"Bastards, bastards!"
"Unforgivable!"
"I'm going to tear your throats out!"
Cursing wildly, Daki slammed her head back onto her neck.
At the same time, Vincent Fox and Gyutaro collided head-on.
Armament Haki surged silently.
Vincent's Nichirin Blade turned pitch-black.
Clang!
Two sickles blocked his strike, sparks bursting like fireflies.
"Blood Demon Art!"
"Blood Blades, Rampage!"
Gyutaro roared, and his arms sprayed a torrent of blood.
The blood twisted into countless blades, wrapping around him like a living armor.
At the same time, those blood blades kept firing outward, flooding every direction.
Vincent drew and slashed, again and again.
The blood blades shattered each time, only to condense behind him and attack all over again.
"Flame!"
One of Vincent's arms ignited, flames blooming into a massive fireball that swallowed the blood blades whole.
Faced with blood slicing in from all sides, Tengen gripped his twin blades, expression grim.
"Sound Breathing, Fourth Form!"
"Constant Resounding Slashes!"
A thunder-like boom ripped through the night as he met the blood blades head-on.
"You two, run! As far as you can!"
Tengen shouted at the couple behind him while he swung.
"There's no safe spot here. Just run, don't stop, don't look back!"
In that split second, a blood blade slipped past Tengen's guard and cut across his shoulder.
Pain flared.
And then he realized something worse.
That blood was crawling through his veins, spreading toward his whole body.
"Damn it. Poison!"
Tengen shouted a warning to Vincent Fox, and urged the couple again to run.
At last, the two trembling civilians managed to escape.
"Poisoned? Hahahaha!"
Gyutaro's grin turned feral when he heard Tengen.
"My poison will hit your heart any moment now. Die."
"I'm a ninja."
Tengen snapped back without missing a beat.
"This garbage poison can't do anything to Lord Tengen, the god of festivals."
Daki froze for a second, then screamed, "Liar! Ninjas went extinct in the Edo era!"
Tengen glanced at her like she was dirt.
"You've lived for a hundred years and you're still that ignorant."
"Ninja clans survived. Our clan line lasted to this day."
"We had fifteen siblings."
"Thirteen are dead."
"Only me and my younger brother are left."
"And you're looking at the ninja god passed down since Edo!"
"So what?" Daki sneered.
"Tell me your brother's name. I'll finish your clan for you. Won't take long."
"Look at you. You're already shaking."
"My brother's poison will kill you soon."
"Then that brat, and that pig-head boy, and the blond ugly freak, and that demon girl too."
"She's not even here, but I can smell her."
"All of you are going to die!"
As she spoke, she whipped her sashes forward.
Tengen raised his blades to block, but his body was starting to go numb.
He barely managed to stop the attack.
"So weak, hahahaha! This is Hashira-level?"
"Pathetic!"
"Stop struggling. Even if we do nothing, you'll die little by little anyway!"
Right as Daki was running her mouth, a rough, booming voice cut in.
"That's not something you get to decide."
Inosuke and Zenitsu were charging in fast.
"Inosuke, you finally made it… and Zenitsu is sleeping?"
Vincent Fox glanced at them.
Zenitsu's eyes were shut, and a huge snot bubble bobbed on his nose.
"Honestly, that's better," Vincent murmured. "He's stronger asleep than awake."
Vincent nodded once.
That meant he could focus completely on Gyutaro.
"Lord Inosuke is here!"
Inosuke roared, pointing his blades forward.
"And my little lackey too! Die, you ugly demon woman!"
Gyutaro pinched the bridge of his nose, head aching.
"What are you doing? Showing up together to die?"
"Don't look so fired up. Your heads are about to roll!"
"Still talking?" Tengen steadied his stance, towering in front of Daki.
"We will win."
"Win my ass!" Daki screamed.
"Your precious Hashira is already drowning in poison!"
"Hahahaha!"
Tengen suddenly laughed and lifted his left hand.
He raised his middle finger.
"Two or three swings and I can wipe out trash like you. Poison is nothing."
"Ninjas have resistance."
"Want me to dance for you?"
A dangerous grin flashed.
"These kids are my chosen successors."
"What the hell are you idiots thinking? Yours are the heads that are about to roll."
"That's right!" Inosuke shouted, fired up by Tengen's words.
"Got guts, won't run!"
"Even if I'm smashed to pieces, I'll bite your heads off!"
"And I already figured out your weakness!"
Tengen spoke with absolute confidence, staring at the siblings.
"If we cut off both your heads at the same time, you die. That's it."
"Otherwise why split your power with your weak sister?"
"Beating you is easy. Hahahahaha!"
Inosuke's eyes lit up. "So it's that simple! Then we've basically won!"
Vincent Fox fell silent.
So men really could infect each other with stupidity.
Inosuke swung his swords and charged.
"I'll take the gross worm-woman with Sleepyhead."
"You two go kill the mantis guy!"
"You bastards! Die!"
Daki's sashes burst out in a storm.
Zenitsu moved too.
His body flickered across the street like a blur.
In an instant, the sashes were cleared out, shredded clean.
"Sister, deal with those two brats."
Gyutaro rolled his shoulders, confidence returning.
"These two are mine."
"No problem!"
Daki leapt up onto the roof.
Zenitsu appeared with her in the same heartbeat.
"I have something to tell you."
His voice turned steady, deep, almost chilling.
Still half-asleep, Zenitsu spoke coldly.
"Go apologize to the girl you hurt. The one you yanked by the ear."
"Just because they survive on the money you bring in doesn't mean they belong_toggle you."
"They're not your property. You don't get to do whatever you want."
Daki froze.
Only then did she recognize him.
The same "girl" she had imprisoned and beaten.
"You ugly freak, don't preach at me."
"With a face like that, you think you're qualified to talk to me?"
"In this place, women are basically merchandise."
"If someone wants you, you get sold."
"And if you're ugly, you don't even deserve to eat."
"You want to be treated like a person?"
"In your dreams."
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