Inside Kyojuro's dream, James quickly ran to his house, recognizing that he had been dreaming of the neighborhood his house was located in. Once he found it, he ran up to the front door and pounded on it, yelling, "Rengoku-san! Rengoku-san! Open the door!"

A few seconds later, Senjuro opened the door instead of Kyojuro. He immediately looked at James and said, "What are you doing here? You're not from here."

James quickly asked him, "Is your brother here?"

"Yeah," Senjuro replied in a rather rude tone, highly unusual of him. "What do you want, outsider?!"

"Senjuro," Kyojuro then asked. "What's going o-" He immediately stopped when he saw James, a look of surprise filling his face. "James? What are you doing here?"

"Get out of here," Senjuro then yelled at James as he punched James in the stomach, knocking him to his knees. "You don't belong here!"

"Senjuro!" Not understanding why he was suddenly attacking James, Kyojuro attempted to restrain his brother, only for him to break free and kick James in the head twice before James drew a knife and stabbed him in the back. "Senjuro, no!"

Senjuro turned to James and spat at him in a fit of rage, "Fuck you!" He then tried to bite James before he stabbed him two more times, killing him and throwing his body off of him.

Kyojuro pulled his sword out and demanded of his Tsuguko, "What the Hell is wrong with you?! Why did you kill my brother?!"

"He ain't your brother!" James then got up and dodged a blow from Kyojuro's sword. "This ain't real! None of this shit is real!"

"It's real to me!" Kyojuro then tried slicing off his neck, but James drew his sword and deflected it. "How could you betray me?! You monster!"

James yelled at the top of his lungs, frustrated that Kyojuro was letting himself be blinded with anger, "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN TO ME! YOU'RE ASLEEP! THIS IS A FUCKIN' DREAM!"

This immediately caused Kyojuro to stop in his tracks and look at Senjuro's body with a bewildered expression. "A… Dream?"

"Yeah," James replied. "That's what I've been tryin' to tell ya! The reason your brother attacked me was because he's a projection of your subconscious, and since I'm a foreign visitor, all of your projections will grow suspicious of me and eventually try to attack me if I disturb your dream!"

"Projection…" Kyojuro looked around as he heard his father stand up in the room next door. "Projection…"

"Give me that damn sword," Shinjuro then angrily told Kyojuro as he ripped his sword out of his hands and charged at James. "Get out of here you damn pest!"

James shot Shinjuro twice, striking him down before he had the chance to attack him. "See what I mean? They all begin to innately attack me since I'm causing a disturbance in your dream. Now, come with me."

"Right," Kyojuro nodded as he accompanied James and they both ran down the street to try to find whoever was invading his dream. After searching down numerous alleyways and dead ends, they finally spotted a tear in the fabric of the dream. "Here! I see something!"

"Shit," James replied as he found the tear. "It means that this guy's already inside!" The two of them then ran through the tear into the outer layer of Kyojuro's dream. There, they were confronted with a land of fire and smoke around them, indicative of Kyojuro's inner being. "So, this is your inner subconscious, huh?"

Kyojuro remarked in disbelief, "Why am I not surprised…" The two then ran through the field, dodging flames left and right as they tried to find Kyojuro's inner core.

Then, James spotted something odd. "Hey, over here!" In front of the bright red core of Kyojuro was another one of Patrick Cleburne's soldiers, but they appeared to be floating in midair, suspended by their neck by an unseen hand. "Look at this!"

Kyojuro said to himself in disbelief, "What the fuck?"

As James looked at the soldier, he noticed what appeared to be hand marks on his neck. "This is really odd… He's being strangled by an unseen force. It looks like he's been held up here for a long time." He then remembered something he saw in the real world. "Wait a minute! Rengoku-san, I saw you strangle someone in the real world!"

"You did?!"

"Yeah! You suddenly got up and slammed this guy into the wall by the neck!" He then pointed out the neck marks to him. "It must have affected him in the dream too, though since time dilation's in effect, he's been strangled for much longer here."

"How much longer?"

"Well," James then calculated. "One minute in the real world is twenty minutes here. If I had to guess, it's been about two minutes since you strangled him in the real world, so he's been hangin' up here for almost 40 minutes straight."

"Is he dead?"

James then checked the soldier's body and shook his head. "No. He's a demon, so he ain't." He then drew his sword. "But this will wake him up. Rengoku-san, I need ya to kill yourself in this dream to wake up."

"Kill myself?!" Kyojuro was shocked. "Really?!"

"I need y'all to wake up first," James explained. "And then I'll kill this son of a bitch here. When he wakes up in the real world, kill him. I'll kill myself here, too, once I'm done."

Kyojuro sighed as he drew his sword. "If you say so. You're the expert in this case, after all." He then took a deep breath and slashed his own neck with the sword, cutting deep into it and quickly bleeding himself out. Within seconds, he dropped to the floor, dead and covered in blood.

James then swung his sword at the soldier and came down on his neck, decapitating him with one strike. Once his head rolled onto the ground, his body fell and began to disintegrate. James then pulled his revolver and aimed it at his temple, effortlessly pulling the trigger and blowing his brains out to wake up.

Inside Zenitsu's dream, Nezuko looked around a pleasant and peaceful meadow next to a creek and waterfall. "Well," she remarked to herself. "At least Zenitsu-san's dream is peaceful enough." As she carefully crossed the creek, she called out, "Zenitsu! Zenitsu! Are you here?!" Then, as she made landfall on the other side, she saw another person inside the dream and instantly recognized who it was. "Oh, for fuck's sake, not again."

"Who are you?" Another fake Nezuko then turned around and faced her. "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to wake Zenitsu-san up," Nezuko explained to her fake self.

"You're dressed funny," she replied to her. "And taller. How old are you?"

"I'm going to be fifteen in December," Nezuko replied to her. "You must be me from two years ago." She thought to herself; "I'm surprised she hasn't attacked me yet. Could Zenitsu's projection of myself be far more passive than my brother's projection of myself was?"

"I'm going to be thirteen in December," the fake Nezuko replied. "I grew that much?"

"I grew by four centimeters," Nezuko told her. "It's not much, to be honest, though it felt like a lot since it happened over the span of like two weeks. A very, very sore two weeks. My back was killing me by the end."

"Two weeks? Why?"

"Wait," Nezuko asked her. "Are you a demon?"

"A demon? What's that?"

"Yeah, just as I thought." Nezuko then asked her, "Where is Zenitsu-san?"

"He says he saw an intruder," the fake Nezuko replied. "And was going to hunt them down, whoever they were."

"Nezuko-chan," Zenitsu then called out from afar. "I'm back! I killed that son of a bitch! What are you doi-" As he approached the two Nezuko's, wearing blood-stained clothes and carrying giant shears also covered in blood, his jaw dropped as he saw two Nezuko's. "Wha-... Ha… Nezuko… Two… TWO NEZUKO-CHAN'S?!" He screamed in joy as the two Nezuko's looked at him in confusion. "THIS IS TRULY A MIRACLE!"

The real Nezuko asked the fake Nezuko, "Has he been fawning over you the whole time?"

"Yeah," she gleefully replied. "He truly is amazing, isn't he?"

"Wait a minute," Zenitsu then asked as he looked at the real Nezuko. "You look older, and you're… You're a demon slayer?!" Blood trickled from Zenitsu's nose as he realized she was wearing a skirt. "And you have a skirt…"

The real Nezuko sighed. "Yes, I have a skirt as part of my uniform. Zenitsu-san, you need to wake up."

"Wake up? Why would I?"

The real Nezuko then grabbed a hold of his shoulder and shook him. "Because we're all in danger! If you don't wake up, we all could die! None of this is real!"

"Real?"

"Damn it, Zenitsu-san! You need to wake up!" By now, she was increasingly impatient with Zenitsu's unwillingness to accept the fact that he was a dream, and decided to take decisive action to force him to do something about it.

She then drew her gun and aimed it at her head, prompting Zenitsu to try to tackle her. "Nezuko-chan, no!"

Nezuko fought him off and yelled at him, "You need to die to wake up! This isn't real!"

"Die?! Won't that kill m-?!"

Nezuko finally had enough, and shot Zenitsu in the face, instantly killing him. The fake Nezuko yelled, "ZENITSU-SAN, NO!"

"Fuck this shit," she then said. "I'm outta here." She then aimed the gun at her left temple and shot herself to wake up before the fake Nezuko could attack her.

Inside Inosuke's dream, Tanjiro walked in a dark and desolate cave, deeply confused about the circumstances of Inosuke's dream. "What the Hell is this place? It's so damp and musty in here… What's the purpose of this dream anyway?"

"Intruder," Inosuke then called out from afar as he pointed at Tanjiro from deep within the cave. "Identify yourself to the King of the Mountains at once!"

Tanjiro then made out the projections of himself, Zenitsu, and Nezuko inside his dream, and as he did, his jaw dropped in bewilderment. "What the fuck…" The fake Tanjiro bore the ears and tail of a raccoon dog, the fake Zenitsu bore the ears, tail, and buck teeth of a squirrel, and the fake Nezuko, who still had a bamboo muzzle on unlike her real self's current state, had the tail and ears of a rabbit. "No, seriously, Inosuke, what the fuck?"

"Wait a minute," Inosuke then asked him in confusion. "Monjiro?! What… How?! You're right beside me here as Underling 1!"

"Underling 1?!"

The fake Tanjiro then asked Inosuke as he, the fake Zenitsu, and the fake Nezuko all got into battle position, "Do you want us to take him out, boss?!"

"Not yet," Inosuke instructed him. "Something really fucking weird's going on here."

Tanjiro then called out, "You're in a dream, Inosuke! You need to kill yourself to wake up!"

"A dream?!" Inosuke paused as he thought to himself about Tanjiro's statement. Then, after half a minute, he nodded. "I knew it was one all along, Kentaro!"

"It's Tanjiro," he corrected. "And I doubt you did…"

"I killed some guy with a grey uniform on," Inosuke then told him. "I couldn't understand the gibberish coming out of his mouth, but he was probably begging for mercy or something."

Tanjiro gasped. "You already did?!"

"Yeah," he triumphantly declared. "I won't let anyone interfere with the Cave Expedition Team!"

"Then wake up," Tanjiro instructed him as he pulled his sword and aimed it at his own neck. "That means the guy trying to kill your inner core is already awake! The others need our help in the real world!"

"Of course," Inosuke replied as he pulled both of his swords and quickly decapitated himself, shocking even Tanjiro.

"Holy shit…"

The fake Zenitsu called out in horror, "Boss, no! Don't die on us!"

"Sorry guys," Tanjiro then explained to the projections as the dream began to fall apart around him, the walls of the cave trembling and crashing down. "This is the only way." He then sliced open his neck, instantly killing himself in the dream and waking up.

In the real world, Tanjiro, Inosuke, Zenitsu, and Nezuko all woke up at the same time, just seconds after Kyojuro and James had done so. As he looked around, Kyojuro decapitated the soldier demon that had been inside Inosuke's dream. He then turned to Tanjiro and told him, "Glad to see you're awake." He then turned to James. "That leaves only Susamaru-san then."

"I'll get 'er," James then replied as he cut himself with a knife and painted a very small pattern on the floor with his blood as the cut began to heal before putting his knife away. "I'll have to do this the old-fashioned way. Remind me to make more spell scrolls when we get back to your house, Rengoku-san." He then called out in English, "By the Grace of the Spirits, I ask them to allow me to enter the dream of Susamaru!" With a flash of red light from the pattern on the floor, James once again collapsed and fell asleep.

Tanjiro and Nezuko then looked at each other and nodded before Nezuko told Kyojuro, "We're going to the top of the train to fight the demon responsible. We think his name is Enmu based on what my brother overheard. Whatever his name is, we know he's Lower Moon One."

"Lower Moon One? Got it." He then told Inosuke and Zenitsu, "Guard James with your lives. I'm gonna go take care of as many of the soldiers as Thomas-san." He then asked Thomas in English, "Are you ready?"

"Of course," he replied as he finished reloading his Winchester rifle with poisoned ammunition. "Let's get these fuckers."

Inside Susamaru's dream, James quickly found her as she played with her brothers in the street. "Hey, Susamaru! Over 'ere!"

Just as Susamaru was about to catch a ball thrown to her, she stopped as she heard his voice, causing the ball to strike her in the shoulder. "Agh, fuck! That hurt!"

"Oneechan," Daiki called out to her as he ran over. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hit you!"

"It's okay," she insisted as Tomoyuki also ran over. "I'm fine. It just stung, that's all."

"Maeko," Tomoyuki asked her as he helped her up. "Who's that man over there?"

"That's…" Susamaru then locked eyes with James and gasped. "Oh my God, that's…"

Tomoyuki, worried for her, asked her, "Did he hurt you?!"

"No, no, no," Susamaru insisted. "He's… He's fine, nii-san." She then asked, "James, what the Hell are you doing here?"

"You're in a dream, dear," he told her. "Y'all know the rules, right?"

"I gotta… Oh my…" Susamaru knew the rules about dream infiltration and how to wake up already, and did not want her brothers to see her die. "Nii-san, Daiki, I need you two to go back into the house right now."

"What's wrong, oneechan?"

"Maeko?"

"I'll be fine," Susamaru insisted. "Please, go back in."

"Oneechan!"

"Maeko, what's wro-?"

Susamaru then screamed at him, "YOU'RE NOT REAL!" She took several deep breaths as tears fell from her eyes. "I said… You aren't real… I'm sorry… I have to go… I have a mission to do, people to save, and a future husband to be with…" She tried to control herself, not wanting to part with her former family but realizing she had to.

Tomoyuki nodded, seeming to understand what she meant. "Daiki, let's go inside. Your sister needs to save lives."

As he took Daiki into the house despite his repeated protests, Susamaru drew a revolver from her person and aimed it into her mouth. "It won't hurt, right?"

"It doesn't," James nodded as he also aimed his revolver at himself, this time into his left temple. "Three… Two… One!"

Two simultaneous gunshots then rang out as the two lovers shot themselves in the middle of the street, their vision immediately going black for a few seconds before they were met with the sights of the train, both hyperventilating and locking eyes before embracing in Susamaru's bench seat. "Oh, thank God, you're okay!"

"Same with you," he replied as the two then shared a brief kiss. Once they split, he told her, "Tanjiro and Nezuko are going off to fight Lower Moon One, who's behind the dreamin' part. His name's Enmu I think."

"That's correct," Susamaru nodded, having gotten control of herself and her emotions. "I knew him. He was always a creepy sadistic motherfucker who was way too into dreams and trains. No fucking concept of loyalty or brotherhood, just constant Kibutsuji dick-sucking. He creeped out even most of the other Lower Moons, and the Upper Moons all thought he was annoying as Hell. Kibutsuji actually killed him as a human, but only made him a demon because he kept praising him and shit as Kibutsuji literally ate his organs. That guy is seriously fucked up in the head, even among us demons."

"Holy fuckin' shit," James replied, bewildered by Enmu's insanity. "We're dealin' with a real lunatic then."