Meanwhile, elsewhere, Tanjiro and Inosuke were still locked in a fierce battle with Daki. Faced with her frenzied assault, neither dared pause.
"Beast Breathing, Seventh Form: Spatial Awareness!" Inosuke instantly entered a combat stance, crossing his two blades to block!
Tanjiro had already unleashed his full potential. Flames streamed from his mouth and nose as he switched to Sun Breathing.
"Hinokami Kagura: Blue Heaven!"
With his furious roar, his Nichirin Blade burst into flames and met the attack head-on.
Clang! Clang, clang, clang-!!!
Sparks flew everywhere, and the ringing clash of metal instantly shattered the dead silence.
However, the sashes flying in from various areas were still constantly merging into Daki's body.
The two had hoped to end the battle quickly, but just one exchange subjected them to terrifying pressure.
Now, Daki's sashes were not only far harder and sharper than steel, but also carried tremendous force and shifted at strange, treacherous angles.
Every collision numbed the webs of their hands and sent their blood churning.
"So hard! So fast!" Tanjiro gritted his teeth, the skin between his thumbs and forefingers splitting and bleeding.
"Damn woman! She's so strong!" Inosuke's twin blades hummed from the impacts.
Daki hovered in midair, her sashes whipping wildly like an octopus's deadly tentacles, her face wearing the playful look of a cat toying with mice.
"Hmph, you ugly things have some skill... perfect. I'll use your blood as an appetizer for Koinatsu's 'feast'!" Before she finished speaking, her sashes abruptly intensified their assault, moving so fast they left afterimages.
Boom, boom, boom-!
The two fought with everything they had to block and dodge, only to be hurled away by the savage force.
Tanjiro crashed through the roof of an empty house, while Inosuke slammed like a cannonball into a back alley piled with clutter,