As Tanjiro was just about to sever the neck of the fifth demon, another demon approaches from behind him. This demon turns out to be Zohakuten, a demon created by combining all four Emotion Demons into one body, marked with the word "Hatred." Tanjiro makes a narrow escape from the attack and fails to sever the neck of the fifth demon. After hearing Zohakuten calling him and his comrades "awful villains" for trying to sever the neck of the cowering demon, Tanjiro is enraged and decides to face him...

After defeating the goldfish demons, Muichiro heads to the studio where Haganezuka and Kanamori are. There, in order to disrupt Haganezuka's focus on whetting the sword, Gyokko was attempting to take Kanamori for hostage. Muichiro arrives in the nick of time, receives the Nichirin Sword from Kanamori, and challenges Gyokko once again...