the hinatmatsuri (doll festival), but the zen'in family 100 years later displays two male dolls instead : megumi-sama and yuuji-sama, they call the dolls. megumi-sama has a strict expression, while yuuji-sama gentle, but the young girls swear megumi-sama's...
porcelain face becomes much more gentle, almost smiling, when they turn him to face yuuji-sama a little bit more.
at night, the young girls who set the hina-dan up also swear they hear giggles and whispers from the room where the display was set. yet nobody was inside.
touching the dolls would transfer bad luck from the girls to the dolls, and ensure a long and happy life for them, but for the zen'in, the practice is a little bit different.
nobody can touch yuuji-sama without asking for megumi-sama's permission. like, actual asking.
🔸basically a day where fushiguro sleeps in (late-night mission) and itadori gets a hairwash from him.
megumi groggily cracked his eyes open ; sunlight streamed in from his windows. he looked at his phone - 8AM. he hadn't set any alarms because he had planned to sleep in.
before he could wonder what it was that woke him up, megumi heard his stomach gurgle in protest. ah.
he came back last night, exhausted from his mission and had immediately face-planted onto his bed, without a shower, without eating dinner. he looked at his clothes - bits of cursed spirit gunk stuck to his uniform. disgusting. megumi sighed. laundry... clean sheets...
this is a direct quote from 散歩道の後に the light novel, don't bash me for this lol
but context was he was pondering over how yuuji's 'death' affected him and nobara, and how they were slowly moving on, and getting over it, making it part of their motivation to fight,