The Emperor's Fate

On the rooftop.

Hane quietly listened to the two of them talk. He had been in the room while Tamayo refined the pill; he had simply hidden himself with a spatial technique.

Watching Tamayo succeed, he felt a flicker of satisfaction. She truly had a talent for alchemy.

With only the knowledge he had taught her, she had managed to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill—the hardest of the basic pills to make—in just ten years. Her talent was remarkable.

"Looks like the wheels of fate are turning." Hane slowly rose to leave. Even if he did nothing now, Muzan Kibutsuji would surely be driven into a corner.

Everything was unfolding as he had expected. The vast net he had cast was slowly closing.

Hane looked up at the sky. "I've stayed in this world long enough. It's time to rejoin my original body. My plans here are nearly in place."

"But first, I should save that whole family."

With that, Hane vanished.

A week later, the Shogunate broke into Kyoto. Against Xunri and his fellow disciples' godlike powers, mortal weapons stood no chance.

Inside the Imperial Palace, Xunri and the others finally met the country's mysterious emperor.

He was much as they had imagined: the emperor had indeed become a demon.

When they entered the Imperial Palace, he was gleefully gnawing on a severed human leg, his face smeared with blood.

The entire Imperial Palace had practically become a paradise for demons.

From the emperor down to the imperial nobles, almost all had become man-eating demons.

Many ordinary Shogunate members vomited at the bloody feast inside the Imperial Palace.

Xunri led the Demon Slayer Corps in binding them one by one. He needed these revolting creatures to complete one final task.

His Deity Exchange Plan.

The very next day, an