Chapter 196: The Demon in the Pot, Upper Rank Five Descends
"...Eating demons?"
Sasuke's voice was like an icicle without a trace of warmth, gently yet unerringly piercing Genya Shinazugawa's deepest, darkest secret.
Genya's body went utterly rigid in an instant.
The irritation and ferocity on his face vanished without a trace, like a sand painting scattered by a gale. In their place came fear from the depths of his soul-the fear of being seen through completely, with nothing left concealed.
Cold sweat soaked his back almost immediately.
His mouth hung open, his throat making rasping sounds like a broken bellows, but he could not utter a single word.
Under Sasuke's scarlet eyes, which seemed capable of seeing through the cycle of reincarnation across the three realms, his fierce gaze became that of a frightened rabbit, filled with panic and pleading.
Tanjiro, meanwhile, froze completely.
He covered the bleeding corner of his mouth and looked at the two of them in utter confusion.
Eating demons?
What did that mean?
He could clearly smell a mixture of extreme fear and despair coming from Genya, but he could not connect that scent to Sasuke's brief, icy words at all.
Sasuke asked no further questions.
He already knew the answer.
He simply watched Genya in silence, his gaze like someone examining an oddly constructed object worth studying, rather than a person.
Just as the eerie silence was about to drive them mad.
Without warning, Sasuke's brow jerked upward.
He slowly turned his head, his scarlet eyes piercing the wooden wall as he looked in a certain direction deep within the village.
Not one direction.
Two.
Almost simultaneously, two entirely different yet equally powerful presences, evil enough to turn the stomach, erupted soundlessly in two corners of the village, like two depth charges dropped