Tanjiro was startled, then abruptly looked back at the sleeping Zenitsu and the newly awakened Inosuke.
He made a snap decision. "Inosuke, protect the people on the train with Zenitsu. I'm counting on you!"
With that, Tanjiro recklessly charged straight out!!
Rumble-
Beneath the night sky, the train let out a mournful roar.
Three figures tumbled out of the speeding steel beast.
"Who are you? Why do you want to kill Tanjiro?"
As Kyojuro confronted Akaza, he asked the question that had been troubling him.
Akaza smiled contemptuously. "I don't believe I'm obliged to tell you, am I? Did you think pushing me out here would get you the answer you wanted?"
"Fool!" Akaza grinned. "You're going to die."
Thud, thud, thud-
The moment the two landed, the Flame Hashira struck first.
"Blazing Breathing, Fifth Form: Blazing Tiger!"
As his words fell, a tiger made of flames instantly appeared behind the Flame Hashira.
Luckily, he had learned Blazing Breathing from Su Chen.
Kyojuro had a feeling that if he clashed head-on with Akaza using Flame Breathing, his chances of winning would be exceedingly slim.
In battles between humans and demons, humans were inherently at a disadvantage.
Without overwhelming strength, a human would face a demon that constantly regenerated and turned the fight into a war of attrition.
Over time, the human would lose to the demon.
More precisely, they would lose to the demon's regenerative ability.
Moreover, most demons had evolved over hundreds of years, while most members of the Demon Slayer Corps were teenagers.
Demons grew stronger by eating humans, while humans had to train tirelessly, day and night.
Yet even then, even if humans caught up to demons in strength, they still could not defeat them when evenly matched.
A demon would only die if its neck was