Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃)

Rengoku...

Rengoku!

Rengoku!

I...

I will fulfill my duty!

I will not allow anyone here to die!

Flame Breathing...

Esoteric Art!

Set your heart ablaze.

Rengoku!

UPPER THREE

Set your heart ablaze.

Rengoku...

MUGEN

KAKUSHI

Rengoku...

Rengoku...

Rengoku...

Stop that crying!

And you! Snap out of it for crying out loud! We're gonna train now!

I see.

Tanjiro said that?

Don't run away, you coward!

Don't run away!

The Demon Slayer Corps...

is always fighting you demons in the dark of the night where you have the advantage!

Don't run away, you bastard!

You bastard!

You coward!

Let us all carry on Kyojuro's will together.

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My, he certainly seems like a bright young child.

Seriously... Not being blessed with my own offspring had made me despondent...

but now that such a fine boy has come to us, I can rest easy.

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SOUND HASHIRA TENGEN UZUI

Each day is so blissful. I couldn't be happier.

He's such a kind little kid.

So considerate toward the help.

I've never seen a child his age who was so gentle-mannered.

Blood has nothing to do with parental affection.

I'm going to have that boy take over my business for me!

I really envy you! I wish I could trade our idiot son for him!

He's a fine boy. No doubt about it.

It's just that...

As he suffers from a skin disease, he can't go outside during the day.

Oh dear, the poor thing.

I'm hoping that we can develop a wonder drug for him at my company.

The sooner the better.

I am here to report to you...

Master Muzan.

Have you found what I asked for?

I looked into it but came up empty.

Having no way to even confirm its existence...

I was unable to locate the Blue Spider Lily.

And?

I will continue to do my utmost to live up to your expectations, Master Muzan.

As ordered, I did eliminate one Hashira, so you may rest assured.

You seem to have the wrong idea about this...

Akaza.

So what if you disposed of one Hashira? As if that were such a feat.

A demon beating a human is a forgone conclusion.

What I want is for the Demon Slayer Corps to be annihilated.

Pummel the life out of every last one of them

and never let another one enter my line of sight again.

It's hardly a complicated task.

And yet, I'm still waiting for it to happen. What do you have to say about that?

You boast of having killed a Hashira,

but there were three other Demon Slayers there.

Why did you fail to kill them off

after I made a point of sending you there because you happened to be nearby?

Akaza...

Akaza...

Akaza...

Akaza!

You have disappointed me.

To think that you suffered a blow by a swordsman who isn't even a Hashira...

How far you've fallen, Upper Three.

Dismissed.

I just heard a loud noise.

Are you okay?

You coward!

You coward!

I know what you look like, boy!

The next time we meet, I'm going to spray your brain matter everywhere!

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So, even Tanjiro can sink into despair and feel hopeless, too.

Well, why not?

Even someone who sounded as well-trained as Rengoku ended up dead.

That would make anyone sad and fall right apart.

Look at Inosuke. Even he was bawling.

I guess he was beyond frustrated.

Even the strongest person can suffer and feel sorrow, huh?

Even still, since there's no point in cowering forever,

they beat their wounded souls again and again and get back on their feet.

I'm sure that Rengoku was that kind of person, too.

That's the kind of sound he gave off.

Not that it wasn't a little odd, but his sound was strong and kind.

Tanjiro, I secretly snagged us some bean paste buns, so let's eat!

Oh no! Tanjiro's missing!

Oh! Zenitsu!

I'm so sorry!

No, I'm totally fine.

What's wrong?

Your focus is totally off!

I really am sorry! Tanjiro's nowhere to be found, so...

Tanjiro's wounds aren't even healed yet, but he's been training,

so Lady Shinobu has really been on edge, too!

He was told to rest in bed!

That stomach wound of his was pretty deep, right?

How dumb is that?

Rengoku's crow...

Thanks!

He's carrying out Rengoku's will by guiding me to his house.

Are you Senjuro?

Have you heard of Kyojuro Rengoku's passing?

I have messages from Kyojuro for his father and for you, Senjuro.

So I've come to relay them to you.

From my brother?

I already know what happened to my brother.

Excuse me!

Are you all right? Your face is deadly pale!

Knock it off!

He would've only left the most worthless of messages, anyway.

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Look what he got for becoming a swordsman when he had no real talent!

No wonder he died!

Worthless!

What a fool of a son Kyojuro was!

A person's talent level is determined the day he's born.

Only a mere handful have any talent.

The rest are just members of the masses!

Completely useless trash, they are!

Kyojuro was in that group.

He had no real talent.

So why wouldn't he end up dead?

Senjuro!

The funeral's over now.

It's high time you wiped that gloomy look off your face!

Hold on!

That's going way too far!

Please stop talking about him like that!

Who the hell are you?

Get out! Don't you dare set foot on our property!

I'm with...

the Demon Slayer Corps!

You...

I get it now! You...

You're a wielder of the Sun Breathing technique, right? Am I right?

Sun Breathing?

What are you talking about?

So fast!

Those were no amateur moves!

Father! Please stop!

Just look at his face! Can't you see that he's not well?

You keep your mouth shut!

That's enough, you monster!

Why are you acting like this, anyway?

Insulting your own child, who's lost his life...

Striking him...

What is it that you want to do?

You...

You're mocking us, aren't you?

What makes you say that?

I have no idea what you mean! Now you're just slandering me!

That's because you're a wielder of the Sun Breathing technique!

I know all about those earrings!

I-It was in the book!

Sun Breathing...

Could he be talking about Hinokami Kagura?

First Breathing.

The first breathing technique ever created!

The most powerful of them all!

And all the other techniques are derived from Sun Breathing!

All the others just mimic Sun Breathing.

They're just cheap imitations, retrograde versions of Sun Breathing!

Fire, Water, Wind...

All of them!

What does he mean?

We've been charcoal burners for generations.

We have the records to prove it.

Sun Breathing...

Hinokami Kagura...

No.

Never mind that.

There's something more important than that!

Don't get cocky just because you're a wielder of the Sun Breathing technique, boy!

As if I could!

Can't you see how devastated I am by my own weakness?

Why, you...

miserable old fart!

Look out! My father is...

Don't you badmouth Rengoku!

Don't you dare!

...a former Hashira!

Please stop... Father!

But why?

If Hinokami Kagura is a Sun Breathing technique...

then, that day, why wasn't I able to save Rengoku?