♫--♫♫--♫♪.
An ominous tune reverberated and I felt myself shifting.
Directions no longer existed. I was floating. I could see Uta moving her lips trying to tell me something but I couldn't focus.
My head was spinning. From the back, I could see a hazy image of muzan rapidly approaching us and I didn't have time to move away.
Making a vine come out of from beneath my feet and wrap itself on a branch, I pulled as hard as I could.
The trick worked but I tore my leg off from the force.
At the same time, muzan's arm deformed into a whip like blade and rushed at us.
As I was pulled, the demon's blade missed uta by a hair's breadth while slicing my head off.
Of course I didn't miss this chance. While my body carried Uta, my head bit on to the blade and started freezing it.
It would've been great if muzan got frozen as a whole but it seems he was still sane enough to sense the threat as he cut his arm off.
We both landed at the same time, the only difference was that he was surrounded by my clones while I was on a tree branch.
"What was that you bastard?!"
"Haha...it's a new demon I made last week. Her demon art lets her control space. I brought her just in case you try to escape!"
"Fuuu~"
'Calm down. Breathe. Beating him is not as important as taking Uta out of here.'
"Still...your clones are troublesome....I wonder..."
"What're you planning now you slimy bastard?"
As he reached his arm out, it started swelling and then burst into pieces of flesh. The pieces wriggled out and started taking humanoid shapes.
I felt my soul leaving my body.
This fucker pulled out the uno reverse card on me!
They moved in a wonky manner but It was just a matter of time before they calibrated themselves. Muzan was always able transfer part of his consciousness to other demons, so this is just multitasking on a larger scale.
My clones moved out to keep them occupied while I conjured some more.
'His size decreased so I guess he won't be able to spam this....please don't spam this.'
My clones already numbered to a few hundreds.
Trees were getting uprooted and the ground quaked frequently.
I didn't dare look back and only kept running.
'God I hate this! Why do I have to run even though I'm stronger than him. Sure, this parasite is fast as fuck but I could still keep up with my [Augmented locomotion], but here I am trying to be the hero in shining armor for a mortal.'
"Yuuji-san, I-I don't....feel... so...bleurghhh!"
'Fuck my life! She just puked on me! I can't even blame her! With all this movement, even normal people would vomit.'
"Just close your eyes Uta."
"So-sorry f-f-for the mess....bleurghhh!"
'Ughh... just a few more hours until dawn breaks.'
"I won't let you go yuuji!"
"Oh shut the fuck up you worm!!"
A deafening sound broke out as he crashed into the tree beside him when two clones came out from the ground and held him while a third one used a rasengan.
It gave us a little bit of respite, although short lived.
'Let's use this chance.'
Carefully setting down uta to the ground I shifted my attention to the demon buried underneath a few trees.
A complex set of signs seals were executed by me as I readied up my jutsu.
"[MUD RELEASE]!"
A small clay doll came out and opened its mouth to release tons of mud towards the demon trapped under debris.
"[DOME]"
It didn't end there as I quickly used my demon arts to make an ice dome to enclose him with no exits, and just to make sure I set up a mechanism to release all the snow trapped above this dome, in case it breaks.
Turning back I picked the dizzy girl up again and ran away.
♫--♫♫--♫♪.
'Can't I get a break just for once...'
Again, I felt the space changing shape as muzan was teleported right in front of us.
It was frustrating. The chase had gone long enough and I was getting cornered despite my strength.
'Why?'
I keep losing no matter what. No matter how strong I get, the cycle never breaks. Even with borrowed power I couldn't properly defeat IM and now I'm losing against an edgelord.
'Fuck it.'
It's risky but I think I can do it.
Letting go of sage mode and closing my gates, I concentrated solely on haki. Two aspects of it specifically. Armament haki trickled down from by body and crept up to Uta's while observation haki focused to avoid any possible injuries.
As a black coating formed on her skin I used my back to shield her as much as possible while spamming ice walls to slow muzan's attack down.
' I wish I could kill my pain receptors.'
It was possible back then, but as my vitality increased, so did my regeneration. Bracing myself for the upcoming pain, I swore to myself that I would make sure to make this fiend suffer.
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