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SUKUNA AND TŌJI LAID ON THE COUCH as they proceeded to answer all the questions that himari had about this world.

"so you guys have this cursed energy that—"

"for the fourth time, it's NOT cursed energy! it's just our powers that we're born with. I don't even know where you're getting that from", sukuna scoffed.

himari gave the demon king a look.

"yeah...wonder where I got it from. ANYWAYS, next question: where's zen'in maki and mai?", himari asked, specifically directing the question at tōji.

     "hah? who the fuck are they? I don't know", tōji shrugged, plopping a grape into his mouth.

     'tch! motherfucking useless...okay just kidding. I still love you tōji'.

     himari sighed as she had to use her big brain power to figure out where the two could possibly be.

     there was a possibility that maki could've left the zen'in clan and joined gojō's army of samurais. however, the woman was really hoping to create her own little group of fighters herself.

     "this is really unfair", himari softly whined, falling backwards as her back had hit the bamboo floorboards.

     the woman's emerald eyes flickered towards the two men that were eating all the grapes that were meant for her.

     "oi! the fuck are you staring at?", sukuna asked, making tōji glanced over too.

     "I'm wondering if I'm dreaming", himari answered, making the two confused.

     "hah?"

     himari hummed, pinching her cheeks as she winced in pain.

     "gege, bless your soul and bless your heart for creating such hot characters", himari mumbled, clasping her hands together as she sat back up, going back to her mini project.

     "weird ass woman..."

     himari then proceeded to spend the rest of her night trying to devise a plan on how to step on naoya and such.

though midway through, the auburn-haired woman had fallen asleep with her cheek smushed against her left arm, as her right hand weakly held the brush.

tōji yawned as sukuna scratched the back of his head, wondering whether he should carry the girl to bed or not.

"nahhh~"

sukuna decided to sleep on the girl's futon meanwhile tōji took the couch.

himari was then left slumping against the table, snoring away as with a snap of sukuna's fingers, the candles had diminished.

sukuna yawned as he felt a somewhat heavy weight on top of his chest, making his eyes flutter open as he glanced to the side of him.

     the demon then furrowed his brows as he harshly shoved the sleeping woman off him, making her instantly wake up as she clicked her tongue.

     "ayo, what's your issue man?! can't you see that I was sleeping? tch, insincere asshole...", himari grumpily muttered.

     "YOU'RE THE ONE THAT SLEPT ON TOP OF ME! WHO GAVE YOU THE PERMISSION?!"

     "THIS IS MY ROOM, MY BED, AND MY UTILITIES! WHAT ARE YOU ON?!"

     tōji suddenly groaned as he woke up from the noisy chatter, stretching his limbs as he promptly rolled off the couch.

     "the fuck are you two fighting about this early in the morning?"

     "ugh, I don't have time for this. I need to find me some main characters", himari grumbled, wobbling upwards as she picked out a random kimono and just layered it on top of her white one.

the woman hastily left the two men as she snatched the list of new samurais in hopes of seeing itadori and megumi's name.

"mm...megumi...megumi...yūji...yūji....wait, why's only yūji on this list? maybe megumi's with gojō?"

     'AND WHERE THE FUCK IS NOBARA?!'

     nevertheless, himari dropped the list as she headed towards the training grounds — after getting a house tour from rumi, since she claimed that it's been so long since she's been home, that she just forgot everything.

     out on the field were teenage boys as young as fifteen, already training with men as old as thirty.

     though himari was interested in none of them except for a pink-haired boy, with exceedingly abnormal human strength and agility.

     squinting her eyes, everyone suddenly stiffened up as they noticed the lady of the house out and about.

     "e-excuse me, lady himari, but are you perhaps looking for someone?", one of the samurais asked.

     "yeah, a boy named itadori yūji. is he here?"

     "ITADORI YŪJI, COME TO THE FRONT!", the man hollered, making himari slightly flinch at the sudden loudness as whispers started traversing through the crowd of men.

     'okay sir, you didn't have to be so obvious about it...but thanks I guess'.

     a confused pink-haired boy suddenly trotted to the front, standing upright as he didn't expect his name to be called so quickly.

     "am I getting fired already?"

     "no, but this is lady himari, the daughter of master hotaru. she has requested your presence".

     "thanks man. you can go back to...uhh...whatever you were doing now", himari smiled, waving the samurai off as she had to contain herself from hugging itadori in front of everyone.

     "umm...nice to meet you, lady himari", itadori bowed, causing himari to slap her hand over her mouth.

     'CALL AN AMBULANCE! CALL AN AMBULANCE. BUT FOR ME THIS TIME!!'

     "uhhh...lady himari?"

     "AH! yes yes, yūji...is it okay if I call you that? I'm going to call you that anyways. how do you feel about being my personal guard?", the woman asked, making the people around them gasp.

"h-huh? but it's my first day her—"

"THAT DOESN'T MATTER! I-I mean...I see great potential in you", himari nodded, making itadori scratch the back of his head as he was in no position to decline.

"I mean it'd be my honor to—"

"perfect!! you can like go back and train now. whenever I go out and stuff, you'll be by my side along with two others", himari informed.

"oh? like there's two senpais that I'll be with?!", itadori asked, his eyes sparkling.

himari gave the boy a closed-eye smile.

"yes", she lied.

well, technically she didn't lie. were the two older than itadori? yes.

does that mean that they could be considered as his senpais? sure!

it's just that one was a 1,000 year-old demon, and the other was a dilf with no powers, but could totally take down many skilled people with powers.

"so what are their names?"

"umm...r-ryō-senpai and tōji-senpai....?"

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     a/n: HUGE THANKS to Esxorted for making this lovely new cover + divider + banners!! love you bby <3