As James, Hinatsuru, Makio, and Suma all raced through the streets of Yoshiwara to find the main battle, they were rounding a corner when yet another Confederate soldier demon shot at them from behind a building. As the bullet flew past them, Makio quickly drew a kunai knife and told the others, "I got this one!"

"Be careful," Suma shouted at her. "He's got a gun!"

"I know, Suma!" She then yelled at the soldier as he tried to get up and reload his rifle, "Eat shit!"

The soldier yelled as he realized he was not going to be able to reload in time, "Oh shit!" He was then stabbed with a poisoned kunai knife, causing him to recoil in pain as he drew a knife of his own and swung at Makio, who dodged it and pulled out a second knife with her free hand. "Damn bitch!"

Makio quickly dodged another swing of his knife and stabbed the soldier a second time in his neck before pulling out her first knife from his stomach and then stabbing him in his eye socket. Now greatly poisoned, the soldier screamed in pain from both his stab wounds and the poison eating away at his insides before his body began to dissipate. "I got the bastard!"

Once the soldier's body was gone, all four of them continued their journey forward, not letting anyone stop them no matter who it was or why. James told the others, "We'll reach your husband in no time, ladies!"

"We better," Suma replied as they raced down the street. "I'm really worried about this fight!"

"Relax," Makio told her. "Tengen-sama has fought members of the Twelve Demon Moons before!"

"But this is an Upper Moon," Suma pointed out. "Those guys are really dangerous, especially if there's two of them!"

"Stop worrying about it," Makio replied. "If you worry so much, it'll just distract us from helping him, Suma!"

Unable to see what had happened between Nezuko and Daki, the others wondered what the many sounds and yells that had emanated from the other end of the street they had been battling on had been. Tanjiro in particular was both very curious about what had happened and concerned about Nezuko, since he had guessed that Nezuko had gone berserk. "I can't sense Nezuko's presence anymore," he thought to himself as he began to stumble back to his feet, still reeling from injuries he sustained from the battle against Gyutaro. "Where did she go? Don't tell me she ran off… She could put others in danger in an enraged state." As he looked around and breathed slowly to control himself, he battled a feeling of generalized pain all across his body and told the others, "I think that was Nezuko."

Mukago asked, "Nezuko? What did she do?"

"I… I don't know… But I think she went crazy."

Tengen turned around and asked him in a serious tone, "What do you mean went crazy, Kamado?"

"I… Well, when we battled Enmu back in September, I noticed she got really angry at him during the battle." Tanjiro pointed out to him, "I could sense a strong bloodlust from her. I think I saw her teeth get sharper or something, too. She… She went berserk."

"For fuck's sake…"

Inosuke asked him, "How dangerous is that?"

"Very," Tengen replied. "Kamado, where do you think she went?"

"I have no idea," Tanjiro replied. "I can't see anything in this mist."

"If your sister is going crazy," Inosuke told him. "We need to hurry this damn fight up so we can find her."

Tengen sighed and turned back to the direction that he had last seen Gyutaro, determined more than ever to finish the battle as soon as he could just in case Nezuko had lost her mind. "Gyutaro," he told him as he grabbed his last several bombs and laid them out on the ground. "I don't mean to rush things, but how about we settle this battle once and for all?" He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a scroll of paper and a small matchbook before then lighting a match on the ground and burning the scroll, letting it drop to the ground before he then pulled out his swords, holding one in a reverse grip. "What do you say? We're both busy people, right?"

"Hmmm… How tempting," Gyutaro replied through the mist. "How do you intend to back up those words, man?" As he looked in the direction of Tengen's voice, he began to see the mist around him begin to fade. "It's about time Mukago's mist faded," he thought to himself as he formed two sickles and held them in his hands. "I'll be able to see my prey soon."

Mukago then informed him as she also noticed the mist beginning to fade, "Uzui-san, my mist should start fading away soon! Hurry up so we can still strike him without being seen!"

"Sounds good to me," Tengen replied as the scroll completely burned up in front of him. Once it did, a blood red line formed on the ground that led into the mist. "Now I can go right for my target!" He thought to himself as he took a deep breath, "Colby-san said the line will stay on the ground for thirty seconds before fading away. I can easily get to him by then." He then quickly picked up all three bombs he had set down and threw them in the direction of the line. As they all exploded, he raced towards Gyutaro and declared, "Breath of Sound, Fifth Form: String Performance!"

Gyutaro immediately formed a dome of blood red sickles around him to try to block Tengen as he attacked, the latter using his free hand to throw several more bombs before he reached Gyutaro's dome of sickles and began to battle against them. "It's useless if he even gets through this and decapitates me," Gyutaro thought to himself. "I have a life link ability with my sister to prevent my death! This guy's fucked when he gets close to me!" He did not realize that Muzan had in fact severed the life link between the siblings.

Inosuke and Tanjiro looked at each other and nodded. Tanjiro asked, "Wanna help him?"

"Hell yeah," Inosuke replied before the two charges forward to help Tengen battle off the dome of sickles.

Mukago saw them do so and yelled, "Wait! Hang on!" As they raced off to find Tengen and Gyutaro through the mist, she sighed, "Now I'm alone." She then began to slowly walk over in the direction of the ensuing battle.

As Inosuke and Tanjiro reached Tengen, the latter asked the two of them, "Don't get in my way! Help me with these damn sickles, but then back off and let me get in for the kill!" He then began to spin one of the blades, deflecting many of the sickles that came their way. "We'll get through! Just keep pushing in!" Gyutaro was a tough adversary, but they knew that together, they could match him in his speed and strength.

Inosuke and Tanjiro did their best to keep up, with the latter pushing his body hard to do so due to his previous injuries. He yelled at him, "Come on! Let us through, damn it!" He thought to himself, "We need to end this fight now! I need to find Nezuko in case she's lost her mind!"

Inosuke similarly yelled, "Push through! Come on!"

Gyutaro yelled back at them as they continued to battle, "You're good, but not good enough!"

Tengen replied to him, "Are you sure we aren't good enough?!" Finally, with one last wave of bombs that knocked him back several feet, Gyutaro was suddenly taken off-guard, and an opening was found in the dome of sickles. "Aha!"

"God damn it!"

"Goodbye!" Tengen charged through and let out a roar as he swung his blade at what he thought was Gyutaro's neck. Within seconds, a chopping sound was heard, and blood spilled from the wound he had made as the blood sickles fell to the ground and the mist faded even further away. As everyone caught their breath and looked at what Tengen had hit, all of them were shocked as they saw who he had actually decapitated instead of his intended target. "Wha… What?!"

Gyutaro backed up slightly in a state of surprise as he said to himself, "What about life link… What the Hell?!"

Mukago meanwhile screamed in heartbreak as she realized what had happened, "NO!"

The demon Tengen had decapitated was not in fact Gyutaro. It was actually Daki, who had managed to put herself between Gyutaro and Tengen at the very last possible moment. As her body fell to her knees, her head rolled around on the ground for a bit before stopping, her expression one of sadness. "I… I…"

Tanjiro yelled in shock, "Where… Where did she come from?! How did she… How?!"

Mukago ran for head and quickly picked it up. "Daki-senpai! What… What the fuck… No! No, Daki-senpai! No!"

"Mukago-san, I… I'm sorry… I didn't realize you were right…" Daki's head then began to fade away as Mukago cradled it in her arms. "Muzan abandoned us, Mukago-san. You probably hate me for what I did…"

"Don't apologize," Mukago told her with tears in her eyes. "Don't ever apologize to me. I don't hate you, senpai."

Daki gave her a faint smile as her face began to disappear. "You were right, Mukago-san. You were right…"

Once her head and body had completely faded away, Mukago crawled over and reached for her clothes, grabbing them from the ground and holding them against her chest as she cried. "Senpai… Daki-senpai, no…"

Tengen said to Gyutaro, "Did you plan for this?"

"No… No, not at all…" He then suddenly and violently pushed Mukago to the side as she was still grieving and tried to swing at Tengen with his regular poisoned sickles, but Tengen quickly blocked him.

Mukago screamed as she was forced to let go of Daki's clothes, "No!"

As she ran off and left Daki's clothes behind, Tanjiro and Inosuke also backed off to let Tengen and Gyutaro battle it out on their own. Tengen shouted at Gyutaro, "I still have you to kill!"

"And you won't get a fucking chance to, man!"

As the two of them battled, James, Makio, Suma, and Hinatsuru all raced along the rooftops of the buildings around the area to reach them. As the mist weakened, they were able to see the battle more and more clearly. "There," James yelled as he pointed at the battle. "They're right over there!"

Hinatsuru quickly pulled out a machine she had grabbed and been carrying with her ever since Koinatsu had led her out of the caverns that would allow her to fire a large number of poisoned kunai knives at once. "I got this," she told the others as she aimed the machine at Gyutaro just as Tengen was forced away. "Hey, Tengen-sama, watch out!"

Tengen looked up just as Hinatsuru fired all the kunai knives at Gyutaro, who quickly tried to form a blood sickle dome to block them. However, he was not able to form the dome fast enough, and several poisoned kunai slipped through. He screamed in intense pain as they all impacted and poisoned him, "Agh, motherfucker!" As he felt his body slowly become immobilized, he thought to himself, "How did Daki die?! How was our life link severed?! What the fuck happened?!"

"Fuck yeah," Makio cheered as all four of them then slid down to the street to join the fight on the ground. "We got him!"

James asked Tengen, "What happened?! What's goin' on?!"

"We killed Daki rather unexpectedly," Tengen told him in response. "And now all we got is Gyutaro. What about those American demons?"

"We didn't run into 'em," James replied as he drew his sword. "At least not yet."

"We'll kill them once we're done with this guy," Tengen replied before he charged forward and got ready to strike Gyutaro now that he had been poisoned significantly. As he swung his sword, Gyutaro did his best to keep up, but felt himself losing track as the seconds ticked by. Suddenly, just as Tengen was about to reach for Gyutaro's neck, he heard a loud cracking sound before he felt a metal projectile hit his shoulder, sending him to the ground in searing pain. "Agh, fuck!"

Just as Nezuko raced up to the scene to join back in the main fight, she and the others all looked behind Gyutaro as a man with a rifle who had it aimed at Tengen lowered his gun, having just shot him. Next to him was in fact Jubal Early, and as more soldiers piled in behind him, he told the group of demon slayers, "Okay, okay, that's enough! This bullshit ends now, I'm afraid."

Hinatsuru, Makio, and Suma all raced for Tengen as they screamed in horror at him being shot. Suma yelled out, "They shot him! They shot Tengen-sama!"

Tanjiro shouted in shock, "Uzui-san! Uzui-san!"

"Agh… Damn it, he got me right in the shoulder…" Tengen bent down on his knees in pain as his wives rushed to his aid.

"Tengen-sama," Suma then asked him as she pulled out a roll of bandages. "Were you hit anywhere else?"

"No, no, just the shoulder…"

As Makio inspected the wound, she told the other two wives, "It looks like the bullet made a bit of a larger exit wound on the other side. Get me some bandages so I can apply pressure here."

"Right here," Suma replied as she handed Makio bandages.

"Don't panic, girls," Hinatsuru told Makio and Suma. "We got this. Panicking will only hurt him more."

Tanjiro said to himself as he stared at all the soldiers who were now lined up and ready to fight him and his comrades, "These must be the American demons that Colby-san was talking about."

As a follow-up to the author's note last time, Tiffany G was defeated in the OTW Board elections. Congratulations to the winners of the election. Fun fact, I had completed Chapter 119 before the election began, but I only ended up being able to post it right after it ended. Whoops.

Anyway, one last thing: We do not have to agree on politics for you to keep reading. I am not one of those people who will tell you what you can and can't read. Only dictators and authoritarians do that. However, if you're one of those 'Oh, I love this story, but I hate that the author got political about China' types or one of those 'I'm going to harass your family or dox you for what you said about our government' types, you might do well to fuck off. I stand by my beliefs about the so-called "People's Republic" of China and the Republic of China/Taiwan. For far too long, the Chinese people have been under the thumb of brutal dictators, and they deserve to be ruled by a democratic government such as the one in Taipei, not the one that has oppressed them for 73 years in Beijing.

That's just how I feel. How you feel is up to you.