I, the spiritual mentor of beautiful girls from all over the world

His figure transformed into a bolt of lightning, and countless kicks rained down on Purgatory's entire body!

Purgatory could only hold the Nichirin Blade horizontally in front of him, using the blade to withstand the relentless blows. Each impact caused the bones inside his body to groan in agony.

(Note: His leg techniques and punches are equally deadly, with an extremely high attack frequency and almost no gaps!)

"Pig, pig head... Did you see it clearly? That guy's attack... I couldn't see it at all!" Zenitsu's voice was already trembling with tears.

Hashibira Inosuke was also filled with tension: "Rengoku... why isn't he fighting back! How can he win if he just takes the beating!"

After suppressing Akaza for more than a dozen rounds, Akaza completely lost his patience.

He leaped high into the air, his legs spinning like wheels, and countless crescent-shaped cyan energy streams descended from the sky!

【Destruction Kill·Kick Style·Flying Star Thousand Wheels】!

This is a wide-area, unavoidable, map-wide attack!

Kyojuro Rengoku channeled all his remaining strength into his legs, struggling to move through the gaps in the barrage of bullets, but he still suffered several deep, bone-revealing wounds on his body.

In this series of "showing weakness" and "recording," he finally exhausted his last bit of strength.

But in his single remaining eye, the flame burned to the very peak of his life!

(Long-range punches, torrential kicks, a chaotic dance of stars... and that all-seeing compass. The intelligence is more than enough.)

(Your moves are almost perfect, Akaza.)

(But your biggest weakness isn't your fighting style...it's your arrogance as a martial artist!)

(You will not dodge! You will use your strongest power to crush me head-on! Next, I will force you to unleash your ultimate technique!)

(Look closely, it's the boy from the kitchen!)

(This is my final duty as a 'Pillar'!)

He is not burning his life.

He is investing his life, offering up all his resources for future victory!

"Breath of Flames: Ultimate Technique!"

"Type 9... Purgatory!!"

...

At the same time, thousands of meters away.

A petite figure dressed in a butterfly-feathered kimono was gazing at the towering flames that belonged to the "Pillar of Flame" in the distance.

"Mr. Purgatory's battle aura..."

She stopped.

Immediately afterwards, that slender body began to tremble slightly.

That was not fear, nor was it hesitation.

She stretched out her fair fingers and gently pressed them against her chest, as if trying to suppress the heart that was about to leap out of her chest.

A sickly flush crept onto her snow-white cheeks, making her normally cold purple eyes burn with a scalding, almost obsessive light.

An uncontrollable smile crept onto her lips.

That was the first genuine smile I'd had in three years.

That smile held an almost obsessive, burning fervor.

It's the pure feeling of a young girl in love, about to meet the person she's been longing for.

She looked up at the towering flames.

In her eyes, it was not a brutal battlefield, nor a hopeless hell.

Instead, it was a pre-event celebration of her reunion with her "teacher," and the fireworks she set off...

The grandest and most dazzling fireworks display.

next second.

She disappeared from the spot.

Chapter 139: Akaza Collapses! You crazy woman, stop it!

"Breath of Flames: Ultimate Technique!"

"Type 9... Purgatory!!"

In an instant, Kyojuro Rengoku transformed into a sun.

A massive fiery tornado rose from the ground, centered on him, carrying terrifyingly high temperatures capable of incinerating everything, and swept towards Akaza!

The air on the entire battlefield was ignited!

Faced with this devastating attack, Akaza's impatience and contempt were instantly replaced by joy!

He burst into laughter, a laugh filled with unbridled joy!

"Yes! Yes! That's it!"

"That's more like it, Kyojuro!!"

"This fighting spirit! This resolve! This is the attitude a 'Pillar' should have! This is... the supreme realm I acknowledge!!"

His eyes burned with an unprecedented fervor.

"As a sign of respect, I will also use my strongest move to make you wither away in this instant!"

"Destruction Kill - Annihilation Style!!"

Akaza slightly bent his knees, his muscles tensed instantly, all his power gathered in his right fist, and then he slammed it forward!

There were no flames, no lighting effects.

Only one simple, unadorned straight punch!

A fiery tornado clashed violently with a destructive fist!

At that moment, the world lost its sound.

Time seems to stand still.

The smoke cleared.

The outcome has been decided.

Rengoku Kyojuro's Nichirin Blade cleaved deep into Akaza's neck, nearly severing his head.

but……

The arm, covered in eerie patterns, pierced through the flames, through the haori, and finally through Rengoku Kyojuro's abdomen.

Fresh blood dripped from Akaza's arm onto the ground.

"You lost, Kyojuro."

Akaza's voice carried a hint of regret.

"If you were a ghost, this injury would heal instantly."

"But as a human being, you are about to die."

However, he saw a sight that he would never forget.

The man whose abdomen he had pierced felt no pain, no resentment; instead… he smiled.

It was a relieved, triumphant smile, the smile of a victor who had succeeded in his scheme.

"I admit, at this moment, I have lost."

With his last ounce of strength, Rengoku Kyojuro used the muscles in his abdomen and ribs to lock Akaza's arm tightly like iron clamps.

His gaze passed over Akaza's shoulder and landed on the boy trembling in the distance, filled with fear and sorrow.

"but……"

"The Demon Slayer Corps will win in the future."

What?! Akaza was stunned; he didn't understand the meaning of Purgatory.

"No—! How could this be—!"

Tanjiro let out a heart-wrenching cry. He finally understood that Mr. Rengoku had never intended to live from the very beginning!

"Mr. Purgatory—!"

In the final moments before his vision went dark, a last thought flashed through Rengoku Kyojuro 893's mind.

(My lord... I'm sorry, I won't be able to witness the Demon Slayer Corps' victory...)

(Butterfly... your path is the right one.)

(The boy from the kitchen...did you see that clearly?)

(My flame has not gone out.)

(It merely... became the first spark that ignited... you.)

Akaza looked at the man in front of him, who, even with his body pierced through, still gripped the knife tightly, refusing to let himself escape, and a hint of respect flashed in his eyes.

"It's over, Kyojuro."

He prepared to exert his strength, completely crush the heart of purgatory, and then break free of his restraints before the sun rose.

Tanjiro and the others could do nothing but cry out in despair.

In this suffocating despair.

A voice rang out.

"go to hell……!"

"Disgusting... Upper Moon demon."

The sound was not loud, very soft, and even had a dreamlike ethereal quality.

But it was like a sharp knife, piercing deep into Akaza's soul.

Ok? !

who? !

Akaza's expression froze instantly!

His [Destruction Kill - Compass] can sense the fighting spirit of all living beings around him in an instant!

But just now, there was nothing there!

This was completely beyond his knowledge!

That battle instinct, honed over centuries, is now screaming wildly—

This is the most terrifying, potentially deadly threat I have ever faced in my life!

Between crushing the heart of Purgatory and withdrawing his arm to retreat... Akaza did not hesitate for a moment!

He exerted his strength and forcefully tore his arm, which was almost locked in place by Purgatory's muscles, out of Purgatory's body!

Then it crashed and quit like crazy!

It was this retreat that saved Kyojuro Rengoku's life.

This also allowed Akaza to see clearly the owner of that voice.

A petite purple figure had silently appeared between him and Purgatory without anyone noticing.

……

"Miss Butterfly?"

Tanjiro Kamado knelt on the ground, his body suddenly stiffening.

The overwhelming helplessness he felt completely broke him down.

But just then, hope appeared.

It was that hope that saved my sister back then!