Far in the distance, so far that even Tanjiro's nose had failed to detect him.
Upper Rank Three, Akaza, was slowly making his way toward them.
Unfortunately for him, the Akaza of this world had terrible luck. He had run into two powerful fighters who did not belong to this world.
Izuna looked at Tetsuya, asking a question with his eyes.
"Kill him?"
Tetsuya shook his head without betraying anything.
"Let's have some fun first."
Killing Akaza would be easy. Or rather, slaughtering their way through the entire Demon Slayer instance would be easy for both Tetsuya and Izuna.
That made how they went about it important.
He and Doggo had come to repair a world that had gone off course, not to make it fall apart even further.
So Tetsuya saw his role more as insurance than a meat grinder.
"What is it? What are you looking at?"
Kyojuro's senses were exceptionally sharp. He noticed that Tetsuya and Izuna seemed to have spotted something, but when he looked over himself, he saw nothing.
"Nothing. I thought I saw a demon just now, but maybe I was nervous and my eyes were playing tricks on me."
"I see. So even the Illusion Hashira gets nervous?"
"Of course. Everyone gets nervous sometimes, you know. Are you saying the Flame Hashira never does?"
"Hahahaha! You have a point, Illusion Hashira. I get nervous too."
The three walked over to Tanjiro, who was lying on the ground. His injuries were serious, and blood was still flowing from his abdomen.
Kyojuro leaned closer and said with a smile.
"Well done, young Kamado. It looks like you've mastered Total Concentration: Constant."
"Rengoku!"
Tanjiro was surprised to see Kyojuro appear so suddenly. He had not even picked up his scent earlier. His injuries really must have