A huge fissure split open across the surface of the cage of flesh.
Muzan Kibutsuji's will, mingling hatred and wild joy, seeped frantically through the fissure. Uesugi Sasuke's Chibaku Tensei had reached its limit.
But at that critical instant, Tanjiro's shout exploded like thunder in every survivor's ears.
"Lend me your strength!"
Kyojuro Rengoku was the first to respond. His already gravely wounded body erupted once more with the fighting spirit of a lion, and the Bright Red Nichirin Sword in his hand burned with unyielding flames. Without the slightest hesitation, he aimed his final, most scorching Flame Breathing in the direction Tanjiro's blade pointed.
"Uoooooh!!"
A thick pillar of fire did not strike Muzan, but instead merged into Tanjiro's endlessly cycling wheel of Sun Breathing sword strikes!
"Namu Amida Butsu..."
Tears mixed with blood slid down Gyomei Himejima's cheeks. He hurled his heavy iron ball and meteor hammer into the sky, then yanked them back. Using that momentum, he unleashed his final "Stone Breathing, Fifth Form: Wheel Guard!" Heavy, ferocious, unstoppable crushing force became an ocher torrent that followed the flames.
"You scum! Die!!"
Sanemi Shinazugawa looked utterly crazed, the blood vessels throughout his body nearly bursting. He did not care about coordination. He only wanted to slash everything before him to pieces. But he saw the phantom of his younger brother Genya, saw Oyakata-sama's smile, saw Sasuke's falling figure. Mustering every last shred of reason, he aimed his all-rending Wind Breathing at that same point.
Countless green wind blades, sharp as the keenest knives, wound around the converging energy.
Giyu Tomioka remained silent. Through sheer will, his nearly crippled arm raised his sword once more. He remembered Sabito, who had died, remembered Shinobu Kocho's charge to him, remembered that cold man pulling him back from the brink of