Tanjiro! Long time no see!
Welcome to my humble abode!
It's been a long time!
I'm so glad to see you doing well!
You, too, Tanjiro!
At three o'clock, I'm going to brew some black tea...
and make you some pancakes! So, put heaps of butter on them, okay?
B-Butter?
BUTTER.
Pancakes?
PANCAKES
I just barely know what black tea is!
Sweets!
Bread!
Pancakes!
There you go! Enjoy!
Oh...
Go on, Tanjiro!
How am I supposed to eat this?
Well, here...
Tanjiro, open up and say "Ah!"
Uh... Okay!
How does it taste, Tanjiro?
It's so tasty, it's to die for!
Isn't it mind-bogglingly yummy?
Yes!
All right, Tanjiro...
when you're done eating, can you change into this?
Yes!
YES!!
All right, everyone stay in sync now!
Extend your arms!
Jump as far as you can!
Okay! Twirl all the way around!
It's extremely important to have a flexible body so you can make your moves crisper!
Limber up, get loose now! Let's limber up like there's no tomorrow!
Oh, no, that's not right at all!
I'll show you how it's done, so can I take your place?
Here we go!
OWWWWW.
Hang in there!
This isn't limbering up, it's more like a power move!
All right!
Huh?
Why don't you give it a try, too?
What?
Are you ready?
Let's go!
Flexibility...
is hell!
Tanjiro Kamado...
I've been waiting for you.
EPISODE 5: I EVEN ATE DEMONS.
- I'm looking forward to training— - Shut up.
- Or I'll kill you. - What?
Kanroji told me all about you.
It sure sounds like it was awfully fun training under her.
Huh?
So, training was fun, huh?
Here's a letter from Lady Kanroji!
Mr. Iguro, how are you?
After training today, I had tea with Tanjiro!
That Tanjiro...
When he eats or drinks something sweet, he looks like he died and went to heaven!
He's so adorable!
Kamado!
I'm not soft like Kanroji, all right?
From Day One he hates me with a passion!
This is the training I have in store for you.
Wha...
I'm going to have you swing your sword while dodging these obstacles.
To refine your swordsmanship skills.
Right.
So, is this place...
an execution ground?
The people tied up in here... Did they commit some kind of crime?
Well, you could say that.
The crime of weakness, the crime of failing to learn...
the crime of wasting my time, the crime of annoying me. That's it in a nutshell.
Oh boy! What am I going to do?
Take this.
I'm going to show you how it's done, just once.
That's it.
To swing with accuracy while navigating the space between the Demon Slayers at that speed...
Let's see you do it.
- Don't hit me! - Don't hit me!
Don't hit me!
DESTROY.
Don't hit us! Don't hit us! Don't hit us!
Please don't hit us!
Get on with it.
Yes, sir!
What an absolute joke.
You call that training?
I'll take you on.
Strike me.
Strike...
Right!
Don't hit me!
You hesitated.
My hands are totally tied!
Here I come!
Cramped space or not...
I'm going to strike accurately!
You're slow.
No good!
I can't worry about the Demon Slayers while taking on Mr. Iguro!
Get up.
You're going to start all over.
The most terrifying training ever just started!
I may be using a bokuto...
But they'll be seriously injured if I hit them!
I have to run between these poor Demon Slayers while dodging Mr. Iguro's attacks!
Don't hit me! Don't hit me! Don't hit me!
This is seriously dangerous!
Because this man's sword strikes twist and turn in an abnormal way!
You're slow.
We're both wielding the same kind of bokuto, so how can it bend like that?
Those strikes slither into the narrowest of spaces!
Just like a serpent!
On top of that, I just can't unhear...
The inner voices of my fellow trainees as I aim for the gaps between them!
Please! Please! Please! Please! Please!
"Please, just don't hit me!"
I can really hear their cries, and it pierces my soul!
Don't hesitate, you piece of trash.
I'd never felt this much tension, and my hands shook like crazy!
If I don't swing my sword with pinpoint accuracy, things will get ghastly!
Hey! Sorry!
Kamado...
How can you keep going after training so hard with the Hashira?
Because I don't want to make trouble...
for the rest of you!
How about we join in, too?
Yeah, why not?
This is going to make our cuts sting, right?
That is so going to hurt!
Let's go, then.
Come on!
Yeah.
All together now.
Ready, set...
It stings!
DAY TWO
You're slow.
At that speed, this drill is pointless.
Yes, sir!
Now you're even lunging slower. How's that going to help?
It stings!
DAY THREE
You're slow.
You're slow!
You're too slow!
Dammit!
It sure does sting!
DAY FOUR
What's going on? You're just going to run, slowpoke?
I gotta focus on battling Mr. Iguro and nothing else!
In real combat, if your sword gets caught on a tree or boulder, it's fatal!
Avoid the obstacles and swing your sword!
It's just like that!
I'm starting to be able to strike with more accurate sword skills than I ever have before!
I can evade Mr. Iguro's attacks...
And unleash my own attacks on him, too!
When you land a strike...
And slash one of Mr. Iguro's haori sleeves...
They say that you're done training.
Thank you very much!
See you.
Now go die, you good-for-nothing.
Don't talk to Kanroji like you're chums!
It made me sad to know that he hated me until the end!
Why?
Um...
Was Mr. Shinazugawa's dojo this way?
Wrong! Turn right at that corner!
Birdbrain!
Oh, we turn right there, huh?
Zenitsu?
L-L-Let me escape!
Tanjiro! Tanjiro! I beg of you!
Escape? From what?
I can't stay upright anymore! I just can't, see?
I-I-It took me forever to get this far!
I came crawling along these walls!
Masking my presence like a lizard!
It's a matter of life or death! I'm going to be killed!
Hey...
Ugh!
Make your choice!
Either come back to training...
or be killed by me!
Nooooo!
Please spare me!
Calm down, okay?
Shut up!
KILL.
Humph!
Carry him.
Uh, yes, sir!
Sorry, Zenitsu.
Let's get through this together.
It's been a long time!
I'll be training under you starting today!
I'm looking forward to it!
Don't get too cocky.
It's not like I've accepted you, all right?
That doesn't bother me at all!
Since I don't accept you, either!
Because you stabbed Nezuko!
You've got some nerve.
Come on, come on, come on, come on!
Mr. Shinazugawa's drills were so harsh...
I could understand why Zenitsu ended up like that!
It was a simple striking drill in which we all assaulted Mr. Shinazugawa...
DESTROY
but until we spewed vomit...
And blacked out, the session would go on.
And until then, there were no breaks!
Even Mr. Iguro gave us more breaks!
Hah.
When Zenitsu came to, he berated me as if he were avenging his parents' death.
Damn you, you jerk! Damn you, damn you, damn you!
Ow, ow, ow! Sorry, okay?
Mr. Shinazugawa was especially harsh on me...
And if I let my guard down for even a second, I'd be seriously wounded...
And find myself right back in treatment!
I can't be starting off like this!
Battered and bruised and covered in my own vomit...
It's so soul-crushing!
Hey, wait up, Big Brother!
That's Genya's voice.
There's something I want to tell you...
You need to give it a rest!
I don't have a younger brother!
If you don't back off...
I'm going to destroy you!
That's not like our sibling fights.
Do you surrender?
Cut it out, Big Bro!
Stop talking to me like we're close!
And since from the looks of you...
you have zero skills...
just quit the Demon Slayer Corps.
If you can't even use breathing techniques, don't call yourself a swordsman!
But...
H-Hold up, Big Brother!
I've been wanting to apologize to you all this time!
Come on, Genya! Genya, don't give up!
I seriously couldn't care less.
Now get lost.
But listen...
I-I...
I even ate demons...
to go on fighting.
What's that?
What did you just say?
Damn you!
Demons?
You ate some?
He's gone?
Genya!
How many more days is this going to last?
He's back! He's back!
That cold-blooded man!
Lie down! Pretend that you've fainted!
Huh? Is that Tanjiro?
Whaaat? You're going to get killed, Tanjiro!
What are you doing? Destroying the building like that?
Please stop now!
What's that twisted, ominous sound?
Whoa! So, the old guy's on a rampage, huh?
Are we going to get clobbered outside the training ground, too?
What are you going to do? Are you planning to kill Genya?
Hell no, I'm not going to kill him.
It would be easy enough to kill him, but since it's against the rules and all...
I'm going to ruin him beyond recovery!
But listen...
if you quit the Demon Slayer Corps right now, I'll let you go.
Don't give me that!
There's no way you have that kind of authority!
Don't try to force him to quit!
You just said yourself that you had no younger brother, right?
So, no matter what choices Genya makes, you can't butt in!
Whether he has the ability or not, he's made up his mind to risk his life fighting demons!
If you're not his big brother, then I won't let you get in his way, no matter what!
Without Genya, we couldn't have defeated that Upper Rank!
No way am I going to let you ruin him beyond recovery!
Is that right?
Then, I'll ruin you beyond recovery first!
Here he comes!
He's coming!
Whoa! Tanjiro!
Damn him!
He stopped my fist!
Oh my gosh! He landed a blow!
Zenitsu! Get Genya out of here! I'm counting on you!
Hey! Y-You dummy! Moron!
WINK-WINK.
Don't call me by my name, idiot!
Wink-wink!
There's got to be a better way to signal!
Tanjiro!
He only grazed me, but that kick ripped my ear!
You've got some nerve, you know!
It seems like you have a death wish.
And I'll be happy to oblige you!
Come on, hold up, Big Brother!
Tanjiro has nothing to do with this!
We're out of here!
Who are you? Let go of me!
Best to scatter people at odds with each other! We're distancing ourselves!
So, he's your big brother?
He's a total lunatic! I feel for you!
Don't you dare insult my big brother!
Hey, but I'm on your side!
You can just drop dead!
It was all chaos and turmoil from that point on!
The brawl lasted until almost dusk!
Idiot! You idiot!
That's why you're known as "birdbrain"!
I received a formal reprimand from the higher-ups...
NO!!
Caw! Idiot! You idiot!
My training under the Wind Hashira was suspended...
You really are beyond stupid, aren't you?
And I was banned from going near him.
In the end...
I wasn't able to bring the Shinazugawa brothers together.
I never intended for this to happen, you know.
My mark isn't any clearer yet, and I'm not seeing the effects of my training.
No, they're there, all right.
You were able to take on the Old Wind Guy.
That's impressive.
You think so?
Anyway, how deep in the mountains is the Wind Hashira's house?
What is he, a fool?
I think it's just a little farther.
Huh?
What's wrong, Zenitsu?
I can hear something.
It's this way!
Hey, it's...
...a waterfall!
Whoa!
There are people there!
Thus have I heard. In the presence of the Buddha.
When in Shravasti.
At Jetavana Vihara.
- Whoaaa! - Whoaaa!
If you extinguish your heart and mind...
Huh?
...even fire is cool.
Welcome...
to my training ground.
PART 5.
Today, we're going to talk about Mr. Iguro!
You're still here? You'd better not be making a pass at Kanroji!
I'm not, I'm not!
I'm telling a Taisho-era secret!
Hah! Then, get started already.
All right, here's a Taisho-era secret!
The name of the snake Mr. Iguro is always seen with is Kaburamaru.
And he says his left and right eyes have been different colors since birth.
If you're finished, then get out of here.
And don't go near Kanroji, either.
Oh, but...
Are you planning to go near her?
Whoa!
Next, Episode 6, "The Strongest of the Demon Slayer Corps"!
TO BE CONTINUED