Tanjiro thought that made sense and immediately did as Tetsu no Sosuke instructed.
But it was much harder than he had imagined. Only after several attempts did he succeed. Then he opened his eyes. "They really aren't them!"
Chapter 481: Eyes
"This world is blinding us, interfering with our senses, and disrupting our thoughts, keeping us trapped here."
Tetsu no Sosuke said, "If we want to break out of this world, we have to find the demon pulling the strings. Otherwise, everything we do will just be part of its deceptive game."
Tanjiro nodded. "Then how do we find it?"
"I'm still working that out."
Tetsu no Sosuke was considering that too, and he had realized that finding the real Shinobu Kocho and the others in this world might not be easy.
Tanjiro's appearance might simply have been meant to give him the illusion that if he kept searching, he could find them.
But... perhaps that was another misdirection.
Judging by its actions, it had used Tanjiro to mislead his judgment and Kokushibo's appearance to throw him off his stride.
That meant there had to be something exposed within this world that it could not hide.
So it was constantly interfering, constantly preventing him from discovering it.
If that was the key, then everything he had previously thought was crucial had merely been a smokescreen it had deliberately created.
At that thought, Tetsu no Sosuke took a deep breath, withdrew his consciousness from Tanjiro's mind, and lifted his finger from Tanjiro's forehead.
He wondered what, exactly, that something could be, if it really existed.
Although he had not found Shinobu Kocho and the others, since the Tanjiro before him was real, they must have been trapped in this Spiritual World as well.
Under these circumstances, they certainly would not ignore