"If someone deliberately damaged the wisteria—if it wasn't wild animals, that is—then something could very well go wrong."
Tetsu no Sosuke mulled it over as he walked. Could Kibutsuji Muzan really have discovered this place? Destroying wisteria isn't difficult. The problem is that demons instinctively hate it and would never willingly approach Fujikasane Mountain, surrounded by masses of wisteria. Unless they'd found reliable information proving what this place was used for, they'd have no reason to destroy the wisteria.
He turned these thoughts over in his mind, but without seeing the situation for himself, it was difficult to work out what had actually happened based solely on what the two children had told him.
Yet by the next day, Tetsu no Sosuke felt even more helpless...
As it turned out, even seeing the situation for himself did not necessarily help him work out what had actually happened.
Everything looked perfectly ordinary!
Not only could Tetsu no Sosuke see nothing wrong, he even felt that the wisteria surrounding Fujikasane Mountain truly lived up to its reputation. There was so much of it!
"But..."
He looked around. "If someone really wanted to cause trouble, would they even need to set foot on Fujikasane Mountain? All they'd have to do is start a fire here..."
As the thought settled, he sighed again.
If that really happened, they would be in serious trouble.
The wisteria encircled Fujikasane Mountain without a single gap. Once a fire started, the mountain would become a prison of flames.
Most of the swordsmen on the mountain would die!
Not only would they die, but the demons trapped on the mountain would also break free of their cage.
Unless channels were dug to bring water into the mountain to fight fires, but a project of that scale could not be