'That speed just now...'
'He appeared in front of me in an instant, and I didn't notice him at all.'
Susamaru, who had become arrogant due to the new power granted to her by Muzan, now became extremely cautious.
She warily watched the calm-faced Lexon and took a few steps back to create distance.
Then she threw off her outer robe, and two more arms grew from under her ribs on each side. Including her original arms, she now had six in total, each holding a temari ball.
She was on high alert.
Susamaru was ready.
'The moment he makes a move, I'll throw all the balls, seal all his movements, and inflict heavy damage on him!'
But even with her eyes locked on him and her concentration at its peak, Susamaru still felt the scene before her blur the next moment, and the person she was staring at had vanished.
Alarm bells went off in her heart, and her face contorted.
"Die!!!"
Accompanying the roar were temari balls carrying immense power.
Six temari balls shot towards six general directions around Susamaru, causing a ripple in the air and a sharp whistling sound.
Susamaru didn't know from which direction he would attack, so she could only cover all the basic angles of attack.
The six temari balls that shot out did not travel in a straight line like normally thrown balls, but instead constantly changed their trajectory in mid-air, making them impossible to guard against and their attack vectors unpredictable.
"Here." Susamaru realized a voice had suddenly come from above her.
"Above?" The moment Susamaru reacted and lifted her head, a hand grabbed her face.
Through the gaps between the fingers, Susamaru saw Lexon, who had suddenly appeared above her.
A huge downward force was transmitted from his hand to Susamaru's face, smashing her directly into the ground, crushing her face and kicking up a cloud of dust.
But the next moment, the six temari balls that had been bouncing around erratically suddenly stopped and shot back at high speed, sealing off all directions and slamming violently towards Lexon.
"Oh?"
Lexon raised an eyebrow.
'Not bad, her reaction is quite fast.'
Faced with the six temari balls attacking him at once, he showed no panic. He casually tossed aside the burlap sack he had been carrying, circulated his breathing technique, and enhanced his physical abilities across the board.
First, he spun to dodge one, then he reached out with both hands and caught two with immense force. Next, he swung his elbow to knock one away, causing it to collide with another and explode. Finally, he kicked away the last remaining temari ball, sending it flying back even faster than it had come.
"Mmfbl... grgh..."
Susamaru's face, which had been smashed into the ground by Lexon, had not yet fully recovered, making it impossible to hear what she was muttering.
Suddenly, "Swoosh!"
A piercing sound rang out. It was the temari ball that Lexon had dodged, now flying back towards the back of his head, about to hit the unguarded Lexon.
Although Susamaru's temari balls had been casually caught and struck by Lexon, it didn't mean the power they contained was weak.
It was worth noting that in the story, a single one of her temari balls could smash a house to pieces.
But it was as if Lexon had eyes in the back of his head. With one of the hands holding a temari ball, he blocked backward.
"Bang!"
The temari ball, carrying huge kinetic energy, collided with the one in Lexon's hand. The ball in his hand was quickly shattered.
Then, the attacking temari ball fell into Lexon's hand. The kinetic energy made it spin and jump continuously.
But his five fingers held it tightly, like the Five Elements Mountain, making escape impossible. Eventually, it came to a steady stop in Lexon's hand.
"Do you have any new tricks besides throwing balls? Anything interesting?"
Lexon held the two temari balls and looked at the six-armed female demon on the ground, who had now fully recovered, asking with a look of someone seeking entertainment.
"You bastard!" Susamaru's face was full of rage, ferocious and terrifying.
'I am a Lower Rank of the Twelve Kizuki, personally appointed by Lord Muzan!!'
Six more temari balls appeared in her six arms.
Lexon felt the temari balls in his hands struggling to break free of his grip, so he simply crushed both of them.
"Still just throwing balls? How boring."
The look of amusement vanished from Lexon's face.
His figure flashed, and when he appeared in front of Susamaru again, a deep, azure Nichirin Sword was already in his hand.
...
On the other battlefield, Tanjiro and Yahaba were in the heat of battle.
Compared to the original story where Tanjiro had the help of Yushiro's Blood Demon Art to see the direction of Yahaba's attacks, this battle was without Yushiro's help. Furthermore, Yahaba was in a state of rage after being impaled on the wall and kicked by Lexon, so Tanjiro's fight was undoubtedly much more difficult.
However, Tanjiro's strength was also clearly much greater than in the original story.
Therefore, the two were evenly matched, locked in a fierce struggle.
"Get away! Don't come near me!" Yahaba raised his arms, and the eyes in his palms suddenly blinked.
Invisible arrow symbols pierced into the approaching Tanjiro, forcibly carrying him away from Yahaba and sending him flying into the distance.
"Water Breathing, Second Form: Water Wheel!"
In mid-air, Tanjiro's body flipped, and the flowing water formed a water wheel shape, mitigating the backward force and allowing him to land softly. But the moment he landed, several more invisible arrows pierced his body, forcibly carrying him off in another direction.
"Hah, just die already, you smelly monkey!" Yahaba said with disdain, his monk's robes already in tatters.
He just wanted to hurry up and kill the other demon hunter.
"Swoosh!"
A piercing sound suddenly came through the air.
"What's that?"
Yahaba turned and used the eyes in his hands to look towards the source of the sound.
But the next moment, he found his vision filled with a colorful ball.
"That's Susamaru's ball!"
By the time he realized it, the ball was already pressed against his palm.
"Plt."
It was the sound of an object piercing through flesh and blood.
The temari ball, strengthened by Lexon's kick, obliterated Yahaba's entire arm, passed through his chest, and burst out from his body.
"Cough."
The power and impact carried by the temari ball were transmitted to the rest of Yahaba's body, causing him to spit out a large mouthful of blood.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Although such an injury was nothing to a demon and would recover in a second or two, Yahaba still felt his anger burn.
He looked towards Lexon's direction and saw that it was indeed he who had kicked the ball, and the resentment in his heart deepened.
'Susamaru was the one who attacked the house with the ball, but I was the one who got pinned to the wall!'
'Because we chose different opponents, I'm the one who got kicked!'
'And now, during my fight with this little brat, I'm the one who gets hit by a stray ball!'
Anger, hatred...
The negative emotions in Yahaba's heart at this moment erupted like a volcano, unstoppable.
A gloomy, ink-black aura gradually emerged from his body.
Not far away, Tanjiro, who was still contending with the arrows, suddenly felt an ominous premonition.
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