"So, are we going to keep going?"
A girl with delicate, lovely features held her Nichirin Blade at an angle.
She stood in an Upper Rank's way...
Or rather, she stood in the way of an Upper Rank and several of his "family members."
She had thought she would encounter a Lower Rank of the Twelve Kizuki.
She had never expected to be lucky enough to run into such a big fish.
At that moment.
If the girl standing before the demon had an air as cold as the snow of Hokkaido...
Then the Upper Rank demon opposite her, who looked like a little boy...
Was like the stark white of a corpse being taken out of its coffin.
His hair, his complexion...
And that gaze utterly indifferent to human life.
None of it held the slightest warmth.
One look was enough to tell that this demon had long since stopped caring about human lives.
And he was also a newly promoted Upper Rank.
[Upper Rank Six: Rui].
After several Upper Rank seats fell vacant in succession, Muzan had selected him from the Lower Ranks as a demon he thought showed promise.
And this Rui...
After receiving more of Muzan's demon blood...
Had skipped right past Lower Rank Chief and advanced straight to become a new Upper Rank.
The main reason was that the current Lower Rank Chief, [Kyogai]...
Was simply too useless in Muzan's eyes.
That was why he had promoted Rui over him despite his lower ranking.
And this demon, who looked like a white-haired boy...
Though he looked less intimidating than other demons and had ranked very low among the Lower Ranks a year or two ago...
But... that was all on the surface.
Even before Muzan bestowed blood on him a second time, his strength had