Wrath

Shinobu recalls her childhood belief that happiness would last forever, shattered when a demon murdered her parents and Gyomei saved the orphaned sisters. She and Kanae resolved to become slayers so others would not suffer as they had, reasoning that stopping a single demon could save many lives. She admits to a long-held anger over her parents, her sister, her fallen students, and most of all her poison's failure against Doma. Her sword slips from his neck, and Doma catches her with his ice, pulling her into an embrace.

Doma praises Shinobu's efforts as humanity's foolish yet wondrous nature, declaring her worthy to be eaten, and asks for her last words; she bitterly tells him to go to hell. Kanao enters and sees the demon gripping her sister near the ceiling. Shinobu attempts a hand signal toward Kanao, yet the demon spots it and crushes her body, killing her. Kanao leaps up with a Flower Breathing strike but misses as the demon escapes.

Doma fails to provoke Kanao into a reckless fight, impressed that Shinobu conveyed his weakness in a single gesture. As he absorbs the dying Hashira, Kanao seethes, internally questioning why people believe their loved ones will live to see another day. Elsewhere, Zenitsu calls a figure out of a room; Kaigaku emerges and mocks him, but Zenitsu replies that, now that the man is a demon, he refuses to regard Kaigaku as his senior any longer.

The chapter delivers Shinobu's death and the start of Kanao's solo confrontation with Doma, while revealing the depth of Shinobu's buried rage. The closing scene launches Zenitsu's reckoning with Kaigaku, his former fellow trainee turned Upper Rank Six, running in parallel with the Doma fight.