Recaps

Shinobu Kocho resorted to plan B when Giyu Tomioka refused to act on Kanae’s letter while drugged. She drank the remaining aphrodisiac tea herself, and its effects quickly left her delirious in Giyu’s arms.

• Giyu Tomioka hesitated to take advantage of Shinobu Kocho and suggested they wait for Kanae to return before discussing the situation.
• Shinobu Kocho slipped out of Giyu’s embrace and grabbed the second cup of tea.
• Shinobu Kocho drank the entire cup of aphrodisiac-laced tea before Giyu could stop her.
• The drug took effect within seconds, leaving Shinobu flushed, delirious, and pleading with Giyu for help.

After Shinobu Kocho drank the aphrodisiac herself, Giyu Tomioka gave in and spent the night with her. The next morning, Shinobu woke in his arms, remembered what had happened, and blushed in embarrassment.

• Shinobu Kocho clung to Giyu Tomioka and begged him to take her after the drug overwhelmed her.
• Giyu carried Shinobu to bed and stopped resisting her advances.
• After their night together, Giyu woke refreshed beside the sleeping Shinobu.
• Shinobu woke, tried to sit up, and fell back against Giyu when her body hurt.
• Giyu urged Shinobu to rest and used Water Breathing to soothe her.
• Shinobu remembered the previous night and blushed at the embarrassing memories.

Shinobu Kocho demanded that Giyu Tomioka recognize her as his wife and promise to care for her and Kanae, and he agreed. After their affectionate morning together, Shinobu was too sore to leave bed, so Giyu went to fetch her chicken soup.

• Shinobu Kocho accused Giyu Tomioka of causing her soreness and insisted that he take responsibility for her as his wife.
• Giyu promised Shinobu that he would never abandon her or Kanae and would protect them for the rest of their lives.
• Shinobu joyfully kissed Giyu, and he returned her kiss.
• When Shinobu tried to get out of bed to go with Giyu, she collapsed, and he carried her back and ordered her to rest.
• Giyu left to have old hen soup prepared for Shinobu and promised to return soon.

After spending the night with Shinobu, Giyu arranged restorative soup for her and then sensed that his Transparent World might be advancing again. He focused on a drifting wisteria petal, but the chapter ended before he learned what the second advancement would bring.

• Giyu asked the kitchen cooks to prepare chicken soup for Shinobu, and they mistakenly concluded she had become his second wife.
• Shinobu woke in Giyu's bed, delighted that their night together had been real, then fell asleep again.
• Giyu fed Shinobu two bowls of soup when she woke around noon, and she returned to bed to rest.
• Giyu sensed a possible second advancement of his Transparent World and concentrated on a falling wisteria petal.
• Giyu's eyes ached as he ended his attempt, leaving him hopeful that his Transparent World could reach a new level.

Kanae returned early from her mission and found Giyu hiding his guilt after spending the night with Shinobu. When Shinobu appeared, Kanae revealed that she had arranged for the sisters to share Giyu and reassured him that she was happy about it.

• Kanae came home early and embraced Giyu, who nervously tried to keep her from seeing the bedroom.
• Shinobu emerged from the bedroom wearing Giyu's oversized undergarment, and Kanae realized what had happened.
• Kanae reacted with delight at finding Shinobu with Giyu instead of becoming angry.
• Kanae told Giyu she had arranged the encounter and said she was glad the sisters could now stay together and love him.

Kanae Kocho and Shinobu Kocho teased each other about their marriages to Giyu Tomioka, then competed playfully to care for him at dinner. That night, the three shared a bed and affirmed their love and hope for a peaceful future together.

• Kanae Kocho teased Shinobu Kocho about her sore legs, and Shinobu retorted by boasting that Giyu Tomioka found her more lovable.
• Giyu Tomioka excused himself from the sisters' scheming and went to prepare firewood and check on dinner.
• At dinner, Shinobu Kocho eagerly fed Giyu and tried to claim his attention, while Kanae Kocho gently served him and stopped Shinobu from climbing onto his lap.
• Shinobu Kocho and Kanae Kocho each claimed one of Giyu Tomioka's sides in bed, and they settled into the night without starting a fight.
• Giyu Tomioka thanked both sisters, and Kanae Kocho said they feared neither the demons nor the final battle as long as the three could live happily together.

Giyu Tomioka put Kanae Kocho through a punishing training bout while Shinobu Kocho teased her from the sidelines. Kanae began to sense Giyu’s attacks beyond what she could see, but his blade stopped at her neck.

• Giyu Tomioka trained Kanae Kocho at the Butterfly Mansion while Shinobu Kocho watched and joked about Kanae’s frustration.
• Kanae launched Flower Breathing, Fourth Form—Crimson Hanagoromo and Fifth Form—Peonies of Futility against Giyu.
• Giyu blocked Kanae’s attacks with precise movements, then overwhelmed her with a rapid counterattack.
• Giyu told Kanae to rely on her other senses rather than her eyes when an opponent moved too quickly to follow.
• Kanae instinctively shifted away from Giyu’s thrust, and his blade stopped beside her neck.

Giyu trained Kanae to approach the Transparent World while Shinobu watched from the sidelines and argued with him after he insulted her strength. Above them, Kanzaburo boasted to Xiao Cui that Giyu’s status made him the boss of the crow world, and the two crows fought.

• Giyu stopped Kanae’s training and told her she had nearly reached the Transparent World, then ordered her to rest before another round.
• Kanae asked Shinobu to help train, but Shinobu refused and teased her about Giyu’s expectations.
• Giyu said Shinobu was too short and weak to train for the Transparent World, prompting Shinobu to threaten to put laxatives in his dinner.
• Kanzaburo claimed he had guided Giyu to greatness and declared himself the boss of the crow world because Giyu was head of the Butterfly Mansion.
• Xiao Cui called Kanzaburo a shameless old crow, and the two crows traded insults before fighting on the branch.

Giyu awakened a passive ability that showed him Tanjiro confronting Muzan in Asakusa, so he raced there to seize the rare chance to catch Muzan. Tanjiro, unaware that Giyu was coming, continued toward Asakusa after failing to get information about Muzan from the Swamp Demon.

• Giyu saw a fragment of the future in which Tanjiro grabbed Muzan in Asakusa and recognized the location.
• Giyu ended training with Kanae and Shinobu and rushed toward Asakusa at tremendous speed, leaving Kanzaburo behind.
• Kanae and Shinobu were left wondering whether Giyu would return for dinner.
• Tanjiro recalled how the Swamp Demon had killed itself rather than reveal anything about Muzan.
• Tanjiro continued toward Asakusa carrying Tamayo's Demon Suppressant in a wooden box.

Tanjiro arrived in Asakusa and was overwhelmed by the city’s sights, sounds, and smells before stopping at a udon stall to eat. Just as he was about to take a bite, he recognized Muzan Kibutsuji’s scent nearby and rushed into the crowd to pursue him.

• Tanjiro entered Asakusa and mistook a streetcar for a demon’s Blood Demon Art, while the demon personality pretended to understand it.
• Tanjiro was overwhelmed by the city’s jumbled smells and escaped into a quieter alley.
• Hungry, Tanjiro ordered a large bowl of yam udon from a stall owner and prepared to eat.
• Tanjiro caught Muzan Kibutsuji’s scent, left money on the table, and plunged into the crowd to find him.

Tanjiro Kamado found Muzan Kibutsuji in Asakusa and confronted him, but discovered Muzan was accompanied by an unsuspecting human wife and daughter. Muzan hid his alarm and played the part of a harmless businessman, while Tanjiro remained unable to attack without endangering them.

• Tanjiro followed Muzan's scent through the crowded shopping street and grabbed the suited man, revealing Muzan Kibutsuji.
• Muzan's blood overwhelmed Tanjiro's demon cells, but Tanjiro resisted and reached for his Nichirin Blade.
• A young girl called Muzan her father, and Tanjiro saw that she and the woman beside Muzan were ordinary humans.
• Muzan recognized Tanjiro, feared that Giyu Tomioka might be nearby, and decided to conceal his identity and leave safely.
• Muzan introduced himself as Mr. Tsukihiko and claimed Tanjiro had mistaken him for a relative, while secretly coveting Tanjiro's unusual scent.
• Tanjiro could not draw his blade because Muzan's wife and daughter were close to him and could be caught in the attack.

Muzan turned a passerby into a demon to distract Tanjiro and escape through the panicked crowd. After sending his fake family away, Muzan tried to summon Nakime, but a sudden disturbance in the alley put him on guard.

• Muzan scratched a passerby with his nails, and the man transformed into a demon and attacked his girlfriend.
• Tanjiro knocked the demon unconscious and helped the injured woman, allowing Muzan to escape as patrol officers blocked Tanjiro.
• Tanjiro vowed to pursue Muzan, who dismissed him as an experimental specimen and entered a back alley.
• Muzan sent his human wife and Reiko home, then ordered Nakime to move the Infinity Castle to Asakusa and bring him back.
• Withered leaves stopped in midair, and a rumble made Muzan's body go on alert.

Giyu Tomioka ambushed Muzan Kibutsuji in Asakusa and overwhelmed him with a Red Nichirin Blade strike, sending him flying toward the hills outside the city. Passersby mistook Muzan’s flight for a shooting star and made wishes as he cursed in the sky.

• Giyu descended on Muzan, whose disguise was exposed, and blocked his escape route with a slash guided by Future Sight.
• Muzan hardened his arms with his Blood Demon Art and braced for Giyu’s Moon Breathing attack.
• Giyu struck Muzan with Moon-Dragon Ringtail, breaking his armor and launching him out of Asakusa.
• Mizuno Taro and other people on a bridge mistook the flying Muzan for a shooting star and wished for good fortune and the destruction of demons.
• Uncle Fengsheng also mistook Muzan for a shooting star and wished that Tanjiro would return to eat his udon.

Giyu Tomioka trapped Muzan Kibutsuji in a ring of fire and began overwhelming him in a fierce battle. Muzan relied on regeneration and hoped to survive until Nakime brought the Infinity Castle, but Giyu’s final strike split him in two.

• Giyu’s sword energy hurled Muzan into a mountain forest, badly wounding him before Muzan regenerated.
• Giyu surrounded Muzan with a thousand-meter ring of flames, cutting off his escape.
• Muzan revealed he had sent his coordinates to Nakime and planned to hold out for thirty minutes until the Infinity Castle arrived.
• Muzan attacked with bone whips, blades, and spikes, but Giyu cut through them and wounded him repeatedly.
• Giyu evaded Muzan’s poison and tentacles, then shattered his bone-whip guard and cleaved through the right side of his body.

Giyu Tomioka overwhelmed Muzan Kibutsuji in close combat, but Muzan used his rapid regeneration to endure the barrage and then created distance with an ice-type Blood Demon Art. Giyu charged into Muzan’s blizzard, and Muzan began bombarding him with further ice attacks.

• Muzan detonated part of his torso to escape Giyu’s blade, regenerated, and realized he could not win a close-range fight.
• Muzan lunged at Giyu with bone claws and tentacles, but Giyu shattered them and answered with a rapid series of slashes.
• Giyu cut Muzan more than a hundred times in thirty seconds, while Muzan managed only to leave faint blood streaks on Giyu’s haori.
• Muzan leapt away and unleashed Freezing Clouds, Cold White Princesses, filling the mountainside with freezing, poisonous mist and ice crystals.
• Giyu countered the first wave with Moon Breathing and charged through the blizzard, while Muzan launched additional ice-based Blood Demon Arts from a distance.

Giyu Tomioka broke through Muzan’s relentless ice, lightning, and rock attacks and wounded him with a blazing Sun Breathing strike. Muzan retreated and unleashed a bloodwood forest to keep Giyu away.

• Muzan bombarded Giyu with ice-type Blood Demon Arts for ten minutes, but Giyu smashed through the attacks and advanced to within thirty meters.
• Muzan combined black-red lightning and collapsing granite pillars, but Giyu used Water Breathing’s Constant Flux to cut through them and build momentum.
• Giyu transformed his water dragon into a crimson-gold fire dragon and pierced Muzan’s defenses, burning away part of his shoulder and three of his hearts.
• Muzan kicked apart the mountain wall to retreat, then used his blood to awaken the earth veins and create the Soul-Eating Giant Tree Formation.

Giyu Tomioka overwhelmed Muzan Kibutsuji through poison, aerial attacks, and repeated sword strikes, but he could not kill the Demon King before thirty minutes passed. Muzan, still alive and nearly out of blood, called for Nakime to open the door.

• Muzan used poisonous blood trees to trap Giyu, but Giyu burned a path through them with Sun Breathing.
• Muzan sprouted black wings and attacked from the sky with sonic blasts, lightning, and bone spears, but Giyu deflected the assault and struck back with Moon Breathing.
• Giyu severed Muzan's wing and cut him in half with a Sun Breathing slash as he fell.
• After thirty minutes of fighting, Muzan had regenerated from Giyu's attacks while losing nearly twenty percent of his vital blood.
• Muzan admitted Giyu might defeat him if they fought longer, then called to Nakime to open the door.

After killing the newly turned demon, Tanjiro learned that Giyu might be fighting Muzan and prepared to find him, but Kokushibo appeared to capture him. Seeing Tanjiro’s scar and Sun Wheel Hanafuda Earrings, Kokushibo mistook him for Yoriichi’s descendant or a successor to Sun Breathing.

• Tanjiro beheaded the newly turned demon and blamed himself for failing to save the passerby or stop Muzan.
• Demon Tanjiro urged him to follow Giyu’s sword-energy scent, and Tanjiro rose to leave the alley.
• A biwa note opened a spatial doorway, and Kokushibo emerged to capture Tanjiro alive on Muzan’s orders.
• Kokushibo recognized Tanjiro’s earrings and scar as resembling Yoriichi and questioned whether Tanjiro was his descendant or a Sun Breathing successor.

Giyu Tomioka pursued Muzan Kibutsuji into the Infinity Castle and survived Nakime’s attempt to make him fall to his death. Muzan summoned more than a thousand elite demons to swarm Giyu, hoping to wear him down before fighting him himself.

• Muzan retreated through Nakime’s portal into the Infinity Castle and taunted Giyu to follow him.
• Giyu used his foresight to anticipate the portal and charged through just before the doors closed.
• Giyu fell from high above the castle but used Water Breathing, Second Form—Water Wheel to slow his fall and land safely.
• Muzan ordered Nakime to open ten doors and summoned more than a thousand Quasi-Lower Rank demons to attack Giyu.
• Muzan watched the demons surround Giyu, expecting them to drain his strength.

Giyu Tomioka charged into the demon horde in the Infinity Castle and used several Breathing Styles he had learned by observation to slaughter hundreds of demons. The remaining demons panicked, while Giyu decided that his own styles were more practical for serious fighting.

• Giyu entered the densest part of the demon horde and used Wind Breathing to cut down the first wave.
• Giyu copied Kyojuro Rengoku's stance and unleashed Flame Breathing to attack demons on a suspended corridor.
• Giyu used Sound Breathing to destroy an encircling group of demons with sonic booms.
• Giyu struck the suspension bridge with Stone Breathing, destroying the bridge and more than thirty armored demons.
• Giyu complained about the drawbacks of the borrowed techniques, and the surviving demons panicked and begged Nakime to let them escape.

Giyu Tomioka unveiled Sun Wheel Moon Radiance Breathing and slaughtered Muzan Kibutsuji’s remaining elite demons with its red-and-white techniques. Muzan was left stunned by Giyu’s fusion of Sun Breathing and Moon Breathing.

• Muzan Kibutsuji threatened the demons with death and ordered them to attack Giyu Tomioka together.
• Giyu used Sun Wheel Moon Radiance Breathing’s First Form to burn and cut through the demons’ combined Blood Demon Arts.
• Giyu charged through another horde with his Fourth Form, then used his Fifth Form to destroy two hundred demons in a fiery vortex.
• Giyu’s Sixth Form filled the sky with blades and wiped out the fleeing demons, leaving the battlefield silent.
• Muzan recognized the Sun and Moon Breathing powers in Giyu’s blade and roared in disbelief at his new Breathing Style.

Muzan unleashed his Black Abyss Demonic Qi and attacked Giyu Tomioka from the air with black-flame arrows. Giyu broke through the barrage and struck Muzan with a devastating slash, leaving him badly wounded.

• Muzan transformed his hair and summoned a black greatbow made from Black Abyss Demonic Qi.
• Muzan fired more than thirty black-flame arrows at Giyu while moving through the air to avoid retaliation.
• Giyu used Sun Wheel Moon Radiance Breathing, Third Form, to destroy the arrows and rush toward Muzan.
• Giyu reached Muzan despite his attempt to escape with Nakime’s help and struck with Sun Wheel Moon Radiance Breathing, Second Form.
• Giyu shattered Muzan’s demonic bow and blasted him through several suspended pavilions, leaving a deep, charred wound across his chest.

Giyu Tomioka and Muzan Kibutsuji fought at full strength in the Infinity Castle, reaching a stalemate as their attacks devastated the surrounding structures. Elsewhere, Tanjiro Kamado was thrown into a martial arts hall, where he faced Upper Rank One Kokushibo while badly wounded.

• Muzan formed a demonic spear and shield and charged Giyu for a head-on battle.
• Giyu and Muzan exchanged more than a hundred blows in a second, while their clash destroyed nearby demons and buildings.
• Giyu used his Sun Wheel Moon Radiance Breathing forms to break Muzan’s shield and wound his shoulder, but Muzan regenerated and counterattacked.
• Giyu and Muzan fought across the Infinity Castle, neither able to overpower the other.
• A biwa doorway opened in a distant martial arts hall, and a large hand hurled Tanjiro into the room.
• Tanjiro got to his feet despite his severe shoulder wound and saw Kokushibo approach.

Tanjiro confronted Kokushibo in the Infinity Castle and borrowed forty percent of the Demon Consciousness’s power despite the risk of losing himself after thirty minutes. His transformation brought his strength close to Kokushibo’s level as the two prepared to fight.

• Tanjiro realized the Infinity Castle held no ordinary people and resolved to unleash his full power against Kokushibo.
• Kokushibo challenged Tanjiro to reveal the strength he had withheld to protect civilians.
• Tanjiro asked the Demon Consciousness how much power he could borrow, and it warned that using forty percent for over thirty minutes could destroy his mind.
• Tanjiro accepted the danger and asked the Demon Consciousness to lend him its power.
• Tanjiro transformed, healed his shoulder wound, and turned his Nichirin Blade red as his pressure rose nearly to Kokushibo’s level.

Tanjiro Kamado, transformed into a demon, fought Kokushibo in the training hall with Sun Breathing while Kokushibo answered with Moon Breathing. The chapter ended as Tanjiro charged into Kokushibo’s full-moon storm and their attacks erupted in a clash.

• Kokushibo recognized Tanjiro’s inherited Sun Breathing and challenged him, determined to defeat Yoriichi Tsugikuni’s successor.
• Tanjiro and Kokushibo’s opening strikes collided, and Tanjiro pushed through Kokushibo’s Moon Breathing attacks by relying on his demon body’s rapid healing.
• Tanjiro burned Kokushibo’s cheek with his Red Nichirin Blade, suppressing his regeneration and intensifying Kokushibo’s excitement for the fight.
• Tanjiro evaded Kokushibo’s Waning Moonswaths and burned the eyes on Kokyū Shinku, forcing Kokushibo to retreat.
• Kokushibo unleashed Moon Breathing, Fourteenth Form, Catastrophe, Tenman Crescent Moon, and Tanjiro charged into the storm with Sun Breathing, Tenth and Twelfth Forms.