Although he had done his best to keep her concealed during battle, the name "the boy who fought with a demon on his back" gradually began to spread.
Tanjiro and Nezuko's situation could no longer be kept secret. If the boy happened to encounter one of the Hashira while hunting demons and got his head cut off, that would be the end of it.
So Kagaya's Kasugai Crow brought orders to send Tanjiro and Nezuko together to the Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters. The Hashira were also notified, making it a good opportunity to hold a Hashira Meeting.
Except...
"Where was Giyu?"
Where had Giyu gone after setting out for Mount Natagumo with Shinobu on Kagaya's orders, only to disappear halfway there?
"Click, click..."
The crisp sound of leather shoes rang out along an empty street.
Dressed in a smart Western suit, a demon walked lightly through the residential streets, his head held high.
His hairstyle was strange. Black was its main color, with orange-red at the ends, while the long tufts extending from the back of his head were emerald green.
Those bizarre colors somehow looked harmonious on his head. Like the bizarre, deranged smile on his face, they sent chills down one's spine.
"Click, click..."
As he walked, he murmured as though talking in his sleep, "It worked. It really worked~
I thought that boy Rui wouldn't succumb to dreams, but I never imagined he would become more absorbed in them than anyone else..."
He raised his head toward the moon, its pale light illuminating his face.
In the blue-green eyes of his delicate, feminine face, the words "Lower Rank One" were clearly inscribed.
He was Lower Rank One, Enmu the Sleep Demon, who had defeated Rui not long ago.
"A demon who's lived so long, yet still