If they could cut through that barrier simply with the swords in their hands, then the fact that they had all been standing here helpless meant they had seriously overcomplicated this Spiritual World.
"That's very possible... actually, there's something I've been wondering about for a while," Tetsu no Sosuke said. "Why did Kokushibo disappear?"
Kokushibo had been pursuing him earlier. Tetsu no Sosuke had no intention of fighting him head-on indefinitely, so he had retreated early, hoping to escape the boundaries of the Spiritual World.
But now... where had Kokushibo gone?
Had I already broken through that curtain during our fight without realizing it?
Was that why I had been able to meet Shinobu Kocho?
He suddenly asked Shinobu Kocho, "Did you attack anyone?"
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Shinobu Kocho paused, then nodded.
She had attacked. In fact, she had stabbed "Tetsu no Sosuke" more than once.
Tetsu no Sosuke glanced at Zenitsu Agatsuma, who nodded as well. Although he hadn't been the one to attack, it amounted to much the same thing.
Tetsu no Sosuke had also attacked, and Inosuke went without saying—he had come slashing his way straight through...
If attacking could break the stalemate, then what about Tanjiro?
Tetsu no Sosuke hurriedly asked Inosuke, "Did you see Tanjiro?"
Inosuke shook his head.
Tetsu no Sosuke furrowed his brow, still feeling that something was wrong.
Could a slash really break through the barrier?
But why hadn't it worked at the time?
And... I had seen the bodies in this courtyard long before that. Did that mean I had actually remained in the original Spiritual World, whether I attacked or not?
Yet Zenitsu Agatsuma and the others said they had appeared in different Spiritual Worlds, and Inosuke's arrival had shown them that they could cut through these worlds