Chapter Summaries

Scribe and Tengen Uzui investigated the suspicious Oiran Warabihime while Tanjiro, Inosuke, and Zenitsu completed their training for an undercover mission in the entertainment district. The chapter ended as Tengen reacted furiously to Inosuke suggesting that his wives might already be dead.

• Scribe, Koume, and Nezuko met Warabihime at Kyogoku House, where Scribe sensed something was wrong and warned the two young women to be careful.
• Scribe told Tengen Uzui that he had not seen Hinatsuru, and they agreed that Tanjiro and the others should finish training before joining the investigation.
• Warabihime returned to her room, entered a strange state, and spoke with a man's voice about visitors and the risk of Demon Slayers appearing.
• Scribe sensed a demonic presence near Kyogoku House while Tanjiro, Inosuke, and Zenitsu trained with a hairpin, face powder, and women's clothing.
• After the trio completed training, Tengen assigned them to find Suma at Toki-ya, Makio at Hagimoto House, and Hinatsuru at Kyogoku House, or gather intelligence themselves if they could not find them.
• Inosuke said Tengen's wives might already be dead, and Tengen lunged at him in anger.

Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke disguised themselves as girls and entered the Yoshiwara Flower District with Tengen Uzui to investigate. Tanjiro sensed a pleasant scent in a crowd, where they spotted Toki-ya's Oiran, Koinatsu.

• Wisteria House delivered clothes and cosmetics, and Tengen Uzui ordered Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke to disguise themselves as girls.
• Scribe chose to enter openly in his usual conspicuous clothes, pretending to be drunk, while Tengen Uzui accompanied him.
• Tengen Uzui named the disguised boys Taniko, Zenko, and Inoko, then led them to the Yoshiwara Flower District.
• Zenitsu gawked at the courtesans, while Tengen Uzui scolded Inosuke for scratching and picking his ears.
• Tanjiro sensed a pleasant scent and led the group to a crowd gathered around Toki-ya's Oiran, Koinatsu.

Scribe arrived at Toki-ya in an Oiran procession, astonishing Tanjiro, Zenitsu, Inosuke, and Tengen Uzui, while Tengen tried to place the three boys as maids to investigate the house. Tanjiro was accepted by the proprietress as Taniko, and Tengen took Zenitsu and Inosuke to their next stop.

• Tengen Uzui explained that Koinatsu’s procession welcomed important guests, and Scribe arrived to be greeted by the Oiran.
• Koinatsu escorted Scribe into Toki-ya, while Tanjiro and the others wondered how he had gained such status.
• Tengen brought Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke to Toki-ya and asked the proprietress to take them in as maids.
• The proprietress initially hesitated over the boys’ appearance, but Tengen’s charm persuaded her to accept Tanjiro.
• Tanjiro introduced himself as Taniko and agreed to work, while Tengen led Zenitsu and Inosuke onward.

Tengen Uzui placed Inosuke at Hagimoto House and Zenitsu at Kyogoku House while Scribe and Tanjiro entered Toki-ya to search for the demon. Scribe found two girls discussing strange events at Kyogoku House and asked them what had happened.

• Tengen Uzui left Inosuke with Hagimoto House's recruiter, who was delighted by his appearance and planned to make him popular.
• Tengen Uzui sold Zenitsu to Kyogoku House, where the recruiter predicted he would rise in status after hearing him play the Shamisen.
• Tengen Uzui entered a house in disguise, completing the group's placements across Toki-ya, Kyogoku House, and Hagimoto House.
• Scribe drank with Koinatsu at Toki-ya while quietly searching for signs of a demon.
• Scribe followed Koinatsu out of the room, found two girls talking about strange events at Kyogoku House, and asked them to explain.

Scribe investigated rumors about Kyogoku House’s mistress and learned that Suma had disappeared, then found a blood-written warning in her room. Meanwhile, Tanjiro worked at the house under the name Taniko and overheard that several women had vanished after going out to receive clients.

• Two girls told Scribe and Koinatsu that Kyogoku House’s mistress had vanished and returned acting like a different person.
• Scribe connected the mistress’s disappearance to changes in the story he remembered and suspected Imamura might be involved.
• Koinatsu told Scribe that Suma had gone out that morning and had not returned, then suffered a sudden headache.
• Scribe searched Suma’s empty room and found the word “Run!” written in blood inside a wardrobe.
• Tanjiro, working as Taniko, delivered packages to Koinatsu’s room and overheard two girls discussing women who had disappeared after receiving clients.

Tanjiro learned what Koinatsu knew about Suma after claiming she was his older sister, and he and Koinatsu discovered they both knew Scribe. Inosuke tracked down clues about Makio, who was being restrained and interrogated by an unseen enemy.

• Tanjiro asked Koinatsu about Suma and lied that she was his older sister, prompting Koinatsu to share some information while keeping other details from him.
• Scribe arrived, and Tanjiro and Koinatsu realized they both knew him well.
• Tengen Uzui left Hagimoto House without detecting a demon and decided to find Scribe to exchange information.
• Inosuke overheard that Makio had been shut in her room for days and followed the clues to her room.
• An unseen voice interrogated Makio as she struggled against a force holding her in place.

Makio resisted a demon’s attempt to tempt her, but the demon captured her and pulled her into the ceiling. Scribe and Tengen Uzui suspected an Upper Rank was behind the disappearances, while Inosuke discovered the demon’s trail and chased it through Hagimoto House.

• A strange voice threatened Makio after she refused to obey, then someone appeared at her window and the demon pulled her into the ceiling.
• Scribe told Tengen Uzui that Suma had likely fallen into a demon’s hands and suspected the demon might be an Upper Rank.
• Inosuke found Makio’s bloodstained, disordered room and recognized that a demon was hiding in the attic.
• Inosuke chased the demon through the attic and decided to smash through a wall to stop it escaping.
• A drunken guest stepped into Inosuke’s path, and Inosuke punched him into the wall as nearby geisha screamed.

Zenitsu investigated a girl’s cries at Kyogoku House and encountered Warabihime, whose presence seemed unnaturally deathly. Scribe sensed an Upper Rank and left Toki-ya after asking Koinatsu to write him a letter.

• Inosuke lost the demon’s trail after it escaped downstairs and blamed Zenitsu for interfering.
• Zenitsu heard a girl crying while searching Kyogoku House for Hinatsuru and went to investigate.
• Scribe sensed an Upper Rank near Kyogoku House, asked Koinatsu to write a letter, and went out.
• Zenitsu found a wrecked room and met Warabihime, whose voice and presence unsettled him.
• Warabihime comforted the crying girl and asked her and the others to clean up, while Zenitsu took the girl to be treated.

Scribe exposed a Wisteria House man as a demon and confronted the demon proprietress of Hagimoto House. After freeing the young demon to dodge the proprietress’s poison needles, Scribe appeared in front of her as she tried to retreat.

• Zenitsu realized that Koume and Nezuko had also sensed something wrong with Warabihime, and he carried a crying girl outside.
• Scribe followed a man from Wisteria House into Hagimoto House and confronted him.
• Scribe tested the man with a feigned attack, and the man revealed himself as a demon by using Blood Demon Art: Crimson Armor.
• The demon called for help, and Hagimoto House’s proprietress attacked Scribe with poisoned needles using her Blood Demon Arts.
• Scribe released the young demon to dodge the proprietress’s needles, and she shouted for him to run before Scribe appeared in front of her.

Scribe discovered that people in the Entertainment District were being changed by blood and rushed to investigate Mitsu, while a guest attacked Zenitsu at Kyogoku House. The chapter ended as Zenitsu braced for the punch.

• Scribe knocked out the Hagimoto House proprietress, noticed a fading red mark on her forehead, and let the young man escape before leaving unseen.
• Scribe compared the proprietress's strange condition with Inosuke's encounter with Makio and suspected Mitsu had undergone the same change.
• Warabihime forced Mitsu to swallow a pool of blood, then said the plan was proceeding smoothly.
• At Kyogoku House, a guest asked Zenitsu her name and then declared he could kill her without mercy.
• The guest punched at Zenitsu's head, and Zenitsu raised her arm to defend herself.

A tall demon attacked Zenitsu at Kyogoku House, while Scribe pursued him after learning Zenitsu had been hurt. Scribe discovered the entrance attendant was suspicious and seized him, forcing him to agree to talk.

• The tall man used Blood Demon Art to blast Zenitsu through a door, then left Kyogoku House after receiving an order.
• Tanjiro finished his chores at Toki-ya and received another task from the proprietress.
• The Hagimoto House handler found Inosuke contorted on the floor, and Inosuke sprang up with his bones snapping back into place.
• Scribe heard that Zenko had been attacked, questioned the entrance attendant, and pursued the tall man in the direction the attendant indicated.
• Scribe realized the attendant had misled him, returned to Kyogoku House, and grabbed the young man before dragging him into a secluded alley.
• Scribe threatened the young man until he panicked and promised to reveal everything.

Scribe uncovered that Tonryoku had recruited the indebted young man into an organization that turned people into demon-like creatures, then heard from a second, unidentified mastermind who claimed to have prepared traps for him. Scribe returned to Kyogoku House to check on Zenitsu and discovered that she had vanished from her room.

• Scribe questioned the young man, who admitted Tonryoku had paid his gambling debts and recruited him into a mysterious organization promising wealth and immortality.
• The young man convulsed as Tonryoku took control of his body, then a second man spoke through him, mentioned Imamura, and threatened Scribe with hidden traps.
• The young man died, and Scribe concluded that the Entertainment District held more humanlike demons and that the Demon Slayer Corps had been infiltrated.
• Scribe went back to Kyogoku House and learned that Zenitsu had been left to rest in a room after receiving food and a cold towel.
• Scribe and a geisha found Zenitsu's room empty, with a towel on the floor and a bowl of noodles overturned.

Scribe discovered that Zenitsu had been abducted through a hidden hole in the floor, while the boss refused to investigate her disappearance. He told Tanjiro and Inosuke that Zenitsu was missing, and Tengen warned them that a likely Upper Rank demon made the Entertainment District too dangerous for them.

• Scribe examined Zenitsu's room, found a blood-scented hole in the floor, and concluded that she had been taken.
• The boss dismissed Zenko's disappearance as her running away and ordered the geisha not to mention her again.
• Scribe and Tengen joined Tanjiro and Inosuke on the rooftop and told them Zenitsu would not be coming because she had been abducted.
• Tengen apologized for his mistaken judgments and urged Tanjiro and Inosuke to leave the Entertainment District because an Upper Rank demon might be there.
• Scribe revealed that Tanjiro and Inosuke had reached Kinoe rank and explained that their rank marks came from Wisteria Carving.

Tanjiro and Inosuke agreed to investigate their assigned houses and wait until night to pursue the demons, while Scribe prepared for the coming battle. Scribe also promised to take Koinatsu away that night, and he waited for nightfall, suspecting the mastermind had targeted Zenitsu and the others to keep him in place.

• Tengen Uzui left to handle the remaining demons, and Scribe encouraged Tanjiro and Inosuke to stay alive and decide for themselves whether to join the fight.
• Tanjiro and Inosuke agreed to return to their respective houses and wait until night, suspecting demons were using secret passages to move between the houses.
• Scribe returned to Toki-ya, where Koinatsu revealed she had decided to leave and give her two favorite hairpins to the girls who followed her.
• Scribe promised to take Koinatsu away that night, then waited for nightfall and suspected the mastermind had taken Zenitsu, Suma, and the others to keep him confined.

Scribe received a personal invitation from a powerful figure and prepared to attend, while warning a young girl to stay with her companions because a grand show was coming. Tanjiro left Toki-ya after speaking with Koinatsu, and Scribe arrived at the estate, sensing demons inside.

• A geisha delivered Scribe an invitation from a subordinate of an important figure, and Scribe agreed to attend.
• Scribe saw a blood-red insect leave the geisha’s hair and told her not to worry about it.
• Before leaving, Scribe gave a note to a young girl for Koinatsu and warned her to stay with her companions that night.
• Tanjiro gave Koinatsu a sealed letter for his expenses and learned that she already knew about the Demon Slayer Corps and his mission.
• Tanjiro left Toki-ya after Koinatsu wished him safety in the coming battle.
• Scribe reached the estate, sensed several strange presences inside, and realized demons were there.

Scribe entered Dichai’s estate and discovered that it housed an organized group of demons seeking to establish their own nation. After meeting Dichai, he learned that the hidden figure in the ceiling was Imamura.

• Rokuya welcomed Scribe into the estate and revealed that he had become a demon with Lord Tonryoku’s help.
• Rokuya introduced Scribe to the estate’s demon members, including Anze, Shiragi, and Iryu, while Scribe recorded their names.
• Scribe met Tonryoku and Mitsu, recognized Mitsu as the proprietress of Kyogoku House, and suspected the demons had an organized plan.
• Tonryoku brought Scribe into a lavish room, where Dichai introduced himself and said he wanted to discuss something with him.
• Scribe noticed someone hiding in the ceiling, and the figure revealed himself as Imamura.

Scribe met Kamihito Ichi, who invited him to become a demon, while Inosuke grew impatient and set off to hunt demons. Tengen Uzui infiltrated Kyogoku House and learned that Zenko had disappeared and Hinatsuru had been sent to Kirimise, then demanded more information.

• Dichai introduced Kamihito Ichi to Scribe, who recognized him from a deal they had made centuries earlier.
• Kamihito Ichi invited Scribe to become a demon, and Scribe demanded to know what he meant.
• Inosuke took his swords from Tengen Uzui’s Muscle Rats, charged through Hagimoto House, and frightened two geisha unconscious.
• Mitsu told the owner of Kyogoku House that she would join Dichai in founding a country, then slapped him during their argument and left.
• Tengen Uzui held the owner at kunai-point and learned that Zenko had disappeared and Hinatsuru had been sent to Kirimise.

Tengen Uzui questioned the shop owner about Mitsu’s disappearance and left to investigate, while Koume and Nezuko confronted Warabihime’s demonic form. At Dichai’s residence, Scribe rejected Kamihito Ichi’s offer to join them, and Imamura berated Kamihito Ichi as the chapter ended.

• Tengen Uzui forced the shop owner to name the suspicious girls, Warabihime, and Dichai, then promised to investigate and try to save his wife.
• Warabihime revealed herself as the Stitched Demon and attacked Koume, while Nezuko watched and Koume exposed how Warabihime had made herself beautiful.
• Scribe refused Kamihito Ichi’s offer to join their plan and said he would agree only if Kamihito Ichi brought Muzan so Scribe could cut him.
• Kamihito Ichi recalled how his curiosity about demons had become worship and led him to become one under Dichai’s service.
• Imamura condemned Kamihito Ichi’s failed scheme and angrily insulted him.

Scribe repelled Imamura and Kamihito Ichi’s coordinated attack and learned that their allies were carrying out a larger plan. Imamura and Kamihito Ichi transformed and revealed themselves as Upper Rank Sixes, leaving Scribe to face their full power.

• Kamihito Ichi attacked Imamura, but Imamura escaped with Ninja Substitution Jutsu, and the two demons joined forces to ambush Scribe.
• Scribe used a carpet to deflect the poisoned stone fans, destroying them and clearing the battlefield while avoiding their hidden secondary attack.
• Dichai told Tonryoku to carry out the plan with the others, and Scribe dismissed the demons’ threat to his companions.
• Imamura revealed his scaled face and mocked Scribe’s allies, then transformed into a towering demon covered in scales and bone spikes.
• Kamihito Ichi’s fan changed as red veins spread across it and a large eyeball appeared; both demons displayed the words “Upper Rank Six.”

Scribe received a hidden mission to eliminate Dichai as Imamura and Kamihito Ichi confronted him, while Koinatsu tried to escape the Entertainment District with Karin and Sui. The chapter left Koinatsu facing Mitsu, whom Scribe had warned might be a demon, and torn between fleeing alone and protecting the girls.

• Scribe received a hidden mission to eliminate Dichai, and the target count increased from 108 to 109.
• Imamura and Kamihito Ichi prepared to fight Scribe, who drew his Nichirin Blade and challenged them.
• Koinatsu led Karin and Sui through a dark alley after leaving a letter and money behind at Toki-ya.
• Koinatsu recognized Mitsu approaching and recalled Scribe's warning to flee if she encountered her.
• Koinatsu weighed escaping alone against taking Karin and Sui with her, while Karin urged Mitsu to examine her.