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章節 167: Tsugikuni Yoriichi? Isn't He Already Here?

*BOOM!* *BOOM!* *BOOM!* *BOOM!*

Successive explosions erupted in a corner of the town, causing several houses to collapse in the blasts, turning into ruins. Endless sashes seemed to rampage here, like giant pythons, constantly rolling, leaping, and darting, causing these astonishing explosions.

When one looked closely, the edges of these sashes were as sharp as blades, cutting through buildings and ground alike, slicing off large chunks upon contact.

Such a group of sashes ravaged and danced like spirit serpents in this area, causing buildings to collapse one after another, turning into ruins in succession.

Shinobu's figure flew out from the thick dust, one of her feet touching the ground, avoiding the attacking sashes.

"Don't keep bouncing around! Just die already!"

Daki also emerged from the dust, shouting loudly as the sashes around her body unfolded and slashed through the air, attacking Shinobu from various angles.

Shinobu stopped in her tracks, dodging the sashes slashing from the side, then evading those swinging toward her neck from behind. Her movements were as agile as a true butterfly, gracefully dancing even in mid-air, flipping her body and shifting effortlessly.

Until a certain moment, Shinobu suddenly accelerated, sprinting forward.

"Insect Breathing - Dance of the Centipede - Hundred-Legged Zigzag."

*Whoosh!*

Shinobu's toes burst with astonishing force against the ground, as if they could crack it open, accompanied by loud bursts, gliding toward Daki.

Her Insect Breathing was a rather special type among numerous breathing styles.

Unlike other derivative breathing styles, such as Love Breathing, Mist Breathing, Sound Breathing, and Serpent Breathing, which were derived from Flame Breathing, Wind Breathing, Thunder Breathing, and Water Breathing respectively, Shinobu's Insect Breathing was a second-generation derivative breathing style.

It was derived from Flower Breathing, which was a derivative breathing style of Water Breathing, one of the five fundamental breathing styles. Among numerous breathing styles, only Shinobu's Breathing Style was a second-generation derivative breathing style.

Insect Breathing's sword forms were not named like other breathing styles, which were named after 'form', but were named after 'dance'.

At this moment, Shinobu was using one of the many 'dances' in Insect Breathing, utilizing powerful stomps capable of upheaving the ground, winding in all directions to disrupt her opponent, and then seizing the opportunity to attack with her sword.

*Whoosh!*

And so, with speed and agility that even Daki couldn't react to in time, Shinobu dashed to her front and launched an incomparably fierce stab toward her eye.

'So fast!'

Daki was greatly shocked, tilting her head aside, narrowly avoiding the stab aimed at her eye. Yet, in her hurried evasion, though she dodged the direct strike on her eye, her cheek was slashed by Shinobu's sword.

"You... You dare to cut my face?!"

Feeling the stinging sensation on her cheek, Daki grew furious. With a swift motion, she swung her sash, which cut through the air like a steel blade aimed at Shinobu.

*Clang!*

As Shinobu raised her Nichirin Sword and deflected the incoming sash, she was unexpectedly sent flying back by a tremendous force, skimming through the air before landing in the ground with a thud, stirring up clouds of dust.

"Ahh, what a shame..." Shinobu straightened her posture, wincing slightly as if feeling a prickling sensation from the rough landing.

"You damn hypocrite! Stop speaking in that tone and expression!" Daki shouted in rage. "Your attacks are so vicious, yet you pretend to have a harmless, gentle demeanor! It's disgusting!"

"Well, I can't help it. I'm a woman. Isn't it okay to be a little gentle?" Shinobu replied with a gentle smile. "As for you, Miss Demon, despite your arrogant tone, it seems your skills don't quite match up, do they?"

"What did you say?" Daki's eyes widened.

"I'm just stating facts?"

Shinobu spun her Nichirin Sword, freeing up one hand to touch her own cheek.

"I once asked Rengoku about how strong an Upper Rank truly is..."

"He said that the Upper Three he fought was exceptionally powerful, completely outmatching him. If it weren't for Tsugikuni, he might have died."

"Because of Rengoku's words, I thought Upper Ranks were generally stronger than the Hashira. Among the current nine Hashira, perhaps only one is capable of soloing an Upper Rank?"

At this point, Shinobu's gaze toward Daki became more intriguing.

"But it seems your strength doesn't quite live up to that assessment. Despite fighting with you for so long, you haven't managed to leave a decent wound on me. Why is that, I wonder~?"

"Could it be because there's a big power gap between Upper Ranks? If so, the difference in strength between you, the Upper Six, and the Upper Three seems too large, doesn't it?"

"With that kind of strength, forget killing so many Hashira, it seems your strength is not much different to Lower Ranks?"

Shinobu's smile remained gentle, but her words turned somewhat sharp.

"If this is the strength of the Upper Six, then it's really unfortunate... You won't be able to defeat me. No wonder you're at the bottom of Upper Ranks."

Such words, to Daki's ears, were naturally highly insulting.

"You dare to look down on me?!" Daki exclaimed loudly. "Watch me tear apart that vicious mouth of yours!"

As Daki prepared to move her sashes once again to attack Shinobu, Shinobu suddenly spoke again with her voice growing low.

"Too late..."

"What are—"

Before Daki could finish her sentence, her movement suddenly halted. Her cheeks began to develop patches, turning a decaying color as if rotting.

"Wh-What's going on?! Ugh—AGHHHHH—!!!"

Daki suddenly felt an excruciating pain in her face, causing her to scream in agony.

"How does it feel?" Shinobu asked with a smile. "You know, this poison is extracted from wisteria flowers. For demons, it should be quite effective, right?"

As the current doctor of the Demon Slayer Corps, Shinobu was naturally skilled in poison-making.

Her sword appeared slender and harmless, but in reality, it was coated with deadly poison. Moreover, every time she sheathed her sword, the poison's formula would change.

During battles, she would adjust the poison formula based on the situation of the demon she faced. One of the main ingredients in these formulas was the poison extracted from wisteria flowers.

Wisteria flowers were a type of plant that demons detested. Merely existing in their vicinity and inhaling their fragrance would cause demons to stay away due to their aversion and repulsion.

Shinobu often used the poison from wisteria flowers to deal with demons.

"Since my poison is that lethal, I'm probably the only one among the Hashira who doesn't need a Nichirin Sword to kill demons."

After saying that, Shinobu then gestured goodbye to Daki.

"Enjoy the last moments of your agony, redeeming yourself for the sins you've committed."

"If you manage to survive, then your sins will be forgiven."

"I'll be happy to coexist peacefully with you then, Miss Demon."

With those words left behind, Shinobu turned around and left.

"Eghh... Aghh...!"

Daki immediately fell from mid-air, clutching her gradually decaying head, struggling in pain while crying out.

"Save me... Save me, Big Brother!"

Daki shouted and cried pitifully, continuing to call out to someone.

*Glug!*

In that split second, Daki's back suddenly bulged, causing her to collapse on the ground, screaming in agony.

"Hmm?"

Shinobu halted her steps.

She slowly turned around, looking toward Daki. Her smile remained unchanged, but a drop of cold sweat couldn't help but form on her forehead.

"I see now... So that's how it is, huh..." Shinobu murmured. "No wonder this Upper Six is so weak... So, the real Upper Six is not her but someone else..."

Along with Shinobu's murmur, a figure burst out from Daki's back, piercing through her flesh, and emerged from her body.

"Could you please refrain from bullying my little sister?"

A deep and impatient voice echoed, causing Shinobu's body to tremble involuntarily.

A vicious and menacing aura surged from the newcomer, enveloping Shinobu.

"Well, this is getting troublesome..."

Shinobu muttered with a tired sigh, her words drifting far, far away.

===

Ubuyashiki Estate, Courtyard.

Kagaya had already left his room, stepping onto the veranda that connected to the courtyard.

As he listened to the commotion outside the courtyard, filled with explosions, screams, and cries that reached his mansion, Kagaya coughed repeatedly before speaking aloud in a certain direction.

"Since you're here, why not come out and meet me?"

Even though Kagaya seemed to speak to no one, he was actually addressing a vase that had appeared in the courtyard at some point.

"Hyo, hyo, hyo, sorry for the rudeness~"

With a sneaky laugh, a peculiar demon emerged from the vase.

Who else could it be other than Gyokko?

"This is the first time I've faced the leader of the Demon Slayer Corps like this. Though it's a rare opportunity and I'd like to say a few more words, honestly, I'm a bit disappointed. I'm so disappointed that I don't even have the mood for it."

Gyokko chuckled for a while before speaking coldly as he looked at Kagaya's almost disfigured face and frail body.

"I never thought the respected leader of the Demon Slayer Corps would be a dying man. A body that's so diseased and cursed isn't exactly what I had in mind for the artwork I want to create, which kind of bums me out."

"It's beyond help, truly beyond help."

"In a situation like this, all I can ask is that you die without resisting. Can you do that for me?"

Finished with his words, Gyokko chuckled before a vase grew out of his hand.

Surprisingly, Kagaya showed not even a hint of fear.

"I will die soon, that's for sure..." Kagaya admitted calmly, even smiling. "Unfortunately, the last person I see before I die should not be you, but Kibutsuji Muzan. So, I must decline your proposal."

His words made Gyokko chuckle coldly again.

"Hey, this isn't something you can just refuse, y'know?" Gyokko twisted his body. "The reason I didn't kill you right away is because I want to ask you something. So, do you know where Tsugikuni Yoriichi is? If you tell me, maybe I could use you as scrap material for my artwork."

Upon hearing that, instead of showing anger or despair, Kagaya's face became incredibly calm, his smile unchanged.

Actually, the reason was simple.

"You're looking for Tsugikuni Yoriichi?"

Kagaya's smile widened, his voice calm as still water.

"Isn't he already here?"

When those words passed from Kagaya's lips, Gyokko's body froze.


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章節 168: Fire That Cleanses All Evil

"You're looking for Tsugikuni Yoriichi?"

Kagaya's smile widened, his voice calm as still water.

"Isn't he already here?"

When those words passed from Kagaya's lips, Gyokko's body froze.

Soon, Gyokko noticed something.

"Blaze?"

In the sky above the Ubuyashiki Estate, a blaze streaked across like a meteor, catching the attention of Kagaya and Gyokko.

Surprisingly, the blaze descended toward their location.

"What the—?!"

Gyokko was startled, quickly retracting his entire body into his vase, disappearing from sight.

Before long, the meteor-like blaze soon landed in the courtyard of the Ubuyashiki Estate with a thunderous crash.

*BOOOM!*

A thunderous roar ensued.

The blaze in the courtyard unleashed an astonishing heat and exploding flame, turning into a flame wave that surged outward.

The temperature in the area skyrocketed rapidly.

The bridges and flowing water in the courtyard were engulfed by the flame wave.

Even Kagaya, sitting on the veranda, faced the flames head-on, only for them to suddenly part just before reaching him, leaving sparks on the wooden veranda.

Watching all this unfold, Kagaya looked at the courtyard covered in scattered sparks and let out a bitter smile.

"You went a bit overboard, Tsugikuni Yoriichi."

In response, he received only a faint chuckle.

"Heh, Lord Ubuyashiki, you're really playing with fire by not fleeing and leaving this mansion."

With those words, as the flames gradually dissipated in the courtyard, a figure emerged from the blaze.

"I hope I'm not too late?"

Riezel stepped through the flames, looking at Kagaya.

"Naturally." Kagaya smiled gently.

However, the voice of a third party quickly chimed in.

"You must be Tsugikuni Yoriichi?"

Such unfriendly words naturally came from Gyokko.

In the next moment, a vase appeared silently on the courtyard wall, and Gyokko emerged from it. Only then did Riezel turn to look at him, noticing two eyes on his forehead and mouth.

"Upper Five, huh?" Riezel said calmly.

"Yes, I'm the Upper Five, Gyokko."

Gyokko shifted his body, his small hands swinging, while bloodshot eyes fixed on Riezel's, appeared somewhat angry.

"How dare you wreck someone else's stuff right off the bat? Do you have something wrong in your head?"

"Wreck someone else's stuff?" Riezel was confused for a split second, then quickly realized. "Ahh, you mean this?"

He kicked a shattered vase at his feet.

"Don't kick it, you damn brute!" Gyokko fumed, veins popping on his face. "That was a vase I painstakingly crafted! An artwork! Even if you're a monkey, you should know to respect others' art, right?!"

"Huh? I've never heard of monkeys respecting someone's art before..." Riezel responded indifferently. "And besides, the word 'respect' is for humans, not for freakish creatures like you. You, a fish that doesn't look like a fish, a worm that doesn't look like a worm... Let's not even talk about whether you have the qualifications to talk about respect, just talking about the art you're mentioning, I don't see any art in it."

As soon as he finished speaking, he directly extended his foot, crushing all the vase shards lying beneath him.

"Bastard!" Gyokko's anger instantly boiled over. "I thought Lord Muzan had sent us to track down an extraordinary big shot, but now it seems like you're just a muscle-headed monkey, clueless about art, clueless about appreciation!"

He quickly materialized a vase in his hand, veined with aquatic marks.

"Monkeys like you, devoid of any artistic sense, should disappear from this world!"

Gyokko raised the vase.

"Thousand Needle - Fish Kill!"

In the next instant, as the vase in his hand stirred, numerous goldfish poured out of the vase's mouth like carp leaping through the Dragon Gate. They soared into the air before collectively shooting sharp needles toward Riezel.

What made it terrifying was the sheer number of sharp needles, which was as vast as the countless goldfish surging from the small vase, almost covering the entire sky above the courtyard.

In this way, countless sharp needles, hiding the sky and covering the earth, descended, creating a sky-splitting sound while blanketing the entire courtyard.

Naturally, Riezel was among them, still standing at the center.

"Watch out!"

Kagaya couldn't help but remind in panic, but soon realized that such a reminder was entirely unnecessary.

*Sizzle!*

As the descending needles touched within approximately three meters of Riezel's body, they instantly melted away in a series of ear-piercing noises.

"What?" Gyokko was stunned by the scene he saw. 'H-He actually melted my 'Thousand Needle - Fish Kill' with high temperatures?!'

Upon closer inspection, the air and space around Riezel were highly distorted, with phenomena resembling steam and mirages occasionally appearing, indicating how high the temperature was there.

Because of this intense heat, the ground beneath Riezel's feet had long turned black, and the goldfish, which fell not far from him, were instantly roasted, turning into cooked goldfish in an instant.

'What breathing style is that? I've never heard of it before!' Gyokko couldn't believe his eyes.

With over a hundred years of experience, as an Upper Rank of the Twelve Kizuki, he had faced Demon Slayers countless times, including some Hashira.

Gyokko had encountered numerous breathing styles, both those belonging to the current Demon Slayer Corps and those in the past—he had seen and dealt with them all.

Even so, he had never witnessed a breathing style causing such an absurd phenomenon.

Using high temperatures to melt his Blood Demon Art? Could a breathing style possess such power?

"Tch!" Gyokko clicked his tongue and raised the small hands on his body, causing vase after vase to sprout forth.

In total, there were ten vases, all adorned with slime-fish veined marks on their surfaces.

"Blood Demon Art - Ten Thousand Gliding Slime-Fish!"

Gyokko quickly directed the ten vases toward Riezel and threw them.

In the next moment, a large group of sharp-toothed slime-fish burst out from the ten vases.

The number of sharp-toothed slime-fish was staggering, seeming as though there were ten thousand of them, forming a massive wave-like fish that flooded the courtyard and swarmed toward Riezel.

The scene of these relentless sharp-toothed slime-fish lunging forward was akin to a swarm of piranhas attacking in the water. Once engulfed, one's flesh and blood would likely be devoured in an instant.

With such numbers and ferocity, even high temperatures couldn't withstand them. Except for the initial moment when the sharp-toothed slime-fish at the forefront were charred into charcoal, the rest used the bodies of the charred fish as shields, successfully reaching Riezel.

However, just as thousands upon thousands of sharp-toothed slime-fish were about to engulf Riezel and consume him, he finally moved.

"Sun Breathing - Sixth Form - Burning Bones, Summer Sun."

A vortex of flames appeared.

It was a sword form very similar to Kyoujurou's 'Blooming Flame Undulation'.

At this moment, the swirling flames slashed like a vortex, pulling all the sharp-toothed slime-fish into its center.

*Pu-chi!* *Pu-chi!* *Pu-chi!* *Pu-chi!*

In an instant, the sound of sharp blades slicing through flesh echoed continuously, causing each fish to fall to the ground in pieces.

Upon seeing this, instead of feeling shocked or angry, Gyokko's mouth twisted into a peculiar smile.

'Heh, naive, my slime-fish isn't that simple.'

Few knew that Gyokko's 'Blood Demon Art - Ten Thousand Gliding Slime-Fish' and even 'Thousand Needle - Fish Kill' were aquatic creatures imbued with deadly poison.

Goldfish from 'Thousand Needle - Fish Kill' spat out needles laced with a neurotoxin that could paralyze the body's nerves.

'Ten Thousand Gliding Slime-Fish,' on the other hand, had body fluid containing a deadly poison that could easily enter the body through the skin. Hence, the more the slime-fish were cut, the more body fluid containing this deadly poison they would release. If someone touched even a small amount of it, they would be poisoned immediately.

Currently, Riezel had nearly killed ten thousand sharp-toothed slime-fish. While his ability astonished Gyokko, it was undoubtedly an action to hasten his own demise.

'Here's where you'll perish from the poison, hyo, hyo, hyo...' Gyokko thought gleefully, clearly relishing in other's misfortune.

Unfortunately, he would end up disappointed.

Even after thousands of slime-fish were slain, no matter how much bodily fluid splattered, none touched Riezel's body at all. After all, the intense heat surrounding his body could evaporate even Blood Demon Arts, let alone mere bodily fluids.

Moreover, Riezel wasn't afraid of poison.

After all, his highest-ranked 'Abnormal Resistance' development ability was more than just for show.

*BOOM!*

Before long, a vortex of flame-like slashes completely obliterated all the slime-fish, even dragging the ten vases Gyokko had thrown into the flames, reducing them to ashes.

By the time Gyokko realized something was amiss, the vortex of flames was already upon him.

"Shit!"

The smile on Gyokko's face froze, and the eyes on his forehead and in his mouth shrank to the size of pinpoints.

Riezel's figure then emerged from the vortex of flames, coldly staring at Gyokko, wielding a black-bladed sword he had somehow drawn.

*BOOM!*

In the next second, the surging flames erupted from the courtyard walls, resembling a red lotus suddenly blooming under the moonlight.

Within the red lotus, the walls collapsed, the ground shattered, and even the courtyard's bridges were finally affected and utterly destroyed by the flames.

Watching from the veranda, Kagaya, though coughing violently, had increasingly bright eyes.

'This power... this flame... this heat... it's too powerful!'

Kagaya's heart trembled.

'Is this what he called the evolved Sun Breathing?'

'Why do I feel like the fire from this strongest breathing style resembles the red lotus karmic fire that can cleanse all evil?'

'It's simply...'

Kagaya couldn't find suitable words to describe his feelings at this moment.

'It's simply born to defeat Kibutsuji Muzan!'

'Kibutsuji Muzan... your end has finally come...'

'Finally come!'


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