[Holy Maiden?]
Hearing Mitsuba's voice, Doma was somewhat surprised.
[Incredible! You would actually take the initiative to contact me?!]
For over two hundred years, Mitsuba had always maintained an attitude toward Doma of not initiating, not refusing, and not taking responsibility.
Never initiating contact with him, never refusing his initiated contact, never taking any responsibility for their troublemaking activities—when problems arose, it was all Doma's doing.
An active contact like tonight was the first time, making Doma somewhat tearful with emotion.
[Uh...]
Startled by his inexplicably excited tone, Mitsuba chose to ignore it.
[Right now at the movie studio, Gyutaro and the others have encountered some trouble. Doma, if you don't have anything else to do, please hurry and go bring them back for me.]
[I see...]
Doma nodded, asking curiously:
[But Holy Maiden, why aren't you going yourself?]
[Because I'm currently in Osaka Prefecture, temporarily occupied and can't leave.]
Mitsuba replied helplessly.
"Hey, Manager-san..."
At the same time, in a private room of a late-night izakaya in Osaka Prefecture, several drunk band beauties were continuously "pouring out their troubles" to Mitsuba.
"Tell me, why won't Sister Muzan look at me more..."
"That's right~ Clearly we're not bad-looking either, but why, why does Sister Muzan always like to stay with little Ai... Could it be because little Ai's compositions are better than ours?"
"Wuu... I'm so sad... I really like Sister Muzan too..."
"Hey, Manager-san, why aren't you saying anything?"
"Manager-san, you often stay with Sister Muzan too, right? Can you tell us what Sister Muzan is really thinking?"
"Ahaha, well..."
Before Mitsuba could figure out how to respond, she saw a drunk beauty beside her suddenly press up against her, reaching up to remove the glasses on her face, smiling drunkenly at her:
"Eh~ Looking closely, our Manager-san is actually quite pretty too~"
"Alright, stop fooling around, give me back my glasses."
"No~ Unless... Manager-san, you comfort me~"
"I want too, I want too~ I want comfort too~"
[Are the internal relationships of girl bands nowadays always this complicated...]
Letting out a deep sigh, Mitsuba used mental communication to contact Doma again.
[Anyway, my situation here is indeed a bit complex. I can only trouble you with Gyutaro and the others' matter.]
[Understood~ But Holy Maiden, would Gyutaro and the others really encounter trouble?]
In the underground shooting range of the Tokyo villa, Doma asked doubtfully while listening to the continuous gunshots by his ear.
Although only at the bottom of the Upper Ranks, in Doma's impression, Gyutaro's strength was still quite good.
To the extent that if he put in effort, he would also find it quite troublesome to deal with~
This level of strength should be very strong for the Demon Slayer Corps, right?
Rather than saying demon slayers are scary, it's more accurate to say Gyutaro is the scarier one.
[Under normal circumstances, yes, but matters related to the Demon Slayer Corps have always been impossible to consider with normal thinking... Anyway, stop dawdling, hurry up and go bring them back!]
[Okay~]
The communication ended, and the gunshots by Doma's ear also happened to stop. He turned to look at Kotoha who was changing magazines, smiling:
"Little Kotoha, the Holy Maiden has something she needs me for temporarily, I may need to go out for a while. If you're sleepy, rest early, don't wait for me~"
"Got it, Ah-Mo, go and come back quickly, I'll wait for you to come back before sleeping."
"Mhm, then it seems I still need to come back early!"
After a simple farewell, Doma took his coat and top hat from the clothes rack nearby, turned and quickly left.
"..."
Time returned to the movie studio. That enormous ice lotus that appeared out of nowhere instantly blocked everyone's attacks, protecting the Gyutaro sibling pair within.
It stood quietly under the moonlight, alluring yet beautiful.
"Tanjiro! What's happening? What appeared?!"
Himejima Gyomei hurriedly retracted his chains, asking loudly.
He could sense that some massive object had suddenly appeared and obstructed his offensive, but he couldn't see what it specifically was.
"It's a lotus, a lotus made of ice... such a huge lotus!"
Tanjiro raised his head, eyes wide open, looking at this scene before him in disbelief.
"Lotus?"
After only a moment of confusion, Himejima Gyomei immediately reacted.
"Be careful! It's a Blood Demon Art! There's still a demon hiding around here!"
Almost simultaneously with his shout, from the darkness behind everyone, a sudden creaking sound of wheels rubbing against the floor came.
"Boom-chicka-boom~ Boom-chicka-boom~ Boom-chicka-boom~"
Immediately after, a highly rhythmic music sound approached from afar, leisurely rising in this silent night.
Accompanying it was also that powerful, terrifyingly boundless demonic aura, carrying that bone-piercing chill, riding the night wind, instantly penetrating into the bodies of everyone present!
His pupils constricting, his body uncontrollably stiffening, Tanjiro slowly turned his head, looking at the figure that suddenly appeared behind him.
That was a man sitting on a mobile speaker.
The man was tall, with white oak-colored cropped hair, extremely outstanding appearance.
He had a pair of rainbow-colored pupils, wore a black trench coat over a black tie dress shirt, and a black round gentleman top hat on his head—looking especially trendy and handsome.
Of course, these weren't what Tanjiro focused on. What truly shocked Tanjiro were the characters carved in the man's rainbow pupils—
"Lord Stone Hashira... Upper Rank Two has arrived!"
This suddenly appearing man was actually Upper Rank Two of the Twelve Kizuki, second only to Tsugikuni Mitsuba—the third strongest demon in this world?!
"Everyone~ Good evening~"
As if completely not noticing the shock on everyone's faces, sitting on that speaker still playing music, Doma leisurely slid over, sighing with a helpless smile:
"Sigh~ Never expected that so late at night, I would still be called out by the Holy Maiden to work overtime. This is really quite depressing, don't you think~
Unfortunately, there's no way around it. After all, this is the Holy Maiden's command, plus those two children inside are both my good friends. If I didn't come, that elder brother of the Holy Maiden would have to come~
Let me tell you, this Lord has a particularly bad temper. If he really came over, then the scene would get bloody~"
Muttering to himself, Doma just sat on the speaker, sliding conspicuously past everyone to before that enormous ice lotus, raising his hand to lightly snap his fingers.
In an instant, the ice lotus transformed into crystalline powder scattering with the wind, releasing the Gyutaro sibling pair from within.