Two Grandmasters | Demon Slayer

七 | Emergency Shelter

Their journey was long. Ayuna and Moriko traveled through different cities and villages helping one or two who needed help desperately.

At one town, a bunch of people surrounded a house. In front of the house were four persons; two young women, a girl and a man.

"Please don't kick us out!" a mother pleaded, "She's your daughter!"

The crowd started to mumur things.

"Poor mother and daughter. How could her husband do this to them?"

"Haven't you heard? She and her daughter got some red dots on her skin. They think they have a plague so they want to kick them out."

"Still, the girl is his flesh and blood..."

"I also heard it was the mistress who caused the red dots on them..."

Among them, two hodded person stood there silently.

Mistress: "That's not true! Honey you must believe me. She's jealous of me, that is why she's blaming me for the sickness! I know you're mad but I really love him! How could you push me down the stairs later on?" Fake tears started to fall from her eyes.

Wife: "I didn't! You did it on purpose!"

The crowd, "I didn't know this woman would be this evil pushing her down the stairs..."

Hisband: "From now on, you have nothing to do with my family! Get out of my sight!"

Daughter: "Father please don't! It wasn't mom's fault!"

Too late, he slammed the door shut leaving the mother and daughter outside.

The crowd kept muttering things which were sharp like knives stapping into the woman's heart. And since the show was over, the crowd started to dissolve, and nobody cared about them.

"Mom... What do we do?" the daughter asked but the mother did not reply. She only hugged her child.

"Good afternoon miss." one of the two hooded persons approached them and said, "we're the host of the organisations 'emergency shelter' for those who are in need. If you're interested, we give you a new home" the dark green hooded person held a hand out.

"Don't touch us, the red dots are contagious..." the mother avoided the hand.

"Just a small skin illness. I can treat it."

And so, the daughter and mother followed them.

At the end of the village, there was a stall selling horses and carriage. The dark blue hooded person bought a horse and carriage with gold.

"Gold?!" the seller exclaimed and his attitude turned 180 degrees. "my dear costumers, your hand shouldn't get dirty I prepare everything for you!"

Suddenly, a boy ran towards the dark blue hooded person and searched for something else on their body. But the boy couldn't find anything and ran away.

"I'll be right back." the dark hooded person said and dashed off following the boy.

Meanwhile, the horse and carriage was prepared and the dark green hooded person instructed the mother and daughter to sit on the carriage, but they hestitated.

"Please believe us. We don't have any ill intentions." they said and bent down to the little girl's heigh, "may I see your hand?"

The girl did as told and suddenly the red dots on her arms were gone.

"Whoa!"

... (Meanwhile)...

The boy ran and ran trying g to lose the hooded person but soon, he was out of stamina.