Before he had finished speaking, the muscles in Rokuya's legs suddenly swelled. Golden lightning and silver-blue Magic Power intertwined beneath his feet and erupted in an instant.
"Thunder Breathing, modified..."
Rokuya did not charge in a straight line. Instead, the instant he set off, his ankles twisted outward at an unnatural angle. Using his core strength and powerful physique, he forcibly locked his joints and changed his trajectory.
He traced an extremely irregular arc through the air, vanishing from his original position in an instant.
"Extreme Blade Flash!"
Daki did not even have time to react. All she saw was a streak of blue-green lightning flash before her eyes.
A soft slicing sound rang out.
The Shura Blade sliced through Daki's neck without resistance. Her beautiful head flew high into the sky, an expression of disbelief on her face, before hitting the ground hard and rolling far away.
Clean and decisive. A single killing blow.
Tanjiro and Nezuko stared, stunned. The Upper Rank demon they had barely managed to suppress with all their strength could not withstand even a single move from Rokuya.
"Phew..." Tanjiro dropped onto the ground, his taut nerves relaxing completely. "Thank goodness. It's finally over."
Shinobu also breathed a sigh of relief and dusted off her hands. "Not bad. But this demon couldn't take much of a beating. All that time I spent preparing poison went to waste."
Rokuya sheathed his blade, the glow of his Arcana Armor gradually fading. "Don't let your guard down. An Upper Rank shouldn't be this weak."
Just as everyone thought the battle was over, something unexpected happened.
Daki's head, which had fallen some distance away, did not crumble into ash like other demons. Her eyes remained fixed on Shinobu Kocho nearby, an intensely venomous gleam flashing in her pupils.
"Die!"