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Chapter 677: Night City: No One Will Hear Your Screams
Chapter 677: Night City: No One Will Hear Your Screams
With the title of "Lower Moon Five" and their increased power, the Spider Mountain demons, except for Lue's few spider demons, had gone into a frenzy, competing fiercely in recent days.
After all, in their minds, aside from the benefits brought by the "Twelve Demon Months," they also wanted to break free from Lue's dangerous control.
What was once a mere "family game" had now intensified due to this competitive relationship, and the already fragile "familial bonds" among the Spider family completely shattered at this moment.
Lue did not intervene in this vicious family competition; instead, he saw it as a rare opportunity for family interaction.
The spider demons of Spider Mountain also realized that as long as no lives were lost, Lue wouldn't stop them from fighting among themselves, which only fueled their excitement.
Demon King Wumcan's order was to capture humans alive, but Spider Dad and Spider Brother's Blood Demon Technique was not well-suited for this task.
In a competition like this, the weakest among them, Spider Mom, ironically had the upper hand. Her Blood Demon Technique, which controlled others through spider silk, was perfect for capturing targets alive.
However, despite her impressive track record, she lacked the ability to secure her prey, resulting in her hard-earned catches being repeatedly snatched away by Spider Dad and Spider Brother.
The number of missing people in Spider Mountain kept increasing, and upon learning of this, the Demon Slayer Corps dispatched crows to contact nearby corps members for an investigation.
Tanjiro, Gami, and Mido, who were already not far from Spider Mountain, were among those assigned to this investigation.
In a deviation from the original storyline, after Tanjiro and his group entered the mountain, Lue, now empowered and promoted to Lower Moon One, did not send her family to confront Tanjiro; instead, she chose to take matters into her own hands.
As a Lower Moon Five, Lue's strength had significantly increased, making her one of the top Lower Moon demons. Her power far surpassed what it was before.
Even in a three-on-one situation, Lue effortlessly pinned Tanjiro and the others to the ground, dominating them.
Despite their continuous power boosts, the trio of protagonists struggled against the overwhelming power gap. Although they managed to inflict some injuries on Lue, they couldn't knock her down.
Just as Lue approached Tanjiro and the others, reaching out to pull a few strands of silk to sever their limbs and deliver them to Wumcan, a large white leg suddenly kicked open the wooden box behind Tanjiro.
A size 38 foot kicked Lue's face, who was caught off guard, and her face visibly contorted before she was sent flying like a cannonball.
Undoubtedly, the one who kicked Lue out of the wooden box was the Leg Pillar, Mitokado Nezuko.
Upon seeing the injured Tanjiro, Mitokado instantly unleashed her sharp claws, entering her combat form and glaring menacingly at Lue, whose facial injuries had already healed.
Lue was bewildered by Mitokado's sudden appearance, clearly not expecting a man-eating demon to be with humans, let alone protecting them.
However, Lue wouldn't let the mysterious kick go unanswered.
Wumcan wanted humans and Demon Slayer Corps members alive, but he didn't forbid killing other man-eating demons.
"Blood Demon Technique: Blood Net!"
Lue, like a skilled rope dancer, wove a spider silk net with her hands, capable of binding enemies from all directions, attempting to strangle Mitokado.
But Tanjiro, having witnessed the power of this technique before, wouldn't let Mitokado take the brunt of it. Without hesitation, he rushed in front of Mitokado and unleashed the Water Breath!
A man-eating demon protecting humans, humans protecting a man-eating demon, and to top it off, Tanjiro and Mitokado were siblings.
The sight before him instantly stirred up feelings of envy in Rui, who had always yearned for familial love.
The root of his obsession with the "family game" was, after all, his human experiences.
He was well aware that his current "family" was not what he truly desired; they were merely forced to compromise due to their fear of him.
True familial love, he thought, should be like the bond between Tanjiro and Nezuko, where identity and circumstances didn't matter, and one would protect their most important family with their life.
Seeing Tanjiro and Nezuko before him, Rui felt a surge of jealousy. This was the kind of family love he could only dream of. He wanted nothing more than to take Nezuko away from Tanjiro and make her his true family.
To achieve this, Rui even used the blood given to him by Muzan and the title of Lower Moon Five to tempt Nezuko, claiming that humans and man-eating demons could never be together, and that they were the perfect family combination.
Despite Rui's enticement, Nezuko responded with a scowl.
This only intensified Rui's jealousy towards Tanjiro, as his "family" was now fighting amongst themselves for the title of Lower Moon Five and Muzan's blood.
Nezuko, however, remained unfazed by this confusion and resolutely chose her brother.
Nezuko: "Lower Moon Five? What is that? Is it edible?"
Hearing Rui's attempt to manipulate his sister into becoming Muzan's pawn and taking away his precious sister, Tanjiro's protective instincts as an older brother surged.
Even though his body was restrained by spider silk, he managed to headbutt the white-haired boy in front of him.
Rui, who had endured countless strikes without flinching, felt a sudden dizziness after Tanjiro's headbutt, causing him to stumble back several steps.
Seizing the opportunity, Nezuko used the Explosive Blood Technique, tearing through the spider silk that bound Tanjiro with her sharp claws, freeing them from their constraints.
"Are you sure your medicine is safe, Tsuzuki? What if it causes harm... I mean, what if it affects the demons?"
As Tanjiro and the others confronted Rui, Lower Moon One, in another part of the forest, a white-haired man was pinning down a voluptuous and beautiful woman with a curvy figure.
Surprisingly, two black-haired women, dressed differently but equally attractive, stood beside the man.
"I can't believe the rumors about the Demon Slayer Corps are true. The seemingly sunny and handsome Yecheng is actually a pervert, even going after demons!"
Butterfly Ninja maintained a smile, her expression filled with disdain as she watched Yecheng pinning Spider Mom to the ground.
"I'm not a pervert! Weren't you the ones who suggested testing the medicine on this spider demon?
And how many absurd rumors have there been about me since I left the Demon Slayer Corps? Last time, they claimed I had ulterior motives for treating Mitsuri as my adoptive sister, and now I'm a pervert!"
Hearing Yecheng's angry outburst, Spider Mom, who was already pinned down, became even more terrified and cried out.
She was well aware that her so-called "family" was mostly just for show, but she was, after all, the "mother" in the family game.
If she were in danger, Rui might come to her rescue, right?
"Stop screaming. We're in the middle of nowhere. Even if you scream your throat hoarse, no one will come to your aid."
(End of Chapter)
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