Although Muzan's body was far tougher than an ordinary person's, it was still ultimately flesh and blood.
And the outcome of pitting flesh and blood against a massive meteor hammer forged from refined steel was easy to imagine.
Its newly regrown arm, along with half its shoulder, was smashed into a spray of bloody pulp.
Of course, as the Demon King, Muzan also displayed how far beyond ordinary people it was.
Gyomei's meteor hammer was actually sent flying backward by Muzan's punch.
Both Gyomei, who had launched the attack, and Kanzaki Kumo, who had just returned to the battlefield, were startled.
Even a hasty punch could send the meteor hammer Gyomei had spent so long preparing flying. If their own bodies took a punch like that, they would probably lose half their lives on the spot.
This was Muzan, the Demon King.
It had many, many shortcomings, and Kanzaki Kumo in particular had privately mocked its various absurd actions more than once, but its terrifying strength alone was something no one in the world today could challenge.
Squelch.
At the very moment Muzan forcefully blocked Gyomei's attack, the sound of flesh being pierced came from behind it.
Tamayo, who had concealed herself using Yushiro's talisman, drove her right hand and half her forearm into Muzan's back.
Sensing Tamayo's presence, Muzan whipped its head around. In the time it took to turn its head, the shoulder and arm that had been reduced to bloody pulp had already recovered completely, and the arm bent at an unnatural angle to swing at Tamayo behind it.
But Kanzaki Kumo moved faster.
Just as Muzan's arm was about to smash into Tamayo's head, Kanzaki Kumo flashed over, severed the arm she had thrust into Muzan with a backhand slash, then twisted and hooked his foot