"There's an opening!"
A glint flashed in Tanjiro's eyes.
In the instant that the arrow demon Yahaba exposed a weakness while trying to dodge his attack, Tanjiro took a deep breath, his hand gripping the black Nichirin Sword tightly.
For a moment, in Tanjiro's focused eyes, the world seemed to fall silent, leaving only the almost motionless arrow demon.
Threads were wrapped around his body and finally!
At a certain moment, Tanjiro keenly noticed a thread of weakness that was about to break and turn red.
"Water Breathing, Second Form: Water Wheel!"
Tanjiro's body suddenly flipped in the air, driving the black Nichirin Sword to rotate simultaneously.
The water-blue blade light formed a round, arc-shaped slash, the rippling water light resembling a truly surging water wheel.
"What?! How is this possible?!" The demon Yahaba's eye in his palm had already seen Tanjiro attacking from behind, but he was horrified to find that he couldn't dodge this strike.
How could this be!
He was one of the Twelve Kizuki under Muzan-sama, how could his head be easily cut off by such an ordinary brat?!
Filled with shame and anger, Yahaba could only use all his strength and shout with extreme unwillingness,
"SUSAMARUU!!"
Swoosh!
Splat!
A demon head with bulging forehead veins and an extremely distorted unwilling expression flew into the sky, then fell to the dusty ground with a thud.
"Damn it! It's so dirty! Too dirty! I can't stand it, how could I die in this pile of crap? I don't accept this! I can't accept it!" Yahaba's head roared angrily.
Whether it was his final unwillingness turning into strength or not, his body, which had clearly lost his head, raised his hand once again.
Tanjiro, who had just landed, hadn't steadied himself when suddenly a great force struck him.
Caught off guard, Tanjiro's entire body was carried high into the air.
Through the talisman (Yushiro's Blood Demon Art) stuck to his forehead, Tanjiro clearly saw that it was Yahaba's Blood Demon Art arrows controlling him.
"Oh no, Tanjiro! Yushiro, help that child." Tamayo, who had been observing the battle from the side, said anxiously.
But Yushiro, who was struggling to hold back Susamaru, also had his own difficulties.
'Lady Tamayo, you think too highly of me. I'm already using all my strength just to hold onto this demon, how could I have any spare hands?'
However, although he thought this, Yushiro still gritted his teeth and activated his Blood Demon Art again.
In an instant, his body seemed to disappear into thin air.
"Eh ha! You're using this trick on me again? Do you think I'm stupid?!" Susamaru, who had grown six arms, had a ferocious expression.
Six temari balls instantly condensed in her hands and were hurled out with a roar, whistling like cannonballs towards where Yushiro had just disappeared.
Yushiro's Blood Demon Art could conceal his presence, but it couldn't increase his speed.
Susamaru had discovered this during their fight, so she simply opted for a large-scale bombardment.
Sure enough, when Yushiro saw the whistling temari balls coming, his eyes widened.
There were too many, he couldn't dodge them all.
He desperately avoided five balls, but there was no way he could dodge the last one no matter what.
"This is bad!"
Bang!!
At this critical moment, a violent boom sounded.
A long, beautiful leg with peculiar thorn-like patterns delivered a flying kick.
The powerful temari ball was actually kicked back, its speed not diminishing at all.
Susamaru, "What?!"
Yushiro, "What?!"
Boom!
A wild aura erupted as a tall figure with flowing black hair blocked Yushiro's back.
The familiar kimono and hairstyle, but the girl's suddenly increased height and the small horn protruding from her forehead, as well as the patterns on her body and mature face, made one instinctively doubt, is this still Nezuko?
Nezuko seemed to have suddenly grown up.
Just a moment ago during the battle, she still looked like an eight year-old girl, but now she suddenly seemed to have grown to fifteen or sixteen years old.
This sudden change shocked everyone present, including Tamayo.
However, compared to the bewildered others, there was an additional glint of light in Tamayo's eyes.
"This form, it's so familiar, could it be..."
*****
Meanwhile, on the other side, the fight between the Forest Hashira Shinichi Moriki and Upper Moon Five Gyokko was even more brutal.
Because of their identity, Tamayo and Yushiro had deliberately chosen a sparsely populated area in the outskirts of Asakusa for their residence.
The surrounding residents had mostly moved away due to government planning.
Otherwise, just the shockwaves from Shinichi and Gyokko's battle could potentially harm many innocent bystanders.
Moreover, Shinichi was continously moving the battlefield, luring Gyokko towards more desolate areas.
Bang!!
A ferocious, enormous monster crashed into an abandoned wall.
It was clearly an ugly fish demons with four limbs and a round pot on its head.
However, just as the fish monster let out a roar, a flash of blue-green blade light appeared.
The next second, a clear blood line appeared on the fish monster's head.
Splat! The fish monster split in two.
But when the perspective was pulled back higher, a heart-stopping scene could be seen.
Dozens or even hundreds of ugly demons, just like the fish demons from before, were roaring and howling as they surrounded Shinichi.
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