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ME SEVERAL
HOURS TO STOP R 7 cal : IM INA
MY BLEEDING, we HORRIBLE
6 0 CONDITION.
SINCE I WASN'T
BLESSED WITH o
THE PHYSIQUE
OF SOMEONE
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LIKE UZLI-SAN. I CANT BE
d SY THESE Haat
‘| a WOLINDS. =

GenN DIE
MA Y, BUT I HAVE
I MIGHT TO AT LEAST
AS WELL vee ee
DE AFTER
DOING
SOMETHING
USEFUL!
AND LESSEN
THE BURDEN ON
THOSE WHO ARE
STILL ALIVE AND
FIGHTING.
 CAN YOU
GIVE MY
TORSO
A GOOD
SHOVE?

ARE YOU...
CAN YOU GOING TO GENYA!!
UHH... Zon OR. YOU'RE
GET IT AND TOGETHER?

WE'LL FIGHT
TOGETHER
TO THE
VERY END.
/PASED ON.
OUR LOOKS... :
T’'M GUESSING AS TUNATE?
YOUR AGE...
SES) AND WHAT'S
S| WRONG wim
SO Har?

DIES BEFORE
REACHING
THE AGE OF
nr
 EVEN IF
YOUR MARK
APPEARS...

AND YOU
INCREASE

IN THE END...
YOU'RE ONLY
LIVING ON

YOU ARE
PAST THE
YOU ARE
PROBABLY
GOING TO DIE
SOME TIME
TONIGHT...

BODY AND
DON'T YOU TECHNIQUE...
THINK THAT'S WHICH YOU
REGRETTABLE? HAVE DEVOTED
YOURSELF TO
FOR ALL THIS
TIME...
——
 EVERYONE
WHO HAS
BEEN MARKED
KNOWS THIS
STORY ALREADY.

EVEN IF THE
MARK NEVER
APPEARED,
AS LONG AS
T AM PART OF
THE DEMON
HUNTERS,

LIVE TO SEE
TOMORROW.

youcan'T \ :
BECOMEA |; S REGRET
PILLAR WITH = 5 SN i— 7 ABOLIT MY
THAT KIND OF ~\ s LIFE NOW?
HALF-HEARTED = .
RESOLLITION.
 BUT I WASN'T
TALKING ABOUT
SOMETHING AS
BORING AS
YOUR LIFE...

BY BECOMING
WHY CAN'T
YOU UNDER-
STAND THIS... PRESERVE
FOOL... YOUR BODY...
PRESERVE
YOUR TECH-
NIQUES..

WE HUMANS
FIND THAT THERE'S
LIVING AND NOTHING
DYING AS A TO_UNDER-
HUMAN BEING
PRESERVES
OUR DIGNITY.
 DON'T YOU
DARE FORCE
YOUR PATHETIC
WORLDVIEW
ONTO OTHERS
AND CALL IT
THE SUPREME
ONE.

I REALIZED
THIS AFTER
WE SPOKE
JUST Now,
 AY AN

THERE MUST'VE EXCEPTION.

BEEN SOMEONE
WHO LIVED PAST
THE AGE OF
TWENTY-FIVE
AFTER RECEIVING
THEIR MARK.

atesUNDER-
STANDING
ll k
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)A
\ M
YOU SEEM
DISTURBED.
HIT THE
BULLS-EYE...
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NN Ay
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WY LN
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At \N ew
Vi
 THEY
MANAGED
TO COORDI-
NATE THEIR DESPITE
ATTACKS. THESE TWO
USING TWO
DIFFERENT
AND THIS KINDS OF
BATTLEAT
MOVING
BREATHS,

Le
NG) “ears THAT PILLAR
TRAINING HUH,
HIMEJIMA~
SANS (|
 THE MOMENT OF THE
MIRACULOUS ENCOUNTER
 PULL
YOURSEL!
TO. GETHER. {— pir
 mM I RE-
RECOVERING CONNECTED
AT AN MY TORSO.
EXTREMELY
FAST PACE.

ALL THIS
FROM JUST
EATING
SOME HAIR?

BLOOD Is.

We
OM MORE
THE BLADE
:
Yi) 1S REULATING
FRAGMENT
HAT BROKE ey EVEN FASTER.
OFF FROM THE
UPPER MOON'S
SWORD.

THIS
VOICE
AGAIN...
 HOW MANY
PILLARS HAVE
YOU DEFEATED?

DONT LET
THEM COME
 | THESE TWO
| ARE MOST
| LIKELY. |e

| FIGHTERS,
| EVEN
ie THE
PILLARS... |
il ah
lca aera!

THAT ALLOWS
IM TO
Box
ACCURATELY
ISP THE
SPACE AND
MOVEMENTS
AROLIND HIM.

SWINGING
THE CHAIN
CREATES
AN ECHO

MAY BE
QUITE HARD
TO BELIEVE,
BUT IT IS
CERTAINLY
EVIDENT.
IT MAY BE
TRUE THAT
HIS MARK
APPEARED,

BLT THOSE
WOLINDS WOLILD
NORMAL Y BE
FATAL ELNOUGH
TO LEAVE SOME-
ONE INCAPABLE
OF BATTLE.

I NEVER
EXPECTED THAT
HIS MOVEMENTS
WOULD ACTUALLY
INCREASE IN SPEED
AND PRECISION.
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Teg

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Ty
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g ATACK Us
DISTANCE!?
 NOT EVEN
AN INFANT ALL You WIV
WOUL? DIE WAS TEAR MY
FROM THAT... < KIMONO OFF...

\F 1 CAN KILL
THE TWO OF YOU...
THEN EVERYONE
ELSE WILL BE
DEFEATED VERY
 { SHOULD Be SAYING SORRY
FORGIVE ME"
HERE, BUT ULp FORGIVE ME-
TANTIROU WO! NT EVEN LET
He WOULD!
HIMSELF @ET KICKE! pl
@AHAHAS

KANAO FOUND.
é SOME DETER-
MINATION.
O REACTS
 IF HIMEJIMA-
SAN HADN'T
CHANGED
THE ATTACK’S
TRAJECTORY
WITH HIS
CHAIN,

RARE BLOOD
HAS PRETTY
MUCH LOST
ITS EFFECT.
I BECOME.

WHAT'S MORE,
THAT MONSTER
1S SWINGING
THAT INSANELY
LARGE SWORD
CAN I S50 FUCKING
DODGE THE FAST/
NEXT ATTACK?
CAN I SLICE
THAT SWORD
INTO PIECES?
 W

TOMO! KA SHOULD WE
GIYUU AND SEND THE
AMADO OTHER PILLARS
TANJIROU TO WHERE
CAN BOTH UPPER MOON
ONE IS?
 GIYUU AND
TANJIROU WILL
KEEP HEADING
TOWARDS
MUZAN.

oe

GYOUMEI,
SANEMI,
MUICHIROU,
AND GENYA
WILL DEFEAT
HIM FOR
 FROM THAT
DISTANCE!?
THAT'S MORE
THAN TWICE
HIS LISUAL
ATTACK
RANGE.
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ie
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 CAN I
DO THIS....7

WILL
AND FINISH HENOTICE
Just
ME OFF BY fi
SLICING MY Me Hon
TORSO?
 AAAGHHH!!
FUCKS/
FUCKS!
se= HIMEJIMA-
SAN...

IF ONLY
I WAS
STRONGERI/
IF ONLY
I WAS A
PILLARI/

My BODY
FREEZES UP,
LT CAN'T
MOVE
CORRECTLY.
 THE
WEAKEST
PERSON

HAS
THE MOST
POTENTIAL
IN THEM,
GENYA.

THAT
WAS WHAT
THE ENEMY
HAPPENED
CAN ONLY BE
WHEN /
ON GUARD
FOUGHT
AGAINST SO
UPPER
MANY OF US.
/COULD MOON Sx.
CHANGE THE
SITUATION
BECAUSE /
WAS WEAK.
 |

THEIR WALL ONCE

OF VIGILANCE YOU PASS
WILL ALWAYS A CERTAIN
BE THICK AND AMOUNT OF
TOUGH AGAINST THE ENEMY PEOPLE,
STRONG PEOPLE. WILL THINK
ABOUT HOW
THEY SHOULD
CATEGORIZE
EVERYONE.

LMT |
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Ty Lc
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H| BUT IF YOUR
|
|

| ENEMY BELIEVES |
SOIFA | YOUAREA WEAK |
WEAK PERSON | HUMAN, THAT WALL
DESTROYS THAT | WILL BE THINNER |
WALLWITHAN = AND WEAKER. |
i
UNEXPECTED |
BLOW,
|

THE WINDS
pose
THAT WILL
FAVE THE WILL CHANGE
WAY TO AT ONCE.
VICTORY.
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(

REALLY? Vw oO WY / , TANIIROU,
YOU REALLY SYN o Wir
THINK SO? UL Ae
YOLI THINK I se y
|| CAN DOIT? 6
| TANJIROU.
()
 THINK
ONLY OF
VICTORY.

iy
itt I WANTED
i TO SAVE
IIil THIS JUST
Bur IN CASE

~
=
| Be |ee
SPINELESS

QUESTION.
I GOT

ACAN,
 THE AOI TRADITION
OF SCOLDING:
BUTT SPANKING

MURATA
LEAPING
IN Joy.

INOSUKE LET
HIS @UARD DOWN
BECAUSE KANAO
IS USUALLY QUIET,
 iihe] Path Opened
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Ten
X
 EVERYTHING
I 00/8 BEING
ANTICIPATED.

HE'S WAY
700 FAST.

IF I MAKE
A MISTAKE,
I GET PINNED
DOWN BEFORE I
CAN EVEN START
ATTACKING.
mmarisHe
DEMO!

SEEING?
7
|? 4 a
<)| TE YE Mee
OF DIVINE

REFINE
YOUR SENSES.
UNDERSTAND
WHY IT FEELS
WRONG.
 THESE
EYES WHICH

TRUE NATURE.
 GET INSIDE
HIS ATTACK

EVEN
FOR JUST
A MOMENT.
IF I CAN IF I CAN
SLOW DOWN STOP UPPER
HIS ATTACKS MOON ONE'S
FOR EVEN MOVEMENTS
A SECOND, FOR JUST
A SHORT

HIMEJIMA-
SAN OR
SHINAZLI-
GAWA-SAN

CAN CUT
THIS GUY'S
HEAD OFF.
 I LOST AN ARM.
THE BLEEDING IS

LOT OF TIME LEFT.

Wwe
 THEY'RE
ADJUSTING
TO MY PLAN.
WHERE HIS
ATTACKS
OVERLAP!/

3
ats
Sse
 TL
HL
E CMHANA’IN‘5
BA
JUZL BEAD!?

HOW DID
THARTOUSGLIHP
TH
MY SIGHT?
 EVEN IF THEY
WERE SLOWED
DOWN BY THE
JUZL BEAD,
THAT DOESN'T
MEAN...

TO DODGE...
MY ATTACKS...

ARE
ACTUALLY | /
SEEING EZ

THE SAME
WORLD IM
SEEING?

IT MUST
ALSO BE
AND TRUE FOR
THEN TO THIS MAN.
TOP IT OFF, HE'S AWARE Vi
THIS MAN... OF IT. ta

SEEING THIS
WORLD IN
THE MIDDLE
 HE'S MANIPLI-
a
See LATING HIS
AKL OWN BLOOD
FLOW AND
DISTURBING
MY ATTACKS.

WW)
683

ys
\yr

SEVERAL
UNPREDIC-
EVENTS
M4ve susr b
oPRER : PSS)
SWORDS ; ; HAPPENED.
REACHED
MY NECK.

ONCE I UNDER-
STAND THEM,
THEY'LL LOSE
ALL PLIRPOSE.
 LET GOL
DON'T
LET GOL!
x 8 :
SOY & EVEN IF I
GET DICED
UP INTO
PIECES...
Gag
Bega
De
 YOUCAN |\
SHOOT THE
BOTH OF US

IF I CAN
STOP UPPER
MOON ONES
MOVEMENTS,

DON'T
YOU DARE
HESITATE,
 From Weekly Shounen Jump 2019
Issue 4-5

From Weekly Shounen Jump 2019

Issue 22-23

From Weekly Shounen Jump 2019

Issue 6-7
¢ a A Nightmare Seen
on a Blood
ee Moon
ee Night
 AY

DESPITE
MY EFFORTS TR
TO DEFLECT
7A THE BULLETS SX
WITH MY

THEY
BENT BACK
TOWARD
BODY,
AS IF THEY
WERE LIVING
CREATURES.
HIS_WESTERN
GUN HAS
TRANSFORMED.
THIS REALLY
1S A BLOOD
DEMON
TECHNIQUES!

A TREE.../?
I CAN'T MOVE
BECALISE IT
 MY LIFE IS
IN DANGER,
AND MY
PHYSICAL CORE
|S FROZEN =| THIS IRRITATION
ANDIND STILL. STIL. ‘ d : ( 1S PIERCING
THROUGH ME,
FROM MY SOLAR
PLEXUS TO MY
HAI WHORLS.

THA
FEELING THAT
TRANQUILITY
WILL COLLAPSE
FROM LINDER
YOU.

AND THIS
S| FEELING OF
)) NosTalcu ~~

FROM FOUR
HLNDRED
YEARS AGO.
THERE WAS
A BLOOD ON THAT
MOON OUT. .) DAY FOUR
i ALINDRED
YEARS AGO,
 SAW
SOMETHING
UNEBELIE-
VABLE.
 ly
YOUNGER
BROTHER, |
NOW LOOKING
DECREPIT
ANP OLD,

TSUGIKLINI
YORICHI.

$0 YORICHI,
WHO STAYED THE LAST
HUMAN, TIME WE MET
SHOULD HAVE EACH OTHER
BEEN OVER WAS SIXTY
THE AGE OF YEARS AGO.
EIGHTY.
 HOW
ARE YOU
ALIVE?

EVERYONE
HOW ARE SHOULD
BE DEAD.
DEAD BEFORE
THE AGE OF
TWENTY-
FIVE.

THIS IS
HEART-
WRENCHING,
 THE
/ AGED AND
HIDEOUS
THAT I iW BEING
ONCE CALLED |\/J),
/«
MY BROTHER
Cs

HAD BEEN AN
UTTER EYESORE
TO ME SIXTY
YEARS AGO.

WAS CRYING THE

TEARS, AND VOICE THAT
FOR THE MY YOUNGER CALLED ME
FIRST TIME ‘BROTHER’
IN MY LIFE, WAS EX-
I FELT NEVER EVEN. TREMELY
SOMETHING SHOWED THE HOARSE.
SWELLING TINIEST SHRED
INSIDE ME. OF EMOTION,
 THAT
PHYSICALLY
BRITTLE
OLD MAN
WHO WAS
PAST HIS
PRIME.

I HAD
NO CHOICE AS LONG
AS HE WAS
BUT TO CUT A DEMON
HIM DOWN IF HUNTER,
HE POINTED
HIS SWORD
AT ME.
 BUT THESE
STRANGE
WERE FEELINGS |

BLOWN :
AWAY IN. | =
THE NEXT di
MOMENT.
 HIS
STANCE WAS
IMPECCABLE,
THE WEIGHT
OF THE AIR
INCREASED
FROM THE
PRESSURE,
 WHY DO
YOL ALWAYS,
ALWAYS HAVE
BE THE
SPECIAL ONE?
 AND EVEN
IN YOUR
ALD AGE,
MQUES YOU
DISPLAYED

EXACT SAME
POWER AND
SPEED FROM
WHEN YOLI
WERE IN
YOUR PRIME.

THE ENVY
THAT SEARED
THROUGH MY
VERY BONES.

YOU LIVED YOU WERE

YOUR LIFE THE ONLY
WITH THE EXCEPTION
FAVOR OF TO THE
THE GODS LAWS OF
ON YOUR THIS WORLD.
SIDE.
 BUT MY HEAD.
WAS GOING TO
GET CHOPPED
OFF_WITH YOUR
NEXT BLOW.

THAT SWORD
TECHNIQUE
OF HIS HAD
PUSHED
IRRITATION S THAT MAN
AND DEFEAT TO THE BRINK.

IT WAS NO
DIFFERENT
FROM THE
HOLY TECH-
NIQUES OF
THE GODS,
 FROM
OLD AGE
 TANJIROU'S

4s
y/ ‘it
Ly Tf y,
ZT & @qyw's
aY GRANDPA
Y CROW

Anny.
~I

(7\ ab) Mj
3
 I BECAME IF YORICHI
A DEMON 50
T COULD LIVE
LONGER, YET BREATH
I CONTINUED LONGER,
TO TASTE THAT
BITTERNESS
FOR HLINDREDS
OF YEARS.

NOW THAT
YORICHI
NOW THAT
THE MOST
REVERED
SWORDSMAN
THERE 15. THROUGHOUT
NO WAY I THE LONG
CAN LOSE. HISTORY OF
The}Incredible yy 4
Nounger Generation |
= | 4
 No, NOT
THAT WAY.
KANZABUROU,

DP yy pie EO
mF
/ LL
UU
HE LINLEASHED
A NUMBER OF
SWORDS IN
HIS ATTACK,

AND WE WERE
HAVINGSO
MUUCH TROUBLE
WITH JUST
ONE SWORD
A WHILE AGO.
 HMETIMA-: 5AN
Y4 AND SHINA. ZU-

I HAVE
TO PROTECT
THESE TWO
FOR EVERY-
ONE'S SAKE. &
SOMETHING.
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“( .
SW =
 Loe
4 “a!};Il:
 ia
Tae,
Sle
iS M)
4
Ez
ING HIM...

MY FLESH
BUT HE BULLETS...
CAN'T FEND ARE IN HIS
EVERYONE
 TREE IS
ROOTING ME.
WHAT A
NUISANCE.

My i
TECHNIQUE
e ISN'T
“| COMING
OUTIL
 MQUES AREN'T
AND THEN COMING OLIT//
THERE'S THIS Is IT BECAUSE
SEARING PAIN... OF THE TREE
ON MY BACK/?
STIFFENING IT’S SUCKING
MY BODY!! OUT A LOT
BECAUSE OF OF MY BLOOD
THAT RED IN ORDER TO
BLADE!/ GROW ITS
TRUNK.

WHATIS-
YOUR PLAN OF
SUCCESSION?

SIUST LIKE
YORICHI’S...
 OUR NOBODY IS
PERFECTED POWERFUL
TECHNIQUES ENOUGH TO
WILL DIGAP-
PEAR FROM
RWAL US,
THIS WORLD. THERE 1S
ABSOLUTELY
NO HOPE
FOR ANYONE
TO SUCCEED
OUR BREATH
TECHNIQUES.

WE ARE NOTHING
BUT A SMALL
FRAGMENT IN
HUMANITY'S
LONG HISTORY. WE ARE NOT
AS BIG AS
YOU MAKE US
OUT TO BE.

THEY ARE
ALL GOING TO SOMEONE WHO
ARRIVE AT THE COULD VERY WELL
SAME PLACE SURPASS OUR
REGARDLESS. TALENTS MAY BE
A CRYING BABY
AT THIS MOMENT.
 REACH
THE END OF
OUR LIVES
FEELING
NOTHING
BUT EASE.
THERE'S
NO NEED
% TO WORRY.

CAN YOU
FEEL THE
EXCITEMENT?

RAAAAA
AGHHH!
CHILDREN
WHO WILL
BE BORN
INTO THIS
WORLD
AFTER US
 TO EVEN
FURTHER
HEIGHTS.
 NEZUKO'S SWIMSUIT TANJIROU'S FREE RESEARCH
wsxers

Can tead the flow of

CHAN'S i Senses emotions.
so cuuu Protects the eyes.
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uuuTe!
Pe
*€ Cheekbone
pes TI

@000

SWIM-
Zuuill
TT! The only sweat
slands are in
the paws, so it
sweats here.

Oo They cannot.
taste sweet
Ben rint
DIDID | nosep stuff! Oh my7
is diferent, K goodness}!
lke bow
every human
has different
fingerprints.
(Was happy) Neevko
Let's get marred WHAT IS THIS...
agan in the next Ife A TSUCHI-
P| NOKO...7
Weil be a cope agan A DEEP SEA
 \ >

hia
YOU SMILED,

I ALWAYS
FELT SICK,
AND I COULDN'T
HELP MYSELF.
 YOLI SUDDENLY
STARTED BEING
OPTIMISTIC

WHEN WE
TALKED ABOLIT
HOW OUR
BREATHS HAD
NO SUCCESSORS,

BUT WHEN
YOU SMILED, I WAS
I FELT LikE VERY PROUD
THROWING LIP THAT OUR
OUT OF GENERATION
IRRITATION AND
DISGUST.

WHAT WAS
SO FLINNY
ABOUT IT?
 ADE DESPI:
BEI ING SLICED
0.

GETTING CUT
AGAIN AND }
AGAIN.

GROWING
ATA RATE
THAT RIVALS

CONTINUING
TO SURPASS
THEIR LIMITS.
 THESE PEOPLE,
WHO AREN'T
EVEN BREATH
OF THE SLIN
USERS,

THE MERE
THOUGHT
OF LOSING F

ABOUT SEEING
THAT FUTURE
MAKES AHEAD OF LIS?
ME SEETHE
WITH ANGER.
 a HE STOPPED
ty
i THE BLEEDING!!

Co y
gl Y

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sacririce
call e
:
DON'T YOU
LN THEIR LIVES S/\) :
INVAINI -/,)94 DARE LET
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V VUES
~~ = AND GENYA
|
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b> =
iz
ee
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JUST WHAT |
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VN
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WAS FUCKING
THINKING!
: PS Z
I'M GONNA
% } 7 ~ 3} RAAAAAA
T AAGGHHH
HACK AND
SLASH UNTIL oe
fj

THAT THING
DISAPPEARS
FROM THIS
 I CAN STILL
REGENERATE.
IF I CAN PULL
THROUGH THIS,

THE POWER
IN THEIR
TECHNIQUES
WILL VANISH
VERY SOON.
im]
 KEEP
ATTACKING!
HIS BODY ASSHOLE
SHOULD BE
WEAK SINCE REGREW HIS
HE JUST OWN HEADI
SPM REGENERATED \\W
{] HIS HEAD!

FUUUUCK!

HE DOESN'T
REGENERATE

THE HEAD!
OVER AND )
 Ps <r

WHAT ON

1S THIS
UGLY
FORM...

BROTHER,
YOUR DREAM
WAS TO BECOME
THE STRONGEST
SAMURAI IN
THE COUNTRY,
RIGHT?

/ WANT TO
BE LIKE YOU
AS WELL
 WANT TO
BECOME
THE SECOND
STRONGEST
SAMURAI! IN
THE COUNTRY.
 THE
PART WHERE
MUICHIROU
STABBED ME
1S CRUMBLING
AWAY...
i! LE J fr ff

“Te Ae
 THIG IG
BROTHER. HEART-
WRENCHING,
 eeeSe
THE UGLINESS
C| AND BEING
UNWILLING MY BODY DICED
| 10 ACCEPT AND CRUSHED
DEFEAT. INTO PIECES,

A
DISGRACE
TO LIFE.
 DOT
REALLY NOT
WANT TO DIE?
TO THE POINT
WHERE I
BECAME THIS
WRETCHED
CREATURE?

I JUST
WANTED
TO BE
LIKE YOU.
 WHEN KOKUSHIBOU WAS REFLECTED ON
SANEMI'S SWORD, THE IMAGE SHOULD'VE
BEEN FLIPPED HORIZONTALLY LIKE A MIRROR,
BUT CROCODILES DON'T HAVE THE TIME
NOR SKILL TO FIX IT.

TRY TURNING
YOUR HEAD
INSIDE-OUT,
 THOSE WHO
DO NOT ENVY
OTHERS ARE
MERELY LUCKY.

IT’S ONLY
BECAUSE
THEY NEVER
CAME ACROSS ji;

A PERSON
WHO WAS
COMPLETELY
LOVED BY
THE GODS.

A STRONG
AND VIVID
PERSON WHO
SCORCHES
AS IF HE EVERYTHING.
 WERE
CONSIDERED
UNLUCKY
BECALISE
THEY CALISE DURING
SUCCESSOR THE TIME
CONFLICTS. WHEN WE
WERE
BORN,

AND THUS MY BROTHER

MY FATHER YORICHI WAS
ORDERED BORN WITH
HIM TO BE A HIDEOUS
KILLED. BIRTHMARK,

50 INSTEAD
OF KILLING BUT WHEN
=|
MY BROTHER, MY MOTHER
THE PLAN WAS SHE LOST HEARD THAT,
FOR HIM TO CONTROL OF
BECOME A HERSELF OUT
PRIEST AT THE OF BURNING
TEMPLE ONCE
HE TURNED TEN. ANGER AND
RAGE.
 DESPITE BEING
WERE BROTHERS,
ALMOST OUR ROOMS,
COMPLETELY OUR KIMONOS,
DIFFERENT OUR EDLICATIONS,
FROM EACH
OTHER'S.

EVEN OUR
FOOD,

I ALWAYS
THOUGHT OF AND BECALISE
YORICHI OF THAT,
|iI YORICHI NEVER
x
Zp §©A Es MOWERSY, SIDE:
@

eae!
EVERY TIME

AS CHILDISH HUGGING OLR

AND PITIFUL. MOTHER'S
LEFT SIDE.

i I “TS ” = i ‘ia

SINCE MY I WOULD GO
FATHER WOULD TO YORICHI'S
NOTICE IF I GAVE SMALL THREE-
HIM MY OWN.
POSSESSIONS, TATAM ROOM
I MADE A FLUTE WHEN MY FATHER
AND,Eto ir WASN'T LOOKING.
 |

EVER SINCE
YORICHI WAS
A BABY,

HE NEVER
TALKED
UNTIL HE
WAS SEVEN,
50 PEOPLE
| THOUGHT HE
WAS DEAF.

BUT I
REALIZED
YORICHI HE WAS
\| WAS STANDING DIFFERENT
lin] ©SOUNDLESSLY AROLIND
“BEHIND THE
PINE TREE. THAT TIME.
WHEN I WAS
ITcuLLeD [a PRACTICING
METOTHE ¥| MY SWINGS
BONE. IN THE
GARDEN,

BROTHER,
IS YOUR DREAM
TO BECOME
THE STRONGEST
SAMURAI IN
THE COUNTRY?
 IT WAS 50
SHOCKING
THATI HELD
MY BREATH WHEN I THINK
BACK ON THAT
MOMENT HE
FIRST SPOKE,
HE WAS VERY
FLUENT.

HE WAS AFTER THAT,

SUPPOSED TN HE SUDDENLY
STARTED SAYING
TO BECOME HE WANTED TO
A PRIEST, BE A SAMLRAL
NOTA
SAMLIRAL. ALTHOUGH
HE WAS
SUPPOSED TO
BE SENT TO
THE TEMPLE
ONCE HE
TURNED TEN.

YORICHI
BURST INTO
A SMILE FOR
THE FIRST
TIME AT THAT
MOMENT.
 a A SAMLIRAl
FIGHTS WITH
HIS LIFE ON
THE LINE.

A KID WHO
WOLULP RLIN TO
HIS MOTHER
ONCE HE
CAUGHT SIGHT
OF HER

MY FATHER’S
SUBORDINATE,
WHO WAS BUT Ais
TEACHING ME AFTER THAT,
THE WAY OF DURING MY
THE SWORD, PRACTICES,
GAVE HIM A
SMALL SHINAI. YORICHI
STARTED TO
LINGER AROLIND,
SAYING HE
WANTED THEM
TO TEACH HIM.

ALL HE
TOLD HIM
WERE BASIC
THEN INSTRUC-
MY FATHER’S: TIONS,
SUBORDINATE
TOLD YORIICHI |)
TO COME RIGHT ON HOW TO
AT HIM. HOLD THE
SWORD AND
FORM A
STANCE.
 WAS
YET HE LOST S NEVEHRIT ATBHLISE
CAOFNTSECRIOYUOSRNIECHSI
TO S
SUBORDINNAOTE
UNLESATSRHIEKDES BTOTDEYR, HOW
MA
FOUR E BLINK AAROEVEALN TROINECDE..
IN TH EYE.
OF AN

BTUHTOUEGVEHN A SEV-EONL-D
E YEAR
THERE WER CHILD HAD
NO ABNOR- STRUCK NEHCIKM,
IN THE T,
CHES
HE HIANDGS STOMACH,
SWELL AND ANKLES.
THE STISZ.E
OF FIS
 AFTER THAT,
BECAUSE YORICHI
HE COLILDN’'T NEVER SAID
BEAR THE HE WANTED
FEELING TO BECOME
OF HITTING A SAMURAI
SOMEONE, AGAIN.
AND HE FELT
HORRIBLE.

BLT I REALLY
WANTED TO
KNOW THE
YORICHI SAID SECRET TO
SOMETHING YORICHI’S
BIZARRE AS STRENGTH.
WE WERE
TALKING. AFTER I
HOLINDED
HIM AND
PRESSED
HIM FOR AN
ANSWER,

SO JUST YOUR
WATCH THEIR OPPONENT'S
BONE MOVEMENT, LUNGS EXPAND
MUSCLE BEFORE THEY
CONTRACTION, STRIKE,
AND BLOOD
FLOW CLOSELY.
 JUST LIKE
WITH HIS MARK, IT TOOK
HE WAS BORN A WHILE
WITH SPECIAL FOR ME TO
VISION AS WELL. UNDERSTAND
HIS WORDS.

YORICHI
COLILD SEE
THROUGH
A LIVING
CREATURE’S
Bovy.

AND HE HAD
THE PHYSICAL
CAPABILITIES
TO IMMEDIATELY
RESPOND TO
THAT SIGHT.

THE BOY
I THOUGHT
WAS CLEARLY WAS PITIFUL
STRONGER THIS WHOLE
THAN I WAS. TIME
 BUT RAT
HER
THAABNOUTTALKING
THE
SWORD,

I WANT
ED
TO
MTHYESEDELEWFVOOWT7eE.0 I WANT
TO PLAY
SUGOR
OKU
AANDK FLY
ITE
WIT
BROHTHYEORU,
.

THE WAY O
F
THE SWORD
50 I COU i COMES WITH
LD
SBTERCOONMGE
PAIN AND
ER | SN SUFFERING.
JUS ) Ss
PUTTITNGBY
MORE EFFORT.
IN

HOWEVER,
IW
TALE ADA
NT TH
EVERYO AT
AROLIND NE
ME
ACCEPTED
.
 BUT THAT
/5 AKIN TO
FACE OF \y yr A RRL.Z
A ONE-
OF-A-KIND
PROUGY.

IT WOULD
BE 50 GREAT
IE A DESIRED
TALENT WAS
GIVEN TO
BUT YORICHI \y SOMEONE WHO
LOOKED DESIRED IT.
EXTREMELY
BORED WHEN
HE TALKED
ABOUT THE
SWORD.

a HE HAD A
FOR YORICHI, eae
THE SWORD | tower
HAD LESS OVER
WORTH THAN YET HE OTHERS,
CHILDREN'S X | DIDN'T
LOOK THE
CAME? SLIGHTEST
BIT HAPPY.
 OUR
POSITIONS
COMPLETELY |,
MY FATHER'S REVERSED.
SUBORDINATE
SHOULD HAVE
REPORTED WHAT
HAD HAPPENED
TO EVERYONE
BY NOW.

VALLE Db i]
4
bafi
iy Lig “MM i if
MW
tgty YO
Wy
I WAS THE ONE UD fof
WHO WOULD BE YORICH YA /4ni/ iff
SENT TO THE WOULD ll
TEMPLE WHEN BE NEXT
I TURNED TEN.
MY DREAM IN LINE.
OF BECOMING
A SAMLURA/
WOULD NEVER
COME TRUE,

Mit
 MOTHER
; WHAT? Bl As PASSED
wie AWAY.

inten
til

TWREL I

|
=
|I! WHAT WHY YORIICHI
= -| HAPPENED? Oe oe : scaseal
SUDDENLY? IN THE
MORNING.

MY MOTHER’S
DEATH CAME 4
OUT OF ru
NOWHERE.

TAM FT '
DEPARTING a VERY
FOR THE = /, a PLEASE ASK SORRY:
TEMPLE Z| OUR RETAINER
RIGHT NOW. Z? \@ || “TT! ABOUT
4 (WHAT EXACTLY
HAPPENED.
 FLUTE? YES.
THIS
FLUTE. - : DEPARTING?
: RIGHT NOW? es
I JUST
WANTED f
TO SAY
, GOODBYE
iI

NO MATTER I THINK ABOUT

NOW FAR THIS FLUTE YOU
APART WE ARE, GAVE ME AS IF
I WILL NEVER = IT WERE You,
LOSE HEART. — BROTHER.

as ea
ee” —

AND T
WILL WORK
DILIGENTLY
EVERY DAY.
 YORICHI HAD
A FLUTE THAT
AND HE COLILD ONLY
KEPT IT MAKE OFF-
NEXT TO TUNE SOLINDS
HIM LIKE IT IN HIS BAG,
WAS HIS
TREASURE.

ane, iM Se
oni ie ° I DIDNT
THING BACK 20 APY

YORICHI BOWED
HIS HEAD REALLY
LOW WITH A
SATISFIED LOOK,

ONLY
BRINGING
 X2Sf4g
YORIICHI
50 HE REALIZED
DECIDED THAT HE
TO LEAVE WAS GOING
THE HOUSE TO BE THE ACCORDING
SUCCESSOR, TO OLIR
EARLIER MOTHER'S
THAN DIARY,
PLANNED.

IT SEEMS
THAT
SHE HAD BEEN YORICHI
SUFFERING FROM KNEW
DISCOMFORT ON
HER LEFT SIDE
FOR SEVERAL
YEARS ALREADY.
ABOUT OUR
MOTHER'S
DISEASE AND
HER FINAL
DAYS.
 YORIICHI
WASN'T
CLINGING
ONTO OUR
MOTHER.
SUPPOR
HER BECTAILINSGE
HER SICKNESS
MADE HER
WEAK.

I DESPISED
THE PRODIGY
KNOWN AS
YORICH! FROM
THE
OF MY HEARBOTTT.OM
 TAISHOU RUMORS

MICHIKATSU AND YORIICHI'S MOTHER: AKENO

SHE WAS SO QUIET AND GENTLE THAT SHE WAS

OFTEN CALLED A DOLL.

THAT'S WHY WHEN SHE LASHED OUT THE WAY SHE DID
WHEN HER HUSBAND TOLD HER TO KILL YORIICHI
AFTER SEEING THAT OMINOUS BIR THMARK,
THE PEOPLE WHO KNEW HER WERE SHOCKED.

MICHIKATSU'S AND YORTICHI'S MOTHER CODDLED

BOTH OF THEM AS IMPAR TIALLY AS SHE POSSIBLY COULD.

APPARENTLY, THE FACT THAT YORIICHI WORE A CRUDE

KIMONO AND WAS KEPT IN A CLOSET WAS A MAJOR
SOURCE OF STRESS THAT CAUSED HER DISEASE
TO GET WORSE.

IN HER WILL, SHE PASSIONATELY BEG@G@ED HER HUSBAND

TO TAKE CARE OF HIS BODY, TO NOT SEPARATE THE
CHILDREN OR TREAT THEM DIFFERENTLY, AND TO
RAISE THEM IN A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT.

THE FATHER NAMED HIS SON MICHIKATSU BECAUSE HE

WANTED HIM TO BE SUPER STRONG AND CONSTANTLY WIN,
WHILE THE MOTHER NAMED HER SON YORIICHI BECAUSE
SHE WANTED HIM TO VALUE THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN
PEOPLE THE MOST.
 IM
BEGGING
YOU,
JUST DIE.

SOMEONE
LIKE YOU
SHOULD'VE
NEVER BEEN

THE JUSTICE
OF THE
WORLD GOES
AWRY WITH
YOUR MERE
EXISTENCE.

S Despite Reaching My, Hand, “Ons

Sines rere My.Hand ‘Ont
 SENT ENVOYS:
TO THE TEMPLE
TO BRING
YORIICHI BACK,

HE HAD
AND CUT ALL
VANISHED CONTACT
COMPLETELY.

WHETHER
MY WISH HE WAS
KIONAPPED,
FELL OFF
 I WAS
FOR TEN YEARS
AFTER THAT,
CHILDREN. I LIVED A
PEACEFUL LIFE.

THEY WERE
PEACEFUL,
SOMEWHAT
BORING
DAYS.
THE FLOW
OF TME
FELT EXTRA-
ORDINARILY
SLOW.

OUR
ENCAMPMENT
WAS ATTACKED
BY A DEMON,

ACCUMLILATED
TIME STARTED
FLOWING.
 HIS SWORD ‘4
SKILLS HAD YORICHI
IMPROVED
VASTLY SAVED ME
TO THE POINT
WHERE HIS
SKILL AS A
CHILD WAS
NOTHING.

Wii k
Wt| y"

HE DEFEATED
SOMETHING
THAT WASN'T
HUMAN
50 EASILY.

THE MOMENT
| || SAW YORICH,
MY TRANQUIL
DAYS WERE
DESTROYED.

BROTHER.
FORGIVE ME,
fy Al
Zs <
LF
y
= /
 YORICHI
APOLOGIZED
TO ME FOR
BEING LATE
AND FOR THE
DEATHS OF My
SUBORDINATES.

I SAW His YORICHI

WAS
STRENGTH STRONG.
AND SKILL,

AND HE HAD
BECOME A MAN
WITH NO FLAW
WHATSOEVER.

MY HOME,
MY WIFE,
AND MY
TO FOLLOW CHILDREN
THE PATH OF
A DEMON
HUNTER,
LIKE YORIICHI.
 YORICHI
WAS TEACHING
YORICHI BUT NONE : EVERYONE
ABLUN D EACH Lio ten TECHNIQ UE
AND BREA TH.
PERSON'S COULD REACH :
HIS LEVEL.
STRENGTHS,

AND 4 A
TAUGHT
THEM A >
MODIFIED
BREATH
sreTen, BX
a)
| Igy 4
XM Ni be

(xs es
G 4~ .
©) MORE Hh 4 THUS, MORE
MARKED J DERIVATIVES
PEOPLE (GW OF THE BREATH
APPEARED, | OF THE SiN
AND THE WA BEGAN TO
BOWER OF Ys yy APPEAR ONE
THE DEMON WA), AFTER ANOTHER.
HUNTERS ;
INCREASED.

BEFORE
LONG,
JUST LIKE A MARK
THE ONE APPEARED
YORICHI
HAD. ON ME TOO.
 BUT
I COULDN'T IN THE
USE THE END,
BREATH OF
THE SL.

I USED A MERE
DERIVATIVE
WHICH I LATER
NAMED THE
BREATH OF
THE MOON.

I THOUGHT I
Kibble ioe COULD CATCH
OVER THOSE Par Nae ate} LIP TO YORICHI
PAINFUL SST x IF I JUST
THOUGHTS, = TRAINED MYSELF
" — SOME MORE,

THE MARKED
PEOPLE
STARTED
DYING IN
DROVES.
 THEY PAID
FOR THE
MARK WITH
THEIR LIVES.

THIS GOLDEN
AGE WOULD
SOON IN CO,COME
TO AN END.

THERE WAS THERE WAS

NO TIME LEFT NO FUTURE
FOR ME TO
S\ GRP: FOR ME.
TRAIN EITHER.

$O WHY NOT
BECOME A
DEMON THEN2
 I WANT TO
TURN A BREATH-
WIELDING WARRIOR
INTO A DEMON.
 YOU GET
TO CHOOSE so HOW
ABOUT ITZ
YOUR FATE.
O THER
SWORDSMEN
DO NOT.

THE
I WANPTAETHD
FROM THE
I WAS BOTTOM OF
RELEASED
FROM ALL MY LMAYY BHEEFAORRTE
OBLI
GATIONS. ME.

ORI
SHOULD
HAVE BEEN,
AT LEAST.
 Ee= YOU
TANS APPEARED
THEN NOT. WM \\\\ IN FRONT OF
Sonierir
YOU TRULY
TA)
Sif)
: iy 2
“Goan
aaa
TRANSCENDED y
THIS WORLD, i

YOU QUIT
WHILE YOL!
WERE AHEAD
WHEN YOLI
DIED OF
OLD AGE.

NOTA SINGLE eng deer

PERSON COULD NOTE
LAYA SCRATCH
ON YOU, COULD
YORICH. DEFEAT
YOu.

es i‘ =
) Nir
—_—= r\y (& ZS
WHY DO S71 WHY?
yolaLways Veer ~/ Ex. P
MAKE ME FEEL
PATHETIC?
 / THINK
ABOUT THIS
FLUTE YOU
GAVE ME
ASIFIT
WERE YOU,
BROTHER.

m (Ber, gust
\ ( Bageae STOP. W
I HATE LSS i
YOU. sce H

> aes :

—_
 MERELY
HEARING
YOUR
DE VOICE
WE MERELY
SEEING YOUR
PEATE ANY FACE MADE
FOREHEAD ME WANT
IN ANGER. 70 VOMIT.

AND AFTER
LIVING FOR
CENTURIES,

I VIVIDLY
SAW YOUR
FACE IN MY
MEMORIES.
THE FACE
I WANTED
TO FORGET
THE MOST.
 REMEMBER
MY FATHER'S
A OR MOTHER'S

AND I CAN'T
REMEMBER
MY WIFE’S OR
CHILDREN’S

JUST LIKE
THE ONE
ANP ONLY
SUN IN THIS
WORLD,

ALL THE
HUMANS WHO
SURROLINDED
YOu
YET
OUR ONLY
OPTION WAS
TO WRITHE |
AND SUFFER
YEARNED
FOR YOU AND
REACHED OUT
THEIR HANDS.
 I ABANDONED
MY HOME.
I ABANDONED
MY FAMILY.
I ABANDONED
MY HUMANITY.
 I SLICED
I ABANDONED up M
DESCENDyANT
MY SAMLIRAL WITHOLIT A
SECOND.

YET EVEN
TIHWOUGH
ENT
THIS FAR,

YOUT ETVOELDR ME
We ee ee YONE
OEFN THEIR CRAFT
I COULDN'T DS
LP IN THE
SEEE WTOHRE
SAM
LD
SAME PLACE.
YOU WERE
SEEING .
 EVERY
SWORDSMAN
WHO KNEW
THE BREATH
DOES YOUR OF THE SUN'S
BREATH STILL WAS LITTERLY FORMS
MASSACRED
BY THAT MAN
AND MYSELF
AFTER YOLI
DIED.

WHY ARE YOU WHY CAN'T

AND I 50 I LEAVE
DIFFERENT? ANYTHING
BEHIND?
WHY CAN'T
I BECOME
ANYONE.
KNOWN?

WHY ON EARTH
WAS I EVEN
BORN?
 MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL {8 KIMETSU ACADEMY
IGURO OBANAL, CHEMISTRY TEACHER.
BECAUSE HE HAS AN ALLERGY TO
WOMEN, HE ALWAYS WEARS A MASK.
IT'S SAID THAT HE KEEPS A SNAKE
WRAPPED AROUND HIM IN ORDER TO
AVOID CONTACT WITH WOMEN.
HE OFTEN GOES TO AOI'S RESTAURANT,
BUT ONLY EVER ORDERS TEA.
"LS THE GIRL WITH THE BRAIDS
COMING OVER?”
HE FREQUENTLY CALLS TO
CONFIRM THIS.
WHEN STUDENTS FAIL TESTS,
THEY ARE CRUCIFIED TOA
POST AND SHOT AT WITH
BOTTLE ROCKETS.

HIMEJIMA G@YOUMEL,
CIVICS TEACHER AND
FIRST-YEAR HOMEROOM TEACHER.
SINCE HE'S SO MUSCULAR,
STUDENTS WERE AFRAID
OF HIM AT FIRST.
BUT BECAUSE HIS PERSONAL
BELONGS GENERALLY HAVE
CATS ON THEM,
IT'S REALLY VERY CUTE.
"HUH? HE'S A NICE PERSON
WHO LIKES CATS?"
EVERYBODY QUICKLY BECAME
AWARE OF THIS.
THERE HAVE BEEN MANY
INCIDENTS OF PEOPLE
CALLING HIM DAD
ON ACCIDENT.
 THIRD YEAR
SOYAMA HAKUJT (18),
FIRST YEAR
I'VE HEARD
SOYAMA KOYUKI (Ie). THAT THE TWO
ARE MARRIED.
FROM THE TIME
THEY WERE KIDS,
THEY'VE PROMISED TO
MARRY EACH OTHER.
THEY ARE NEIGHBORS,
AND BOTH OF THEIR &
PARENTS HAVE
AGREED TOIT,
SO THERE'S NO
CHOICE LEFT BUT /
FORTHEM TO
GET MARRIED.
THEIR NICKNAMES,
ARE HIME AND
HAKUJI-DONO.
THE TWO OF THEM
ARE IN THE
HANDICRAFTS CUB.

IT'S BEEN DECIDED THAT HAKUJI WILL

INHERIT THE DOJO OF KOYUKI'S FAMILY.

DOUMA
(REAL NAME/AGE UNKNOWN)
BEYOND FAKE MARRIAGES, HE'S A
SCAM ARTIST IN VARIOUS WAYS.
HE IS INFAMOUS TO THE POINT
THAT HE GETS COVERED IN
SPECIAL PROGRAMS ON TV.
HE'S ALSO BEEN INVOLVED IN SEVERAL
INCIDENTS, BUT BECAUSE THE
EVIDENCE IS INSUFFICIENT,
HE HAS YET TO BE PROSECUTED.
AFTER GREETING A WOMAN WITH
PINK AND GREEN HAIR, HE WENT
MISSING AFTERWARD.
EARLIER AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME,
THE VOICES OF A MAN AND WOMAN
FIGHTING WERE OVERHEARD SAYING,
"THAD A FEELING YOU WERE LYING!"
AND "e&UHAI"
ES > Ny D 6 Bd < a 3 o a Bj ir ind $ fo o
RaOHO++ 5 TO!
eco
 teroning
gasses
somerinere
here hands
can't reach
HEAVENLY FLYING OCULUS MIRROR
GOTOUGE KOYOHARU

THANK YOU EVERYBODY,

GOTOUGE HERE.
I'VE BEEN EATING-NOTHING
BUT LEEKS RECENTLY”
WHAT HAVE\YOU ACL
BEEN-EATING?:
I'M THANKFUL-FOR-ALL THE:
CETTLERS AND GIFTS-OF-
SUPPORT-I'VE-BEEN.GETTING?
TAM-REALLY-SORRY-FOR-NOT
BEING ABLE~TO REPLY ALOT.
I HOPE YOU'RE, WILLING TO,
WAIT A LITTLE LONGER, IF
THAT'S POSSIBLE... (GNIFF),!
I APRICOT WANNA.SAY.
BABY POTANZUN?
THIS- WHOLE WORLD IS
POTANZUN..
T'LL/DO’MY BEST!
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