As Muyang spoke, Kagaya Ubuyashiki and White Yaksha's gazes swept over the eleven screens, focusing on the movements of the others.
The escaping Spider Demon, Rui, was recaptured by Yoriichi Tsugikuni. To prevent him from escaping again, Yoriichi Tsugikuni sealed the Spider Demon inside a Sealing Card.
The Sealing Card originated from a card magic of the "Fairy Tail" world, capable of sealing objects within the card. It was a type of spatial magic.
Putting the magic card into his pocket, Yoriichi Tsugikuni returned to where he had come from to find the Kamado Siblings.
At the same time...
A very burly demon, whose head was a hideous spider's head, was running swiftly through the forest, its steps agile.
Watching the approaching demon, Shinobu Kocho slowly inhaled. Her left leg moved back a step, and she slowly lowered her body, assuming a drawn-sword stance.
"Insect Breathing, Butterfly Dance..."
Halfway through the incantation of her technique's name, Shinobu Kocho suddenly remembered something. Her purpose on this mission was to capture the demon, not kill it.
Moreover, her Nichirin Blade was coated with a poison concocted from wisteria. If she were to attack a demon, the poison would enter its body with the strike, contaminating the demon's blood and causing it to succumb to the poison.
Therefore, she couldn't attack.
"Ara ara~~ This is troublesome."
Shinobu Kocho said with a smile, her form light as she leaped to the right, resembling a dancing butterfly.
The next second, a furious demon, its footsteps heavy like a charging wild boar, ran past where Shinobu Kocho had been standing.
Boom——
A dull impact resounded. Under the demon's powerful charge, a tree slowly toppled to the ground, and the sound of branches scraping against each other echoed through the forest.
The demon that had just smashed a tree was completely unharmed. It shook its hideous, spider-like head a few times and then, with heavy steps, roared and chased after Shinobu Kocho. It swung its two thick, dark arms, attempting to smash her. However, not to mention touching her, it didn't even manage to graze her clothes.
Looking at Shinobu Kocho, a smile played on her lips, and she appeared completely at ease. She didn't seem to take the roaring demon seriously at all, flitting and dodging through the forest with a light, agile, and graceful posture, much like a dancing butterfly.
The scene looked like a clumsy fellow waving a net, trying to catch a butterfly, but the butterfly always managed to evade the net, leaving the clumsy fellow fuming in impotent rage.
The commotion caused by a falling tree was quite significant. Therefore, several people not too far from Shinobu Kocho's location changed course one after another, heading straight towards the source of the sound.
The closest person was Giyu Tomioka.
Following the intermittent roars, he arrived at the destination first.
Seeing Shinobu Kocho being chased around by the demon (from Giyu Tomioka's perspective), he immediately accelerated and charged towards the clumsy demon.
"Water Breathing, First Form: Water Surface Slash."
Approaching the foolish demon, the expressionless Giyu Tomioka leaped forward, simultaneously slashing his Nichirin Blade towards the demon's neck.
"Ah!"
Just as the blade was about to strike the demon's neck, Giyu Tomioka suddenly remembered something: his mission was to capture the demon, not to kill it.
However, his long-standing habit was to slash at any demon he saw. If he hadn't remembered his changed orders in time, the blade would have already cut through the demon's neck.
Realizing this, Giyu Tomioka immediately retracted his swinging Nichirin Blade.
At the same time, Giyu Tomioka and the foolish demon passed each other, their gazes brushing against each other.
In that instant of eye contact, nothing else mattered to either of them.
The moment he landed, Giyu Tomioka spun to the right, pushing off the ground with all his might. He shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bow, dashing towards the demon.
The demon, abandoning its attempt to catch Shinobu Kocho, swung its thick arms towards Giyu Tomioka.
"Roar————!"
The Spider Demon opened its ferocious maw, letting out a loud roar. Just as the demon was about to strike Giyu Tomioka, four flashes of blade light appeared. The demon's roar was cut short, and its limbs and body separated.
Giyu Tomioka stood with his Nichirin Blade, looking at Shinobu Kocho, who had landed lightly beside him. He asked with concern, "Are you alright?"
Shinobu Kocho smiled and said, "Do you think an ordinary demon can hurt me?"
Recalling the previous scene, Giyu Tomioka hesitated for a second or two before saying, "Yes."
"Yes?" Shinobu Kocho's smile faltered, and she glanced sideways at Giyu Tomioka, "Hey! Giyu-kun, what does 'yes' mean?"
A second later, Giyu Tomioka explained, "It's nothing."
"What do you mean, 'nothing'?" Shinobu Kocho smiled charmingly, her tone becoming even gentler.
Having slashed off the limbs of the demon that had just regenerated, Giyu Tomioka pointed his blade at the demon and changed the subject stiffly, "How should we deal with him?"
Although Shinobu Kocho knew Giyu Tomioka was changing the subject, she didn't expose him, instead seriously considering how to handle the demon.
After all... business was important.
Frowning in thought for a moment, Shinobu Kocho said, "I don't know."
Slashing off the demon's limbs again, Giyu Tomioka said expressionlessly, "Mm."
"Do you have a way?" Shinobu Kocho asked.
Giyu Tomioka didn't immediately answer Shinobu Kocho's question. Instead, he contacted Yoriichi Tsugikuni through the terminal, seeking advice from his senior.
After receiving guidance from his senior, Giyu Tomioka said, "Yes."
"Oh~~~" Shinobu Kocho took two steps to the right, striking a "please" pose. "Please begin your performance."
Hearing this, Giyu Tomiaka immediately began his performance.
He swung his blade, severing the demon's limbs, then sold the demon's limbs to the shop. After doing this several times, he saved up enough money to buy a Sealing Card, and then sealed the demon inside the card.
"Let's go!"
Putting the card in his pocket, Giyu Tomioka said calmly.
There were a total of five demons on Mount Natagumo. Four of them had been captured, and only one remained.
The last demon, the one playing the role of the sister in the demon family, wasn't as aggressive as the two demons playing the father and brother. Her personality was more timid.
At this moment, she was running away with all her might...
If you were to ask why she was running, it was, of course, to save her life.
The demon who first discovered Shinobu Kocho wasn't Father Spider, but Sister Spider. After she found Shinobu Kocho, she didn't immediately attack. Instead, she informed Father Spider.
She let Father Spider deal with Shinobu Kocho while she hid in a dark corner, watching coldly.
Therefore, she witnessed Father Spider chasing Shinobu Kocho all over the place, as well as Father Spider being instantly killed by Giyu Tomioka with a single slash.
Sister Spider didn't know about Father Spider's limbs being cut off several times afterward because she had already escaped before that.
She also didn't inform the other demons, but instead fled alone towards the foot of the mountain. Perhaps she was thinking of using the other demons to buy her time, helping her escape this place smoothly.
But to be honest, her luck wasn't very good.
If she continued to run forward, she would see a burly man wearing a garment inscribed with "Namu Amida Butsu" in three seconds.
Gyomei Himejima, the strongest member of the Demon Slayer Corps, whose combat power was second only to Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
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