"Over there."
Inosuke pointed toward the woman in white and charged out first.
"Murata, I'll leave this to you."
Without waiting for Murata to answer, Tanjiro dashed after him.
Murata was left alone, gripping his Nichirin Blade with both hands as he looked at the fallen Corps members whose fates were unknown, trembling all over.
Tanjiro quickly caught up with Inosuke. Sure enough, the closer they got to that spot, the stronger the stench became.
The woman in white seemed to notice them approaching. Terror crossed her face as she cried anxiously, "Don't come near me! Don't come near me! You all go die! Go die!" Her hands yanked hard on the spider threads.
Suddenly, a massive and grotesque body blocked Tanjiro and Inosuke's path.
It stood twice as tall as them, headless and covered in purple skin. Where its hands should have been, there was instead a pair of enormous curved metal blades.
It was clearly another puppet under someone's control. But unlike the Demon Slayer Corps members, this puppet was a demon itself and far more powerful.
Having grown up in the mountains, Inosuke possessed astonishing jumping ability. He leaped high into the air, raised both swords, and hacked down at the puppet's neck.
The puppet raised its blade arms to block Inosuke's attack, then violently flung him away.
Inosuke retreated to Tanjiro's side. Only then did he realize that the enormous thing before them had no head, and his face went pale in shock.
"Ahh! Did you see that? This thing doesn't even have a head! How am I supposed to cut off its head if it doesn't have one?" The more he thought about it, the more frantic and agitated he became. "Doesn't that mean there's no way to kill it? What do we do? What