Chapter 59 Cremation
Tanjiro gritted his teeth, images of the Infinity Train flashing through his mind.
He didn't want to watch powerlessly like that again, nor did he want others to be covered in wounds protecting him.
This time, he would protect others!
'Use all your strength to cut! From head to toe, use everything you've got!'
'Forget all pain, bite down hard on him! All your strength isn't enough; you need to squeeze out a hundred, a thousand times more power!'
As his thoughts raced, Tanjiro gripped his sword with both hands, power surging from an unknown source.
His hair flew like raging fire, only the whites of his eyes remained, and the scar on his forehead transformed into a flame-like pattern!
Indeed, the first demon slayer mark awakener of this era had finally appeared!
"Gah ah ah ah ah ah!!!!!!"
Accompanied by Tanjiro's roar, Gyutaro's head, without a doubt, hit the ground.
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Uzui Tengen propped himself up with one hand, constantly regulating his breathing.
Tanjiro knelt on the ground, gasping for air, bloodshot eyes, deaf to everything; he was completely overheated.
Tomioka Giyu showed no intention of stopping; he picked up Tanjiro and said,
"Quick! Tengen! Take Zenitsu and leave this place, that guy's Rotating Slashes haven't finished yet!!"
Uzui Tengen quickly looked up at Gyutaro's body, and the sight made him immediately rush towards Zenitsu.
Gyutaro's entire body was expanding outwards with blood blades!
But even though Tomioka Giyu and Uzui Tengen were fast, when they had run about seven meters, the most terrifying Rotating Slashes erupted!
There was no time to think; this distance was at least much better than the epicenter just now.
"Tengen, stand behind me!"
Tomioka Giyu stopped immediately, waves surging around him.
"Water Breathing, Eleventh Form: Dead Calm!"
The next second, the extremely wide-ranging Rotating Slashes spread rapidly outwards from the center of Gyutaro's body.
Houses, the ground, even the buildings that had long since become ruins, were all, without exception, destroyed again in large swathes!
Tomioka Giyu didn't blink, his sword swinging faster and faster, desperately blocking the spreading blood blades, holding nothing back.
Completely abandoning the suppression of the poison, his remaining stamina was for this very moment!
Uzui Tengen could only barely block the scattered blood blades with his sword; his poison was actually deeper than Tomioka Giyu's.
Finally, the extremely wide-ranging and terrifying Rotating Slashes ended.
The dust slowly dispersed, Tomioka Giyu knelt, inserting his sword into the ground, hands propped on the hilt, his consciousness blurry.
At this moment, several large areas on his body were purple.
Tomioka Giyu knew this was the poison taking effect; he urgently needed Nezuko to cremate him.
"Noooo!!! Don't die, please don't die, Lord Tengen!!!"
"We finally survived!! We finally defeated them!!"
"What about the demon's poison? The antidote isn't working!! It's too much, God, it's too much!!"
Suma was crying inconsolably; Uzui Tengen himself felt alright.
But in reality, the purple area on his body was no less, if not more, than Tomioka Giyu's.
Uzui Tengen exhaled heavily, mumbling,
"My life so far..."
But the next second, Suma cried even harder, directly interrupting what Uzui Tengen was about to say.
"If Lord Tengen dies, I'll never pray to God again!! I'll never forgive it!!"
Makio, next to her, finally couldn't take it and yelled, "Shut up! Lord Tengen is speaking!!"
Seeing Suma still crying, with no intention of stopping,
Makio got furious, grabbed her hair, and casually picked up a few pebbles from the ground.
"You stupid woman, I'm going to stuff these stones in your mouth!!"
"Waaah ah ah ah ah, Makio is bullying me!!"
Uzui Tengen smiled helplessly at this.
Hinatsuru then spoke, "Both of you quiet down, Lord Tengen..."
Before she could finish, little Nezuko suddenly appeared and placed her hand on Uzui Tengen's arm.
Then, under the bewildered gazes of the others, Uzui Tengen was directly "cremated."
Seeing this, Uzui Tengen's three wives all froze at first, and then Suma took a big leap, crying as she dragged Nezuko away.
"Yaah ah ah ah ah!! What are you doing, who are you?"
"No matter what, cremation is too early! Big sister is angry, I'm going to spank your bottom!!"
"Wait a minute!" After carefully feeling, Uzui Tengen said incredulously, "What's going on, the poison is gone!"
The next second, his three wives simultaneously pounced on Uzui Tengen, tears streaming uncontrollably.
"Lord Tengen!!"
While they were crying, Nezuko had already flashed to Tomioka Giyu's side and also gave him a "cremation."
With the poison cleared, Tomioka Giyu's consciousness gradually returned; he looked at little Nezuko beside him and softly said,
"Thank you, Nezuko!"
"Mm-hmm ( ^～^ )"
At this moment, Inosuke, who had been missing for a while, ran over carrying a wailing Zenitsu.
"Hey!! Are you guys alright!"
"Zenitsu! Inosuke!"
Seeing them, Tanjiro was the most excited; he wanted to go meet them, but his weak legs wouldn't allow him to.
As soon as he arrived, Zenitsu sobbed loudly, recounting his ordeal to Tanjiro.
"Tanjiro~~ (╥_╥)"
"I woke up with terrible pain all over ah ah ah, my legs, are they broken? What the heck!"
"Who hit me, it hurts so much ah ah! I don't even dare to look (Ｔ▽Ｔ)"
"It's really good that you're alright, Zenitsu!" Tanjiro smiled warmly.
Hearing him say that, Zenitsu cried even harder, "Who's alright!!"
At this point, Tomioka Giyu was much better; he looked at Inosuke and asked,
"Where did you put Daki's head? Or has it already turned to ash?"
"Huh?" Inosuke picked at the nostril of his boar head mask and said casually, "I just threw it away when I ran back."
Inosuke's words reminded Tanjiro; he quickly asked Nezuko to carry him to collect the blood of upper rank six.
Tomioka Giyu glanced in the direction he left; if he remembered correctly, Tanjiro was going to mediate the sibling conflict.
After Tanjiro left, Tomioka Giyu found a relatively tall ruin, sat on it, and looked around.
"The entire Flower District has been destroyed, sigh!"
"My tavern, although it's not entirely mine, it's at least half mine!"
"But luckily, I had the foresight to have the proprietress evacuate with the more important things, otherwise..."
Tomioka Giyu sighed, no longer thinking about the problem, and instead shifted his gaze to Uzui Tengen, thinking to himself,
"You can't be missing from the Infinity Castle decisive battle, along with your Musical Score Technique!"
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