sitting on the side, waving at her with a smile, she exclaimed in surprise:
"Father! You're here too!"
She walked into the room with small steps.
At the same time,
On the sickbed.
Zenitsu was lying unconscious, his golden hair spread out due to gravity, looking like a blooming yellow dandelion.
His ears suddenly twitched twice.
Tanjiro turned his head when he heard the sound, pointed at Zenitsu on the bed, and explained gently:
"This child was struck by lightning, and Kocho-san was just diagnosing him."
Nezuko curiously came over, leaned her head towards the bed, looked at Zenitsu, and repeated her brother's words:
"Struck by lightning?"
Seeing Zenitsu wrapped like a mummy:
"...So pitiful..." she said softly.
When the last note of Nezuko's words fell.
On the sickbed.
Zenitsu's closed eyelids moved slightly.
In his muddled mind.
—Am I dead? Am I already dead?
—I feel... I just heard some sound...
His fingers twitched twice.
—A girl's voice...
Zenitsu, in a daze, tried to open his eyes in the darkness.
—Is it... the goddess... who came to take me... across the Sanzu River...
—My eyelids... are so heavy...
Outside.
Jigoro sharply caught Zenitsu's twitching fingers, he looked up at Nezuko in surprise.
Just as Jigoro looked up.
Zenitsu on the sickbed slowly opened his heavy eyes.
He stared at the ceiling, seeming a bit dazed.
"He's awake!" Tanjiro stood by the bed, exclaiming in surprise, "His eyes are open!"
Jigoro immediately came back to his senses, he looked at Zenitsu, anxiously saying, "Zenitsu! Zenitsu?"
"Can you hear me?"
Agatsuma Zenitsu looked at the ceiling in a daze.
...An unfamiliar ceiling.
Is this... heaven?
Then his gaze slowly moved to the side.
Finally resting on—
Standing by the bed, blinking.
Nezuko, with a surprised look on her face.
!!
Agatsuma Zenitsu sat on the bed, staring straight at Nezuko, in a daze.
His eyes, which were only slightly open due to exhaustion, were instantly wide open.
Tanjiro watched Zenitsu's gradually exaggerated expression, he followed the other's gaze in confusion, looking at his own sister.
Sitting at the door.
Tanjiro, who was staring at Kaigaku, suddenly sensed an ominous aura.
Just as the atmosphere became strangely stiff.
Whoosh!
Zenitsu, who was lying down, suddenly sat up from the bed.
Pat.
His bandaged hand skillfully lifted Nezuko's hand by the bed.
His gaze was steady, his expression serious, not at all like someone who had just been struck by lightning.
Zenitsu stared at the bewildered Nezuko.
He brewed for a moment, then spoke with deep emotion:
"Please..."
"Please?" Tanjiro tilted his head in confusion.
Suddenly, Zenitsu lowered his head sharply, took a deep breath, and his voice became louder, as if he was shouting with his life:
"Please marry me——!!"
Whoosh——!
The loud voice came out from Zenitsu's lowered head, directly hitting Nezuko and Tanjiro who were standing closest to him.
Circles of sound waves spread out from the second floor of the Butterfly Mansion.
- Until it can be clearly heard in the courtyard.
"Caw! Caw!"
In the forest near the Butterfly Mansion, two crows cawed loudly, scared out from the shaking leaves.
In the courtyard.
"Hmm?" Muichiro raised his head in confusion, looked in the direction of the second floor of the Butterfly Mansion, and turned his head to ask Yuichiro:
"Brother, did you just hear any strange noises?"
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Inside the room.
Clang...
Jigoro, who was standing on the other side of the bed, stood up in shock, and the cane in his hand fell to the ground because he was distracted.
Tanjiro was sitting at the door.
The hand that had just pinched the teacup suddenly stiffened.
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