This is the Amakawa's successor, Yuto-kun.
He's going to be a very important person in the future, so get along with him, okay?
This boy is going to be my future partner...
He has no aura about him or any special characteristics.
Something is lacking.
Though, he's very nice.
The Cat's Emotions and The Magical Girl's Melancholy
I researched on some stuff about Jinguuji Kuesu. ~Nano
I guess you're used to doing that.
Computers and Ayakashi, I just can't see the two together.
This is it. ~Nano
Is this girl the new Demon Slayer that Yuto was talking about?
She looks more like a witch than a Demon Slayer.
The Jinguuji Clan are Demon Slayers who rose to power by dipping their hands in Western Magic. ~Nano
Is that so?
Eh? It can't be!
A new Demon Hunter?
She's a veteran and pretty violent.
It's all over for you.
Eh, Yuto-san!
Please protect this lovely, little teacup!
Let go of him, you demon yunomi chawan!
TL Note: This is a pun on teacups between the Oriental and English varieities. Chawan is the bowl-shaped Chinese teacups while Yunomi, deep Japanese-style teacups, is used as an adjective.
~Nano!
So, what's the relationship between you and this girl, Yuto?
Well, the Amakawa family and Jinguuji family have ties from a long time ago.
Well, how do I say it?
That girl and I...
~Nano?
You two are fiancés?!
Fiancé: Someone you have vowed marriage with.
W-What's the meaning of this?!
I just remembered recently.
It's something Jicchan decided without me knowing about it.
It hurts.
Just forget about an ancient promise like that. ~Nano
Yeah, that's right!
But there's no way that violent woman would agree to that. ~Nano.
Please drink this!
That's the magical tea!
So, what kind of effect does it have?
That's right, it erases people's memories!
That's perfect!
It'll erase every single memory from when that person was born until recent like a clean slate.
Hey! What'll we do if it erases every single memory?
Isn't there a tea that can erase bits and pieces?
There aren't such convenient things like that.
It's empty anyways. ~Nano
Wel-Welcome.
Good day to you, Amakawa Yuto.
She's appeared!
It seems like a self-introduction is unnecessary.
Closed Today for
Provisional Purposes
There's no astringency and it's well brewed.
Th-Thank you very much.
Umm, Jinguuji-san...
How distant of you, calling me "Jinguuji-san".
As old friends, you can just call me "Kuesu."
Old friends?
Now, how about we get to the matter at hand?
Like I said the other day, it's about the future of the Amakawa and Jinguuji families.
There's much more growth possible by joining the two families together.
If it's about that, then I can't agree to it until you change your mentality.
Why's that?
We Demon Slayers are chosen existences.
As humans with extraordinary power, it's our duty to eradicate the Ayakashi.
Hanging around with that undisciplined cat and that Ayakashi disguised as a human is quite absurd.
Don't be ridiculous. Who do you think you are?
Rinko...
You just pop out of nowhere and start spouting whatever you want.
Eradicate the Ayakashi?
Chosen existences?
That's just being plain arrogant!
What do you think gives you that right?!
You're just a powerless commoner who needs to be protected by others.
What does a person like you, who hasn't experience life-or-death battles,
simply enjoying her extremely ordinary, everyday life,
understand about Demon Slayers?
Amakawa Yuto, you're a human being on my side.
You recent outburst of power must have made you realize.
You should reconsider your grandfather's words.
Jicchan's?
That's right.
I bet Gen-jii didn't expect you would grow up to be such a selfish woman.
I can't have the Young Master turn into your boy-toy.
Himari.
I don't know how you lived until now,
but the Young Master is Young Master.
Don't drag in him into this.
It seems like you're trying to state that you have some bond with him.
However, I am both his fiancé and a Demon Slayer like him.
We're just made to be able to understand each other.
"Made to understand each other?"
Then, why do you always force yourself onto the Young Master.
You were the one who kissed him all three times.
H-Himari...
K-Kiss?
In my case, the young master kissed me.
You kissed her, too?!
Kissing an Ayakashi? Is that true?
Th-That was...
Th-This is nothing compared to the promise we made that day.
Promise?
It seems like this will take some time.
I'll be back.
Even if you don't remember, we've been bound together since childhood.
Well then...
~Nano.
Kuesu...
We will become one.
The Amakawa's Light Ferry and the Jinguuji's Black Magic.
If these two were to join together...
Yes. I'm aware of that, Mother.
No matter what, I'll be with Amakawa Yuto.
Yes, for the sake of the Jinguuji family.
I've been waiting for you.
These weaklings have come out to play.
Without even knowing that I was the one who called them here.
Help me have a change of pace, won't you?
As expected of Rinko!
Amakawa Yuto, you're a human being on my side.
Why's Kuesu so persistent about me?
This is nothing compared the promise we made that day.
What's the promise she was talking about?
Amakawa!
Young Master!
Are you alright, Young Master?
Are you alright?
You seem out of it today, Young Master.
Is that girl the cause of it?
To be honest, I'm in no position to stop you from going to Jinguuji Kuesu's side.
R-Really?
I'm just your bodyguard. I cannot argue with how you decide to live.
It's your duty as an Ayakashi serving the Amakawa family, then.
You fool! That's only in the case I disregard my personal opinion.
That's right. Otherwise, it wouldn't be like you.
But I've got to do something about this.
Without considering if they're good or evil,
saying things like, "exterminating all the Ayakashi"...
There's definitely something wrong with Kuesu's thoughts.
Young Master...
How can I get her to change her way of thinking?
You cannot change her thoughts.
She's set on her ways.
As long as you don't give in her.
That's what I thought.
Why did Jicchan make Kuesu my fiancé?
I have an idea.
The masculine Amakawa family and feminine Jinguuji family,
by becoming one and holding solid power is by no means a bad idea.
Both families would die without having a successor, after all.
Leaving a successor?
Amakawa Yuto...
I...
Please be gentle with me...
Young Master.
You haven't been led astray by her charm, have you?
No, umm...
How suspicious... You're way too weak with women.
I-It's not like that!
There, why are you turning your eyes away? Look closely over here.
Amakawa!
Yuto, how long do you plan on ditching class and flirt with Noihara-san.
I'm sorry. I'll go back now.
Young Master.
I'll head home ahead of you to come up with a countermeasure against Kuesu.
A countermeasure?
Go home without lingering around after school.
Ah, okay.
Talking to her is pointless, huh?
I'll tell her properly the next time I see her.
That, "I'm sorry, but don't involve yourself with us anymore."
You want some?
No, I'm okay.
I see.
It's quite rare, for you to come get me.
The cat asked me to. ~Nano.
Oh, I see.
You... Aren't carrying the face of a bodyguard.
As I thought, Amakawa Yuto isn't here, is he?
Neither of us have to hold back that way.
I guess that's true.
I want to know one thing.
Do you really love the Young Master?
Cat, what are you trying to say?
In Noihara, the Young Master and I were always together.
Then that must be before I showed up.
Because there's no need for a cat in our relationship.
So, the Young Master's cat allergy was your doing, huh?
Well, who knows? I seem to have forgotten.
Now that I think about it, I never did get along with you even back then.
I guess so.
Are you the one? The Jinguuji's daughter.
What are you trying to do by getting close to the Young Master?
I've heard stories about you.
You're the beast that's allowed to live by serving the Amakawa family.
So, I'll make it clear now.
Don't get close to him.
You're just a little brat who doesn't know what she's getting into.
How about you come and get me? Demon Slayer.
I should have killed you back then.
Your rigid mind is not going to be a good influence on the Young Master.
I can't entrust him to a foolish bitch like you.
Do you think I even want your approval?
You annoying cat!
As expected from a cat. You're a quick one.
From killing all Ayakashi, you feel satisfaction from it rather than a sense of justice.
You're a strange one.
Unfortunately, I'm aware of that.
"I won't be bound by the rules!"
"I will break break of the tracks laid out for me and get my hand on undiscovered freedom!"
"How's that? I'm totally awesome, ain't I?"
This is the typical spouting you hear from greenhorns.
However, what if there was someone that was not allowed to function within those rules?
That is the Jinguuji family.
They were even called the Demon Slayers' deadweight.
I used whatever means possible to prove them wrong.
I was accused of heresy and scorned at.
That is the fate of the family which fused itself with Western Magic.
A line of witches transcending the rules!
I can't help but be superhuman. What's wrong with enjoying these powers?
You think your rules matter to me, someone who has lived on the edge of life and death?!
How pathetic.
What did you say?
Your heart has gone numb.
The passing of seasons.
The subtly of emotions.
Humankind's effortless sensitivity to minor changes is what makes them amazing.
Seeing the Young Master and his friends,
makes me wish I was a normal human being as well.
A superhuman is nothing more than one with someone with numbed senses.
Can you hold the Young Master with such a frigid heart?
What the hell are trying to say?
I didn't think you'd listen.
Cat, you're in the way!
If I can get in close to her...
What a cute and stupid little cat!
If you aren't constantly reading your opponents next move, you'll die!
This thing's a lot less accurate than I thought.
I have to regain my composure.
I'll burn you whole!
Go burn in the flames of purgatory!
Forgive me, Yasutsuna.
The katana Gen-jii entrusted me with.
Even a graze won't let you off easy.
Precast magical bullets.
These bullets are imbued with my magic.
Using Western Magic and projectiles? It seems anything goes for the Jinguuji family.
I'll make my own rules.
What's going on?
Seems like it's starting to work now.
Now show your true nature, Ayakashi.
Become a beast and fight me that way.
Kill...
Kill?
Who's killing who?
Kill...
Wait...
Kill...
I...
Kill...
I have to kill...
Go and kill her...
Kill!
Looks like she's snapped already.
That's right, you're just a man-eating demon cat.
This is your true nature.
An Ayakashi that brings harm to humans.
There's no way you can be allowed to be by his side.
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!
I want Himari to be the usual Himari.
I don't want you to be tainted by fighting.
Young Master...
C-cat...
I'm trembling?
Of all people, me?
Himari sure is late.
Where'd she go?
Who knows?
Shizuku, do you know anything?
The cat went to go challenge the Jinguuji girl. ~Nano.
I'll head home ahead of you to come up with a countermeasure against Kuesu.
The countermeasure she talked about was to fight her?!
Why didn't you tell something important like that?!
Because you didn't really ask. ~Nano
Hi-Himari!
It's terrible, Rinko.
The appearance of all these new characters is giving me too little screen time.
What'd you say?!
The only thing we can do is provide fanservice in the preview.
You're right!
But isn't the preview over already?!