Chapter 154 - Reunion (1/2)

A big shoutout to Demon for joining my patron! Thanks a lot!!

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After a showdown against the demons, Nik and Tanjiro braced a long walk. To say they were tired was an understatement, even when considering Nik's 10 points in vitality.

”Don't lean on me... I'll fall.” Nik wheezed out, dead tired while Tanjiro simply hung behind him with a pained expression on his face.

”I... am... too... tired...”

Arguably, Tanjiro's condition was worse than Nik. If it hadn't been Tanjiro's eagerness to return as early as possible, the duo might have stayed back in one of the villages and just rest for a few hours before continuing their journey.

”Think of Nezuko! Get on your feet, damnit!”

Nik muttered, his voice clearly lacked the appropriate strength to convey the curse properly while Tanjiro's breath slowly grew steady.

”Tell... Nezuko... I... love... her...”

Tanjiro whispered softly while Nik seemed to regain a bit of his strength and he immediately nodded with a happy, yet, tired smile.

”Sure! I'll tell her that I love her!”

”Huh? What?!”

Tanjiro's eyes snapped open and he immediately raised his head in a stupor.

”Nik... san? What did you say?”

”Huh?” Nik looked back and saw Tanjiro's eyes covered in darkness. Well, the bright side was that he had regained his strength while Nik smiled warmly.

”What did I say? You've been out for half-an-hour already?”

Nik lied, but the half-unconscious, drooling Tanjiro would never know this and he immediately snapped into his lovely wife mode and smiled gently.

”I see...”

Thud.

And thus, he lost his strength once again, falling on the ground face first.

”But you know... I'll still take Nezuko...”

Nik spoke loudly and observed Tanjiro while the latter remained on the ground without any movement.

'He really fainted... guess... we'll camp here.'

There was no way Nik was going to give Tanjiro a ride on his back when he was quite tired himself. Looking around, Nik dragged Tanjiro's body near a tree and helped him lean against the bark while Nik sat near him and immediately took out packets upon packets of potato chips and drank multiple cans of soda at once.

Graaa

Of course, he ended up burping rather loudly. But Nik was finally satisfied. The plastic wrappers were thrown back into the inventory, not because he cared about leaving evidence, but because he was an eco-friendly Carnal Demon and he finally laid down while looking at the softly glowing moon.

The whole landscape was peaceful and slowly, Nik drifted to sleep.

Nik didn't know how long he slept for, but he knew that Tanjiro had recovered quite well. After all, he was carrying Nik on his back while jogging towards the Mist Mountain.

”What are you doing, Tanjiro?”

Nik immediately jumped out of his hold and asked strangely while Tanjiro simply smiled kindly.

”You looked so tired that I didn't have the heart to wake you up, Nik-san. And I thought that after having a party, you must not really want to wake up early in the morning.”

”Party?”

Nik frowned while Tanjiro nodded and replied.

”Yes, I smelled a lot of delicious scents where we were staying. But there were not even bones left, so I thought you must be full.”

Tanjiro looked over at the mountain and beckoned with an eager expression.