Nezuko cried helplessly, like a child who had lost a beloved treasure, her suppressed sobs and large tears leaving streaks on her cheeks.
In Tanjirou's and Yoizumi's eyes, it was undoubtedly a pain like a knife cutting into their hearts. Neither Tanjirou nor Yoizumi had ever seen Nezuko so heartbroken.
The nails digging into Yoizumi's arm gradually rounded out, and the vertical pupils in her eyes disappeared. Nezuko reached out and hugged her two brothers, her painful tears soaking their shoulders.
"Brother... Brother..."
"Mom... Takeo... them..."
Every word Nezuko choked out seemed to drain all her strength.
Everything that had happened felt like a dream to Nezuko.
She had only slept for a while, how could everything have changed?
But precisely, this was not a dream... it was reality.
The warmth of her family's hot blood splattering on her face was such a deeply etched memory.
Rokkuta's small body in her arms grew colder and colder, and his innocent child's voice seemed to echo in her ears.
[Sister, it hurts...]
It was colder than when she had collapsed in the snow.
Feeling Nezuko's body tremble, Yangquan gently stroked his sister's head, his voice softening.
"Nezuko, it's okay, your brothers are here."
Tanjirou hugged his sister back tightly, crying silently.
It's so good... so good...
Nezuko...
His sister... finally turned back into a human.
Yoizumi pulled his sobbing younger siblings into his embrace. The tense expression on his face, which had been there when Nezuko had demonized again, finally relaxed. He gently rested his face on Tanjirou's and Nezuko's heads.
He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, only joy remained in his sapphire eyes.
As Nezuko gradually calmed down, her gaze lingered on her two brothers' faces for a long time. Her memories as a demon were blurry, but she largely remembered them.
She knew her brothers had protected her very well.
Nezuko raised her hand and touched Yoizumi's right arm, which she had scratched earlier. The wound had already healed, but fresh red blood stained Yoizumi's clean white sleeve.
"Yoizumi-nii, I'm sorry, does it hurt?"
Yoizumi heard the long-unheard address and was momentarily dazed. After a long pause, he smiled and shook his head at Nezuko.
"I'm fine."
Nezuko clutched the stained sleeve, and her pink eyes welled up with tears again. She remembered clearly.
That day, a man in a suit who looked refined suddenly burst into their home. Without any warning, Shigeru and Hanako were killed.
She was holding Rokkuta, and faced with the sudden change, she couldn't react at all. It was Yoizumi-nii who pushed her, and in an instant, Yoizumi-nii lost his right arm.
His blood splattered on her and Rokkuta. Yoizumi-nii just told them to run, but she ultimately couldn't escape. At the doorstep, she was pierced through the chest by something like a bone whip.
In her last moments, Nezuko heard the man's demonic whisper.
"Just this much blood and you can't bear it?"
"What a waste, wasting my blood."
"Tsk! Why is it so hard to create a being that can conquer the sun?"
In her vision, Yoizumi-nii, who had lost his head, actually stood up and instantly regrew his head. Those once beautiful sapphire eyes now had ferocious vertical pupils, and he lunged at the man without hesitation... "?"
What was wrong with Nezuko?
Seeing his sister silently staring at his sleeve, Yoizumi slowly and carefully bent down, tilting his head to look at Nezuko. The next second, he saw Nezuko frown, and tears fell again.
?
Huh?
Why was she crying again?
Yoizumi and Tanjirou were flustered, wanting to stop their sister from crying, but neither of them was good at comforting. Nezuko looked at her two brothers, anxious and not knowing what to do, and finally broke into a smile through her tears.
Even after all this time... her brothers... were still her brothers... Nezuko's eyes were red, and she gave a helpless smile.
Nezuko had calmed down, but Tanjirou hadn't. He kept wiping his tears with his bent fingers, muttering incessantly.
It's so good, sniffle... Nezuko, sniffle... you did it, sniffle... Nezuko sighed softly and stroked her brother's forehead, comforting him.
"Brother, don't cry."
"I'm not even crying, brother, shame on you."
Tanjirou cried even louder... "Hey! Zenitsu, what's wrong with Tanjirou and them?" Zenitsu and Inosuke, who had finished their training, were eavesdropping at the door. Inosuke asked, puzzled.
Zenitsu's keen hearing caught everything inside clearly. He excitedly clutched Inosuke's boar head mask with his hand.
Nezuko-chan turned back into a human!!!
The next second, Zenitsu felt a surge of hesitation. Why would he think that such a wonderful Nezuko-chan would pay attention to him? Hearing footsteps gradually approaching the door, Zenitsu pulled Inosuke's mask and turned to hide. Inosuke didn't understand Zenitsu's intention, he clutched the door frame with one hand and the mask with the other.
"What are you doing! Zenitsu!"
"Inosuke! Zenitsu!" Tanjirou had long smelled the two of them and looked at their strange actions, puzzled.
"What are you doing? You came to see Nezuko, right? Come on!"
Tanjirou radiated joy, and his tone of voice was much more upbeat.
"Yo! Nezuko, you've become human! You're worthy of being my subordinate, Hehehe~" Inosuke walked boldly to Nezuko's side and raised his hand to pat her shoulder.
"Ah... you... are Mr. Inosuke."
Nezuko stared at the peculiar boy with the boar's head in front of her and easily found his name in her blurry memories, smiling at Inosuke.
Although in her memories, he was always reckless and a bit crude.
But in everyday life, he took good care of her.
"Um... Miss Nezuko... do you still remember me?" Zenitsu called out cautiously, peeking through the door crack. Even his usual 'Nezuko-chan' had changed to 'Miss Nezuko'.
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