This time, not only Tanjiro, who was attacking at full speed, but even Gyomei Himejima, who was watching from a distance, had several prayer beads snapped in his hand with a "crack".
"Amitabha... Am I seeing things? Mr. Tomioka's body... is it actually regenerating itself?!"
Simply put
Tanjiro's current attack is no match for Giyu Tomioka's ultimate physical body.
They weren't fighting.
Instead, they were... scrubbing themselves in the bath.
"This is impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"
Tanjiro's supposedly formidable attack power couldn't even make his opponent bleed for more than a second!
This sense of frustration fueled his anger to its extreme.
"If my fists can't kill you, then I'll kick your head off!"
Tanjiro abruptly stopped punching, roared, and leaped high into the air!
He twisted his thick waist in mid-air, gathering all his strength and the raging Heat Haze into his right leg!
"Die!"
The flying kick, engulfed in destructive flames and accompanied by a piercing shriek as it tore through the air, slammed precisely down towards Giyu Tomioka's neck!
However--
Faced with this deadly strike aimed straight at the vital points.
Giyu did not back down.
He didn't even glance at the leg engulfed in flames.
"So..."
Giyu's calm and collected voice pierced through the raging wind and flames, reaching clearly the ears of everyone present.
Is that all the skill you've got?
Giyu sighed inwardly.
"In that case, let's get some sleep."
Before he could finish speaking...
"Bang--!"
Giyu raised his left hand with lightning speed.
That slender hand precisely grasped Tanjiro's right ankle, which was carrying immense force!
Tanjiro's expression changed drastically!
It didn't budge an inch!
Giyu Tomioka raised one hand above his head, gripping Tanjiro's leg, without even a hair trembling!
"What... what kind of monstrous strength is this?!"
Before Tanjiro's simple-minded, beastly brain could even react...
He then felt a violent spinning sensation in front of him!
The world was completely turned upside down at that moment!
Giyu Tomioka suddenly exerted force with his left arm.
He grabbed Tanjiro's ankle and swung him around in a half-circle in mid-air!
"Go."
Accompanied by the two simple words "Giyu".
"Whoosh--!"
Tanjiro's incredibly powerful and perfect body, under the terrifying throwing force, was directly transformed into a cruise missile launched from the barrel!
He traversed a distance of over a hundred meters, creating a piercing whistling sound in mid-air.
"Boom--!"
Tanjiro's figure crashed heavily into the long-abandoned stone wall on the outer edge of the Ubuyashiki garden, like a meteor falling to earth!
Large amounts of gravel and dust rose into the sky, blocking out the sunlight.
"Cough..."
As the smoke and dust began to dissipate.
The Pillars watched in horror as Tanjiro, that arrogant and Perfect Lifeform, appeared before them.
At this moment, it is in the shape of a large character, embedded in the deepest part of the stone wall of the rockery.
His bones were broken in countless places, a dark red streak of blood oozed from the corner of his mouth, his eyes rolled back, and he was in a state of severe concussion-induced paralysis.
"Too... too brutal..."
Tengen Uzui swallowed hard, feeling a chill on his neck.
If that blow had landed on him, he figured he'd be ready to head to the Sanzu River by now.
And at the very center of the battlefield.
Giyu Tomioka withdrew his left hand.
He glanced down at his upper body, at the Demon Slayer Corps uniform that had been burned into tattered rags by the Heat Haze, completely losing its function of covering his body.
"It's really in the way."
Giyu frowned, a hint of disdain flashing in his deep blue eyes.
Immediately afterwards,
He reached out and grabbed the edges of his tattered uniform, then casually pulled it apart.
"Sizzle--"
He ruthlessly tore apart the last few tattered strips of cloth hanging on his body and tossed them carelessly into the wind.
At this moment, Giyu Tomioka's perfect upper body, hidden beneath his loose uniform, was completely exposed to the air!
"Hiss--"
At the scene, especially among Kanroji Mitsuri, a series of extremely irregular gasps suddenly rang out.
What a body it was!
Every inch of muscle seemed to contain a devastating explosive power.
His abs gleamed with a healthy, captivating sheen in the sunlight.
The most fatal thing is--
The wounds that Tanjiro had inflicted on his body earlier were now completely gone, leaving not even a white mark; his skin was flawless.
"Gulp..."
Kanae Kocho hiding in the distance, stared wide-eyed at the sight of her watery pink eyes.
She pressed her burning cheeks tightly to her face, feeling as if her heart was about to leap out of her throat.
"Oh my god... Mr. Giyu's body... It's unfair! It's so unfair! How can he be so good-looking..."
However, this blush-inducing, heart-pounding pink atmosphere lasted for less than a second.
Because--
Having shed his constraints, Giyu Tomioka finally decided to stop hiding.
He closed his eyes and took a breath.
"Since the clothes are already torn, let's... stretch our muscles a bit."
When he opened his eyes again, those deep blue, lifeless eyes were completely replaced by a terrifying fighting spirit!
"Buzz--!"
Giyu Tomioka, the aura he's always suppressed within him...
For the first time, it was released without restraint!
"Boom!!"
The gravity of the entire Ubuyashiki garden seemed to be increased tenfold in that instant!
A suffocating heaviness, like invisible mountains, pressed down heavily on everyone's shoulders!
"Thump!"
The few members of the Kakushi Division who were closest to the scene didn't even last a second. Their eyes rolled back, and they were so overwhelmed by the terrifying pressure that they foamed at the mouth and fainted.
"Ugh... what... what kind of Demon Aura is this?!"
Sanemi Shinazugawa's legs trembled violently. He had to use his Nichirin Blade to support himself on the ground to barely keep from being forced to his knees by the overwhelming aura.
His bloodshot eyes were filled with horror.
"That bastard... does he always hold back when he's in meetings with us?!"
"Is this really an aura of power that a human could possess?!"
Even Gyomei Himejima, the Stone Hashira Pillar known for having the strongest physique in the Demon Slayer Corps, was covered in cold sweat, his once straight back now slightly bent under the pressure.
"Amitabha... Mr. Tomioka's level of understanding has already surpassed that of us mortals..."
Meanwhile, Demon Tanjiro embedded in the rock wall of the artificial mountain.
He had just regained a sliver of consciousness from his concussion thanks to his super-fast regeneration.
When he sensed this terrifying aura, like the might of heaven, enveloping the entire courtyard.
A fear unlike any he had ever felt before suddenly surged through his irrational, beastly mind!
"I'm going to die... I'm really going to die..."
Tanjiro's body began to tremble violently and uncontrollably inside the stone wall.
He found himself unable to move even a single finger!
This aura gave him the illusion that if he dared to move even slightly, he would be instantly crushed into powder!
Looking at Tanjiro trembling inside the stone wall.
Giyu Tomioka strode forward with his long, powerful legs, taking steady steps as he walked towards the artificial hill.
Suddenly, a sentence that Tanjiro had once said to him in the Butterfly Mansion hospital room echoed in his mind.
"Mr. Giyu, that's really strange~"
[When that evil personality controlled my body, although I could see everything, I couldn't feel any pain at all... It was as if I was watching a movie without touch inside someone else's body.]
"Don't you feel pain?"
Giyu stopped in his tracks, tilted his head, and a devilish smile appeared on his usually expressionless face.
"It is not afraid of the sun, its regeneration speed is extremely fast, and... most importantly, even if it is smashed into a pulp, its main consciousness will not feel any pain."
Giyu clenched his fist, which was as big as a sandbag, and his knuckles cracked.
His deep blue eyes gleamed with the excitement of having found a priceless treasure.
"I've been practicing Breathing Style and swordsmanship for a while now, and I'm starting to get a little tired of it."
Giyu flexed his wrists and fixed his gaze on Tanjiro, who was so terrified he was about to wet his pants inside the stone wall.
So today.
"Let's have a physical training session without using any weapons..."
He watched as Giyu Tomioka approached step by step.
Tanjiro's demonic instincts unleashed a desperate wail:
"Don't come any closer!!"