Akihabara News (Tokyo) — In the twelfth episode of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Tanjiro meets a boar-headed demon slayer and goes head-to-head with the Tsuzumi demon.
The episode begins the boar-headed man recklessly trying to attack the Tsuzumi demon, but before he could strike it, the demon flips over the room.
Tanjiro yells at the boar-headed man to stop being so reckless as the demon is very powerful. The boar-headed man then picks a fight with Tanjiro, and Tanjiro concludes that he is crazy. The demon strikes its tsuzumi again changing the rooms, and separating all of them.
Tanjiro then takes the little girl Teruko and opens a door. He sees the body of another dead man devoured by a demon. He picks up the scent of a few demons in the mansion. He keeps walking with Teruko, avoiding the dead body.
In another room, Zenitsu and Shoichi come across another demon that resembles a lizard. They start running, with the lizard demon on their heels. When they are cornered by the demon, Zenitsu passes out in fear, leaving the kid to fend for himself.
As the lizard demon darts out his tongue to attack Shoichi, a flash of light that seemed to come from Zenitsu slices its tongue. Zenitsu then gets up and kills the demon, in what seems to be a state of unconsciousness. He regains consciousness and freaks out over the dead demon. He assumes that Shoichi killed the demon and starts thanking him profusely. Shoichi is stunned and confused.
In another part of the mansion, the boar-headed man rants to himself about how he has been stuck in the mansion for three days. He comes across a big demon which he slays without a second thought.
The Tsuzumi demon is seen walking around, looking for the marechi and recollecting his past. He reveals his eyeball that has a crossed-out number. He was a former member of the Twelve Kizukis and was stripped off his position by Muzan Kibutsuji because he couldn’t consume enough humans to become as strong as Kibutsuji needed him to be.
Tanjiro opens a door to a room where he encounters a boy sitting with a tsuzumi. Teruko identifies him as the older brother she was looking for. He was a little injured and very scared.
The kid explains that there were three demons fighting over him, as he is a marechi, and in the process one of the demons slashed a tsuzumi off the body of the Tsuzumi demon. He grabbed the drum and reached safety by tapping on it.
Tanjiro hears the Tsuzumi demon walking towards them. He instructs Teruko to stay with her brother and tells him to strike the tsuzumi to get to safety as he handles the demon.
The episode ends with Tanjiro starting battle with the powerful demon. He reveals that he has not yet recovered from his injuries from the previous battle, and that he is in a lot of pain.
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