Temple Demon

お堂の鬼

The Temple Demon is the first Demon Tanjiro Kamado encounters.
The Demon had already been attacking travelers who took shelter at a small temple hut on the path leading to Narrow Mist Mountain. When Tanjiro asked for directions, a villager warned that traveling at night was dangerous because people had been disappearing in the area.
By the time Tanjiro and Nezuko reached the hut, the Demon had just killed three people. When the Demon attempted to strangle Tanjiro, Nezuko kicked its head completely off its body.
Even without a head, the Demon could still command its body to attack the siblings. The Demon also grew a pair of hands from its head. While the body furiously attacked Nezuko, Tanjiro tackled it and threw it off a cliff. However, this did not kill the Demon, though losing its body caused it excruciating pain.
Tanjiro had also pinned the Demon's head to a tree with his axe to stop its movements. Because he was too compassionate, he failed to kill the Demon before dawn, accidentally allowing it to perish from the sun's first rays instead.

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