Chapter Summaries

Tanjiro escaped Enmu’s dream by stabbing himself awake, then confronted Lower Rank One on the Mugen Train. After Tanjiro beheaded Enmu, the demon’s body erupted into masses of flesh and blood.

• Zenitsu and Nezuko enjoyed a dream in a peach grove while Tanjiro dreamed of life with his family in their snowy home.
• Tanjiro recognized the dream and stabbed himself with chopsticks, waking aboard the Mugen Train.
• Tanjiro found ropes connecting him and the others to strangers, freed himself and his companions, and asked Nezuko to protect them.
• Tanjiro followed Enmu’s scent onto the train roof and attacked Lower Rank One.
• Enmu put Tanjiro to sleep, but Tanjiro woke himself by killing himself in the dream and beheaded Enmu.
• Tanjiro wondered if the victory was another dream as Enmu’s body burst into masses of flesh and blood.

Tanjiro and the others fought Enmu, who had merged with the train and threatened its passengers. They defeated him and survived the derailment, but Tanjiro spotted a crimson meteor falling from the sky.

• Enmu revealed that he had merged with the train and was digesting its passengers, forcing Tanjiro to choose between protecting them and killing him.
• Rengoku sent Inosuke, Zenitsu, and Nezuko to help Tanjiro attack the train’s engine while he protected the passengers.
• Tanjiro and the others fought through Enmu’s tentacles, and Inosuke struck at the demon’s neck.
• The train overturned, but Kyojuro confirmed that every passenger survived without injury.
• Tanjiro looked up and saw a crimson meteor plummeting from the sky.

Akaza appeared before Kyojuro Rengoku and revealed that he had become Upper Rank Two by defeating Doma in a Rank Replacement Blood Battle. When Akaza attacked, his first clash with Kyojuro sent Tanjiro and the others flying, leaving them unable to see the battle clearly.

• A meteor crashed nearby, and Akaza emerged from the settling dust wearing weights and bearing dark blue tattoos.
• Kyojuro recognized Akaza as an Upper Rank, while Tanjiro moved to shield Nezuko from Akaza's gaze.
• Akaza confirmed he was now Upper Rank Two and explained that he had defeated Doma in a Rank Replacement Blood Battle.
• Kyojuro told Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke to escape, but Akaza threatened to kill them if they ran.
• Akaza vanished and struck Kyojuro's blade, sending Tanjiro and the others flying as the battle began.

Tanjiro and the others tried to leave as Kyojuro fought Akaza, but Akaza stopped them and offered to spare everyone if Kyojuro revealed Kato’s whereabouts. Kyojuro refused to abandon anyone or become a demon, and Akaza raised his glowing fist over the fallen Hashira.

• Tanjiro told Nezuko, Zenitsu, and Inosuke to leave, but Akaza suddenly attacked Zenitsu and Kyojuro blocked the blow.
• Akaza offered to spare Kyojuro and everyone on the train if Kyojuro told him where Teiichi was; Kyojuro refused to abandon anyone.
• Kyojuro attacked Akaza with Flame Breathing, but Akaza shed his weights and broke Kyojuro’s shoulder and leg bones.
• Tanjiro, Inosuke, and Nezuko rushed to protect Kyojuro, and Akaza sent them flying aside.
• Akaza asked Kyojuro to reveal Kato’s whereabouts and then offered to turn him into a demon; Kyojuro refused, and Akaza raised his fist.

Tanjiro revealed Teiichi's location to Akaza to stop him from killing the injured Demon Slayers. Akaza learned that Teiichi was at Cape Ashizuri and prepared to knock everyone unconscious so they could not warn him.

• Tanjiro realized Akaza would kill the others unless he gave up Teiichi's location.
• Akaza kicked Kyojuro away and demanded that Tanjiro tell him where Teiichi was.
• Tanjiro weighed protecting Teiichi against saving everyone on the battlefield, then told Akaza that Teiichi was at Cape Ashizuri.
• Akaza confirmed Tanjiro was telling the truth and decided not to leave anyone awake to warn Teiichi.
• Akaza raised his hand to knock Tanjiro and the others unconscious, while Tanjiro protested.

Tanjiro woke at the Butterfly Mansion while Kanae and Shinobu discussed the mysterious battle with Akaza. After the Upper Ranks discovered Teiichi’s training ground, Teiichi went to meet all six of them at Cape Ashizuri and drew his Nichirin Blade.

• Tanjiro woke in the Butterfly Mansion, learned he had slept until late at night, and asked Aoi Kanzaki how long he had been unconscious.
• Shinobu Kocho and Kanae wondered why Akaza had left everyone alive, and Shinobu said Zenitsu could not explain the battle.
• Aoi Kanzaki rushed in and told Kanae and Shinobu that Akaza had obtained Teiichi’s location.
• Kokushibo found ashes at Cape Ashizuri and led the Upper Ranks toward the nearest town to search for Teiichi.
• Teiichi, unable to sleep, traveled through the mountain forest to Cape Ashizuri and confronted Kokushibo, Akaza, Doma, Hantengu, Gyokko, and Daki.
• Teiichi drew his Nichirin Blade and began Wind Breathing’s Modified Seventh Form: Wind Field.

Teiichi unleashed a powerful wind field and attacked the demons with a massive Wind Blade, using the clash with Akaza as a feint to target Gyokko. Kokushibo saved Gyokko at the last moment, leaving Teiichi facing the upper-rank demon’s intervention.

• Teiichi activated Wind Breathing: Modified Seventh Form: Wind Field, surprising the demons with the gale.
• Teiichi assessed the six demons and chose Gyokko as his first target.
• Teiichi fired an enormous Wind Blade toward Gyokko, and Akaza intercepted it with Annihilation Style.
• Teiichi used the explosion as a feint and lunged at Gyokko, but Kokushibo blocked the Nichirin Blade with his pink sword.
• Gyokko thanked Kokushibo for saving him and promised to make him his second-most beautiful pot.

Teiichi fought Akaza, Kokushibo, and Doma while the other Upper Ranks supported them from a distance. As their attacks converged, Teiichi held his ground against the three powerful demons.

• Kokushibo ordered Hantengu, Gyokko, and Daki to support the fight from a distance and warned them to avoid being killed in one slash.
• Doma objected to Kokushibo’s order, but joined the battle after Kokushibo insisted he contribute.
• Teiichi parried Akaza’s rapid punches and slashed his neck, sending him flying backward.
• Doma attacked Teiichi with ice lotuses, but Teiichi’s wind blew them back and shattered Doma’s attempt to form ice figures.
• Kokushibo and Doma attacked Teiichi together, and he blocked their weapons as attacks converged from every side.

Teiichi fought Kokushibo, Akaza, and Doma while Hantengu, Gyokko, and Daki stayed back and waited for an opening. After Kokushibo unleashed a powerful Moon Breathing attack, Teiichi realized he could not afford to fight all three at once and began considering Doma as his next target.

• Daki asked Hantengu and Gyokko how she could support the battle, and Gyokko told her to wait because the fight had only begun.
• Teiichi countered Kokushibo, Akaza, and Doma as he assessed their relative strength and considered targeting the demons who had not joined the fight.
• Kokushibo unleashed his Eighth Form, Moon-Dragon Ringtail, but Teiichi began overpowering him before Doma's icicles forced Teiichi to retreat.
• Teiichi judged that he could handle two opponents but would struggle against three, then considered targeting Doma to thin the enemy ranks.
• Hantengu, Gyokko, and Daki cautiously followed the fighters through the forest, retreating whenever Teiichi seemed likely to approach them.

Teiichi used the cleared forest and the gale to slow Akaza and Kokushibo while he targeted Doma. He cut through Doma’s defense and began slashing through his neck.

• Teiichi shattered Akaza’s guard, split his arm, and slashed open his chest before Akaza was sent flying.
• Teiichi knocked Kokushibo away, and Kokushibo realized Teiichi was targeting Doma and warned Akaza.
• Akaza and Kokushibo rushed back, but the gale across the felled forest slowed their approach.
• Doma attacked Teiichi from behind with Blood Demon Art: Barren Hanging Garden, but the reversing wind hindered him.
• Teiichi turned and forced Doma’s folding fan down before slicing into his neck.

Kanae and Shinobu hurried toward Shikoku while Himejima rushed to Shimizu City after learning that all six Upper Ranks were there. Teiichi escaped a lightning strike just before he could behead Doma, then fought Kokushibo and Akaza as the other demons tried to interfere.

• Kanae kept running toward Shikoku despite Shinobu warning that she would exhaust herself before arriving, and Shinobu reminded her that Himejima had been summoned to help Teiichi.
• The Kasugai Crow told Himejima that Kato was facing all six Upper Ranks, and Himejima raced toward the battle.
• Teiichi withdrew his Nichirin Blade from Doma's neck when danger sensed a lightning strike, narrowly avoiding the bolt.
• Kokushibo and Akaza attacked Teiichi again, and he clashed with them before turning toward the source of the lightning.
• Sekido ordered Karaku to blow away the wind around the battle, but Karaku's repeated fan strikes failed to stop the gale from growing.

Teiichi fought Kokushibo and the other demons while Hantengu’s group joined the battle and worsened his exhaustion. Unable to reach Hantengu through the demons guarding him, Teiichi used the Wind Field to raise a barrier of branches, leaves, sand, and dirt, leaving the battlefield obscured.

• Doma thanked Sekido for saving him, and Sekido promised that Hantengu’s group would attack Teiichi when they found an opening.
• Teiichi used the Wind Field to dodge Sekido’s lightning and weaken Gyokko’s slime-fish and Daki’s sashes while continuing to clash with Kokushibo and the others.
• Teiichi realized he could not reach Hantengu’s group while Kokushibo and the others blocked him, and he shifted the Wind Field across the battlefield.
• Teiichi drove branches, leaves, sand, and dirt into a wall that blocked Daki, Gyokko, and Sekido’s view of the fight.
• Daki asked Sekido and Gyokko what they should do now that they had lost sight of Teiichi.

Daki, Sekido, and Gyokko tried to find a way through Teiichi’s wind wall so they could attack him from afar. Daki briefly opened a view of the battlefield with her sashes, but the wind overwhelmed them, leaving the demons unable to reach or strike Teiichi.

• Daki asked Sekido and Gyokko what they should do, and Sekido rejected the idea of using his lightning against the wind wall.
• Daki proposed holding back the wind with her sashes, and Sekido told her to try.
• Daki sent her sashes through the wall, revealing Teiichi as he blocked Kokushibo’s attack and dodged Sekido’s lightning.
• Sekido and Gyokko attacked through the opening, but Teiichi dodged their strikes as the wind bent Daki’s sashes.
• The sashes went limp and the wind wall closed again; Daki apologized, and Sekido called her and Gyokko useless after Gyokko said his Blood Demon Arts could not block the wind.

Gyomei Himejima arrived to help Teiichi, who was fighting Kokushibo, Akaza, and Doma while keeping Hantengu, Gyokko, and Daki at bay. As Kokushibo resumed his attack, Teiichi told Gyomei to hold off the three outer Upper Ranks.

• Sekido considered absorbing the other clones to become Zohakuten, but worried about leaving Hantengu exposed.
• Teiichi fought off Kokushibo, Akaza, and Doma more easily after the other demons stopped interfering.
• Gyomei Himejima arrived and attacked Sekido and Gyokko, though Urogi's shriek diverted his weapons.
• Teiichi and Gyomei joined forces, and Gyomei explained that a Kasugai Crow had warned him about the battle.
• Kokushibo, Akaza, and Doma assessed Gyomei before Kokushibo charged Teiichi again.
• Teiichi ordered Gyomei to hold off Hantengu, Gyokko, and Daki while he continued fighting the inner group.

Gyomei Himejima fought off Gyokko and Sekido while Teiichi monitored him from his battle against Kokushibo, Doma, and the others. Gyomei awakened to the Transparent World and killed Sekido, but Doma summoned his enormous Water Lily Bodhisattva against Teiichi and his opponents.

• Gyokko and Sekido attacked Gyomei Himejima with slime-fish and lightning, breaking through his Stone Skin defense and tearing at his body.
• Gyomei Himejima recalled Teiichi's words about the Transparent World, sharpened his perception, and drove the fish away with his chain.
• Gyomei Himejima leaped into the air and used Stone Breathing, Fifth Form: Arcs of Justice, killing Sekido while Gyokko escaped into his pot.
• Teiichi noticed Gyomei's awakening through the Wind Field and turned his attention back to fighting Kokushibo, Doma, and the others.
• Doma summoned his forty-meter-tall Water Lily Bodhisattva, and Teiichi raised his Nichirin Blade to meet its incoming fist.

Teiichi shattered Doma’s Water Lily Bodhisattva with his modified Wind Breathing, but the battle remained a stalemate until Nakime’s doors appeared beneath the fighters. The chapter ended with Kokushibo looming over Teiichi and unleashing his Ninth Form: Waning Moons, Swathes.

• Doma sent the Water Lily Bodhisattva’s knife-hand down at Teiichi while Kokushibo and Akaza attacked from either side.
• Teiichi used Modified First Form: Wind Slash to break off the Bodhisattva’s arm, then unleashed Modified Third Form: Wind Meteor and split its body in two.
• Gyomei Himejima sensed Teiichi’s attack as he continued fighting, while Kokushibo and the others resumed their assault after the Bodhisattva fell.
• The battle stayed at a stalemate as Teiichi grew exhausted and the horizon began to brighten.
• Nakime’s pipa notes summoned illuminated doors across the ground, and Teiichi tried to escape the area with his gales.
• Kokushibo appeared above Teiichi and began Ninth Form: Waning Moons, Swathes.

Gyomei discovered that Kato had been transported into the Infinity Castle, where Teiichi faced all six Upper Ranks without a way out. Teiichi refused Kokushibo’s offer to become a demon and fought on as his strength faded and wounds began to accumulate.

• Zohakuten and the other demons withdrew through Nakime’s doorways after Muzan ordered them to return and deal with a Demon Slayer.
• Gyomei searched the silent battlefield and realized that Kato had been taken into the Infinity Castle with the demons.
• Teiichi landed inside the Infinity Castle and saw six figures waiting above him, while Muzan remained absent.
• Kokushibo offered Teiichi one last chance to become a demon, but Teiichi silently refused and drew his blade across his palm.
• The six Upper Ranks attacked Teiichi, who blocked their blows and dodged the lightning until exhaustion slowed him and the first cuts opened on his body.

After the battle, Kanae and Shinobu Kocho learned that Teiichi had disappeared alongside the demons, and Kanae struggled to accept the possibility that he was gone. Shinobu found Kanae alone, silently crying over the crescent-moon necklace he had given her.

• Kanae and Shinobu Kocho found the battlefield devastated and searched for Teiichi and Gyomei Himejima.
• Gyomei Himejima told them that Teiichi and Upper Ranks One, Two, and Three had vanished, and he believed Teiichi had been teleported away with the demons.
• Kanae insisted Teiichi might still return, then left to search for him while Shinobu Kocho bandaged Gyomei Himejima.
• Kanae stumbled across the battlefield, remembered her time with Teiichi, and sat holding their crescent-moon necklace.
• Shinobu Kocho found Kanae sitting alone and saw tears streaming down her cheeks.

Teiichi struggled to survive a relentless assault by Akaza, Sekido, Gyokko, and Kokushibo in the Infinity Castle as his wounds and exhaustion mounted. The Upper Ranks debated turning him into a demon, while Kokushibo insisted they respect Teiichi’s refusal.

• Akaza attacked Teiichi with Flowing Light Flash while Sekido sent lightning toward his escape route.
• Gyokko unleashed ten thousand slime-fish, and some broke through Teiichi’s defense and wounded him.
• Kokushibo struck Teiichi with Moon-Dragon Ringtail, but Teiichi managed to hold on to his Nichirin Blade.
• Akaza proposed turning Teiichi into a demon, and Doma suggested forcing demon blood into him if he was near death.
• Kokushibo argued that Teiichi’s wishes should be respected, while Teiichi used the pause to catch his breath.

Teiichi used the Infinity Castle’s unusual gravity and his Wind Field to evade Kokushibo and the others while building up the wind inside the castle. After many failed attempts, he finally formed a Wind Blade, and more began appearing throughout the Infinity Castle.

• Teiichi considered ways to escape and decided that destroying the Infinity Castle on a massive scale might work.
• Teiichi fell from the building and used his Wind Field to change direction, making it difficult for Kokushibo and the others to pursue him.
• Akaza called for Nakime, who sent buildings hurtling toward Teiichi as he dodged or cut through them.
• Teiichi kept the gales circling inside the Infinity Castle until their force impeded Kokushibo and the others and widened the distance between them.
• Teiichi repeatedly tried to condense the wind into blades, finally forming one on his hundred-and-seventeenth attempt as more cyan Wind Blades appeared.