Ryuji and Tanjiro, who had followed Akaza and entered deep into the mountains and forests, did not know that Uzui Tengen's group had encountered Kokushibo's interception, Ryuji was still maintaining a special footstep sound as he moved forward.
And what Ryuji was even more unaware of was that Muzan Kibutsuji was not targeting himself this time, but rather Tanjiro.
Akaza's mission was just to restrain Ryuji, and give the Upper Rank Six—Daki the opportunity to kill Tanjiro.
Arranging for an Upper Rank to deal with Tanjiro, this was enough to show Muzan Kibutsuji's determination to kill Tanjiro this time.
Because after the Infinity Train, through the cell images transmitted back by the Lower Rank One, who had died in battle, Muzan Kibutsuji discovered that Tanjiro was not a very awesome demon hunter, and so Muzan Kibutsuji greatly regretted that he had not personally resolved Tanjiro when he was in Asakusa, Tokyo Prefecture.
And the reason why Muzan Kibutsuji did not personally take action to take the opportunity to resolve Tanjiro when he discovered Ryuji and Tanjiro in the red-light district was because there was also Uzui Tengen beside Tanjiro, and Ryuji was also near the [Kyogoku House].
Uzui Tengen was not the main reason that Muzan Kibutsuji was concerned about, the reason why Muzan Kibutsuji chose to do nothing at that time was more because of Ryuji.
Ryuji made Muzan Kibutsuji think of the person who had almost killed him in the past, Kokushibo's younger brother—Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
The last time on the Infinity Train, Ryuji and Kokushibo had fought evenly, which made Muzan Kibutsuji have to start to be somewhat wary of Ryuji.
Although the battle ended with Ryuji taking the initiative to retreat, if the battle had continued, then it would not have been far from dawn, and the situation would definitely have turned to Ryuji's side.
So, from a certain point of view, it was Ryuji who had given Kokushibo and Akaza a chance to live, because Ryuji clearly still had some reservations.
Even if Muzan Kibutsuji was not afraid of Uzui Tengen, it would also take some effort to kill Tanjiro in front of Uzui Tengen. And Ryuji would definitely take advantage of this effort to arrive.
As such, the situation was hard to say.
Another point was that Muzan Kibutsuji did not know how many people Ryuji had brought, if there were more than three Hashira present, and they coordinated with Ryuji, what Muzan Kibutsuji feared was that Ryuji could drag the battle to dawn.
Therefore, Muzan Kibutsuji, from the time he discovered that Ryuji was monitoring him, did not think about showing his cards, and Muzan Kibutsuji then used the hostages in Daki's hands to set up such a scheme.
A scheme that seemed to be targeting Ryuji and Tanjiro, in reality, it was only targeting others besides Ryuji.
As the saying goes, pick the soft persimmons to pinch.
In reality, Muzan Kibutsuji had also thought that if he really could not deal with Ryuji, then he would just wear him down, wearing him down until Ryuji grew old or died of old age. Anyway, Muzan Kibutsuji, as a demon, had an infinitely long life, so he did not have to worry about not being able to afford to wear him down.
In addition to wearing Ryuji down, Muzan Kibutsuji had also thought about winning him over, after all, the powerful Kokushibo had been won over by him in the past.
So, this was also why Daki and Akaza had had the behavior of winning Ryuji over from the beginning.
From this point, it could also be seen that Muzan Kibutsuji was very unwilling to fight with Ryuji.
As time passed, Ryuji and Tanjiro followed Akaza to the edge of a cliff, from afar, Ryuji saw that there were two women standing on the edge of the cliff, one of them was very enchanting, with a head of silver-white hair, and had a slight difference in hair color from Ryuji's white hair.
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