※NOTE：This article includes spoilers.
This time, I would like to summarize the hint “How to kill the demon who killed Kanae” drawn in the 131st episode of the manga Demon Slayer.
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The beginning is …
In anticipation of a total war with the demons, pillar training began in earnest, and while each pillar trained the demon slaughterers, Shinobu Kocho, a bug pillar, told Kanawo, “The demon who killed my sister Kanae. Let’s talk about how to kill. “
Here, there is no further depiction, and the scene moves to Tamayo’s house, and Kasugai Crow, a Kagaya Ubuyashiki, proposes to Tamayo for joint research with the demon slaughter corps. This joint research seems to produce great results later.
The first condition of how to kill a demon
The story goes on, and the details finally begin to be drawn in episode 162.
Regarding how to kill the demon who killed Kanae, Shinobu says that the first condition is “I must be eaten by the demon and die.”
I don’t understand what it means to “must be eaten by a demon” to defeat a demon, but Shinobu says, “The strength of the Upper rank demon is at least comparable to the power of three Hashira’s.”
Therefore, I thought that it would be difficult to defeat it in a direct confrontation with a straight attack method, and as a result of thinking about other methods, it seems that I came up with the solution that it will be eaten by demons.
However, assuming that the condition of being “eaten by a demon” is necessary in the first place, will the second of the upper rank deamon eat Shinobu as intended?
Shinobu seems to have a basis for this question.”According to information from her sister, because the second of the upper rank demon has a strange obsession with eating the woman.”
Therefore, it seems to be a strategy to use this, expecting that a demon will definitely eat if it is a “Hashira” with high physical ability and an excellent body, and also a “woman”.
So far, we have assumed that Shinobu needs to be eaten by demons. So why does Shinobu have to be eaten by demons?
Shinobu explains, “Currently, my body is in a state where high-concentration wisteria flower poison is circulating to the tips of blood and internal organs nails.”. Normally, the amount of poison that can be driven with a Shinobu sword is about 50 mm.However, the amount of poison that the demon eats when eating Shinobu in this state is about 700 times as much as the poison that can be eaten at once, so it seems that this method was chosen because the probability of being killed increases.
Things I was collaborating with demons
However, Shinobu says, “There is no guarantee that even a life-threatening poison can annihilate the upper rank demon.”. It can be read from Shinobu’s remark that she was conducting joint research with demons in order to further increase the probability of defeating demons, “because that was made in cooperation with the demon Tamayo.”.It seems that it was because of this poison that she approached Tamayo for joint research at the beginning of this hint.
It seems that the effect of the poison prepared so far was outstanding, and the face and bones of the second of upper rank demon that ate this poison began to melt.
Last tightening
However, the opponent is the second demon of the upper rank. Demon have decomposed the poison many times so far, and I cannot rest assured that I will rely solely on this poison.
Shinobu also seemed to have felt it in advance, so she said as follows and asked Kanawo to finisher the demon’s.
“The sure thing is to cut the neck.” “Because I will weaken the demon, he must cut the neck and stab the end.”
At the end, Kanawo was able to cut down the demon’s neck.
Summary：
In summary, Shinobu confronted the upper rank demon in consideration of the following three strategies regarding how to kill the demon that killed Kanae.
1：In order to make the demon drink a large amount of poison at once, let Shinobu’s body turn the poison and let the demon eat it.
2：For the poison that can be turned to Shinobu’s body, let the poison that has been strengthened through joint research with Tamayo be turned.
3：Kanawo cuts demon’s neck and defeats a demon weakened by poison