Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Volume 5

Picking up from the previous volume, Tanjiro and his companions are ordered to Mount Natagumo to carry out a mission, but there they encounter the "spider demon family" that has taken over the mountain and are plunged into a fierce battle. Zenitsu is afflicted by a venom that gradually turns its victim into a spider, leaving his body in grave danger; Inosuke and Tanjiro can barely do anything against the giant "demon father," and the fight seems to have no end. Just as the group is driven to the brink, a figure appears before them, and the tide of battle shifts. Meanwhile, the mountain's true master—Rui, one of the Twelve Kizuki—gradually reveals his twisted yet sorrowful obsession with "family." This volume centers on the Battle of Mount Natagumo, interweaving dense combat description with flashbacks to the demons' pasts, taking "family," "bonds," and "distorted kinship" as its core themes and further shaping Tanjiro's attitude of "slaying demons while pitying them." As the fifth volume of the series, it is a key advancing portion of the Mount Natagumo arc, with both combat intensity and emotional concentration markedly escalated.