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"Not knowing about demons, never running into one," Rengoku tells Fuku as he laughs, "there's no better way to live out your life!" Never seen a demon: 'That's the way it should be' "I'm following in my father's footsteps, slaying demons," Rengoku tells them. The Hashira that saved them all those years ago was Kyojuro Rengoku's father. The Hashiras' forms are the same: the fire, the swing, the retraction of their swords. The animation then beautifully cuts back and forth between the movements of the Hashira that saved Grandma years ago and Rengoku in the present. "You're slow," Rengoku says calmly as he slices off the demon's head using the first flame-breathing form, "Unknowing Fire."Īs it were, this isn't the first time Grandma has been saved by a Flame Hashira. Why did we have to wait so long to witness the speed and might of a Demon Corps Hashira again? Rengoku uses total concentration breathing to accelerate to lightning speed, flames whirling behind him. Rengoku saves the hostage and the speed demon flees back to the platform that Fuku and Grandma are on, attempting to settle the score with Rengoku. We won't mourn your death demon of the night! Not all demons in this show love to torture people - sometimes it's about a demon's midnight snack - but this one actually loves to torment humans, and he taunts Rengoku throughout their entire confrontation, putting Rengoku's purity in direct contrast with the demon's callousness. Upon his arrival, Rengoku gives the engineers the rest of his bento (not taking a single one for himself) and encounters a demon who's taken a hostage. Rengoku is told where the Mugen Train is stored and heads there. Rengoku is just too fast for this pitiful demon.
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At Fuku's query about buying a bento box, Rengoku surprises them by buying all of them: He sends some to other demon slayers and takes the rest for himself. "No one should hurt people like you," he says. Rengoku shows his gratefulness by letting the duo know he appreciates them for coming out to sell bento while it's still dark. Rengoku asks the duo blunt questions about the lurking demon, unnerving the child a bit in the process. We can tell that Fuku, the little girl, has a beautiful soul as she roughs it out with Grandma as her mother is pregnant and her dad's shop isn't doing too hot. Both of them are wearing round glasses extremely fashionable by today's standards, but we are watching a story placed in Taishō-era of Japan (roughly 1912-26). It's there that Rengoku encounters a lovely duo, a grandmother and granddaughter, selling bento boxes. Rengoku goes to investigate the station where the conductor's body was found. The incidents are also causing the Mugen Train to be taken out of order, and the slayers have been tipped that it's been secretly stored in a shed somewhere. Lucky, she's recovering well, but people have stopped going out at night because of the incidents, causing the poor restaurant owner serving the slayers' food to lose business and subsequently have to let go of his employees. Rengoku finds an injured woman who's been tormented by the Slasher. Rengoku is at this town investigating the "Slasher" who's been terrorizing residents of the area and potentially also the Mugen Train's passengers. But this one doesn't look like Enmu, the Lower-Rank One Demon of the Twelve Kizuki we know (from the film) is the baddie terrorizing the train.Īs the opening title plays, we cut to a lower-rank demon slayer meeting up with Rengoku while he is enjoying some noodles - and screaming "Delicious!" with gusto after every bite, naturally. The episode starts with a conductor aboard the Mugen Train getting slashed by lurking demons.