"Lord Muzan..." Kokushibo did not turn, but a barely perceptible trace of deference seeped into his usually measured voice.
Rokuya keenly caught the change.
Clearly, a string of information had already traveled through the blood links between demons into the mind of the true archvillain hiding in sewers and spatial crevices-Muzan Kibutsuji.
Through Kokushibo's eyes, the boss whom Rokuya had severely injured with a barrage of critical hits just half a year ago, who feared Rokuya's name even while sleeping at night, had clearly seen the reality.
Even after pouring an astonishing amount of blood into Kokushibo, even after making this demon unleash his most destructive second-phase ultimate technique, he still could not instantly cleave through Rokuya's Arcana Armor. He still could not take the head of Takanashi Rokuno, which he dreamed of smashing!
To avoid repeating the slaughter of all the Lower Ranks at Rokuya's hands, or even losing his strategically vital, highest-ranking Upper Rank One, or wearing him down in this futile war of attrition without tangible results.
At that moment, Muzan decisively ordered the biwa woman-Nakime-to bring Kokushibo back into the Infinity Castle as quickly as possible, preserving his ultimate strength until every future arrangement was fully in place before surrounding and killing Rokuya!
"Trying to run? Did you ask my blade first?!"
Seeing the spatial gateway open wider and wider, even beginning to draw in the hem of Kokushibo's dark purple robe, Rokuya instantly cast aside the standoff and his probing!
He drove the spiraling power in his hands to its absolute limit, like thunderclouds bursting apart!
[Blade Tempest · Wind God's Dance]!
He thrust both legs hard against the ground, and the tremendous recoil instantly pulverized a thick layer of rock beneath it!
His entire body hurtled straight toward the back of Kokushibo's neck and