Recaps

Giyu advanced rapidly after surviving Final Selection, defeating demons alongside Sabito and then alone, including Lower Rank One Tetsusai. After recovering from his grievous injuries, he learned that Tsutako’s haori had been too damaged to wear.

• Giyu returned to face the Hand Demon, killed it with Water Breathing, Tenth Form: Constant Flux, and helped Sabito survive Final Selection.
• Back at Mount Sagiri, Giyu astonished Sabito and Urokodaki with his Water Breathing skill, then continued training before he and Sabito departed on separate missions.
• Giyu killed a demon in Inaba Village, then joined Akamatsu Enjirō’s squad in Defiled Wood Mountain and helped destroy the Wood Demon’s core.
• After Giyu recovered at Wisteria House, he traveled to Blue Stone Town, where the villagers sent him to face Lower Rank One, Tetsusai.
• Tetsusai shattered Giyu’s Nichirin Blade and nearly killed him, but Giyu entered the Transparent World and beheaded the demon with his broken sword.
• Shinjuro Rengoku rescued Giyu and brought him for treatment as news of his victory spread through the Corps, and Kagaya Ubuyashiki ordered his promotion to Water Hashira after he recovered.
• Giyu awoke in the medical department and learned from Shirakawa Sumie that Tsutako’s haori had been too damaged to wear.

Giyu became the Water Hashira and rushed to Crimson Sakura Village, where he saved Gyomei, Kanae, and Shinobu from four Lower Ranks. After the sisters’ parents died, Giyu brought them to Urokodaki to begin training, then left for a Hashira meeting as they promised to keep improving.

• Giyu accepted his appointment as Water Hashira, received the Azure Tide blade, and met Gyomei at Swordsmith Village.
• Muzan sent four Lower Ranks after Giyu, and the demons gathered near Crimson Sakura Village before launching a massacre.
• Gyomei fought the demons while protecting Kanae and Shinobu, and Giyu arrived in time to stop Jinhua’s attack and kill the remaining demons.
• Kanae and Shinobu mourned their parents, then asked to join the Demon Slayer Corps, and Giyu agreed to take them to Urokodaki for Water Breathing training.
• Giyu brought the sisters to Mount Sagiri, where they passed Urokodaki’s mountain test and asked to call Giyu their senior brother.
• Kanae and Shinobu trained with Giyu, watched him demonstrate all ten Water Breathing forms, and vowed to work hard after he left for a Hashira meeting.