Raising Tokito in the Demon Slayer Corps

[Completed in full on 2024.4.13. Next story: My Character Archetype Is the Comic Relief in a Volleyball Anime. Begging all you lovely readers to add it to your to-read list!] Taisho Year 10. Sixteen-year-old Riko Ryukan hates the new student, Tokito. He can steal first place from her without even paying attention in class. The swordsmanship she has studied under renowned masters since childhood can't last three moves against him. Even the mentor who once admired her now likes him a little more. Two months after Tokito joined the private academy, he was beating Riko in every way. To make matters worse, this boy seemed determined to keep her from ever having a peaceful moment, sticking to her side and getting on her nerves. Irritated and upset, Riko uttered the most vicious curse of her life: "God, let me go back in time and strangle him when he was a child!" As it turns out, cursing people is a bad idea. That very night, Riko slipped and fell into the river When she opened her eyes again, she saw a boy chopping wood in the forest, his face full of concern. Seeing that she had woken up, the boy smiled warmly. He didn't even mind that all his firewood had been soaked in the river. He kindly told her that it was now Taisho Year 3, his name was Muichiro, and he had an older brother at home. If she had nowhere to go, she could come live with them. Riko: ... :) God, I was just running my mouth. You didn't have to take me so seriously. * 1. There is no adoption plot. The romance takes place after both characters are adults. 2. Chapter 1 opens four years after the original's final battle. After she transmigrates, the story is set three years before the original begins. 3. There won't be much romance. The story is partly set in an alternate universe, and real places mentioned have no connection to reality. 4. Please add my next story to your to-read list T_T Tokito in the Swordsmith Village arc is so delicious. I'm swooning, I've fallen hard for him TUT Theme: Strive to live well