Chapter Summaries

Kanae fought the Hand Demon on Mount Fujikasane after learning he had eaten forty-two people, while her companions fled. She struck at his neck with Flower Breathing, but the chapter ended with her blade meeting his defensive arm.

• The Hand Demon revealed that he had eaten forty-two people, terrifying Kanae's team before he attacked them.
• Kanae used Flower Breathing, Second Form: Honorable Shadow Plum, to cut off the Hand Demon's incoming arms and told the others to run.
• Kanae's companions fled as she stayed behind, dodging and severing the Hand Demon's regenerating arms while searching for a way to defeat him.
• Kanae charged toward the Hand Demon, avoided his underground trap, and used a severed arm as a foothold to leap above him.
• Kanae attacked his neck with Flower Breathing, Sixth Form: Whirling Peach, but her blade struck the thick arm he had wrapped around his neck.

Kanae Kocho kept the Hand Demon occupied despite her broken blade until Teiichi joined the fight. Teiichi used Wind Breathing to behead the demon, ending its threat as it turned to ash.

• Kanae Kocho's Nichirin Blade snapped against the Hand Demon's arms, and she dodged his attacks rather than flee after he threatened the other Demon Slayers.
• Kanae evaded the Hand Demon's attacks for half an hour while Teiichi watched from the forest and waited for dawn to drive the demon away.
• Teiichi stepped onto the battlefield and announced that he had come to kill the Hand Demon.
• Teiichi dodged the Hand Demon's arms, cut them off, and charged beneath the demon's body.
• Teiichi used Wind Breathing's Eighth Form, Primary Gale Slash, to behead the Hand Demon, whose body and head turned to ash.

After defeating the Hand Demon, Teiichi walked down Mount Fujikasane with Kanae Kocho and explained why he had only intervened when she was in danger. They exchanged names and discussed Teiichi’s heavy training sword, leaving them on friendly terms as the trial ended.

• Kanae Kocho praised Teiichi’s strength and questioned him about watching the fight and a demon attack the night before.
• Teiichi explained that he let trial candidates fight demons so they could prove they were ready for the Demon Slayer Corps, intervening only when someone was about to lose.
• Kanae Kocho accepted Teiichi’s reasoning, and the two continued down Mount Fujikasane together.
• Teiichi explained that his training sword weighed 110 jin, and Kanae tried lifting it.
• Teiichi and Kanae Kocho exchanged names, and Kanae said she looked forward to getting along with him.

After passing Final Selection, Teiichi chose ore for a heavy Nichirin Blade and later received a blue-green sword forged by Tetsumoto Homura. The sword weighed fifty-six kilograms, and Teiichi promised to use it to slay demons.

• Kagaya Ubuyashiki welcomed the survivors, assigned them the lowest Corps rank, Mizunoto, and explained that Kasugai Crows would deliver missions and information.
• Teiichi selected a piece of ore and asked the Kakushi to have his Nichirin Blade made as heavy as possible; Kanae Kocho confirmed he could handle a fifty-five-kilogram sword.
• Teiichi thanked Kanae Kocho for her help, said goodbye, and returned home after collecting his uniform.
• Nearly two months later, Teiichi met Tetsumoto Homura, who delivered the blue-green Nichirin Blade he had forged.
• Tetsumoto Homura explained that the sword weighed fifty-six kilograms and had taken two months to forge; Teiichi praised it and promised to use it well.

Kato Teiichi received his first Demon Slayer Corps mission to investigate disappearances in Yamada Town, where an innkeeper suspected a demon was responsible. After three nights of fruitless patrols, another girl vanished from her home, leaving Teiichi frustrated and unsure how to find the demon.

• A seagull ordered Kato Teiichi to go to Yamada Town and find the demon behind several recent disappearances.
• Kato Teiichi finished his training, traveled to Yamada Town, and checked into an inn.
• The innkeeper warned Kato Teiichi about the missing young people and recounted his past encounter with a demon.
• Kato Teiichi patrolled Yamada Town at night for three days but found no sign of a demon.
• The innkeeper told Kato Teiichi that another girl had disappeared from her home, and Teiichi worried that his patrols had failed to detect the demon.

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.