As we arrived back in headquarters, Shizuka was already there and said she was waiting for me. I explained the whole situation to her when suddenly, my Kasugai crow started calling my name again nonstop.

"Gabriela, Gabriela!" it said.

"What?" I looked at it.

"You have to make your way to Asakusa, Tokyo!" the crow said. "Rumors said that there are demons lurking there!"

"Another mission?" Shizuka laughed.

"I guess so, you better pray I get back alive." I joked.

"Oh, I'm sure you'd live for another hundred years." Shizuka joked back. "I almost forgot, your grandfather went here and asked me to give this to you, this sure is a lot." She handed me a bag full of Onigiri."

"You can have some too, I don't think I can finish this on my own." I said, "Grab some for Kyojuro too, tell him I said hi."

"Oh sure, Kyojuro must be hungry by now." She said as she took two onigiris from the bag. "Stay safe!"

"Obanai-san, this is for you." I said, giving him one of the onigiri from the bag.

"Arigato(thanks)," he said as he accepted it.

"Seems like you and Obanai got along pretty quickly." Shizuka said, "He doesn't communicate with us very often."

"Uhm, Shizuka-san, could you somehow give this to, uhh- Tomioka-san?" I said as I handed her another onigiri.

"Tomioka? Ah, you mean Giyu?" Shizuka asked.

"Y-Yes." I replied.

"Of course, but since when did you know each other?" Shizuka teased.

I paused, "Well, I have to go to my next mission. See you soon Shizuka-san!" I said as I bid my goodbyes and went on my way.

...

As I headed my way to Asakusa, there where a lot of buildings and a lot of banners hanging from it, there where, also a lot of bright lights which complimented the beautiful night sky.

I leaped through the trees trying to get a better view when suddenly I saw a very familiar face, it was...

"Tanjiro!" I shouted. He was sitting on a bench beside a Yam Udon Noodle cart with a girl with long hair and a light pink kimono, she must be his sister.

He was so shocked upon hearing his name, he looked left and right and scratched the back of head thinking he might be hearing things, I laughed.

"Tan-ji-ro!" I shouted again. He looked left and right again. "Up here!" I waved at him.

I leaped down towards the ground and walked towards him.

"Gabriela-kun!" he said, "Ah, what are you doing here?"

"This is where my next mission is." I replied, I whispered in his ear, "It said there are demons lurking around here."

"Oh yeah, we must be sent as partners then." He said. "Oh, this is my sister Nezuko."

"Hi, Nezuko!" I smiled at her, "I'm Gabriela, Gabriela Mizuki."

She went up to me and patted my head. I smiled at her again.

"Tanjiro, she's so cute." I said.

"Here is your bowl of Ram Udon Noodles." The vendor said, as he gave the noodles to Tanjiro.

"Uhm Gabriela-kun, are you hungry?" he asked. "We can share."

"Oh, it's okay, I'm good, I just ate onigiri, in fact I still have a lot here in my bag." I said.

"How about Nezuko-chan?" I asked.

"She's not allowed to eat other food now, but don't worry she just sleeps to gain energy." Tanjiro said.

We sat near on the bench as Tanjiro ate his food. Nezuko was already swinging her head up and down in exhaustion. I wrapped my hand around her and placed her head on my shoulder so she could sleep. Tanjiro just smiled at us, when suddenly he stood up and dropped the bowl of noodles he was holding.

"Tanjiro?" I asked, I tried not to move too much knowing Nezuko was sleeping on my shoulder.

He didn't answer, his body was stiff like he had seen something so terrifying and ran off, back to the streets. And I couldn't just leave him all alone in there what if something happened?

I placed Nezuko's head on the bench and placed my bag so that she could use it as a pillow and chased after Tanjiro. There were a lot of people, but I managed to track Tanjiro by his ki, and as soon as I found him, he was holding the shoulder of an oddly familiar man. And as he turned around, it was him, the man from our house when I was younger, the man who stole my father's humanity and this led to him killing our mother. My brain stuttered for a moment and stopped processing all of the sudden, this man, this ki. IT'S HIM! MY EYES WOULDN'T DECIEVE ME LIKE THIS!

As I and Tanjiro were about to pull out our Nichirin Blades, we heard a little voice, a voice of a little child.

"Otosan? (father?)" the man turned around revealing a little girl in his arms. "Who is that?"

That man was disguising himself as a human, HOW COULD NO ONE SENSE THAT?

I couldn't move and so I stopped holding the handle of my blade. To me, it was as if the world just went in slow motion.

"Why would you like to see me?" the man said, HIS EYES, that intense gaze that made us shiver in fear, the first time we encountered him. I wanted to behead him in front of all the people to pay for what he has done but, I couldn't. Deep inside, both anger and fear came over me. That I just couldn't move. "You two seem to be in a state of panic." He said.

Then a woman dressed in white and light blue came in, the child called her "Okasan" which meant she must be her mother.

My brain couldn't process it all, how could a human have a child with a Demon? And something was telling me that they weren't in love. Was this all a cover up to conceal his true identity? I mean, that man is a demon, the woman is a human, and her daughter's ki and scent is purely human.

We stood there in shock at what we had seen.

"Do you know them?" his wife asked.

"No." he answered, "It's really puzzling for me to see this, I haven't seen these two young people before. Maybe they have mistaken me as someone else."

Then he looked away, and as he did, he scratched the back of someones neck with his long fingernails. THAT WAS IT, THAT WAS EXACTLY HOW HE TURNED MY FATHER INTO A MAN-EATING DEMON!

I was about to strike him with my sword but Tanjiro held my wrist from getting near him.

The man then touched the back of his neck, he looked down for a moment and suddenly bit his wife's shoulder.

We stood there horrified after witnessing what has happened.

Tanjiro rushed in to save the woman from being eaten, he wrapped his scarf around his hand and placed it into the demon's mouth.

"Maa'm, please stand and wrap your wound tight with a cloth." Tanjiro shouted as he held down the demon.

I helped the woman get up and offered her my handkerchief and wrapping it tightly on her wound, after which I helped Tanjiro restraint the demon.

I knew Tanjiro wanted to catch up with the man, I wanted to catch up too but, something was telling me I wasn't ready. As a man as strong enough to make my father quiver in fear and immediately turning him into a demon without having a fight, without having a decision, and as a demon who could create other demons himself. Grandfather told me that there was only one demon in the whole world who could create other demons. And that's where I realized it, IT WAS HIM, KIBUTSUJI MUZAN!

"Tanjiro!" I called out to him, "Tanjiro!" He looked at me. "I know you want to catch up with him, please believe me, we can't just rush towards him. We're not too strong to handle him, that man, he disgusts me but, believe me, he has killed a lot of demon slayers in his lifetime. Please..."

He looked back at demon again as he tightened his grip in anger. "KIBUTSUJI MUZAN! NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE, I WILL FIND YOU!" he shouted but, I couldn't blame him, I was just as angry on letting him go. But we had no other choice.

"You'll never get away from me!" He shouted again, "I will pursue you to the depth of hell and I'll cut off your head with my sword. I'll never forgive you!" Tears started to fall from his eyes, I was so devastated to see him like that. Even though a lot of people see me as intimidating in the outside, in the inside I was filled with mixed emotions, I was angry, sad, afraid that I just wanted to let the world stop in slow motion and behead that man.

"Hey, what are you two up to?" a group of men in uniforms came in charging at us. "Hey kids, get off the man."

"Excuse me, I am a grown woman!" I shouted in anger.

"No, get me some fetters, please." Tanjiro pleaded. "I beg you."

"That's enough!" one of the men. "Get off him."

"We can't alright, please listen to us." I said.

The man grabbed Tanjiro's haori trying to make him get off of the man.

I grabbed unto his hand, "Please sir, it's not safe!" I said, "Only we can constrain this man."

"Move aside!" the other man said.

"Please don't!" I removed his hand from Tanjiro's haori.

"What's happening to them? Have they lost their minds?" the men said, pulling me and Tanjiro away from the man. "Take those kids away!"

"Please don't!" Tanjiro pleaded again, "We don't want him to kill anyone."

"Please let us do our work, I beg you, kind gentlemen." I pleaded.

"Damn, if you resist us." The man said as he raised a thick stick to hit our backs. When suddenly an aroma of flower patterns came swirling around us, its scent was purely demon, so was its ki.

The men then disappeared from our sight as if we we're surrounded by a flower-patterned fog, to be honest it was a beautiful Blood Demon Art, but we couldn't lose our guard.

"Tanjiro, it's a demon." I said. "I'll handle it, keep restraining that man."

I took out my blade trying to sense the location of the demon.

"Its scent is getting stronger, watch out Gabriela-kun." Tanjiro said.

Then there she was, a demon with a flower-patterned kimono, beautiful purple eyes and brown hair. Accompanied with another demon with bright lavender purple eyes and dull green hair with black tips on the end.

"You still call it human?" the woman asked, "Even though it's already turned into a demon? And you will do your best to save him. So, let me lend you a helping hand." She said as she closed the wound of her bleeding arm, she must have used the blood from her arm to create those flower-patterned illusions.

"Why would you do that?" I asked her as I pointed my blade towards the ground. "Your-, your ki and scent is..." I paused.

"You are right, I am a demon, but I am also a doctor. And I am bent on eradicating a certain, Muzan Kibutsuji." She said as she placed her hands together.

And I could tell, she wasn't lying, her ki would give away something different if she was.

"Tanjiro, I... I trust her." I said looking at Tanjiro, "Her ki, she doesn't give off a sense of dishonesty." I looked at her again and smiled. "Thank you maa'm, but we'll have to get someone first, we left her just near hear before all the commotion."

"It's alright." She smiled sweetly. "Yoshiro can accompany you."

"Huh?" the boy next to him said in shock.

She looked at him again.

"Alright." He said as he accompanied us back to get Nezuko, and as soon as we did, the man who sold Tanjiro the Udon Noodles got mad.

"Now listen up, I'm not bad because you ran off before paying, I'm mad because you wasted a bowl of good Udon!" he said.

I laughed by the side.

"I'm sorry please give me another one." Tanjiro said.

"Will you eat it?" he asked.

"Yes, I will." He nodded, in a strange manner, it was as if he was terrified.

Well, I kind of do like this other side of him, it's really cute, I laughed.

"And so, will you!" He pointed at me as my eyes widened. "Why am I suddenly caught up in this situation?" I thought to myself.

"I'll get one order sir." I smiled, "I'm kind of hungry too."

"Will you not waste my Udon like he did?" he said pointing at Tanjiro.

"Yes sir, I will not." I shook my head.

"How about you?" he pointed at Nezuko, "Put down that tube if you want some of my Udon. What's that tube for anyways?"

Nezuko looked like she was so confused of what was going on and I couldn't help but laugh.

"Then I'll have my Udon now, two bowls please." Tanjiro interrupted.

After a few minutes, it was served. Tanjiro sure had a big appetite just like myself, he finished the whole bowl of Udon in just below two minutes.

"You'll choke if you eat that fast Tanjiro." I said, and he did...

"Here." I took my bag and offered him water,

"Thank you for the meal." Tanjiro said as he finished the two bowls of Udon. "It was delicious."

"I'm glad you appreciated it, you get that?" the man said.

"Tanjiro, wait for me!" I said, trying to finish the bowl of Udon faster.

As I finished, we then went on our way.

"I'm sorry for leaving you back there Nezuko." He apologized.

"I'm sorry too Nezuko-chan." I apologized as well.

Then Nezuko suddenly stopped at the sight of Yoshiro standing beside a tree.