He walked toward the father and daughter step by step. Their injured legs made it difficult for them to move, but even without those injuries, they would have been helpless against Kokushibo.
At the sound of footsteps, the daughter in Nakatayama's arms trembled even harder. She was so terrified that she could not even cry.
When Nakatayama saw Kokushibo approaching, he too fell silent for the moment, no longer cursing Kaigaku.
"Could you spare my daughter?"
His lips trembled slightly as he asked Kokushibo.
"I can..."
Kokushibo uttered those words, then drew Kyokokukamusari and plunged it into their bodies. As a weapon forged from his own flesh, Kyokokukamusari also contained his blood.
He injected his blood into Nakatayama's daughter, and the Muzan blood it contained immediately began transforming her body.
A little while later, once the sounds of chewing had stopped, a new demon was born...
Kokushibo had never intended to turn both of them into demons. That would only have been a waste of blood.
Nothing appealed to demons more than the flesh and blood of their relatives. If two blood relatives were turned into demons at the same time, the one who transformed first would almost certainly devour the other before their transformation was complete.
Upper Rank Six was an exception. Perhaps it was because they had willingly become demons, or perhaps there was some other reason, but that had not happened to those two.
After sending the newly born demon away, Kokushibo looked at Kaigaku, who was in the process of becoming a demon.
"How far you can go... will depend on you..."
"It hurts!! It hurts so much!! Why do my legs hurt this badly?!"
In the hospital room, both of Zenitsu's legs had been put in casts and wrapped in bandages. He was currently