Emiya Shirou doesn't want to work overtime

Even the strongest will cannot resist the body's natural reactions indefinitely.

The body moves at breakneck speed, the pain burns constantly, and the blood gradually drains away.

Each of these tasks made it extremely difficult for Emiya to calm down and think about what he should do at this stage.

How could they quickly find the person who released this Blood Demon Art? Emiya, who was fighting desperately to survive under constant attacks, was hardly capable of thinking about such a question.

But he still had to think about this problem.

The attacks came one after another, and the rooms snaked around like snakes, gradually shrinking Emiya's hiding place. It seemed that the main force did not intend to engage in a war of attrition with Emiya.

Why are you in such a hurry?

It is a ghost, and I am a human. In a place without the sun, attrition warfare is the simplest and most brutal method.

In such a vast and boundless place, Emiya would have no chance of finding her.

A war of attrition could absolutely wear Emiya down and kill him on the spot.

"Actually, this place isn't as big as I imagined? Is it afraid that if the war drags on, I'll discover its location?"

Emiya wondered to himself, "Could this person be an extremely volatile demon who keeps getting angry because he can't kill me?"

Shouldn't it be even more furious that it killed Kaigaku with its help?

"It seems I've found the simplest and most direct method."

Emiya and Kaigaku fought for so long, and he was even about to sever its neck, when the genius who created this space discovered the battle here.

That proves that, in reality, the ghost's control over the entire area was not as strong as he had imagined.

Moreover, even the ghosts who created the interconnected windows didn't know where all the teleportation locations were.

Otherwise, when Emiya passed through that window, he shouldn't have just darted out through another window, but rather been directly teleported to a place where he could more easily end up dead.

Based on this level of control alone, Emiya felt that he was very manipulative.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be better for the ruler here to simply banish him to an extremely remote corner and wait for other powerful ghosts to eliminate him?

Or it could simply starve him to death. Emiya is a human; he would definitely die if he didn't eat for a few days. There are many ways to kill Emiya, but it chose the most troublesome one.

So Emiya decided to open the box.

And it's an ultra-fast unboxing.

Things here could obviously attack faster, but it doesn't have that ability.

That means Emiya can constantly move between the windows and doors that connect the various spaces.

It might not be able to react at all.

Once Emiya finds its location, he will be able to find a way to deal with it.

Emiya has determined that this demon is almost the same type as Kaori Asakusa; it possesses strong Blood Demon Arts, but its actual strength is relatively weak.

At the moment the next house crashed, Emiya, like an eel, swiftly darted into the window.

At this moment, Emiya was like a man rapidly moving through the security room's surveillance cameras.

His image can be seen in almost every surveillance camera, but no one knows where Emiya is actually located.

Chapter 44 The Strongest Upper Moon - Kokushibo

"Where!?"

"Where!?"

"Where!?"

Scenes, both similar and different, kept flashing before Emiya's eyes.

He had no idea how many times he had passed through the windows of all the different spaces.

Even the creator of this chaotic area couldn't quickly follow Emiya's movements from one scene to another.

Just when it finally found the area where Emiya was, Emiya, like an eel, leaped to another area again.

What was originally an area that provided the demon with an excellent space to maneuver now prevented it from accurately finding Emiya's whereabouts.

But the Infinite City is not truly infinite, and its creator did not prevent the area it inhabited from connecting with other places.

Rather, as the very center of the entire Infinite City, its location is bound to be easily accessible from all directions!

"found it!"

This is a female ghost with long black hair, bangs covering her eyes, and wearing a kimono.

She gently plucked the strings of her zither, seemingly completely oblivious to Emiya standing before her.

"I hope there isn't some kind of trap!"

Emiya looked at the oni kneeling calmly before him, and a moment of hesitation flashed through his mind.

With a mere thought, he could instantly appear beside the female ghost and easily sever her neck.

But the various blood demon arts of the demons made Emiya suspicious.

"call out--!"

As if to verify Emiya's thoughts, a sound like a needle piercing the air rang out from directly above Emiya.

It was a sliding door, a common sight in various Japanese buildings.

It was hurtling toward Emiya's head with tremendous speed, carrying a raging hurricane.

The massive gate, moving at an incredibly terrifying speed, was like a sharp cleaver, capable of easily cleaving off Emiya's head.

Even Emiya could sense that the demon in front of him had a much deeper level of control over this area.

The previous attacks on Emiya couldn't target any part of him; they could only ram him as a whole.

But now, it's the furniture inside the various houses that are attacking Emiya.

Moreover, it is more impactful and lethal.

"Beast Breathing - Fang Piercing Shot"

A crocodile spun around like it was tearing its prey to dodge the sudden attack.

Emiya gripped two fang-shaped Nichirin Blades tightly and quickly pointed them forward.

He slammed his feet against the window behind him and kicked hard.

He charged toward the female ghost like a silver streak of light.

Now that I have already used my magic to project Hashibira Inosuke's weapon, I should not waste it and use Beast Breathing for the time being.

Moreover, Emiya, who uses projection weapons, is not incapable of using his own sword breathing technique.

"Oh!"

With a deafening roar, a pile of wood chips suddenly exploded in the center of the huge crater, creating a violent shockwave that swept up like a storm.

Looking at the empty ground in front of him, Emiya instantly recalled the Zero-Ones he had fought before.

As Nakime possesses a higher level of spatial control, she is naturally also able to teleport herself to different spatial locations.

Even the distance and speed of teleportation are more powerful.

Nakime can not only teleport others through space, but she can also change her own location.

If she were facing ordinary Demon Slayer Corps members, she could basically kill them without taking any damage. Even Pillars might be held back by her and have little chance to get close to her until they were worn down and killed by her constant attacks.

However, Emiya already had experience killing a demon with the ability to teleport using Blood Demon Art.

Nakime's combat ability is even lower than that of the Lower Moon Zero.

If it weren't for his powerful Blood Demon Arts, his combat abilities alone wouldn't have been enough to make him an Upper Moon Demon.

Of course, she is no longer an Upper Moon demon.

After all, as Muzan's close attendant, she was in charge of the operation of the entire Infinity Castle and had always stayed in the Infinity Castle to assist Muzan, without any experience in fighting on her own.

He could only rely on the basic power he gained by absorbing a large amount of Muzan's blood.

"Sword Breathing: Wind Form - Demon Slash!"

Before Nakime, who had been teleported a distance behind Emiya, could react,...

"call--!"

Emiya appeared beside Nakime like a whirlwind.

Having used Zenitsu's self-created technique, Emiya's legs could no longer support him in any rapid movement using the Breath of Thunder.

Perhaps if he could completely lose all feeling in his legs, Emiya could use [Lightning Flash] again, but in such a strange place, he didn't know how many oni with bizarre abilities he would face.

If he were to lose his fighting ability just like that, Emiya knew that even if he defeated the female demon in front of him, he would basically be doomed to die.

Therefore, Emiya had no choice but to settle for a second-best option: a movement method that could also generate extremely high speeds.

Even though Emiya's speed at this moment was more than a finger's width slower than the Breath of Thunder technique.

However, Nakime remained frozen in place, unsure whether it was because she hadn't reacted to Emiya's speed or was shocked that Emiya had pinpointed her location in an instant.

The fang-shaped Nichirin Blade pierced Nakime's neck so easily that even Emiya could hardly believe it.

"call out--!"

At this moment, a terrifying pressure of violent magnitude swept through the entire chaotic space, causing the air to suddenly sink downwards, as if carrying a terrifying weight, and fiercely suppressing the entire world.

The moment this terrifying pressure appeared, the Nichirin Blade that was piercing Nakime's neck also stopped.

He sensed that an extremely powerful person had appeared before him.

"If you die, Lord Muzan will have a headache."

He was a six-eyed Sengoku swordsman with long black sideburns, a high ponytail, and wearing a purple snake-patterned kimono and black riding hakama.

He grabbed Nakime by the back of her collar and threw her behind him.

The Infinity Castle's power is arguably Muzan's most satisfying Blood Demon Art in all these years.

Not only can he create an extremely well-defended location for himself, but he can also summon all the Upper Moon demons and gather their power in a very short time.