Finding out the limits of Hantengu's abilities, Tanjiro couldn't help but get excited. Then, he endured the splitting headache and swung his sword at the two incomplete individuals that had split from the Joy Demon.
The two incomplete individuals that had split from the Joy Demon were immediately cut into pieces by Tanjiro's dense sword swings.
Because he wasn't afraid of the Joy Demon splitting further, Tanjiro's attacks were now very clean and efficient, just like slicing cucumbers.
Just as Tanjiro was cutting these two incomplete individuals into pieces, Tanjiro felt a fluctuation of the air current behind him.
Tanjiro didn't think too much, nor did he turn his head or turn around to check. Instead, he immediately jumped to the side.
Tanjiro's jump allowed him to dodge the sound wave attack launched by the Joy Demon, who had appeared behind him.
Tanjiro, who had jumped out of the Joy Demon's sound wave attack range, immediately rolled on the spot and then proactively headed towards the Joy Demon again.
At this time, Tanjiro's mind was only thinking about defeating the Joy Demon and then quickly returning to Nezuko's side to rescue Genya Shinazugawa from the dangerous situation.
However, the Joy Demon's reaction wasn't slow either. After the attack missed, he immediately changed his attack method and also swooped down towards Tanjiro.
Neither Tanjiro nor the Joy Demon had any intention of retreating. They seemed to be planning to attack each other with self-destructive methods.
At the moment when the Joy Demon and Tanjiro brushed past each other, the Joy Demon's sharp eagle claws swept across Tanjiro's chest, instantly tearing open Tanjiro's chest.
At that moment, a large amount of blood spurted out from Tanjiro's chest.
Then, the figures of the two separated again.
Tanjiro's figure slowly stopped and stood still. However, Tanjiro didn't feel much heart-wrenching pain, but only felt a numbness in his chest and was soaked in a warm liquid.
"How are my claws? At that speed just now, my claws can even cut through diamonds!"
"Hahahaha, I bet your chest has already been ripped open by me!"
The Joy Demon hovered in the air and bent over to look back through his crotch.
Tanjiro immediately turned his head and said to the Joy Demon, "You too!"
After speaking, the demon's head, with the bridge of the nose as the dividing line, seemed to be splitting in half like a snake's tongue.
Although the Joy Demon's head didn't really fork into two halves with the bridge of the nose as the dividing line, the Joy Demon's head was indeed cut in half by Tanjiro, and a large amount of blood spurted out from the cut.
Perhaps it was because Tanjiro's attack was too fast, or perhaps it was because Ryuji's demon-slaying sword was too sharp, causing the Joy Demon to be unable to detect that he had been attacked at the first moment.
It wasn't until the blood spurted out that the Joy Demon realized that his head had been cut in half.
However, this didn't affect the Joy Demon's life, because the Joy Demon was only an individual differentiated from Hantengu's emotions, not the main body.
Therefore, as long as the main body didn't die, the four differentiated individuals of joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure would never die.
Even if the sun came out, it would only make them disappear temporarily. Hantengu could still split them out again.
However, the attack of the demon-slaying sword prevented the Joy Demon's head, which had been cut in half, from healing immediately.
Helplessly, the Joy Demon could only use his hands to hold his head together, allowing his head to close.
Doing so was more to prevent his head from being split open by the vibration of his throat when he launched a sound wave attack.
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