{On Hold} Blessed Is the Blood of the Sun (Yandere Kimetsu no Yaiba)

Chapter 14 : Hyacinth of Sorrow

Chapter 14: Hyacinth of Sorrow

During the morning, Hanako woke up sick. She was confused at the extreme feeling of dread and fear that she felt. She rubbed her eyes as she got up and then she tried to go through her routine while suppressing those emotions. They had come out from nowhere, but what worried her was the fact that she knew that there was a reason for them happening. As usual, the girl did not imagine scenarios of what could happen to her siblings since it would only bring her down. They would not want her to sulk about the danger they were constantly in. Two days ago, she had received a message from her sister. It described her first mission, how it went and what was going to happen next. She would be going to a house where a demon was living and where children had disappeared. Her letter had helped to diminish the anger the girl felt towards Shinobu. How sad she was when she learned that she could not, at the very least, say goodbye to them. Of course, she received nothing from her brother, not that she was expecting anything from him.

On one day, while her new mentor was training her to death to learn the Insect Breathing, the girl noticed that Kanao, when she had gotten back from a mission, was acting weirder than normal. When the black-haired Tsugoku was not training, she always seemed to be in a strange daze. Looking dreamily into the distance. Her attitude even worried the Hashira who then asked the girl what was happening. With a soft smile, she described the feelings of lightness, longing, and passion towards the boy she had trained with. After saying that, she asked her sister if she was in loved with him. It had taken a few seconds for the shocked Pillar to answer. She did affirm that what the girl felt was indeed love.

As Hanako stopped remembering she tried to concentrate on what could be the source of her discomfort. Well, at the intensity that she was feeling, it was closer to pain. There was only one thing that she could think of from the thoughts that she allowed herself to acknowledge. Shinobu, who the girl refused to call master during her training unlike Kanao, was soon going to attend a Pillar meeting. Since the news of that meeting were given yesterday, so that every Hashira would have the time to travel, her emotions could be trying to tell her that they would receive bad news. She sighed as she wondered what her sister was doing right now.

Well, Nezuko was staring at the boar man, also known as Inosuke, filling his face with food like an animal. They had met earlier during her second mission, got injured and were now resting in some Wisteria House. The poor boy even started to eat her food, looking at her with a grin on his face. When she proposed to give him her portion, he fumed angrily and started shouting much to the confusion of the girl who thought that he was very hungry. He continued to eat his portion angrily while she hesitantly did the same with hers. This boy, he had apparently assisted to the same Final Selection as her, but she had not meet him after the trial when the other survivors were all together. He had told her that it was too boring since the kids did not want to fight him and were too weak. So, he had left.

'What a particular boy', she thought as she looked dumbfounded at Inosuke who had burped after finishing his meal. It was the morning, and they were ordered by Nezuko's crow to stay there until they were healed. Which might take a couple of days or even weeks. She indulged herself in the rather calm and safe environment; she really needed a break after the intensity of her missions. She smiled softly despite Inosuke growing restless inside the house. He was not supposed to fight so that he could heal correctly, and he was already growing insane because of it. He even threw at her his cup which she caught. She sighed as tried to use some reverse psychology on the boy since it worked so well last time.

"Ah! Of course! You lived in the mountains for your whole life, right? It must be incredibly hard for you to stay quiet and well behave inside a house when you are so used to living outside", she said with a smile. This offended Inosuke so much, that he exploded.