"Did you hear any strange drumming?" Zenitsu, who was trembling nearby, seemed to have heard something.
The fire struck the wooden house, igniting a raging inferno, but it quickly went out. It seemed as if a strange force was covering the wooden house, preventing the wood from sticking together and igniting.
"This is troublesome. Do we have to compete with each other in chakra?" Uchiha Nagi frowned. There was something strange about this house. It couldn't be set on fire. Did he have to use a super-large ninjutsu to destroy it?
It's obviously unwise to compete with the opponent in strength. Demons have a greater ability to recover than humans, and Uchiha Nagi isn't sure if there's an underground passage. What if the opponent escapes through a tunnel after he destroys the house?
Before Uchiha Nagi could finish thinking, Tanjiro put down the wooden box, asked the two children to look after his sister, and rushed inside.
"Ah, Tanjiro, wait for me, I'm so scared—" Zenitsu, with tears streaming down his face, followed closely behind.
Uchiha Nagi shook her head. This utterly reckless method would have killed anyone who wasn't a protagonist. In the ninja world, Tanjiro might share the same fate as Nawaki—the life of a protagonist, but lacking the protagonist's luck…
In order not to lose the Breath of the Sun, Uchiha Nagi followed closely behind. After entering the house, Uchiha Nagi frowned because Tanjiro, who had just entered the door, had disappeared. It was a room in another dimension.
In the past, he would never have entered such a room, but now that he has the Mangekyou Sharingan and Susanoo as an absolute defense, Uchiha Nagi is naturally fearless.
However, Nagi Uchiha still cautiously sent out several clones to scout ahead, knowing that it was better to be safe than sorry.
I cautiously entered a room, only to find that the direction of gravity inside was strangely reversed.
The ground seemed to be on the ceiling. With a gentle jump, Uchiha Nagi landed steadily on the ceiling—or rather, on the ground—using gravity.
The ghost in this house can change direction and even change the room itself...
However, no matter how he changed it, it was useless to Uchiha Nagi, because he could use his chakra to firmly adhere to the wall.
Just as Uchiha Nagi was about to go find Tanjiro, a sinister voice came from the side.
"What great luck! There's even a rare bloodline! Hahaha~"
An ugly figure walked in, with eyes on its stomach and a head full of mouths.
"Hahaha, you're mine now."
It opened its blood-red maw and charged at Uchiha Nagi, ready to bite. Uchiha Nagi frowned; it seemed the opponent only knew how to use brute force...
Boom!! After several explosions, the muscular demon was blown into several pieces, while Uchiha Nagi stood on the other side.
It turned out that Uchiha Nagi used her Sharingan to cast a genjutsu on him, and then threw several kunai with explosive tags at him. He swallowed them like meat, and finally the explosive tags detonated directly from inside his body, blowing him to pieces.
"No wonder Itachi likes to use genjutsu. Sometimes it's really easy to take someone down, no matter how strong they are, as long as genjutsu is their weakness..." Uchiha Nagi muttered to herself, and then a pitiful person named Deidara appeared in her mind.
Despite possessing the power to wipe out any village, they were completely countered by illusion magic.
"What happened? I clearly killed you. How did my head and body get smashed to pieces?" the other party asked incredulously.
"There's no need to ask too many questions about a dead person." Uchiha Nagi walked up to it calmly, brandished her short sword, and chopped its head off its mangled body.
"Hahaha, it's useless. You can't kill me without the Nichirin Blade~" The remaining head of the demon laughed wildly, looking at Uchiha Nagi with sarcasm.
Uchiha Nagi grinned, revealing two rows of pearly white teeth. "It's okay, you can regenerate, right? I'm also curious whether you guys have no limits..."
Then, wielding the short knife, he sliced the still-writhing flesh into several more pieces—
"Damn it~" The demon man's face was ferocious as flesh and blood began to grow from his neck. However, the next second, Uchiha Nagi swung her short sword and cut off all the parts that had just grown out.
After the second cut, presumably without the head to command it, the other person's body stopped moving.
The head, which Uchiha Nagi was holding, continued to struggle...
"Have you heard of the Ship of Theseus? I'm curious, I wonder if, after you're cut in the neck by an ordinary knife, a new head grows from your body, or a body grows from that new head."
Uchiha Nagi, more intrigued, lifted the other person's eyes to look at him. "And then, are both of you? Would you fight with yourself?"
Nagi then pieced the other person's body back together and was surprised to find that the limbs could reconnect themselves, a truly powerful life force.
"Are you... are you the devil?"
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Thump!
Knock knock!
At this moment, Tanjiro is in a room, being tortured to the point of near death by a demon whose body is covered with several drums.
Along with him, a member of the demon-slaying squad wearing a pig-head mask was also being tortured.
Each time the opponent slaps the drum, the room rotates. Tanjiro, lacking the chakra ability to grip the roof, can only fall downwards due to gravity. While the opponent slaps the drum to rotate the room, they also attack him with invisible claws.
"Damn it, my leg is still broken!" Tanjiro gritted his teeth, the pain affecting his strength.
Water can take on any shape.
At that moment, Tanjiro recalled the words of his teacher, Sakonji Urokodaki, who had taught him Water Breathing.
"That's right, the tenth form of Water Breathing can adapt to any environment, even a broken leg." Tanjiro suddenly realized, as if he had a complete understanding.
Then his inner power exploded, and Tanjiro was no longer in such a sorry state. He kept twisting his body with Water Breathing and could also use sword techniques to block the opponent's invisible demon claws from time to time.
The drummer, Xiang Kai, frowned. "I need to eat this rare blood quickly. Damn bugs, damn bugs..."
Hibiki opened his eyes in anger, and deep in his pupils were two words: Lower Landing. However, there was an X-shaped scar inside. He was the eliminated Lower Rank Six.
"Blood Demon Art - Speed Drumming".
The drummer, Xiang Kai, began to beat the drum on his body with a ferocious expression. The room started to spin wildly, and countless sharp claws followed his attack.
[P.S. In this scene, Tanjiro suffers a broken leg, but he can use Water Breathing to strengthen his leg muscles and maintain his fighting ability.]