Recaps

After learning that Yoriichi Tsugikuni and all the Hashira had attacked Mount Natagumo and killed Rui, Koyuki, and Rokuro, Muzan Kibutsuji promoted Nakime to Upper Rank Six. He then announced that an Upper Rank had died, prompting the other Upper Ranks to suspect Doma.

• Muzan Kibutsuji learned through Rui that Yoriichi Tsugikuni and the Hashira had appeared at Mount Natagumo, and then sensed Koyuki and Rokuro die.
• Muzan Kibutsuji dismissed the possibility that one of his demons had betrayed him and considered how to replace the lost Lower Ranks.
• Muzan Kibutsuji gave Nakime more of his blood, and she endured the pain until the character for Six appeared in her eye.
• Muzan Kibutsuji announced that an Upper Rank had died without naming the demon, and Akaza, Daki, Hantengu, and Kokushibo each asked whether Doma had died.

After the battle on Mount Natagumo, Lin Yoriichi learned why Rui had become an Upper Rank and found that killing demons raised his Restoration Rate less than before. He planned to travel to Tokyo to meet Miss Tamayo and pursue new training techniques, leaving Yushiro’s worsening baldness as a curiosity he hoped to investigate.

• Lin Yoriichi saw Gyomei Himejima, Kyojuro Rengoku, and Tengen Uzui kill Koyuki, then summoned Chachamaru to collect her blood.
• Shinobu Kocho caught the female demon from Rui’s family, and Lin Yoriichi joined her questioning to ask how Rui had become an Upper Rank.
• The female demon explained that Rui had been a Lower Rank until Muzan Kibutsuji recently favored him and granted him more power.
• Lin Yoriichi told the Hashira he would go to Tokyo to meet an old acquaintance and handle several matters, then teach them new techniques when he returned.
• Lin Yoriichi planned to help Miss Tamayo complete medicine for the Demon Slayer Mark’s side effects and wondered how much hair Yushiro had lost.

Yushiro worked himself ragged making blood-drawing knives and searching for the Infinity Castle, while Lin Yoriichi tried to encourage him by praising his efforts to Miss Tamayo. Yushiro ended up deciding that Mr. Yoriichi was a good man after he suggested Miss Tamayo was fond of him.

• Miss Tamayo praised Yushiro for helping her research, and asked why he had been wearing a hat.
• Miss Tamayo sensed Lin Yoriichi's arrival, and Yushiro reluctantly went out to greet him.
• Lin Yoriichi thanked Miss Tamayo and praised Yushiro's blood-drawing knives, prompting Miss Tamayo to commend Yushiro's craftsmanship.
• Lin Yoriichi said he worried he had asked too much of Yushiro, and Miss Tamayo admitted she was concerned about his lack of rest.
• Lin Yoriichi told Miss Tamayo she must be fond of Yushiro, and Yushiro decided Mr. Yoriichi was a good man.

Lin Yoriichi learned that the Demon Slayer Mark drained a swordsman’s life and received Miss Tamayo’s experimental medicine to reduce its effects. After asking whether she could preserve demon remains, he encountered Hantengu’s Fear form, which tried to escape by splitting into clones.

• Miss Tamayo examined Lin Yoriichi’s Demon Slayer Mark and explained that it raised his temperature and heart rate by drawing on his life reserves.
• Miss Tamayo gave Lin Yoriichi experimental medicine that could partly replenish the life depleted by the mark, while explaining that fully removing its effects would require blood from Muzan Kibutsuji.
• Lin Yoriichi asked whether Miss Tamayo could preserve demon corpses, and she said even fragmented remains would help her research.
• Hantengu’s Fear form searched for the Blue Spider Lily and sensed a space behind a wall in an alley.
• Lin Yoriichi appeared before Hantengu’s Fear form, which pulled off its head and threw it away to create a clone and flee in separate directions.

Lin Yoriichi killed Upper Rank Four Hantengu by slicing his body and hidden true form into tiny fragments. He told Yushiro that Hantengu was now scattered across the ground, while considering whether he needed to wait until his restoration rate reached 100% before fighting Muzan Kibutsuji.

• Hantengu removed his head and began splitting into separate bodies, planning to hide his true form and escape.
• Lin Yoriichi covered Hantengu’s head and body with a vast net of blade strikes, cutting them and Hantengu’s tiny true form into fragments.
• Lin Yoriichi’s restoration rate rose to 76%, and he considered fighting Muzan Kibutsuji before reaching 100% because he had trustworthy companions and strong support.
• Yushiro emerged from the wall, saw the fragments, and asked where the Upper Rank demon was.
• Lin Yoriichi pointed at the scattered fragments and told Yushiro that Hantengu was all over the ground.

Lin Yoriichi killed Upper Rank Four Hantengu and gave Tamayo his remains for experiments before returning with her Demon Slayer Mark relief medicine. At the Butterfly Mansion, Shinobu Kocho reconsidered her plan to sacrifice herself for revenge, while Giyu Tomioka brought her pickled ginger; Tengen Uzui then invited Lin Yoriichi and Giyu to the Entertainment District.

• Lin Yoriichi told Yushiro that he had killed Hantengu, and Yushiro and Tamayo began collecting the demon's fragments for experiments.
• Tamayo warned that Hantengu might have discovered her secrets and said she and Yushiro might need to relocate; she gave Lin Yoriichi the Demon Slayer Mark relief medicine.
• Shinobu Kocho examined the marks from her wisteria poison injections and wondered whether Lin Yoriichi's strength meant she still needed to avenge her sister by dying alongside her enemy.
• Giyu Tomioka arrived at the Butterfly Mansion with pickled ginger for Shinobu, following Gyomei Himejima's advice.
• Tengen Uzui invited Lin Yoriichi and Giyu Tomioka to come with him to the Entertainment District.

Lin Yoriichi, Tengen Uzui, and Giyu Tomioka investigated the Entertainment District after hearing that an oiran had ordered men to collect blue flowers. They arrived at the Kyogoku House just as Muzan Kibutsuji possessed Daki to inspect the flowers, and Lin called for an attack.

• Tengen Uzui explained that the Master had asked the Hashira to watch for news about plants, and an oiran’s request for blue flowers had drawn his attention.
• Tengen Uzui invited Giyu Tomioka to investigate with him and Lin Yoriichi, then teased Giyu about smiling; Giyu tried and made an awkward expression.
• The three Hashira reached the Entertainment District at evening, and Lin Yoriichi recognized the Kyogoku House as the place where the oiran had requested blue flowers.
• Daki presented her collected flowers to Muzan Kibutsuji, who took control of her body and searched through them for a Blue Spider Lily.
• Muzan Kibutsuji found no Blue Spider Lily and continued using Daki’s body to experience the outside world, assuming the Kyogoku House was safe.
• Lin Yoriichi stared at the Kyogoku House and told Tengen Uzui and Giyu Tomioka to prepare to strike.

Lin Yoriichi, Giyu Tomioka, and Tengen Uzui launched a surprise attack on Kyogoku House, where Muzan Kibutsuji was controlling Daki’s body. Daki attacked the swordsman in the middle, then recognized Lin Yoriichi as her sashes were cut apart.

• Lin Yoriichi, Giyu Tomioka, and Tengen Uzui reached the roof near Kyogoku House and coordinated a careful attack to protect the civilians.
• Muzan Kibutsuji enjoyed the Entertainment District scenery through Daki’s body until the three swordsmen smashed through the roof.
• Muzan Kibutsuji handed control back to Daki and told her to deal with the Demon Slayer Corps members.
• Daki transformed and sent her Eightfold Sash Slash at the figure in the middle, hoping to take him down first.
• Lin Yoriichi cut Daki’s sashes apart, and she recognized his crimson hair, forehead mark, and Sun-patterned hanafuda earrings as Muzan Kibutsuji shrieked inside her mind.

Muzan Kibutsuji ordered Daki to kill Yoriichi Tsugikuni, but Yoriichi swiftly cut her into pieces. Gyutaro emerged from Daki’s body, then fled with her head instead of fighting.

• Muzan Kibutsuji recognized Yoriichi Tsugikuni, severed his connection to Daki, and ordered her to kill him.
• Yoriichi cut Daki into pieces with his sword technique while Giyu Tomioka evacuated the people inside the Kyogoku House.
• Daki remained conscious in her scattered fragments and cried out for her older brother.
• Gyutaro emerged from a fragment of Daki’s back, confirming he had hidden inside her body.
• Gyutaro picked up Daki’s head and ran from the Kyogoku House.

Gyutaro unleashed a wide-ranging Blood Demon Art to cover his escape with Daki, but Lin Yoriichi deflected the attack and beheaded him. Afterward, Lin discovered the bloodlike medicine spilled on his uniform gave off a peculiar fragrance that affected Gyutaro, and Giyu remarked that Lin smelled nice.

• Gyutaro fled with Daki's incomplete head and unleashed a barrage of blood scythes to delay the Demon Slayers.
• Tengen Uzui and Giyu Tomioka charged to stop the attack, but Lin Yoriichi deflected the scythes and beheaded Gyutaro.
• Giyu and Tengen saw what looked like blood running from Lin's waist, but Lin showed them that two vials of medicine had broken.
• Lin noticed the medicine had a peculiar fragrance and saw Gyutaro grow dazed as if remembering something.
• Giyu told Lin that he smelled nice.

After Gyutaro and Daki recalled their human memories under the influence of Miss Tamayo’s medicine, Lin Yoriichi learned information about the Infinity Castle and reported the medicine’s effects. As the Kakushi arrived to handle the aftermath, Lin Yoriichi sensed a watcher and struck an ice sculpture that suggested another demon’s Blood Demon Art was nearby.

• Lin Yoriichi realized Miss Tamayo’s medicine had affected Gyutaro and Daki, prompting them to recall their human lives and their former names.
• Lin Yoriichi asked Gyutaro about the Infinity Castle, received information useful to Yushiro, and recorded his discovery for Miss Tamayo and Yushiro.
• Gyutaro and Daki turned to ash, and Lin Yoriichi summoned Chachamaru to send his report.
• Goto and the Kakushi arrived to check on Lin Yoriichi, Giyu Tomioka, and Tengen Uzui and handle the damaged Kyogoku House.
• Lin Yoriichi sensed a watcher and hurled his Nichirin Blade at an ice sculpture; he recognized its appearance as resembling the Blood Demon Art Crystalline Divine Child.

Lin Yoriichi asked Kagaya Ubuyashiki to help spread false news that the Blue Spider Lily had been discovered, hoping to draw out Doma and Muzan Kibutsuji's other subordinates. Kagaya agreed to use the Ubuyashiki Family's resources to make the story convincing, and the chapter ended with their plan taking shape.

• Lin Yoriichi realized he needed a way to find Doma and decided to speak with Kagaya Ubuyashiki.
• Lin Yoriichi proposed announcing that a botanist had discovered the Blue Spider Lily to attract Muzan Kibutsuji's attention and draw out his subordinates.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki explained that the Ubuyashiki Family had a greenhouse and could use white spider lilies dyed blue for the ruse.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki planned to fund universities, research institutions, newspapers, and public events to spread the false discovery.
• Lin Yoriichi accepted Kagaya Ubuyashiki's plan to use the family's wealth to make the Blue Spider Lily story credible.

Lin Yoriichi watched Kagaya Ubuyashiki use a staged Blue Spider Lily discovery to draw out Muzan Kibutsuji and his followers. Muzan ordered Doma to investigate, while Lin Yoriichi and Shinobu Kocho monitored the daytime exhibition and spotted suspicious visitors.

• Muzan Kibutsuji learned from Doma that humans had discovered the Blue Spider Lily and grew furious when he learned it bloomed only briefly during the day.
• Muzan Kibutsuji ordered Doma to have his human followers gather information and try to obtain the Blue Spider Lily.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki publicized the discovery and arranged a daytime exhibition to attract Doma's followers.
• Lin Yoriichi and Shinobu Kocho watched the exhibition, where Kakushi including Goto and Momoki Haruko posed as researchers.
• Lin Yoriichi noticed several tense, fast-breathing visitors trying to approach the Blue Spider Lily, and an honest-looking Kakushi turned them away.

Shinobu Kocho let members of the Eternal Paradise Cult lead her to Doma after they failed to steal the Blue Spider Lily. Doma recognized from her breathing that she was a Demon Slayer, while Muzan Kibutsuji ordered him to obtain the flower before the exhibition ended.

• Lin Yoriichi followed the suspicious cult members and overheard them decide to return for the Blue Spider Lily another day.
• Shinobu Kocho appeared in the alley and pretended to be interested in the Eternal Paradise Cult, allowing its members to take her away.
• Doma reflected on the demons who had disappeared and used an eyeball on his hand to communicate with Muzan Kibutsuji.
• Doma told Muzan Kibutsuji that the cult members were returning without the Blue Spider Lily and had brought a short woman with them.
• Muzan Kibutsuji ordered Doma to get the Blue Spider Lily before the exhibition ended, and Doma realized Shinobu Kocho was a Demon Slayer.

Shinobu Kocho confronted Doma, the demon who killed her older sister, at the Eternal Paradise Cult’s headquarters. As Doma unleashed his Blood Demon Arts against Shinobu and Lin Yoriichi, Lin’s blade destroyed the ice attacks and opened the ceiling to let in sunlight.

• Shinobu Kocho arrived at the Eternal Paradise Cult’s headquarters with cultists who had failed to find the Blue Spider Lily, and Doma forgave them for the day.
• Doma recognized Shinobu Kocho as the younger sister of the woman he had killed and said he wanted to taste her.
• Lin Yoriichi tossed Shinobu Kocho her Nichirin Blade, and she attacked Doma with its poison-coated tip.
• Doma summoned ice duplicates and unleashed multiple Blood Demon Arts against Shinobu Kocho and Lin Yoriichi.
• Shinobu Kocho thrust her blade through the ceiling as Lin Yoriichi cut apart Doma’s ice attacks and opened a path for sunlight.

Lin Yoriichi and Shinobu Kocho killed Doma, and Lin used a drug to question him about the Infinity Castle, Kokushibo, and Akaza. Akaza arrived near Doma’s cult headquarters, only for Muzan Kibutsuji to order him away and tell him Doma was dead.

• Lin Yoriichi cut Doma down and exposed him to sunlight while Shinobu Kocho stabbed him with her blade and poured wisteria poison into his body.
• Lin Yoriichi severed Doma’s head, crushed a drug vial, and questioned him about the Infinity Castle, Kokushibo, and Akaza.
• Muzan Kibutsuji contacted Akaza through an eye on his hand and ordered him to find and, if necessary, help Doma.
• Akaza hurried toward the Eternal Paradise Cult headquarters, but Muzan Kibutsuji suddenly told him to leave because Doma was dead.
• Akaza asked whether Doma had really died this time.

Akaza struggled with doubts about his past as Muzan ordered him away from Yoriichi Tsugikuni. Meanwhile, Kaigaku ran into Akaza and offered to betray the swordsmen at a nearby Wisteria Family House, leaving Akaza grim-faced.

• Akaza wondered why he had become a demon and why he could not remember, but Muzan urged him to leave and avoid fighting Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
• Kaigaku overheard Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen criticize him and discuss the wisteria incense burner, which reminded him of how he had once lured a demon to survive.
• Kaigaku left the Wisteria Family House and encountered Akaza, recognizing the demon as Upper Rank Three.
• Kaigaku knelt and begged Akaza to spare him, offering to disable the wisteria incense burner and poison the swordsmen's well.
• Akaza's expression turned grim when Kaigaku proposed poisoning the well.

Akaza killed Kaigaku in a rage after Kaigaku offered to help him by poisoning the well, then returned to the Infinity Castle and faced Muzan Kibutsuji’s punishment. As Muzan injected him and Nakime with more blood, Akaza remembered who Koyuki and Keizo were.

• Akaza attacked Kaigaku over his offer to poison the well and beat him to death in a crater.
• Swordsmen from the Wisteria Family House found the crater and planned to report the death to the Master.
• Akaza returned to the Infinity Castle and sensed that Nakime had recently suffered severe injuries.
• Muzan Kibutsuji scolded Akaza over the deaths and disappearances of the Twelve Kizuki and threatened to promote him to Upper Rank Two.
• Muzan Kibutsuji pierced Akaza and Nakime with his transformed arms and injected them with blood, causing Akaza to remember Koyuki and Keizo.

Lin Yoriichi learned about the rescued women from Doma’s cult and Kaigaku’s death, then discussed a new Blue Spider Lily lure with Kagaya Ubuyashiki. He found Sayo’s name again in a report about relocating the women housed at a Wisteria Family House.

• Sanemi Shinazugawa thanked Lin Yoriichi for helping kill Doma, who had murdered Kanae Kocho.
• Sanemi Shinazugawa told Lin Yoriichi that the Kakushi had rescued women whom Doma’s followers had lured to the Eternal Paradise Cult.
• Lin Yoriichi read a report stating that Kaigaku had been killed by a demon at a Wisteria Family House, and suspected Akaza had killed him.
• Lin Yoriichi inferred from Kaigaku’s death that Akaza might have recovered some memories of his human life.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki planned to publicize that the Blue Spider Lilies were about to wither to draw Muzan Kibutsuji’s subordinates out again.
• Lin Yoriichi saw Sayo’s name on a report about relocating the rescued women.

Lin Yoriichi told Gyomei Himejima that Sayo had been found and brought him to meet her. Sayo prepared to explain her past, but froze when she saw how much more muscular Gyomei had become.

• Gyomei Himejima learned of Kaigaku's death and mourned as memories of his past returned.
• Lin Yoriichi told Gyomei that Sayo wanted to see him, and Gyomei eagerly agreed to go meet her.
• Sayo told Momoki Haruko that her teacher was Gyomei Himejima, and Momoki recognized the name and promised to arrange a reunion.
• Sayo grew frightened that Gyomei might not want to see her, while Momoki warned that he had changed a little.
• Lin Yoriichi and Gyomei arrived, and Sayo stared at Gyomei's muscular build in disbelief.

Gyomei Himejima reunited with Sayo, who explained that the children had tried to protect him and thanked him for fighting for her. Days later, Susamaru and Yahaba attacked Murata, but Muichiro Tokito arrived and challenged their claim to be Upper Ranks.

• Gyomei Himejima sensed Sayo sobbing, embraced her, and told her he was glad to see her again.
• Sayo apologized for what happened and explained that the children had gone outside to find help or weapons, while the demon had killed everyone and Gyomei had saved her.
• Susamaru and Yahaba, newly empowered and marked as Upper Ranks by their lord, set out to draw the Demon Slayer Corps' attention.
• Susamaru and Yahaba ambushed Murata, and Susamaru hurled a temari at him with Yahaba's arrows guiding it.
• Muichiro Tokito cut the temari in half and faced Susamaru and Yahaba, dismissing them as weak Upper Ranks.

Lin Yoriichi realized Muzan Kibutsuji had sent demons to probe the Demon Slayer Corps before retrieving the Blue Spider Lily, and joined the fighting to disrupt his plan. At the exhibition hall, Akaza’s human memories resurfaced until Kokushibo took over the retrieval and ordered him to draw the Corps’ attention.

• A Kasugai Crow reported that Murata and Muichiro Tokito had slain two demons, and Lin Yoriichi recognized them as the Temari Demon and Arrow Demon Muzan had strengthened to test the Demon Slayer Corps.
• After another crow reported demon attacks in multiple locations, Lin Yoriichi left the exhibition hall and joined the fighting, hoping to turn Muzan’s cautious scheme against him.
• Muzan Kibutsuji confirmed through an eye on Akaza’s hand that Lin Yoriichi was occupied and ordered Akaza to steal the Blue Spider Lily and escape with Nakime’s help.
• Akaza’s memories of Keizo and Koyuki returned, leaving him dazed despite Muzan’s pain-inducing control.
• Kokushibo found Akaza, took over retrieving the Blue Spider Lily, and told Akaza to draw the Demon Slayer Corps’ attention and flee if he saw Lin Yoriichi.

Akaza fought Kyojuro Rengoku while Lin Yoriichi watched and secretly released a drug, hoping to recover Akaza’s memories and question him. Rengoku’s blade turned dark red and his fighting spirit vanished from Akaza’s senses, leaving Akaza unable to regenerate his severed arm as the battle intensified.

• Akaza questioned whether Muzan was as underhanded as the weaklings he despised, then encountered Kyojuro Rengoku and accepted his challenge.
• Rengoku asked Lin Yoriichi not to interfere, insisting that this was his battle with Akaza.
• Akaza recognized Lin Yoriichi from the train station and realized the swordsman was far more dangerous than he had seemed.
• Lin crushed a vial of drug, hoping it would help Akaza recover his human memories and reveal information when questioned.
• Akaza attacked Rengoku’s arms, but Rengoku evaded him, awakened his Demon Slayer Mark, and severed one of his arms with a dark red blade.
• Akaza discovered that his arm would not regenerate and that Rengoku’s fighting spirit had vanished from his senses.

Akaza fought Kyojuro Rengoku and began approaching the Supreme Territory, but Tamayo’s Drug took effect and restored his human memories. He remembered Koyuki and his true name, Hakuji, and stopped fighting.

• Akaza questioned why he had spent a hundred years seeking strength and wondered what he had once wanted to protect.
• Akaza and Kyojuro Rengoku traded techniques before unleashing their ultimate attacks, each wounding the other.
• Akaza reached the threshold of the Supreme Territory, then noticed the peculiar fragrance and saw Koyuki appear before him.
• Kyojuro Rengoku asked Lin Yoriichi whether he should kill Akaza, but Lin Yoriichi gave him a bottle of the Drug and said the fight was over.
• Koyuki called Akaza Hakuji and asked him to stop fighting, and he remembered his human name.

Hakuji shared information about the Infinity Castle with Lin Yoriichi before accepting his death, while Muzan Kibutsuji focused on examining the Blue Spider Lily. After learning of Akaza's death, Kokushibo wrestled with his fear of facing Yoriichi Tsugikuni and heard the name Muichiro Tokito outside his resting place.

• Hakuji voluntarily described the Infinity Castle to Lin Yoriichi, though he did not know Kokushibo's location.
• After fireworks reminded Hakuji of his promise to Koyuki, he apologized for failing to protect her and said he would await the sunlight with her.
• Muzan Kibutsuji sensed Akaza's death, then continued studying the withered Blue Spider Lily that Kokushibo had found.
• Muzan Kibutsuji sent Kokushibo away so he could examine the flower alone, and Kokushibo reflected on Akaza's death and his own reluctance to face Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
• Kokushibo heard Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen outside mention Muichiro Tokito and demons with the words 'Upper Rank' in their eyes.