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Chapter 1278: Is the Demon Slayer Protagonist Going to Die?
Swish.
Amidst the sound of rushing water, the clanging sound of blades clashing was incessant.
From Sweetheart's viewpoint, the afterimages of Clown and Tanjiro intertwined.
The red light emanating from the former's heart and the deep blue water flow created by the latter shone against each other within their line of sight.
Terrifying blade slashes collided with each other, cancelling each other out.
From time to time, waves of visible air current were stirred up, destroying the ground and walls around the Castle Gate, leaving behind streaks of hideous, thick, and long gashes.
Clang!
It was unknown how long it lasted, nor how many times the two had clashed.
Just then, under this strike, Kamado Tanjiro suddenly stopped his offensive and retreated repeatedly, leaving deep footprints one after another on the cement ground.
"So strong!"
Feeling the numb and aching area between his thumb and index finger, Tanjiro's mood was extremely heavy.
Just now, he had used Water Breathing's Tenth Form: Constant Flux.
It allows the water flow to form a Divine Dragon, spinning and churning along with the blade. At the same time, the more times it spins, the stronger the unleashed slash becomes.
However, the man opposite with strange makeup, relying solely on the Flower Sword in his hand, could suppress his blade throughout.
But he always felt he saw the shadow of Wind Breathing in the opponent's swordsmanship.
It's just that the action style still primarily focused on the Flower Sword's stabs. Perhaps it was because of this that it didn't produce various whirlwind phantasms.
"It seems I need to use Sun Breathing."
Kamado Tanjiro sighed inwardly.
Although the power of this Sun Breathing is strong, it also brings a considerable burden to the body.
If it weren't for the fact that he was already an adult and his body was basically mature.
Coupled with having previously injected the 'Perfect Type-I Cell Reinforcement Serum', his physique had obtained a significant improvement. Within a day, he estimated he could only use Sun Breathing once.
And he had already used it in the combat against Renato before.
As for now, looking at his current stamina situation, perhaps he could use it twice more?
The second time would definitely be risking his life. Oh, it should be considered the third time.
On the other side, Clown was also surprised by Tanjiro's performance just now.
Clearly inferior to himself in all aspects, yet he could always narrowly avoid his attacks.
Although he looked quite dishevelled, he hadn't been injured until now, at most his clothing had been cut open in several places.
Clown somewhat suspected whether Tanjiro knew Observation Haki.
So he could predict the landing point of his attacks in advance.
But if it was Observation Haki, dodging shouldn't be this difficult.
This was actually because he hadn't seriously read the manga Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
Otherwise, he could have immediately guessed that Tanjiro had indeed predicted his attacks.
But not by relying on Observation Haki, but by relying on his innate Supernatural Sense of Smell.
His nose could smell many scents that ordinary people couldn't, and he could also distinguish the emotion of a creature through its scent.
He could even distinguish the opponent's weakness during combat.
So as long as Clown had a scent on him, Tanjiro could use it to dodge.
It was very incredible, but this Universe was inherently full of wonders.
"Hmm?"
Just as Clown was about to make a move again, he suddenly discovered that Tanjiro's posture had changed.
Moreover, he could sense that Tanjiro's right hand holding the blade was increasing its force.
Through the protruding blood vessels on the back of the opponent's hand, Clown could imagine that the arm muscles under Tanjiro's sleeve should also be taut, swollen, and his veins bulging at this moment.
Immediately, he saw the blade body in Tanjiro's hand, which was originally covered in black patterns, visibly and quickly turning black, then red.
"Armament Haki?"
This was the first thing Clown thought of, but then he discovered there was no Haki aura on it.
Boom!
Instantly, the blade body in Tanjiro's hand burned with blazing fire tinged with faint gold.
In a moment, both Clown and Sweetheart, who was slumped in the distance, felt the temperature around them rapidly rising.
This represented that the flame on that blade was not just a phantasm!
"Is this Flame Breathing?"
"Could it be that the phantasms of this Breathing Style can turn into real elements?"
The shock on Clown's face was not concealed at all.
What he could think of now was that Tanjiro's Breathing Style had reached a higher realm.
Of course, saying that was close enough.
"Crimson Blade!"
"Clown, his Nichirin Blade turned into a Crimson Blade, that's why there's high temperature!"
At this moment, Sweetheart, who had seriously read the manga, enduring her weakness, spoke out to remind him.
Clown raised an eyebrow: "So you're saying, the high temperature didn't emanate from the flame, but from the blade itself?"
He hadn't read much of the manga, especially the later parts, so he really didn't know about the Crimson Blade.
"Yes, a Nichirin Blade will heat up under strong grip strength."
After Sweetheart finished speaking, she could no longer speak and immediately slumped onto the ground, resigned to fate.
"So that's how it is!" Clown suddenly realized. This time, no one corrected him, which made him very comfortable.
At the same time.
Kamado Tanjiro had already transformed into a streak of blazing flames tinged with gold.
Like an arrow released from a bowstring, he instantly streaked across a distance of tens of meters, charging directly towards where Clown was.
Under the baking of the high temperature, the ground along the way behind him formed a long scorched mark.
Sun Breathing, First Form, Round Dance!
Kamado Tanjiro silently chanted in his heart.
At the same time, the Crimson Blade burning with flame in his hand slashed towards Clown's neck with an arc close to a perfect circle.
Clang!
However, the latter showed no weakness.
The Flower Sword in his hand, coated with Armament Haki, precisely stabbed into the blade, successfully intercepting the Crimson Blade.
Then a flourish of sword strikes flashed, launching a fierce counterattack.
Sun Breathing, Second Form, Clear Blue Sky!
Kamado Tanjiro's blade drew a circle outlined by flame in the air.
But this time it was a vertical slash from top to bottom, also with astonishing accuracy, hitting the sword tip, which was comparable to a needle's eye, with the blade.
At this moment, the eyes of the two people, who were close at hand, met.
Clown's eyes were full of coldness and cruelty, while Tanjiro's eyes only held resolve.
Because he had no grudges against Clown, this combat was only due to his duty.
In an instant, flames and blade light flashed.
Kamado Tanjiro fluently performed every sword form of Sun Breathing,
forming a fiercely burning Flame Tornado, scorching everything nearby.
The clanging and banging sound of blades clashing was incessant.
Clown's rapidly darting figure frequently intertwined with Tanjiro in the flames.
Although the Sun Aura produced by Sun Breathing has a good counter effect against Dark Creatures.
But Kabaneri are not only not afraid of sunlight, but also have good Fire Resistance.
So the effect of Sun Breathing was difficult to suppress Clown, who had turned into a Kabaneri.
Coupled with the fact that Clown also had the protection of Armament Haki, and the Imperial Arms 'You Zhi Pants' on his feet enhanced his leg strength.
This made Kamado Tanjiro, after finishing a round of Sun Breathing sword forms, discover that he had basically not caused much damage to Clown.
He had only left a few light and shallow scorched black wounds on the opponent's exposed chest.
While he himself, because of continuously using Sun Breathing within a short period of time, felt chest tightness and shortness of breath, his footsteps were heavy, and his whole body was heating up and felt hot, his head also felt a bit dizzy.
At the same time, the muscles in his right arm holding the blade were even faintly aching.
Maintaining the state of this Crimson Blade was also not easy; he had to apply sufficient force to the sword hilt throughout.
"Heh heh, is that all?"
Clown noticed Tanjiro's increasingly worse state and sneered repeatedly.
However, his situation wasn't much better; he was originally in a half-crippled state.
The power of Sun Breathing's combo techniques was even more not to be underestimated.
The advantage he had achieved now was the result of going all out.
But this kind of full strength came at the price of consuming energy and stamina.
With his current physical condition, he basically couldn't last for long.
Moreover, who knew if Smoker would come back, or if another strong enemy would appear?
So he must finish this quickly!
Clown immediately strengthened his offensive. With the Flower Sword in one hand, under the enhancement of Supernatural speed, it almost turned into afterimages all over the sky, breaking through layers of flame.
Pfft----
The next second, the slender sword tip found an opening.
In the rapid whistling sound, it instantly passed through Tanjiro's somewhat weakened defense, piercing through his right arm and waist/abdomen.
This made Tanjiro couldn't help but groan in pain. He hurriedly leaped backward to dodge the Flower Sword's subsequent attacks.
But Clown pressed closer step by step, giving him no time to breathe, stabbing out numerous sword shadows.
Tanjiro could only use his Breathing Style to stop his bleeding while switching to Water Breathing to resist in a dishevelled manner.
"What to do... what to do... How should I defeat him..."
Tanjiro anxiously tried to think of a countermeasure. He had to win, or rather, he had to survive.
However, as time passed, the blood holes pierced through his body became more and more numerous.
If no accident happened, this Protagonist of the 'Demon Slayer World' would most likely die here.
While his opponent could only be considered an unknown nobody in the Sea World.
(End of this chapter)
Swish.
Amidst the sound of rushing water, the clanging sound of blades clashing was incessant.
From Sweetheart's viewpoint, the afterimages of Clown and Tanjiro intertwined.
The red light emanating from the former's heart and the deep blue water flow created by the latter shone against each other within their line of sight.
Terrifying blade slashes collided with each other, cancelling each other out.
From time to time, waves of visible air current were stirred up, destroying the ground and walls around the Castle Gate, leaving behind streaks of hideous, thick, and long gashes.
Clang!
It was unknown how long it lasted, nor how many times the two had clashed.
Just then, under this strike, Kamado Tanjiro suddenly stopped his offensive and retreated repeatedly, leaving deep footprints one after another on the cement ground.
"So strong!"
Feeling the numb and aching area between his thumb and index finger, Tanjiro's mood was extremely heavy.
Just now, he had used Water Breathing's Tenth Form: Constant Flux.
It allows the water flow to form a Divine Dragon, spinning and churning along with the blade. At the same time, the more times it spins, the stronger the unleashed slash becomes.
However, the man opposite with strange makeup, relying solely on the Flower Sword in his hand, could suppress his blade throughout.
But he always felt he saw the shadow of Wind Breathing in the opponent's swordsmanship.
It's just that the action style still primarily focused on the Flower Sword's stabs. Perhaps it was because of this that it didn't produce various whirlwind phantasms.
"It seems I need to use Sun Breathing."
Kamado Tanjiro sighed inwardly.
Although the power of this Sun Breathing is strong, it also brings a considerable burden to the body.
If it weren't for the fact that he was already an adult and his body was basically mature.
Coupled with having previously injected the 'Perfect Type-I Cell Reinforcement Serum', his physique had obtained a significant improvement. Within a day, he estimated he could only use Sun Breathing once.
And he had already used it in the combat against Renato before.
As for now, looking at his current stamina situation, perhaps he could use it twice more?
The second time would definitely be risking his life. Oh, it should be considered the third time.
On the other side, Clown was also surprised by Tanjiro's performance just now.
Clearly inferior to himself in all aspects, yet he could always narrowly avoid his attacks.
Although he looked quite dishevelled, he hadn't been injured until now, at most his clothing had been cut open in several places.
Clown somewhat suspected whether Tanjiro knew Observation Haki.
So he could predict the landing point of his attacks in advance.
But if it was Observation Haki, dodging shouldn't be this difficult.
This was actually because he hadn't seriously read the manga Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
Otherwise, he could have immediately guessed that Tanjiro had indeed predicted his attacks.
But not by relying on Observation Haki, but by relying on his innate Supernatural Sense of Smell.
His nose could smell many scents that ordinary people couldn't, and he could also distinguish the emotion of a creature through its scent.
He could even distinguish the opponent's weakness during combat.
So as long as Clown had a scent on him, Tanjiro could use it to dodge.
It was very incredible, but this Universe was inherently full of wonders.
"Hmm?"
Just as Clown was about to make a move again, he suddenly discovered that Tanjiro's posture had changed.
Moreover, he could sense that Tanjiro's right hand holding the blade was increasing its force.
Through the protruding blood vessels on the back of the opponent's hand, Clown could imagine that the arm muscles under Tanjiro's sleeve should also be taut, swollen, and his veins bulging at this moment.
Immediately, he saw the blade body in Tanjiro's hand, which was originally covered in black patterns, visibly and quickly turning black, then red.
"Armament Haki?"
This was the first thing Clown thought of, but then he discovered there was no Haki aura on it.
Boom!
Instantly, the blade body in Tanjiro's hand burned with blazing fire tinged with faint gold.
In a moment, both Clown and Sweetheart, who was slumped in the distance, felt the temperature around them rapidly rising.
This represented that the flame on that blade was not just a phantasm!
"Is this Flame Breathing?"
"Could it be that the phantasms of this Breathing Style can turn into real elements?"
The shock on Clown's face was not concealed at all.
What he could think of now was that Tanjiro's Breathing Style had reached a higher realm.
Of course, saying that was close enough.
"Crimson Blade!"
"Clown, his Nichirin Blade turned into a Crimson Blade, that's why there's high temperature!"
At this moment, Sweetheart, who had seriously read the manga, enduring her weakness, spoke out to remind him.
Clown raised an eyebrow: "So you're saying, the high temperature didn't emanate from the flame, but from the blade itself?"
He hadn't read much of the manga, especially the later parts, so he really didn't know about the Crimson Blade.
"Yes, a Nichirin Blade will heat up under strong grip strength."
After Sweetheart finished speaking, she could no longer speak and immediately slumped onto the ground, resigned to fate.
"So that's how it is!" Clown suddenly realized. This time, no one corrected him, which made him very comfortable.
At the same time.
Kamado Tanjiro had already transformed into a streak of blazing flames tinged with gold.
Like an arrow released from a bowstring, he instantly streaked across a distance of tens of meters, charging directly towards where Clown was.
Under the baking of the high temperature, the ground along the way behind him formed a long scorched mark.
Sun Breathing, First Form, Round Dance!
Kamado Tanjiro silently chanted in his heart.
At the same time, the Crimson Blade burning with flame in his hand slashed towards Clown's neck with an arc close to a perfect circle.
Clang!
However, the latter showed no weakness.
The Flower Sword in his hand, coated with Armament Haki, precisely stabbed into the blade, successfully intercepting the Crimson Blade.
Then a flourish of sword strikes flashed, launching a fierce counterattack.
Sun Breathing, Second Form, Clear Blue Sky!
Kamado Tanjiro's blade drew a circle outlined by flame in the air.
But this time it was a vertical slash from top to bottom, also with astonishing accuracy, hitting the sword tip, which was comparable to a needle's eye, with the blade.
At this moment, the eyes of the two people, who were close at hand, met.
Clown's eyes were full of coldness and cruelty, while Tanjiro's eyes only held resolve.
Because he had no grudges against Clown, this combat was only due to his duty.
In an instant, flames and blade light flashed.
Kamado Tanjiro fluently performed every sword form of Sun Breathing,
forming a fiercely burning Flame Tornado, scorching everything nearby.
The clanging and banging sound of blades clashing was incessant.
Clown's rapidly darting figure frequently intertwined with Tanjiro in the flames.
Although the Sun Aura produced by Sun Breathing has a good counter effect against Dark Creatures.
But Kabaneri are not only not afraid of sunlight, but also have good Fire Resistance.
So the effect of Sun Breathing was difficult to suppress Clown, who had turned into a Kabaneri.
Coupled with the fact that Clown also had the protection of Armament Haki, and the Imperial Arms 'You Zhi Pants' on his feet enhanced his leg strength.
This made Kamado Tanjiro, after finishing a round of Sun Breathing sword forms, discover that he had basically not caused much damage to Clown.
He had only left a few light and shallow scorched black wounds on the opponent's exposed chest.
While he himself, because of continuously using Sun Breathing within a short period of time, felt chest tightness and shortness of breath, his footsteps were heavy, and his whole body was heating up and felt hot, his head also felt a bit dizzy.
At the same time, the muscles in his right arm holding the blade were even faintly aching.
Maintaining the state of this Crimson Blade was also not easy; he had to apply sufficient force to the sword hilt throughout.
"Heh heh, is that all?"
Clown noticed Tanjiro's increasingly worse state and sneered repeatedly.
However, his situation wasn't much better; he was originally in a half-crippled state.
The power of Sun Breathing's combo techniques was even more not to be underestimated.
The advantage he had achieved now was the result of going all out.
But this kind of full strength came at the price of consuming energy and stamina.
With his current physical condition, he basically couldn't last for long.
Moreover, who knew if Smoker would come back, or if another strong enemy would appear?
So he must finish this quickly!
Clown immediately strengthened his offensive. With the Flower Sword in one hand, under the enhancement of Supernatural speed, it almost turned into afterimages all over the sky, breaking through layers of flame.
Pfft----
The next second, the slender sword tip found an opening.
In the rapid whistling sound, it instantly passed through Tanjiro's somewhat weakened defense, piercing through his right arm and waist/abdomen.
This made Tanjiro couldn't help but groan in pain. He hurriedly leaped backward to dodge the Flower Sword's subsequent attacks.
But Clown pressed closer step by step, giving him no time to breathe, stabbing out numerous sword shadows.
Tanjiro could only use his Breathing Style to stop his bleeding while switching to Water Breathing to resist in a dishevelled manner.
"What to do... what to do... How should I defeat him..."
Tanjiro anxiously tried to think of a countermeasure. He had to win, or rather, he had to survive.
However, as time passed, the blood holes pierced through his body became more and more numerous.
If no accident happened, this Protagonist of the 'Demon Slayer World' would most likely die here.
While his opponent could only be considered an unknown nobody in the Sea World.
(End of this chapter)
