"You... won't get away!"
Akaza's voice rang out. Shinobu Kocho jumped and hurriedly looked back, but there was no sign of him behind them.
Only then did she slap her forehead and remember... hadn't Tetsu no Sosuke taken Akaza's head with him?
"Well..." Shinobu Kocho looked at the head. "What do we do?"
Tetsu no Sosuke shook his head. "I haven't decided yet."
Once he released Extreme Flow Intent, that utterly inhuman state of mind quietly faded, and his face began to show a wider range of expressions again.
Looking at Akaza's head in his hand... he couldn't help recalling a certain line—I'll lead the charge!
The corner of his mouth twitched, and Tetsu no Sosuke shook his head.
The main reason he had taken Akaza's head earlier was to cause him a little trouble.
In truth, the head was a ticking time bomb. No matter how he looked at it, he really shouldn't keep it around.
But to keep Akaza from pursuing them, he had no choice but to do this for now.
Though it might draw Kibutsuji Muzan to them... the problem was, if he kept tangling with Akaza, Kibutsuji Muzan would definitely come.
Now that he had a chance to break free of Akaza, taking his head would keep him from tracking down their location for a while. Moreover, the fact that this head remained alive suggested, to some extent, that Akaza had not regenerated a head back there.
Of course, this was only Tetsu no Sosuke's conjecture.
He couldn't guarantee whether another head would regenerate back there while this one still existed.
If it did, that would be rather interesting.
Thinking it through, if demons like Akaza and Kokushibo could regenerate after decapitation while their severed heads remained alive... then whenever they got lonely, they could