The Spider Demon mother looked up at Sukuna, utterly stunned. She had not sensed Sukuna's arrival at all. Not even the spider webs she had laid along the mountain path showed any sign of being triggered.
And she felt an extremely unusual pressure from the four-eyed swordsman before her, something she had never experienced before.
Even though Sukuna was simply holding his Nichirin blade to her neck, he gave her a strange fear that even Rui could not produce.
Sukuna examined the Spider Demon mother's eyes. Confirming there were no numbers indicating a member of the Twelve Kizuki, he spoke coldly. "You're not it. Where is the Twelve Kizuki?"
Hearing this direct question, the Spider Demon mother suddenly remembered something.
Rui had told their family that if they ever found a strange man with four eyes who was not a demon, they had to inform him immediately and make sure the man did not escape.
Could it be that the person before her was exactly that man?
"There is indeed a Twelve Kizuki on this mountain," the Spider Demon mother answered Sukuna's question nervously.
Even as she answered, her hands did not stay idle. She subtly summoned her prepared headless puppet and used her Blood Demon Art to command a swarm of small spiders to launch a sneak attack on Sukuna.
"Upper Rank or Lower Rank?"
Sukuna asked the Spider Demon mother as he stood there, letting her small spiders cling to his body with their threads.
Not just his arms, but his entire body and head were soon covered in threads from the countless small spiders.
When the threads successfully lifted Sukuna's hands, pulling the sharp Nichirin blade away from her neck, the Spider Demon mother finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Sukuna played along with her little act, curious to see what else she could do.
"Die!" the Spider Demon mother roared, manipulating the threads in her hands.
With her command, the threads controlled the headless puppet, sending it charging at Sukuna. Its hands, already transformed into sharp spider legs, stabbed toward him.
Under her control, the sharp spider legs aimed for Sukuna's head with a swift attack.
But Sukuna easily tilted his head and dodged. The Spider Demon mother hesitated for a moment, then summoned more small spiders to tighten her control over his head while ordering the headless puppet to attack again.
Sukuna let the spider legs come within a millimeter of touching his head. He could not help but sigh silently.
So even this, even completely giving up resistance, still could not produce even a trace of fear in him. Making the Mark manifest really was not easy.
In the next instant, just as the spider legs were about to make contact with Sukuna's scalp, a mouth suddenly appeared on his forehead and bit clean through the spider leg.
"What...!?"
The Spider Demon mother was struck speechless. As she prepared to control the headless puppet to attack with its other arm, she saw the sturdy puppet ignite from within.
The blazing Nichirin blade split the headless puppet in two with a single Third Form: Blazing Universe.
The threads densely clinging to Sukuna's body had no effect whatsoever. They might as well have been ordinary, fragile spider silk.
The descending Nichirin blade did not pause at all. Sukuna smoothly reversed the blade and executed Second Form: Rising Scorching Sun, slashing toward the Spider Demon mother.
The blade easily tore through her clothes and flesh, unstoppable as a hot iron cutting through tofu.
But Sukuna did not bisect her. He stopped the blade at her chest. Below that was a bloody mess. Blood and organs spilled to the ground as the Spider Demon mother's screams echoed through the mountain forest.
This pain was completely different from being abused by the Spider Demon father. This was true damage from a Nichirin blade. At that moment, only one thought filled the Spider Demon mother's mind: she wanted to die.
And death would mean escaping this long, agonizing reality.
"Kill... kill me...!" the Spider Demon mother begged Sukuna.
But Sukuna had no intention of granting her wish. Instead, he twisted his blade downward and carved out another large chunk of her body. This pain made the Demon shriek again with all her remaining strength.
"KILL ME!!!!"
Sukuna no longer cared whether the Spider Demon mother answered his questions. He was using her as a loudspeaker, announcing his arrival through her screams. Let the Twelve Kizuki on this mountain come to him instead.
But the first to be drawn by Sukuna's plan was not Rui, the Twelve Kizuki himself, but the Spider Demon brother, the Spider Demon father, and the Spider Demon sister, who were closer.
The Spider Demon sister was immediately horrified by the gruesome state of the Spider Demon mother. Even the cruel and ill-tempered Spider Demon brother was stunned.
And the mentally unsound Spider Demon father charged at Sukuna with a roar. "Get away from my family!"
Sukuna tilted his head slightly and glanced at the charging Spider Demon father. Confirming there were no numbers in his eyes, Sukuna said with disappointment, "Tch. Not you either. Did that bitch lie to me?"
By now, the Spider Demon father had reached Sukuna's side. He raised both hands high, ready to smash down on him.
"Stay away from my family—!"
But unfortunately, before he could complete his attack, both his hands were neatly severed at the wrists.
His hardened body, which had been his greatest weapon, was like paper beneath Sukuna's dancing blade in Fourth Form: Scarlet Flame's Winding.
Sukuna held the maimed, limbless torso of the Spider Demon father with one hand, feeling the mixture of organs and blood drip through his fingers. He smiled.
"Decided. I'll use you for the bath..."
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