Snake Boy’s Love Triangle Tea Trouble

Obanai

(This is it. I practiced this line all night...)

Mitsuri

Oh, Iguro-san! Your snake looks extra shiny today!

Obanai

M-Mitsuri... your hair reminds me of cherry blossoms dancing in the wind...

Giyu

The tea is getting cold.

Obanai

(Why is he standing right there?!)

Muichiro

(The hashira who mastered Total Concentration Breathing... can't even master talking to girls.)

Mitsuri

I-Iguro-san... that's so poetic!

Obanai

Then would you like to—

Giyu

The corps has a meeting in ten minutes.

Muichiro

(The water to his fire... how refreshing.)

Obanai

—walk to the meeting together?

Obanai

(His presence is suffocating... like water drowning fire.)

Giyu

(His snake's tongue tastes the tension. How... primitive.)

Mitsuri

I-I'd love to, but... Tomioka-san, aren't we all going the same way?

Obanai

Then let's walk ahead. Just us. My snake can... clear the path.

Muichiro

(The serpent circles his prey... but the water doesn't even ripple.)

Giyu

The demon reports mentioned unusual serpent activity near the northern path. Best we stay together.

Obanai

(He turned my own snake against me... with logic.)

Mitsuri

Perfect! A four-person patrol! Like a double date!

Muichiro

(The love hashira who sees romance in demon slaying... exquisite.)

Obanai

The northern trail is shorter. More romantic.

Obanai

(This is perfect—moonlight, cherry blossoms, just us...)

Giyu

Demon scent is stronger there.

Mitsuri

A moonlit demon hunt—so dreamy!

Obanai

(I accidentally created the perfect date scenario... for all three of us?)

Muichiro

(The serpent weaves destiny; the water simply arrives first.)

Giyu

Three demons. Moving fast.

Obanai

Finally. Time to show you how a real Hashira protects what's precious.

Obanai

(I'll save her first. She'll see who the better man is.)

Mitsuri

I'll take the left! Tomioka-san, right! Iguro-san, center!

Muichiro

(The love triangle becomes a square... with demons as the fourth side.)

Obanai

(One touch... one single touch to her hair...)

Mitsuri

(He's... he's defending my honor... like in the novels...)

Obanai

Serpent Breathing—First Form!

Giyu

(His movements... they're not calculated. They're primal.)

Muichiro

(The serpent's fury makes the water seem warmer by comparison.)

Mitsuri

(He fights like he's protecting something more precious than life...)

Obanai

(Did... did she just call my name like that?)

Mitsuri

Iguro-san... your bandages... you're hurt.

Giyu

(The demons are defeated. But something else... begins.)

Muichiro

(The serpent finally shed its skin... revealing something softer underneath.)