Under Xia Xi's proposal, the Demon Slayer Corps' ranking system for swordsmen had to be completely restructured.
Setting aside the flaws at the institutional level,
even on the most basic level, the members themselves did not have a clear understanding of the ranks.
The first few of the [Heavenly Stems] were manageable.
Kinoe, Kinoto, Hinoe, and Hinoto were, after all, characters commonly used in daily life, and were relatively familiar.
But toward the bottom, with Chinese characters like [Jinoto, Kanoto, Mizunoto, and Shin]...
Never mind putting them in order-most swordsmen even stumbled over their pronunciation.
Literacy rates were low in this era to begin with, and that was all the more true of the Demon Slayer Corps.
Many swordsmen had lost their families as children and were then thrown into demon-slaying training and missions without ever spending a day in school.
Even among successive generations of the Nine Hashira, there had been plenty who could not read.
Xia Xi simply swept it all aside.
He divided all swordsmen below the Nine Hashira into five tiers.
They would be tied only to strength and mission difficulty.
They would have nothing to do with seniority or basic allowances.
The first tier was [Junior] swordsmen.
This referred to new swordsmen who had just passed the selection and possessed basic demon-slaying abilities.
They were newcomers, but also full members of the Demon Slayer Corps.
In Xia Xi's eyes, new swordsmen with energy levels around 20-40, as well as those ranked [Mizunoto] and [Jinoto] under the old system, would all fall into this category.
After the junior tier, swordsmen would grow stronger as they completed missions.
That brought them to the second tier: [Intermediate] swordsmen.
Tempered through several missions, they would have successfully slain multiple demons and developed a steadier mindset.
They could coordinate with