Kanzaki Kumo had somewhat anticipated Muzan's surprise attack.
Faced with something he had searched desperately for over a thousand years, Muzan could not possibly suppress his urgency.
So, after taking out the flower, Kanzaki Kumo tossed it straight into the air.
The gaping, bloodstained maw instantly crossed the already short distance between them. Kanzaki Kumo could even smell a trace of nauseating blood.
But it paid no attention to Kanzaki Kumo, turning straight toward the flower in midair to bite it.
As Muzan saw it, since Kanzaki Kumo had so "sensibly" delivered the Blue Spider Lily "to his doorstep," he was in no hurry to kill him anymore.
He wanted Kanzaki Kumo, this human who had repeatedly caused him trouble, to witness his transformation into a perfect life-form with his own eyes and personally experience the despair of treating his immortal, ageless self as an enemy.
Not only that, he also wanted to find the other members of the Demon Slayer Corps.
Whether the Ubuyashiki or the other Hashira, they were all insects who had always sought to kill him.
Muzan wanted them to die in endless despair.
Watching the tentacle draw closer and closer to the flower, he needed only to close that maw to swallow the treasure he had longed for and fulfill his thousand-year wish.
An utterly unrestrained, downright deranged smile spread across Muzan's face.
Just then, a piercing shriek reached Muzan's ears, shattering the mood.
"Thunder Breathing, Final Form, Thousand Birds!"
Countless dancing arcs of electricity swept past like birds beating their wings. The fleshy tentacle instantly shattered, and the Blue Spider Lily, which had been about to be swallowed, fell unhindered toward the ground.
Before Muzan could react to this sudden turn of events, those birds had already pierced through his body.
Alongside his fury,