Recaps

Su Mu and Kanao searched for Tanjiro Kamado while discussing the blue flower Su Mu needed. After they passed a demon attacking a village, Kanao told Su Mu that he was different from other demons.

• Su Mu carried Kanao through villages and towns as he searched for Tanjiro Kamado, and told her he needed a blue flower that bloomed during the day.
• Kanao offered Su Mu a bunch of flowers and promised to pick the blue flower for him when they found it.
• Kanao asked to walk on her own, and Su Mu noticed her keen eyesight and thought about teaching her Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu after she recovered.
• Su Mu and Kanao saw a house burning in the distance and heard people crying as a demon hunted them.
• Su Mu led Kanao away from the attack and warned her to stay away from demons, and Kanao replied that he was different.

Su Mu cared for Kanao in a mountain cave while searching the flowers she gathered for the Blue Spider Lily. He found no sign of it, but made Kanao a flower wreath as they settled in for the day.

• Su Mu rejected the hope of peacefully coexisting with the Demon Slayer Corps and affirmed that anyone who threatened his life was his enemy.
• Su Mu carried the tired Kanao to a deep cave, made a fire, and prepared chicken stew while she played outside.
• Su Mu grew worried when Kanao wandered out of sight, but she soon returned with a large bundle of flowers she had picked for him.
• Su Mu examined and tasted the flowers but found no Blue Spider Lily, then reassured Kanao that they would keep searching.
• Su Mu wove a wreath from the flowers and placed it on Kanao’s head, and she ate her soup happily.

Makomo and Hiroshi Furukawa investigated a demon attack and found the remains of a child, deepening Makomo’s resolve to fight demons. News arrived that Giyu Tomioka and all the other candidates had passed Mount Fujikasane, but Sabito was presumed dead after killing nearly all the demons there.

• Hiroshi Furukawa and the swordsmen found a burned home and a child's remains, and Makomo struggled to accept the demons' cruelty.
• Hiroshi explained that demons were man-eating monsters, and Makomo resolved to find and kill the demon responsible.
• Hiroshi asked why Urokodaki's disciples had failed to survive Mount Fujikasane, and Makomo defended Sabito's strength.
• A swordsman reported that Giyu Tomioka and every other candidate had passed the test on Mount Fujikasane.
• The swordsman said Sabito was presumed dead after killing almost all the demons on the mountain, leaving Makomo shaken.

Makomo struggled to accept that Sabito had died while Giyu Tomioka passed the test, and Hiroshi Furukawa helped her understand Sabito’s sense of responsibility. After waking beside Su Mu, Kanao eagerly urged him to set out for the Kamado family and the Blue Spider Lily.

• Makomo questioned why Giyu Tomioka had survived Mount Fujikasane while the stronger Sabito had died.
• Hiroshi Furukawa explained that Sabito had likely taken on greater risks to protect Giyu, and shared Kyojuro Rengoku’s advice about enduring grief and moving forward.
• Makomo accepted Hiroshi Furukawa’s words and resolved to keep them in her heart.
• Kanao woke beside Su Mu, realized he had covered her with his clothes, and happily prepared to leave after sunset.
• Kanao urged Su Mu to find the Kamado family and obtain the Blue Spider Lily.

Su Mu and Kanao continued searching for the Blue Spider Lily as they traveled, while Makomo and Hiroshi Furukawa discussed a demon who seemed to have avoided eating humans. The chapter ended with Su Mu learning that a charcoal-selling Kamado family lived nearby.

• Su Mu carried Kanao through the mountains at night, and they stopped so he could taste a flower she had spotted; it was not the Blue Spider Lily.
• Makomo killed a demon with a Nichirin Blade, and Hiroshi Furukawa identified it as the demon responsible for recent murders.
• Hiroshi Furukawa told Makomo that the demon they were hunting had left no signs of eating people and had become increasingly difficult to track.
• Kanao asked an elderly woman whether a charcoal-selling Kamado family lived nearby, and Su Mu hurried over when the woman recognized the family name.

Su Mu and Kanao traveled toward the Kamado family’s home, hoping to find the Blue Spider Lily that could help him escape Muzan’s curse. On the mountain road, Su Mu found evidence of extraordinary strength and suspected Tanjuro Kamado had awakened a Demon Slayer Mark.

• Su Mu thanked the old man who revealed the Kamado family’s address, then carried Kanao into the night.
• Kanao promised to help Su Mu find the Blue Spider Lily, and he said he believed in her.
• Near the mountain, Su Mu watched an old man receive and send a crow’s letter, recognized him as the man who had sheltered Tanjiro, and noticed the wisteria incense meant to repel demons.
• Su Mu continued along a road cut through the mountains and found a huge bluestone slab split cleanly in two.
• Su Mu suspected Tanjuro Kamado had cleaved the stone with an axe and wondered whether Tanjuro had awakened a Demon Slayer Mark.

Su Mu and Kanao searched the Kamado family graveyard for the Blue Spider Lily and discovered the graves of Uta and Yoriichi Tsugikuni. Nearby, Tanjuro Kamado’s illness worsened as he prepared his family for his death.

• Su Mu avoided the Kamado house and carried Kanao toward the mountain, explaining that the Blue Spider Lily only bloomed during the day.
• Su Mu and Kanao searched the Kamado family graveyard, where Su Mu found Uta’s grave and a nameless grave he believed belonged to Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
• Su Mu read Yoriichi’s inscription, “Those who master their path reach the same destination,” but could not understand its swordsmanship insights.
• Tanjuro Kamado told Kie that he would not recover, and Kie pleaded with him to see a doctor.
• Tanjuro Kamado asked Nezuko to care for her younger siblings and gave Tanjiro the family Hanafuda Earrings, telling him to take responsibility for the family and remember to breathe.

Su Mu and Kanao searched a graveyard for the Blue Spider Lily, then rested in a cave as Kanao reflected on the warmth and care she found with him. At the Butterfly Mansion, Shinobu Kocho learned about Muzan Kibutsuji’s disappearance and a demon who wielded a Nichirin Blade, and she hoped to find the demon for research.

• Su Mu and Kanao searched the graveyard for the Blue Spider Lily, but found none, so Su Mu said they would have to search by day with Kanao’s help.
• Kanao insisted on walking beside Su Mu, and he took her to a dark cave to rest and prepared her a meal.
• Kanao thought about how Su Mu’s care had made her feel at home and resolved to help him find the Blue Spider Lily.
• At the Butterfly Mansion, Shinobu Kocho treated an injured swordsman, who fled after telling her that her smile and gentle manner seemed false.
• Kanae Kocho reassured Shinobu, then told her that Muzan Kibutsuji had escaped after several swordsmen found his trail and were killed.
• Kanae told Shinobu that Hiroshi Furukawa’s squad had reported a demon using a Nichirin Blade, but had lost track of him, and Shinobu hoped to find him for research.

Kanao set out to find the Blue Spider Lily for Su Mu and met Nezuko while gathering flowers near the Kamado family graves. Nezuko rebuked Kanao for standing on a gravestone, then felt guilty when Kanao said her parents had died long ago.

• Su Mu prepared breakfast for Kanao, helped her get dressed, and reminded her to be careful while searching for the Blue Spider Lily.
• Kanao left the cave with a basket and searched the dewy mountain slopes for flowers.
• Kanao heard someone sobbing and saw Nezuko kneeling before a grave.
• Nezuko scolded Kanao for standing on a gravestone and asked her to apologize to the deceased.
• Kanao told Nezuko that her parents had died long ago, and Nezuko felt guilty for reproaching her.

Nezuko apologized after learning Kanao’s parents were dead, then followed her through the graveyard and tried to comfort her while picking flowers. When Nezuko confided that her own father might soon die, Kanao bluntly said his death would be something to celebrate, leaving Nezuko shocked as Kanao continued gathering flowers for her uncle.

• Kanao calmly told Nezuko that her parents were dead, and Nezuko bowed to apologize for her earlier words.
• Nezuko followed Kanao as she picked flowers from grave mounds, despite warning that it was unlucky.
• Nezuko joined Kanao in gathering flowers and asked whether she was collecting them to visit her parents.
• Nezuko spoke about her grandmother and revealed that her seriously ill father might not live much longer.
• Kanao asked why Nezuko was sad and said her father’s death would be something to celebrate.
• Kanao walked away with her basket, thinking that helping her uncle find the flowers mattered most.

Su Mu struggled with his craving for human flesh after Kanao returned from searching for the Blue Spider Lily without finding it. He asked Kanao to use his Nichirin Blade if he ever became unable to control himself, but she instead urged him to keep eating and promised to help him.

• Kanao brought Su Mu a basket of flowers, but none was the Blue Spider Lily he sought.
• Su Mu’s frustration and hunger threatened to overwhelm him, but Kanao’s presence helped calm him.
• Su Mu gave Kanao his Nichirin Blade and asked her to cut off his head if he ever tried to devour her.
• Kanao refused and offered him a hidden piece of steamed bun, insisting that eating enough would stop his hunger.
• Su Mu ate the bun and began to believe, if only a little, in Kanao’s promise that he could overcome his craving.

Su Mu tried to comfort Kanao and conceal his demonic hunger while Kanao resolved to find the Blue Spider Lily for him. Nezuko returned home and asked Tanjiro whether anyone could be happy about a father's death, then sought reassurance that their sick father would recover.

• Su Mu combed Kanao's hair and explained that she might understand love and growing up when she was older, though she said she would rather stay with him.
• Kanao sensed that ordinary food could not satisfy Su Mu and vowed to find the Blue Spider Lily.
• Nezuko returned with wild vegetables and medicinal herbs and saw Tanjiro chopping wood at home.
• Nezuko asked Tanjiro whether anyone could be happy about their father dying, and he said such a person would be too busy grieving.
• Nezuko asked whether their father would recover, and Tanjiro confidently assured her that he would.

Hiroshi Furukawa and the swordsmen followed their last lead to Saburo’s home near the Kamado family, hoping to identify the demon they had been tracking. Saburo confirmed the family’s identity and described Tanjuro Kamado’s mysterious, worsening illness, leaving Hiroshi and Makomo with new questions about him.

• Hiroshi Furukawa rejected the other swordsmen’s suggestions that the demons they had killed were their target and said they would abandon the search if their final lead proved fruitless.
• The group decided to rest at Saburo’s home near the mountains and ask about the Kamado family.
• Hiroshi asked Saburo about Tanjuro Kamado, and Saburo confirmed that Tanjuro, Kie, and their children lived deep in the mountains.
• Saburo said Tanjuro had been inexplicably ill since the year before last, despite doctors finding little wrong with him.
• Saburo recalled that Tanjuro had once killed a man-eating bear with a single axe swing and explained that he had never studied martial arts.

Tanjuro Kamado briefly regained his strength and taught Tanjiro the family’s breathing technique, knowing he was near death. He left Tanjiro in the snow and approached a mysterious figure with scarlet eyes waiting at the cave.

• Tanjuro Kamado woke with a final surge of strength and quietly checked on Kie Kamado and their sleeping children.
• Tanjuro took Tanjiro into the snowy night and told him to remember his breathing.
• Tanjuro used his breathing to awaken Tanjiro’s heightened perception and told him the family would depend on him.
• Tanjuro noticed a child and a scarlet-eyed, inhuman figure at the cave where he had once slain a giant bear.
• Tanjuro told Tanjiro to wait and walked toward the figure in the darkness.

Tanjuro Kamado met the demon Su Mu in the cave where he was living with the human girl Kanao. Su Mu revealed that Tanjuro could kill him with Sun Breathing and a Nichirin Blade, then offered him the blade and challenged him to cut off his head.

• Tanjuro Kamado found Su Mu waiting outside the cave and followed him inside.
• Tanjuro saw Kanao cooking beside the fire and suspected Su Mu was keeping her as food.
• Su Mu offered Tanjuro wine, but Tanjuro demanded to know whether other demons were nearby.
• Su Mu explained that Sun Breathing could harm demons even without a Nichirin Blade, making Tanjuro draw a sharp breath.
• Su Mu revealed a fiery-red Nichirin Blade and told Tanjuro he could use it to cut off his head.

Su Mu pressed the dying Tanjuro Kamado for information about the Blue Spider Lily, using the threat to Tanjuro’s family to make him answer. Tanjuro recalled that Kie had picked unusual flowers near the grave of Yoriichi Tsugikuni at a specific time of year, and Su Mu left convinced he had found the clue he needed while insisting he would not harm the family.

• Su Mu offered Tanjuro Kamado a Nichirin Blade and spoke about his hunger, while Kanao tended to his burned hand.
• Tanjuro accepted Su Mu’s wine and asked what he wanted; Su Mu asked about the Blue Spider Lily.
• Tanjuro said he knew no such flower, then recalled that Kie had picked brief-blooming flowers near the grave of Yoriichi Tsugikuni after paying respects to their ancestors.
• Su Mu realized the flowers might bloom only at a particular time and laughed at how long Muzan Kibutsuji had searched for them.
• Tanjuro pleaded for Su Mu to spare his family, and Su Mu promised not to hurt them while reminding him that he had no choice but to trust a demon.

Su Mu reassured Tanjuro Kamado that he would not harm his family, while Tanjuro struggled to accept that he had become a demon. Tanjiro joined them by the fire, and Tanjuro shared a final drink with his son before dying.

• Su Mu told Tanjuro Kamado that he had no choice but to live as a demon and promised not to hurt his family.
• Tanjuro drank with Su Mu and watched Kanao eat beside him, beginning to believe he might be able to trust the demon.
• Su Mu sent Kanao to bring Tanjiro inside the cave, where Tanjiro found his father drinking by the fire.
• Su Mu told Tanjiro that his father was dying and poured him a cup of wine to share with Tanjuro.
• Tanjuro told Tanjiro he would have to walk the road ahead on his own, then drank once more and died.

Tanjiro mourned Tanjuro Kamado’s death in Su Mu’s cave, though he insisted his father was only asleep. As Su Mu led Kanao back inside, she asked him not to care about her if she died, saying that only she needed to care about him.

• Tanjiro cried over Tanjuro Kamado while Su Mu and Kanao watched, and Su Mu told him everyone died eventually.
• Kanao questioned why people grieved for their fathers, and Su Mu explained that her own father was not important to her.
• Tanjiro checked Tanjuro’s cold, breathless body but continued insisting that his father was only asleep.
• Su Mu helped Tanjiro carry Tanjuro out of the cave, and Tanjiro stumbled away through the snow with his father on his back.
• As Su Mu led Kanao inside, she asked what he would do if she died and told him not to care about her, because only she needed to care about him.

After Tanjiro’s father died, Tanjiro struggled to comfort his grieving family and sought Saburo’s help. On the way to his home with Saburo and the swordsmen, Tanjiro kept quiet about Su Mu and Kanao, wary of both the strangers in the cave and the armed visitors.

• Tanjiro carried his father’s body home, where Kie and Nezuko silently grieved his death.
• Makomo cooked breakfast for Saburo and the swordsmen, and Hiroshi Furukawa blushed when she offered him a towel.
• Tanjiro arrived at Saburo’s home and asked him to come help his family; Makomo gave Tanjiro Konpeitō and gently comforted him.
• Saburo gathered his tools, and the swordsmen joined him and Tanjiro on the trip through the snowy mountains.
• Hiroshi asked Tanjiro about unusual events near his home and joked that the group killed demons, but Tanjiro withheld what he knew about Su Mu and Kanao.

Hiroshi Furukawa and the swordsmen searched the Kamado home but found no signs of a demon, then ended their hunt and parted from Makomo. As Hiroshi watched her leave, he spotted a familiar girl picking flowers on the mountainside.

• Hiroshi Furukawa questioned Kie Kamado and led the swordsmen in searching her home, but they found no evidence of demon activity.
• Hiroshi Furukawa apologized to Kie Kamado and left money for the family before departing with his companions.
• Hiroshi Furukawa declared the demon-hunting mission over and invited the swordsmen to meet for a meal with Lord Kyojuro.
• Makomo said she would return to Mount Sagiri, thanked the swordsmen, and left after they wished her luck in the Mount Fujikasane examination.
• Hiroshi Furukawa's companions urged him to pursue Makomo, but he fell silent and noticed a familiar girl picking flowers on the mountainside.

Kanao tried to gather winter flowers for her uncle while Hiroshi Furukawa and his swordsmen followed her, hoping to find the demon they had seen with her. After Kanao warned her uncle and was captured, the swordsmen tracked her footprints to a cave, where Hiroshi confronted the demon.

• Makomo left Hiroshi Furukawa and his group, while Hiroshi spotted Kanao picking flowers on a distant mountainside and recognized her as the girl who had been with the demon.
• Hiroshi led his swordsmen in quietly following Kanao, who searched for flowers and then recognized the men who had chased her uncle.
• Kanao ran toward a cliff and shouted for her uncle to flee, but a swordsman caught her before she could jump.
• Hiroshi questioned Kanao about the demon, and she nodded toward the mountains before struggling and shouting for her uncle again.
• A swordsman knocked Kanao unconscious, and the group followed her footprints to a cave, where Hiroshi saw the demon's scarlet eyes and declared that he had found him.

Su Mu lured the Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen into his cave and fought them in a deadly ambush. Cornered in a narrow passage after killing Ryota and suffering severe wounds, he faced Hiroshi Furukawa and questioned whether the swordsmen could decide his fate.

• Su Mu retreated deeper into the cave as Hiroshi Furukawa led the swordsmen after him, leaving one companion with the unconscious child.
• Su Mu ambushed the last swordsman, mortally wounded him, and escaped the other swordsmen's attacks despite losing a leg and a hand.
• Hiroshi Furukawa and the swordsmen pursued Su Mu, wounded him further, and stopped when he retreated into a passage too narrow for them to attack as a group.
• A swordsman told Hiroshi Furukawa that Ryota had died, and Hiroshi Furukawa angrily condemned Su Mu.
• Su Mu calmly asked Hiroshi Furukawa whether wanting him dead meant he had to die.

Su Mu fought Hiroshi Furukawa and his Demon Slayer squad in a cave, surviving a duel that appeared to kill him and then killing the remaining swordsmen. The last swordsman witnessed Su Mu’s crimson eyes from the cave’s darkness.

• Hiroshi Furukawa led the swordsmen forward while Su Mu taunted them about killing their teammate and prepared a sword-drawing attack.
• Hiroshi Furukawa and Su Mu slashed each other’s necks at the same time, and Hiroshi’s head fell from his neck as Su Mu collapsed.
• Su Mu rose and killed two swordsmen who rushed to Hiroshi, then killed another after kicking him down.
• The final swordsman fled toward the sunlight, but Su Mu pierced his heart before he could escape the cave.
• Su Mu stood wounded in the cave’s shadows, and the swordsman who had stayed behind saw his crimson eyes.

Su Mu watched a swordsman take Kanao away, unable to follow because sunlight blocked his path. After night fell, he searched through the storm for her but found no trace, until he spotted a distant lamplight.

• Su Mu wiped his Nichirin Blade while the swordsman hesitated in the sunlight, then called a crow for help.
• The swordsman carried Kanao away, and Su Mu stopped at the sunlit cave entrance, realizing his attachment to her kept him from fleeing.
• Su Mu waited through the rain for sunset, then rushed out and searched in the direction the swordsman had gone.
• Su Mu found no tracks in the downpour, roared in frustration, and climbed a tree to look across the dark mountains.
• Su Mu spotted a faint lamplight in the distance.

After Tanjuro’s funeral, Tanjiro vowed to care for the Kamado family, but a blood-covered Su Mu burst into their home and attacked. Tanjiro wounded him with an axe, only to learn that demons could survive such blows as the family faced imminent danger.

• Tanjiro promised Saburo that he would hold the family together after his father’s death.
• Saburo told Tanjiro that demons were real, ate people at night, and could only be killed by demon hunters cutting off their heads.
• Su Mu burst into the house, and Kie shielded Nezuko while Tanjiro grabbed an axe to protect his family.
• Kie grabbed Su Mu’s leg and urged the children to flee, while Tanjiro charged and struck the demon’s head with his axe.
• Saburo warned that an axe could not kill a demon, and Tanjiro watched Su Mu pull the embedded axe from his skull.