Tanjiro's pupils contracted to their maximum size, his mind reeling.
Quick!!
Too fast!!
The terrifying speed at which this half-naked man sped up was so great that even with his beast-like superhuman dynamic vision, he couldn't catch a single afterimage!
How is that possible!?
Do such monsters really exist on this land!?
Who is the real god?!
Are you looking for me?
A cold laugh suddenly rang in my ears.
Tanjiro's eyes widened suddenly, and the hairs on his body stood on end.
Before he could react, Giyu Tomioka's cold, demonic figure had already appeared beside him like a ghost.
Giyu stretched his right arm back to its limit, compressing all his fighting spirit into that fist without reservation.
"This punch serves as a warning against arrogance and impetuosity!"
Giyu suddenly threw a punch!
Like a falling meteor, it struck Tanjiro squarely in the abdomen with an unavoidable force!
"Bang--!"
Tanjiro felt as if he had been hit head-on by a heavy cruiser traveling at full speed.
His powerful, demonic body instantly caved in into an exaggerated "U" shape.
He curled up, his whole body bent over, like a cooked shrimp.
"With your weak and feeble strength, you dare to call yourself a god? That's hundreds of years too old!"
Giyu chuckled.
The fist pressed against Tanjiro's abdomen unleashed a second, terrifying burst of compressed fighting spirit!
"Boom--!"
A white shockwave exploded on Tanjiro's back, pulverizing the flesh and blood there.
Under the unparalleled, exaggerated force, Tanjiro's body flew backward like a cannonball.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Tanjiro crashed through several buildings behind the courtyard.
Its flight speed was so fast that it even created rings of white air waves that broke the sound barrier in its trajectory through the air.
"So... so strong..."
[Sound Hashira] Tengen Uzui stared in disbelief at the scene, his head instinctively shrinking back as he swallowed hard.
"Is this even a combo a human could pull off...?"
However, that's not all.
Just as Tanjiro's body crashed through the last wall, his speed began to slow slightly, and he started to fall.
Giyu Tomioka's figure had once again disappeared from the spot.
The next moment.
Giyu arrived ahead of Tanjiro's "flight" path as if he had teleported.
Tengen Uzui's eye twitched violently.
"No, no way? Could it be that he's planning to...?"
With his hands tucked into his loose trouser pockets, Giyu Tomioka even adjusted his breathing rhythm quite comfortably in mid-air.
Immediately, he bent his right knee and used his waist to generate power—
With a powerful kick, it lashed out at Tanjiro, who was flying towards it!
"Go."
"Bang--!"
Tanjiro was struck dumb again, coughing up blood.
Giyu's powerful kick completely changed his direction, sending him flying dozens of meters into the air!
His pupils gradually became unfocused, and blood and fragments of internal organs filled his mouth and nostrils, which were full of sharp teeth.
But Giyu Tomioka had no intention of letting him go.
His figure leaped up from the ground like a rocket going in reverse, instantly catching up with Tanjiro in mid-air.
Another shot!!
"Bang--!"
Next...
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!!"
A series of sonic booms echoed from high above.
The seven pillars below, barely clinging to life, all looked up and witnessed a scene that would forever chill them to the bone.
Thirty meters above their heads in mid-air.
That Demon Tanjiro, who just now boasted about destroying the world and considered himself Perfect Lifeform.
At this moment, he was like a broken red ball, being kicked around wildly by Giyu Tomioka!
Water Hashira's figure moved at an incredible speed, impossible for the naked eye to perceive, frantically leaping, twirling, and shifting in the air.
Even with the eyesight of the pillars, all they could see were streaks of blue lightning-like lines stretching across the sky!
From a distance.
In the sky, there was only Tanjiro's pitiful body, kicked until it was a bloody mess, with most of his body constantly exploding into blood mist, yet he was forcibly kicked away and could not fall to the ground!
He was kicked away, stunned, smashed, regenerated, and fell again and again, only to be mercilessly kicked again and sent flying into the air at an even higher altitude...
This is no longer a battle.
This is a blatant act of aerial bullying!
"Too... too brutal..."
Kanae Kocho covered her lips. Although she knew Giyu was helping Tanjiro deplete his energy, she still felt a chill run down her spine at the sight of such a bloody aerial combo.
"Mr. Giyu has truly taken 'violent aesthetics' to its extreme."
Just as this aerial "football show" reached its 108th consecutive strike.
Tanjiro, high in the sky, was finally driven to a dead end.
His animal instincts told him that if he continued to be kicked like that, his energy would be completely depleted.
"Roar--!"
A destructive energy suddenly compressed rapidly within his body!
He actually gave up on super-fast regeneration and compressed all the remaining Demon King's Blood in his body into the location of his heart.
"Buzz--!"
His body instantly swelled into a blood-red sphere radiating blinding light, like a miniature sun about to explode!
Tanjiro's beastly will led him to choose the most extreme method—self-destruction!
At this time,
Just as Giyu Tomioka was preparing to launch his 109th shot, his movement suddenly froze in mid-air.
In his deep blue eyes, Future Sight Transparent World to surge wildly.
In a Future Sight view.
Ten seconds later, Tanjiro's body will unleash a Heat Haze nuclear explosion powerful enough to level an entire mountain.
The intensely hot pillars of fire will devour all life within a ten-mile radius. The pillars below, which are watching the spectacle, will be instantly vaporized before they can even scream!
"???"
"... He actually decided to self-destruct?!"
Giyu's expressionless face, which would never falter even if Mount Tai collapsed before him, finally changed at this moment!
Damn it!
Giyu abruptly twisted his body in mid-air, abandoning his pursuit of Tanjiro, and plummeted rapidly towards the crowd below!
"Boom!!"
Giyu crashed heavily into the pillars, shattering the bluestone slabs beneath his feet.
Without any hesitation.
"Zheng--!"
The deep blue Nichirin Blade that he always wore at his waist was finally drawn from its sheath at this moment!
"Get down! Everyone!"
Giyu took a deep breath, and his lungs roared beyond their limits, like the roar of a bottomless sea!
Facing the "miniature sun" in the sky that had begun to radiate a destructive red light.
Giyu Tomioka poured all his energy and spirit into this single slash!
"Water Breathing - First Form-- "
"Water Surface Slash - Ultimate Technique: Raging Tsunami!!"
The Nichirin Blade in his hand drew a dazzling deep blue arc from bottom to top!
This is no ordinary Water Surface Slash.
Driven by the ultimate battle aura, this blade of light actually triggered a raging flood, like a dam bursting!
The massive, deep blue water flow transformed into a water barrier tens of meters high, not only meeting the flames in the sky but also violently sweeping away the seven pillars behind it, along with the ground, like a tsunami!
"Whoa! Giyu, what are you doing?!"
"Glug glug... Help! I can't swim!"
The pillars were swept away by the flood like rolling gourds to a safe area thousands of meters away.
The very next second they were swept away by the flood!
"Boom--!"
Tanjiro in the sky has completely detonated!
An indescribable roar resounded through the sky, like the fury of a god.
A crimson pillar of fire, hundreds of meters thick, shot straight into the sky, instantly tearing the clouds to shreds.
An unparalleled shockwave and Heat Haze spread wildly in all directions like a nuclear explosion.
The entire mountain where Ubuyashiki was located exploded instantly under the destructive force of this self-destruction!
The earthquake trembled, and rocks collapsed.
Within a radius of ten miles, all the trees and buildings turned to ashes the moment they came into contact with this Heat Haze!
The once beautiful courtyard was transformed in the blink of an eye into a desolate Rengoku engulfed in crimson flames!
Red light and blue water light intertwined, collided, and annihilated wildly between heaven and earth!
The end of the world has come.
Thank you "Dianzi" for the Inspiration Capsule X2!
Thank you to "username96108782" for the Inspiration Capsule x1!
This guy's got a real personality, so I'll be impulsive too—I'll post all my drafts, a total of 13,000 words!!
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P. S.: The last few chapters have been a bit violent, it feels like Tanjiro a bit!
But there's no other way; this perspective is more effective and has a greater impact on the pillars!
... We can only add one more feature: a "demon form" that doesn't have the ability to feel pain.
After all, the demon charcoal is practically a bug; you can't kill it, so the only way to wear it down is by repeatedly retaliating against its corpse!
Perhaps it would be better to view Tanjiro and Tanjiro separately.
There probably won't be any more of this kind of plot... I guess... but I'm still a little uncertain~´ₒ⦁⩊⦁ₒ`