AI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Outside the battlefield.
Sekido, who was entangled with Kochou Shinobu, suddenly froze. He seemed to have sensed Rokuro's obstruction through some connection.
"Useless!"
Sekido roared in frustration.
He endured a venomous thrust from Kochou Shinobu, attempting to break free from the battle and rush towards the isolation zone for support.
"Oh my, where do you think you're going?"
Kochou Shinobu's figure followed like a shadow, her speed even faster!
Her rapier, like a venomous snake flicking its tongue, left trails of purple afterimages.
"Dance of the Butterfly: Playfulness" unfolded once more, injecting a relentless neurotoxin.
At the same time, she relentlessly entangled Sekido with extreme speed, making it impossible for him to escape.
"Your opponents are us! Don't look away!"
On the other side, Uzui Tengen's twin blades danced wildly, with continuous sonic booms exploding!
Aizetsu's cross spear was blasted away by the explosions.
Karaku's attacks were skillfully deflected.
Urogi's wind pressure was constantly disrupted by the explosion's shockwaves.
Under the continuous weakening effect of Kochou's poison, the movements of these three clones visibly became sluggish and stiff.
They swayed precariously under Uzui Tengen's increasingly ferocious onslaught, constantly accumulating new wounds.
"Incompetent! Incompetent! All of you are incompetent!"
Sekido felt the decline of his other clones and the urgency from within, his furious emotions reaching their peak!
He suddenly let out a deafening roar, no longer attempting to shake off Kochou Shinobu, but instead generating a powerful suction.
"Stop, Sekido!"
"You bastard..."
Aizetsu, Karaku, and Urogi, the three clones, were pulled as if by invisible strings.
They wailed and struggled involuntarily, transforming into three twisted streams of flesh and blood energy, forcibly absorbed into Sekido's body!
"Roar—!!!"
Terrifying energy fluctuations erupted from Sekido's body like a storm.
His form underwent a horrifying transformation!
Sekido's body rapidly shrank, his skin turned blue, and several thunder drums inscribed with the character "Hate" (hatred) appeared on his back.
The golden shakujo in his hand also transformed into two S-shaped drumsticks entwined with lightning!
An overwhelming, suffocatingly intense pressure, far exceeding anything before, erupted like a tsunami, instantly engulfing the entire battlefield!
The two watching Demon Slayers immediately fainted, their bodies instinctively beginning to convulse violently.
Uzui Tengen and Kochou Shinobu's faces instantly turned somewhat pale, and cold sweat beaded on their foreheads.
"What... what in the world is this?!" Uzui Tengen's voice carried an unprecedented gravity.
Before them, a completely new monster was born!
Its appearance was like a child's, with two protruding curved horns on its forehead, and cracked spots both on its forehead and below its eyes.
He wore golden armor, with five drums bearing the character "Hate" (hatred) on his back, and held S-shaped drumsticks, transformed from the golden shakujo, in both hands.
Upper Moon Four, Zohakuten!
"Sorrowful... weak... hateful... destroy everything!"
Zohakuten let out a roar mixed with four voice lines, and slammed his S-shaped drumsticks against the drums on his back.
Boom boom!!
As the drums sounded, the ground violently shook and cracked.
Several incomparably thick, grotesque, and twisted wooden giant dragons burst forth from the earth!
These wooden dragons were not merely wood; their surfaces were covered with hard wooden scales.
Their dragon heads were ferocious, and they spewed destructive shockwaves from their mouths.
They charged towards the two Pillars with an all-crushing demeanor!
The scope of their attack was so vast that it almost covered the entire courtyard.
"Get out of the way, Kochou!"
Uzui Tengen roared, crossing his twin blades in front of him, his entire body's muscles tensing!
"Sound Breathing, Fourth Form: Constant Resounding Slashes!"
He unleashed his most dense network of explosive slashes to date, attempting to directly confront this destructive blow.
Kochou Shinobu also instantly pushed her speed to its limit, her rapier thrusting out like a furious storm.
"Insect Breathing, Centipede Dance: Hundred-Legged Zigzag!"
She did not confront it directly, but instead, with extreme high-speed ground thrusts, attempted to tear open a corner of the wooden dragon, creating a path to escape!
Boom!!!!!!!
Violent explosions and shockwaves swept in all directions!
"Ugh..."
Uzui Tengen grunted. The explosive slashing net in front of him was shattered by the wooden dragon's direct impact.
The immense force sent him flying, crashing heavily onto the distant ground.
The ground instantly cracked, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, his twin blades nearly slipping from his hands.
Kochou Shinobu's situation was slightly better; she successfully tore open a gap, but the immense impact still made her blood churn.
She drifted backward like a kite with a broken string, staggering several steps after landing before steadying herself, her sword-holding hand trembling slightly.
Just one attack!
The combined Zohakuten, with just one attack, completely suppressed and even injured the two Pillars!
A cruel and hateful expression appeared on Zohakuten's four merged faces, and he raised his drumsticks again.
"Destroy..."
Boom—!!!
"Blood Demon Art: Endless Tree of Karma!"
The wooden dragons wildly danced and grew, indiscriminately impacting and sweeping everything around them with destructive power.
The sturdy walls, houses, and corridors of the Butterfly Mansion were torn apart, crashed down, and crushed like paper in front of them!
Huge splinters and stones flew everywhere, and the entire Butterfly Mansion instantly plunged into a doomsday-like scene.
Zohakuten stood in the center of the wildly dancing wooden dragons, like a god controlling calamity.
His goal was clear—to completely destroy the Butterfly Mansion's defenses in the most violent way, forcibly find and take away the target inside!
"Hand over that sample...!"
An exceptionally thick wooden dragon directly smashed through the outer wall of the isolation zone.
Amidst the flying debris and dust, Zohakuten's hateful gaze had penetrated the obstruction, locking onto Himura Senichi, who was currently entangled with Rokuro, and the terrified Himura Ruri inside.
Boom—
The drum sounded again.
The wooden dragon that had smashed through the outer wall continued its relentless charge, sweeping towards Himura Ruri, who was sitting on the ground.
"Ruri—!!!"
Himura Senichi, driven by instinct and obsession, let out a heart-wrenching roar!
The special demon blood within him, containing both resistance and obsession, furiously ignited as if boiling.
In an instant, a large amount of dark red blood surged from around Himura Senichi's body.
This blood did not scatter; instead, it enveloped Himura Senichi's body, transforming into a surging torrent of crimson.
The torrent instantly crossed space, completely enveloping Himura Ruri!
The mass of blood, as if alive, rapidly solidified, shaped, and constructed on the girl's body.
In the blink of an eye, a full-body armor, highly organic, with sharp and ferocious lines, resembling an ancient samurai, covered Himura Ruri's entire body!
The armor was predominantly dark red and jet black, but at the joints, flowing, ethereal blue energy patterns, like dancing flames, glowed.
Although the faceplate's design was ferocious, it was not that of a bloodthirsty demon, but rather a wrathful, wide-eyed ghost god, full of majesty and protective intent!
A huge, slightly ethereal, ferocious crimson samurai phantom flashed behind Ruri, then vanished.
Immediately, all the solidified power converged within the armor.
Boom!!!
The wooden dragon slammed heavily onto the blood armor, producing a deafening roar!
However, the force, powerful enough to destroy a house, was somehow withstood by this eerie blood armor.
Intense ripples spread across the armor's surface, and even tiny cracks appeared.
Then, a flash of ethereal blue light, and the cracks instantly repaired themselves.
This was Himura Senichi's exclusive manifestation of will—
Blood Demon Art: Blood Armor Possession!