OM (DS arc) CH 9: Infected (Patreon)

Akaza pulled his fist back, to launch his next attack, "Destructive Kill: Dual Layered Demon Wic—"

But his attack got interrupted, no his whole arm was gone!

Akaza noticed something...

A searing sensation, on his chest, a charred gash etched across his torso.

A thin crimson fire was emitted from Heito's eyes, the fire was so hot that its temperature seemed to resemble the sun!

Akaza's body had become completely numb to pain, he had forgotten how the pain felt.

Yet that fire reminded him of the uncomfortable sensation.

Akaza suppressed a grunt as he willed his body to heal, which wasn't healing at its usual speed. Something was off, that crimson beam had slowed down his regenerative speed!

Akaza chuckled, keeping in mind to avoid those beams if possible.

"You certainly are an interesting opponent.", The stripe face demon yelled before lunging at Arthur.

"You are an exceptional opponent as well, Akaza, but..." Arthur spoke.

Akaza really was a good opponent for Arthur to judge his close-quarters combat prowess, his strength, his speed, his reflexes, his battle judgment, and many other things.

But currently, Akaza was not an opponent that Arthur could defeat alone, even his Blood Demon Art: Rays wasn't that effective. That's why initially Arthur planned to use Akaza only for his training and test his strength, and fly away if Akaza proved to be too difficult.

Though judging from the shocked and pained expression on Akaza's face when he got hit by it, and the slightly slower rate of healing assured Arthur that his Blood Demon Art: Rays had catastrophic effects on other demons' bodies, similar to Nezuko's fire.

Akaza was strong, but not invincible... Arthur realized.

If Arthur put his everything on it, then maybe, he'll be able to do something which he didn't deem possible a few moments ago, get Akaza infected.

"But I think it's time to end this," Arthur levitated above the sky, just before Akaza appeared in front of him to land a hit, beyond Akaza's reach which greatly annoyed the red-haired demon, reminding him again that the traitor really could've run away any time he wanted.

It was finally time to end this, Arthur thought as he brought out dozens upon dozens of undeads from his inventory. Ryoma who was soundly ignored by the upper moon for the whole time also lept out of the house and stood in the midst of the undead crowd.

Having done the preparation, Arthur descended from above and floated a bit above the ground in front of his army of undead and the newly added infected demon.

Akaza grinned, "You expect to outnumber me? Haha, still, I wonder how you amassed this number of these obnoxious creatures. None of them give off a scent of a human or a demon. Except for that one, everyone has a putrid smell, exactly like that of a dead body..."

Akaza assumed that the creature that didn't leak the smell of the dead was the demon that Heito had freed from Muzan-sama's curse, it was obvious in a glance. But even in that one's smell, there was no semblance of a demon.

The mysteries around the traitor kept getting increasing. His powers were completely unknown and certainly dangerous, especially that crimson beam.

The Traitor was more than adequately adept in various forms of martial arts, he had some way to release others from Muzan-sama's authority. Akaza had seen his fair share of bizarre sort of abilities that demons gain but that water art and the way these foul creatures just appeared out of nowhere... There was something off about these two abilities. They didn't seem like blood demon arts.

Though Akaza didn't spend too long mulling about the traitor's abilities, he just got himself a few minutes longer fight that's all, Akaza shrugged as he readied his stance.

Arthur made the first move, he shot himself towards Akaza, his army followed suit, but on getting close to the red-haired demon instead of punching him, Arthur switched the direction to vertically above and shot laser beams aiming directly at Akaza's eyes, intending to blind him.

Akaza used his arms to block the twin beams but the crimson rays incinerated a hole through his arm and went straight to his head, Akaza avoided the rays by a hair's breadth as he tilted his head and leaped backwards.

The demon's smile widened, the challenge exciting him to no end.

Akaza lept towards the hoard of undeads and began his tandem of destruction there, nimbly avoiding the crimson beams that were occasionally fired at him from above. The beams may be devastating but they were easy to avoid.

Akaza found it really easy to deal with Traitor's mysterious army. His punch went through the putrid humanoids like a bullet in an apple, crushing and spraying their blood and brain matter all around.

They were too brittle, their strength, speed, and even basic movements were exactly how they looked and smelled like, like dead bodies.

'The demon that the Heito freed from Muzan-sama's curse is avoiding me...', Akaza grinned seeing the 'odd one' in the hoard subtly trying to keep his distance from him.

And doing exactly what the enemy didn't want was obvious to Akaza as he lunged towards the demon aiming a punch towards his face.

Akaza was insanely fast, and naturally, so were his senses and reflexes. The moment he shot his fist towards Heito's demon's face, he saw the same calculating and intelligent light in his eyes as that in Heito's. The demon sidestepped facing his way and opened his salivating mouth to bite off a piece of his right hand.

But Akaza didn't let him as he pushed his hand into the demon's mouth, breaking the demon's jaw completely. Another kick on the guts and the demon was sent flying away, rendered out of commission for a while.

"Shit", Arthur muttered as he broke off his mental connection with Ryoma, not liking the feeling of pain from the hit on the jaw.

Possessing Ryoma meant he possessed all the senses of the demon, saw everything he saw, felt everything he felt, even pain. Ryoma had a really slow regenerative speed compared to a moon or even Arthur himself and Arthur was no masochist. He instantly gave control of Ryoma's body back to whom it belonged, as soon as the pain came rushing.

Feeling a tinge of frustration at seeing a carefully and almost perfectly executed plan fail at the last moment, Arthur went down to join the fray. He needed Ryoma to come back, then he'll try fighting with Akaza directly while simultaneously possessing Ryoma.

It was obvious before even Arthur brought out the undeads from his inventory that none of them would be able to scratch the upper moon's skin. Arthur planned to lure Akaza towards Ryoma and then bite him using Ryoma's body, but the plan failed at the last moment as Ryoma couldn't bite Akaza...

"Gurg!!"

'huh?'

An excruciating grunt escaped Akaza's mouth. The nerves on his arm started to bulge out and pulsate as if alive, and a dark hue crawled up on those bulged nerves.

'It's working!'

A victorious smile crept up on Arthur's face, which in an instant turned into a frown. Akaza was attempting to chop off his arm!

Arthur rushed to the red-haired demon to stop him from doing so, but it was already too late.

"Destructive Kill: Leg Style  Rings Of A Thousand Flying Planets"

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