Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru [DISCONTINUED]

26: The Ultimate Crossover (Not Really)

If there was one thing you fucking loathed, was people telling you how you should act. You didn't care who it was, you weren't going to let others run your life just because they were raised differently than you.

Ubuyashiki was obviously different when he corrected you. You owe him a lot for letting you stay, but if he were to tell you to stop being 'unlady-like', you would've told him-as politely as you could muster-to shut the fuck up.

Tanjiro mutters, "Sorry."

"You're so flamboyant, (L/n)! Always speak up for yourself!" Uzui cheers.

"I'm not trying to degrade her!" Tanjiro wails, "I just don't want her to get in trouble one day for a misunderstanding! She doesn't exactly have the ability to explain herself to someone who only speaks Japanese."

"Yeah, I guess that's true." Uzui hums.

You look ahead past Tanjiro and see the doors to the backyard were already opened, there were people out there talking.

Well, arguing, but talking nonetheless.

You furrowed your eyebrows; it was Zenitsu, Inosuke, and Gerik. Why were they yelling?

Anyway, this was still a problem.

You couldn't tell Uzui to go away, you didn't want to be mean since he seems genuinely interested to see your new weapon. But you didn't know if it would be okay for him to meet them yet.

You took a deep breath as you three walked outside.

Gerik was standing at the edge of the engawa (After many years, you finally learned the proper term when Tanjiro was teaching you the name of certain things around the estate. Goodbye patio, hello engawa), tugging at the large, long box that Inosuke was trying to take. Zenitsu was behind Inosuke, trying to get Inosuke to stop.

But the blonde twink was no match for the brunette twunk.

"What the hell do you think you're doing, huh?!" You shout at the boar kid.

Inosuke jumps in fear and immediately lets go of the box. Zenitsu was still pulling at his torso, so they both fell back, and Gerik had fallen back with the box.

You rush to Gerik's side: "Hey, are you okay?"

"That weird... boar monster....!" Gerik points accusingly at Inosuke, "Tried to take the box!"

You sigh and help him back up when you see he was unharmed.

Maybe only traumatized.

"Yeah, he does that sometimes," You look over at Inosuke, "Shame on you, Inosuke!"

Inosuke ignores you though, since he and Zenitsu were busy looking up at Uzui. Inosuke and Zenitsu got up on the engawa with Tanjiro fretting over what just happened.

Zenitsu was S H O O K at the sight of the flamboyant man.

"Y-You were the friend!" Zenitsu points at him, "The friend she was with! Ligma!"

You snort, "Zenitsu, that's not his name!"

"Your Japanese has certainly gotten better since I was last here." Gerik comments.

You smile up at the sword-smith, "Yeah, but I'm still struggling. It's definitely an improvement, though!"

"Who are you, anyway?" Zenitsu asks Uzui.

"Who, me?" Uzui was smug, "Oh, I'll tell you who-"

"-Zenitsu, that's Uzui Tengen. He's the Sound Pillar!" Tanjiro interrupts unintentionally.