Akihabara News (Tokyo) — In the eleventh episode of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Tanjiro meets Zenitsu Agatsuma and they both head to a demon slaying assignment.
The episode begins with Tanjiro running into a very hysterical blonde kid, Zenitsu, harassing a girl. Tanjiro does not recognize him at first, but the two had met previously at the final selection process and he was one of the four survivors.
Zenitsu is begging the girl to marry him as he is certain he will die on his next assignment, and he would like to be married before he dies. Tanjiro pries off the frenzied demon slayer from the girl and tries to talk some sense into him, unsuccessfully.
The Kasugai Crow instructs both of them to go south-southeast for an assignment. Throughout the journey, Zenistu is an emotional wreck as he explains that he was never brave enough to be a demon slayer, and that he was sold to a trainer by a woman he was in debt to. Tanjiro has a hard time sympathizing.
The boys arrive at Tsuzumi Mansion, which the crow had directed them to, and Tanjiro picks up the scent of a demon. They spot two kids, Teruko and her older brother Shoichi, hiding in fear. The kids tell them that a demon has kidnapped their other brother and taken him into the ominous-looking mansion.
Seconds later, a man is thrown out from the second story of the mansion and he dies immediately. It is not the two kids’ brother. Zenitsu immediately turns frantic and Tanjiro tries to convince him to enter the mansion to help slay the demon.
Tanjiro directs the kids to look after the box in which his demon sister Nezuko is resting. He heads into the mansion with Zenitsu. The kids hear scratching from the box and in panic run in pursuit of Tanjiro.
As the four enter the mansion, the layout changes, separating Tanjiro and Teruko from Zenitsu and Shoichi.
Zenitsu again becomes hysterical, and Shoichi calls him a coward. As he tries to escape the strange room, he opens a door and sees a boar-headed man. Before they can react, the boar-headed man jumps past them and disappears.
Tanjiro and Teruko, in the another room, encounter a demon. The demon has three tsuzumi drums on its body that it uses to change the layout of the rooms and to launch attacks.
As Tanjiro tries to strike the demon, it changes the orientation of the room, spinning it upside down. When Tanjiro recovers, the demon goes on ranting about the “rare blood” human (marechi) he is hunting. He reveals that consuming one marechi would give him the same strength as consuming fifty ordinary humans.
The episode ends with the boar-headed man busting into the room with two Nichirin Blades.
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