"Mirror Hashira! Was that move you just used still Flame Breathing?"
Kyojuro asked excitedly.
He couldn't help it. Even if he had another ten years, he probably couldn't pull off the slash Izuna had just unleashed!
"Yes."
Izuna nodded, answering with a simple yes.
"But Flame Breathing couldn't do something like that, could it? You turned the entire sky red."
Rather than answer that question, Izuna looked at Tetsuya.
Kyojuro and Tanjiro, who was lying on the ground, looked at Tetsuya too.
Tetsuya smiled.
"What you just saw was an illusion."
Realization dawned on them both. So it had been an illusion?
Right, it had to have been. How else could Flame Breathing alone set the entire sky ablaze?
So they had been caught in the Illusion Hashira's genjutsu from the very beginning?
But wait, if it had been genjutsu, what about Upper Rank Three?
As though he could read their minds, Tetsuya spoke before either could ask.
"But Upper Rank Three wasn't an illusion. Just now, Izuna really did wipe out that Upper Rank Three named Akaza with a single slash."
Now neither knew what to say again. The flames that had blanketed the sky had been an illusion, but Upper Rank Three being killed with one slash had been real.
With all these sudden twists, they couldn't decide whether to be stunned or take it in stride.
They simply stared blankly at everything before them until the sun rose.
The passengers, who had just survived a brush with death, looked around in bewilderment.
Fortunately, Kyojuro and the others' Kasugai Crows delivered the news to the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters, which pulled some strings and sent a train to handle the situation.
Meanwhile, Kagaya Ubuyashiki was in an exceptionally good mood.
"Father, you're in such a good mood today.