Although Tanjiro used the cushioning of the tree branches to weaken the impact of the landing, it didn't mean that Tanjiro didn't suffer any damage at all.
The fall still made Tanjiro feel a tightness in his chest, and then a mouthful of blood was spat out.
Plus, the Pleasure Demon's sound wave attack earlier caused Tanjiro's body to be unable to stand up immediately, even if he wanted to.
The Pleasure Demon, who had one of its eagle legs cut off, quickly discovered that its wound seemed to be suppressed by some kind of force, making it impossible to regenerate and recover immediately.
Although this was the first time it had encountered this situation, the Pleasure Demon didn't panic at all. Because Akaza had experienced it and reported the situation, Hantengu also knew that Ryuji's attacks could suppress the regeneration and recovery of demons, and even prevent demons from regenerating at all.
Although they weren't dealing with Ryuji now, Tanjiro was, after all, the person closest to Ryuji, so it was reasonable that Tanjiro would also have this little trick.
Therefore, the Pleasure Demon didn't panic at all, but instead struggled to erase that suppressing force.
The Pleasure Demon used five seconds for this process, and these five seconds seemed very short, but they gave Tanjiro a chance to catch his breath.
No longer suppressed, the Pleasure Demon's eagle leg that had been cut off by Tanjiro grew back again.
And the severed leg that was grabbing Tanjiro's thigh also grew a head again after the Pleasure Demon broke free from the suppression of the demon-slaying sword.
And that head immediately opened its mouth towards Tanjiro, seemingly intending to launch the sound wave attack from earlier again.
Seeing this, Tanjiro again acted without thinking, swinging his sword fiercely and cutting the new head that had grown on the severed leg into two halves. This prevented the severed leg's head from successfully launching the sound wave attack.
The instinctive reaction made Tanjiro feel remorse and panic. "Crap! I accidentally cut off the head again! If it splits into new individuals again, then the situation will really be troublesome!"
Just as Tanjiro was panicking, the severed leg that had grown a head, and which Tanjiro had cut into two halves, didn't split into complete individuals again as Tanjiro had imagined.
Instead, because the two parts of the head were suppressed by the demon-slaying sword, they couldn't heal together, so they were forced to become two independent individuals.
Although the wounds couldn't heal because they were suppressed, this didn't affect the ability of the two halves of the head to change their form.
The two halves of the head quickly transformed into something resembling a worm with only a mouth, abandoning the original form of the head.
Immediately, the two worms with a mouth that had separated from the Pleasure Demon's body opened their mouths wide and emitted piercing sound waves at Tanjiro.
Tanjiro didn't attack this time, because Tanjiro had suppressed his body's instinctive reaction.
But because of this, Tanjiro was hit by the sound wave attacks of these two worms.
Tanjiro's head instantly started to ache unbearably, but this time Tanjiro didn't lose consciousness. Instead, he was surprised to discover that the sound wave attacks launched by these two worm-like body parts of the Pleasure Demon weren't as powerful as the complete individual.
Instantly, Tanjiro came to an analysis: Hantengu's limit was very likely just splitting into four individuals. After splitting into the four emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure, the joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure demons no longer had the ability to split into complete individuals again.
Even if they could split into incomplete individuals like these two worms, their attack power wouldn't even be as strong as ordinary demons.
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