Before Shinobu Kocho could speak, Inosuke rattled off everything that had happened.
He spoke so fast and jumped around so much that Tetsu no Sosuke had to think it over for a while before he understood. At last, he sighed. "Upper Moon One is terrifying!"
"A series of traps?" Tanjiro said, realization dawning. "The world we entered at first was false. Then the world we thought was real was false too. When he said he was leaving just now, he didn't mean it. That was another trap?"
"And the deadliest one," Tetsu no Sosuke said. "In that moment, every one of us truly believed that world was real."
"But why were you so certain it was real?" Shinobu Kocho asked.
"Because he planted an idea in my mind."
Tetsu no Sosuke finally understood the key to Upper Moon One's scheme. "Demons can't be drawn into the Spiritual World. When we saw Nezuko protecting us from the demon, we took that as proof it was real. After I gave you and Inosuke the medicine I usually take, and you both managed to leave the Spiritual World, I was completely convinced. But if the Water Pillar hadn't killed Upper Moon One at exactly the right moment, we would have fallen into a fatal trap."
The more Tetsu no Sosuke thought about it, the more his blood ran cold.
If the Water Pillar hadn't found Upper Moon One's real body at that critical moment, while Upper Moon One had most of his attention fixed on Tetsu no Sosuke and the others,
the outcome of this battle might have been disastrous!
The Final Order!
For a moment, everyone fell silent.
Upper Moon One's methods were unlike anything they had ever encountered.
Even Tetsu no Sosuke, who had fought countless battles, had been caught off