Chapter Summaries

Kirishima Bupai accepted the Hashira’s challenge to spar and moved the match from the council hall to the training ground. He effortlessly disarmed Tengen Uzui’s attack and stopped Kyojuro Rengoku with two precise strikes, leaving the Hashira stunned.

• Giyu Tomioka and the other Hashira prepared to fight Kirishima Bupai, but Kagaya Ubuyashiki ordered them to take the sparring match outside.
• Kirishima Bupai challenged the Hashira to attack him together, and Tengen Uzui stepped forward first.
• Kirishima Bupai appeared behind Tengen Uzui and held his sheathed blade against Tengen’s neck before turning to face Kyojuro Rengoku.
• Kyojuro Rengoku attacked with Flame Breathing, First Form: Unknowing Fire, but Kirishima Bupai deflected his sword with the scabbard and struck him beneath the ribs with an elbow.
• Kirishima Bupai thanked Kyojuro Rengoku for the match as the watching Hashira fell silent in shock.

Kirishima Bupai effortlessly subdued Sanemi Shinazugawa, joining Tengen Uzui and Kyojuro Rengoku among the Hashira he had defeated. After the Hashira acknowledged his strength, Kagaya Ubuyashiki asked about his title, and Kirishima revealed that he had created Void Breathing.

• Sanemi Shinazugawa attacked Kirishima Bupai with Wind Breathing, but Kirishima redirected his blade and forced him to one knee.
• Kirishima returned his sword to its sheath and asked the silent Hashira whether they wanted to continue.
• Tengen Uzui praised Kirishima's fighting style and acknowledged that he had the strength to become a Hashira.
• Kyojuro Rengoku admitted his defeat and praised Kirishima, while the other Hashira reacted with respect and astonishment.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki asked Kirishima to choose a Hashira title, and Kirishima said he practiced his self-created style, Void Breathing.

Kirishima Bupai became the Void Hashira and was sent to investigate the Eternal Paradise Cult’s spreading influence in Suzuran Town. He arrived to find starving townspeople consumed by fanaticism, then heard a young Demon Slayer calling for help from an alley.

• Kirishima Bupai was named the Demon Slayer Corps’ tenth Hashira and received an urgent assignment to investigate strange incidents in Suzuran Town.
• Kirishima Bupai learned from his Kasugai Crow that cult followers were preaching obsessively and that missing people had been found shriveled.
• Kirishima Bupai traveled north and saw emaciated farmers praying over barren fields outside Suzuran Town.
• A cult follower tried to recruit Kirishima Bupai, who questioned his refusal to eat or drink and then walked past him.
• Kirishima Bupai heard a young Demon Slayer struggling in an alley and crying for help.

Kirishima Bupai found Murata being restrained by cultists and declared himself the Void Hashira, then countered the villagers’ doctrine by founding Laborism. He left the believers frightened and under orders to rebuild their settlement through work.

• Kirishima Bupai arrived as villagers pinned Murata down, and Murata mistook him for a rookie and warned him about the cult.
• Kirishima Bupai’s Kasugai Crow identified him as the newly appointed tenth Hashira, and Murata apologized in terror.
• Kirishima Bupai confronted the believers about their ruined settlement and proclaimed a new faith called Laborism, centered on labor and self-made prosperity.
• Kirishima Bupai appointed Murata overseer and ordered the villagers to gather tools and put everyone to work.
• Kirishima Bupai used his scabbard, rope, and a wooden stick to frighten and drive the believers into labor as his crow urged them on.

Kirishima Bupai forced the villagers and believers of Suzuran Town to work all day, using the labor to weaken the Blood Demon Art infecting them. As hunger replaced their cultish fervor, he prepared a huge pot of food and revealed that he had added wisteria.

• Murata rallied the villagers to obey Kirishima Bupai's orders and begin working.
• Kirishima Bupai supervised the forced labor while Murata directed villagers to dig soil and repair the town.
• Kirishima Bupai used spatial power to soften the fields, while the Kakushi Squad treated injuries and supported the work.
• After a day in the sun, the villagers' Blood Demon Art infection had nearly cleared, and exhaustion left them hungry.
• Kirishima Bupai cooked a huge pot of food with his Void Breathing technique and announced that he had added wisteria.

Kirishima Bupai fed the believers, restoring their senses and resolve, then sent Murata to investigate disappearances on Mount Natagumo. He entered the town center and followed a desperate man’s directions to the Eternal Paradise Cult’s church, where the fanatical believers gathered around him.

• A Kasugai Crow told Kirishima Bupai that Murata was needed to investigate disappearances on Mount Natagumo, and Kirishima Bupai agreed to send him.
• The villagers ate Kirishima Bupai’s hot pot, regained their taste and emotions, and praised him as Murata cheered for the Hashira.
• Kirishima Bupai left the villagers in the Kakushi Squad’s care and ordered Murata to go to Mount Natagumo.
• In the town center, a man begged Kirishima Bupai to save his wife and daughter, who had given their food and savings to the Eternal Paradise Cult.
• The man directed Kirishima Bupai to the cult’s church in the Old Trading Company warehouse, and Kirishima Bupai approached as gaunt believers crowded around him.

Kirishima Bupai infiltrated a warehouse and discovered three demons using a blood ritual, mist, and music to control starving believers. When the masked demon exposed an undercover believer’s father as a heretic and called for his purification, Kirishima watched from the roof as the crowd turned against the man.

• Kirishima Bupai slipped past the believers, climbed onto the warehouse roof, and saw hundreds of starving people kneeling around a blood-drawn symbol.
• Kirishima Bupai observed a female demon use Intoxicating Peach Miasma, a male demon’s song, and a masked demon’s scrutiny to control the believers.
• The demons staged fake divine light with bronze mirrors while the believers chanted and prostrated themselves.
• A middle-aged believer looked toward his undercover daughter, drawing the masked demon’s attention.
• The masked demon accused the father of heresy, and the female demon and male demon stirred the crowd into chanting for his purification.

Kirishima Bupai interrupted a ritual where demons were preparing to burn a captive father, then effortlessly stopped the demons’ combined attack with a small motion of his Nichirin Blade. He left the demons restrained and horrified after saying that killing them outright would be a waste.

• The believers dragged Xiaohui’s father to a stake and lit the fire while the demons urged the crowd to worship their true god.
• Kirishima Bupai cut through the warehouse roof and descended into the ritual grounds, declaring that the demons’ paradise was over.
• The three demons attacked Kirishima Bupai with sound waves, poisonous mist, and claws.
• Kirishima Bupai exposed one inch of his blade, creating a web of spectral blue light that shattered the sound attack, froze the poison, and immobilized the masked demon.
• The female demon realized Kirishima Bupai had used a spatial ability and feared what he meant by calling it a waste to kill them.

Kirishima Bupai defeated three demons and forced them to reclaim abandoned fields as punishment. After feigning sleep to lure them into trying to escape, he caught and battered them again, leaving them trapped beside the woods.

• Kirishima Bupai used spatial restraints and a Bright Red Blade to cripple the amber-eyed male demon’s voice and sever the masked demon’s tendons.
• Kirishima Bupai dragged the female demon down by her hair and ordered all three demons to till the abandoned fields before dawn.
• The demons worked under Kirishima Bupai’s watch as he rested beside the fields with tea and his Kasugai Crow.
• Kirishima Bupai feigned sleep, and the three demons seized the chance to sneak toward the woods.
• Kirishima Bupai struck the masked demon’s leg, sent the amber-eyed male demon flying into the dirt, and slammed the female demon face-first into the ground.

Kirishima Bupai punished three demons who tried to escape by beating them and forcing them to guess his number, then ordered them to shout insults about Doma until dawn. The demons finished the ordeal exhausted, while the Kakushi Squad watched in astonishment.

• Kirishima Bupai revealed he had been waiting for the demons to try escaping and ordered the Kakushi Squad to drag them back.
• Kirishima Bupai beat the three demons until they begged for mercy, then made them guess a number from 1 to 100 and lashed them for every wrong answer.
• Kirishima Bupai told the demons they could go free if they shouted “Doma is a fucking idiot” 100,000 times.
• The three demons shouted the insult through the night until dawn, then collapsed from exhaustion.

Kirishima Bupai forced three demons and hundreds of villagers to work the fields, using whips and sunlight to keep them in line and help the villagers recover from the Blood Demon Art. He also planted Dragon Blood Flower seeds to support their recovery.

• Kirishima Bupai dragged three demons away from the sunlight and beat them when they begged to die.
• Kakushi Squad members herded the villagers into the fields and ordered them to cultivate the soil.
• Kirishima Bupai patrolled the villagers and whipped those who slowed down or continued preaching about their true god.
• As the villagers worked in the sunlight, the haze from the Blood Demon Art gradually lifted.
• Kirishima Bupai redeemed twenty Dragon Blood Flower seeds and gave them to a Kakushi member to plant.

After two months of labor reform and sunlight, Kirishima Bupai brought the mission in Suzuran Town to a successful end and prepared to return to headquarters with evidence about the Eternal Paradise Cult. He left the villagers grateful and the three demon drudges reduced to ash.

• Kirishima Bupai ordered villagers to prepare Dragon Blood Flower tea cakes to send to Oyakata-sama.
• The Kasugai Crow suggested bringing grateful villagers to praise Kirishima to Oyakata-sama, but Kirishima rejected the idea.
• Two villagers offered mountain delicacies and to deliver them personally, but Kirishima told them to hand everything to the Kakushi.
• Kirishima questioned the villagers about whether they had destroyed every trace of the cult, and they furiously assured him they had.
• The Kakushi Squad prepared to return to headquarters with the tea cakes and files documenting the cult and the mission.
• Kirishima dragged the three demons into the sunlight, watched them turn to ash, and left Suzuran Town.

Kirishima Bupai and Shinobu Kocho were sent to Mount Natagumo after a Kasugai Crow reported severe casualties caused by strange spider threads and poison. Bupai entered the cocoon forest and cut open cocoons, freeing trapped Demon Slayer Corps members.

• Kirishima Bupai reported the Eternal Paradise Cult's operations and intelligence on Doma to Kagaya Ubuyashiki, then offered him Dragon Blood Flower tea.
• A Kasugai Crow reported that Corps members on Mount Natagumo were killing each other under the influence of spider threads and poison, prompting Kagaya to summon Hashira reinforcements.
• Shinobu Kocho arrived and teased Kirishima Bupai about his actions in Suzuran Town before Kagaya assigned them to investigate Mount Natagumo.
• Kirishima Bupai entered the dark forest and found large spider-silk cocoons hanging from the trees.
• Kirishima Bupai sliced open dozens of cocoons, freeing injured Demon Slayer Corps members from the corrosive liquid inside.

Kirishima Bupai found Inosuke Hashibira battling a newly transformed Spider Demon and intervened when it was about to kill him. After effortlessly severing the demon’s limbs, he left Inosuke stunned by the vast gap in their strength.

• Kirishima Bupai followed the webs deeper into the mountain forest and found Inosuke Hashibira shouting at a Spider Demon perched in a tree.
• The Spider Demon finished transforming, grew nearly twice as large, and smashed Inosuke’s two Nichirin Blades before sending him crashing into the mud.
• The Spider Demon raised its fist to finish off the injured Inosuke, but Kirishima Bupai appeared between them and stopped its attack with his killing intent.
• Kirishima Bupai swiftly cut off the Spider Demon’s four limbs while casually straightening his collar.
• Inosuke stared at Kirishima Bupai in shock and felt awe at the strength he could not even follow with his eyes.

Kirishima Bupai used his Bright Red Blade to stop the Spider Demon’s regeneration and defeat it, then told the injured Inosuke to stay behind for treatment. Inosuke challenged Kirishima Bupai to a one-on-one fight, and Kirishima Bupai vanished from the spot.

• The Spider Demon regenerated four new arms and lunged at Kirishima Bupai, but Kirishima Bupai turned his Nichirin Blade bright red and severed its limbs with one slash.
• Kirishima Bupai’s Bright Red Blade burned away the demon blood, leaving the Spider Demon unable to regenerate.
• Kirishima Bupai told Inosuke that the Kakushi Squad would handle the battlefield and take the wounded for treatment.
• Inosuke protested Kirishima Bupai’s insults and challenged him to a one-on-one fight to prove he was the strongest.
• Kirishima Bupai frowned at Inosuke’s reckless poses, then vanished from the spot.

Kirishima Bupai defeated the Spider Demon and told Inosuke it was not one of the Twelve Kizuki. Before leaving, he confused the injured Inosuke with a counting trick, leaving him convinced that nine chocolates somehow added up to eight.

• Kirishima Bupai struck Inosuke when he tried to keep fighting despite his injuries, and Inosuke collapsed.
• Kirishima Bupai killed the Spider Demon and explained that it was not one of the Twelve Kizuki.
• Kirishima Bupai mocked Inosuke for his poor counting and laid out nine chocolates, claiming there were eight.
• Kirishima Bupai guided Inosuke through a count that ended at eight, and Inosuke repeatedly failed to account for the ninth chocolate.
• Inosuke spiraled into confusion and howled over the mystery of why the nine chocolates counted as eight.

Kirishima Bupai watched Tanjiro fight Rui, who insisted that bonds could only be preserved through power and control. When Nezuko risked herself to protect Tanjiro, Rui was shaken by the siblings’ devotion and began longing for a bond like theirs.

• Kirishima Bupai left the Boar-Headed Boy trapped in a loop and went deeper into the woods.
• Kirishima Bupai reached a ruined clearing and watched Tanjiro battle Rui’s slicing spider threads.
• Rui demanded that Tanjiro give Nezuko to his demon family, while Tanjiro defended their bond and fought back.
• Nezuko leapt from her box to shield Tanjiro and was pierced by Rui’s threads.
• Tanjiro caught Nezuko and held her as she began to regenerate, and Rui watched their concern for each other.
• Rui questioned his beliefs and said that he wanted a bond like theirs.

Rui attacked his “big sister” for pleading with him, then ordered her to kill Tanjiro and Nezuko. Kirishima Bupai stopped her, confronted Rui, and declared he would take her instead.

• Rui lashed out at his pleading “big sister,” cutting her into pieces with his threads, then ordered her to kill Tanjiro and Nezuko.
• The female demon reassembled and headed toward Tanjiro and Nezuko, but Kirishima Bupai slammed her into the ground and pinned her beneath his boot.
• Kirishima Bupai taunted the frightened female demon and demanded that she discipline Rui.
• Rui threatened Kirishima Bupai and the others unless they handed Nezuko over to him.
• Kirishima Bupai called Rui a noisy little spider and announced that he would take the female demon.

Kirishima Bupai effortlessly destroyed Rui’s spider-thread attack and mocked his idea of family bonds, driving Rui into a furious escalation. As Rui prepared another deadly assault, Bupai got distracted by thoughts of making clothes from the threads and then yawned at Rui’s threats.

• Rui unleashed a powerful web of spider threads at Kirishima Bupai and the female demon beneath his foot.
• Kirishima Bupai casually flicked his sword guard, and an invisible force reduced Rui’s threads to powder before they reached him.
• Kirishima Bupai appeared beside Rui and mocked his strength and his claims about eternal family bonds.
• Rui retreated and prepared blood-colored threads for a stronger attack while Kirishima Bupai wondered whether they could be used to make durable clothes.
• Rui vowed to tear Kirishima Bupai apart, but Kirishima Bupai yawned and complained that Rui kept repeating himself.

Kirishima Bupai used his Bright Red Blade to defeat Rui and confronted him with a question that awakened memories sealed within him. The chapter ended as Rui’s buried memories of his mother and human life began flooding back.

• Kirishima Bupai drew his Nichirin Blade, turned it bright red, and burned through Rui’s Thread Rotation.
• Kirishima Bupai severed Rui’s legs, then borrowed Tanjiro’s Nichirin Hanafuda Earrings and put them on.
• Kirishima Bupai confronted Rui and asked what he took life for, provoking terror through Muzan Kibutsuji’s blood.
• Rui saw fragments of Muzan’s memories and wondered why Kirishima Bupai, the earrings, and the question frightened him.
• Kirishima Bupai reminded Rui of his mother’s apology, and Rui’s sealed memories began to return.