"Master Ubayashiki wants you to oversee the trial of Tanjiro Kamado" was not a thing you heard regularly. So it definitely struck you the wrong way when Shinobu Kocho told you this.

And you couldn't exactly object, unless you wanted to get cut down right then and there.

So you sucked it up and walked all the way to the meeting area. And you definitely questioned the choice of meeting place, to say the least. Why was it in the open, where the sun is literally scorching your back?

Still, you remained silent, as the guilty party was brought up and thrown onto the ground. It only occurred to you then that you knew this guy.