Before the torii of Higurashi Manor.
A young man with short, medium-length orange-red hair that burned like flames and bright orange-yellow eyes.
At that moment, he openly let his curiosity show as he looked the three demon soldiers blocking his path up and down.
He wore a black kimono beneath a white haori.
A black badge bearing the character "Exterminate" was pinned to his chest.
Yet a silver chain with a pocket watch hung from his waist, giving him a distinctly East-meets-West look.
"This probably isn't your true form, is it? But if you were going to take human form, why not do it completely?"
"I previously met several Demon Race ladies from the Claymore World."
"Their human forms were perfect. Is it because you don't want to, or because you can't?"
As the young man kept asking one question after another, the three demon soldiers looked at each other.
Accustomed to military life, they could only respond with silence.
The key was that they did not know how to explain it, or whether they should explain it at all.
First of all, this was naturally not their true form, and they were fully capable of looking more human.
But the purpose of maintaining humanoid forms was not to disguise their identities as demons.
It was to reduce their size for group movement and to make it easier to follow their superiors.
That was why they still looked blue-faced and fanged, with demon horns growing from their heads, making it obvious at a glance that they were demons.
As for the Demon Race of the Claymore World.
In the past, it had been a matter of survival for yoma hiding their identities.
Now, it was because the Claymore Warriors preferred to retain human appearances.
Or rather, they still felt a