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  Something about Kuroyuri confuses Tanjiro. She has a very calming scent, but her emotions are contradicting her - it's like when the spring are still early and there's a storm in the middle of it. Her scent were quite unique for a lady, a calming scent of honey and pine wood.

  His eyes followed on the said girl, she's doing something weird.

After deciding that they should take a break after walking for almost six hours, they decided to stop by an inn on a nearby village. Thankfully there is one room available.

  And now, Momoi is doing her yoga poses before going to sleep.

During her time as an idol, dance practices and workouts almost eat up all her time during her day off - given that she always tend to have sore muscles, she always remind herself to do yoga stretches before going to sleep.

   Reaching her toes, a thought suddenly crosses her mind.

'Wait, Tanjiro's body is really stiff - this might be my chance to help him get better at fighting!'

She looked up at Tanjiro whose watching from his bed. Meanwhile Tanjiro, when he met her eyes coincidentally when he's just about to ask her - decided to ask her now that her attention's on him.

"Kuroyuri-san, what are you doing?"
Hearing his question that aligned with her intentions, her entire expression brightened.

"This is called stretching, but this type of stretching that I am doing is called Yoga. It helps calm and relax your muscles, it also can make you flexible - i mean, not really flexible, but you will be able to move accordingly after a certain amount of time you spend on doing yoga." Momoi enthusiastically explained with stars in her eyes.

Tanjiro was surprised to know that there was actually an exercise like Yoga. Momoi seemed to know a lot of things.

Momoi stood up and grabbed Tanjiro's hands, bringing him closer to her space where she was stretching earlier.

"I'll teach you how to do it, and you should regularly exercise this so you could be stronger. Okay?"

  Tanjiro, although confused - did not hesitate to try the said exercise that Momoi had told him.

  He ended up trying to do the poses that Momoi is showing him, unfortunately - he ended up either falling down or wincing in pain after five poses. Plus, his breathing while doing the poses greatly increased the difficulty.

Momoi had been laughing for such a long time after witnessing how badly stiff Tanjiro's body is. And so, she ended the daily exercise - but still reminded him to do it daily so he could get use to it.

  He is now seeing Momoi in a whole new different light after that day.

.・。.・゜✭

The next day.

   When Momoi had opened her eyes the next morning, the first thing that she did is to wander her eyes around the room, still not grasping the new reality that she had been through last night. So when she saw the peacefully sleepinh Tanjiro on the other side of the bed, she screamed so loud.

"AAAAAAHHH!"

At the sound of Momoi's shrill scream, all the neighbouring rooms flinched awake - Tanjiro was no exception. He jolted awake from Momoi's sudden scream.

"Kuroyuri-san!? What's wrong!?"

But the first thing that he asked is if there is something wrong from Momoi, it made her stop from screaming.

Realizing that she really is in the Demon slayer world, she started sighing.

"So what if I'm here? I'll be useless anyway." She muttered, facing away from Tanjiro for a moment.

Smelling her sad emotions, Tanjiro began to worry when she faced away from his - but is stunned when Momoi suddenly turned around with a bright smile on her face.

He would be lying if he said that her bright smile didn't make his heart skip a beat.

That's a one way to attack.

"Goodmorning, Tanjiro! Let's go to your mission already!" Hopping up from her bed, she chirped brightly.

  From what she said, Tanjiro looked at Momoi in a questioning expression.

"You'll come with me? But it would be really dangerous. You might not know this, but I'm a demon slayer - my life is always at stake, and you'll be in danger as well if you come with me." He explained to the obviously not listening Momoi.

  Finally adjusting her twintails, her hazel brown eye lit up when the sun started going up, washing the once dim room with warm hues.

"I told you i will help you, even if it means staking my life here."

  At what she said, Tanjiro became too stunned to even speak. He had thought that she was just saying that yesterday out of kindness - but he didn't think she was actually serious about it.

Her smell is telling him that she is a trustworthy person too.

   "Shall we go grab something for a breakfast first before we go travel?" Momoi suggested.

She does have money, although it is the coins and she's not sure if the coins from her dimension and here would still be available.

"Ah, yes!" Tanjiro snapped out from his thoughts when Momoi started walking.

  "Tanjiro, how old are you?" Momoi suddenly asked in the middle of the silence, walking towards the exit of the inn.

"I'm 14 years old, what about you Kuroyuri-san?" He smiled.

  At the sound of her last name coming out of Tanjiro's mouth - she frowned in displeasure. "Tanjiro, I am already calling you by your first name and you still call me by my last name?"

"W-What do you mean? It's disrespectful."

  Momoi gave him the stinky eye.

'You tell me that but you call Kanao-chan by her name.' She sulked in her thought.

"Still, i want you to call me Momoi. Come on, try it!"

  Tanjiro is having the crisis of his life. He does want to call her by name, but his respect for her still surfaces in his mind - and he only met her last night! Should he be really calling her by name now?

"M-M-M-Mo—"

His words got cut when Momoi suddenly ran towards a store that sells buns.

"Oji-san, two meatbuns please!" Momoi hold up two fingers while smiling at the vendor.

  The mister smiled and packed her orders. When she handed him her money, the man stared confused at the coins on his hands.

"Uhm, is this the japanese currency?" He asked Momoi.

"Yes, it's a little advanced though, but it is definitely Japan currency." She grinned. She felt a little guilty but she told him the truth.

  It's an advanced currency of Yen that doesn't exist in the Taisho era yet. So, it still does count right?

Momoi turned around and found Tanjiro helping a grandma pick up the vegetables that fell on a floor.

"Man, he's such a good guy." Momoi  gently smiled at the scene, before jogging up to him.

  "Hello there, astra-project no.108!" 

Momoi abruptly stopped when a cute small creature appeared right infront of her. Blinking a few times, she looked around wondering if anyone can see the creature infront of her - before confusingly stared at it.

"W-Who are you?" She whispered, afraid she'll be dawned as a crazy person if people saw her talking to air.

'And what does he mean, astra-project no. 108? Is that supposed to be my name?' She grimaced in her thought at the mention of such an abominable name.

  "I do not have a name, but I am what you call a deity. I am here to give you missions as payment for granting your wish."

The creature grinned, waving its hands up and down like a child.

"What? There's a payment?" Momoi's eyes widened like the number of zero from astonishment, she didn't expected that there was actually a payment!

"But, i offered my thousand yen for that wish!" Although she is aggravated about the sudden information slapped on her face, she still needed to keep calm - she's in public for pete's sake!

  "You don't have to worry, no.108. You're standing still on the surface, we're talking inside my space."

With that, Momoi bursted in rage.

"I offered you my thousand yen and there's still a payment needed for my wish?! Are you kidding me?"

"Maa, maa. Calm down no.108, I am here to help you nonetheless—"

"And my name is Momoi, not No.108. Do not call me by that, it's displeasing."

"Right. Momoi. Our god had been talking about your wish after that day, it was a rather difficult wish to ask for - so we had asked for the administrator of this world to allow of your transportation to this world. It's quite a vexing task since this world's admin is a very strict and stingy guy."

"...eh? You all went through that stuff just for my wish? Why?"

"It's because you are the first customer, we needed to provide you our best. But, unfortunately - as payment for allowing your transportation over this dimension, the admin of this world had asked us to make you save this world."

At what he said, Momoi who had only been sucking up the information calmly, jolted in shock. Her!? Save the world!?

"How am i going to save the world with weak body of mine?!" She roared out her frustrations. They had got to be kidding her right?

She started laughing in disbelief, "Are you mocking me?"

"No, I am not. It is up to you how you are going to save the world."

"I am freaking asking you how?! I am weak as dainty flower! I can't fight and I am dumb as hell!"

   The little creature looked at Momoi in pity, feeling bad that what she said is actually true. She's completely a useless baggage in this heavy world.

  "Why the hell are you looking at me like that?"

Momoi's face became terrifyingly blank.

"No. I did not look at you like you are a baggage in this world." 

  "OI!"

"Okay, as a gift for safely coming in this world without any disruptions, i will give you an ability."

Momoi's body started lighting up. She didn't feel anything but the ticklish feathers around her body. After the light vanished, she didn't feel anything.

So she looked at the creature infront of her, but it only smiled in satisfaction.

"You love singing right? Then sing with all your heart."

Before she could ask for the ability, the creature suddenly disappeared. Leaving her cluelessly staring infront like a lifeless body.

"Kuroyuri-san? Kuroyuri-san?~" She snapped out of her daze when she hears Tanjiro calling.

"A-Ah Tanjiro, what happened?"

"You've been staring right ahead for awhile now, are you okay?"

  Momoi checked her whole body and stared at Tanjiro.

  "You love singing right? Then sing with all your heart."

What does that thing mean by that? Is what Momoi thought before she smiled. "It's nothing."

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