Lexon...
Shinobu Kocho's gaze couldn't help but waver.
"Oh my, how careless of me..." Doma, rising wretchedly from a cloud of dust, still maintained that harmless smile.
It was as if being kicked away hadn't caused any emotional change in him at all.
"Why did this newly arrived gentleman kick me without a single greeting? That's a little impolite."
His seven-colored rainbow eyes stared at Lexon as he spoke with a smile.
"I saw you and kicked you on the spur of the moment. My apologies," Lexon said, showing Doma a similar smile.
He had noticed the lurking Doma when he arrived. Although he was surprised to see Doma, who shouldn't have been here, his attitude of watching a show and making snide remarks couldn't stop Lexon from going up and giving him a kick.
"Is Kyojuro dead?" Lexon appeared at Shinobu's side in a flash and asked her.
"No, he's just lost consciousness," Shinobu replied.
Lexon glanced at Kyojuro Rengoku. After confirming that he was still breathing, he paid him no more mind and stood in front of Shinobu, silently confronting Akaza and Doma opposite them.
"These two demons are very powerful," Shinobu warned Lexon, gripping her Nichirin Sword.
"I know," Lexon didn't turn his head, his cold voice coming from the front. "So you stay out of it."
The moment Shinobu heard this, she asked, puzzled, "Why?"
"You're too weak."
Lexon's meaning was clear. With Shinobu's strength, she couldn't get involved in their duel. If a real fight broke out, she would only be a burden. It would be better for her to protect the unconscious Kyojuro Rengoku and the several hundred passengers behind them.
This was indeed the truth. Whether it was the Upper Rank Three, Akaza, or the Upper Rank Two, Doma, they both far surpassed Shinobu in terms of combat power. If she got involved, she would be nothing but a burden.
But Lexon's blunt words still pierced through Shinobu's heart like a sharp blade. As a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, she was being told that she didn't even have the right to participate in the battle.
This couldn't help but make her feel frustrated as well as angry.
"That demon is the one who killed my sister—" Shinobu said.
"And?"
But she was interrupted by Lexon before she could finish.
"You can't do it one-on-two. I can help you hold one of them off," Shinobu continued.
In her eyes, Lexon's combat power was not enough to face two powerful demons. He needed someone to help hold one of them off.
"And then get killed, let him devour your body, and release all the wisteria poison?" Lexon turned his head and looked directly at Shinobu's face. "First, let's not even talk about whether the poison in your body is enough to kill or seriously injure them. What I want to know is, is that still your plan?"
Meeting his extremely calm eyes, for some reason, Shinobu felt a trace of panic and slightly averted her gaze.
"If you really want to do that, I have no objections. It's your choice, after all, and has nothing to do with me."
Shinobu still hadn't responded when Lexon turned his head away, his emotionless words coming again.
"I..." Shinobu looked at Lexon's back, and the words "I want to do that, I want revenge" were unconsciously stuck in her throat.
The hand she was using to grip her Nichirin Sword suddenly trembled a little.
Clench, release, clench, release...
Finally, she returned her Nichirin Sword to its scabbard.
"Can I leave this to you?" Shinobu asked.
"Leave it to me," Lexon replied.
Next, Shinobu was about to carry Kyojuro Rengoku and move slightly away from the area where they were about to fight.
"What are you two talking about? You've been talking for so long," for some unknown reason, Akaza and Doma hadn't interrupted the conversation between Lexon and Shinobu. Only after their exchange was over did Doma raise his fan to his face and say with a teasing laugh, "Don't be so stingy, let us hear it too."
"Isn't that right, Lord Akaza," after saying this, Doma even looked at the slightly further back Akaza with a smile.
"Get lost," the blue veins on Akaza's neck bulged slightly.
"Oh my, Lord Akaza's attitude towards me is as bad as ever. It truly breaks my heart."
Akaza ignored this universally-hated demon and instead said to Shinobu, who was about to carry Kyojuro away, "Leave Kyojuro here."
But Shinobu obviously would not obey a demon's command.
"Put Kyojuro down!" Akaza suddenly flew into a rage, his face becoming abnormally ferocious, and the ground beneath his feet cracked again.
"Technique Deployment, Destructive Death: Compass Needle!"
The twelve-pointed snowflake pattern once again bloomed on the ground.
"Oh? Lord Akaza is angry..." Doma moved slightly aside, not blocking Akaza's charge.
'Looks like Doma isn't planning to team up...'
Seeing Doma's action, Lexon instantly understood his thoughts.
'But it probably wouldn't matter if they did team up...'
He suddenly had this thought.
If it were the previous Lexon, facing both the Upper Rank Three, Akaza, and the Upper Rank Two, Doma, at the same time, his only option would be to activate his demonization to contend with them.
But after continuous sign-ins...
The current Lexon, even in his human state, was at the absolute peak of strength. As for how strong...
At the very least, Lexon believed that he would not lose.
And so, Lexon slowly placed his hand on the hilt of his Nichirin Sword and circulated his breathing technique.
In an instant, the aura on his body seemed to have changed greatly.
Compared to other powerful swordsmen who used breathing techniques, Lexon did not always maintain a state of Total Concentration: Constant, because he felt it was unnecessary and tiring.
After all, the result of his normal physical abilities being stacked was already abnormally terrifying. There was no need to specially use Total Concentration: Constant to improve his physical fitness.
But now, with the conscious use of his breathing technique, what he displayed was a bit too terrifying.
Akaza's spirit was suddenly shaken. The ferocious expression on his face softened, and a grave look appeared.
'This feeling...'
He was extremely sensitive to the fighting spirit emanating from a person. And with his Compass Needle technique activated, his sensitivity to fighting spirit was at its absolute peak.
Akaza felt that the hidden Compass Needle under his feet was spinning and twisting frantically.
His eyes were fixed on Lexon, as if observing his changes.
Suddenly, Akaza's pupils shrank violently, and the grave look on his face instantly transformed into one of incomparable shock and horror.
He saw the fighting spirit emanating from the other person...
That fighting spirit soared to the heavens, blotting out the sky, as if even the wind and clouds had changed color because of it.
In Akaza's vision, all he could see was the fighting spirit that was pouring out from the other person.
'This is a fighting spirit that not even Kyojuro had ever emitted...'
'Could this person have reached that supreme domain?'
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