As Kuang Jin recounted the details of their mission a few days earlier, one by one.
Xia Xi soon understood what sort of member of the Twelve Kizuki they had encountered.
When they first stepped into that lavish old house.
The two of them had smelled an extremely strong, cloyingly sweet fragrance.
Although they had become wary at the time.
They had never imagined that they had already fallen into their opponent's trap by then.
That little bit of wariness had been completely useless.
Only a few minutes after they entered, the mistress of the house, who called herself "the mother of many children," appeared.
Her features had been so unmistakable.
Kuang Jin and Sanemi had identified her as their target almost at first glance.
Skin so deathly pale it looked blue.
Eyes so intensely red they seemed about to drip blood.
And the inscription exclusive to the Twelve Kizuki had been clearly engraved in her pupils.
[Lower Rank One]
She was a demon.
No matter what she kept babbling.
"Oh my, what adorable children."
"Welcome back to Mommy."
"I'll take good care of you," and so on...
Neither of them hesitated for a second. They attacked on the spot.
The result...
It was one thing for Hajimi's swordsmanship to be unable to hurt her yet.
But even Kuang Jin, now a Provisional Hashira, could do nothing against her.
Logically, he should already have been good enough to hold his own against her.
Yet whether it was the various exquisite sword moves he unleashed while maintaining [Total Concentration].
Or their coordinated joint assault.
None of it could inflict even the slightest injury on that demon.
Their combat instincts, honed through countless trials, had already brought their slashes to millimeter-level precision.
Yet the blades that should have cut into her body