Compared with the second round, which had practically been a Grand Training Camp for Wind Breathing...
The lineup for the third round...
Could almost be called a grand gathering of Water Breathing users.
Looking around, Dōjima Kazuma was the lone exception.
He was a Provisional Hashira who used Flame Breathing.
Everyone else, whether it was Persimmon, now a Provisional Hashira...
Or Giyu, Murata, Makomo, and that whatever-Taro...
Was a skilled practitioner of Water Breathing or one of its derivatives.
The strongest among them, Yukishiro Seiko, had firmly reached the level of the Nine Hashira.
[Energy Level: 327] [Snow Breathing lv.5 (93%)]
It was only because Yukishiro Seiko had politely declined formal promotion orders to the Nine Hashira twice in succession.
Otherwise, with her seniority from joining the Demon Slayer Corps one cohort before Sabito...
And her record of independently slaying a Lower Rank long ago... she probably would have taken office as one of the Nine Hashira already.
Besides her, Murata and Giyu were not to be underestimated either.
One had an energy level of exactly 200, while the other had reached 285.
They were already at the [early Provisional Hashira] and [peak Provisional Hashira] levels.
As for Makomo, who was younger and had officially joined the Demon Slayer Corps several cohorts later...
She had not disgraced their Mount Sagiri Military Academy.
Her energy level was already close to Murata's: [Energy Level: 189], Rain Breathing lv.5 (3%).
She could be considered a [half-step Provisional Hashira].
Meanwhile, Dōjima and Kojiro, who had joined the Demon Slayer Corps several cohorts before Xia Xi and the others...
Had now hit a bottleneck in their growth.
The former's energy level had barely reached 213, and his Flame Breathing was only just past lv.5.
As for the latter...
He still had not crossed