"You're a Pillar of the Demon Slayer Corps, aren't you! I'm so angry, I'm truly furious! Suddenly setting fires, are you insane? In hundreds of years, I've never encountered such a madman who sets streets on fire!"
Uzui Tengen clicked his tongue as he watched the female demon, with long white hair, wearing a half-revealing oiran dress, and eyes marked "Upper Rank" and "Six," leap out of the burning house.
"So, I picked the weakest of the Upper Ranks."
"And she's particularly noisy, chirping away."
As he spoke, he rushed towards Upper Rank Six at an incredibly fast speed, arriving behind her before she could even react.
"Huh?" Uzui Tengen turned his head, somewhat surprised.
"Who are you calling noisy? And suddenly you just run over and throw yourself at me..."
Daki seemed to not yet grasp the situation when she heard the Pillar, who had suddenly appeared behind her, say,
"You're not an Upper Rank, you're too weak."
"Huh? You're throwing yourself at me to die, and now you're saying something stupid..."
Daki hadn't finished speaking when bloodlines appeared on her limbs, neck, and body. With a squelch, she was torn into pieces that fell onto the rooftop.
"Huh?" Daki's head looked bewildered among the chunks of flesh.
"Where is the true Upper Rank Six?" Uzui Tengen frowned, looking around.
Just then, a profound malice emanated from the female demon he had just dismembered. Uzui Tengen instantly looked over.
"How dare you bully my sister..."
Daki's fragmented body expanded with the malicious, hoarse voice. The expanding, distorting flesh quickly took on a human form.
And the moment it materialized, a blood-colored crescent moon appeared before Uzui Tengen's eyes.
Uzui Tengen instantly raised the broadsword in his hand. The blood-colored crescent moon struck the broadsword, scattering blood.
The humming sound from the broadsword indicated that the blood blade was extremely sharp and incredibly fast.
"This is the true Upper Rank Six... The aura is completely different from a Lower Rank demon." Uzui Tengen's eyes became serious. "That blood blade just now, if I hadn't received the Blessing, it would have left at least a scratch on my skin."
However... for now, it's completely a piece of cake.
Although my skills are still somewhat inferior to the Flame Pillar, Mist Pillar, and Wind Pillar, the difference isn't particularly large. At least, it's far from something a mere Upper Rank's tail-ender can contend with.
Moreover, this is no longer the demon's home ground, but mine. The more disadvantageous it is for me, the stronger I become.
'Sound Rhythm'
·Predict opponent's actions through sound during combat.
·Uncover opponent's weaknesses through sound during combat.
·'Strength' and 'Dexterity' High Domain increase during combat.
'Environmental Sympathy'
·Increased perception of the environment.
·Increased reaction ability in unfavorable environments.
·Increased body control in unfavorable environments.
·Degree of increase fluctuates based on the degree of disadvantage.
'Beast Taming'
·Mid Domain increase in ability to tame small animals.
·Mid Domain increase in intelligence of tamed animals.
'Swordsmanship Master'
·Mid Domain increase in explosive power when holding a sword.
·High Domain increase in speed when using Swordsmanship.
"He actually blocked my scythe..." Gyutaro had fully appeared, his figure gaunt and withered, but his hands and feet were full of muscle, holding scythes made of flesh and blood.
His malicious bright yellow eyes stared intently at Uzui Tengen, and a hoarse voice squeezed out from his shark-toothed mouth.
"I was going to kill you just now. Who told you to bully my sister?"
"Oh? You look good... good build, good skin, quite tall, and healthy muscles, unlike me, no matter how much I train, I can't look good."
Uzui Tengen slightly raised his hand, and the broadswords connected by chains made a crisp clinking sound.
The voice of the demon before him continuously entered his ears, echoing in the room, and at the same time, the world he saw changed.
The demon before him, who originally had no discernible weaknesses, now visibly showed weaknesses that could be exploited for a one-hit kill.
"I'm so jealous, so jealous, truly so jealous! You're so good-looking, you must be very popular with women! Can't you just die! Die miserably! Rip all the flesh from your body! Skin torn, flesh ripped, torn into pieces!"
Gyutaro looked at the Pillar who had dismembered his sister Daki, completely disregarding the fact that the opponent was a Pillar of the Demon Slayer Corps.
He and his sister had already killed 22 Pillars. In his opinion, the Demon Slayer Pillars were just a bit tastier.
"And my sister is so cute, I will kill everyone who dares to bully her."
"I won't miss a single debt that needs to be collected!"
Gyutaro's voice grew louder and sharper. He raised his arms, and the blood-colored scythes he gripped tightly made him look like a praying mantis about to hunt.
Just then, an ill-timed biwa sound emerged.
"Dong dong!"
Crack crack!
The sound of a wooden sliding door opening echoed. The roof beneath their feet instantly transformed into a wooden door of a pleasure house, and the wooden door opened.
"Hm!"
Whether it was Gyutaro, Daki, or Uzui Tengen, their minds went blank for a moment.
"Kibutsuji Muzan is summoning us! Now?" Gyutaro's face changed dramatically.
Uzui Tengen's eyes widened: "This is!" He looked at the entrance that had suddenly appeared beneath his feet.
Inside the entrance were houses stacked upon houses, adorned with lanterns and oil lamps, connected by corridors and wooden bridges.
Looking across, these identical houses filled the entire field of vision, and the extent of their vastness was unknown.
"Infinity Castle!" The information Lord Xia Wei had conveyed to Uzui Tengen flashed through his mind, and his lips instantly curled into a grin: "I found it so easily!"
Without any resistance, he charged straight in!
"Ah ha ha ha ha! Looks like I found Kibutsuji Muzan first!"
Gyutaro scoffed at the Pillar who had fallen into the Infinity Castle with him: "This guy must be scared stiff by the demon city."
...
In the pottery workshop.
Dong dong!
Accompanied by the sound of biwa strings.
Giyu Tomioka, who had already found the Upper Rank demon's hiding place, felt the ground beneath him give way: "Hm!" His eyes widened as he saw the situation beneath his feet.
"Infinity Castle?"
"Ah ha ha ha ha!" A mouth and forehead that was an eye, and two eyes that were mouths, appeared from a pottery jar that had fallen into the Infinity Castle: "I originally wanted to tease you more and play hide-and-seek."
"I didn't expect you to be so unlucky, running into that individual summoning me. Now you've fallen directly into that individual's location."
"I can't even imagine how artistically you'll die, ah ha ha ha!"
"However, you won't have the chance to appear before that individual. I must kill you now."
"Otherwise, I'll be scolded for letting you appear here without that individual's command!"
Giyu Tomioka's calm, unruffled eyes thought, "It actually appeared directly...".
He looked at the swarm of fish flying directly out of the pottery jar, and the steel spikes shot out from every angle by strange goldfish.
"Water Breathing! Eleventh Form: Dead Calm."
At this moment, Upper Rank Five Gyokko only saw what appeared to be a vast ocean before him.
But this ocean had not even a single ripple, so calm that even as a demon, he felt fear.
Before he could realize what was happening, his neck had already separated from the pottery jar he inhabited.
"What... what happened? The world suddenly turned upside down?"