"A body temperature above thirty-nine degrees Celsius, a heart rate over two hundred, and fighting while maintaining that state-that was my experience awakening the Demon Slayer Mark this time." Kanzaki Kumo smoothly picked up the topic.
Of course, what had actually happened was that he had used a move imbued with a little of the power of natural lightning.
Bearing the laws of nature in a mortal body, even the tiniest fraction of them, had already exceeded his physical limits, and the Demon Slayer Mark had naturally emerged.
In a sense, Kanzaki Kumo's actions had triggered his body's protective mechanism.
It was like how the body raised its temperature to kill pathogens during an illness. A persistent high fever might endanger someone's life, but doing nothing would inevitably lead to death.
Kanzaki Kumo's earlier situation had been the same. Without awakening the mark, his body would inevitably have died on the spot from the overload. Awakening it could at least keep him alive for the moment. As for a reduced maximum lifespan and the like, he had to survive before he could talk about the future.
But those circumstances were too unusual for anyone else to replicate, so he could only state the conditions mentioned in the original story.
"That simple?" After hearing Kanzaki Kumo's conditions, Sanemi, the most straightforward of them, spoke up on the spot.
He was not saying that the conditions for awakening the mark were easy to meet. It was just that, compared with the baffling things they had previously learned about the Transparent World, such as "seeing the world with your heart," the conditions for awakening the mark were indeed very straightforward.
Hearing Sanemi's words, Kanzaki Kumo froze, and an image flashed through his mind.
Soon, that image overlapped with reality.
"If you can call