That golden bolt of lightning moved too fast for anyone's eyes to track.
Zenitsu Agatsuma.
He did not know how he had started moving.
The moment he saw Kanao flung away and the medicine slip from her hand, it was as though molten lava had been poured into his body, already drained dry by fear and exhaustion.
His fear of death, his terror of the Demon King-all of it was overwhelmed in that instant by another, far stronger emotion.
-No!
I won't let you take away our last hope!
"Thunder Breathing, First Form: Thunderclap and Flash-Godspeed!"
He was not asleep.
With tears streaming down his face and his teeth clenched, he consciously drove Thunder Breathing to the greatest heights he had ever reached in his life.
Golden lightning flashed past. He barely caught the falling Kanao, while his other hand seized the vial of medicine at the very last moment before it shattered.
The tremendous momentum sent him rolling across the ground more than a dozen times with Kanao in his arms before he stopped. Every bone in his body hurt as though he had fallen apart.
"A-are you all right?" Zenitsu asked Kanao in his arms, trembling, his face smeared with tears and snot.
Demon King Tanjiro's attack did not stop.
His demonic right eye coldly fixed on Zenitsu, who had just spoiled his "fun." He raised his hand, and the bone whips on his back shot out again like venomous snakes striking at prey!
"Gonpachiro! You bastard! Look over here!"
A beastlike roar interrupted Tanjiro's attack.
It was Inosuke.
He charged over like a madman. His delicate face, usually hidden beneath a boar mask, was now filled with a savage fury at odds with his appearance.
He did not attack Tanjiro's vital points. Instead, he used his two