Chapter 183 - Moon Demon (2/2)

Nik wasn't going to let the lady complete her monologue and prepared her attack. She was obviously different, and even Saeko spun into action.

'Breath of Steel—

Second Form: Pierce!'

Nik's Hamon energy manifested akin to an incarnation of Destruction while covering the entirety of his body while she shot towards the rapidly forming fleshy tendril.

Immediately, two large chunks of flesh tore apart from the clump while Yuriko shouted while retreating rapidly.

”Her flesh and blood detonates! Please retreat at once!!”

'Explosion?'

Nik immediately brandished his wave and a small twister of air immediately covered the ghastly lady, who seemed overly fixated on Saeko as the recently formed fleshy tendril did explode only to get battered against the twister.

'Would have lost an arm...'

Saeko grimaced and didn't take a moment longer to retreat towards Nik. Though she was faster and stronger, due to the sudden arrival, Saeko forgot that only Nik was supposed to handle the lower demon moon.

In this case, the third lower demon moon.

”Nik, she is all yours. Meanwhile, I'll try to understand that situation from the other one.”

Nik observed the grotesque scene of the fleshy clumps forming into tendrils with a grimace and nodded.

”By the way, don't attack her. I need something from her...”

Instantly, Saeko sent an indignant glare.

”Don't you already have Shigure and Sis?”

”It's not that and get your head out of such thoughts during the fight.” Nik hissed in frustration before slashing apart the incoming flesh and covering himself and Saeko in a twister.

”And, even if I did want some other things from her, there are many others already in the queue.”

Nik smiled vaguely, once again awakening the myriad streams of frustration coursing through Saeko's body as she stomped softly before retreating towards Yuriko.

”Not getting away!”

The demon, on the other hand, seemed to have lost herself to insanity— something, Nik was gratified to see— as multiple tendrils shot towards Saeko's direction, Nik finally decided to show a bit of his hand while stomping his foot and raising a thick wall of earth barring the path of the flesh spikes. Meanwhile, a golden colour touched his otherwise steel-like blade as he moved towards the demon's location swiftly.

”My brother... I'll avenge him! Whenever I look at you! I'll avenge him!!”

'Brother? Siblings getting turned into demons?'

Nik questioned inwardly and dodged the remaining few tendrils only to find his blade passing through the girl's neck without any friction.

'Aw...—'

Multiple tendrils immediately slammed into his body, making his back strike against the very earthen wall he created while a trail of blood leaked through his lips in tandem to the painful sensation of his back smashing into a reinforced wall.

'— shit! There is no life-force signature because that phantom is the projection of her fleshy body.

But... this means, she has three demon arts?'

Nik thought while swallowing a lump as encountering a demon with a single demon art was already astonishing and even till now, there has been not a single demon possessing such a talent, maybe, besides Muzan.

'Revival of the dead and conversion into the demon, exploding flesh and now... mental projection...

This could work.'

Nik licked his bloodied lips with a glint. If his heart did feel some sort of emotion while fighting a woman then it was no longer present for Nik's shallow heart felt incomparably disgusted by the clump of flesh that this demon was.

Once again entering the overdrive state, Nik released his Hamon infused Pheromones and instantly activated [Pheromone Illusion] while controlling all the three abilities that the skill provided.