Chapter 332

The next instant, he appeared before Tanjiro and punched straight for his skull.

Tanjiro had no time to react, unable to respond in any way.

Just as his head was about to be crushed like a watermelon.

A tall, slender figure instantly appeared before him, meeting Akaza's punch with a punch of his own.

"You want to clash fists with me…?"

Akaza's lips curled slightly.

"Stupid human."

Their fists collided.

Crack!

In an instant, Akaza's entire right arm and shoulder vanished; the terrifyingly condensed punch force obliterated nearly half his body, then continued unimpeded, smashing and snapping every tree and rock along a hundred-meter path behind him.

Akaza's eyes widened in horror.

39, trembling Akaza

Luo En slowly retracted his fist.

Tanjiro, who had witnessed that punch, was utterly stunned: "Luo… Luo En Mr.?"

Luo En looked down at him and smiled: "No need to be so shocked—I already told you, I'm invincible."

Akaza, pushed back dozens of meters, his lower torso shattered, stared in terror at the black-clad youth.

Human?!!

Impossible!

How could such a weak human possess this pure, ultimate terror of punch power!!

Akaza couldn't believe it.

Luo En glanced at it.

"!!"

Akaza's face twisted in shock.

In an instant, it felt an unimaginable, terrifying aura—forged through countless battles and life and death.

At the very moment that suffocating pressure slammed into it!

Akaza felt its demon body, hardened beyond steel through a thousand trials, was about to be mercilessly crushed…

Merely by aura, the Upper Moon Three Akaza felt the fear of death!

This man exerted far greater pressure than Demon King Muzan ever did!

As a demon who devoted everything to battle, it felt not a single spark of desire to fight this man.

Its very instinct as a warrior shrank back in fear.

Upon realizing this.

Akaza lost all composure, voice filled with terror and panic.

"Impossible! There cannot exist in this world anything stronger than Lord Muzan…"

As its body rapidly regenerated, it stared at Luo En in fear, stepping backward.

"What… what the hell are you?!"

Tanjiro and Inosuke stood frozen.

To them, this Upper Moon Three was already a being of another dimension…

No openings, not even a motion visible—if they faced it now, death was the only outcome…

But now.

This demon, so powerful it choked the air with pressure, was actually…

Afraid?

"Me? I'm human, of course."

Akaza's eyes widened at Luo En's words.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could such weak humans—bound by disease, aging, desire—possess such power!!"

"How pitiful you are."

Luo En, clad in black, stood with hands behind his back, his blue eyes calm as he gazed at Akaza: "Is this all the power you gained by abandoning your humanity?"

Akaza's pupils shrank sharply.

"I'm already getting bored. You're unlucky to have met me."

Luo En, expression calm, raised his right hand, palm up, and gestured toward it.

"Out of respect for your status as a fighter, I'll let you strike first."

"Don't think of running—you can't escape."

Akaza stared into those calm, water-like blue eyes and felt as if plunged into an ice pit, trembling all over.

Its instinct told it.

If it turned to flee, it would die.

Akaza gathered all its focus, assuming a battle stance.

Destruction Technique: Luo Needle.

Technique activated!

As a snowflake array appeared beneath its feet, a powerful battle aura erupted from its body.

Even Tanjiro and Inosuke far away felt an invisible, chilling pressure.

But Akaza did not attack—instead, it stared with grave intensity at Luo En, who appeared casual and lazy in comparison.

There are nothing but openings.

But... what is this intense cold?

It felt as if the moment he moved, he would instantly lose his head!

"Won't you strike yet? I was planning to buy some sakura mochi on my way back—I'd rather not waste time with you. Maybe I should strike first."

Luo En rubbed his chin, then placed his hand on the hilt of the ancient blade at his waist.

Inosuke's pupils shrank.

He stomped hard, and with a deep boom that shook the earth, his body vanished from where he stood; the next instant, a fist brimming with destructive force slammed toward Luo En's face.

Destruction Kill: Annihilation Style!

"Mr. Luo En!"

Tanjiro, sensing the overwhelming power of this blow, couldn't help but cry out.

Luo En's lips curled slightly.

His right fist, wrapped in spiraling white vapor, thrust forward.

At the moment the two fists collided.

The destructive force within Inosuke's punch shattered like bubbles on water, utterly obliterated.

Immediately after,

his body began to crumble piece by piece from the fist, and within less than a second, only his head remained.

It plopped onto the grass with a soft thud.

Inosuke, now only a head, wore a look of utter bewilderment on his face.

Is it... over already?

Just one punch?

Is this the eternal strength I trained for, fought for—even abandoned my human identity to become a man-eating demon in pursuit of?

"I won. Looks like demons have their limits too."

Luo En looked down at the football-sized head with his azure eyes and smiled, then raised his right foot and crushed it underfoot.

In the final instant before his consciousness vanished, Inosuke's face twisted into a bitter, self-mocking smile.

My life... has truly been a laughable and tragic one...

Luo En turned to Tanjiro and Inosuke, who stood frozen in stunned silence, and smiled: "Alright, let's go."

"To buy sakura mochi."

…………

"Inosuke... dead?!"