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Walking into the white space, Zenitsu blinked once twice before his vision slowly started to adjust to the void around him.
"Hello?" He called out; fingers clutching a crinkled piece of paper, squinting at his surroundings. "Tanjirou are you there?"
"Over here," a cheerful voice called back and it took Zenitsu about a minute to fully place the origin of the words and another minute or so for his eyes to finally make out the sitting figure not too far from where he was standing.
Grinning wildly; after spotting his target, Zenitsu hurried over to him. Plopping down into the seat on his right and enthusiastically nodding when offered a cup of tea and some sweets.
"So," Tanjirou began after a couple of minutes of silently chewing on a tray of warm, gooey chocolate chip cookies. "What brings you to my..." here he expanded his arms and almost immediately as if commanded by powers unknown to his mare mortal mind, fireworks shot to the sky from behind Tanjirou. "Big.Brother.Advice.Corner!" He exclaimed; grin wide and chin lifted high up in the air with pride.
Zenitsu smiled nervously at him. Fingers curling even tighter around the slip of paper balled up between his fingers.
"I recently aquired a new big brother model," he said. "I just wanted to know your general thought on his character and whether I did the right thing by switching to Obanai when I had a Kaigaku."
Tanjirou hummed in thought; eyebrows furrowing slightly in contemplation. "Tell me Zenitsu," he finally said. "Why did you feel the need to replace your previous older brother?"
The question was only that, a question but to Zenitsu's ears it almost sounded accusing.
He found himself drawing even further back into his chair and pressing the white slip of paper closer to his chest.
"He wasn't very nice," he muttered eventually, when it looked like Tanjirou was very much willing to wait for him to speak. "Plus he's dead... so..."
Tanjirou nodded. "Ah, that make sense."
"Yeah?"
Tanjirou nodded again. "Indeed. Now," he said; enthusiasm coating his tone. "Let's talk about your current big brother! Tell me about Obanai Iguro!"
As soon as he said the name, firework crackled across the air again, and loud clapping and whooping noise came from what looked to be.... Zenitsu squinted out across the void.... was that an audiance?
He didn't get much time to dwell on the bizarre fact before Tanjirou was dragging his attention back on the conversation again.
"Tell me abour Iguro-san," he said, a light amused smile dancing across his lips.
"He saved me when my village was attacked," Zenitsu began. "And then took me under his wing and helped train me."
Tanjiroi grinned. "That's a big brother material right there," he said. "What do we say when we see that!" He called out; holding his ear out dramatically to the the audiance sitting behind the striking white light.
"Big brother statuuuuus, achieeeved!" They all shouted at once and clapped.
"You heard them," Tanjirou said then. "It seems as if your older brother Iguro Obanai has been approved by the audiance. Now we'll go on break and we will be back right after. Don't go anywhere," he said into some kind of screen. "We will have more juicy gossip and adorable moments coming up! See you all!"