Before her words had even faded.
Uchiha Hikari launched another thrust.
As she moved, rings of blazing flames appeared around the short blade—exactly like the scene from centuries ago, when the swordsman named Tsugikuni Yoriichi had wielded his sword!
"Ahhh!!"
Muzan's cells trembled madly!
That indescribable terror was even transmitted through his bloodline to Rui, making him feel it as though it were his own!
At the critical moment, Rui relied on his overwhelming survival instinct to frantically draw upon the power within his body, interlocking all ten fingers. "Blood Demon Art: Engraving Thread Rotation!"
A massive amount of spider thread appeared all around them, weaving the area into an inescapable net. Even more threads formed a cocoon-like vortex and shot toward Uchiha Hikari!
Faced with this all-or-nothing killing move.
Uchiha Hikari's response was merely an ordinary circular slash. "Sun Breathing... First Form: Waltz!"
The blade flashed.
As a perfect circular arc swept through the air, Rui's final attack, into which he had poured all his strength, was effortlessly neutralized. Wherever the blazing blade and ring-shaped flames passed, every spider thread melted and fell apart like ice and snow under the sun. Then, a mass of black-and-crimson flames swept across Rui's body with the blade, cutting him into several pieces in an instant.
Pain like being scorched by the blazing sun rapidly spread through him, and the severed wounds showed no sign of healing.
"As expected..."
It was Sun Breathing!
Rui had already fallen into despair, and his life began flashing before his eyes.
But at that moment, the black flames quietly began to recede. In their place, black runes spread from Uchiha Hikari's hands, swiftly swimming over his entire body like tadpoles. Then, with her low utterance of "Five Elements Seal," Rui's shattered body parts were sucked into a