Whoosh!
A sharp flint stone fragment flashed by, and the threads binding the curtain were instantly severed.
The curtain slowly fell, hiding the terrifying scene behind Takakura Ken.
The warmth in Takakura Ken's smile at the corners of his lips turned cold.
There was no doubt, the stone fragment that had flown past was thrown by the guy in front of him. Yet, he hadn't even seen the movement of the other party making a move.
His gaze fell onto the crushed granite powder on the ground.
Such shocking speed and strength. No wonder a few of his subordinates had been defeated. Though the fact that he came alone was a bit strange to him, Jotaro's appearance still gave him a sense of danger.
Jotaro released the hand covering Yae's eyes, stepped forward, shielding the girl behind him. His cold gaze stared directly at the man in front of him.
The man looked refined, wearing a white coat, and inside it, a delicate shirt. Judging from his appearance alone, he seemed like a polite gentleman, but what he did in the dark was utterly disgusting and enraging.
To such a bastard, Jotaro had only one response, "Star Platinum!"
"ORA!"
Star Platinum twisted its waist and punched Takakura Ken.
Takakura Ken's eyes widened. His blood-red eyes almost popped out. The immense force sent him flying and crashing into the stone wall of the secret chamber. His entire body embedded itself into the wall.
This sudden blow, he hadn't reacted at all.
"Cough cough… Truly uncanny. An invisible power…" Falling to the ground, Takakura Ken wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and muttered hoarsely.
'Now you understand, don't you?'
The seductive female demon had already begun looking for a chance to escape. She had no desire to die here with Takakura Ken.
"But…"
Takakura Ken stood up straight. His injuries rapidly recovered. A calm smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, mocking as he said, "That was your limit."
"Being able to shatter three meters of granite, your strength is indeed impressive. But the hardness of granite, heh, if we define diamond's hardness as level 10, then granite's hardness is only at level 6 to 7."
"And the hardness of my bone structure is at level 50, five times harder than diamond!"
Jotaro quietly looked at him. With Star Platinum's current attack power, when dealing with demons who had limited regeneration, even without using Ripple, he could beat them to death outright.
Takakura Ken had contact with Muzan. After going through Takakura Ken's history, Jotaro knew that Takakura Ken had made great achievements in the field of medicine.
This was exactly the kind of research talent Muzan needed.
Jotaro wanted to get information out of him, so he didn't go all out.If he accidentally beat him to death, that would be bad.
'Blood Demon Art!'
Takakura Ken's body became covered in a layer of light blue bone structure, like crystalline armor.
"A body five times harder than diamond, in this natural world, no object can harm me."
'Five times harder than diamond, even a Nichirin Blade would chip on it. Could Jotaro really handle this?'
Shinobu's eyes showed a trace of worry. The aura this demon gave off was stronger than any demon she had ever seen before.
And the demon's Blood Demon Art just so happened to be her natural weakness.
Even if she hadn't been ambushed by Kaigaku and her Nichirin Blade was still intact, facing such an enemy, she could only rely on agile movements to maneuver, there was absolutely no chance to kill him.
Takakura Ken let out a gloomy laugh and removed the black-rimmed glasses from the bridge of his nose.
"Although I can cover my skin with bone structure, forming a layer of crystal armor, when it comes to controlling bone structure, I'm far inferior to that lord."
"Bone structure can't be formed into weapons… Are you thinking I'm stupid, for revealing the traits of my Blood Demon Art to you?"
"In your eyes, my Blood Demon Art can only defend, not attack."
"Hehehe…" He laughed lowly. A cruel light flashed in his eyes. "The reason I told you…"
His previously gentle eyes instantly turned vertical and beastly, showing utter disregard for life, making him look like a beast with no emotions.
He pounced like a wild beast, his crystallized body stirring up granite powder from the ground. He surged through the dust and smoke, mouth wide open, charging at Jotaro.
His teeth coated in saliva gleamed with a cold light. "That's because the hardest part of my body isn't my bones, but my teeth! The hardness of my teeth is ten times that of diamond!!!"
"Yare yare." Jotaro closed his eyes, not even bothering to look at him.
'Jotaro-san!!'
Faced with such an attack and still unmoved, Shinobu's heart jumped to her throat.
"Kujo-san!"
The rising dust prevented Yae from opening her eyes. In the last image she saw, the demon's teeth were already about to bite Jotaro's neck.
"You didn't run away but chose to approach instead, how truly stupid!"
Jotaro's calm voice came out. Then, from the position he stood in, smoke and dust suddenly scattered in all directions.
'Massive fist wind!'
"No… impossible!"
Takakura Ken's body floated in the air, unable to move.
He looked down and saw that, at some unknown point, countless fist marks had already appeared on his body.
Even with his strong regenerative ability, the fist marks weren't decreasing, they were increasing.
"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA…!!"
In the blink of an eye, the crystalline armor on his body had been completely shattered.
"Wh-what… what's going on here? Armor harder than diamond, and it's shattered?!"
Terror appeared on his face. But the next second…
"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA…!!"
After shattering the armor, Star Platinum didn't stop. Its pair of fists immediately went full force, smashing into Takakura Ken's face.
"ORA ORA ORA ORA…!!"
His head wobbled left and right like an epileptic, except the shaking speed was hundreds of times faster than a seizure.
Teeth ten times harder than diamond, instantly shattered into powder.
"ORA!!"
A direct punch to the forehead. Takakura Ken was sent flying backward, crashing into the wall of the secret chamber.
Even the chamber itself seemed to shake.
The seductive demon looked dumbfounded, her delicate body trembling uncontrollably. Even their boss was defeated so easily.
This guy wasn't human at all. He was a monster, a monster even more terrifying than demons like them.
Shinobu's violet-glowing eyes trembled slightly. 'This power…'
She couldn't help but recall Jotaro's conversation with Tanjiro earlier.
'The one he encountered that night, was it really… Muzan?'
In her memory, even Gyomei Himejima didn't have this kind of destructive power. And the key point was, she hadn't even seen how Jotaro attacked.
In just an instant, Takakura Ken was lying on the ground, not a single part of his body intact. His proud bones and teeth were shattered across the floor.
Takakura Ken's hand unwillingly rose slowly, the edges of his body beginning to turn to ash.
"This… what… is this…"
Jotaro walked over, glanced at him. "Yare yare daze…"
He looked calm on the surface, but inside, he had long been furious.
Originally, he wanted to spare Takakura Ken to extract information before killing him. But once he started fighting, he couldn't control himself.
The damage Star Platinum caused had already exceeded the demon's regeneration limit.
Just as he was lost in thought, a black figure rushed over. It was that gloomy little girl.
She held a scalpel-sized dagger and viciously stabbed it into Takakura Ken's body.
Her expression was deranged, stabbing again and again, laughing madly. She had long awaited this day, and finally, it came.
Without the hard bone armor, Takakura Ken's internal organs spilled out, and she kept cutting, nonstop.
This bloody scene made Yae cover her mouth and bend over.
Jotaro frowned. A golden Ripple flowed onto the girl's body.
He didn't know what this girl had suffered during her life, but perhaps, death was her only release. She kept muttering to herself, lost in the joy of cutting Takakura Ken, not even noticing her body fading away.
Clang!
The blade dropped to the ground. She blankly looked at her dissolving body, a single murky tear trailing from her eye.
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