Yoru Machi's overwhelming strength immediately rekindled the villagers' hope of survival, which had once been drowned in despair.
Escaping the village at night would also make it difficult to evade the Maneating Demons' pursuit, as they possessed keen senses of smell and could detect the scent of living humans.
Thus, under the village chief's call, everyone in the village quickly gathered together.
Five so-called Maneating Demons appeared before Yoru Machi, with their leader being some flamboyantly dressed fellow whose eyes bore the words "Lower Four."
At first, since Yoru Machi knew nothing about these so-called Maneating Demons, he cautiously tested them out.
But after fighting five against one for dozens of minutes, Yoru Machi finally realized that, aside from their tenacious vitality, these so-called Maneating Demons were nothing remarkable. So, he began to get serious.
It did not matter if they could not be killed. He only needed to chop off all four of their limbs and render them unable to move.
Once Yoru Machi started getting serious, the Maneating Demons across from him began to show panic as well.
They discovered that Yoru Machi had suddenly "grown stronger." As Lower Four watched his underlings get chopped into human sticks one after another, the bravado in his gaze toward Yoru Machi became increasingly hollow.
Given Yoru Machi's strength, Lower Four had initially assumed that he was a member of the Demon Slayer Corps.
But he quickly dismissed that guess, because he had never heard of a Demon Slayer Corps member using a farming sickle to kill demons!
If the other party had possessed a Nichirin Blade, they would have died hundreds of times over by now. Since he did not know their obvious weakness, that meant he was merely a capable rookie.
Of course, even if the other party was