Chapter 345

Both narrowed their eyes.

The next instant.

Three more figures appeared here.

Shinobu Kocho, Mitsuri Kanroji, and Muichiro Tokito.

The three drew their swords simultaneously and severed the two whip-like tendrils.

Muzan's eyes narrowed.

Boom!

A figure crashed heavily from the sky, landing before Muzan.

Holding a broadaxe and meteor hammer connected by a long chain, with demon markings on his face like a wrathful Buddha, Gyomei Himejima gazed at Muzan and spoke.

"Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, I've finally found you… Muzan Kibutsuji."

Then Ikkyu Ubuyashiki, Tengen Uzui, Tanjiro, Inosuke, Zenitsu, and others appeared one after another around them, surrounding Muzan on the barren grassland at the forest's edge.

Muzan scanned the surroundings, his facial veins bulging, murderous intent boiling over.

"Damn the Demon Slayer Corps, damn the Ubuyashiki clan!"

Yuuko and Yushiro walked to Tomioka Giyu's side; Yuuko's eyes turned icy as she stared at Muzan: "Muzan Kibutsuji, today is your death day. Go to hell and atone for those you've slaughtered."

"Hahaha."

Muzan laughed wildly: "Kill me? Do you think sheer numbers alone can accomplish that?"

"Can't they?"

A clear voice rang out nearby.

Muzan's laughter cut off abruptly.

He saw the tall figure walking beside Yuuko, his face turning ashen, as if he'd swallowed a dead fly.

Luo En smiled at Muzan: "Don't worry—I won't intervene."

"I believe they can kill you."

Muzan, upon hearing him, didn't know whether to feel relieved or furious.

When had his own status as Demon King fallen so low overnight…

"Die, Muzan Kibutsuji!"

Shinobu Kocho struck first, then Gyomei Himejima, then all the Hashira attacked in unison.

Tanjiro and the others joined the assault.

They surrounded and slew Muzan Kibutsuji alone.

In an instant, sword techniques bloomed like flowers, sword qi and slashes flew everywhere, blades and whip-tendrils clashed with continuous metallic clangs, scattering cold light everywhere.

Luo En sat idly on a nearby hill, sipping fine wine as he watched the fated battle between humans and demons, Demon Slayers and the Demon's Origin.

The distant horizon began to lighten.

Under the combined assault of the Hashira, Muzan was gradually forced to unleash his full power, his form twisting and deforming until he became a monstrous aberration—devoid of human shape, with five brains and seven hearts, his body covered in whip-tendrils and arm-mounted spines.

In an instant, the Hashira were driven to the brink.

Yet as they faced utter desperation, the Hashira and Tanjiro's group all erupted with even greater strength, overwhelming and suppressing Muzan Kibutsuji in one surge.

Meanwhile, due to Yuuko's developed drug, Muzan Kibutsuji began losing control of his body, his power rapidly weakening.

The Hashira seized this opportunity and severed Muzan's most dangerous whip-tendrils: Gyomei Himejima smashed his skull with a hammer, Rengoku Kokushibo and Shinobu Kocho severed the two arm-spines, Shinobu Kocho, Mitsuri Kanroji, and Ikkyu Ubuyashiki pierced his three hearts, Muichiro Tokito cut five whip-tendrils, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, Inosuke Hashibira, Kanao Tsuyuri, and Shinobu Kocho's brother severed the remaining four whip-tendrils.

"It's over! Muzan!"

Tanjiro, who had awakened the Transparent World and mastered the Thirteenth Form of Sun Breathing, and Tomioka Giyu severed his neck and pierced his three hearts.

With only one heart remaining, Muzan, cornered and desperate, unleashed his final form.

The Form of the Dead Infant.

Endless layers of growing flesh wrapped his true body, ignoring all slashes, striding forward in one direction.

But dawn was near, and the Hashira still had strength left.

When the sun rose in the east.

Muzan turned to ash in the sunlight.

All dust settled.

Luo En tossed his wine flask aside and stood up.

Leaning on his hand, he smiled softly at the exhausted figures slumped on the grass: "What a fine battle."

Shinobu Kocho seemed to hear his voice and turned her head.

The tall, upright figure waved to her over his shoulder, smiling as he said, "Well done," then vanished into the morning light.

Upon the hill.

Only a single Nichirin Blade, stuck diagonally into the ground, remained, along with a vial of medicine hanging from it.

"Goodbye… Mr. Luo En."

Shinobu Kocho gazed at the spot, whispering softly, a single tear tracing down her cheek.

Bright morning light bathed the earth.

From this day forward, no demons remained in the world.

…

【The Demon Slayer arc is now concluded. What world shall I write next?】

1, A world with a bald demon king

"There's been an explosion of mosquitoes this year—they're clearly a new species…"

"Breaking news: A massive swarm of mosquitoes has appeared in City Z; reports say livestock attacked have turned into mummified corpses…"

The news had just been broadcast on television.

On the streets of City Z, the alarm blared, telling people to take shelter.

"Wooo, wooo, wooo. This is an emergency shelter-in-place notice. The disaster level is Ghost! Residents must absolutely not go outside. I repeat, this is an emergency..."

On the roof of a building, the blond half-mechanical man Genos stood before a dead bird that had been turned into a dried corpse, his eyes cold as he gazed at the eerie swarm of mosquitoes in the distance.

"Added to the target list."

Inside a room of a building not far from him.

A certain bald man had encountered his lifelong nemesis: the 'mosquito.'

…………

On the roof of a certain building in City Z.

Space warped and distorted like the surface of water.

Then a slender figure, draped in a green-and-white haori with a high ponytail, stepped out from within.

"This place is…"

Luo En, who had crossed the dimensional barrier from the Demon Slayer world using the power of his system, looked around. Staring at the skyscrapers he hadn't seen in a long time, he was slightly taken aback.

"A modern city?"

"Hm?"

Luo En seemed to sense something and turned his head to look in one direction.

Boom!

Accompanied by a roar of sound.

On a street a thousand meters away in that direction, the flames of an explosion shot up into the sky.

After Luo En used his Reincarnation Eye to clearly see the scene of the blond half-mechanical man fighting the Mosquito Girl over there, he was briefly stunned, then immediately reacted.

"Could this be…"

When he saw that bald man, holding bug spray and sprinting down the street chasing after mosquitoes, he had no more doubts in his heart.

This was absolutely the world of One-Punch Man!

【Beep. Detected that the host is currently in the dimensional world — One-Punch Man World. Obtained 20 sign-in points, which can be used to return to the One Piece world. Searching for a sign-in location… estimated time required: three days.】

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

Luo En looked over there. Hundreds of millions of mosquitoes had gathered together in the sky above the street, forming a bizarre, twisted black sphere. Within the sphere, a formidable aura was being nurtured.

"So this is a monster?"

A look of interest surfaced in Luo En's azure eyes.

As far as he knew, this world had both powerful heroes and monsters so powerful they could even destroy planets, as well as… an invincible bald Great Demon King.