Shinjuro Rengoku's battlefield-shaking roar lit the beacon for an all-out assault. The assembled Demon Slayer Corps, together with the Twelve Hashira from Across the Ages, instantly split into two forces and swept around the giant bathed in blazing sunlight!
"Artillery Corps, follow my lead and alternate your shots! Target-Muzan Kibutsuji! Fire!" Genya Shinazugawa braced his Heavy Bowgun where he stood. Behind him, the Artillery Corps raised their specially crafted Demon Slayer Corps Heavy Bowguns, their weapons gleaming coldly.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The firing mechanisms thundered, and shells slammed into Muzan's enormous body.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Deafening explosions erupted one after another. Fire and thick smoke instantly swallowed Muzan's lower body, blasting his tissues into flying fragments and exposing writhing dark-green fibers and spurting black slime within.
Yet sunlight poured down over every inch of Muzan. Severed fibers grew back wildly, and before the smoke had cleared, those seemingly fatal wounds had already almost healed. Such was the terrifying regenerative power sunlight granted him!
"Cease fire!" Genya practically gritted the order through his teeth. He saw their flanking comrades reach the giant's feet; any further shots would only hit their own people. He stared hard at the monster regenerating in the sunlight, his clenched fists crackling.
"Zenitsu! Inosuke! Take half the troops each and cut off his retreat!" The Sapphire Star darted between the giant's feet and immediately issued orders upon seeing everyone arrive to help.
"Thunder Breathing, Seventh Form: Fire Thunder God!" Zenitsu launched a charging slash too fast for the naked eye to follow. In an instant, he circled behind the giant, his Nichirin Blade weaving a leaping web of lightning.
Jigoro Kuwajima was swinging his lightning-wreathed Nichirin Blade when he heard that familiar yet unfamiliar opening. He whipped his head around, his gaze shooting toward the voice