Inside the reception room...
Tetsuhiro sounded faintly disappointed. "You refuse to face it? Then how will you face Muzan? Your resolve still isn't strong enough. I'll reveal the answer for you."
"No, you should reveal it yourself. I'll leave that honor to you. Kai~gaku~"
He stressed the final name heavily, almost as though he were grinding his teeth.
"Y-Your Majesty, I don't know." Kaigaku trembled all over, even beginning to stammer.
"No, you do."
"I really don't know."
"If I say you know, then you know!"
"I really don't know, Your Majesty..."
Tetsuhiro said coldly, "Listen, I have countless ways to make you talk, but I haven't used them. I'm giving you a chance. Now tell me in front of everyone-do you know or not?"
Kaigaku threw caution to the wind. He looked around at the powerful fighters surrounding him. He couldn't defeat a single one of them, and his chances of escaping were zero.
Unless...
Kaigaku answered slowly, "I... I know..."
Gyomei's heart shook violently, and he began chanting his sutras faster.
"That person was actually..."
"It was actually..."
"Me!" The instant he said it, he sprang into action!
His figure vanished in a flash!
"What?!" everyone cried out.
Tetsuhiro snorted. "I knew it!" Yet he paid it no mind and didn't move.
Kaigaku had pressed his entire body to the floor, prostrating himself in apology.
"I'm sorry, Lord Gyomei. I was the one who led the demon there and extinguished the incense burner. I betrayed everyone to save my own life. I repent. I'm not fit to be called human."
"What?!"
"Huh?"
Mitsuri covered her mouth in shock. "That story was actually true?"
Shinobu Kocho said irritably, "Mitsuri, are you sleepwalking? Gyomei already admitted it just now."
"Sorry, I got too caught up in it."
Tomioka delivered a