Bonus Manga

The chapter opens on Kanao Tsuyuri as a neglected young girl, recalling a childhood of hunger and isolation that left her so emotionally shut down she no longer felt pain. After her parents sold her off, the man transporting her by rope was stopped on the road by two girls, Kanae and Shinobu Kocho. Kanae knelt to greet the child kindly, while Shinobu cut in to defend her sister and ultimately flung a handful of money at the man, seizing the rope and fleeing with Kanao in tow.

At the Butterfly Mansion, a bathed and tidied Kanao struggles to act on her own, unable even to begin eating without instruction. Shinobu grumbles that the girl is helpless, but Kanae responds with affection rather than frustration.

Kanae offers Kanao a coin, telling her to flip it whenever she cannot decide for herself, and gives her a name. Kanae voices her belief that any person's heart can open if given the chance, and predicts that meeting someone she loves could one day change Kanao. The chapter closes on the face of Tanjiro Kamado, hinting at that future.

This extra installment ran alongside Chapter 59 in Weekly Shonen Jump and serves as a side story rather than part of the main narrative line. It deepens the backstory of Kanao and her bond with the Kocho sisters, themes the main series revisits later.