Yoriichi's Gift × Muzan's Death (Demon Slayer Finale)

Her long hair was styled in a high ponytail, a few bangs swaying in the wind, unable to conceal the striking red flame-shaped markings on her forehead... As death approaches, the past is revealed... The same Hanafuda Earrings as Roy, the same hair color, a different red haori, a different slender figure, a different pair of compassionate eyes. She slowly emerged from the revolving lantern of the Kokushibo...

Roy sensed this peculiar "soul" rhythm, sheathed his sword, bowed, and said, "Teacher."

The man looked at him gently, his gaze lingering on the Hanafuda Earrings dangling from the Sun-Earring Boy's earlobe. He then helped Roy up. Looking him up and down, he said with satisfaction, "You're really good."

"It's better than I imagined."

"It's all thanks to the teacher's guidance."

"I didn't teach you anything; it was all your own hard work."

"No," Roy straightened up, a gentle Nen appearing in his palm, supporting Yoriichi Tsugikuni in his "Undead" Tsugikuni Yoriichi and stabilizing his collapsing body, saying, "Without a teacher to offer a shoulder to lean on, I can't stand up either."

The fact that [Sun Breathing] provides 1 point of constitution daily is not an exaggeration, Roy believed... Although this was only his first meeting with Tsugikuni Yoriichi, the connection built through the "Gate of Demon Slayer," through "Sun Breathing," and through the "Ten Thousand Swings" practiced day after day without ever slacking off... had already invisibly built a bridge between them called "the reality of master and disciple."

In other words, though I was born after your death, we have long been connected in spirit, separated by life and death...

Silence was the only word at this moment. Tsugikuni Yoriichi felt the warm and abundant Nen emanating from Roy's palm, and nodded with a smile, saying, "If Sumiyoshi knew that his descendants would be like you, he would be very happy..."

He wasn't nearly as outstanding as you back then.

Perhaps it's old age, but I'm prone to melancholy. Memories unfold like a scroll painting... Tsugikuni Yoriichi thought of his mother, his father, the Demon Slayer Corps, his wife "Poem," and his "child," eaten by Demon before even reaching a year old. He Youyou crouched down, picking up the flute he had once given to Kokushibo. Looking at his elder brother's current ugly state, his eyes were filled with sorrow and sighs... "Nii-san, ever since you fell, you should have known this day would come."

"Yoriichi, Yoriichi..." Kokushibo, as if grasping at a straw, struggled frantically and lunged forward, grabbing Tsugikuni Yoriichi's leg and pleading, "Please talk to him, please talk to him! I don't want to die... I can't die..."

"Who should I tell? That... good boy?" Tsugikuni Yoriichi looked sorrowfully at the monster at his feet, his back to Roy, and slowly but firmly shook his head. "He's not your family, he has no obligation to take responsibility for you, and you... my dear Nii-san, you should come with me." With a jerk of his thigh, Tsugikuni Yoriichi Kokushibo, Yoriichi Tsugikuni stood up, his flute Youyou on his lips, playing a tune that spoke of the vicissitudes of life and the passage of time, finally settling into a sense of peace... merging into Roy's heart, causing Roy to pause slightly, and instantly hear the notification sound from the control panel...

[Hint... An unfamiliar information stream has been detected... Analyzing in progress...]

[Gift by Tsugikuni Yoriichi... Gift: A lifetime of insights into the Sword Path...]

[Received now...]

[Hint: "Swordsmanship" +67415]

[Current Swordsmanship: LV4 (14172/100,000) → LV4 (81857/100,000)]

[Just one step away from LV5]

"Teacher..." The song ended.

Roy stared blankly at Tsugikuni Yoriichi, opening his mouth as if to say something, but before the words could reach his throat, Tsugikuni Yoriichi gentle smile, forcibly stopping him...

His fiery red hair was even longer Roy's. He looked intently at the Sun-Earring Boy and said, "I have nothing else, only this. Consider it a farewell gift from your teacher as we part ways..."

The man looked up at the night sky, the bright moon hanging high, and said with regret, "It's a pity this isn't daytime, so I can't sit down and discuss the Way of the Sun with you. If I am reborn in the future and meet you again, please don't forget that there was such a fool who 'disliked swords and loved only sunlight.'"

"Ring ring ring..." The revolving lantern faded... As Kokushibo's last breath dissipated into the world... Tsugikuni Yoriichi, who had reconstructed his "Undead body" with "memories," ultimately couldn't escape the shackles of life and Kokushibo... Ironically, this time it wasn't the younger brother trying to lead the older brother along, but rather the older brother, driven by resentment, determined to drag the younger brother to Hell. Right and wrong, as Roy's Yoriichi gradually faded and disappeared within the Nen Barrier Lloyd had placed on him, seemed... no longer so important...

"Whoosh!" Kokushibo's head and body turned into black smoke, which was then blown away by the wind and vanished into ashes. Like other Demon, his sinful life came to an end...

Meanwhile, the panel displays a message...

[Life Energy +270]

It lay there so conspicuously and quietly in the panel, making it impossible to look away.

Just then, Roy took a deep breath and looked at the end of the winding Thread of Causality. A cowardly figure, fleeing in a disheveled state, suddenly paused, then quickened his pace, running even faster... The Sun-Earring Boy gently touched his chest, bowed respectfully to the spot where the Yoriichi had dissipated, and said, "Teacher, farewell." He straightened up again, instantly "Photokinesis," flashing, flashing, and flashing again... constantly shortening the length of the causal branch! "Damn it,"

Why are you chasing after me?!

Doji is dead... Doma is dead... Now it's Michikatsu!!

Kibuki, having borrowed a trace of spatial ability from Nakime's [Infinity Castle], fled Muzan, filled with terror, panic, and fear, just as he had returned to that night when he first met Tsugikuni Yoriichi, watching the Moonlight and fireflies, listening to the rustling of the bamboo forest, his body aching faintly, all clamoring to split apart... to self-destruct, this time preferably exploding into two thousand eight hundred pieces...

Seeing Roy transform into a firefly and relentlessly approaching, she finally made up her mind and let out a hysterical roar, "You forced me to do this!" With a loud "bang," it exploded!

The giant, less than a hundred meters away from Roy, transformed into a rain of flesh that filled the sky. Only Nakime, who was holding the Biwa, remained. Roy arrived right after her and pierced her head with a single blow, killing her instantly.

[Hint: Life Energy +50]

"Such a fast blade!" A flash of light, and a decapitation was slashed away... Muzan's Muzan eye stared blankly at the scene, secretly relieved that he had run fast enough!

"Learn..." The piano music broke.

Nakime swayed and fell at Roy's feet. Her most beloved Biwa (lute) clattered to the ground, two strings snapping off... Chunks of flesh scattered like rain... The Sun-Earring Boy, having dealt with Nakime, seemed stunned, or perhaps bewildered by the sheer number of pieces of flesh he had created.

In short, when Muzan turned around, he found that the Sun-Earring Boy had simply sheathed his sword and ignored him completely... Just as he was wondering if he had self-destructed too soon, he suddenly met Roy's gaze, which revealed a crimson glint deep within his eyes, and... the three captivating tomoe slowly emerging in his pupils.

Muzan paused, as if he saw... the Sun-Earring Boy meet his gaze head-on, and then laugh mockingly...

"Why are you laughing?"

"Laugh... coward."

The Sharingan... "Nen" slowly surged into his eye sockets. Roy crossed his arms and watched Muzan scatter and flee. He calmly said, "Come out, children."

"Caw!" A crow's cry rang out... A black crow seemed to take flight in the sky, casting a wisp of black feather. Then... as if responding to Roy, or perhaps summoned by some other force, Muzan froze for a moment, suddenly realizing... he couldn't move. It was as if something had gripped him, seizing every piece of his flesh from his self-destruction—his heart, kidneys, liver, nose, mouth, eyes, even a sliver of skin—and converging it all towards Roy without sparing a single one...

Muzan screamed in terror, finally seeing... what was binding him... It was the Muzan wronged souls of fathers, mothers, children, wives, innocent passersby, doctors, artists, bosses, colleagues, and so on—souls he had either eaten directly or killed casually! Some he had forgotten, some were even unfamiliar faces, and many more were beasts he had never cared about, those he had never even glanced at!

"Let me go... let me go... what are you doing... what are you doing?"

The resounding "Chang" seemed to signal a reversal of the Clock of Reverse Direction, a call to go back and forth...

Muzan struggled and screamed in despair, even biting and whipping with his bone whip, but to no avail... Those people, those Undead, those men, women, young and old whom he had slaughtered at will for thousands of years, seemed to feel no pain, stubbornly clutching every piece of his flesh, rushing towards Roy one after another... In the blink of an eye...

It was pieced back together into a complete Muzan, which stood blankly in front of Roy!

Those who follow the right path receive abundant help; those who stray from it receive little. This is simply the way of things!

"Kamado Eiichiro, what have you done to me?!"

Thousands of hands, thousands of faces, stared at him, bound him, restrained him, rendering him immobile... Veins bulged on Wuzan's forehead, his eyes blazing with fury as he glared Muzan at Roy, yet...

The Sun-Earring Boy showed no joy or sorrow, only a destructive rage and grief erupting from the depths of his bloodshot eyes as he gazed at the men, women, and children of all ages!

He ignored Muzan and said only, "I had considered that many people would die at your hands over the past thousands of years, perhaps dozens, perhaps hundreds, but I never imagined it would be thousands... tens of thousands!"

"You ask me what I did to you?" Roy delivered a powerful flying kick, shattering Muzan's kneecap. Muzan cried out in pain and immediately knelt down!

"Then why don't you open your eyes and see... what you've done to them... him... her... it?!"

[Heart Bug] emerges, combined with [Illusion Jutsu], continuously drawing upon the dark side deeply rooted within Muzan Muzan's body. The panel displays: ["Negative Emotions" +1 +1 +111...]

Unending

Muzan heard a mournful, whimpering sound coming from the mouths of those thousands of faces... His scalp tingled instantly... Like a stray dog, he lay prostrate on the ground like a geisha, his hair disheveled, barely managing to grit his teeth as he pleaded with Roy, "Kamado Eiichiro, stop... I know you don't want to die either... As long as you become a demon... as long as you come with me... you can achieve immortality..." A demon... immortality... what an enticing offer. Roy smiled, a cold smile, Muzan cold that Muzan froze, then felt a chill run down his spine, his jaw clenching. He had just heard the Sun-Earring Boy say disdainfully, "I'd rather die than become that kind of demon!"

With that, he waved his hand, ignoring Muzan's struggles, spittle, pleas, and cries, and simply said Muzan, "Eat." Instantly, thousands of faces opened their mouths, revealing sharp teeth, and one bite pierced Muzan's flesh!

"Ahhh!" The heart-wrenching screams of pain were suffocating. Thousands of mouths devoured flesh and blood, crushed bones, and swallowed them whole, playing a Hell dirge called "Revenge"!

"Eat... eat... I know... you definitely won't be satisfied after one time, so eat it a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times, until... you're satisfied!"

"Ming Yi!" In an instant, Ki-Dance passed Muzan and was swallowed up by the crowd.

Amidst the carnage, Roy broke free of the Illusion Jutsu and stood beside Muzan, who was still under its Illusion Jutsu, silently watching the moon set and calculating the time...

Soon... an hour passed... two hours... three hours... finally, as the first light of dawn appeared on the horizon, and the faint glow of sunrise broke through the darkness,

Roy Muzan calculated the number of times Muzan had been completely devoured—a full three thousand seven hundred times. He reached out and caught the first rays of dawn, took a deep breath, and said, "So beautiful!"

Then, a few puffs of smoke rose from Muzan's forehead, burning directly at the rising sun in the east. The Sun-Earring Boy reached out and touched the Hanafuda Earrings hanging from his earlobes, murmuring, "Master, this time... I didn't let him go." A faint breeze stirred, and a gentle face, with flame patterns etched on its forehead, seemed to smile and nod at him. The Sun-Earring Boy smiled back, shifting his stance to give the rising sun more space, allowing it to shine even brighter on Muzan, completely burning him, numbing him, burning him to ashes, and annihilating him into the world.

Roy stretched lazily at the opportune moment, turned and left without a trace.

[Hint: "Life Energy" +481...]

The Monster Compendium has been expanded...

[Hint: Two "Demon" and one "Demon King" have been detected. The [Monster Compendium] is now open...]

[Name: Kibu Ryou Muzan]

[Demon King]

[Physical Fitness: 841 (Note: Average person's score is 1)]

[Innate Blood Demon Art: 1, "Grace": Muzan can Muzan transform others into Demon by injecting them with demon blood, greatly enhancing their physical constitution]

[Second, "Domination": Kibu Muzan possesses "Muzan Absolute Domination" over his Demon, able to Browse their memories with a single thought, and even delete, modify, or restrict them... and take their lives.]

[Three, "Multiple Organs": Kibu can cultivate "multiple organs" within his body Muzan his strength increases. He will not die unless all the "organs" are destroyed.]

[4: "Self-Division": Kibu Muzan can split his own body into countless small pieces through "self- Muzan" and hide them. As long as even one small piece is not destroyed, he can be resurrected.]

[5: "Whip Techniques": Kibu made Muzan proficient in "Whip Techniques," allowing him to transform parts of his body into "Spine Whip" or "Tube Whip" through his will, and to whip others.]

[Six: "Infant Proliferation": Kibu can transform into his Infinite Muzan the size of his body and tissues (Note: Kibu in this state makes Muzan extremely weak; he will not activate it unless he is in dire straits)]

[Seven... eight... nine...]