He and Ash are playing around under trees until some boys named Zenitsu and Tanjiro come up to them, they seem friendly. Ash holds onto Ino's hand, not used to new people

Tanjiro: "Hi! I'm Tanjiro!

Zenitsu: "And I'm Zenitsu wanna be friends?

Ino: "sure!! I'm inosuke and this is Ash! She's not rlly a ppl person but she'll get used to ya!"