[chain jingles]
[chain jingling echoes]
- [grunts]
[gasps]
Hinatsuru.
[Japanese music playing]
[singers vocalizing]
- Please forgive me.
I was only trying to...
- Never mind that. Just rest.
- By the time I realized Oiran Warabihime was a demon,
she was already suspicious of me.
I drank some poison
and tried to slip out of the House.
I didn't know the belt she gave me
was being used to spy on me and kill me.
She always knew exactly what I was doing,
so I was unable to contact you.
Lord Tengen, please leave this place
and don't trouble yourself with me.
You heard that sound just now.
I know you did.
That demon is on a rampage.
- Can you promise me that you'll be okay?
- I promise.
I'm so sorry that I couldn't be more helpful to you.
- You've done everything that you possibly could.
[chain jingles]
Once the antidote kicks in, leave Yoshiwara.
Understood?
- [crying]
Yes.
[tense music playing]
- The battle's already begun.
Where is it?
Search for its presence.
- [crackle] - [gasps]
It's here, underground.
[clanging]
I can hear the sound of someone fighting.
If I focus on the reverberations...
then I can locate them.
Sound Breathing. First Form...
Roar!
[rumbling]
- [sighs]
That infernal racket is giving me a headache.
What is all that noise?
What is it you're up to?
It sounds like it's coming from the Ogimoto House.
That damn Hinatsuru.
Exactly how many of you are there?
Four perhaps?
- Who knows?
- Well, then, if you were to tell me the truth,
I might be willing to spare your worthless life.
We only clashed for maybe an instant at most,
but look at your sword.
It's already chipped.
- [gasps]
[gasps]
- The swordsmith who made it
must have been a real amateur.
- You're wrong! The person who forged this is amazing,
and he's a brilliant swordsmith!
- Oh, really? How did it get chipped then, you moron?
[rumbling]
Over there now too?
Such an obnoxious racket.
I'm growing tired of it,
so I'm putting an end to you now.
- The blade suffers when its wielder is inadequate.
It's my fault.
Despite training my hardest, I still...
I still can't handle the Water Breathing Technique yet.
The truth is my body's just not suited for it.
If I keep using Water Breathing,
I'll never be like Mr. Urokodaki or Mr. Tomioka!
For me, using Hinokami Kagura to strike my enemies
has always been more effective.
I feel more in tune with it.
And yet...
[swords clash]
- [laughs]
- [whimpers]
Hey, moron, would it kill you to hold back a little?!
- [grunts]
What's the point if you don't give it your all?!
TANJIRO: Hinokami Kagura!
- Hmm? - Huh?
- Flame Dance!
Clear Blue--
- [heart beats] - [groans]
[wincing]
- Eh? - Tanjiro!
Hey, what happened?
Are you okay?
- Hey, are you hungry? - Shut up!
- Huh? - Idiot!
TANJIRO: Because of its sheer force,
I couldn't unleash multiple strikes.
ZENITSU: I'll go fetch Lady Shinobu!
[fist creaks]
- But it's different now.
I should be able to do it!
No, I can do it!
That is what I've been training for.
Don't go down in defeat.
Burn!
Burn! Burn!
Set your heart ablaze!
Hinokami Kagura!
Raging Sun!
- [gasps]
- His swordsmanship style changed.
It's sharper than before.
- [exhales]
- What is that sound he's emitting?
It's unpleasant as hell.
Is it his breathing?
- Flame Dance!
She dodged the first one,
but this move is a two-hit strike!
- That was underwhelming, but...
so typical
[gasps]
He's gone?
- Hinokami Kagura. Fake Rainbow.
- [thread rings] - [gasps]
There it is, the Opening Thread!
I can do this!
Hinokami Kagura!
Fire Wheel!
- Far too so slow.
You're making me yawn.
[gasps]
[groans]
I have to use the defensive falling technique.
[grunting]
[groaning]
[gasps]
- [heart beating] - [panting]
This is the drawback of using Hinokami Kagura.
All the built-up fatigue
is causing my muscles to cramp.
[panting]
- Still alive over there?
- Calm down.
Get your breathing under control...
and recover!
Quickly!
Recovery Breathing.
[inhales]
This belt is no different than a powerful blade.
Even if I glimpse an Opening Thread,
it vanishes instantly.
My attacks are too slow.
My body temperature.
If I'm gonna win, I need to raise my body temperature!
- Are you sure?
I think I should tell Lady Shinobu.
Your body temperature still hasn't gone down yet.
- Please don't. I'm begging you!
Keep it between us.
Really, I'm fine now.
There's no use in telling her!
- Yes, but still...
- Look. I'm fine, see?
Never felt better. Just a little warm.
- Being a little warm is okay, but look at this!
It says 100 degrees!
It was that high yesterday and the day before too.
That's not good.
- [sighs]
- If you have a fever that won't go down,
that means something's wrong with your body, Tanjiro.
[sighs]
I'm not skilled enough
to know what to do about something like this,
but Lady Shinobu would.
- [groans]
The thing is...
when I have a fever,
I'm actually at the top of my game.
I can use multiple Hinokami Kagura strikes,
and I might become even stronger with it.
Please, Kiyo, can't you wait just a little longer
before telling Lady Shinobu?
Just a little bit longer.
I'm begging you.
- [sighs]
[fists creak]
Very well, then.
But only just a little longer!
[clang]
- [grunts]
- [panting] - It's working.
I can feel my body temperature rising.
I can do this.
I can take on an Upper Rank Demon!
- He's a pesky one,
more than I thought he'd be.
How entertaining.
- [stirring music playing] - Focus!
Hinokami Kagura's effective against her...
but it's not enough to just be effective.
If I want to win,
I'm gonna have to use every ounce of my power,
and I have to win...
to protect the innocent...
to protect my friends.
Never again will I allow chaos like that to unfold.
Never again will I let anyone suffer the way that we did.
No one should have to bear that kind of grief.
[exhales]
- [laughs]
The way you sweat like a pig is truly repulsive!
- [yells]
[wind blows]
[sword slashes]
[wind blows]
[sword slashes]
[drum pounds]
[woman screams]
- What's all that screaming about?
- It's a monster! A monster!
- There's no time to fool around.
Get ready for work!
- Who cares about work
when there's a monster boar going around
destroying all the ceilings and floors!
- Wha?
- Are you sure you got enough sleep last night?
- [gasps] - Come see! I'll show you!
- [snarls]
[stirring music playing]
Huh?
[snorts]
[all scream]
[Inosuke laughs]
Now I'm really feeling that demon's presence!
- [whimpers] - [screams]
- Is it here?
Yaah!
[slashing]
This must be it,
the hole leading straight to the demon's lair!
Get ready to die, bastard!
[sputters]
[all scream]
- [groans]
So I can only get my head inside, huh?
[laughs]
That might have stopped others,
but it's not gonna stop Lord Inosuke!
- [joints popping] - After all,
I'm a man who can dislocate all his joints.
[groans] In other words,
As long as my head fits, I can go anywhere!
[grunts]
[laughs]
Get ready, demon, 'cause I'm comin' through!
[laughs]
What gives?! There's no end in sight to this damn thing!
Hah! It's here!
I can tell there's a demon here!
[yells]
[sighs]
What the hell?
[grunts]
- [joints popping] - [grunting]
Some kind of cloth with a human pattern?
What is this?
No, that's not just a pattern.
Those are living humans.
So this demon is able to trap humans
inside of a woman's belt, huh?
[bones rattle]
Huh?
[scoffs]
Then it takes them whenever it wants and devours them?
Pretty brutal, if you ask me.
Hmm?
What's he doing here?
- That's a question I should be asking you.
- [gasps]
- How would you like it
if someone started messing with your food?
Dirty man.
You reek of filth!
Disgusting.
Repulsive.
You damn stinkbug!
- Look who's talking, you worm!
Gross!
- You dare insult me, stinkbug?!
- [grunting]
Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle, wriggle!
Hah!
You're really grossing me out, Worm Belt.
[laughs]
Look how sluggish you are!
You got greedy and swallowed up too many humans!
There's no way an attack from an overweight worm
can ever hope to land on Lord Inosuke!
So lose some weight,
and don't come back 'til you have!
- Damn it! He managed to slice me
without touching the humans.
After I went to the trouble
of storing all that fresh food too.
His intuition appears to be razor sharp,
and his ability to detect murderous intent
is exceptional.
It's so precise that he can perceive attacks
from any direction and dodge them effortlessly.
I never anticipated a Demon-Slayer swordsman
would infiltrate our food supply.
What should I do?
DAKI: Capture him alive.
- [gasps]
- He's the brat who got in my way
when I captured Makio earlier.
He was beautiful.
You can kill all of the humans you have stored,
but save the 10 most beautiful ones for me.
Though it might prove harder to capture them alive
than to merely kill them.
If you devour some of the uglier ones,
that should make things easier.
[Inosuke growls]
[roars]
- [gasps]
- I can't slash it when it's flapping like that!
Let's see you deal with Beast Breathing, Sixth Fang.
Palisade Bite!
- Slashing me is useless
when I'm not even the main body, you fool.
Never mind. The humans you saved
are looking awfully vulnerable, don't you think?
- [gasps]
- Not to mention I can recover
from any damage you manage to inflict.
- Oh, crap! I forgot! I've gotta fight it
while protecting those humans, don't I?
Damn it! I can't keep up!
Annoying Worm Belt!
Ooh. Huh?
- I gotta hand it to you.
Worm Belt's a pretty good name!
- Yeah, it's perfect for something so gross,
and I'm so gonna tell on you!
Just wait until Lord Tengen finds out!
[both grunt]
- We're gonna give you a hand with this freak,
so fight the good fight, my boar-headed friend!
- [shrieks]
- Who the heck are you two?!
- Both of us are Uzui's wives!
I'm trying my best here, but I'm not much of a fighter!
[yelps]
So please don't expect much from me!
[yelps]
- Suma! This is no time to be acting like a wimp!
- [sobs] But, Makio, I can't help it.
You know I'm a good-for-nothing,
especially when it comes to fighting!
I got captured! You can't expect me
to protect everyone else who got captured!
It's impossible!
I'll be the one who gets killed first probably!
- It's a shame your friends don't think more like you.
Now which of you should I eat first?
- Damn that thing!
It's not the main body?
If that's true, I'm screwed!
This battle's never gonna end!
- Thunder Breathing.
- [gasps] - First Form,
Thunderclap and Flash.
Sixfold.
[stirring music playing]
[singers vocalizing]
[exhales]
- Maybe you should stay asleep like this the whole time.
- Muscle! - Muscle!
- Is he Demon Slayer Corps?
If he is, then why is he dressed like a total idiot?
- Yeah! Good question!
- Hey! The next one's...
BELT DEMON: Such blinding speed! Who is that boy?
Regardless, he's not alone.
I'm sure I heard two sounds,
like overlapping thunderbolts creating two sounds at once.
One was that boy.
And the other one came...
from above?
[stirring music playing]
[all gasp]
- [gasps]
- The wind?
How is that possible?
What's powerful enough
to create a hole that reaches this depth?
- What the hell?
[rumbling]
BELT DEMON: This presence...
Someone's here. I know it.
- [exhales]
- [gasps]
Such strength!
A Hashira!
- [grunts]
- Lord Tengen.
- [shudders]
[wind blowing]
- TENGEN: Makio. Suma.
Sorry I took so long.
You both look as flashy as ever.
- [shudders]
- [gasps]
You know, it wasn't like this before.
The thought of dying never used to bother me,
since that's how I was trained.
Furthermore...
since I was a kunoichi,
I could never hope to match a male shinobi
in terms of raw strength,
so risking my life for a mission
was the least I could do to make up for it.
[birds chirping]
- You three are only to think about your own lives
from here on out.
Above all else,
your top priority is to come back alive.
Life over accomplishing your mission!
I understand that conflicts with your occupation,
but it doesn't matter. I'm allowing it.
You are to live your lives in the following flashy order.
- [gasps]
- First prioritize your own lives,
then second, law-abiding citizens,
and finally my own.
- [all gasp] As a Demon-Slayer swordsman,
it goes without saying, I'll protect the public
leading their unflashy lives,
but if I'm being completely honest,
I'll always prioritize you three,
so don't you die on me.
- He can't be serious right now.
If you put your own life first before the mission,
can you really hope to accomplish
anything significant?
HINATSURU: Don't worry.
If Lord Tengen says it's fine, then I trust him.
Putting your own life before others or a mission
doesn't sound like a bad way to live at all,
don't you think?
As long as you don't despise yourself for it,
it's totally fine, you know?
- [chuckles]
You're right.
- [shudders]
- [gasps]
[both gasp]
- You've been doing some flashy work here.
You're my wives.
I'd expect nothing less.
- [gasps] - [sobbing]
- [chuckles]
All right!
- [yelps] - [gasps]
[chain jingles]
[grunts]
From here on out, things are gonna get real flashy!
[Japanese music playing]
ALL: Nin-nin!
- It's a joke, right?
The Sound Hashira can't possibly have three wives!
- Well, why don't you try for that, Zenitsu?
- What, really?
Okay, well, then there's Yoshiko, Sanae,
and then there's also...
- I guess I have to let Nezuko know.
- [yelps] - Wait, Tanjiro, no!
- Now it's time for a Taisho-era secret.
Uzui's whole family practices polygamy,
and I hear that when you turn 15,
the head of the family picks out three wives
that are sure to be a fit.
- Ah? - But they say that Suma
actually stepped forward and offered herself.
- Maybe I should become a shinobi too!
- Then you'll be starting shinobi training today, right?
- Huh?
No!
- Next, Episode Six, "Layered Memories."