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XXXXXVI

    "Revival!! Muzan has revived!! The pillars must gather at once!!", A kasugai cawed as it flew above Kiyomi and the others.

   Sanemi clicked his tongue, "That b#stard..."

   "Please guide us to where Kibutsuji is, please!", Kiyomi said as the kasugai cawed and started to fly ahead. The others ran after the Kasugai quickly.

Meanwhile...

   Tanjiro and Giyuu encountered Muzan and was fighting him, but he was too powerful to even get hurt.

   "You're buying time... Waiting for the sun? The light won't get into this fortress.", Muzan said, "Can you really defeat me with just five pillars?". The two slayers looked at him with shock.

    "The pillar in the striped haori and the woman pillar already seemed to have been killed by my subordinate, you know?", Muzan calmly spoke with a glare, "And the Takahashi.. She was weak. She easily got killed by my other subordinate."

    Muzan attacked the two slayers once again as they tried to quickly dodge his long arms. Tanjiro was focused on finding opening of the attacks, that he didn't notice a wall in front of him and hit his own head.

    "Tanjiro!!", Giyuu called out to Tanjiro when he saw that he was about to get hit by Muzan's sharp arm, but Tanjiro was too slow to dodge it.

    Just as he was about to get hit, a woman with pink to green hair named Mitsuri suddenly appeared from above, breaking the wooden ceiling, and a man with a striped haori named Obanai protected Tanjiro from Muzan's attack by taking him away.  

    "Knock it off!!", Mitsuri yelled while falling from the ceiling. Muzan looked at her with shock and anger.

    "Breath of Love, Sixth form: Kitty Paw Love Breeze", Mitsuri attacked Muzan with her sword.

    "Direct hit!", Mitsuri beamed, thinking she managed to land a hit on Muzan. But when she looked at him, he was completely unscathed.

   'Uwaaaa!? It had no effect! I've never been this shocked before!', Mitsuri thought, her face full of shock.

    "You'll just become a hindrance, brat. You should get out of here now.", Obanai scowled.

    "Iguro-san... I'm so glad... You're alive... And Kanroji-san too...", Tanjiro said as he began to cry.

    Obanai looked at him with surprise, "... Rather than others, how about you worry about yourself first.", he said.

   Muzan still looked at them with shock and anger before angrily yelling, "What the hell are you doing, Nakime!!!"

   "What am I doing? I'm manipulating this woman's vision. Muzan, you have committed the heaviest sin in this world. You almost took Tamayo-sama away from me! I'll make you kneel in regret! From here on, I will drive you above ground!!", Yushiro's voice was heard in Muzan's mind as the ground shook.

   The ground kept changing and moving up and down, panicking the slayers, especially Mitsuri.

On the other hand...

   Yushiro tried to keep the biwa demon named Nakime under his control, but Muzan tried wresting it away.

   "GRAAAAAH!!", Yushiro screamed, veins popping on his head and hands.

   "STOP INTERFERING!! AND DIE!!", Muzan yelled.

   "If it'll help you defeat Muzan then eat me!!", A slayer who was with Yushiro said, ready to sacrifice himself.

   "SHUT UP! STAY BACK!!", Yushiro yelled.

   "Sorry! My bad!", he backed away.

Somewhere around the fortress...

    Kiyomi and the others felt the ground shake, making them stop from running.

   "What's this?!", Genya said while trying to balance himself.

   "It must be Yushiro! He must've took control of Nakime!", Kiyomi said with relief.

   "Who's Yushiro?", Muichiro asked.

   "He's a demon, but a good one! He'll help us!", Kiyomi replied.

   The ground shook once again, but it felt like it was collapsing. Kiyomi's eyes widened, "Everyone! Let's hurry out of here! This fortress will collapse!", Before they could even run away, the ground suddenly went up to the ceiling very fast. They braced themselves as the ground crashed onto the ceiling, also known as the surface.

  To Be Continued...

  I couldn't update another one yesterday since it was night, so I'm sorry ;-;

  I'll see you at the next chapter!