Chapter Summaries

Tetsu no Sosuke, Kanae, and Kuwajima Jigoro planned a trap for a cautious Lower Moon Demon and summoned the Pillars. Two nights after the Sword Forging Shed was completed, a flamboyantly dressed man arrived at their window.

• Kuwajima Jigoro insisted they keep the area unchanged so the demons would not suspect a trap, and Kanae sent a Kasugai Crow to summon the Pillars.
• Tetsu no Sosuke reassured Kanae that their advantage and the arriving Pillars would help keep him safe, and she resolved to stay cautious.
• The Hidden built the furnace and Sword Forging Shed, taking two days to finish the shed.
• On the third night, a flamboyantly dressed man appeared outside Tetsu no Sosuke and Kanae's room and announced his arrival.

Tengen Uzui arrived to help Tetsu no Sosuke and Kanae prepare for an expected Demon attack, and hid in a dark underground passage beneath the Sword Forging Shed. As they continued training and keeping watch, Giyu Tomioka was expected to arrive by morning, and Tetsu no Sosuke heard footsteps behind him while bringing Uzui food.

• Tengen Uzui arrived after receiving Kanae's message and tried to hide under the bed.
• Tetsu no Sosuke led Uzui to a hidden underground passage beneath the Sword Forging Shed, where Uzui reluctantly agreed to wait for the Demons.
• Kanae and Tetsu no Sosuke continued watching their surroundings and taking turns sleeping as they prepared for an attack.
• Giyu Tomioka said he was traveling through the night and would likely arrive by morning.
• After training and a noon break, Tetsu no Sosuke returned to the Sword Forging Shed with food for Uzui and heard footsteps behind him.

Kaigaku apologized to Tetsu no Sosuke for their earlier confrontation and then asked him about forging. Tetsu no Sosuke suspected Kaigaku wanted to secure a future Nichirin Blade, but he had no intention of making one for him.

• Kaigaku approached Tetsu no Sosuke while he was eating and apologized for his earlier behavior.
• Tetsu no Sosuke accepted the apology and admitted he had acted too rashly.
• Kaigaku asked Tetsu no Sosuke questions about forging, and Tetsu no Sosuke suspected he wanted a future Nichirin Blade.
• Tetsu no Sosuke lit the furnace and began working, prompting Kaigaku to leave disappointed.

Tetsu no Sosuke was ambushed after night fell and briefly found himself in a misty illusion. He drove off his attacker, but Kanae and her Nichirin Blade were missing, while a pale-eyed woman taunted him from outside.

• Tetsu no Sosuke hid the rice ball beneath the table and later kept watch while Kanae rested.
• He heard a faint sound, then found himself surrounded by mist with his weapon and the room gone.
• Tetsu no Sosuke realized he was back in the room just as a blade came for his head, and he dodged it.
• He grabbed his Hammer Sword and struck the attacker, sending a figure crashing through the window.
• Tetsu no Sosuke found Kanae and her Nichirin Blade gone, then saw a pale-eyed woman outside mock him.

Kanae was trapped in a maze of identical rooms inside the walls after a Lower Rank One pulled her in. She tried cutting upward through the rooms, but the openings sealed behind her, leaving her to search for another way out.

• Kanae woke as countless arms dragged her through a wall, and she cut them with her Nichirin Blade before ending up in an empty room.
• Kanae opened the only door and found another identical room, then suspected the Lower Rank One could merge into walls.
• Kanae cut through the ceiling and leaped into another room as the opening sealed beneath her.
• Kanae drew her Nichirin Blade and carved a huge gash through the surrounding room.

Kanae escaped the shifting rooms and confronted Lower One in a broad arena, hoping that killing him would let her reach Tetsu no Sosuke. Lower One revealed that his private space held 108 other demons of the same rank, leaving Kanae suspended in midair as she faced the threat of releasing them.

• Kanae’s repeated strikes overwhelmed the rooms’ ability to repair themselves, and she cut down a demon that attacked through an opening.
• Kanae found herself in an arena, where three demons surrounded her and Lower One watched from a raised platform.
• Kanae asked whether killing Lower One would let her escape so she could help Tetsu no Sosuke, and she said she trusted him to defeat his own enemy if necessary.
• Kanae used Breath of the Flower, Sixth Form: Swirling Peach, to rise toward Lower One, but the platform rose with her.
• Lower One warned Kanae that killing him could release 108 other demons of the same rank, and she hung in midair with her pupils contracted.

Tengen Uzui suffered severe diarrhea in his underground hiding place after eating Tetsu no Sosuke’s rice ball. The chapter left him exhausted and vowing to kill Tetsu no Sosuke.

• Tengen Uzui blamed Tetsu no Sosuke’s lunch for making him violently ill.
• Tengen Uzui cleaned himself up and began covering the pit he had dug.
• Tengen Uzui’s stomach gurgled again, forcing him to squat and dig another pit.
• Tengen Uzui lamented that he had been trapped there since eating the rice ball and vowed to kill Tetsu no Sosuke.

Tetsu no Sosuke fought a female Demon at the Sword Forging Shed while wondering why no one else had noticed their battle. As the Demon offered to show him her beautiful Swordsmanship, he braced for her next attack.

• A man struggling to finish his business heard something outside, but an overwhelming force dragged him back down and he cursed his unseen tormentor.
• Tetsu no Sosuke fought the female Demon and took numerous cuts while barely landing any blows after his first strike.
• Tetsu no Sosuke wondered why Kuwajima Jigoro, Zenitsu Agatsuma, and even Tengen Uzui had not noticed the battle, despite the damage to the Sword Forging Shed.
• The Demon mocked Tetsu no Sosuke's crude Swordsmanship and offered to show him what she considered beautiful Swordsmanship.

Tetsu no Sosuke fought a female demon who claimed to use the Breath of the Moon, but her named forms lacked its true power. He struck her down with his Big Hammer and followed with the first form of the Breath of the Sun.

• The female demon performed Breath of the Moon, Form One, but Tetsu no Sosuke dodged and found no crescent blades in her attack.
• She followed with Form Three, which Tetsu no Sosuke recognized as a weak imitation of a breathing technique.
• Tetsu no Sosuke spotted an opening and smashed the female demon in the face with Breath of the Sun, Form Two.
• Tetsu no Sosuke continued his assault with Breath of the Sun, Form One.

Tetsu no Sosuke relentlessly attacked the female demon while Tengen Uzui struggled with a private emergency in the cellar below. The demon transformed her limbs into enormous blades and revealed a cutting attack that forced Sosuke to stop pressing forward.

• Tengen Uzui heard the ground shaking overhead and struggled to decide whether to leave the cellar despite his stomach trouble.
• Tetsu no Sosuke mistook the shaking for a sign that Uzui had been lured away and continued hammering the female demon with Gale Sun.
• The female demon's weapons shattered under Sosuke's attacks, and her body was battered and her head warped out of shape.
• The demon grew blades from her elbows and feet, then swept her legs to slash the ground toward Sosuke.
• Sosuke dodged the fissure, which sliced through a tree, and saw the demon's new blade-limbed form.

Tetsu no Sosuke faced a lethal strike from the transformed Demon and survived by finding a narrow opening to deflect her blade with his Iron Hammer. He landed badly but remained under crushing pressure and knew he could not stop.

• The transformed female Demon insulted her appearance as Tetsu no Sosuke stared at her in shock.
• The Demon launched a powerful overhead slash that left Tetsu no Sosuke almost no room to dodge.
• Tetsu no Sosuke entered a state of extraordinary calm and spotted a brief opening in the attack.
• Tetsu no Sosuke swung his Iron Hammer and broke off half of the Demon's white blade.
• Tetsu no Sosuke landed with one leg buckling and his heart under crushing pressure, but he pressed on.

Tetsu no Sosuke provoked the female demon into chasing him away from Kuwajima Jigoro's house to prevent her from destroying it. As a third-eyed demon tried to enter the house, Zenitsu Agatsuma's fear triggered the hazy world again, leaving the demon outside trembling behind a tree.

• The female demon raged over Tetsu no Sosuke's swordsmanship and sliced through the surrounding trees and part of the house as she rolled.
• Tetsu no Sosuke insulted her Breath of the Moon swordsmanship and ran, drawing her away from the house.
• A trembling third-eyed demon emerged and tried to enter the house through a window so he could feed.
• Zenitsu Agatsuma lifted his blanket, and he and the demon screamed when they saw each other.
• The third-eyed demon fled behind a tree as its eye glowed red, while Zenitsu Agatsuma stopped shaking and the world turned gray and hazy again.

The Demon tried to hang Zenitsu Agatsuma while the Barrier clouded the minds of the people in the house. Zenitsu fought him off but stayed instead of escaping, worried that Kuwajima Jigoro and Kaigaku would be left in danger.

• The Demon wrapped a rope around his own neck to calm himself, then decided to hang and eat the people in the house.
• The Demon entered through a window and tried to put the rope around Zenitsu Agatsuma's neck.
• Zenitsu Agatsuma resisted when the Demon tugged at his head, then lunged forward and struck the Demon in the nose with his forehead.
• Zenitsu Agatsuma reached the window but turned back, afraid the Demon would attack Kuwajima Jigoro and Kaigaku.
• The Demon got to his feet and trembled as he faced the trembling Zenitsu Agatsuma.

Zenitsu Agatsuma panicked and loudly lamented his fate as a demon threatened him. Tengen Uzui arrived, silenced Zenitsu, and confronted the demon.

• The demon tried to intimidate Zenitsu by choking himself with a rope, but Zenitsu screamed in terror.
• Zenitsu rambled about his fear of dying before he could marry or become a Demon Slayer, enraging the demon.
• Tengen Uzui appeared at the window and shoved Zenitsu aside, stopping his bawling.
• Tengen called the demon a small fry and faced him.

Tengen Uzui killed the Demon with a probing strike, freeing Zenitsu Agatsuma and the two people trapped in the next room. After Kuwajima Jigoro arrived, Zenitsu cried in relief while Tengen Uzui struggled to speak as his stomach churned.

• The Demon taunted Tengen Uzui and Zenitsu Agatsuma, believing Uzui's trembling meant he was afraid.
• Tengen Uzui struck the Demon with both blades, and the Demon died without resisting.
• Zenitsu Agatsuma praised Tengen Uzui as the Demon disintegrated.
• The Demon’s death ended his Blood Demon Art, and the two people in the next room regained consciousness.
• Kuwajima Jigoro opened the door and found Zenitsu Agatsuma and Tengen Uzui; Zenitsu clung to him and cried that he had nearly died.
• Kuwajima Jigoro asked Tengen Uzui if he was all right, but Uzui could not answer as his stomach churned.

Tetsu no Sosuke fought in the forest while trying to survive between two opponents. Back at the house, Tengen Uzui and Kuwajima Jigoro discovered that Kanae was missing and Zenitsu Agatsuma had been dragged into a wall, so Tengen prepared to attack it.

• Kuwajima Jigoro gave Tengen Uzui an antidote pill, which stopped the turmoil in his gut.
• Tengen Uzui and Kuwajima Jigoro searched for Kanae but found no trace of her.
• Kaigaku told Kuwajima Jigoro that Zenitsu Agatsuma had been dragged into a wall.
• Tengen Uzui drew both blades and prepared to attack the wall.
• In the forest, Tetsu no Sosuke tried to survive amid the blades tearing through the air.

Tetsu no Sosuke tried to break the female Demon's relentless assault, but her sudden spinning attack destroyed his Iron Hammer and left him airborne with only his Nichirin Blade. The female Demon pursued him with blades drawn.

• Tetsu no Sosuke leaped toward the female Demon, aiming for the weak point above her current form.
• The female Demon propelled herself upward and spun her elbow blades like a gear as Tetsu no Sosuke flew toward her.
• Tetsu no Sosuke thrust out the Iron Hammer to defend himself, but the impact hurled him aside and shattered it.
• Tetsu no Sosuke saw the female Demon withdraw her elbow blades, draw sharp blades from her palms, and chase him with her blades crossed.

Tetsu no Sosuke used his Nichirin Blade to evade the female demon’s crossed slashes and counterattack after her strike left her vulnerable. He split her torso and severed an arm, but both landed before he could finish the fight.

• Tetsu no Sosuke used Breath of the Sun—Form Three: Comet Waltz to redirect his fall and narrowly evade the female demon’s crossed slashes.
• He launched a counterattack with Breath of the Sun—Form Two: Direct Forging of Qiankun and split the female demon diagonally in two.
• Tetsu no Sosuke used Comet Waltz to sweep toward the female demon’s neck.
• The female demon grew jagged fangs and tried to bite his Nichirin Blade, so Tetsu no Sosuke redirected his strike and severed her arm.
• Tetsu no Sosuke and the female demon’s severed torso landed together.

Tetsu no Sosuke defeated the female demon but suffered severe wounds and lost part of his big toe. He hurried back to the house to find out what had happened to the people inside, Tengen Uzui, and Kanae.

• Tetsu no Sosuke dodged the demon’s bone blade and charged back at her.
• The demon used Breath of the Moon—Fifth Form: Moon Spirit Calamity, but Tetsu no Sosuke spotted openings in her Swordsmanship and cut off her head.
• Tetsu no Sosuke told the dying demon she was an amateur as she disintegrated.
• Tetsu no Sosuke noticed his wounds and missing part of his big toe, then hurried back to the house with his Nichirin Blade.

Tengen Uzui and Kuwajima Jigoro tried to rescue Zenitsu Agatsuma after he was dragged into a wall, only to learn that a demon had trapped him in a space beyond it. Zenitsu remained stuck as he described a girl fighting demons and an evil-looking demon drinking tea.

• Tengen Uzui prepared to slash the wall after Zenitsu Agatsuma disappeared into it.
• Zenitsu poked his head through the wall and cried out to Kuwajima Jigoro for help.
• Tengen Uzui grabbed Zenitsu's head, while Kuwajima Jigoro stopped him from striking and insisted Zenitsu was real.
• Zenitsu explained that he was trapped in a large space where a girl was killing demons and an evil-looking demon was drinking tea.
• Kaigaku reported that nothing was on the other side of the wall, and Tengen Uzui realized the Flower Pillar was inside before saying he had one question.