While Muzan Kibutsuji was putting the Upper Ranks through workplace torment...
The Demon Slayer Corps' Nine Hashira Meeting had already reached its concluding discussions.
Aside from analyzing the individual abilities and movements of the Upper Ranks...
Xia Xi also had new intelligence on the Demon King to share.
With the establishment of the Intelligence Department and the gradual addition of a group of cost-effective outsourced contractors...
Many old cases once buried in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's archives had been dug up again, bit by bit.
They had screened and sorted out the high-risk missing-person cases.
As well as some bizarre records involving dismembered corpses and missing body parts.
Then they had unearthed scattered testimonies that had failed to get cases opened back then.
The profile of Muzan had thus become clearer than before.
This time, several new key traits had emerged.
The first was that the legendary Demon King...
In Xia Xi's words, was most likely a [hedonist] who liked putting on [petit-bourgeois] airs.
At the very least, he was the sort who...
Would absolutely refuse to endure six months of poverty and hardship if circumstances allowed him to avoid it.
In files spanning decades and even different regions...
Witness testimonies such as [wore very expensive clothing], [looked very well-off], [a rich, handsome young man], [red eyes and an unhealthy complexion], and [wore Western perfume] had all appeared...
Although, to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, these testimonies seemed unrelated and did nothing to advance the cases.
As a result, these cases had long since become cold cases that no one bothered with.
But to the Demon Slayer Corps, which knew that demons possessed long lifespans...
These scattered clues naturally took on an entirely different significance.
And this point...
Could even greatly narrow down the areas where the Demon King