Chapter Summaries

Yaha effortlessly destroyed Gyokko’s attacks while mocking his art, then sliced Gyokko and his hidden escape pot as Gyokko tried to flee. Gyokko was left in agony as Yaha told him he was not finished reviewing his art.

• Gyokko grew furious when Yaha stepped on his sculpture and insulted his art.
• Gyokko attacked Yaha with Water Pot Tentacles, but they shattered before reaching him.
• Gyokko unleashed Ten Thousand Gliding Slimefish, and Yaha sliced the fish and their venom into powder.
• Gyokko tried to escape into his buried main pot, but Yaha sliced the pot and Gyokko’s left shoulder.
• Yaha asked Gyokko why he was running and said he was not done reviewing his art.

Yaha defeated Gyokko’s poison attack and erased the demon, including his hidden main pot. He then sensed Muichiro Tokito watching from the trees and demanded that he come out.

• Gyokko tried to regenerate his severed shoulder, but the wound kept rotting away.
• Gyokko released a cloud of deadly poison in a desperate attempt to kill Yaha, but Yaha’s Dismantle sliced it out of existence.
• Gyokko begged Yaha to spare him, but Yaha sliced Gyokko and his hidden main pot into powder.
• Yaha gained a small increase in Roleplay Level, then spotted Muichiro Tokito behind the trees and ordered him to come out.

Yaha recovered and swallowed Gyokko’s essence, then confronted Muichiro and forced him to face the grief behind his paralysis. As Yaha left, the essence’s backlash began to manifest as a fourth arm breaking through his right hand.

• Yaha drew Gyokko’s scattered essence together, formed it into a finger, and swallowed it.
• Muichiro asked Yaha what he was, and Yaha berated him for lacking the courage and killing intent to wield his sword.
• Yaha’s insults brought back Muichiro’s memory of watching his older brother Yuichiro die, and Muichiro’s resolve awakened.
• Yaha left Muichiro with his sword hand steady, then headed toward the guest rooms.
• Gyokko’s essence overloaded Yaha’s body, and a dark red fourth arm began emerging from the back of his right hand.

Yaha fought Sukuna’s instincts as they took control of his body, but Shinobu Kocho’s poisoned offer and his determination to protect her let him suppress them. After Yaha released her, a pink silhouette watched from outside the window and reacted with a muffled gasp.

• Yaha struggled to force Sukuna’s spectral arms and cursed energy back inside his body.
• Shinobu Kocho entered Yaha’s room, and he seized her by the throat while fighting the urge to bite her.
• Shinobu offered her wisteria-poisoned neck, and Yaha bit his own tongue and sealed off his cursed energy to regain control.
• Yaha released Shinobu, who coughed and rubbed the red marks on her neck as he denied being concerned about her.
• Yaha and Shinobu noticed a pink silhouette outside the paper window, where its watcher stifled a gasp.

Yaha’s tense encounter with Shinobu was interrupted by Mitsuri, while Hantengu infiltrated the Swordsmith Village and Tanjiro struck off his head with the 300-Year-Old Ancient Sword. The demon’s body did not turn to ash, and eerie laughter came from its severed neck.

• Mitsuri mistook Yaha and Shinobu’s dangerous confrontation for an intimate encounter and fled down the corridor.
• Yaha demanded roast meat, and Shinobu went to fetch it.
• Hantengu killed two Hidden Corps guards outside Tetsuji Kawahara’s residence and headed toward the swordsmiths’ sheds.
• Tanjiro sensed Hantengu’s presence, and he and Genya abandoned their training to investigate.
• Tanjiro used Sun Breathing and the 300-Year-Old Ancient Sword to smash Hantengu’s neck and knock off his head.
• Tanjiro waited for Hantengu’s body to turn to ash, but it remained intact and began snickering.

Upper Rank Four split into powerful demons who overwhelmed Tanjiro, Genya, Muichiro, and Mitsuri across the Swordsmith Village. Woken by the battle, Yaha recognized the demons’ splitting mechanism and headed out to kill them all at once.

• Tanjiro decapitated the old demon, but it split into demons of joy and anger, who blasted him away and electrocuted Genya.
• Mitsuri arrived and joined the fight, while Muichiro was swept hundreds of meters into the forest by the demon of sorrow.
• Tanjiro and Mitsuri struggled to defend themselves and Genya as Upper Rank Four’s split bodies overwhelmed the village.
• Yaha woke to the alarm and battle, sensed the demons, and learned that fear triggered Upper Rank Four’s splitting when decapitated.
• Yaha stepped out of the guest room and vanished toward the battlefield, intending to cut down all the demons at once.

Muichiro broke free of Uroko’s water trap, awakened his resolve, and beheaded the demon, only to discover that beheading could not kill him. Yaha arrived and sliced Uroko in half, then demanded to know where his other brothers were.

• Uroko trapped Muichiro in a sealed water bowl and waited for him to drown.
• Remembering Yuichiro and rejecting the belief that he was weak, Muichiro pierced the bowl’s weakest point with Mist Breathing, Seventh Form: Oboro, and escaped.
• Muichiro beheaded Uroko, but Uroko’s body began regenerating and threatened to split into more forms.
• Yaha appeared and cut Uroko completely in half, with the slash also cleaving the ground beneath him.
• Yaha praised Muichiro’s strike through the water, then pinned Uroko’s face under his foot and demanded the locations of his other brothers.

Yaha appeared in sleepwear, erased Uroko and walked toward the main battlefield, where Sekido unleashed his strongest lightning attack. The chapter ended with Yaha catching the bolt in his bare hand.

• Yaha arrived at the canopy and pinned Uroko, whose wounds would not regenerate.
• Yaha sliced Uroko and the earth beneath him into fragments until nothing remained.
• Urogi and Sekido felt fear as Yaha approached the main battlefield, while Tanjiro, Genya, Mitsuri, and Muichiro witnessed his arrival.
• Sekido summoned a powerful bolt of lightning and hurled it at Yaha.
• Yaha reached out and clamped his hand around the lightning.

Yaha shattered Sekido with a casual slap, forcing Hantengu to order his clones to merge. Zohakuten emerged and attacked the Demon Slayers, but Yaha stood unmoved and prepared to show him what true evil looked like.

• Yaha caught Sekido's Heavenly Punishment, crushed the lightning, and slapped Sekido's body into pulp.
• Hantengu sensed death from the shadows and ordered his clones to merge.
• Urogi and two other clones merged into Zohakuten, whose spiritual pressure pinned Tanjiro, Genya, and Mitsuri down.
• Zohakuten accused the Demon Slayers of victimizing Hantengu and sent five wooden dragons diving toward Yaha.
• Yaha laughed beneath the dragons and declared that he would teach Zohakuten what true evil looked like.

Yaha effortlessly dismantled Zohakuten’s attacks and kicked him into a mountainside, then confronted him over his cruelty. Zohakuten secretly sent a poisoned root toward Shinobu Kocho, who had arrived carrying grilled meat.

• Yaha disintegrated one Wooden Dragon with Cursed Technique Eight and walked through the other dragons’ lightning and sound waves.
• Yaha appeared before Zohakuten and kicked him through the forest into a mountainside, damaging his demon core.
• Zohakuten emerged from the rubble as Yaha taunted him for harming swordsmiths and other victims.
• Shinobu Kocho arrived with a food box of grilled meat while Zohakuten plotted to attack her from behind.
• Zohakuten sent a barbed, poisonous root bursting from the ground toward Shinobu Kocho’s chest.

Yaha stopped Zohakuten's attack on Shinobu Kocho and dismantled his Blood Demon Art before cutting off all his limbs. He revealed that Zohakuten was only an empty shell and located Hantengu's real body fleeing underground.

• Yaha caught the thorn-covered root just before it pierced Shinobu Kocho and disintegrated the underground roots with cursed energy.
• Yaha dismantled Zohakuten's Wooden Dragons and neutralized their lightning and sound waves with Dismantle.
• Yaha crushed Zohakuten's shoulder and severed all four of his limbs, preventing them from healing.
• Yaha learned that Zohakuten was an empty shell and sensed Hantengu's real body burrowing deeper underground.

Yaha tore open the battlefield to expose Hantengu’s hidden true body and overpowered him, defying Muzan’s attempt to make him self-destruct. After killing Hantengu and Zohakuten, Yaha recovered a piece of Origin and swallowed it.

• Yaha split the earth open and caught the mouse-sized Hantengu as he tried to burrow away.
• Yaha crushed Hantengu with his cursed energy and confronted Zohakuten about the swordsmiths and victims he had killed.
• Muzan used his connection to Hantengu to order him to self-destruct, but Yaha halted the explosion and severed Muzan’s will from Hantengu.
• Yaha stomped and destroyed Hantengu’s head and demon core, while Zohakuten turned to black ash.
• Yaha gathered the remnants of Origin from the battlefield, condensed them into a dark red finger-shaped piece, and swallowed it.

After Yaha consumed another origin and released overwhelming spiritual pressure, Muzan decided to unfold Infinity Castle and draw in the Hashira and Yaha. Yaha left the Swordsmith Village with Shinobu, while Muzan prepared to confront him himself in seven days.

• Yaha consumed an origin, pushed his roleplay level to 72%, and briefly overwhelmed Tanjiro, Mitsuri, and Muichiro with his spiritual pressure.
• Muzan learned that Gyokko and Hantengu had been killed and ordered Nakime to keep Yaha's location locked around the clock.
• Muzan told Nakime to fully unfold Infinity Castle and draw in the Hashira and Yaha, intending to crush them with its spatial laws.
• The Swordsmith Village survivors knelt before Yaha, who ate cold grilled meat, grabbed Shinobu by the collar, and headed back to the guest rooms.
• Nakime said Infinity Castle would be ready in seven days, and Muzan vowed to fight Yaha himself.

Yaha fought off the clashing Upper Rank Origins with Shinobu's help, then demanded more food after suppressing the transformation. Mitsuri saw Shinobu's disheveled appearance and misunderstood the scene as evidence that Yaha and Shinobu had been intimate twice in one night.

• Yaha's two Upper Rank Origins collided inside him, triggering Cursed Markings and four arms that damaged the room.
• Shinobu exposed her poisoned neck and offered herself to distract Yaha from the urge to attack her.
• Yaha resisted biting Shinobu and used Cursed Energy to suppress the Origins and retract his extra arms.
• Yaha ate the cold grilled meat, insulted its bitter taste, and told Shinobu to heat another two pounds.
• Mitsuri arrived at the half-open door, saw Shinobu's disheveled collar and jaw and Yaha's messy appearance, and assumed they had been intimate twice that night.

Mitsuri Kanroji mistakenly interpreted the wrecked room and Shinobu Kocho’s appearance as proof of an intimate encounter with Yaha, then fled in embarrassment. On her way back, she encountered a severely injured Muichiro Tokito walking with grim determination toward Yaha’s guest room.

• Mitsuri Kanroji entered Yaha’s room, tore the sliding door from its track, and mistook the scene for evidence of an intimate encounter with Shinobu Kocho.
• Mitsuri dropped her soup, apologized, and ran away after telling Shinobu to take care of herself.
• Yaha used Cursed Energy to gather the spilled soup and debris and swallowed them, while Shinobu Kocho collected the broken porcelain and left him to rest.
• Mitsuri ran along a path south of the village and collided with Muichiro Tokito, who was covered in blood and badly wounded.
• Muichiro ignored Mitsuri and continued toward Yaha’s guest room, leaving Mitsuri worried about what he intended to do.

Muichiro Tokito knelt bleeding outside Yaha’s room and begged to become his apprentice, but Yaha refused and demonstrated a slash that cut through space. After Muichiro fixated on the impossible cut, Yaha sensed something from another dimension folding space and locking onto the Swordsmith Village.

• Muichiro Tokito knelt outside Yaha’s door with severe injuries and a wooden sword, waiting silently for him.
• Yaha kicked Muichiro’s wooden sword away and refused to take him as an apprentice.
• Muichiro struck his forehead against the floor and continued kneeling despite Yaha’s rejection.
• Yaha sliced a boulder in the courtyard with a cut that distorted space, and Muichiro stared at the strange effect.
• Shinobu Kocho urged Muichiro to get his wounds treated, then brought roast meat into Yaha’s room.
• Yaha sensed an unknown presence folding space and locking onto the area, and warned that rats were digging holes.

Yaha detected Nakime’s portal above the Swordsmith Village and destroyed it, learning that the Infinity Castle would fully deploy in seven days. As he faced the approaching threat and his failing blade, a long-sealed case from two hundred years ago resonated with him.

• Yaha sensed Nakime’s dimensional slit above the Swordsmith Village and used Cleave to destroy it, injuring Nakime and Muzan through their shared link.
• Yaha glimpsed the Infinity Castle and learned from the system that it would fully deploy in seven days.
• Yaha told Shinobu Kocho about the deadline, and she pointed out that his black Nichirin Blade could no longer withstand his power.
• Tetsuji Kawahara brought Yaha a long black case that had been buried for two hundred years, explaining that a godlike man had left it for its future master.
• Yaha felt the case answer the resonance of Sukuna’s power and claimed it as something worthy of him.

Yaha rejected Yoriichi Tsugikuni’s restored sword as worthless scrap, then took the blade in his bare hand to study its materials and construction. The swordsmiths watched in shock as his grip began to crush the ancient blade.

• Tetsuji Kawahara presented Yoriichi Tsugikuni’s restored sword to Yaha as a treasured relic.
• Yaha kicked the case into the mud and called the sword scrap iron stinking of a dead man.
• Tanjiro defended Yoriichi’s legacy, while Tetsuji insisted the sword could withstand anything.
• Yaha claimed his cursed-energy-infused swords broke after two swings and challenged the swordsmith’s confidence in the blade.
• Yaha gripped the sword’s edge without bleeding and said he would study its material, structure, and forging patterns.
• Yaha tightened his hand around the blade, producing the sound of stressed metal as Tetsuji watched in disbelief.

Yaha destroyed Tetsuji Kawahara’s ancient blade and used Cursed Technique: Dismantle to forge a weapon capable of containing all his cursed energy. After a Kasugai Crow announced that the Infinity Castle operation would begin in three days, Yaha prepared to leave with Shinobu Kocho.

• Yaha infused Tetsuji Kawahara’s ancestral blade with cursed energy until it shattered, horrifying Tetsuji and the swordsmiths.
• Yaha rearranged the broken fragments at the atomic level to create a pitch-black blade, and its murderous aura forced Tanjiro, Mitsuri, and Muichiro to their knees.
• Yaha tested the new blade with a casual slash that cleanly sheared the top off a hill a hundred meters away.
• Tetsuji and the swordsmiths bowed to Yaha, while a system message confirmed the weapon could withstand his full cursed energy output and raised his roleplay level to 73%.
• A Kasugai Crow delivered Oyakata-sama’s order for all Hashira to return to headquarters and announced that the Infinity Castle operation would begin in three days.
• Yaha told Shinobu Kocho to pack up and declared that he would tear apart the Infinity Castle.

At Corps Headquarters, Kagaya announced that Muzan would open the Infinity Castle in three days, and Yaha’s warning sparked doubts among the Hashira. Yaha silenced Sanemi and Iguro with his pressure, received full command of the Corps’ military deployments, and left promising to prepare for their funerals.

• Kagaya reported that Yaha had destroyed Upper Ranks Five and Four at the Swordsmith Village and warned that Muzan would open the Infinity Castle in three days.
• Sanemi and Iguro questioned whether Yaha’s demon-blood-tainted senses could be trusted, while Giyu defended him.
• Yaha entered the hall with Shinobu, released his spiritual pressure, and forced Sanemi and Iguro to back down.
• Kagaya gave Yaha full authority over military deployments during the seven-day preparation period.
• Yaha left after giving Shinobu a calculating look and warned that he had plenty of time to arrange everyone’s funeral.