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Chapter 1: Shinobu Finds Nezuko Instead of Giyu

by @konyomistudios

Four panels, strict 2x2 grid. Read left to right, then top to bottom. Panel 1: Shinobu keeps her narrow sword pointed toward Nezuko. Tanjiro steps directly into its path with open hands; he is frightened, not fast enough to attack her. Panel 2: Shinobu turns the blade aside to avoid the human child, catches his wrist with her left hand and sweeps his feet. The hatchet lies discarded in the snow. Panel 3: Tanjiro lands on his side, wind knocked out. Shinobu remains upright. No blood or serious injury. Panel 4: Nezuko looks from Tanjiro to the poised sword. Her front foot changes direction toward him, not toward escape.

Four panels, strict 2x2 grid. Read left to right, then top to bottom. Panel 1: Shinobu begins a controlled thrust toward Nezuko, but her eyes follow the demon’s unexpected route. Panel 2: Nezuko plants herself in front of the fallen Tanjiro with her back to him and arms spread toward Shinobu. There is open forest behind her that she could escape into. Panel 3: Close-up of Shinobu’s narrow sword tip stopped clear of Nezuko’s throat. There is no puncture, poison or wound. Panel 4: Shinobu studies Nezuko shielding the boy. Tanjiro lies within the demon’s reach, yet her teeth face the blade. Turning point: the attack stops because of observed behavior.

Four panels, strict 2x2 grid. Read left to right, then top to bottom. Panel 1: Shinobu lowers the needle point without putting herself within claw range. Nezuko remains between her and Tanjiro. Panel 2: Tanjiro slowly sits up behind Nezuko. He reaches toward his sister but stops when Shinobu raises her left palm. Panel 3: Close view of Shinobu’s controlled smile fading into a sober expression. No flashback and no second woman. Panel 4: Shinobu holds a length of plain pack cord from her belt. Nezuko watches it; the sword stays ready in her other hand.

Four panels, strict 2x2 grid. Read left to right, then top to bottom. Panel 1: With her sword sheathed for the tying, Shinobu kneels beside Nezuko; Tanjiro supports his sister’s shoulders. Her wrists are bound in front with padded cloth beneath plain cord. Panel 2: Shinobu places a short smooth bamboo cylinder across Nezuko’s mouth with a dark fabric tie around the back of her head. No gag is forced into her throat. Panel 3: Nezuko rests her bound hands against Tanjiro’s chest. His eyes show fear and grief rather than relief. Panel 4: Shinobu checks the wrist cord and the space between herself and the children, hands visible and anatomically clear.

Four panels, strict 2x2 grid. Read left to right, then top to bottom. Panel 1: A Kasugai crow lands on a cedar branch beside Shinobu. She ties a small folded written report to its leg; no readable writing on the paper. Panel 2: The crow departs above the snowy ridge. Tanjiro stands supporting muzzled Nezuko; her wrists remain bound in front. Panel 3: Tanjiro points downhill where the first pale dawn light touches distant roofs. Shinobu points sideways toward an isolated storehouse beneath cedars. Panel 4: Three figures approach an empty plank storehouse with a slatted side shutter. Establish the door at left and damaged shutter at right; no villagers.

Four panels, strict 2x2 grid. Read left to right, then top to bottom. Panel 1: Interior of the empty storehouse. Nezuko crouches in a deep shadow, muzzle on, wrists padded and tied. Tanjiro checks the ceiling for gaps. Panel 2: A thin first strip of sunlight crosses the floor from the damaged right-hand shutter. It does not touch Nezuko. Panel 3: Tanjiro folds his own plain scarf into the narrow gap while Shinobu braces the shutter. He still wears his checkerboard haori. Panel 4: Shinobu pushes the cracked wooden latch closed with her bare left palm. A long splinter catches the skin. Nezuko stays completely shaded.

Four panels, strict 2x2 grid. Read left to right, then top to bottom. Panel 1: Close view of Shinobu’s bare left palm: a shallow splinter cut, a single dark ink drop of blood. The shutter is now blocked by scarf and closed wood. Panel 2: The drop lands on the dark floor beside Shinobu’s boot. Blood is black ink, never red. Tanjiro turns toward it. Panel 3: Close view of Nezuko lifting her head from shadow; slit pupils and a tense jaw above the bamboo muzzle. Her tied hands tighten. Panel 4: Shinobu’s right hand rests on her sword hilt. Her bleeding left palm hangs away from Nezuko. Tanjiro is still, between them but offset so their eyelines are clear.

End of chapter 1

Shinobu Finds Nezuko Instead of Giyu

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