"Flame Breathing! Fourth Form! Blooming Flame Undulation!"
Amid the shrill wail of air-raid sirens.
A spirited battle cry rang out.
Surging waves of fire transformed into a spiraling pillar of flame that shot up from the ground.
Although there were quite a few Army soldiers in Roran City who used Flame Breathing sword techniques.
The sheer scale of this pillar of fire was still especially immense.
Because its wielder.
Was the man known as the Flame Hashira.
Kyojuro Rengoku, the current Army Headquarters lieutenant colonel!
[BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!]
The massive spiraling fire pillar resembled a ferocious flaming tornado.
Enduring the bombardment of purple spheres of light.
It swallowed the gray-black figure in the night sky in the blink of an eye.
"Hmm? A puppet?"
Midair, Kyojuro was surprised to discover that what he had cut apart was not a human body, but chunks of damaged metal mechanisms.
He was no stranger to puppets.
Because the Demon Slayer Corps had once possessed a mechanical puppet called Yoriichi Type Zero.
It could imitate the Sun Breathing sword techniques of Yoriichi Tsugikuni from back then using six blades.
Furthermore, as an Army lieutenant colonel of the Main Battle Legion, he had naturally received intelligence on the puppets of Sand Village and the Land of Loulan.
So Kyojuro immediately swept his gaze around, trying to find the enemy puppet master.
Yet beneath this open night sky, he could not find anyone at all.
Invisible?
At the same time, nearby puppets were already attacking him from several directions.
Kyojuro Rengoku could only use Geppo to rapidly evade the various attacks.
These slender puppets with four arms did not merely possess the ability to fire purple light bullets from their hands.
They had two elbow joints similar to those of the Longarm Tribe, making their arms