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Summary[]
After crossing paths with the progenitor of all demons, Yoriichi immediately senses his violent intent, comparing it to boiling magma from an erupting volcano, ready to consume everything in its path. Muzan instigates the confrontation by stating that he is no longer interested in swordsman who utilize breathing techniques. Upon finishing his sentence, he unleashes his arms and outright attempts to kill him. Though Yoriichi dodges the attack, he senses that even a single scratch would kill him, feeling a sense of fear for the first time.
Using the Transparent World, Yoriichi discovers Muzan's weakest areas.
By seeing into the Transparent World, Yoriichi was able to discern that Muzan had a total of seven hearts and five brains. Despite the Demon King's own immense power, Yoriichi manages to complete all the forms of his Sun Breathing and combine them into a single attack, overpowering Muzan completely. As Tanjiro, through Sumiyoshi, listens to the story, he realizes he had created the 13th and final form of Sun Breathing.
Yoriichi overpowers Muzan in an instant.
As he tries to regenerate his body, Muzan is stunned to discover he is unable to heal and is forced to hold his head in place to keep it from falling off. Yoriichi realizes that even his Bright Red Blade would work on the Demon King, but before killing him, he wondered about something. He asks Muzan, "What is the value of a life to you?", but the demon remained silent and only glared furiously at him.
Believing his words didn't reach him, Yoriichi's attention is then drawn to the young demon girl travelling with Muzan. He immediately notices her eyes staring directly at Muzan, not with a look of concern, but with a look of hope as he sat there dismembered and holding his severed head. Deciding he would deal with her afterwards, Yoriichi approaches Muzan in order to finish him off. However as he walked towards him, the sounds of teeth grinding grew louder until Muzan's body bursts into hundreds of small fragments. Caught off-guard, Yoriichi was only able to cut 1,500 of the 1,800 total pieces of flesh, leading the remaining portions, which he estimated to be the size of a head, to regenerate elsewhere and escape.
The girl collapses on the floor and begins to weep while tearing out her hair, angrily cursing that Muzan should had died. She is then surprised that she managed to survive despite saying Muzan's name out loud. Yoriichi approaches her and calms her down before she eagerly informs him about Muzan, how he was the progenitor of all demons and would most likely never appear before Yoriichi again. He asks for her compliance in defeating Muzan, to which she agrees, and allows her to escape. She introduces herself as Tamayo to Yoriichi, something Tanjiro is surprised at.
After his interactions with the demons, Yoriichi is approached by the other Demon Slayers whom inform him that his brother, Michikatsu, had become a demon. Once they return to the Corps headquarters, he is angrily confronted by the rest of the Demon Slayers for failing to kill Muzan, for letting Tamayo escape, and for Michikatsu's transformation into a demon. As a result, he was banished from the Demon Slayer Corps and was demanded to commit seppuku, but the newly assigned Oyakata would not allow it to happen.
After telling Sumiyoshi the end of his story, Yoriichi reveals his thoughts of being born with the gift to defeat Muzan but his failure to do so, and that because of his mistake, many more people would begin to perish at the hands of Muzan, telling him it pains him. Distraught by his inability to comfort his friend for going through so much, Sumiyoshi sits beside Yoriichi in silence until Sumire Kamado slowly walks towards the swordsman. She tugs softly on his clothes and says "Hug!". Surprised by the child's sudden demand, Sumiyoshi asks if his guest would mind carrying her to make her happy. Without a response, Yoriichi picks up the little girl and lifts her up into the air.
Yoriichi hugs Sumire.
The little girl squeals with delight and happiness, causing Yoriichi to emotionally break down and his eyes to fill with tears. Soon after, Suyako Kamado returns from gathering chestnuts in the forest and discovers Yoriichi weeping as he hugs the little girl. Suyako comes forth to comfort Yoriichi, saying that she will treat him to a warm meal. Watching the emotional scene through his ancestor, Tanjiro remarks that while he knows he is in the middle of a battle, and that Yoriichi has been dead for hundreds of years, he cannot help but wish that his heart could find some peace.
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Events[]
- More is learned about Yoriichi's past.
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