Chapter 149 Upper Moon Two is just this? Douma killed in seconds

With her power as a Pillar, she couldn't even scratch him. How could she possibly kill such a monster?

For the first time, despair welled up in Kanae Kochou's heart.

But the moment despair was born, she forcefully erased it!

"If even a Pillar of the Demon Slayer Corps is afraid, what about the regular members? What about the people who can't fight against demons?!"

"Delay!"

"I must delay until dawn!!"

Kanae Kochou struggled to her feet again, her peripheral vision fixed on the night sky, which seemed to be faintly turning pale.

All she could do was fight with all her might, draining all her potential and life force, to hold back Douma and let the sunlight, which was effective against demons, kill him!

"What an—amazing strike—"

Douma's voice still carried that nauseating flippancy.

"Beautiful, powerful, yet so fleeting, just like a real butterfly… What a pity, truly a pity."

He slowly raised the golden fan in his hand, and his Blood Demon Art condensed an ice spear in mid-air, which grew larger and larger under the gathering cold mist, emitting "crack" and "snap" sounds, like the death knell of a Shinigami.

The giant ice spear pointed at Kanae Kochou.

This time, she had no chance of survival.

Kanae Kochou looked at the ice spear in front of the giant ice Buddha, her face devoid of fear, instead showing an extremely complex yet pure smile.

In that smile, there was regret for not being able to complete her mission, reluctance to leave her sister Shinobu Kochou and her comrades, a fondness for the beautiful flowers of the world, and even a kind of—serenity and compassion, as if she had seen through the cycle of life and death.

She tried to grip her nichirin blade again, but her fingers had lost all strength.

Douma looked down at the Pillar who was about to wither. "Go in peace. Your pain and regret, I will 'redeem.' I will always remember you, this beautiful yet thorny flower."

Douma smiled, preparing to swing down the golden iron fan in his hand.

Death seemed to be just a second away.

"Enough, leave the rest to me."

In an instant.

An orange figure flashed beside Kanae Kochou, and one hand gripped Kanae Kochou's hand, which couldn't hold the blade hilt. "You—it's you?"

"The younger brother I met by chance!"

Kanae Kochou, who was preparing to burn her life with Breathing Techniques for a desperate fight, was greatly startled, looking in disbelief at the golden-haired youth who had appeared out of nowhere.

"You rest for a bit, leave the rest to me."

Naruto smiled faintly at Kanae Kochou, his clear blue eyes radiating sunshine and confidence, giving off a strangely reassuring feeling.

"No, the opponent is an Upper Moon among demons, you are no match, run!"

Kanae Kochou pushed Naruto, urging him to leave quickly.

"What's going on? Why did another person suddenly appear, and I didn't even notice him?"

Douma, who was about to swing his golden fan, froze for a moment.

But very quickly, a look of anger appeared on his handsome, sinister face.

"You brat, what are you doing? Don't dirty my food!!"

"Blood Demon Art: Winter Ice Spear!"

The raised fan finally swung down, and the astonishing ice spear condensed in mid-air, imbued with terrifying cold, shot towards Naruto and Kanae Kochou.

"Petty tricks, dare you show off before an expert?"

The warm, sunny blue eyes from a second ago now flickered with icy killing intent.

A mere Winter Ice Spear was at most equivalent to a C-rank or B-rank Wind Release Ninjutsu, completely ineffective against the Kage-level Naruto.

Naruto snorted, preparing to unleash his Ninjutsu, when his gaze suddenly flickered.

He discovered that his Chakra could actually be infused into the nichirin blade.

The nichirin blade is forged from "Scarlet Crimson Iron Sand" and "Scarlet Crimson Ore," capable of absorbing sunlight and possessing the special ability to restrict demon regeneration, making it the only weapon that can harm demons.

He hadn't expected that it could conduct Chakra.

Since that was the case...

Naruto's eyes flickered, and he transformed the Chakra in his body into Wind Release nature, infused it into the Flower Pillar's nichirin blade, and then casually swung it upwards at the incoming Winter Ice Spear.

"Whoosh—"

A several-meter-high, crescent-shaped azure blade of wind shot straight out, cutting through metal like mud, easily cleaving the Winter Ice Spear in half from top to bottom.

With a loud "boom."

The two halves of the Winter Ice Spear crashed next to Naruto and Kanae Kochou, either piercing through the ruins or plowing dozens of meters long icy trenches in the courtyard ground.

"This… What kind of slash is this!?"

Kanae Kochou, half-crouching, half-kneeling beside Naruto, was utterly dumbfounded.

Her beautiful eyes widened, looking in disbelief at the golden-haired youth who appeared much younger than her.

"What?!"

Douma's flippant smile froze on his face for the first time; he felt a threat!

A real, deadly threat!

He frantically activated his Blood Demon Art, trying to block with more ice crystals and summon thicker ice walls for defense.

"Boom—Crack—!!!"

The ice walls shattered!

Douma controlled the giant ice Buddha.

"You yellow-haired brat who popped out of nowhere, the great me will never lose to a mere human!!"

Douma, who always wore an empty smile, lost his composure for the first time. "Bodhisattva of the Sleeping Lotus!"

This was his most powerful Blood Demon Art, immediately making the ice Buddha press its hands together, as if catching a blade with bare hands.

The torrent of blade light and the giant ice crystal Buddha collided violently!

"Boom—"

A deafening roar echoed through the night sky!

The giant ice Buddha, capable of destroying the main hall, was cut and shattered piece by piece like fragile glass before Naruto's seemingly casual Wind Release slash!

The huge Buddha head, arms, and body all broke and collapsed in the azure blade light!

Ice crystal fragments poured down like a landslide, heavily crashing onto the ruins below, stirring up large clouds of dust.

The blade light continued its momentum, piercing through layers of ice barriers, and fiercely struck Douma's body!

This time, it was his true body!

Douma's body, which ordinary nichirin blades could not harm in the slightest, was torn open by a huge, penetrating, terrifying wound!

Blood mixed with fragments of internal organs sprayed out!

Douma flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily into a pile of ice crystal ruins, stirring up a sky full of ice dust.

One strike?

With just one strike, the arrogant and despair-inducingly powerful Upper Moon Two was defeated?!

Kanae Kochou's mouth was wide open, her pretty face filled with shock.

But she reacted even faster, immediately came to her senses, and quickly shouted: "Behead him! You must cut off a demon's head to kill him completely."

Actually, Naruto knew this even without Kanae Kochou's reminder.

The demons in the Demon Slayer world truly possessed immortality.

Their only two weaknesses were their neck (head) and sunlight.

Once the weakness of decapitation is overcome, and after consuming the Blue Spider Lily, the Upper Moon demons' regeneration ability is quite terrifying, much stronger than Hidan's immortality in Naruto.

One must know that Kibutsuji Muzan could even regenerate and revive after self-destructing his body into eighteen hundred pieces of flesh.

The Perfect Demon King's immortality would only be even more terrifying!