After Becoming the Exclusive Swordsmith for the Tsugikuni Brothers

[A bladesmith's professional ethics mean never falling in love with a client.]

[Oh? Then can we have romance without love?]

In the eighteenth year since I transmigrated to the Warring States period, I became the first female bladesmith in the history of the Demon Slayer Corps' Swordsmith Village.

As a woman, I wielded a hammer for three years, but no one came to me for work.

Then, at last, one day, my first client stepped through my shop door.

To my utter surprise, it was the mute young master who had run away from home at the age of seven.

The following year, my second client came knocking after hearing that the Nichirin Blade I had forged for the Sun Hashira was incomparably sharp.

To my utter surprise, it was the cold and aloof eldest young master, who was supposed to become the ruler of a nation.

The once haughty Lord Tsugikuni,

now lowering his eyes and bowing his head, asked me to forge him a Nichirin Blade as sharp as the Sun Hashira's.

Remembering how he had looked down on everyone as a child, always mindful of people's rank, I decided to make things difficult for him. So I said:

"Sure. Take your clothes off first. The Sun Hashira took off his clothes to get me to forge his blade back then."

*

Four hundred years later, I was awakened by a blade from my past.

The stories of that time had turned to dust.

One became a demon, and the other passed on.

I ran my hand over the trial dolls I had made for them back then, personally repairing the parts that Demon Slayer Corps members had damaged over the past century. I was in a truly terrible mood.

"Wood is still more obedient."

Reading Guide:

1. The heroine is a somewhat unscrupulous carnivore type. The main story is 1v1, with Sanemi as the main pairing and an alternate-universe Yoriichi story in the extra chapters.

2. From the start, the story opens in the Taisho era, with the heroine joining the Demon Slayer Corps as an unassuming master.

3. Third-person narration. Read as yourself or ship the characters.

Theme: Love transcends time and brings redemption