[Demon Slayer] What Can I Use to Save You?

The first time they met:

Aoyama Kisara stopped a few children from throwing pebbles at Gyutaro, but he snatched the delicate bento box she was carrying.

Aoyama Kisara: This makes no sense.

Gyutaro: How naive.

The second time they met:

Aoyama Kisara rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked at the little wolf sneaking around in her family's pharmacy, somewhat displeased.

Gyutaro: My sister's sick.

Aoyama Kisara: Work it off to pay your debt.

An unexpected meeting led to an unexpected connection. In a relationship that began with a so-called "debt," Aoyama Kisara realized that her heart was gradually turning toward Gyutaro, crossing a line.

But Aoyama Kisara, utterly confident in her intelligence and abilities, never considered their "social status" an obstacle.

Kisara: Putting everything else aside, you have a handsome face.

Kisara: Kisara. Aoyama Kisara. Get my name wrong again and I'll dock your pay.

Kisara: You won't find another job in Yoshiwara with benefits as good as Komatsudo's, you know?

Kisara: You're picking a fight with me, aren't you?

Kisara: The surname "Gyutaro" sounds awful. If you really want to marry me, then marry into my family.

Beneath the verdant trees that day, she made him a verbal promise of marriage. But reality soon struck a cruel blow.

Kisara: Sister, if you must kill them, then kill me too.

Kisara: I swear on my life, I will never let them harm humans.

That night, Aoyama Kisara stood alone in front of the Shabana siblings, who had just turned from humans into demons.

But she had overestimated how much control she had. Or perhaps, from much earlier, from the moment she blindly trusted in her own intelligence and abilities, this story was already destined to struggle to find a happy ending.

Aoyama Kisara knelt in the tatami room where sunlight streamed in and drew the blade she had kept ready to take her own life in atonement...

The Yoshiwara Pleasure District.

A place where power and money crush human rights, it could never create a love story for them.

[Reading Guide]

1. Pairing: Gyutaro.

2. Original third-person story with a local heroine. Maxed-out intelligence, but extremely specialized.

3. The main story has two volumes: the first set in the Edo period, the second in the Taisho period.

4. Original worldbuilding and OOC characterization. Please don't nitpick the historical details.

5. No chapters stockpiled, updates whenever. I promise not to abandon it.

6. It's hard to say whether the ending of the main story is a happy ending, but I don't think it's a bad ending either, so let's compromise and call it a "True Ending" (laughing.jpg).

Theme: How could a journey be nothing but regrets?