"ROAAAR!!!"
At Muzan's command, dozens of demons on the outermost edge of the encirclement lunged wildly forward like sharks scenting blood. They came in all shapes, some like spiders, others like wild beasts, attacking from every direction with a foul-smelling gale.
"Prepare to engage!" Kyojuro Rengoku shouted, blazing flames rising from the Bright Red Nichirin Sword in his hand.
The other Hashira took their stances as well. A chaotic melee was about to erupt.
"Nobody move."
Yet Sasuke's icy voice brought everyone to a halt.
Alone, he slowly walked to the front of the group. Facing the demons surging toward him like a tide, he did not even draw his sword.
A bunch of small fry. You aren't even worthy of making me draw my sword. The warm-up ends here.
He slowly raised his right hand, aiming his palm forward.
"Banshō Ten'in."
A suffocatingly powerful gravitational pull instantly erupted from his palm!
The demons charging forward, leaping at them, and dropping from the ceiling lost control of their bodies in an instant. As though seized by an enormous invisible hand, they hurtled helplessly toward Sasuke.
"What?!"
"My body... I can't move!"
Terrified screams erupted among the demons.
In just two seconds, nearly a hundred demons were forcibly dragged before Sasuke by that terrifying pull, compressed into an enormous, constantly writhing ball of flesh and limbs.
All the Hashira stared, dumbfounded. They had imagined Sasuke using Lightning Release, Fire Release, or even that purple giant, but they had never imagined the battle would begin in such a bizarre and overwhelming way.
This was no longer swordsmanship, nor was it a Blood Demon Art. This was the power to manipulate laws, a power possessed only by gods!
"Now, then..." The Rinnegan in Sasuke's left eye gazed coldly at the ugly ball of