Chapter 61: A Rather Cautious Demon King

Chapter 61: A Rather Cautious Demon King

"What?"

Looking at Hachiman Hikigaya rushing toward it, Rui's eyes flashed with surprise, completely clueless about how it got exposed.

It quickly spread a web of spider silk all around, trying to block Hachiman's advance.

At the same time, it turned and ran into the distance.

But the spider silk it threw out was easily swatted away by Hachiman.

Then, Hachiman effortlessly caught up with the fleeing Rui and struck a single blow from behind, cutting off its head and stopping it immediately.

As Rui's corpse turned into a wisp of black smoke and vanished, the two Lower Rank demons—Lower Rank Three and Lower Rank Five—who had long troubled the Demon Slayer Corps dissipated from the world.

Just as Hachiman finished dealing with Rui, a good report came from not far away, from Tanjuro Kamado's side.

Within Hachiman's sight, Tanjuro was simultaneously attacking demons scattered in four directions, and the next second, four heads with puzzled expressions shot up into the sky.

With all six Upper Rank demons eliminated, the snowy battlefield was left with only Hachiman, Tanjuro, other family members, and the two demons summoned by Rui.

"Those two demons, I'll leave them to you to deal with."

Looking at the two Upper Rank demons almost equivalent to spirit coins, Tanjiro gestured to Hachiman to finish them off.

"Thanks then."

Hachiman didn't refuse Tanjuro's kind offer.

After all, the 1000 spirit coins gained from those two Upper Rank demons was quite a lot for him.

Soon, the two demons let out their dying screams, and the snowfield fell silent once again.

"Thanks for coming to help..."

Seeing Hachiman easily handle the two demons, Tanjuro Kamado came over supported by his eldest son Tanjiro Kamado and started talking with him.

"No problem, it was just a small favor..."

Looking at the large family behind Tanjuro Kamado, Hachiman was very glad he hadn't refused the system's call for help.

Even with Tanjuro's strong power, without his timely arrival, these ordinary people probably wouldn't have all survived the battle.

Thinking back to when Komachi once ran away from home and the whole family searched frantically, looking extremely tense and worried—

Hachiman couldn't imagine how despairing Tanjuro would be if he came back after the fight only to face his family's corpses.

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"A bunch of useless people!"

Just as Hachiman was about to exchange some information with Tanjuro Kamado, a soft but sinister voice suddenly came from far away.

"Watch out!"

Tanjuro immediately warned Hachiman to be alert.

The Demon King was coming!

Facing a king-level demon, Hachiman naturally did not dare to be careless.

He tightly gripped his blade and, together with Tanjuro Kamado, protected his family at the center, his eyes constantly scanning the surroundings.

However, Muzan Kibutsuji, the Demon King, did not launch a surprise attack hidden in the snowstorm as they expected.

Instead, Muzan arrogantly appeared before everyone, standing less than thirty meters away from Hachiman, carefully scrutinizing the human who had suddenly disrupted his plan.

'System, do you think if I team up with your current host, we can take down this guy in front of us?'

As Muzan sized up Hachiman, Hachiman also looked Muzan over, and a bold idea formed in his mind.

Tanjuro's earlier move—instantly killing four Upper Rank demons—showed Hachiman that the system's current host's strength was far beyond his own.

It was precisely because of Tanjuro's power that Hachiman got the idea of taking down Muzan.

After all, seeing how fearful Muzan was of Tanjuro, perhaps Tanjuro's strength even surpassed Muzan's.

If he could help hold Muzan down, maybe they really could trap the Demon King here.

"Uh, for now, this Demon King is unkillable..."

The system was startled by Hachiman's sudden bold suggestion.

Is this really something the previous lazy host would say?

"Why?"

Hachiman asked in confusion.

Although Muzan was the big boss in this world and obviously very powerful, that didn't mean he couldn't be killed.

"Because this Demon King is incredibly cautious..."

The system replied helplessly.

You think Muzan want to be taken down here by Tanjuro and you working together to finish the mission? Of course he doesn't want that.

But the problem is, with the current strength of just the two of you, it's simply impossible to completely kill Muzan.

You have to know this guy has five brains and seven hearts, plus extremely strong regeneration!

He can instantly recover while being attacked, and even if his body is shredded to pieces, he can easily fully restore himself.

Besides sunlight, only Nichirin blades with sunlight-level killing power, and the specialized "Sun Breathing Thirteen Forms" technique can counter Muzan's bug-like regenerative abilities.

And the key is, Muzan is extremely cautious!

Back when Tanjuro was at his peak, this guy would immediately run away the moment he saw Tanjuro's face, not even giving Tanjuro time to react!

Later, Muzan sent countless demons to wear down Tanjuro's stamina before making a move again.

But even then, the target wasn't Tanjuro himself, but his eldest son, Tanjiro Kamado.

When Tanjiro Kamado exposed his "transparent world" ability to take the hit for his son, Muzan didn't press the advantage but retreated, continuing to send minions to exhaust them...

Such a sly Demon King, the system was speechless.

Therefore, facing Muzan, the only thing Hachiman and Tanjuro could do was to stall until sunrise, forcing Muzan to retreat on his own.

"I see..."

Hachiman looked up at Muzan in surprise after hearing the system's explanation.

He didn't care how sneaky Muzan was.

Instead, he was more concerned about Muzan's regeneration ability.

If all the king-level demons had power like this guy, then those five exorcists who controlled all of Japan, making all demons too scared to act recklessly, must be insanely strong!

Is it really possible to have such powerful people in his own world?

"Whoosh!"

As Hachiman was marveling internally, suddenly a sharp sound of rushing air came.

"Watch out!"

Always alert to Muzan's movements, Tanjuro Kamado instantly dashed in front of Hachiman and swung his blade to block Muzan's sudden sneak attack.