"Musical Score complete! Let your lightning and the sound of this God of Festivals play a flamboyant duet!"
Tengen Uzui's declaration, brimming with wild joy and fighting spirit, rang out above the ruins of the entire Yoshiwara Pleasure District like a boulder hurled into stagnant water.
The sound reached not only Uesugi Sasuke's ears, but also pierced straight into the heart of another battlefield like a military command.
Emboldened by her brother's appearance and ready to resume her slaughter, Daki instantly froze with a smug smile still on her face.
She whipped her head toward Tengen Uzui and Gyutaro, an ominous premonition gripping her heart.
Big Brother... seemed to be in some kind of trouble?
"Out of my way, you trash!"
Daki shrieked, abandoning all concern for Tanjiro before her. She controlled the Obi dancing through the air, sending them sweeping toward Gyutaro like living venomous snakes that filled the sky, eager to rush to her brother's aid immediately.
Yet the instant she moved, a savage, furious roar erupted from the side.
"Headlong Rush! Headlong Rush!"
Inosuke Hashibira had received Uzui's signal.
His beastlike instincts screamed wildly, telling him that now was the time to put everything on the line!
He abandoned every unnecessary defense and dodge, crossed his two serrated Nichirin Blades before him, and, muscles bulging, hurled himself straight at Daki like a cannonball fired from its barrel, in the most primitive, savage way possible.
"Annoying boar!" A trace of contempt flashed through Daki's eyes as several Obi instantly became as tough as steel and lashed at Inosuke like whips.
She did not even bother to watch the outcome. In her eyes, the stupid pig would be sliced to pieces a second later.
But just as the Obi were about to strike, a golden bolt of lightning tore