The tide of Wood Dragons was already upon them.
Their savage, gaping jaws carried a fetid wind, as though they would devour everything in the next instant.
Mitsuri Kanroji was ready to burn through her life and expend the last of her strength to unleash her strongest slash, even if it meant protecting just one more villager.
Tanjiro also tightened his grip on his sword, veins bulging on his forehead as he prepared to force his body to use Hinokami Kagura once more.
Yet Uesugi Sasuke, standing at the very front, moved.
He neither formed hand seals nor drew his sword.
He merely stood there calmly, letting an immense surge of purple chakra erupt from his body into the sky!
"Humm-!"
That torrent of chakra, pure and concentrated, carried an aura both sacred and sinister as it shot into the heavens, even churning the clouds above into a massive vortex.
Then, an incredible scene unfolded.
The purple energy began rapidly taking physical form around Sasuke.
First came an enormous rib cage radiating an ominous aura, enclosing Sasuke and everyone behind him.
This was precisely the first stage of Susanoo he had used in the Yoshiwara Pleasure District.
But this was only the beginning.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss..."
Red energy resembling meridians and flesh began rapidly spreading, clinging, and growing over the skeleton.
Susanoo's upper body, arms, and head filled out and became solid at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The oppressive pressure it exuded grew exponentially along with them.
"Th-this is..."
Mitsuri Kanroji's mouth hung wide open. She had completely forgotten to breathe.
In the battle reports from Yoshiwara, she had heard of the Thunder Hashira summoning a "purple skeletal demon god."
But how could a written description capture even a ten-thousandth of what she witnessed with her own