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Summary[]
Shinobu checks up on Tanjiro's jaw.
After concluding a medical check-up for Tanjiro's jaw, Shinobu concludes that he has healed and bids him good luck for the future. Before leaving her office, Tanjiro asks the Insect Hashira if she knows about the Hinokami Kagura. To his surprise, she does not, and when he asks again if she knows about "Fire Breathing" instead, she gives the same answer. After explaining how he came to know about the style, she concludes that since his father likely used the style, he must approach someone who may know more about it. Shinobu mentions that Fire Breathing does not exist but Flame Breathing does; when Tanjiro notes that they seem similar, she is not sure on the specifics but is aware that Fire Breathing and Flame Breathing must never gets their names mixed up.
Tanjiro sees the quarrelsome survivor from his Final Selection, now much taller.
To help him, Shinobu directs his attention towards the Flame Hashira Kyojuro, and suggest sending a message via a Kasugai crow. After leaving her office, Tanjiro walks down the hallway when he hears someone approaching. A tall boy turns the corner, but even as Tanjiro moves aside, he purposely shoves into his shoulder. Initially dismayed, Tanjiro quickly recognizes that he was the same boy from his Final Selection, the quarrelsome individual who struck one of the exam overseers. He is amazed to see how much he has grown and wonders why he is at the Butterfly Mansion, as well as noting his strange scent; Tanjiro calls out to him but is ignored.
Upon hearing that he is leaving, Aoi bids him good luck while noting that she had a pleasant time with him. Tanjiro thanks her passionately, as it was with Aoi's help that he and his friends can fight again. Hearing this, Aoi mentions that unlike him, she is unimportant as she cannot fight; even as a survivor of Final Selection, she attributes it to luck and claims she is too much of a coward to fight demons. Saddened, Tanjiro tries reassuring her by claiming that by helping him, she is a part of him that he can take into battle, something he will keep in mind; this notion surprises her, and as Tanjiro leaves, she continues to look at him with a stunned expression.
After searching the mansion, Tanjiro finds Kanao to explain he is heading out and thank her. She only continues to smile quietly, somewhat surprising Tanjiro. He compliments her great skill as Shinobu's Tsuguko, despite joining the Corps at the same time as him and his friends, but Kanao remains silent with a smile on her face. After a few wordless moments, she takes out a coin, flips it, and talks to him; she tells him that she was only following her master's orders and that his gratitude is unnecessary, before bidding him goodbye. Tanjiro is surprised that she spoke, and as she continues to bid him goodbye, he asks about her coin.
Kanao explains that she tosses it to help her decide on a choice she wasn't given; she flipped it just then to decide whether she should speak to him. After telling him goodbye again, Kanao is asked why she doesn't decide for herself. She clarifies that her decisions don't matter; to her, nothing does, and as such she doesn't need to choose for herself. Tanjiro instead tells her that everything in the world matters; he believes that while following orders is important, so is following the voice in her heart. He then asks for her coin and Kanao reluctantly hands it to him. Tanjiro explains he will flip it to decide if she will begin following the voice in her heart from now on, but he flicks it too hard and it takes several moments to land back down; during this, Kanao grows anxious of the coin's result, as Tanjiro tells her the result to make her listen to her heart is by landing on heads.
Tanjiro advises a stunned Kanao to follow her heart.
Tanjiro catches it and excitedly brings it to her, covering it with his hand. She becomes nervous as she could not see it land due to his back turn to him. He removes his hand to reveal the coin land on heads, and as he leaps into the air with joy, Kanao is shocked. After putting her hand out to get her coin back, Kanao is stunned as Tanjiro takes her hands and reassures her, claiming that the heart is what drives people and hers can get strong too. As he turns to leave, she gets up and asks how the coin had landed on heads, surprising him. Despite the result, Kanao notes that he did not cheat the toss, but to answer this, Tanjiro simply tells her it was by chance; if it had landed on tails, he would have tossed repeatedly until it landed on heads, before telling the Tsuguko to take care.
Kanao observes the coin in her hand and clutches it to her chest for a few moments, until a sudden announcement from behind by Kiyo shocks her into falling face first to the ground.
Inosuke sees a train for the first time.
After a tearful farewell from Kiyo, Sumi, and Naho, including a few tears shed by the boys themselves, Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke make their way to a train station. During this, Zenitsu is annoyed that they did not received orders from Shinobu's place; Tanjiro tries explaining that their treatment was finished anyway and they could follow orders more quickly at the location, but the annoyed Demon Slayer claims they could have avoided their saddening goodbye. As they begin to quarrel over their situation, Inosuke looks at a distant train and wonders, "What kinda animal is that?!"
Characters in Order of Appearance[]
Events[]
- Tanjiro is directed by Shinobu towards Kyojuro Rengoku for information about his Hinokami Kagura.
- Tanjiro runs into the troublesome boy from his Final Selection.
- Tanjiro bids Aoi farewell, reassuring her in the process.
- Tanjiro helps Kanao to make her own decisions, leaving her smitten.
- Tanjiro, Nezuko, Zenitsu and Inosuke leave the Butterfly Mansion and prepare to board the Mugen train.