"Cut the crap. Just tell me whether they can be restored."
Muzan could not be bothered to listen to Tamayo's lengthy explanation.
Tamayo was already used to her boss's personality. "I don't know. You can stay here for a few days while I study it."
Muzan looked to the two of them as if asking for their opinion.
The two exchanged a glance and nodded. "All right."
Two days later, dawn was approaching and the sky was beginning to brighten. Muzan wanted to sleep through the boring daylight hours. He had just fallen asleep when a heavy crash startled him awake. He opened his eyes.
Yoriichi had kicked the door open, drew his long blade with a sharp clang, and charged at Muzan without a word. His grim expression was exactly like it had been in the original work, and he swung his sword at Muzan.
Muzan: "!!!!"
Holy shit!!!
He jolted in fright and hurriedly rolled off the bed, narrowly dodging the slash.
At the same time, he roared, "What are you doing?!"
"Muzan Kibutsuji!"
Yoriichi ground out his name through clenched teeth and swung his sword at him again.
The wounds from a few days ago still would not heal, and they hurt like hell. Yet Yoriichi had come running over like a madman to slash at him again.
Muzan finally lost his temper.
I didn't dare kill you two days ago, and now you're pushing your luck?!
Muzan did not care whether Yoriichi's memories had been altered again. His tentacles burst forth as he fiercely counterattacked. At the same time, one tentacle seized a sword hanging from the wall, and Muzan drew it.
Who says I can't use a sword too?!
He rushed forward and slashed at Yoriichi without mercy.
A moment later—
"Help! Aaaaah!!!"
"Tamayo! Kokushibo! Help! Yoriichi's gone crazy again!!!"
Muzan was covered in wounds again. One of his tentacles had even been severed and lay on the ground, flopping about alone like a fish out of water.
Muzan burst out of the wrecked house, which was on the verge of collapse, and shouted for help.
He could not beat him!
He really could not beat him!
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Even a player with cheats could not beat an invincible boss!
Kokushibo and Tamayo had also been alarmed. Knowing her combat ability was lacking, Tamayo hid and observed the situation.
Kokushibo ran out and hurriedly drew his sword to block Yoriichi's attack. "Yoriichi! You—"
Before he could finish, Yoriichi, who he had thought would stop attacking, slashed directly at him!
Kokushibo:
"?"
"!!!"
"Have you gone mad?!!!"
Yoriichi's expression darkened as he glared at Muzan with overwhelming killing intent.
This time, in his memories, Kokushibo had been tempted by Muzan into becoming a demon after encountering him a few days ago. Muzan had then used a scheme to capture Yoriichi and planned to harm him.
Though Yoriichi was reluctant, his eyes were filled with resolve.
When his elder brother strayed down the wrong path, it was his duty to stop his losses in time!
I'm sorry!
Yoriichi's sword mercilessly descended upon Kokushibo.
How could Kokushibo possibly withstand an attack from the pinnacle of combat strength?
For an instant, the threat of death nearly suffocated him.
The next moment, Muzan hooked him over with a tentacle, dodging the attack. At the same time, the blade at the tip of another tentacle blocked Yoriichi's sword, and he hurriedly fled with Kokushibo.
Damn it, there's no way I can beat him!
Under the cold, pale moonlight, in the small courtyard, a man with tentacles covering his back grabbed another man holding a sword, while a murderous Demon Slayer pursued them. The three of them caused an enormous commotion in the yard.
In the desolate, empty forest beyond the courtyard, there was only the rustle of the wind and the calls of birds as dawn neared.
The three people had turned the courtyard into a complete mess. Even the stone walls had been smashed to pieces, crumbling section by section.
Broken tiles and stones scattered dust throughout the courtyard.
Muzan saw that dawn was fast approaching. Tamayo was still hiding behind a wall, frantically drawing blood to cast illusions.
But illusions were useless against the ceiling!
"Tamayo! Stop drawing blood! Think of something already!!!"
Muzan clutched Kokushibo as he dodged and fled, urging Tamayo at the same time.
He also took the chance to kick a massive boulder toward Yoriichi, hoping to slow him down.
Yoriichi cleaved the boulder apart with one slash and charged forward without slowing at all, fierce as a demon.
Muzan felt like his head was about to split open!
You're the demon here!
Tamayo wanted to curse. What am I supposed to do?!
Muzan hurriedly dodged Yoriichi's attack. Kokushibo was being dragged behind him by his clothes, the strain nearly choking him. He watched helplessly as Yoriichi's blade passed within a hair's breadth of his nose, frightening him so badly that he nearly stopped breathing.
With difficulty, he adjusted his posture and struck the ground with his sword. The pressure around his neck loosened slightly for an instant, and he hurriedly shouted:
"Muzan! You're choking me to death!"
Muzan was too busy trying to stay alive to notice that Kokushibo's face had been forced red. Startled by his shout, Muzan immediately flung him away.
Kokushibo flew backward over the shattered stone wall, skidding along the ground until his clothes were torn. He slammed hard into a nearby tree.
Yoriichi's primary target was Muzan. He glanced at Kokushibo, then turned back and continued pursuing Muzan.
"Tamayo, you..."
Muzan frantically dodged another attack. Covered in wounds large and small, he was about to urge Tamayo to think of something again when he heard her shout:
"Turning him into a demon might restore his memories!"
Naturally, Yoriichi and Kokushibo heard it as well. With his memories already altered, Yoriichi only believed that Muzan had tempted his elder brother into becoming a demon and intended to harm him too. His attacks immediately became even fiercer.
He was determined to kill Muzan as quickly as possible.
Muzan was practically in tears. What the hell was this?!
He could not even touch the hem of Yoriichi's clothes, yet he was supposed to turn him into a demon?
Kokushibo did not want his younger brother to become a demon either. Leaning against the tree, one hand braced on the ground and the other pressed to his aching chest, he shouted before Muzan could speak:
"Is there no other way?"
Yoriichi gave Tamayo a murderous look. She shrank back in fright, hid behind the wall, and shouted over the enormous clangs and crashes:
"No! This is the only way! Stop hesitating!"
Previously, Kokushibo could at least block Yoriichi and buy them time to calm down and talk things out. But now, with his memories altered, Muzan had become his sworn enemy, while Kokushibo had become a demon who had gone astray. There was no room for negotiation at all.
If they dragged this out until sunrise, they would all die.
And there was an even bigger problem. Even if Kokushibo survived until dawn without being killed by sunlight, and Yoriichi realized something was wrong, there would be nowhere to hide. With Yoriichi fighting them, Muzan's chances of surviving were nearly zero.
"Tch!"
Kokushibo was deeply displeased, and so was Muzan. Their lives had been thrown into danger by a Half-Demon's scheme.
Muzan cast a questioning glance at Kokushibo.
Kokushibo gritted his teeth and shouted:
"Turn him into a demon!"
Hearing that, Muzan made up his mind. Gritting his teeth, he whipped his tentacles around and charged straight at Yoriichi. Yoriichi was not deaf, of course. He naturally understood Muzan's intention.
He immediately swung his sword straight at Muzan's head.
He had to kill Muzan!
Muzan's several tentacles and his bone whip did their utmost to block Yoriichi's blade, enduring the pain of each tentacle being forcibly sliced apart.
Yoriichi reacted swiftly. Seeing that his slash had failed, he was about to retreat and evade Muzan.
But in the next instant, a figure suddenly appeared behind Yoriichi. Claws were about to pierce his back, but how could Yoriichi possibly be injured by an ordinary demon?
He stepped back and spun sharply, slashing with his sword.
Yanagisawa Noriyuki hastily retreated in fright. "Nakime!"
In an instant, Yanagisawa Noriyuki vanished from behind Yoriichi.
Muzan and the other two vanished with him.
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