Since they could no longer stay at the Hammer Hut, Kanae could no longer brew medicine for him to restore his vitality.
So she used the prescription to make two kinds of pills, taken once a month in two doses.
The first was the Demon Transformation Pill. But because the dosage was carefully controlled, it would not actually turn him into a demon.
Instead, it left him on the boundary between human and demon.
Keeping Tetsu no Sosuke in that state allowed him to draw on that unusual vitality to recover his own.
After he took the evening pill and slept, the discordant parts of his body would turn human again.
The brilliance of the prescription lay in getting the balance exactly right.
But no matter how good the prescription was, the difficulty lay in reaching that precise balance.
Miss Tamayo had long been researching a way to turn demons back into humans. That final step was the hardest of all.
So although the medicine brought someone one step away from becoming a demon, no one other than Miss Tamayo could actually use it to turn a person into one.
That was why Kanae was willing to let Tetsu no Sosuke take it.
Tetsu no Sosuke had brought out the pill now because demons could not enter the Spiritual World.
Would anything change if taking it put someone between human and demon?
Upper Moon One was bound to make a desperate move before dawn. Until then, he had to try anything he could.
He could not truly fight, but that did not mean he would sit idle.
Chapter 484: The Eerie World
Upper Moon One frowned at them but did not approach.
It was not that he did not want to. He could not—and he did not dare.
Tetsu no