"Who... Who are you?!" a certain Love Pillar asked a certain 'friendly' demon. She looked at the boy's features and becomes wary of him. The boy is obviously a demon.
"Listen, I'm a demon, but I'm on your side. Unless you're a moron, you'll understand what I say and cooperate." Yushirou said in straightforward manners.
'I'm...not a moron' Mitsuri told herself in her mind before she nodded at Yushirou. "Okay!" she said without any hesitation, and waited for whatever Yushirou is about to tell her.
"I'll handle the biwa demon. Meanwhile, you run around like an idiot to be a decoy"
"I'll sneak up close to her and hijack her sense of sight. I'll infiltrate her brain, remove her from Muzan's control and hijack her mind" Yushirou revealed his plan to Mitsuri.
Mitsuri just nodded with a look of astonishment. 'Wow! He can do that?! Neat! How convenient! That's cool!' she thought by herself.
~Meanwhile~
"Giyuu-san! Why not I'll carry Oyakata-sama this time while you take some rest." Tanjirou offered as he thought about how long Giyuu has been carrying Kagaya.
"I'm fine Tanjirou! You should focus since you're the one who is guarding the others right now." Giyuu responded plainly.
"Okay, if you say so! But you can call me anytime if you want me to carry Oyakata-sama." Tanjirou told Giyuu. Giyuu just nodded before he keeps walking.
Tanjirou glance his behind as he saw four other people. Tamayo-san, Amane-sama, and two of the Ubuyashiki's daughter.
"This way! Follow the stairs!" the crow guide them their path inside the fotress. They followed the crow as the crow continue to fly in front of them.
They pass the stairs and walk into a hallway. They continue to follow the crow for few more minutes. It seems like the path inside the hallway is quite long.
"Stop! There's a demon!" the crow suddenly warned them. All of them were alerted by this. "The Love Pillar, Mitsuri Kanroji and the Serpent Pillar, Obanai Iguro are fighting the upper moon four demon in front of this path." the crow told them.
Giyuu then look at Tanjirou. "Tanjirou, why not you spy near the walls to look at the situation more closely." Giyuu suggested.
"Okay! I'll do it!" Tanjirou responded. Tanjirou then walks toward the edge and lean of it. He silently peek over to see the situation.
Tanjirou then saw Mitsuri and Obanai battling the upper moon four demon. He saw the Love Pillar destroying objects that seems to be blocking her path while the Serpent Pillar is slithering around the battlefield as he evades few columns of wall coming after him.
'The battle is very intense! I feel like I should join and help them instead of doing nothing. But...' Tanjirou knew that he still needs to guard the others since Giyuu is occupied with carrying Oyakata-sama.
Tanjirou decided to return to others and tell them situation from what he saw. Giyuu saw Tanjirou returns and immediately asked him the situation.
Tanjirou just tell Giyuu exactly what he just saw. Giyuu nodded from what Tanjirou just told him before he looked at the crow.
"Is there any other way we can use to get to the other side?" Giyuu asked the crow. "No! There's none!" the crow answered.
Giyuu then turns around and face Kagaya's wife. "Amane-sama, it seems we have a problem. The path for us to reach to the other side, there's a battle going on."
"It's very risky if we take that path, however, the crow said that there's no other way." Giyuu told Amane. "What is your order, Amane-sama?" Giyuu asked.
Amane is silent as she begin thinking about the situation and how to handle it. However, as she is in her own thoughts, Tamayo decided to catch all of their situation.
"I think I know how we can still cross the path safely. I will use my blood demon art to create a distraction." Tamayo told them.
"Is it the same technique that you used at Asakusa city before, Tamayo-san?" Tanjirou asked in curiosity. Tamayo nodded in confirmation.
"Thank you Tamayo." Amane said gratitude. "Don't thank me yet, we still haven't cross to the other side." Tamayo said with a small smile.
Tamayo then looked at Nichika as she is still holding her hand. "Stay with your mother, alright?" Tamayo told her.
Nichika nodded and Tamayo released the girl's hand from her grasp. Nichika walks to Amane and hold one of her hand.
Tamayo then begin to lead the group as she walks at the front of the group. As they reached at the edge of the wall, Tamayo stopped them.
"I will use my blood demon art to create an illusion. Amane-san, could you tell the children to cover their eyes? This might be too gruesome for them to witness." Tamayo said to Amane.
Amane just said that she can before she looked at both of her daughters. "Hinaki, Nichika. Close your eyes until I tell you that you could open them" Amane ordered her children.
Hinaki and Nichika comply with their mother's request and close their eyes before covering them with one of their own hands. Both of them then hold their mother's hands from each side with their other hands.
"You can begin now, Tamayo-san" Amane told Tamayo. Tamayo nodded before he raise her right hand. She begin putting her left hand on his right wrist.
Tamayo use her left hand's claw and begin digging into her right arm's flesh. Her right arm begins to bleed heavily as she begin activating her blood demon art. "Blood Enhancement, Scent Of Illusory Blood: Visual Dream."
Beautiful flower patterns begin to fill the air around them before it starts to envelope their paths. Tamayo's right hand healed in short moment before she looked at the others.
"Let's go! Our path is being protected by the illusions, but not for long. Also, the children can now open their eyes." Tamayo said to them.
"Hinaki, Nichika! You can open your eyes now." Amane told them. Both of the children opens their eyes and they are immediately filled with astonishment from the beautiful illusion.
"Let's go everyone." Amane said. All of them nodded to her as they begin crossing the path and increase their speed in walking.
Meanwhile, Mitsuri dodges another trap from the Biwa demon before she landed on another platform. "What in the world is that?!" Mitsuri heard Obanai said.
This peeked her interest before she followed the direction where Obanai is looking. Mitsuri eyes become wide in astonishment as she saw what Obanai is looking.
'The flowers are soo pretty! But flowers inside a demon lair? Is this some sort of a demon art?' Mitsuri thought in wonder.
Meanwhile, the biwa demon, Nakime watches the illusions that suddenly filled the air. She saw few things behind those illusions, or more precisely, few people.
'Lord Muzan... I have located Ubuyashiki...' she said inside her mind.
Meanwhile, Tanjirou, Giyuu, Tamayo and the Ubuyashiki family continue to cross to the other side. "We're almost there!" Tanjirou said loudly.
After a few moments later, they reached to the other side safely. "We did it! It's all thanks to you, Tamayo!" Tanjirou said.
"It was nothing, Tanjirou." Tamayo said with a small smile. However, her smile quickly fade a mere seconds later as it changed into seriousness, "We need to move, we cannot waste more time" Tamayo said.
"She's right! Let's keep going." Giyuu agreed with Tamayo. All of them then agreed before also continuing their journey to find a way out inside this endless maze.
Suddenly, Tanjirou has a bad feeling as his nose is picking up a scent that is getting strong in seconds. Meanwhile, Giyuu begin to beware with his surroundings as he begin to hear the sounds of running. All of them did.
A second later, the ceiling in front of their path was destroyed and a lone figure landed in front of them. All of them are shocked when they saw who it is.
'Muzan?! He's here already?!" Tamayo though in shock.