Akihabara News (Tokyo) — In the seventeenth episode of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Zenitsu defeats one of the members of the spider demon family, but not before he is poisoned. Meanwhile, Tanjiro and Inosuke encounter one of the Twelve Kizukis.
The episode begins with Tanjiro determined to find the Twelve Kizuki who reportedly resided on Mount Natagumo. He believed that retrieving its blood would get him closer to turning his demon sister Nezuko back into a human.
Tanjiro returns to Inosuke who appears to be injured. When Tanjiro tries to check if he is alright, Inosuke tells him to stop coddling him and keep moving.
Zenitsu gets bitten by a spider, which sends him into a rage. He is frustrated that he cannot seem to find either the boys or Nezuko. He then encounters a spider with a human head and runs further into the forest.
He halts in shock when he comes to an opening and sees a few half-human, half-spider people hanging from the sky. A spider demon drops from the sky and tells Zenitsu that there is no point in running away.
The spider demon explains that the spider that bit Zenitsu earlier was one of his, and Zenitsu has been poisoned and will slowly start turning into a spider. As always, Zenitsu goes into a state of frenzy, and then he climbs a nearby tree.
As he sits in the tree he reminisces about his training days with the old man who trained him. He starts thinking of the day he climbed a tree because he was afraid to disappoint the old man and was struck by lighting. That was the reason he turned blond. Zenitsu, an orphan, was always grateful to the old man who never abandoned or gave up on him, unlike the rest of the people in his life.
Zenitsu’s hair starts falling out, as the spider demon warned him it would, and he faints in fear.
The story cuts to a flashback of the old man telling Zenitsu that all he has to do is master one skill, which Zenitsu does. He knows only one attack, but he has mastered it to perfection.
As the spider poison seeps into his bloodstream, Zenitsu unleashes an attack in his state of unconsciousness and defeats the spider demon. He regains consciousness, but the poison has already started taking effect, debilitating him. He uses a breathing technique to slow the process.
Tanjiro and Inosuke hear Zenitsu’s attack from afar and try to find him. As they make their way, one of the spider demons shows up undetected.
As they try to strike her, she calls for her father.
The episode ends with the father, who turns out to be one of the Twelve Kizukis, showing up to protect her.
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