At first glance, Kurozawa was truly surprised.
Anyone would be startled to see a house suspended in mid-air.
But when Kurozawa looked closely, he discovered the reason for the floating wooden house. From the base of the house, threads invisible to the naked eye extended outwards, connecting to the large trees outside the open space and supporting the main body of the wooden house.
If Kurozawa's Pupil Power hadn't been strong enough, and if he hadn't been vigilant after tracking the Demon all the way here, he might not have been able to see these transparent threads that seemed to blend with the moonlight.
The wooden house door was closed and there was no movement, as if Kurozawa's arrival hadn't been noticed.
Kurozawa looked at the wooden house, a slight curve on his lips. Then he raised the torch high and threw it with force.
Whoosh! The strong wind made the flame flicker wildly, but it didn't go out in the end. The torch crashed through the door and was tossed inside.
Using the light, Kurozawa saw the scene inside the house through the crack in the door.
The wooden house was small and very simple inside, without any furniture, only wooden floors and walls. It was hard to imagine a Demon living inside.
But in fact, Kurozawa saw a figure crawling on the ground, eyes half-closed with sleepiness.
A human head, a spider body.
Unlike the Human-Headed Spiders he had seen before, which had spider legs growing from a pale head, the Demon in the wooden house was truly a spider body topped with a human boy's head.
He seemed to have been sleeping just now, which was why he hadn't noticed Kurozawa's arrival. After being startled awake by the torch, he was momentarily stunned, then opened his mouth and sprayed spider silk, extinguishing the flames.
Immediately after, he quickly moved his spider legs and crawled out of the wooden house.
"Who are you! Do you want to die!"
The Spider Demon who crawled out of the house saw Kurozawa standing below, quietly watching. He saw his Demon Slayer Corps uniform and the Nichirin Blade hanging at his waist.
"It's you annoying flies again. Heh heh, perfect, I'll turn your head into a toy."
From his words, it seemed that the Human-Headed Spiders Kurozawa had seen were all things he had created for entertainment.
And when the Spider Demon saw Kurozawa, Kurozawa also saw its full appearance.
Half the size of a human, its spider legs were on transparent threads, and it steadily climbed onto the roof of the wooden house. Judging from its nimble movements just now, its agility was not low.
"Huh?"
The Spider Demon seemed to sense something, and a confused sound came from its mouth. It stepped on the spider silk under its feet, sensing the situation in the distance through the vibrations.
The next second, its face changed drastically: "Swordsman! What did you do!"
Its food storage area had been destroyed by Kurozawa, and the Spider Demon finally realized.
"It's over, it's over..." it murmured softly, a look of tension and fear appearing on the Spider Demon's boyish face.
Kurozawa didn't hear its muttering. Looking at the Spider Demon whose body was shaking like a sieve, he felt a bit strange.
He didn't understand why this Demon was like this, but he didn't need to understand. Killing it was enough.
"Lower Moon Twelve Kizuki? Could this be the Demon?"
With this thought in mind, Kurozawa didn't hold back, going all out from the start.
Crack! His trouser legs split open from the bulging muscles. Kurozawa stepped heavily on the ground, leaving a large crack mark with just one foot.
In the blink of an eye, Kurozawa had approached the area below the wooden house.
The Spider Demon was still immersed in its strange emotions. It wasn't until the loud sound of the ground shattering that it suddenly looked in Kurozawa's direction, then its eyes were filled with astonishment.
"Huh? Where did he go?"
Because it hadn't encountered a strong swordsman before and had mistaken Kurozawa for the same type of person as the swordsmen it had killed, the Spider Demon had greatly underestimated Kurozawa.
Bang! Before it could react, the wooden house instantly exploded from bottom to top. Among the countless flying wood splinters, a fist wrapped in Pitch-Black Aura rapidly enlarged before its eyes.
The Spider Demon's pupils suddenly contracted.
From the Pitch-Black Aura, it felt fear and despair. The sound of it rubbing against the wind was like the wails of living beings on the verge of death.
Lowering its limbs and then springing up sharply, Kurozawa's explosive punch broke half of the Spider Demon's legs, failing to kill it in one hit.
Pfft! Black-blue liquid sprayed from the Spider Demon's mouth, surging towards Kurozawa's face. The air was filled with a fishy and foul smell.
Not knowing the abilities of this liquid, and not wanting to try due to his fragile human body, Kurozawa had to temporarily evade. The Spider Demon also took the opportunity to spray more silk onto the ground, then the silk contracted, pulling its body back to the ground.
Intense pain came from half of its limbs, and the difficulty in recovering from the injury made the Spider Demon feel surprised and uncertain.
But when it thought of the destroyed food storage and looked at Kurozawa in the air, its face suddenly became ferocious.
"How will you dodge in the air? Become my toy!"
Opening its mouth, a large amount of black-blue liquid condensed into a large spider web, shooting straight towards Kurozawa.
This stuff was clearly highly poisonous. And judging by the Spider Demon's words, the people who turned into Human-Headed Spiders might have been harmed by the Spider Demon's venom. Kurozawa thought of the neither-human-nor-demon appearance of the Human-Headed Spiders and didn't want to touch even a single drop of the venom.
Taking out his Nichirin Blade with a backhand, Kurozawa's body rotated violently in the air instantly.
Water Breathing - Sixth Form: Whirlpool! When there was no point of support for his body, this sword form was the best way to deal with it. Kurozawa's talent wasn't great, but he had practiced this sword form for over a decade, so he could still use it proficiently.
The deep, pitch-black blade seemed to absorb light, making it hard to see even in the moonlight. Only dark afterimages forming a vortex could be seen swirling around Kurozawa, completely sweeping and shaking off the incoming venom.
On the ground, the Spider Demon was stunned.
It realized at this moment that it and Kurozawa were not on the same level. So it spat out silk that stuck to a tree, wanting to escape quickly and call for help.
But before it could make another move, the whirlpool suddenly dispersed. A pitch-black Nichirin Blade descended from the sky, its sharp edge piercing through the point where the Human-Headed Spider's head connected to its body. The entire blade sank into the ground, pinning it in place.
A mournful howl erupted as the Human-Headed Spider tugged forcefully at its silk, but it was unable to move for a short while.
Wounds where a foreign object pierces the body are difficult to heal without removing the object. Unfortunately for the Human-Headed Spider, it would take a considerable amount of time for its limbs to pull out the Nichirin Blade in its current state.
But Kurozawa wasn't going to give it that time.
A sole wreathed in Pitch-Black Aura descended from the sky. Kurozawa didn't want to get his hands dirty, and he also wanted to try transferring the Pitch-Black Aura again, so he forcefully stomped on the Human-Headed Spider's head, exploding it.
With a bang, the Human-Headed Spider's head shattered into pieces. Its body, which had been struggling wildly, stiffened and then became completely motionless.
"So weak... only its venom was a bit concerning, everything else was incredibly weak."
"This one definitely isn't among the Twelve Kizuki. With its strength, it shouldn't be capable of hunting down so many swordsmen."
The grey-white color only increased his Potential Points by just over thirty. This Human-Headed Spider was even less effective than the Hand Demon on Mount Fujikasane, making Kurozawa abandon the idea that it was one of the Twelve Kizuki.
At the same time, perhaps attracted by the Human-Headed Spider's death throes, or perhaps summoned by it earlier, rustling sounds came from the surrounding forest.
Dense and numerous, at least fifty or more Human-Headed Spiders charged towards Kurozawa as if their lives meant nothing.
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