At this moment, inside the Eternal Paradise Cult, Doma was eating people, and the entire hall was covered with human blood.
But no matter how much Doma ate, his upper and lower body couldn't heal, and intense burning pain came in waves, twisting his face.
Doma was not like Kokushibo. Kokushibo had experienced many things, both successes and failures, and was clearly the most mature among all the Upper Moons, but his obsessive fixation led him to make many wrong choices.
As for Doma, from birth, he had always had everything go smoothly and never faced any problems. He viewed human lives very lightly, believing that eating them was an act of kindness. This personality was strongly linked to his past.
Doma was born into a religious cult. He was born with rainbow-colored eyes and hair as pure white as snow.
His parents believed Doma was a special child who could hear the voices of gods. But Doma found his father's stupidity hopeless and thought the Eternal Paradise Cult founded by his parents was a boring religion.
Doma felt pity for these people who believed in gods, as he had never heard the voices of gods. When a crowd of believers gathered to worship and pray to him, Doma thought these adults who told their troubles to a child were completely foolish.
Later, his mother found out his father was cheating, so she hacked him to death, covering the entire house in red blood, before his mother also killed herself by drinking poison.
Watching this scene, Doma showed no emotional change. He only found it a bit troublesome to clean up.
When Doma turned 20, he met Muzan Kibutsuji and asked Muzan Kibutsuji to turn him into a demon, thus beginning his life of continuously eating people.
Chewing on a woman's head, Doma felt the taste of fear for the first time in his life, from birth until now. The blade giving off blue flames and its terrifying power made his soul shake.
With the sound of a door opening, two people entered the courtyard.
It was Shinobu and Kanao, holding their Nichirin Swords tightly, their faces serious and careful.
In an instant, both their faces flared with anger, because Doma was eating people right in front of them.
In the spacious hall, Doma sat in the main seat, surrounded by cut-up body parts beneath him.
"Two women..."
Doma's rainbow-colored pupils looked at the two. According to the information Muzan had given them, the Insect Hashira was skilled in using poison.
From Shinobu and Kanao's view, the separated upper and lower halves of Doma looked particularly funny. His upper body rested on the main seat, while his lower body was directly below the seat. His rainbow-colored eyes had "Upper Moon Two" written in them.
Suddenly remembering something, Shinobu's anger burst forth.
"Do you remember this haori I'm wearing, demon!"
After looking for a moment, Doma, thinking deeply, seemed to realize something.
"Ah, the woman I accidentally killed. It's a pity, I originally wanted to eat her."
Upon hearing these words, even Kanao's eyes were filled with incredibly cold killing intent. Shinobu laughed in extreme rage, a mocking curve forming on her lips.
"You look too weak now, much weaker than I thought."
Shaking her head, Shinobu continued in a disappointed tone.
"You've disappointed me greatly."
These two sentences successfully made Doma angry. He was born without emotions, but that didn't mean he had no temper. In his eyes, everyone was just his food and toys.
Now, he was being mocked by his food!
His face twisted to the extreme.
Indeed, Shinobu was a woman with extreme cunning. Just a few words were enough to break Doma's calm.
"Shinobu-sensei, it's just an emotionless animal. It doesn't understand."
This master and student pair were cut from the same cloth, each more sharp-tongued than the other. Doma's veins bulged, his face like an evil demon.
"I'll eat you both, one by one!"
Doma picked up a fan nearby and swung it forcefully. Lotus-shaped ice crystals scattered towards the master and student.
"Blood Demon Art—Lotus Vines!"
Without any hesitation, Shinobu and Kanao dodged the wide-range attack with several quick movements.
After being injured, his speed has become much slower, and he can only stay in one direction, unable to move. As long as we get close, we can cut off his head. However, my strength is too small, so it's best to let Kanao do the beheading while I inject poison to continue weakening his power.
With thoughts swirling, Shinobu gave Kanao a look, and Kanao understood her teacher's meaning almost instantly, gripping her Nichirin Sword tightly, ready to attack.
They moved!
Both shot forward, and a huge whooshing sound appeared on both sides of Doma as they attacked from two directions.
Doma watched the situation, waving his twin fans, scattering a large number of tiny ice petals, each as sharp as a blade.
"Blood Demon Art—Barren Hanging Garden!"
Kanao had already made her move when Doma waved his twin fans. She had exceptionally sharp vision, allowing her to predict an opponent's next move by watching their small actions in their shoulders, gaze, fingertips, elbows, and knees.
"Flower Breathing—Second Form: Honorable Shadow Plum!"
Kanao swung her Nichirin Sword, instantly sending out arcing slashes in all directions, their paths looking like plum blossoms, knocking down all the ice crystals coming from around her.
Shinobu, however, did not defend at all, instead dodging all attacks with several quick movements. In her vision, everything was slow and transparent. Every movement precisely avoided the crystal-clear ice crystals.
That's right, Shinobu was one of only two people who had mastered the Transparent World after special training from Seiichi.
This made her somewhat puzzled herself. She hadn't learned the talent for the Red Nichirin Sword, but she learned the Transparent World exceptionally quickly. On the other hand, people with superior vision like Kanao hadn't succeeded in learning it.
"You underestimate me too much!"
Doma sent out several blasts of cold wind, and the cold air in the atmosphere condensed into small ice figures, tiny and transparent like crystal.
"Blood Demon Art—Crystalline Divine Child!"
Is this a technique similar to Upper Moon Four's clones?
The Nichirin Swords of the two flashed constantly, shattering the flying ice crystals. Facing the charging small ice figures, they both instinctively chose not to engage in close combat, but rather to attack from a distance with their blade's aura.
According to the Upper Moon conference research started by Seiichi, a key point about clones was to assume that the opponent's clones could use Blood Demon Art, rather than just serving as obstacles.
Seeing that the small ice figures were useless against them, Doma took a deep breath. Putting his hands together, a massive ice statue slowly rose from behind him, its hands spread wide, and its enormous palms slammed down towards Shinobu!
"Blood Demon Art—Rime - Water Lily Bodhisattva!"
Boom!
The floor was smashed open into a bottomless pit, and Shinobu's figure had vanished.
Without time to worry, Kanao seized this opening and quickly got closer to Doma's position. Doma showed no panic. The ice Bodhisattva behind him slowly opened its mouth, breathing out chilling air.
"Beast Breathing—Eighth Fang: Explosive Rush!"
A furious figure, like a cannonball, slammed into the ice Bodhisattva from behind it and burst out from the front, shattering the ice Bodhisattva completely!
It was Inosuke. Earlier, the three of them had already met with the help of the Kasugai Crow. Their plan was for the two women to appear from the front, while Inosuke would ambush during the chaos, as Inosuke, having grown up in the mountains, was best at hiding his presence.
With his Blood Demon Art broken, Doma spat out a mouthful of blood. Beside him, at some unknown moment, Shinobu was already holding her Nichirin Sword, her legs bent low, in a thrusting stance.
And in front, Kanao's Flower Breathing had already reached him. From behind, two whooshing sounds rapidly approached Doma's neck. He could already feel the searing pain on his neck.
Am I going to die?
The long blade directly pierced Doma's chest, injecting a large amount of poison into his body. A pink blade light, with a whooshing sound, fiercely struck the left side of his neck. Two Nichirin Swords, similar to saws, slashed at the right side of his neck.
Swish!
A head flew into the air, fell, and rolled onto the cut-up remains of the women below.
"What's there for you to be emotional about? You're just a beast."
Hearing these words, Doma's eyes widened, dying with his eyes open.
Upper Moon Two Doma, dead!