Growth

"It's finally done."

Tamayo looked at the vial in her hand, and at last, a trace of satisfaction appeared on her face.

After obtaining the prescription from Feng Ye, she had spent years conducting countless experiments. Many of the ingredients listed in the prescription had gone extinct over the course of a thousand years, while Muzan had deliberately destroyed some of them as well. Only after all that effort had she found new medicinal ingredients capable of replacing those that had vanished.

Although she had not tested it yet, as a demon, she knew the moment the medicine was created that it had succeeded.

"Though it still lacks the Blue Spider Lily, its effects are the same as the medicine Muzan used back then."

Tamayo took a breath and murmured inwardly before decisively picking up the test tube and tilting her head back to drink it all.

Gulp.

The medicine entered her body and swiftly merged into her blood.

In an instant, Tamayo felt her blood begin to transform. Every drop in her body seemed to boil and burn, followed by intense pain that gave her the illusion that she was about to die.

The pain made it impossible for her to remain standing. She staggered and fell to the floor, curling into a ball.

But as time passed.

The boiling blood within her gradually cooled, and the pain slowly faded. In its place came an unprecedented sensation, as though every part of her being had been completely elevated.

Since breaking free of Muzan Kibutsuji, she had made many modifications to her body, preventing Muzan from controlling the blood within it. But that had merely been suppression. Now, her blood had fundamentally shed Muzan's mark!

"It worked."

Tamayo slowly sat up, clenched her fist, and felt the power she now