(Demon Slayer) – CHAPTER 48: Infinity Castle

After receiving the news, Yuri along with all the pillars and the Demon Slayer Corps members rushed to the location.

While Yuri, the Pillars, and Demon Slayers surrounded the site, the Kakushi troops evacuated everyone in the location and isolated everything within a 10-mile radius.

When the siege had just been formed, there was a sudden sound from Sanemi's side.

"What is that?!"

At some point, an eyeball with tentacles appeared on the roof of the building. Suddenly, the eyeball looked in the direction of Yuri and the pillars. Immediately another distinct sound activated and more eyeballs appeared.

At this moment, Yuri remembered Nakime, the demon biwa player, who had been promoted to Upper Moon 4.

"Muzan gathered the Twelve Kizuki?"

"Is he so cautious?"

Yuri's mouth twitched, with the feeling of 'As expected of him'.

The sound of biwa playing continued to ring out from inside the mansion.

At this moment, under the surprised gaze of Yuri and all the pillars, doors appeared under everyone's feet, causing them to fall into the Infinity Castle.

The Infinity Castle is an alternate dimension consisting of infinite wooden rooms, halls, and moving corridors. It has a distorted direction of gravity, allowing demons to stand upside down or perpendicular to walls, or move in physically impossible directions.

What you consider the ground is other people's sky. Every place you step on has its own attraction.

This entire space was created by Nakime's Kekkijutsu.

Nakime is a pale woman with grayish skin, who has sharp, blue-stained fingernails and notably dark pink lips that contrast sharply with her skin tone.

She has hip-length glossy black hair, which she wore falling down her back in light waves that cut sharply at the ends, with two chin-length locks to frame her face and a long fringe that obscured her large eye set between them swept to either side of her nose.

Nakime wears a simple, black kimono with a loose white yuban underneath, secured with a light brown striped obi, white socks, and no shoes or clogs. She was always seen holding a four-string wooden biwa with a large bachi reed.

Buzz!

The sound of Biwa's strings spread in all directions, and Yuri instantly disappeared from his location and appeared in front of five demons.

Except for Nakime, who controls the Infinity Castle, all the remaining Upper Moons were surrounding Yuri.

However, there was no sign of Muzan.

Seeing this situation, he realized Muzan's strategy.

"He sent me to fight five Upper Moons and hid…"

Using his Mangekyou, Yuri cast a mental shield on the five.

Then he took out his nichirin and muttered:

"This will be a good opportunity to see how strong I am, killing five Upper Moons."

Yuri's words were extremely arrogant in their eyes.

"What? You're so arrogant even though you're about to die, human. It's really a waste for someone like you to have such a pretty face." Daki said with disgust, as if she was losing her patience.

"You guys should be careful. He was able to kill Douma and Akaza all by himself."

Kokushibo looked at Yuri and drew his sword with a fighting spirit in his eyes.

Seeing that Kokushibo drew his sword, Daki also closed her mouth.

But only Gyokko wasn't taking the situation seriously.

Gyokko is a demon that resembles a fish and has the ability to control and manipulate ceramic vases. He uses these vessels to create ceramic monsters that attack his enemies.

He is cruel and arrogant by nature. He talks a lot and likes to ridicule others.

Therefore, while others were cautious, he was extremely confident and repeated:

"No matter how powerful you are, you cannot compare to us. Wow~ Muzan-sama is being very cautious by sending five Upper Moons to deal with a single human…"

"Ahh~ what beautiful work of art should I create with your body, I can already imagine the magnificent faces other humans will have when they see my splendid masterpiece!"

"Hahahahaha..."

Gyokko laughed happily as he imagined what he would do to Yuri.

Before he could say anything else, a light flashed past him.

Everyone looked on in bewilderment as a line of blood formed on Gyokko's neck, and then the line of blood became bigger and bigger. Finally, his head fell to the ground.

After that, Gyokko's eyes widened in disbelief. Before he could even say anything, his body turned into black ash and disappeared.

Gyokko had died before they even realized what happened.

What exactly happened now?

At this moment, Kokushibo, Daki and Hantengu felt immense pressure on their shoulders.

"Do you really think you can kill me?"

Yuri spoke while looking at them with cold eyes.

The situation was far beyond what they imagined could happen.

Daki almost screamed when he saw Gyokko's end.

No matter how much she despised him for being ugly and disgusting, he was still a demon on the same level as her.

The atmosphere suddenly became frightening.

A murderous pressure that they had never felt fell upon them.

Hantengu, the most fearful among them, had a cold sweat on his face and even took a few steps back without knowing it.

Nakime, who was above a tall building ahead, stopped playing her Biwa and her body started to shake.

At that moment, she seemed to truly see a bright sun in Yuri.

"Wh…what is this?" The frightened Daki was already crying.

Nobody answered the question.

What was once a fierce atmosphere turned into a deafening silence.

Especially Kokushibo, whose expression was surprisingly strange at this moment.

He seemed to be scared, angry and a little envious and jealous. It was hard to imagine that Kokushibo, who was always so calm, could have such complicated emotions.

The reason is very simple. At this moment, he seemed to see his older brother's figure overlapping Yuri's.

Especially the way Yuri held his nichirin made Kokushibo feel the same fear that Muzan felt when he was almost killed by Yoriichi.

"Breath of the Sun..."

He ignored Daki's voice and finally confirmed his doubt after a moment. Kokushibo's emotions became more and more intense.

"Then you use Sun Breath!"

Even though everyone has forgotten about Sun Breathing, he and Muzan will never forget it.

Kokushibo, whose human name was Michikatsu Tsugikuni, was the older brother of Yoriichi Tsugikuni, the legendary swordsman who developed the Breath of the Sun, but he was also remembered as one of the greatest traitors in Demon Corp history.

Michikatsu Tsugikuni was born during the Sengoku Era and was the twin brother of Yoriichi Tsugikuni. Despite being born with exceptional abilities, he always felt inferior to Yoriichi, who was naturally talented and incomparably powerful. This envy and resentment grew over the years, leading Michikatsu to make drastic decisions to surpass his brother.

Tired of chasing after his brother's shadow but never catching up, he eventually succumbed to his darker desires and accepted Muzan's offer of power and immortatility in exchange for his loyalty. For proof, he murdered the Demon Corp leader at the time and fled with his head. Eventually, Michikatsu Tsugikuni the human died, and Kokushibo was what remained.

The existence of the sun's breath seems to remind him that he is simply inferior to his younger brother!

Kokushibo never expected that after hundreds of years, he would see a Sun Breath user again, especially since his aura was so similar to Yoriichi's.

(Yoriichi, is this your successor?)

"Finally! Can I finally fight you again, Yoriichi?"

Kokushibo let out a low roar and looked at Yuri tightly holding his sword in his hand, his fighting spirit boiling.

Yoriichi's death gave him a defeat that he could never recover from in his life, making him realize that he would never have the chance to defeat Yoriichi. From then on, he vowed to "never lose to anyone other than Yoriichi again".

Kokushibo admits he chose to be reduced to this to defeat Yoriichi, but his death means he will never have the opportunity to surpass him.

However, now that a new Sun Breath user appeared, Kokushibo felt that destiny truly existed.

Maybe he had become so ugly, so dirty, and had honed his skills for hundreds of years in the world just for this moment.

Almost without hesitation, Kokushibo decided to go all out. His face became fierce, countless blades appeared on his body, and his sword also began to grow longer.

"Human who inherited the Breath of the Sun, tell me your name!!!"

Kokushibo roared, as his fighting intent seemed to make the atmosphere shake. Daki couldn't help but take a few steps back.

"Yuri Winters."

Yuri replied while looking at Kokushibo.

As soon as he spoke, Kokushibo attacked without hesitation.

[Moon Breath – Sixteenth Form: Lunar Rainbow, Half Moon]!

Using his altered katana, Kokushibo swings upward, sending six curved slashes falling several meters in front of him, powerful enough to leave craters in his wake.

"Boom——————!"

The wind blades exploded out of nowhere, with a sound that shook the entire surroundings.

"Your sword skills are incredible, but unfortunately, you cannot defeat me."

Yuri said indifferently.

Kokushibo is very strong, there is no doubt about that. He is the one who received the most of Muzan's blood among all the Twelve Kizukis.

None of the Twelve Kizuki can defeat him.

It's a shame that his opponent is Yuri.

Yuri has used [Tsukuyomi] many times since arriving in this world, just to practice sun breathing.

When Yuri defeated the pillars with ease, it was already clear that no human could defeat him.

After fighting Akaza, Yuri managed to master all thirteen forms of Sun Breath.

"You are very weak…"

Yuri shook his head.

(End of chapter)

Forgiveness for not updating any chapter yesterday, there was a problem that I had to solve myself, unfortunately I only came to end recently.

Give me some power stones there you go~😉