Like the collapse of the heavens, eight enormous walls of black obi slammed down from every direction with a roar that threatened to crush everything!
The terrifying aura of destruction made the hearts of Tengen Uzui, Tanjiro, and the others in the distance skip a beat.
"Oh no!"
Tengen Uzui's expression changed drastically.
The attack covered far too wide an area. Even he could, at most, protect himself and a few people beside him.
The innocent civilians throughout the entire block would be torn apart and buried by this merciless attack!
Tanjiro's eyes filled with even greater despair.
He could smell it: the intense scent of death had already engulfed the entire area.
It's over.
The same thought rose simultaneously in the minds of every Demon Slayer Corps member who witnessed the scene.
Yet, just as this natural disaster descended, in the instant when everyone thought it would all end...
Sasuke, at the center of the storm, finally moved.
He did not choose to dodge, nor did he summon that purple demonic god again.
He merely raised his head, his scarlet Mangekyō Sharingan calmly sweeping over each black "tsunami" about to crash down.
Then his hands rapidly formed hand seals before him.
They moved so fast that even Tengen Uzui, the Sound Hashira, could see nothing but afterimages.
"Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"
With a low shout, Sasuke drew a deep breath and forcefully spat dozens of fist-sized fireballs into the sky!
Rather than gathering into a massive ball of flame like the Great Fireball Technique, these fireballs traced dozens of precise arcs through the air as though alive, each shooting toward a different point on the eight enormous obi.
Their targets were not the obi themselves, but the broadest sections about to slam into the civilian residential areas!
"Poof!