[ominous music playing]
- [panting]
Thank goodness.
Nezuko’s asleep.
- [snarls] - KIE: ♪ Hush, hush... ♪
- Nezuko! No, don’t!
- ♪ ...up there on the hill ♪
♪ Why is it your eyes are ♪
- [crying] - ♪ So red, my little rabbit? ♪
- [panting]
[sentimental music playing]
You sleep tight, Nezuko.
I can still move.
I can still put up a fight.
This time, no matter what happens,
I’m fighting to the very end.
[Japanese music playing]
[singers vocalizing]
[Gyutaro scoffs] You’re starting to piss me off.
You’re a good-looking guy,
you have three wives to yourself,
and on top of that, you’re teeming with confidence.
You’re different, aren’t you?
You’re not like any of the other Hashira I’ve slaughtered.
Normally people have to train to get strong,
but I’m sure you were born with strength, weren’t you?
Being born with talent must be nice.
I thought I was envious before, but I’m so jealous right now,
all I can think about is tearing you to shreds!
- Born with talent?
- [scoffs] - Huh?
- You think I look like someone with any talent to boast of?
If someone like me gives that impression,
then you’re more out of touch than I thought.
- Huh?
- You may be centuries old,
but if you’ve been stuck in this district,
then your ignorance to the real world makes sense.
- What do you know about the real world?!
- I know it all too well.
You have no idea.
This country of ours, it’s giant!
It’s full of people who would blow your mind.
Some are a complete mystery.
They can pick up a sword
and become a Hashira in just two months!
Yet you’re saying I’m special?
What a load of crap!
Do you have any idea...
just how many lives have slipped through my fingers?
That’s right.
Rengoku was always ahead of me in that regard.
[Gyutaro grumbles]
If you aren’t special, then what’s going on?
Both of my Blood Sickles are drenched with deadly poison.
I’m positive it’s entered your bloodstream by now,
so why aren’t you dead?! Huh?!
I said I’m a trained shinobi, didn’t I?
I’m immune to nearly all types of poison.
- The shinobi were wiped out
back during the Edo period, you fool.
Don’t think you can lie to us.
- It’s not a lie.
[singers vocalizing]
The shinobi still exist.
I had nine brothers and sisters.
Seven died by the time I turned 15.
Frightened that our clan would live on only in history,
my father forced us to train as if our lives depended on it.
The only survivors were myself
and my brother two years younger than me,
and he was exactly like my father.
They shared the same mindset,
treating subordinates like pawns.
His wives were no exception.
He just wanted heirs.
No one else ever had any say.
His word was absolute.
And I...
I didn’t want to become like him.
[birds chirping]
UBUYASHIKI: It’s hard, isn’t it, Tengen,
the path that you’ve chosen?
[beads rattle]
You’ve decided to reject the very same values
that shaped you into the shinobi you are today
and enter the battlefield where those values thrive.
It must be painful.
Despite carrying all that conflict within yourself,
still...
you all insist on pushing forward and fighting
and for a noble cause too,
all so you can protect other people’s lives.
- [sighs]
- You have my thanks.
You are quite a remarkable child.
- [gasps]
TENGEN: It is I who should be giving thanks.
[sighs] Master...
I’d never think twice
about laying down my life for your sake.
Those with conflict might be spineless fools,
but it’s why I’ve achieved
everything that I have up until now,
and I’ve never been without it.
- Huh? Huh?
Huh?
- [panting]
- [giggles]
- What the hell are you laughing about?
- Slowly, but surely...
the poison’s affecting you after all, isn’t it?
This must be embarrassing after all that talk
about it not working on a guy like you, huh?
[giggling]
[blade clangs]
- You’re wrong! I’m fine!
Look for yourself!
I’ve never felt better!
I could devour a hundred bowls of tempura don!
In a flashy way, of course!
- [gags]
- [growls]
Don’t you dare lay a hand on my little sister!
- You scumbag!
- [gasps]
- [screams]
GYUTARO: Well, those are unique explosions.
They can inflict damage on a demon’s body
and detonate from the slightest friction.
Since she slashed one without realizing that, she got hit.
There’s never a dull moment taking care of her,
that’s for sure.
[gasps]
- [blade scrapes] - The blade can extend?!
[gasps]
No, he’s holding on to the tip of his sword!
What kind of insane grip is that?!
TENGEN: Now!
- [winces]
- I missed my chance to finish him!
- [wails]
He just beheaded me again!
Damn you! Damn you!
I’ll make you pay for this!
[gasps] It’s not fair...
not fair!
How come I’m the one who’s always getting beheaded?
[Daki wails]
- Hold on.
You’re onto us, aren’t you, big guy?
- About what?
- Not that finding out about our little trick
will do you any good,
since you’re going to die a slow and painful death anyway.
Even now, as we speak, we’re getting closer and closer
to your inevitable death, aren’t we?
- [stomps] - Hmm?
- Are you sure about that?
Or did you forget about me!
It is I, Lord Inosuke, along with my trusty minion!
- [snores]
[singers vocalizing]
- Who the hell are these two idiots?
- Eh?
- Huh?
[growls]
- [gasps]
[sighs]
[crowd yelling, murmuring]
- What’s happening?
- [groans]
- [crying]
- Follow me if you’re wounded!
- As for everyone else, please evacuate!
- [panting]
- [growls]
- [chuckles]
- [breathing heavily]
- [laughs]
- I’ve taught you well.
Talk about a flashy entrance!
Keep it coming!
[Tanjiro grunts]
[wind blows]
[sword slices]
[wind blows]
[sword slices]
- [chuckles]
You can summon all the underlings you want,
but unfortunately your fate was sealed from the start.
- [breathing heavily]
- So look, you’re all going to die anyway, right?
So drop the act and quit staring at me like that, will you?!
TANJIRO: There are two demons now.
How did that happen?
Also, the Belt Demon isn’t dead.
Are they both Upper Six
and somehow splintered off each other?
If that is the case,
then there’s no doubt this guy is the main threat.
His scent is different.
It’s far stronger.
It feels like the back of my throat’s
going numb from it.
- [rattling] - My hands won’t stop shaking.
Is it because I’m exhausted...
or is it that I’m afraid?
It doesn’t matter,
because either way...
no matter how strong they are...
- We’ll win!
’Cause we’re Demon Slayer Corps!
- Yeah, right! Fat chance!
Not when your only hope to win is being ravaged by poison.
- [gasps] Poison?
- Does it look like I care, you idiots?!
I’m at the top of my game
when I got a little poison in my system!
- Drop the act, already!
- It’s no act! You just underestimate humans!
All three of these boys are my brilliant Tsuguko!
They have relentless grit!
- [laughs] Yeah, we do!
- And they’ll fight even if their limbs fall off!
Not to mention, I’ve already figured out
how to bring you two down!
- [gasps]
- And that’s to behead the both of you simultaneously!
Am I right?
- [gasps]
- That’s why you don’t just absorb
your weaker sister completely.
Keeping your talents separate makes you harder to kill.
[laughs]
This’ll be easy-peasy!
- [laughs]
It’s as simple as that, isn’t it?!
Then we’ve already won, haven’t we?!
- You say that,
but the Demon Slayers who perished before you
didn’t find that task to be so simple.
Not even the Hashira!
Fifteen for me, and seven for my sister,
that’s how many we’ve devoured.
- You heard him.
Not a single one of those fools even lived to see daybreak!
- [deep breath]
- After all, we always have the long nights on our side.
Your deaths are inevitable, so just die!
- Huh? - Eh?
- [winces]
- [snores]
- Zenitsu!
- Leave that Worm Lady to me and Mr. Sleepyhead!
You two focus on taking down the praying-mantis-lookin’ guy!
- Careful!
- Yeah, yeah!
- I’m not about to let you kill my sister.
- It’s you, the little brat!
- There’s something I need to tell you.
Apologize to the girl whose ear you pulled.
- Huh?
- Even if it really was your earnings
that kept the house afloat and provided for everyone,
it still doesn’t make those girls your belongings.
You have no right to treat them like that.
- Oh, please. Don’t bore me
with your high-and-mighty lecturing.
With unfortunate looks like yours,
what makes you think that you can talk down to me, exactly?
In this city, women are merchandise,
the same as objects.
They are bought, sold, and then discarded.
Such is the right of an owner.
Those without beauty don’t deserve even a grain of rice.
It only makes sense the wretches shouldn’t be treated as humans.
- You shouldn’t inflict the pain
that was done to you onto others.
- You couldn’t be more wrong! - You couldn’t be more wrong!
SIBLINGS: The horrible things done to us,
the things that made us suffer,
it only makes sense to give back what we received.
We might have been driven to misfortune,
but we make up for it
in the revenge we exact upon the blessed.
- [snores]
SIBLINGS: Do you understand now?
That’s the way we’ve chosen to live our lives.
We have killed off anyone who’s ever crossed us,
anyone who’s ever slighted us.
We’re going to slash through your gullets
just like we did to all who came before you!
- His bloodlust is unreal.
It’s giving my whole body chills.
He’s the real deal, an Upper Six demon!
You have to focus.
Mr. Uzui’s been poisoned,
so I have to protect him!
Strike with your sword the instant he makes a move!
The second he moves even an inch,
that’s my chance!
[gasps]
Swing it!
Swing your sword!
Evade it! Evade it!
Bend backwards! Bend...
[gasps]
[stirring music playing]
What are you doing?
He protected you instead,
and now you’re just a hindrance!
- [roof clatters] - [gasps]
[groans]
I can’t deflect this many belts.
[Daki laughing]
- Huh? She’s got three eyes?
- I can see everything now,
including all of your movements.
Now that Brother’s awake,
I’m able to show you what my true power looks like.
- Shut up!
Your shrill voice is really making my head hurt!
- [chuckles]
Them being your Tsuguko was a lie.
Your movements are so out of sync, it’s almost laughable.
And here I thought you’d be different.
- [grunting]
- [laughs]
You won’t get close enough to even start fighting me.
- Shut up, Worm Lady!
If you’re really as strong as you say,
then why run your mouth the whole time
instead of killing us?!
- [chuckles]
Be careful what you ask for!
- [gasps]
- [chuckles]
- [gasps]
- Die, already!
- This speed...
he really is like a praying mantis.
And these attacks of his...
[winces]
I’m trapped.
- [grunts]
Why are these slashes...
so heavy?!
[grunts]
Side-step it! Ward off the blow!
If you take it head-on, it’ll snap your blade in half!
If it’s power versus power, the weaker side always loses.
Don’t misjudge the flow of power,
and redirect it as necessary.
The flexible Water Breathing technique
is better for defense.
If I had just done this before...
my blade never would have gotten chipped!
[inhales]
[Tengen growls] Sound Breathing.
Fifth Form...
String Performance!
- You can use your noisy moves
all you want, Hashira, but it changes nothing!
[Daki laughs]
Drop dead, You ugly toads!
- [roars]
Now we have blood blades
flying towards us with the belts?!
If this keeps up,
then I’ll never be able to get near the Worm Lady!
[growls] These damn blood blades are bad news.
I can sense that even a scratch from them would be deadly!
- Try to be useful!
Don’t let him attack like he wants!
Most importantly, find a way to win!
TENGEN: He won’t hold up much longer.
It’s a miracle he can still move at all.
That shoulder wound must be really deep.
He seems to have stopped the bleeding for now,
but that left hand tied to his hilt
is the only thing keeping his grip.
All because I let myself get poisoned.
If I don’t take care of this now,
we’ll be annihilated.
- [grunts]
I can’t breathe.
There’s too much happening to catch my breath.
I’m about to black out.
I’ve got to find a way to start Recovery Breathing!
- [blades clashing] - [panting]
[stirring music playing]
- What’s this?
Kunai?
Ugh. It’s gonna be a pain
dealing with this many of them in front of a Hashira.
Could they be any more annoying?
There’s still three fledgling Demon Slayers too.
Well, even if they do hit me,
these things are no prob--
Wait, would they really try
to pull off such a meaningless attack?
Blood Demon Art! Rampant Arc Rampage!
- He’s creating a dome with the slashes.
- Huh? Hey, hold on a second!
What’s going on here?
He’s closing in on me?
And what’s this?
There’s multiple kunai stuck in him?
That’s right.
He’s not a swordsman. He’s a shinobi.
That explains his otherworldly battle senses.
Wha--
My legs aren’t regenerating.
I knew it. They’re laced with something.
If I had to guess, this kunai is probably coated
in something extracted from wisteria.
M-My body’s going numb.
Hey, not too shabby!
You’re starting to get into sync with one another
in such a short time! How amusing!
- Please!
[chorus vocalizing]
- [yells]
[Japanese music playing]
ALL: Nin-nin!
- Rengoku, how would you fight against this?
What if...
I’m just not able to handle this like you could?
RENGOKU: It’s okay to do things a little differently.
- [gasps]
Rengoku!
- Your sword skills are elegant.
Though you do have too many wives.
[laughs]
The Kamado boy, the yellow-haired boy,
and boar-headed boy, take care of them, Uzui.
[wind blows]
- I’ll watch over them flashily.
Next, Episode 9,
"Defeating an Upper Rank Demon"!