Demon Slayer: Tanjuro Kamado returns from Sekiro

Chapter 152 - The Ambush of the Pillars
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In the night sky, a crow flapped its wings in the faint moonlight, leaving a trace in the air.

"Gah! Gah! The pillars keep moving forward!"

The crow lowered its head and looked at the woods below. Its red eyes reflected the figure of a person passing through the woods below and following closely behind it.

Swish!Swish!
Several figures with Sunwheel swords on their waists or backs flashed by.

Along with the figure moving forward, there was also a slightly noisy sound.

“Put me down!!”

"Why doesn't that Lord allow us to move towards the Butterfly House?!"

"The crow clearly said that the Ghost King is in the Butterfly House!!"

Inosuke was carried on Uzui Tengen's shoulders. He waved his fists in anger and twisted his body desperately trying to struggle to escape.

Seeing that no one paid attention to him, a hint of wisdom reflected in the pig head's two huge eyes.

——Tanpachiro is still in the Butterfly House, and there are those little Tanpachiros...

The image of Tanjiro flashed through Inosuke's mind.

He suddenly raised his head!

——In this case, we must definitely go to the Butterfly House!
Just now, after witnessing Douma's death and hearing his words, Inosuke seemed to remember some memories from his childhood.

Although it is quite vague, it is a precious memory that once existed.

——Those were memories of his only relative, his mother.

Think of this.

Inosuke suddenly raised his upper body, clasped his arms together, and his whole body was like a bent slingshot.

"Hey! Answer me!!"

boom!
A hard elbow hit Uzui Tengen on the back.

creak...

"Ahem!"

But it was of no use, Inosuke only felt the strong arms holding his body getting stronger and stronger.

It even rubs against your own body, making a squeezing sound.

Under the body.

Uzui Tengen remained silent, but his eyes were fixed on the front, and he quickly advanced following the position of the crow in the sky.

A wet ninja forehead guard was tied tightly on his right arm.

Around them, Shinobu Kocho, Busei and others who were moving forward together were also silent.

"This is the order of the lord."

Iguro Obanai turned his head slightly and looked at Inosuke on Uzui Tengen's back with a cold tone:
"Just shut up and obey. It'll be better for you."

"——What did you say?!" Inosuke was stunned and was about to raise his arms in anger to refute.

Snapped!
But he was knocked unconscious by Busei who was standing beside him.

Things happened one after another tonight.

The mood of the crowd was not bad, but it was definitely heavy.

……

Shortly after.

"Gah! Everyone stop!"

The crow suddenly spread its wings, hovered in place, flapped its wings, and shouted:
"Stay where you are!!"

Hey.

Tengen Uzui stopped steadily, and as a ninja he landed silently on a tree branch.

Busui River and the others also landed on a tree nearby and quietly observed their surroundings.

At this time.

"Ok?"

Busui River's eyes suddenly looked towards the tree beside him:

"Tomioka?"

tread.

Giyu Tomioka, who had received the order from the base early and rushed here, slowly walked out of the bushes. He looked up at the people in the trees.

He nodded slightly to everyone, and there was no fluctuation in his eyes like deep pools.

The pillars looked at each other.

Moonlight slanted down through the gaps between the leaves.

At this point, all currently free columns have arrived——

Tomioka Giyuu turned his head slightly and looked to the other side.

The pillars looked in the direction where Tomioka Giyuu turned his head.

There was a wooden house there that looked like it had been well maintained.

"This is..." Shinobu Kocho jumped down from the tree, tapping the ground with her toes, but did not find any traces related to the Demon King around.

Holding the hilt of the knife at her waist, she glanced at the remaining firewood in front of the cabin.

Confused, Shinobu Kocho squatted down, picked up some sawdust with her fingertips and smelled it.

——Just ordinary wood.

At this time.

"Tanjuro Kamado's house."

Tomioka Giyu, who had been standing silently, suddenly spoke up, his eyes fixed on the open space in front of the wooden house:

“It is also the first place where Muzan was discovered since the Taisho era.”

Almost at the same time as the words fell, everyone's eyes turned to Giyu Tomioka who was standing in the middle of the crowd.

Tomioka Giyuu paused for a moment, as if he noticed the surprised look of Kocho Shinobu beside him. He looked straight ahead and added calmly:

"The lord has ordered us to wait patiently here."

He turned around and looked at Iguro Kobanei and the others who had also jumped down from the tree, with great certainty:
"Kibutsuji Muzan will walk into his own trap."

Tomioka Giyuu said this with a determined look in his eyes.

As the words fell, everything fell silent again.

The crow stood on the treetop, its scarlet eyes revealing satisfaction.

On its forehead, there is a rune with an eye pattern drawn on it.

……

at the same time.

On the mountainside.

"Huff, huff."

Sanlang held a hunting rifle, panting and holding onto a tree. He stood up with all his strength, his old voice revealing fatigue:

“…This is it.”

He raised his gun and aimed at the tree not far ahead.

The patriarch of the Ubuyashiki clan, although he is cursed.

But he has the ability to short-sightedly look into the future.

After Yushiro's blood vampire surgery,
He transmitted the predicted image to all the people who had the talisman paper pasted on them.

under the tree.

Click.

Saburo loaded the bullet into the chamber and his breathing gradually calmed down.

At some point, a rune with an eye drawn on it was also pasted on his forehead.

"Grandpa Sanlang will... avenge you now."

……

……

at the same time.

Demon Slayer Corps logistics warehouse.

Zheng! !

The six arms of Yuan Yi Zero Style have just been fully extended.

next moment.

Bang!

The faint sound of the pipa echoed in the warehouse. Muzan, who had just collapsed on the ground with a look of despair, disappeared instantly.

Zero swung his arms twice, but the mechanical operation did not hit the target, and he slowly stopped moving as if in doubt.

呲——

There was a deep knife mark on the ground where Wuzan collapsed.

……

……

In the infinite city.

Tanjuro lowered his head and glanced at the blood-stained Undying Slash in his hand, and was not surprised.

With Mingnu around, Muzan's escape was expected.

And just as he was thinking about what to do next.

Bang!

As the sound of the pipa rang out.

Swish!
The afterimage of Wuzan's panic appeared before him again.

He staggered two steps, gasping for breath in an extremely embarrassed manner, with cold sweat covering his sickly pale forehead.

What happened just now was simply——

Too! Scary!
At this moment, as if he noticed a glance at someone, he raised his head slightly and looked in the direction of Tanjuro.

The eyes of the man and the ghost met again in mid-air.

As their eyes met, Muzan's terrified voice, which had already become hoarse with fear, appeared:

"Why are you here too——?!"

His eyes were panicked, he was at a loss, and he raised his hand and pointed at Tanjuro:
“Ahhh?! You, what was that just now…!?”

Tanjuro's reaction was also incredibly quick, and he didn't even pay attention to Muzan's crazy voice.

puff!

He raised his sword again and, using the transparent world, the tip of the sword was aimed at the position of the heart inside Muzan's body.

"Nice to meet you again." Tanjuro said.

Poke it.

"Guke!" Muzan's pupils suddenly shrank and he fiercely pinched the blade that was inserted into his body. The intense pain instantly dispelled a lot of confused thoughts.

pat, pat.

The blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth splashed onto the floor like sticky cloth.

“…Ming…nu…!” Muzan squeezed out two syllables from the corner of his mouth with great difficulty.

next moment.

Far away at the other side of the Infinite City, a huge boil appeared on Mingnu's neck. Her hair was dry, and the one eye that should have been full of vitality had shriveled up.

He raised his arms stiffly.

Subsequently.

when! !

It fell heavily on the broken pipa in his arms.

The huge noise instantly spread throughout the entire Infinite City!
Swish!
Muzan's figure disappeared instantly.

He wanted to detonate the Infinite City immediately and bury all the people currently in the Infinite City underground!
Tanjuro stood quietly there, observing the Infinite Castle which was beginning to make creaking sounds of decay and seemed to be crumbling.

Arms.

creak-

A paper man struggled to crawl out.

And applied it to the long sword in his hand - the Immortal Sword.

next moment.

Click.

[Breathing of the Sun·Immortality Slash·One Heart]

……

……

the other side.

On the hillside of the Kamado family.

Swish!
The exhausted Muzan suddenly appeared under a tree.

His eyes were empty and the blood at the corner of his mouth had dried up, but sticky blood was still flowing out of the wound.

“…Damn it…” he muttered to himself.

Muzan climbed up, staggeringly holding onto a tree beside him. There was only one thing in his mind at this moment - to move, no matter what.

Don't let that haunting guy chase you again!

Muzan, whose body was covered with wounds, did not notice at all that a weak human was standing behind him.

After Wuzhan.

coming!

Saburo stared at Muzan who suddenly appeared. His breathing became rapid and his fingers rubbed the gun unconsciously. The shotgun trembled slightly because of excitement.

There was no time to think too much, and Sanlang's eyes were slightly out of focus in his dazed vision.

He aimed the shaking gun muzzle at Muzan's back from a distance.

next moment.

Click!

His finger pulled the trigger decisively.

Two sun-wheel bombs, wrapped in flames, suddenly burst out from the muzzle of the shotgun!

"Ah!" The powerful recoil directly lifted up the muzzle of the gun, and Saburo was caught off guard and fell to the ground.

puff!

The shotgun bullets hit Muzan's back accurately, instantly creating two fist-sized bloody holes!
“Va ...

Wuzan was stunned and spat out a large mouthful of blood again.

He turned his head slowly in disbelief and looked at Saburo who fell behind him.

Look clearly at the person who attacked you.

"…Humanity?"

Muzan's scarlet eyes shrank into a point very slowly, and the irritability that had been crushed in his heart instantly turned into anger at this moment.

——Just a corrupt human being...

His body trembled slightly, and veins spread around the wound.

Saburo's old face was reflected in the scarlet pupils.

And the other party's expression showed no fear at all.

Wuzan became even more angry.

at the same time.

wow-

The fierce gunshots suddenly echoed in the mountains. The birds that had already returned to their nests were frightened and flew out of the woods with their wings spread, shaking the leaves.

……

mountain top.

The pillars are quietly waiting.

Swish! !

They all turned their heads at the same time.

Sharp eyes looking straight in the same direction!
In the pitch-black woods, several eyes, with only the whites of the eyes visible reflecting the moonlight, instantly locked onto the location where the gunshots came from.

Click.

Follow the woods and look upwards.

The crow standing on the treetop was staring at the mountainside strangely.

“…The mission begins.”

The crow opened his mouth and spoke slowly.

The tone became that of the lord.

(End of this chapter)