Chapter 18: Cannon Mode
On this train named [Infinity Train], there is a demon named Nightmare, who is ranked first among the lower-ranked demons among the Twelve Demon Moons.
His ability is very strange. He has the blood vampire technique of pulling people into dreams and then killing them in their dreams. It is hard to guard against.
However, the wise and brave protagonists successfully solved the nightmare and rescued more than 200 passengers on the bus.
However, the day when the Infinite Train incident was resolved became the last day that Kyōjurō Rengoku lived.
This was not due to the dying counterattack of one of the Lower Moons.
It's because the protagonists encountered a stronger opponent.
The third moon in the waxing phase is Akaza.
In order to prevent her nominal brother in this world from dying like in the original work, Kotori Itsuka decided to leave Asakusa and rush to Kyushu to resolve the incident before Kyōjurō Rengoku took action.
With Kotori Itsuka strength, neither the one of the lower rank nor the third of the upper rank would be her match.
The reason why I was able to fight with a blue-striped demon that was not even a lower-rank demon for so long and had to use some tactics was simply because the opponent was too fast.
Relying on this guy's blood demon art, in terms of speed alone, he is even faster than most members of the Twelve Demon Moons.
If you don't show weakness to the enemy first and make him think that he has the ability to eat her, it is very likely that the Demons will be scared away.
Although Kotori Itsuka is not opposed to allowing demons to join the organization, she will not show any mercy when facing evil demons.
She was immortal anyway, so injuries that would be considered serious for other elf girls were just minor injuries for her that would heal on their own in a matter of time.
Looking at the speeding Infinite Train, Kotori Itsuka, who had just recovered from the battle, controlled her spiritual power to float in the air and stepped onto the front locomotive.
Just as she stood firmly on the locomotive and was about to take the next step, plant-like flesh threads began to grow from the steel of the locomotive.
The meat strands gathered together and soon formed a humanoid creature.
One of the Lower Moons, Nightmare, appears here.
The Demons with a rather neutral aesthetic opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to say something.
But Kotori Itsuka didn't give him any chance to speak. She swung the huge axe in her hand and smashed a big hole in the iron sheet of the locomotive.
Then, he jumped lightly and jumped into the carriage.
Nightmare's expression froze on his face.
This fellow tribesman doesn't seem to be very polite.
"Hey, is there anyone else in this car?"
Entering the cab, Kotori Itsuka ignored the train conductor's confusion and placed the Nichirin Sword and the Scorching Demon Slayer on his neck: "I don't have time to talk nonsense with you. Answer me within three seconds."
"Uh, yes, there are!"
Although the conductor, who was dressed in a neat uniform, was confused about the situation, his professional ethics made him unwilling to answer the question.
But feeling the coolness and heat coming from both sides of his neck, he immediately met Kotori Itsukarequest and answered the question.
"How many?"
"One, a ticket inspector." The conductor said in a panic, "This is the last train, there aren't many passengers, plus there have been a few strange murders recently..."
However, before he could finish, Kotori Itsuka kicked open the door of the cab.
The scorching demon disappeared, and she jumped down with the Sun Blade in one hand and the conductor's collar in the other.
"ah!"
For an ordinary person, jumping off a train traveling at nearly 100 kilometers per hour would result in being smashed into a pulp.
Thinking he had encountered a madman who was dragging people to suicide, the conductor covered his eyes and screamed as if he was about to die.
But after waiting for a long time, the expected pain did not come.
He opened his eyes tentatively and found himself sitting safely on the grass beside the railroad tracks.
But the strange man who had just pulled him out of the car disappeared somewhere.
Just as the conductor's brain was shutting down, the door of another carriage in his train was violently kicked open.
Kotori Itsuka jumped off the train carrying another confused ticket inspector and placed him next to the conductor.
"Are you sure there's no one left?"
The two of them looked at Kotori Itsuka blankly and neither of them answered.
"No one?"
Kotori Itsuka inserted the Nichirin Sword between the two of them, almost cutting their clothes.
The two of them came to their senses and shook their heads like rattles, fearing that the knife would stab them next.
After confirming once again that there was no one else on the train, Kotori Itsuka turned around and jumped back onto the departing train without any hesitation.
"you..."
At this moment, the nightmare that was just at the front of the car has also moved to the rear of the car.
The body that appears now is not his real body.
His body has merged with the train and is hidden under the floor of the locomotive cab.
What is here is just a piece of meat that he has shaped to communicate.
The whole train is part of him.
It is also because of this that he can move freely on the train.
Just when he said the word "you" and wanted to ask the other party why he appeared here and why he took the members in the car away, Kotori Itsuka ignored him again.
He brushed past the nightmare without saying anything more to him and headed straight for the front of the train.
The corners of Nightmare's eyes twitched a few times.
He had no idea what this strange fellow wanted to do, so he didn't know whether he should take action.
Just as he was hesitating about what to do, the running Kotori Itsuka had already reached the locomotive.
Then, he exerted force with his feet and jumped up.
In his hand, a huge axe appeared.
Standing on the track of the Infinite Train, Kotori Itsuka held the giant axe horizontally and aimed it at the train in front of her.
"Scorching Demons-Slayer Cannon Mode!"
The axe blade retracts and the mechanism changes.
The next moment, the dark muzzle appeared where the axe blade disappeared.
Among them, the force that distorted the surrounding air gathered quickly.
Sensing the surging energy, Nightmare's face showed shock and anger.
At this moment, he finally saw what the girl wanted to do.
With a wave of his arms, several tentacles made of flesh threads with strange eyeballs and mouths on the top pounced towards Kotori Itsuka.
Forced sleep.
This is one of the abilities that Nightmare's Blood Demon Art gives him.
Once you hear the sound coming from the tentacles, or look into the eyes on the tentacles, you will fall asleep.
Such ability is simply hard to guard against.
If Kotori Itsuka had shown hostility just now and alerted Nightmare, forcing the two of them to fight on the train, things might have been quite tricky.
But Nightmare missed his chance.
And Kotori Itsuka will not give him another chance.
The energy gathered in the muzzle soon reached its limit.
Kotori Itsuka grinned and pulled the trigger.
"boom----!"