Chapter Summaries

Tengen Uzui told Kirishima Bupai that his wives had found signs of an Upper Rank demon, possibly Warabihime the oiran, in the Yoshiwara Pleasure District. Kirishima entered the district alone while Tengen summoned Tanjiro Kamado, Zenitsu Agatsuma, and Inosuke Hashibira to investigate undercover.

• Tengen Uzui explained that Hinatsuru, Makio, and Suma had uncovered unsettling clues and that Suma had gone missing near Tokito House.
• Tengen showed Kirishima Bupai a map marking Kyogoku House and Tokito House as likely demon territory, but Kirishima rolled it up and chose to split up.
• Kirishima entered the Yoshiwara Pleasure District alone, blending into the crowd as Tengen resolved to make a more flamboyant entrance.
• Tengen used a special whistle to summon Kasugai Crows and ordered them to summon Tanjiro Kamado, Zenitsu Agatsuma, and Inosuke Hashibira for undercover reconnaissance.
• Kirishima made his way through the district's northern streets and reacted uneasily to the brothels and their smells.

Kirishima Bupai encountered an Eight-Legged Spider Demon in the Entertainment District and sent it crashing through a building with a single slap. The collapse endangered Oiran Koinatsu’s procession, and Kirishima Bupai rushed in to shield her and the crowd from falling debris.

• Kirishima Bupai walked through the Entertainment District, reflecting on its history until the smell of blood drew his attention to a brothel window.
• An Eight-Legged Spider Demon burst from the window and lunged at Kirishima Bupai.
• Kirishima Bupai evaded the attack and slapped the demon through the second floor of Tamagikuya.
• The impact sent debris crashing down on Oiran Koinatsu’s procession and the surrounding spectators.
• Kirishima Bupai appeared above Oiran Koinatsu as the debris fell, preparing to deal with the danger.

Kirishima Bupai saved Koinatsu and the children from falling debris, then accepted her invitation to the Kyogoku House. After the proprietors realized he belonged to the powerful Kirishima Family, they feared his presence could endanger the entire establishment.

• Kirishima Bupai sliced the falling timber, tiles, and stones into harmless fragments, saving Koinatsu and her companions.
• Koinatsu thanked Kirishima Bupai and invited him to the Kyogoku House, where he accepted and listened to guests discuss demons and the Tokyo Central Station disaster.
• The proprietress entered Kirishima Bupai's tearoom, gushed over his appearance, and offered to arrange food and company.
• The male proprietor dragged the proprietress away and warned her that Kirishima Bupai was a young lord from a powerful family.
• The proprietors resolved to serve Kirishima Bupai respectfully and hurry him out, fearing the Kyogoku House could be destroyed if he took offense.

Kirishima Bupai killed a Demon that dragged a ronin beneath the floor of Kyogoku House, then left to hunt Demons in Yoshiwara and earn Points for Yamato. His Points climbed as he eliminated low-level Demons, while Upper Rank Six, Daki, remained his intended target.

• A Demon claw dragged a drunken ronin through a hole in the floor of Kyogoku House and reached for another guest.
• Kirishima Bupai stomped the floor, killing the Demon with a single kick and silencing the sounds underground.
• Kirishima Bupai thanked the proprietors and left the wrecked tearoom.
• Kirishima Bupai headed through Yoshiwara's darker corners, hunting Demons while planning to face Daki later.
• Kirishima Bupai swiftly killed several low-level Demons, and his Points rose to a staggering number.

After reaching 3,500 points, Kirishima Bupai redeemed Yamato and reveled in its power. A broken floor dropped him into another abandoned room, where a white chair inspired him to arrange a mirror and pose with the sword.

• Kirishima Bupai killed a Demon and saw his points reach 3,500.
• Kirishima Bupai redeemed Yamato, felt its immense power, and shouted excitedly into the night.
• Kirishima Bupai's backward step broke the rotten floor, sending him crashing into the room below.
• Kirishima Bupai spotted a white oak chair, moved it into the moonlight, and hung a mirror opposite it.
• Kirishima Bupai sat in the chair with Yamato beside him, admired his reflection, and laughed with delight.

Kirishima Bupai ordered the northern section of the Yoshiwara Pleasure District evacuated before using a powerful dimensional slash. As Tanjiro Kamado and Inosuke searched for Uzui’s wives, they encountered Daki, Upper Rank Six, and Inosuke immediately traded insults with her.

• Kirishima Bupai ordered his Kasugai Crow to arrange the evacuation of northern Yoshiwara under the pretense of demolition.
• Kakushi members cleared the northern section, leaving it deserted by nightfall.
• Tanjiro Kamado and Inosuke searched for Uzui’s wives but found no sign of them or Warabihime.
• Tanjiro sensed a demon nearby, and Daki appeared before him and Inosuke, revealing herself as Upper Rank Six.
• Daki mocked the Demon Slayer Corps and called Tanjiro and Inosuke ugly freaks.
• Inosuke and Daki shouted insults at each other on the rooftop.

Inosuke and Tanjiro fought Daki, whose rage at Inosuke’s insults drove her to transform and overpower them. As they crashed into a house, Kirishima Bupai examined a system speaker that could play music and searched for a song.

• Inosuke traded childish insults with Daki and enraged her by mocking her appearance.
• Daki attacked Tanjiro and Inosuke with her sashes, while Tanjiro used Water Breathing to block and sever several of them.
• Daki summoned sashes from vacant houses, absorbed them, and transformed, gaining a stronger aura and green-and-white hair.
• Daki struck Tanjiro and Inosuke through a house, sending them crashing into its interior.
• Kirishima Bupai heard the crash from a nearby teahouse and inspected a system item called the Square Dance Speaker, browsing its song list.

Tanjiro and Inosuke struggled against Daki’s overwhelming attacks until she struck them and the nearby building with enough force to destroy much of it. Kirishima Bupai emerged unharmed in the damaged room, and his presence left Daki uncertain and afraid.

• Tanjiro and Inosuke fought Daki, but her rapidly strengthening sashes overwhelmed their defenses and sent them crashing into nearby ruins.
• Kirishima Bupai woke in an abandoned house, adjusted his mirror and white chair, and sat admiring his reflection.
• Daki battered Tanjiro and Inosuke, then unleashed a powerful attack aimed at them and the building behind them.
• The building’s interior remained largely intact, revealing Kirishima Bupai sitting calmly inside as dust cleared.
• Tanjiro and Inosuke recognized Kirishima Bupai, while Daki sensed his dangerous aura and faltered.

Kirishima Bupai swiftly dismembered Daki with Yamato and revealed that he knew she had a brother. He ordered Tanjiro and Inosuke to leave while holding Daki’s head, promising that her brother could still emerge.

• Kirishima Bupai rose from his chair, picked up Yamato, and drew it slightly from its scabbard.
• Kirishima Bupai cut Daki’s transformed body into bloody pieces and took her head.
• Kirishima Bupai told Daki he had not used Yamato’s special ability and said her brother could still come out.
• Daki demanded to know how Kirishima Bupai knew she had a brother.
• Kirishima Bupai ordered Tanjiro and Inosuke to leave.

Kirishima Bupai sent Tanjiro and Inosuke away while holding Daki's severed head, prompting Gyutaro to emerge from her shredded flesh. He faced Gyutaro without drawing Yamato and challenged him to come take Daki himself.

• Kirishima Bupai prompted Tanjiro and Inosuke to leave, and they hurried away from the battlefield.
• Kirishima Bupai held Daki's head as she broke down in terror and cried for her brother.
• Gyutaro emerged from Daki's shredded flesh and confronted Kirishima Bupai, demanding his sister back.
• Kirishima Bupai stayed calm with Yamato sheathed and told Gyutaro to come get Daki himself.

Kirishima Bupai effortlessly overwhelmed Gyutaro while holding Daki’s head, then recalled the siblings’ past and left Gyutaro demanding to know who he was.

• Gyutaro charged Kirishima Bupai to reclaim his sister’s head, but Kirishima blocked his attack with Yamato’s scabbard and crippled him.
• Kirishima struck Gyutaro twice more, smashing him into the ground and leaving his demon body to regenerate in a crater.
• Kirishima remembered that Daki had once been called Ume, and Daki watched in terror as her brother was beaten.
• Kirishima began describing the snowy night when Ume had been burned and left with only one breath, causing Gyutaro to ask who he was.

Kirishima Bupai condemned Gyutaro and Daki for turning the injustice they suffered in the Edo period into violence against innocent people after accepting Doma’s blood. Gyutaro broke down and attacked him again, but Kirishima Bupai effortlessly deflected his blows with his scabbard.

• Kirishima Bupai recalled how Doma had offered Gyutaro and Daki demon blood and argued that it had corrupted their souls rather than saved them.
• Gyutaro insisted he would choose to become a demon again, while Kirishima Bupai challenged him to face the innocent lives he had taken.
• Kirishima Bupai explained that the siblings had suffered under the Entertainment District’s exploitative system but had chosen to pass that suffering on to others.
• Kirishima Bupai declared that the era’s injustice could not excuse their harm to the innocent and said they should have fought the system instead.
• Gyutaro roared and launched himself at Kirishima Bupai, who stayed in place and casually deflected his attacks with his scabbard.

Kirishima Bupai defeated Gyutaro, who begged him to spare Daki, but the siblings turned on each other in a bitter quarrel. After silencing them with a devastating blow, Kirishima prepared to finish the fight.

• Gyutaro, beaten and unable to rise, begged Kirishima Bupai to spare Daki and offered to do anything in return.
• Kirishima refused and demanded that Gyutaro reveal where Tengen Uzui's three wives were imprisoned, promising both siblings a quick death.
• Daki insulted Gyutaro for losing, and he accused her of making his life miserable and declared that he had no sister like her.
• Kirishima struck Daki's head into Gyutaro, driving both of them into a crater and stopping their quarrel.
• Kirishima asked whether they had settled down and said he had been in the mood to try a new way of using Yamato.

Kirishima Bupai rebuked Gyutaro and Daki until they recognized the hurt they had caused each other and faced their final moments together. He used Yamato’s Judgment Cut End to erase them and the entire northern section of the Yoshiwara Pleasure District, earning 1800 points.

• Kirishima Bupai condemned Gyutaro and Daki for turning their anger on each other, and both siblings realized the depth of their remorse.
• Gyutaro and Daki exchanged tearful looks and reached toward each other as Kirishima Bupai prepared to finish the fight.
• Kirishima Bupai declared that Doma had set the siblings on their path to hell and activated Yamato’s power of cutting and separation.
• Kirishima Bupai vanished and reappeared a thousand miles away as he sheathed Yamato, unleashing a slash across northern Yoshiwara.
• The slash erased the district, Gyutaro, and Daki, leaving a vast, smooth crater, and Kirishima Bupai received 1800 points for defeating Upper Rank Six.

After Kirishima Bupai’s attack erased the heart of Yoshiwara’s northern quarter and killed Upper Rank Six, Kakushi crews rescued the injured slayers and reported the unknown power to Kagaya Ubuyashiki. Tanjiro and Inosuke were taken toward the Swordsmith Village to recover, while the crater was sealed off as an absolute danger zone.

• Kakushi search crews found Tanjiro and Inosuke wounded but alive, and recovered Tengen Uzui and his three wives from the collapsed cave.
• The Kakushi captain ordered the wounded escorted to a Butterfly Mansion outpost and established a one-kilometer security cordon around the crater.
• A Kasugai Crow carried an emergency report to headquarters confirming Upper Rank Six’s death and the destruction caused by Kirishima Bupai.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki ordered Butterfly Dance to receive Tanjiro and Inosuke and asked that Haganezuka prepare repair materials.
• After emergency treatment, Tanjiro and Inosuke were carried toward the Swordsmith Village, while Tengen went to spend time with his wives.

Tanjiro’s group encountered a strange, deathly presence at the foggy entrance to the Swordsmith Village, prompting a highest-alert warning. Kirishima Bupai arrived at the way station, where Mitsuri Kanroji rushed down the steps in tears.

• Tanjiro sensed a presence like the trace left at the Yoshiwara crater as a Kasugai Crow struggled against an unseen force in the fog.
• A hideous anglerfish passed through the fog, and the Kakushi team leader fired a warning flare to alert the village of an unknown anomaly.
• Kirishima Bupai arrived by carriage at the way station near the Swordsmith Village entrance.
• Tanjiro stepped out of his carriage, and Mitsuri Kanroji came running down the hot-spring steps, sobbing.

Mitsuri Kanroji’s attempt to find comfort from Tanjiro ended in a collision that sent him flying, while Kirishima Bupai continued on to the Swordsmith Village. He arrived among the village’s masked swordsmiths and quietly mocked their unusual masks.

• Mitsuri Kanroji rushed up to Tanjiro and complained that someone had ignored her and must hate her.
• Tanjiro tried to avoid Mitsuri and asked her to calm down, which she took as further rejection.
• Mitsuri tripped and crashed into Tanjiro, sending him flying and leaving him sprawled on the ground with blood pouring from his nose.
• Kirishima Bupai left Tanjiro and Mitsuri behind and headed through the misty mountain pass toward the Swordsmith Village.
• Kirishima Bupai walked among the village’s masked swordsmiths and chuckled at their strange designs.

Kirishima Bupai arrived at the Swordsmith Village’s hot springs after declining its lavish meal and asking for clean clothes. There he encountered Genya, who was overwhelmed by the gap between their strength and wondered whether he could ever catch up.

• Sakonji Urokodaki sneezed so hard that his Tengu Mask flew off, then felt an unexplained chill as he looked toward the Swordsmith Village.
• Kirishima Bupai sampled the villagers’ meal, found it unfamiliar, and asked them to prepare clean clothes instead of remaking the food.
• A villager led Kirishima Bupai to the hot springs, where Genya Shinazugawa was already bathing.
• Kirishima Bupai quietly settled into the secluded pool, and Genya turned around and recognized the man who had knocked him unconscious during Final Selection.
• Genya recalled Kirishima Bupai’s victory over Upper Rank Six and despaired that even eating demons might not let him catch up.

Kirishima Bupai sensed Gyokko’s reconnaissance anglerfish near the hot spring and approached it while naked. After the creature’s glowing lure smacked his cheek, he stared it down with a chilling smile, leaving it shrieking in terror.

• Kirishima Bupai recalled how Hantengu’s clone had sent Muichiro Tokito flying into Gyokko in the original plot.
• Kirishima Bupai detected an unnatural fishy odor near the forest waterfall and leapt over the bamboo fence to investigate.
• Kirishima Bupai found Gyokko’s mutated anglerfish hovering by the stream and crept up behind it.
• Kirishima Bupai leaned close to inspect the anglerfish, whose glowing lure struck him on the cheek as it turned around.
• Kirishima Bupai held his eerie smile and stared at the anglerfish until it shrieked in terror.

Kirishima Bupai’s presence terrified Gyokko’s Lanternfish so badly that it crashed into a cliff and died, leaving Gyokko shaken in his hiding place. The next morning, Kirishima encountered a masked child fleeing several Lanternfish and calling for help.

• The Lanternfish fled from Kirishima Bupai, crashed into a cliff, and was crushed by a falling boulder.
• Gyokko experienced the Lanternfish’s final sensations, panicked, and hid inside his ceramic pot.
• Kirishima Bupai walked upstream the following morning and passed the Lanternfish’s remains.
• A masked child ran from the woods toward Kirishima Bupai as several Lanternfish chased him.
• The child begged Kirishima Bupai for help while the Lanternfish pursued him.