"Don't run off!" Uzui Tengen punched Agatsuma Zenitsu on the head, dragging him away. "This place is too early for you!"
Uzui Tengen, still dragging Zenitsu by the collar, led the group into a Wisteria House in the Red-light district.
He sprawled out on the floor, his face solemn, and looked at the group. "First, you need to help me find my wives! I'll also go investigate information about demons."
"Wives?! You're making your subordinates find your wives for you?!" Agatsuma Zenitsu shouted indignantly.
"Is that the mission?" Yoizumi emerged from the wooden box, returning to his normal size. If it was just finding wives, did they even need him?
"My wives have already infiltrated the Red-light district to gather information, but I've lost contact with them recently," Uzui Tengen said with a grave expression, ignoring Agatsuma Zenitsu.
"That must be a delusion in your head."
Zenitsu simply couldn't believe that this bizarre eccentric would have something as sacred as wives. What did they even see in this man with strange patterns on his face?
Uzui Tengen impatiently tossed out a pile of letters. "These are letters from my Kasugai Crow; they're all information my wives collected."
So many? Tanjirou picked up a letter to examine it. Yoizumi also casually picked one up, glanced through it, and then spoke, "Have your wives been here for a long time?"
"Because I have three wives."
"...?" Yoizumi blinked. Had he misunderstood, or was it... wives, or rather, spouses.
Aren't there only supposed to be one?
How could he have three?
Uzui Tengen noticed the accusatory look in Yoizumi's eyes and immediately retorted, "Hey, hey, hey! What kind of look is that?!"
"I'm a ninja, and three wives are legal!"
"If you become a ninja too, you can marry just as many wives."
Lowering his head to carefully examine the letters, Yoizumi calmly replied, "No need."
"Heh...? What are you doing, kid?" Uzui Tengen turned his head and saw Agatsuma Zenitsu looking like a vengeful spirit, his voice ethereal.
"Three... three?!"
"Wives!"
"You... you! How dare you! What a joke!"
Uzui Tengen, sensitive to sound, grimaced and punched Agatsuma Zenitsu in the stomach, finally silencing the noisy boy.
"Anyway, my wives have narrowed the scope down to three suspicious establishments. I need you all to infiltrate them."
"Eh! We have to go in? How embarrassing~ Heh heh~" Zenitsu, who had been semi-unconscious, perked up at these words, cupping his face. If it was a mission... then he had no choice~ It wasn't because he wanted to go, oh no~
"You're overthinking it. I need you to disguise yourselves and blend into those three establishments." As if on cue, the staff from Wisteria House quickly brought over the items Uzui Tengen needed.
"Disguise ourselves?" Tanjirou asked, confused.
Uzui Tengen's gaze slowly fell on Yoizumi, and he revealed a mysterious, knowing smile.
"Cross-dressing."
"?" Meeting his eyes, Yoizumi inexplicably had an ominous premonition... "Hmm... can you make your hair longer?" Even after putting on a female kimono, Yoizumi still looked a bit out of place. Uzui Tengen observed him for a while and then suggested.
Hair?
Yoizumi, who had never tried it before, overdid it, and his golden hair grew rapidly, cascading to the ground like a waterfall.
Ah, it'll get dirty, Yoizumi-nii... Hmm?
Tanjirou reached out and picked up his brother's golden hair from the ground, preventing it from touching. He looked up and saw a scene that left him stunned.
Yoizumi-nii, so beautiful... No, should he be called Yoizumi-jie now?
"You really are spectacular whether you're a man or a woman!"
"Extremely flamboyant, of course, still far from me!"
Uzui Tengen said with a laugh.
Yoizumi unaccustomedly brushed a strand of hair behind his ear. It was too long, and he felt strange. With the long hair framing his indifferent face, it softened his features, giving him an ambiguous beauty, paired with his clear sapphire eyes.
It made one exclaim, what a cold beauty.
"Shrink your height a bit more. Tall women aren't very popular." Yoizumi's height was only about half a head shorter than Uzui Tengen. His expressionless demeanor combined with that height would likely make people feel intimidated and reluctant to approach him.
After he appropriately reduced his size, making him a little taller than Tanjirou, Uzui Tengen nodded in satisfaction. He felt something was still missing, his gaze traveling from head to toe, finally landing on the flat chest.
"What about your chest? Can that get bigger too?"
Yoizumi closed his eyes, his calm voice enunciating each word, "No."
"Tsk, what a pity."
"Eh... Eh!"
Yoizumi-nii!
Agatsuma Zenitsu clutched his chest, his face flushed. That handsome Yoizumi-nii, he had become an incredible beauty!
No, he's a man, Agatsuma Zenitsu!
Pull yourself together!
Inosuke, nearby, was still stuffing snacks into his mouth, but his eyes were fixed on Yoizumi, unable to look away.
"Mmm!" Nezuko poked her little head out of the wooden box. Seeing her brother in women's clothing, she was very excited, her bright pink eyes completely unable to move away.
Now that her brother's hair was long, she could braid it for him!
Nezuko clenched her small fists, thinking excitedly.
"The three of you, don't just stand there, hurry and change your clothes!" Uzui Tengen reminded them. When Tanjirou and the others had changed, their expressions were hard to describe.
"You really look like boogers."
"I don't want to be told that by you, with your weird makeup!" It was embarrassing enough to wear women's clothes; to be criticized on top of that, Agatsuma Zenitsu couldn't tolerate it at all.
"No choice, let me make you all a bit more flamboyant."
Twenty minutes later... "..."
After seeing his reflection in the mirror, Agatsuma Zenitsu took a deep breath and then violently smashed the mirror on the ground.
"I shouldn't have trusted you!"
Yoizumi looked at the three faces. People who had been dead for days weren't this pale, and there were those two inexplicable big red marks on their cheeks, and their lips were painted fiery red.
Even he, who had no particular perception of beauty or ugliness, was momentarily speechless. Could this man's aesthetic sense be worse than his?
"Yoizumi, do you want makeup too?" Seeing Yoizumi staring at them, Uzui Tengen casually asked. As soon as the words left his mouth, he heard Yoizumi's decisive reply.
"I refuse."
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