Lady Tamayo!
Good evening, Ms. Tamayo.
It's dangerous, you know.
Leaving your window open at night.
But tonight, the moon is truly gorgeous to behold.
It's a pleasure to meet you.
I'm one of Kagaya Ubuyashiki's messengers.
Hmm.
You're full of suspicion.
I don't blame you.
It would be hard to gain your trust like Tanjiro has.
Just as I thought.
What does he intend to do?
Ubuyashiki...
Is he trying to deceive me somehow?
Where is Yushiro?
You need not worry about Yushiro.
Listen.
You can hear his footsteps running toward us.
Lady Tamayo! Lady Tamayo!
Lady...
Tamayo!
And now...
shall I state my business?
There is a girl in the Demon Slayer Corps...
who is also well-versed in demon physiology and pharmaceuticals.
Along with looking into the changes to Nezuko, we want you to collaborate with her.
Will you work with us to defeat Muzan Kibutsuji?
Please come to the Ubuyashiki Mansion.
You're summoning me, a demon...
To the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters?
I'll be waiting for a favorable response from you.
Lady Tamayo!
Lady Tamayo...
Yushiro...
Let's clear out of this house at once!
I'm ready to go!
It's different this time.
Now that Nezuko has conquered the sun...
something has been set in motion.
No.
It's possible...
that it was already in motion before that.
What happened that day...
has now, at last, become...
one large wave.
And perhaps...
Surely not, Lady Tamayo!
Either way, we will be leaving this house.
It's just that it's different than all the other times.
I'm going to start compiling all of the research I've done to date...
so please help me with that, Yushiro.
This may very well be our last move.
Let's go...
to the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters.
The Ubuyashiki Mansion.
EPISODE 2: WATER HASHIRA GIYU TOMIOKA'S PAIN.
Master...
Tanjiro...
How are your wounds healing?
I'm ashamed to admit it...
But I can no longer move.
And though I'd like to speak with Giyu...
It doesn't look like that will be possible.
As this is a very important time for us...
I'd like us all to strive as one as hard as we can.
Would you mind talking to Giyu for me?
So that Giyu...
Who tends to put himself into a negative frame of mind...
Can start to look ahead again.
Will you be persistent...
In your efforts to speak with him?
Mr. Giyu...
Yes, sir!
Huh?
Mr. Tanjiro, what are you doing...
at this hour?
Ms. Aoi...
You're not going off to Hashira Training already?
There's someone I have to go see before I start training.
Well, that should be fine, I guess.
Ms. Aoi!
What is it?
I'd like to ask you something.
Is that okay?
Sure.
Let's say there's someone who's all alone.
How would you go about telling that person, "You're not alone"...
in a way that would get through to that person?
Well, I wouldn't know the answer to that...
but Mr. Tanjiro, you're hoping to cheer that person up, right?
If it were me...
I'd want you to let me be.
Are you leaving now?
Uh, yes.
Could you wait a minute, please?
Oh...
This person you're going to see... It's just one, right?
Yes.
This sure is complicated.
They're very simple, but I've made you some rice balls.
For both you and that person.
Whatever you do, you need to eat your fill first...
or you can never become healthy in body and soul.
Ms. Aoi...
Thank you!
I'll be on my way!
Excuse me!
Mr. Tomioka!
Hello!
Sorry to bother you!
Mr. Giyu!
It's me!
Are you around?
It's Tanjiro Kamado!
Hello!
All right, I'm coming in!
Coming in?
No, he must've said "I'm leaving."
I misheard him.
So, long story short...
everyone's been training!
I know.
What? So you knew? I'm glad to hear it!
Too close.
I'll be cleared for active duty in seven days' time,
so do you think you could train me?
That's a no.
But why not?
I'm catching a faint whiff of anger...
but what are you mad about?
I'm angry that you didn't master Water Breathing to perfection.
You were supposed to become the Water Hashira.
I'm very sorry about that.
But I did talk about it with Mr. Urokodaki...
and changing the style you started out using...
to develop a new breathing technique isn't all that uncommon.
And as the Water Breathing moves are particularly in line with the fundamentals,
he says it's spawned a lot of techniques.
That's not what I'm talking about.
Right now, in the absence of a Water Hashira...
someone has to assume the mantle of Water Hashira sooner rather than later.
In the absence of a Water Hashira?
But we have you, Mr. Giyu.
I am...
not the Water Hashira.
What?
Oh...
Get out of here.
Will you be persistent...
In your efforts to speak with him?
Yes, sir!
Mr. Giyu!
I've brought some rice balls with me!
Would you like to have them with me?
They say that you can't be in a bad mood on a full stomach.
All right, I'm going to leave them here.
Mr. Giyu!
Good morning!
So, you've had those rice balls!
I'm glad to see that!
Hey!
Mr. Giyu!
Uh...
Mr. Giyu!
What's going on, Mr. Giyu?
Mr. Giyu! What's the problem?
Are you on patrol?
It seems like there have been fewer demon sightings lately, right?
No demons here, huh?
Thank goodness!
All right, let's do some training now!
Mr. Giyu!
Won't you join us in training?
Training!
Everyone's waiting for you!
Mr. Giyu!
Mr. Giyu...
Mr. Giyu!
Mr. Giyu?
Mr. Giyu!
RESTROOM
Mr. Giyu!
Ah!
Is he going to...
Keep this up for the rest of my life?
If I talk to him, will he stop stalking me?
Oh...
I...
never passed the Final Selection.
What?
Final Selection?
You mean the trial on the mountain with wisteria flowers?
That's right.
That year...
along with a boy whose family had also been killed by demons...
a boy with peach-colored hair named Sabito...
I took part in the Selection.
Sabito...
And Mr. Giyu...
I was 13.
We were the same age and all alone in the world.
We became fast friends.
Sabito had a strong sense of justice...
and he had a kind and gentle heart.
The only one who died during that year's Selection...
was Sabito.
He'd killed every demon on that mountain almost single-handedly.
Everyone but Sabito passed that Final Selection.
I was...
wounded by the first demon that attacked me...
and was in a daze.
At that moment, too...
it was Sabito who saved me.
Water Breathing...
Fourth Form...
Striking Tide!
Leaving me in the care of another boy...
Sabito ran off toward the voice pleading for help.
When I came to...
the Final Selection was over.
It's true that I'd survived for seven days and passed the Selection...
but as I'd failed to defeat a single demon and had only been saved by another...
could you really say...
that I'd passed?
I'm not worthy of being the Water Hashira.
And for that matter...
I'm not even worthy of standing as an equal with the other Hashira.
I'm not like them.
Normally, there'd be no place for me in the Demon Slayer Corps.
Have the Hashira train you.
That would be best.
I'll never manifest a mark.
Though it might've happened for Sabito.
Just forget about me from now on.
You're only wasting your time.
I'll bet that Mr. Giyu thinks...
He should've been the one to die.
I know all too well how that feels.
When someone close to you that you wished had outlived you...
Ends up dying before you instead...
And worse...
Dies protecting you.
It leaves you feeling gutted with pain.
Sabito...
The boy who trained me on Mt. Sagiri.
That was such a strange experience.
They were both already long dead...
But they helped me.
I see.
So, Sabito went through Final Selection with Mr. Giyu?
If he'd lived, he would've been the same age as Mr. Giyu.
That's amazing!
So amazing!
He saved everyone during the Selection.
Something I wasn't able to do.
It was all I could do to protect myself.
If Sabito were alive now...
He would become such an incredible swordsman.
That must be part of the reason why Mr. Giyu...
Feels he should've been the one to die.
I get that.
Because I had that same thought myself.
Mr. Rengoku...
Risked his own life to protect us.
He was an incredible man!
Kinder than anyone else and stronger!
What an amazing way to live!
Right up to the end!
I wished I'd been the one to die instead of Mr. Rengoku.
I thought...
Mr. Rengoku might've been able to kill Muzan one day!
But...
He said he believes in you, so just think about how you're going to measure up to that!
Right. Yes, that's right.
Absolutely!
But what should I say to Mr. Giyu?
No matter how pathetic or embarrassed you may feel...
You've got to go on living.
Though he refuses to acknowledge it himself...
I can imagine how hard he must've driven himself... whipped himself into shape to become a Hashira.
DESTROY.
Just how much suffering he must've gone through...
It's not my place to criticize Mr. Giyu when I know nothing about him. But...
But there's one thing that I just have to ask him.
M-Mr. Giyu!
Uh-oh, he won't stop for me!
Mr. Giyu!
Mr. Giyu...
Aren't you going to pass on...
what Sabito entrusted to you?
S-Sabito?
Don't ever say you should've died again!
Next time you say it, you and I are through!
I won't be your friend anymore!
Your big sister, who was supposed to be married the next day...
Knew what was going to happen when she hid you from the demons to protect you!
You, of all people, shouldn't be insulting your sister's memory!
Don't you dare die, no matter what!
The life that your sister saved for you by sacrificing her own...
The future that she entrusted to you... You have to pass those on, too...
Giyu!
It hurts.
The shock and pain that I felt when he struck me across the face...
Is coming back to me now so vividly.
Why did I forget...
That conversation with Sabito?
When it's important.
I didn't want to remember it.
Because I wouldn't be able to stop the tears.
Remembering...
Made my grief unbearable, and it left me utterly helpless.
Big Sis Tsutako...
Sabito...
Sorry that I'm so immature.
Uh-oh...
Now he's standing stock-still.
What should I do?
Was that harsh of me?
Mr. Giyu seemed pretty down already...
So did I make it worse?
I know!
How about a speed eating contest?
If I win the contest...
I'll say, "Let's cheer up and get some training in"...
Or something.
Since I haven't been cleared for active duty yet,
it's not like I can spar with him or anything...
And Mr. Giyu may be a man of few words...
But he wouldn't have to talk during a speed eating contest! What a brilliant idea!
Tanjiro...
It's a little late, but I'll join in the train...
Mr. Giyu! Wanna take me on in a cold soba noodle speed eating contest?
Why?
SOBA.
Listen, about the training program...
I didn't hear any mention of Kocho.
What's Kocho teaching you all?
Ms. Shinobu?
Come to think of it, I haven't heard anything.
I wonder how she is.
Calm down.
It's all right.
Big Sis.
Help me calm down.
Only the immature fail to control their emotions.
The immature.
Master... You've returned, then?
I'm leaving now to be trained by the Wind Hashira.
I see.
Can your training session wait until after the Stone Hashira's?
I won't be able to take part in the Hashira Training this time around.
What?
B-But why?
Kanao...
Come over here.
Right.
Um...
I want to train with you more, Master.
I can see you've learned to be much more candid about voicing your feelings.
That's a good sign.
Just as I thought, the timing is just right.
I'd like to tell you...
about the demon who killed my older sister, Kanae.
Huh?
And...
let me also tell you...
how to go about killing that demon.
PART 2.
We'll be talking about Mr. Giyu this time!
I'm not eating any more soba noodles.
I can't eat any more either, so don't worry.
Now, it's time for a Taisho-era secret!
Mr. Giyu's haori...
Of course, half of it belonged to his late friend Sabito,
and the other half belonged to his older sister, Ms. Tsutako, who was killed by a demon.
Because Mr. Giyu is so full of tenderness.
Tanjiro...
Wanna go eat some simmered salmon and daikon?
Do you mean that?
But no racing.
I'll be happy to accompany you!
THANK GOODNESS!
Oh, but first, next, Episode 3...
"Fully Recovered Tanjiro Joins the Hashira Training!!"
TO BE CONTINUED