第20話: 炭治郎と義勇が猗窩座を倒し、しのぶが娘を倒して村田を救う

Tanjiro collapses from his wounds and crawls towards Nezuko, who has fallen and isn't moving. He smells blood behind him and realizes he normally smells ash when demons were killed by his sword. Rui stands and puts his head back on. He tells Tanjiro he cut his neck with one of his own threads when he realized he would be decapitated by the nichirin sword, which would have killed him. Enraged, he encircles Tanjiro with threads to mince him, only for Giyū to arrive and save him. Giyū congratulates Tanjiro on holding out until he arrived. Rui throws a sheet of threads at Giyū, who uses Water Breathing's eleventh form (there are only ten officially) to shred them when they reach him. Giyū then beheads him. As the Daughter runs, she remembers when she was being chased by Demon Hunters and saved by Rui, promising to join his family. Rui fed her some of his blood, giving her her current appearance. There were many siblings Rui had shared his blood with and he insisted they pretend to be a family. If they did something Rui didn't like he'd punish them, sometimes by wounding them, other times stringing them up and letting the sunlight kill them. Thus the numbers decreased to five. The Daughter comes across Murata and ensnares him in a cocoon filled with acid that will liquefy him, only to be knocked to the ground by Shinobu. Shinobu asks her how many people she's killed, saying (smiling all the while) that once she tortures her appropriately for all the people she's killed (gouge out her eyes, rip out her organs, ect.), they can be friends and her sins will be forgiven. The Daughter refuses so Shinobu uses her Insect Breathing to approach and cut her neck with her sword. Shinobu's sword is sharp only at the tip as she lacks the strength to behead demons. However, Daughter dies seconds later from the wisteria-based poison Shinobu invented and coated her sword with. Shinobu then frees Murata. Tanjiro makes it to Nezuko and drapes himself over her body protectively. As Rui dies, he thinks he made the pretend family because he had no memories of when he was human, and he thought if he could feel a familial bond, his memories would come back. He looks upon Tanjiro and Nezuko, wishing he had what they had. (Source: Wikipedia)
話数
- 第16話 · 炭治郎と伊之助は操られた鬼殺隊員と首なしの鬼人形と対峙し、母親は最期を迎える。
- 第17話 · 竈門炭治郎が蜘蛛の鬼の母を倒した後、鬼舞辻無惨の配下がいる
- 第18話 · 義勇と忍が蜘蛛山に到着する一方、炭治郎と伊之助は親と縁と戦っている。
- 第19話 · 恋雪の鬼殺隊
- 第20話 · 炭治郎と義勇が猗窩座を倒し、しのぶが娘を倒して村田を救う
- 第21話 · 瑠依は過去の記憶を思い出し、戦いの後、炭治郎は柱たちと対峙する。
- 第22話 · 炭治郎、柱の前で禰豆子の鬼化について審問を受ける
- 第23話 · 柱たちへの試練を乗り越えた後、炭治郎と禰豆子は蝶屋敷へと旅立つ。
- 第24話 · 炭治郎と伊之助、胡蝶しのぶ邸でリハビリテーション訓練を開始