Seeing this, Tanjiro immediately coordinated with Shinobu Kocho, keeping Daki occupied from the front.
However, the strengthened Daki was astonishingly powerful. Her sashes seemed endless, not only blocking their combined attacks but even gradually gaining the upper hand.
"Hahahaha! Too weak! You're both far too weak!" Daki laughed wildly, sending her sashes sweeping toward them like a raging storm.
Although Shinobu Kocho kept dodging with her exceptionally agile movements, her poison could not penetrate Daki's tough sash defenses at all. Tanjiro, meanwhile, was struggling just to keep up, accumulating more and more wounds.
"Miss Shinobu, this isn't working! Her sashes are too tough!" Tanjiro shouted anxiously as he blocked.
Shinobu Kocho bit her lip, her mind racing. She knew that defeating this Upper Rank with only their combined strength would be difficult.
Rokuya, please hurry up and finish things over there... Shinobu Kocho prayed silently.
Meanwhile, in the sash demon's underground lair.
After a bitter struggle, Zenitsu and Inosuke finally rescued everyone who had been trapped.
Just as they prepared to retreat through the passage, chilling footsteps suddenly sounded at its entrance.
"Tap... tap... tap..."
Accompanied by those footsteps, a figure as thin as a rake, his body covered in black blotches, slowly walked inside. He held two oddly shaped, blood-red sickles, and his eyes revealed endless madness and brutality.
"What a surprise..." Gyutaro's hoarse voice echoed through the Underground Space. "I only meant to use those civilians to hold up that silver-haired swordsman. I never expected you two little rats to come here and cause trouble."
Inosuke tightened his grip on his twin blades, staring warily at the demon before him, who radiated a terrifying presence. "Who the hell are you? You're really ugly!"
Gyutaro's gaze instantly turned vicious. He hated people commenting on his appearance more than anything.