Recaps

Tengen Uzui continued holding Doma off without his Nichirin Blades or other weapons, dodging Doma’s ice attacks and using a stone to defend himself. As Doma kept firing ice pillars, Tengen faced an unending barrage with his injured palm while Doma watched calmly.

• Tengen Uzui dodged Doma’s sweeping ice-sculpted arm to keep Doma from heading down the mountain path.
• After the ice arm became still, Doma used Blood Demon Art: Frozen Lotus to send ice pillars at Tengen.
• Tengen dodged the first attacks, then grabbed a large stone when hundreds of pillars made escape impossible.
• Tengen broke and deflected the ice pillars with the stone, hurting his palm as it wore down.
• Doma repeatedly formed and launched more ice pillars while Tengen struggled to defend himself.

Tengen Uzui fought his way through Doma’s icicle barrage using stones and Sound Breathing, but Doma’s frost began numbing his hand. As the battle stalled, Doma proposed that they stop interfering with each other, and Tengen refused.

• Tengen Uzui’s palms began bleeding as he kept knocking down Doma’s icicles with stones.
• Tengen threw two stones at Doma, then charged through the slowed barrage with Sound Breathing’s Third Form: Sound of No Echo.
• Tengen’s sound-wave attack affected Doma only slightly, and Tengen wondered whether using stones instead of Nichirin Blades weakened the technique.
• Tengen reached Doma and struck his folding fan, shattering his stone and leaving frost spreading over his hand and wrist.
• Tengen worried that Kanroji had not yet made it down the mountain, while Doma suggested they leave each other alone and Tengen rejected the offer.

Tengen Uzui explained to Doma how his father's brutal training and sibling killings shaped his past. He left off as Doma asked what happened after only Tengen Uzui and his younger brother remained.

• Tengen Uzui refused Doma's offer to become a demon and said demons could not understand humanity.
• Doma admitted he lacked emotions but wanted to learn about humanity and feelings.
• Tengen Uzui recounted how his father forced his nine siblings through deadly training, killing three through its harshness.
• Tengen Uzui said his father made the surviving siblings wear masks and kill one another, and he killed two brothers before discovering the truth.
• Tengen Uzui subdued his younger brother and explained their father's purpose, but his brother killed their two remaining siblings, leaving only the two of them.

Doma questioned Tengen Uzui about his family and learned why Tengen had fled rather than kill his father and brother. Doma attacked with his ice-based Blood Demon Art, and Tengen was left badly wounded as Doma asked whether he regretted standing in his way.

• Doma misunderstood Tengen's account of fleeing his abusive family, and Tengen explained that demons should feel kinship with people like his father and brother.
• Doma asked where Tengen's father and brother were, but Tengen refused to reveal their location because he could not bear to have them killed or turned into demons.
• Doma summoned the Cold White Princesses and released freezing air as he moved toward the mountain path.
• Tengen attacked Doma with Sound Breathing, Sixth Form: Rattlesnake Flash, but fought through the lung-chilling mist as Doma countered with Barren Hanging Garden.
• Doma slashed Tengen across the chest and sent him crashing to the ground, then crouched beside him and asked whether he regretted his choice.

Doma taunted the badly wounded Tengen Uzui, who clung to his ankle to stop him from reaching the village. Doma proposed a game in which Tengen would have to choose whether to save the villagers as Doma prepared to attack them.

• Doma struck Tengen Uzui again, leaving him unable to rise.
• Tengen Uzui grabbed Doma’s ankle and insisted Doma would have to kill him before going to the village.
• Doma and Tengen discussed Doma’s reading, his lost Blood Battle against Akaza, and Tengen’s laughter at the phrase “a hymn to humanity.”
• Tengen Uzui said dying as the god of festivals would be a flashy end.
• Doma dragged Tengen Uzui to the cliff’s edge and said he would kill the villagers, leaving Tengen to decide whether to go save them.

Doma offered Tengen Uzui a choice: stay on the mountain and live, or pursue him despite his injuries and likely die. After Doma headed down to attack the Swordsmith Village, Tengen agonized over his duty and the people waiting for him before roaring that he was the flashy god of festivals.

• Doma explained that he would spare Tengen for now and let him choose whether to remain on the mountain or follow him toward the village.
• Doma froze Tengen’s hands to the ground and challenged him to decide, claiming he wanted to see what an emotional human would do.
• Tengen argued that the villagers would have time to evacuate and Kanroji could stop Doma, but Doma warned him not to assume demons would follow human expectations.
• Doma leapt from the cliff, unleashed Blood Demon Art: Rime - Water Lily Bodhisattva, and caused a tremendous boom in the valley.
• Tengen weighed his duty against his injuries and his loved ones, then roared that he was the flashy god of festivals.

Mitsuri received the swords and discovered Doma’s Water Lily Bodhisattva after a massive crash, leading her to fear that Mr. Uzui had fallen. She saw the Bodhisattva heading toward the residential area and split up with Yamamoto and Kotetsu to protect the Swordsmith Village.

• Mitsuri waited at a fork in the road with Kotetsu for the Corps member bringing the swords, then chose to head toward the residential area.
• Yamamoto arrived with two Nichirin Blades, and Mitsuri asked him to take Kotetsu to shelter while she carried the swords uphill.
• After hearing a huge crash, Mitsuri climbed into the trees and spotted Doma’s Water Lily Bodhisattva.
• Mitsuri feared that Mr. Uzui had fallen when she saw the ice statue, then watched it charge toward the residential area.
• Mitsuri ordered Yamamoto and Kotetsu to check the workshops and evacuate any villagers while she went to intercept Doma.

Doma descended into the valley on his Water Lily Bodhisattva and set his sights on the Swordsmith Village’s workshops and residential area. As Mitsuri rushed toward the village and Sato tried to organize its evacuation, the villagers struggled to flee in the growing chaos.

• Doma summoned his Water Lily Bodhisattva to break his fall, healed his injured legs, and considered whether Tengen Uzui would follow him down the cliff.
• Doma identified the workshops and residential area from Kotetsu’s directions and wondered whether he could attack both from where he stood.
• Mitsuri hurried toward the residential area, worried that her unfamiliar replacement Nichirin Blade would weaken her in a fight before reinforcements arrived.
• Sato coordinated the villagers’ evacuation, but disbelief, confusion, and panic slowed their efforts.
• Sato shouted instructions from a rooftop, urging the villagers to split up and help elderly people and children.

Sato organized the village evacuation as the ice Bodhisattva approached, then led four Demon Slayer Corps members to hold off the Upper Rank. Elsewhere, Yamamoto discovered the threat was heading toward the residential area and continued carrying Kotetsu toward the workshop to check on its evacuation.

• Sato saw the ice Bodhisattva nearing the village and urged the crowd to evacuate quickly.
• Yoshida carried the village chief while the chief repeatedly struck him and demanded to be put down so he could fight the demon.
• Sato called Takahashi, Ito, Nakamura, and Honda to join him in buying time, and the five leaped toward the ice Bodhisattva.
• Yamamoto stopped in the woods to look at the distant ice Bodhisattva and realized it was the source of the rumbling.
• Yamamoto told Kotetsu that the Upper Rank was heading toward the residential area, then set off for the workshop to check whether everyone there had evacuated.

Yamamoto searched the workshops while carrying Kotetsu and found that Tetsumoto Homura had stayed behind to finish forging a Nichirin Blade. As they left for shelter, three small ice figures appeared on a rooftop, watching them.

• Yamamoto carried Kotetsu through the workshops and checked lit houses to make sure everyone had evacuated.
• Kotetsu pointed out a house where a Demon Slayer Corps member was waiting because a villager refused to leave before finishing his blade.
• Tetsumoto Homura came out carrying the Nichirin Blade he had forged for Kato, and Yamamoto told him that Upper Rank Three, Doma, had invaded the village.
• Yamamoto, Kotetsu, Tetsumoto Homura, and the Corps member finished checking the workshops and headed toward the forest for shelter.
• Tetsumoto Homura stopped and looked toward a rooftop, where three small ice figures watched them.

Sato and the other Demon Slayers chose to confront the approaching Upper Rank rather than abandon the villagers’ evacuation. They charged the Water Lily Bodhisattva, while Doma watched from its head and dismissed their attack as useless.

• Nakamura urged Sato and the others to flee, arguing that an Upper Rank was beyond their strength and some villagers would survive regardless.
• Sato explained that holding the demon back could help more villagers escape, then let the Slayers choose whether to stay or return to the evacuation effort.
• Three Slayers volunteered to stay, and Nakamura overcame his fear and joined them.
• Sato led the group into the woods, where they waited for the Water Lily Bodhisattva to arrive.
• Sato ordered the Slayers to charge the Water Lily Bodhisattva, and Doma watched them from atop its head.

Mitsuri arrived in time to save Nakamura from Doma’s Water Lily Bodhisattva and faced Doma alone. As Doma tried to court her, he recalled taking in Kotoha and her baby, whose name he remembered as Inosuke Hashibira.

• Doma struck Nakamura with the Water Lily Bodhisattva, but Mitsuri intervened and rescued him.
• Mitsuri told Nakamura that he and the other corps members had bought her time, then sent him to the village.
• Doma asked Mitsuri if she had a boyfriend and offered to kill the person she liked so she would date him.
• Mitsuri rejected Doma, saying she already liked someone and would not choose him even if she did not.
• Doma remembered Kotoha fleeing her abusive husband with her baby, and recalled that the child was named Inosuke Hashibira.

Doma confronted Mitsuri Kanroji at the Swordsmith Village and attacked with the Water Lily Bodhisattva. Mitsuri struggled to damage its massive arm with an unfamiliar Nichirin Blade as she tried to hold Doma off.

• Doma remembered Kotoha and asked Mitsuri Kanroji her name, briefly considering turning her into a demon.
• Doma began attacking with the Water Lily Bodhisattva, ending Mitsuri’s attempt to stall by talking.
• Mitsuri dodged the Bodhisattva’s huge ice arm and struck it repeatedly with Fifth Form: Swaying Love, Wildclaw.
• Mitsuri realized her borrowed Nichirin Blade could not cut through the Bodhisattva’s thick arm and retreated as it smashed craters into the woodland.

Mitsuri struggled to bypass Doma’s Water Lily Bodhisattva, then destroyed his Crystalline Divine Child to protect the escaping Swordsmith Village residents. As Doma tried to rush past her, Mitsuri leaped above the Bodhisattva’s head and attacked him with Love Breathing, Fifth Form.

• Mitsuri realized that Wind Breathing was best suited to counter Doma’s freezing air and Water Lily Bodhisattva, and decided to attack Doma directly instead of the giant construct.
• Mitsuri tried to run up the Bodhisattva’s arm but jumped away when ice spikes spread across it, leaving her to keep dodging its strikes.
• Doma recognized that Mitsuri and the Sound Hashira were stronger than Hashira he had faced in the past, and summoned two Crystalline Divine Child to kill the fleeing villagers.
• Mitsuri charged after the ice figures while evading the Bodhisattva, then struck both with her Nichirin Blade and shattered them.
• Doma tried to drive the Water Lily Bodhisattva past Mitsuri, but she leaped above its head and met his gaze as she used Love Breathing, Fifth Form: Swaying Love, Wildclaw.

Mitsuri Kanroji continued fighting Doma atop the Water Lily Bodhisattva, preventing him from reaching the Swordsmith Village. Tengen Uzui freed himself from the ice, recovered their Nichirin Blades and explosives, and descended the cliff to support her.

• Doma used the Water Lily Bodhisattva's arm to force Mitsuri off its head, but she jumped back up and kept fighting.
• Tengen Uzui realized his frostbitten lungs and trapped wrists left him unable to move, then used the Transparent World and his Breathing Style to warm his body.
• Tengen broke the ice around his wrists and saw Mitsuri holding Doma back near the village.
• Tengen dug his and Mitsuri's Nichirin Blades and his explosives from the ruined guesthouse.
• Tengen jumped from the cliff and slid down its face with both Nichirin Blades embedded in the rock.

Teiichi and the others waited at Doma’s mountain temple, but a Kasugai Crow reported that Doma had attacked the Swordsmith Village. Teiichi rushed there with Nezuko, leaving Kanae, Giyu, and Sanemi to withdraw from the temple.

• Sanemi questioned how long they would wait for Doma, and Teiichi suggested giving him half a month before assuming he had moved elsewhere.
• Teiichi asked Sanemi about his training with Himejima, and Giyu revealed that Sanemi had not completed it, prompting Sanemi to challenge him to a duel.
• A Kasugai Crow announced that Doma had attacked the Swordsmith Village, where Lady Kanroji and Lord Uzui were present.
• Teiichi told Kanae, Giyu, and Sanemi to leave the temple in case Doma returned with Kokushibo and the others.
• Teiichi jumped from the cliff with Nezuko, slowed his fall with wind, caught her, and ran toward the Swordsmith Village.
• Sanemi watched Teiichi disappear and wondered aloud whether he was still human.

Tengen Uzui survived his fall down the cliff and returned to help Mitsuri fight Doma, though his damaged blades and injuries limited him. He reached Mitsuri and called for her to catch the blades, and she greeted him with surprise that he was still alive.

• Tengen Uzui slowed his fall by driving his dulled Nichirin Blades into the cliff, then pulled them free and ran toward the battle.
• Mitsuri dodged the Water Lily Bodhisattva's attacks while avoiding the icy mist Doma's construct released as its limbs wore down.
• Mitsuri realized the mist came from tiny ice fragments chipped off the Water Lily Bodhisattva when its arms struck the ground.
• Tengen Uzui arrived and called for Mitsuri to catch his blades, and Mitsuri turned toward him in delight and exclaimed that he was not dead.
• Tengen Uzui coughed and scolded Mitsuri for her greeting as she approached him cautiously.

Mitsuri and Tengen Uzui joined forces against Doma, and Mitsuri’s Love Breathing damaged the Water Lily Bodhisattva. Teiichi reached the Swordsmith Village and found three ice figures beside two frozen bodies.

• Tengen Uzui returned Mitsuri’s Nichirin Blade and warned her that his injuries and frostbitten lungs had weakened him.
• Doma sent the Water Lily Bodhisattva to attack Mitsuri and Tengen Uzui.
• Mitsuri used Love Breathing, First Form: Shivers of First Love, and cut the Bodhisattva’s wrist.
• Teiichi crossed the mountain with Nezuko on his back and hurried toward the Swordsmith Village.
• Teiichi sensed something unusual near the workshops and found three ice figures beside two frozen bodies.

Teiichi destroyed Doma’s ice figures, found a new Nichirin Blade beside Tetsumoto Homura, and rushed to confront the Water Lily Bodhisattva. Meanwhile, Doma regenerated its severed arm and attacked Mitsuri and Tengen Uzui with a powerful sweeping palm.

• Three ice figures attacked Teiichi, but he cut them apart with a flash of silvery moonlight.
• Teiichi found a new Nichirin Blade in a wooden case beside Tetsumoto Homura, drew it, and watched blue-green wind patterns spread across its blade.
• Teiichi apologized to Tetsumoto Homura, put Nezuko on his back, and hurried toward the Water Lily Bodhisattva to deal with Doma.
• Doma regenerated the Water Lily Bodhisattva’s severed hand and said he intended to capture Mitsuri and Tengen Uzui.
• Mitsuri dodged the Bodhisattva’s descending palm and cut through the debris it blasted outward, but the palm then swept toward her.

Mitsuri Kanroji and Tengen Uzui fought Doma’s enormous Water Lily Bodhisattva while trying to protect the fleeing villagers, but Doma’s freezing mist steadily wore them down. Tengen fell, and Mitsuri was badly wounded; as she struggled to rise, a surging gale swept onto the battlefield.

• Mitsuri told Tengen that retreating too far would let Doma send his Crystalline Divine Children after the villagers, so they took turns fighting within the mist.
• Tengen’s lungs grew frostbitten despite the gunpowder blasts thinning the mist, and he and Mitsuri repeatedly switched places to limit their exposure.
• Tengen coughed up blood and was struck by a rock from the Bodhisattva’s attack, leaving him unable to stand.
• Mitsuri refused to abandon Tengen and charged Doma, but his Barren Hanging Garden overwhelmed her and a folding fan slashed her.
• Mitsuri fell wounded and wept as she struggled to rise, then a powerful gale swept into the battlefield.

Kato Teiichi arrived as Doma tried to finish Mitsuri and Tengen Uzui, using powerful winds to drive Doma back and carry the injured Hashira away. Kato caught them and told Nezuko to grow and guard them against the Infinity Castle’s teleportation.

• A violent gale swept away Doma’s mist, and Mitsuri realized Kato Teiichi had arrived.
• Kato’s Wind Blades forced Doma to defend himself as he recognized that they had grown strong enough to threaten Upper Ranks.
• Doma tried to reach Mitsuri and Tengen Uzui, but Kato’s winds carried both Hashira away.
• Kato caught the fleeing Hashira and ordered Nezuko to grow and keep the Infinity Castle from teleporting them away.

Teiichi pursued Doma through the woods and repeatedly destroyed the Infinity Castle portals before Doma could escape. After Teiichi cut Doma in half and closed the portal again, Doma stopped retreating and asked Teiichi to let him go.

• Nezuko stayed with Mitsuri and Tengen as Teiichi rushed after Doma.
• Doma nearly escaped through a portal, but Teiichi's wind blades destroyed it before he could enter.
• Doma reached a second portal and fought off Teiichi's wind blades with his fans as he began entering the Infinity Castle.
• Teiichi unleashed Wind Breathing: Modified, Third Form: Wind Fall, severing Doma at the waist and destroying the portal.
• Doma regenerated and retreated, but when no new portal appeared, he faced the approaching Teiichi and asked to be spared.

Teiichi kept Doma alive so he could show Muzan that Nezuko had conquered sunlight. After Doma sent the message, Teiichi rejoined Tengen Uzui and Mitsuri, where Tengen accused him of watching from the sidelines during their previous fight.

• Teiichi told Doma he needed him alive to deliver a message to Muzan, and Doma agreed after Teiichi threatened him with his Nichirin Blade.
• Teiichi revealed that Nezuko had conquered sunlight and brought Doma close enough to see her standing in the sunlight.
• Doma sent the message to Muzan while Teiichi and Doma continued toward Nezuko and the others.
• Teiichi explained to Mitsuri that he had kept Doma alive to inform Muzan, and Mitsuri felt reassured by his promise to protect her.
• Tengen Uzui asked whether Teiichi had also watched from the sidelines during the previous fight against Upper Rank Six.

Teiichi bandaged Mitsuri and had Nezuko heal her and Tengen Uzui before giving orders for the aftermath of Doma’s attack. After paying respects to the dead at the cemetery, Teiichi learned Mitsuri’s sword was finished and asked why she was still staying in the village.

• Teiichi bandaged Mitsuri, then asked Nezuko to use her Blood Demon Art to heal Mitsuri and Tengen Uzui’s frostbitten lungs.
• Teiichi instructed Nakamura to notify Kagaya Ubuyashiki, keep the villagers away until sunrise, and find a doctor.
• At sunrise, Teiichi watched Doma disintegrate and felt relieved that only one last matter remained.
• Teiichi and Mitsuri visited Tetsumoto Homura’s grave, where Kotetsu explained that Tetsumoto and Yamamoto had died protecting them.
• Teiichi learned Mitsuri’s sword was already finished, and Mitsuri admitted she had stayed in the village because she had nothing to do outside.

Muzan summoned Kokushibo and Akaza and revealed that he had confirmed a demon living in sunlight, but that demon was with Kato Teiichi. As they weighed the danger of trying to seize it, Kokushibo suspected the Demon Slayer Corps had shared the information to lure them into a fight.

• Muzan summoned Kokushibo and Akaza, then told them that Kato Teiichi had killed the other demons who had not appeared.
• Muzan dismissed the dead Upper Ranks as replaceable and announced that he had found a demon that had overcome sunlight.
• Kokushibo suggested that Muzan could eat the demon, and Muzan explained that it was with Kato Teiichi.
• Akaza considered the losses and feared that Kokushibo might have to cover their retreat if they tried to seize the demon.
• Muzan confirmed that he had verified the demon's ability through Doma's eyes, and Kokushibo concluded that the Demon Slayer Corps was trying to force them into a fight.