Just as Inosuke was about to attack again, Tetsu no Sosuke grabbed him. "Wait a moment."
He thought for a moment, then pulled Shinobu Kocho over to be safe. "Stay where I can see you."
He was afraid the others would vanish again the moment he looked away.
Shinobu Kocho seemed to have thought of that too, for she nodded. Tetsu no Sosuke brushed aside the snow, revealing the topmost body. When he cleared the snow from its face, he saw Tanjiro.
Even after countless battles to the death, Tetsu no Sosuke was shaken.
Tanjiro was dead?
He had died here?
He had already noticed that there were more bodies on the ground since they had entered this layer!
"No!"
He shook his head. Tanjiro would not die so easily. This was the Spiritual World; whoever had built it could manipulate it at will. Perhaps throwing them into disarray was the real goal!
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Yet the instant he saw Tanjiro's face, questions flooded his mind.
Tanjiro was dead... No, Tanjiro wasn't dead!
If Tanjiro wasn't dead, who was the person before him?
If Tanjiro wasn't dead, where was he?
Everyone else was together now. Only Tanjiro was missing. Where was he? Why hadn't he appeared?
Question after question pressed into Tetsu no Sosuke's mind, demanding answers.
But perhaps that was exactly what this world's creator wanted him to do.
He did not need to think through any of it. He only needed to believe Tanjiro was alive!
But if he met Tanjiro next time, would he be real or a fake?
Tetsu no Sosuke looked at Shinobu Kocho. Her face was just as stricken as his.
Sensing his gaze, Shinobu Kocho looked up. In that instant, each saw the same wariness in the other's eyes.
Their enemy