Tamayo's Achievement

A week had passed since the last great battle between humans and demons.

Over that week, with the Lower Rank Demons completely wiped out and the Upper Rank Demons entering hiding once more, the Demon Slayer Corps had deployed in full force and begun purging demons across the country.

Ordinary wild demons were being exterminated at an astonishing rate.

At the same time, the decisive battle that would determine Sunset Country's fate had begun beneath Kyoto's walls. Xunri led one hundred thousand samurai in besieging Kyoto for three days and three nights.

Over those three days, once-prosperous Kyoto became incomparably desolate.

The intermittent sounds of gunfire and cannon blasts from the city walls constantly frayed the nerves of Kyoto's ordinary citizens.

Amid the smoke of war.

In Kyoto's slums, inside a remote house.

The room had been sealed shut with all kinds of wooden boards. It was completely enclosed, with not even a sliver of sunlight able to enter.

Inside stood all manner of bottles and jars. At the center was a massive triangular pill furnace, beneath which a roaring fire burned.

Tamayo formed hand seals with difficulty, releasing the faint spiritual energy within her body as she carefully sensed the fusion of the various medicinal effects inside the furnace. Fine sweat continuously seeped from her forehead like raindrops.

"This time, it will definitely succeed. The herbs have fused almost perfectly. As long as I control the heat properly, then..."

Tamayo stared unblinkingly at the furnace as the pill was about to form.

With a buzz.

Tamayo's entire body jolted. Without even wiping the sweat from her head, she hurriedly rose and rushed toward the pill furnace.

She forcefully opened it. The moment she saw several pills floating inside, glowing with a faint green light, two streams of tears involuntarily