Akihabara News (Tokyo) — In the tenth episode of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Tanjiro manages to defeat Muzan Kibutsuji’s minions, and as he parts ways with Tamayo and Yushiro he is assigned another task by the Demon Slayer Corps.
The episode starts with Tanjiro decapitating Yahaba, the arrow demon. With his final breath Yahaba uses all his strength to unleash a final attack on Tanjiro. As the demon disintegrates, Tanjiro tries to soften the blow of the attacks, but he still has a few ribs and a leg broken in the process.
Simultaneously, his demon sister Nezuko is fighting with the temari demon, Susamaru. They kick the temari ball back and forth with equal amounts of strength.
Tamayo takes note of Nezuko’s strength in going head-to-head with a powerful demon despite never having consumed a human herself.
Tamayo decides that she needs to end the fight, and thus starts talking to Susamaru about Kibutsuji. She gets into the demon’s head by insulting Kibutsuji. As she is distracting the demon, she casts a spell with her hands, the Magical Aroma of Daylight, which causes Susamaru to lose her brain functions.
As Susamaru gets into a heated argument with Tamayo defending Kibutsuji’s name, she stumbles and accidentally mentions his name. This triggers the “Kibutsuji curse” and Susamaru self-destructs because his demon minions are not allowed to ever mention his name.
Tamayo notices that Susamaru’s eyeballs were not numbered, meaning that she was not one of the Twelve Kizukis. The same assumption can be made of Yahaba.
They were able to draw blood samples from the defeated demons to study.
Tamayo and Yushiro tell Tanjiro and Nezuko that they will have to relocate for safety purposes and they offer to accompany Nezuko as Tanjiro goes off to his dangerous assignments. Tanjiro refuses politely, saying that he and his demon sister are not leaving each other again.
With Nezuko in the box, Tanjiro says his goodbyes and heads off after the Kasugai Crow gives him another assignment in the southeast.
The episode ends with Tanjiro running into Zenitsu Agatsuma, another demon slayer whom he met during the final selection process.
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