Recaps

Teiichi spent five nights patrolling Yamada Town’s rooftops for the demon, but the next morning Kawashita Wakamaru disappeared from his home. Teiichi learned of the disappearance and watched Kawashita Kenichi search for his child, with no one having seen him.

• Teiichi patrolled the rooftops at night for five days, hoping to catch the demon before it attacked again.
• The innkeeper warned Teiichi that villagers had heard footsteps on their roofs and urged him to stay inside if he heard anything.
• Kawashita Sachiko found Amaru missing from his room, and she and Kawashita Kenichi searched their home before splitting up to look for him.
• Teiichi heard Kawashita Kenichi asking villagers about his missing child, Kawashita Wakamaru, and told him he had not seen him.

After another child disappeared in Yamada Town, Teiichi deduced that the demon was taking its victims outside town and searched the abandoned houses to the north. He found a house filled with the stench of corpses, but suspected it was only being used to dump bodies, leaving the demon’s whereabouts uncertain.

• Teiichi learned from the innkeeper that Kawashita Wakamaru had gone missing.
• Teiichi realized that the demon was likely carrying its victims outside town to eat them and asked about abandoned houses north of Yamada Town.
• Teiichi searched three abandoned houses near the road, then concluded that the remaining houses were in the woods.
• Teiichi searched the forest and found two more abandoned houses, but neither revealed any clues.
• Teiichi discovered another house with a powerful stench of rotting corpses and reasoned that it was probably a place where bodies were dumped, not the demon’s daytime hiding place.

Teiichi searched the abandoned houses for the demon, finding a pile of six corpses and puzzling over the blood trail but no clear clues. After the last house was also empty, he decided to wait at the house where the bodies had been dumped and hope the demon returned.

• Teiichi searched a house and found six corpses, but no demon inside.
• Teiichi studied the blood around the bodies and imagined how the demon had carried and dropped a victim, but could not determine where it had fed.
• Teiichi left to search the final abandoned house, wondering if the demon was there.
• Teiichi searched the last house and found it empty as the sun began to set.
• Teiichi returned to the house with the corpses to lie in wait for the demon.

Teiichi experimented with using his Breathing Style to speed digestion, then finally encountered the demon he had been tracking near Yamada Town. He struck first and severed the demon’s right arm, but the fight remained unfinished.

• Teiichi ate six extra servings of dumplings and miso soup after nearly going a day without food.
• Teiichi meditated and discovered that focused Breathing Style could speed digestion and nutrient absorption.
• Three days later, Teiichi waited in a tree near a house in the forest north of Yamada Town.
• A demon carrying a corpse emerged from the house and threatened to kill Teiichi before moving on to another village.
• Teiichi charged the demon at great speed and severed its right arm with his Nichirin Blade.

Teiichi wounded a burrowing demon but failed to cut off its head before it escaped underground. After three more disappearances in Yamada Town, he gave up patrolling and drank alone on a rooftop, where a white figure approached him.

• The demon burrowed underground, and Teiichi's Wind Breathing strike cut its body but missed its head, allowing it to escape.
• Teiichi returned to Yamada Town, distressed over his failure and unsure how to find the demon.
• Over the next eight days, three more people disappeared despite Teiichi's nightly patrols, and he eventually stopped searching.
• Teiichi drank alone on a rooftop until a white figure appeared and asked what he was doing.

After Teiichi admitted he had failed to defeat the demon in Yamada Town, the seagull reassigned him and told him to rest. Teiichi left town burdened by guilt, but a burrowing force suddenly dragged him underground on the road home.

• The seagull found Teiichi and learned that he had not slain the demon in Yamada Town.
• The seagull reassigned the Yamada Town mission and told Teiichi to return home and rest.
• Teiichi accepted the handover, warned that the demon burrowed underground, and blamed himself for the deaths in town.
• Teiichi packed his belongings, left money for the inn, and slipped out of Yamada Town toward home.
• A force grabbed Teiichi's heel and pulled him beneath the ground, leaving him falling through darkness as he feared he was going to die.

Teiichi killed the Burrowing Demon after it dragged him underground, then told White Feather what had happened so it could report the demon’s death and the victims’ remains. White Feather flew to Yamada Town to inform the new Corps member assigned to the mission.

• The Burrowing Demon dragged Teiichi three meters underground, but Teiichi carved out a cavern and exposed it with repeated Wind Breathing attacks.
• Teiichi used Primary Gale Slash to behead the Burrowing Demon, whose final thoughts turned to Kazuko.
• Teiichi climbed out of the damaged road and headed home, deciding not to collapse the underground cavity himself.
• Two days later, Teiichi woke White Feather and told it that he had killed the Burrowing Demon in Yamada Town.
• Teiichi asked White Feather to inform the new Corps member in Yamada Town and told it where the victims’ remains were kept.

White Feather ordered Teiichi to write an account of the Yamada Town mission, explaining that it would serve as a negative example because of the casualties. Teiichi named the intelligent white-feathered bird White Feather and eventually finished his report after two days of writing.

• White Feather delivered Oyakata-sama's order for Teiichi to submit a written account of the Yamada Town mission.
• White Feather explained that reports recorded missions involving powerful demons and deaths, while Teiichi's report would serve as a negative example because of the casualties.
• Teiichi learned that the seagull was unusually intelligent and named it White Feather, prompting it to peck him until he agreed to use the name.
• Teiichi struggled to begin his report, and White Feather told him to record his experiences and findings honestly.
• After two days of writing on and off, Teiichi finished the account and read through the papers.

A year and a half after his first mission, Teiichi had advanced to Tsuchinoto Rank and grown much stronger through eight missions and intensive training. As he hoped to become a Hashira, White Feather arrived with a new mission.

• Teiichi finished his Yamada Town mission report and sent it off with White Feather.
• Over the next year and a half, Teiichi completed eight missions, reached Tsuchinoto Rank, and easily defeated the demons he encountered.
• Teiichi trained intensely, improved his physical strength and Wind Breathing, and estimated that only a trial involving a Lower Rank Demon stood between him and becoming a Hashira.
• Several days later, White Feather flew toward Teiichi's mountain and called out that a new mission had arrived.

Teiichi arrived in Aomori City, found a seaside hotel, and explored the city’s food options before choosing a seafood donburi shop for dinner. He began eating five bowls of seafood donburi, leaving himself ready to order more.

• Teiichi arrived in Aomori City and admired its mix of traditional and modern sights.
• Teiichi checked into Aomori Seaside Pavilion for three nights and relaxed while looking out at the sea.
• Teiichi wandered through the city at night, considered several restaurants, and chose an Aomori Seafood Donburi Specialty Shop.
• Teiichi ordered five seafood donburi, and the owner served him the bowls.
• Teiichi eagerly began eating the seafood donburi and planned to order more if he was still hungry.

Teiichi waited through the night in the Aomori market and killed a demon he found eating a victim in an alley. After reporting the mission complete to White Feather, he decided to stay in the seaside city for a few days.

• After eating at a seafood rice bowl shop, Teiichi found a quiet rooftop and rested while the night market bustled below.
• Before dawn, Teiichi smelled blood, followed it to an alley, and spotted a demon eating a motionless victim.
• Teiichi judged the demon to be an ordinary demon without a Blood Demon Art and beheaded it with a swift strike.
• Teiichi returned to the inn and told White Feather that the mission was complete.
• Teiichi told White Feather he would stay in the city for a few days, and White Feather flew off to report the mission.

While eating at a flowing somen restaurant in Aomori City, Teiichi considered the owner's suggestions for sightseeing and agreed to meet Yoshida Rena as a possible tour guide. Rena arrived with a slight cough, and Yamamoto introduced her to Teiichi.

• Teiichi asked the owner about places to visit, and the owner recommended Mount Hakkoda, the seaside and harbor, and a tram tour.
• After Teiichi declined hiking, the owner suggested hiring a tour guide and explained that Yoshida Rena needed the work to support her paralyzed father.
• Teiichi agreed to meet Rena, and Yamamoto said she would guide him while he handled the dishes.
• Rena arrived at the restaurant with a slight cold, and Yamamoto introduced her to Teiichi as someone who knew Aomori City well.

Kato Teiichi hired Yoshida Rena to guide him around Aomori City, and their first day together brought him a newfound sense of calm and smoother Wind Breathing. After dinner, Teiichi announced that their next stop would be Rena's house, leaving her nervous but willing to take him there.

• Kato Teiichi hired Yoshida Rena to show him around Aomori City each afternoon and evening, and promised Manager Yamamoto that he would bring her home before eight.
• The following afternoon, Rena took Teiichi on the tram, where he dozed off and discovered that Wind Breathing circulated more smoothly within his body.
• That night, Rena led Teiichi to a small sushi shop instead of the tourist-filled night market, and they ate together.
• After dinner, Teiichi told Rena they were going to her house, and she hesitantly agreed.

Kato Teiichi visited Rena’s home in Aomori City and met her bedridden father, offering the family an envelope of money. Rena insisted they could manage without it, and Teiichi accepted the envelope before leaving.

• Rena led Teiichi through the city to her home and introduced him to her paralyzed father.
• Teiichi offered Rena’s father an envelope of money, but her father asked him to take it back.
• Rena’s father explained that a workplace accident had left him paralyzed and worried that he had become a burden to Rena.
• Teiichi praised Rena’s work as his guide and politely declined the family’s offer to stay for dinner.
• Rena returned the envelope to Teiichi, explaining that she and her father could still get by through her work.
• Teiichi accepted the envelope back, then said farewell to Rena and her father.

Teiichi finished his last day of sightseeing with Rena despite her worsening cold, paid her for guiding him, and promised to say goodbye before leaving Aomori City. Two days later, White Feather brought Teiichi a new mission just outside the city, and Teiichi planned to depart the following afternoon after saying goodbye to Rena.

• Teiichi arrived at the flowing somen shop early and waited with Manager Yamamoto for Rena.
• Rena arrived late with a worsening cold, but she insisted on guiding Teiichi for their final sightseeing day.
• Teiichi walked Rena home, paid her two thousand, and reassured her that he would say goodbye before leaving Aomori City.
• Two days later, White Feather woke Teiichi and told him about a new mission just outside Aomori City.
• Teiichi told White Feather he would set out the following afternoon after saying goodbye to someone.

Teiichi insisted that Rena see a physician after she coughed up blood, and the doctor diagnosed her as seriously ill and prescribed costly new medicine. After paying for her treatment, Teiichi prepared to leave for Aomori City, while Rena asked for his address so she could repay him.

• Teiichi visited Rena with fresh fruit and urged her to see a physician after she coughed up blood.
• Rena agreed to go with Teiichi to a clinic, where the doctor warned that her illness was life-threatening without treatment.
• Teiichi agreed to pay for two injections and medicine, despite Rena's concern about the cost.
• After Rena received the injections, Teiichi told her he was leaving that afternoon for a task near Aomori City.
• Rena thanked Teiichi and asked for his address so she could repay his medical expenses, and he gave it to her.

Nine days after leaving Aomori City, Teiichi intervened when the Tentacle Demon attacked a family in the woods. He saved the wounded father with a Wind Blade, then faced the demon as it asked what Breathing Style he used.

• Teiichi followed a trail of blood through the woods and reassured a fleeing mother that he would handle the danger.
• Teiichi reached the courtyard, where a wounded man with an axe was fighting the Tentacle Demon.
• The Tentacle Demon attacked the man with three tentacles, and Teiichi cut them off with a blue-green Wind Blade.
• Teiichi told the man he was a Demon Slayer and ordered him to leave, but the man sat against a distant wall to watch.
• The Tentacle Demon asked Teiichi what Breathing Style he used.

Teiichi defeated the tentacled demon and returned to Aomori City to check on Rena after learning she had been seriously ill. Manager Yamamoto told him that Rena had died.

• Teiichi dodged the tentacled demon's attacks and cut off a tentacle when the demon targeted the man watching the fight.
• Teiichi pursued the fleeing demon through the woods and killed him with First Form: Dust Whirlwind Cutter.
• Teiichi told White Feather to report the mission and inform the mother and son who had fled that they could return.
• Teiichi went to Rena's house the next afternoon, found no one there, and went to ask Manager Yamamoto about her.
• Manager Yamamoto told Teiichi that Rena had died.

Teiichi learned from Manager Yamamoto that Rena had died of an illness and that her grieving father, Mr. Yoshida, had chosen euthanasia. He traveled to their cemetery to pay his respects, leaving the story with him mourning their deaths beneath the rising moon.

• Manager Yamamoto told Teiichi that Rena had been found dead at home and that the police and hospital had concluded she died of an illness.
• Teiichi learned that Mr. Yoshida had also died by euthanasia after losing Rena, his only daughter and source of support.
• Teiichi asked Manager Yamamoto where Rena and her father were buried, and Manager Yamamoto drew him directions to their cemetery.
• Teiichi followed the winding mountain paths for hours and found the graves near sunset.
• Teiichi placed flowers and fruit at the gravestones, bowed, and mourned Rena and her father as night fell.

Teiichi returned to Manager Yamamoto’s flowing somen shop after visiting Rena’s grave, where the two talked about her and Teiichi’s life. He planned to stay a couple more days before leaving once he felt ready.

• Teiichi woke to colder weather after spending the previous evening at Rena’s grave and moved to a less expensive inn.
• Teiichi returned to Manager Yamamoto’s shop for dinner, and Manager Yamamoto offered to pay on Rena’s behalf.
• Teiichi told Manager Yamamoto that he had found Rena’s grave and stayed there until around seven or eight.
• Manager Yamamoto learned that Teiichi was fourteen, an orphan, and supported by a master.
• Teiichi said he would remain in town for a couple of days before leaving.

Teiichi developed a high fever and spent two days recovering at an inn, where Mimiko arranged meals for him. While eating, he coughed blood into his hand.

• Teiichi woke feeling unwell, then continued his daily training in the woods for four more days.
• Teiichi became feverish and had to stop training and rest in his room.
• Teiichi asked Mimiko to arrange meals for him and declined her offer to call a doctor.
• Two days later, Teiichi received his lunch and struggled to eat despite his illness.
• Teiichi suffered a violent coughing fit and saw blood dripping from his palm.

After coughing up blood like Rena, Teiichi realized a demon's Blood Demon Art had likely caused her illness and dug up her grave to confirm she was missing. Fearing his own worsening condition, he decided to leave and seek help, but hesitated while restoring the graves.

• Teiichi coughed up blood and connected his symptoms to the illness that had killed Rena.
• Teiichi rushed to the woods and found Yoshida Tetsuya's grave opened and Rena's grave empty.
• Teiichi concluded a demon had infected Rena with its Blood Demon Art, let her die, and then eaten her from her grave.
• Teiichi weighed luring the demon out against fleeing, then decided to leave and ask White Feather to find a skilled tracker.
• Teiichi refilled Yoshida Tetsuya's grave and froze while reaching to close Rena's coffin.

After discovering scratches inside Rena’s coffin, Teiichi resolved to confront the ghost and arranged for Nakamura Koji to bury him alive as part of a plan. Koji and his men buried Teiichi in a prepared grave, leaving a pipe connected to the coffin unblocked.

• Teiichi found scratches at the bottom of Rena’s coffin and suspected she had been buried while still alive, then refilled the grave and left the cemetery.
• Kobayashi Ken offered Nakamura Koji membership in the Billowing Waves Society if he attacked a night-market sushi shop, but Koji refused because it was Genyosha territory.
• Teiichi stopped Koji from punching him, then offered him ten thousand to collect and bury his corpse at a specified time and place.
• The next afternoon, Koji brought several underlings to the hotel and transported Teiichi’s remains to the secluded burial site.
• Koji’s men covered Teiichi’s coffin with dirt while following his instructions to keep the pipe connected to the lid unblocked.

Teiichi waited in a coffin for the demon, but a corrosive attack left him in a coma until he woke and recovered enough to fight. He ambushed the demon when it opened the coffin, but missed its neck and was kicked away, then recognized it as Wakuraba.

• Teiichi was buried in a coffin with a ventilation pipe, food, and water while he waited for the demon to arrive.
• The demon approached Teiichi's grave and used corrosive energy to worsen his illness, leaving him unconscious.
• Teiichi woke in the coffin, drank water, ate meat pies, and used Wind Breathing to regain some strength.
• When the demon began digging, Teiichi prepared his Nichirin Blade and attacked as it opened the coffin, but failed to cut its neck.
• The demon kicked Teiichi away, and he recognized it as Wakuraba.

Teiichi fought Wakuraba, a Lower Rank demon, while a mysterious illness weakened his body and dulled his mind. Wakuraba revealed that his Blood Demon Art, Pestilence Erosion, had caused Teiichi’s worsening condition and explained how he used it to kill and secretly eat humans.

• Teiichi recognized Wakuraba as Lower Rank Three and launched a Wind Breathing attack, but Wakuraba dodged and countered with his claws.
• Teiichi and Wakuraba exchanged blows across the battlefield until Teiichi’s exhaustion forced him to leap back.
• Wakuraba guessed that Teiichi was a Hashira and said he had used his Blood Demon Art on him for two nights.
• Teiichi asked whether Wakuraba’s Blood Demon Art caused illness, and Wakuraba described how Pestilence Erosion gradually weakened humans.
• Wakuraba admitted that he made victims appear to die naturally, then dug them up and ate them.