"Nezuko... run..." Tanjiro lay on the ground, unable to move, and could only watch helplessly as the Wood Dragon held Nezuko in its jaws above him.
The sky was beginning to turn yellow. Dawn had arrived.
As panic and horror filled Tanjiro's face, a clear shaft of sunlight shone down through the clouds overhead.
"Mmph... mmph..."
Nezuko's eyes widened, and she began struggling desperately. Although the Wood Dragon biting down on her had already begun to crumble, she still could not break free.
Sizzle...
A shaft of pale yellow sunlight struck her, instantly eating away at her skin. The affected area rapidly spread.
Below her, the decapitated Hantengu also began burning in the sunlight. His blank eyes stared upward as he continued muttering to himself.
"I... I'm weak... I did nothing wrong..."
But his vacant gaze suddenly changed. His pupils contracted sharply, as though he had seen something impossible.
Above him, the sunlight suddenly stopped eating away at Nezuko.
Her skin was also healing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Did a demon who could overcome sunlight really exist...?
Hantengu merely stared blankly. Soon, his head and body vanished as well.
"Nezu... ko?"
Tanjiro stared up in disbelief, scarcely able to believe what he was seeing.
The sight before him was so dreamlike, so miraculous, that he froze.
The Wood Dragon restraining Nezuko had dissipated as well. She landed lightly on the ground, then walked over and helped Tanjiro up.
"G-good... morning?"
The youthful, slightly stammering voice that reached Tanjiro's ears finally made him realize that none of this was an illusion.
"N-Nezuko! You're... you're okay... Thank goodness... aaah..."
Tanjiro reached out with trembling hands, hugged his little sister, and burst into tears.
"Th-thank... goodness..."
Nezuko stammered in reply.
In the sunlight, an unconscious Boar's Head, a twitching