So Should She Have Been Killed?

A gentle breeze brushed softly across the silent official road.

Su Wanqing's sudden death plunged everyone present into silence.

Even Xue She found himself with a headache.

Mu Yang, on the other hand, acted as though nothing had happened. He walked up to Su Wanqing's corpse, flicked his wrist, and used the Black Gold Four-Edged Mace to hook up a brocade pouch from her waist.

[Equippable Item: Small Sleeve Bag]

[Rank: Fourth Rank]

[Equipment Effect: ① Storage (White): Can hold non-living objects. Space capacity: five feet square (approximately 4.6 cubic meters)]

[Permanent Solidification Condition: Equip this item for eight full days, or while equipped with this item, kill any Fourth Rank or higher demon beast.]

"A storage treasure!"

Mu Yang's eyes lit up, and he tucked the sleeve bag into his robes.

Though it held less than five cubic meters, it was enough for him to carry quite a lot of things.

What was more, this was only White quality. If he had enough materials to strengthen it to Blue quality, the space inside would surely become even larger.

He just did not know whether equipping several sleeve bags at once would merge them into one enormous storage space, or leave them as separate little spaces.

He could try it when he found another sleeve bag.

Just as Mu Yang was collecting the spoils of battle,

the silent escorts hesitated for a while before one of them cautiously spoke up. "Young Master Lei, and this Constable... Constable sir, the three of us are only trying to earn a living. We truly didn't know there was a Monster in the carriage. Could you spare our lives?"

Lei Sai said nothing. He was still thinking.

Mu Yang said nothing either. He merely glanced at the three men and his own position, then at Lei Sai's position, as if calculating something.

Seeing that neither Mu Yang nor Lei Sai spoke, the three escorts did not dare make any rash moves. They stood where they were, sweat streaming down their foreheads.

Only after a long while did Lei Sai look at Mu Yang and ask,

"Brother, there is something I wish to ask."

"Ask."

Mu Yang slowly walked forward as he spoke.

"After killing the Monster, why did you attack Miss Su?" Lei Sai asked.

Mu Yang did not answer directly, but instead asked, "Then let me ask you: should Monsters be killed?"

Lei Sai froze, then instinctively answered, "They should."

"Then should those who collude with Monsters be killed?"

"They should."

"Then did that woman collude with a Monster or not?"

"Uh... she did, but it seemed she didn't kno—"

"Just tell me whether she colluded with one or not!"

Mu Yang forcefully cut Lei Sai off, standing before him and staring straight into his eyes.

"She... she did?"

Under Mu Yang's direct gaze, Lei Sai inexplicably felt his own presence weaken by several degrees.

"If one colludes with Monsters, should they be killed?"

"They should..."

"Then there you have it. Was I wrong to kill her?" Mu Yang patted Lei Sai on the shoulder.

"..."

Lei Sai fell silent.

He always felt that something was off, but everything he had believed in told him that Monsters should be killed, and those who colluded with Monsters deserved death even more.

So this constable before him really did seem to have done nothing wrong.

"Constable sir, what are you doing?!"

Just as Lei Sai's mind was spinning wildly, an escort's terrified cry suddenly dragged him back to reality.

He instinctively turned toward the escorts.

Then...

Bang!!

With a crisp crack, blood and shattered bone sprayed through the air.

Another headless corpse appeared beside the carriage.

Lei Sai: ???

Lei Sai seemed to have suffered a mental overload.

Given his temperament, if this had happened at any other time, he would have stepped forward to stop it long ago.

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But now, he merely stood there dumbly, watching Mu Yang casually smash apart the heads of the other two escorts.

Then he asked in a tone of utter incomprehension,

"Brother, why did you do that?"

Unhurriedly shaking the blood from the Black Gold Four-Edged Mace, Mu Yang walked toward the Donkey Demon's corpse without looking back and casually said,

"They wanted to kill me. Am I not allowed to kill them?"

Lei Sai pursed his lips, his face full of conflict. Only after a long while did he force out one word:

"...You are."

"Then there you have it. Let's go."

Mu Yang stored the Donkey Demon's corpse in the sleeve bag, casually waved a hand, then mounted his horse and left with Xue She.

Watching the two figures gradually disappear into the distance, Lei Sai subconsciously scratched his head.

"Something feels off. Did I get fooled?"

"Very obviously, yes."

A mocking voice suddenly came from the woods beside the road.

A woman in a light-purple fitted outfit leaped out from the forest. With a neat ponytail behind her head and a heroic, valiant bearing, she landed before Lei Sai.

"Sis? Why are you here?"

The newcomer was Lei Sai's older sister, the Lei Family's famed favored daughter of heaven—Lei Jiaojiao.

"With how foolish you are, if I hadn't followed you, someone might have swindled even your underpants off you!" Lei Jiaojiao rolled her eyes at Lei Sai in irritation.

"I'm not stupid, and I wasn't fooled!"

Lei Sai stubbornly retorted.

"Then let me ask you: should that woman surnamed Su have been killed?" Lei Jiaojiao asked.

Lei Sai froze. Thinking back to their conversation just now, he said, "She should!"

"Wrong!"

Lei Jiaojiao raised a finger and tapped Lei Sai on the forehead. "That foolish woman was obviously only lusting after the Donkey Demon's body. She had no idea it was truly a demon. She neither knew the truth nor helped it harm anyone. Even if she was guilty, her crime absolutely did not warrant death!"

"Ah?"

Lei Sai opened his mouth.

That actually seemed to make sense...

"So I'll ask you again: should that foolish woman have been killed?"

Lei Jiaojiao gave Lei Sai no time to react and asked the same question again.

"She shouldn't have."

Lei Sai immediately shook his head like a rattle drum.

Yet Lei Jiaojiao shook her head.

"Wrong!"

"Wrong again?"

Lei Sai was dumbfounded.

Killing her was wrong, and not killing her was wrong too. Then what the hell was right?

"Can't figure it out?"

"Mhm."

"Then think more!"

"Huh?"

Lei Jiaojiao ignored Lei Sai's bewilderment. Instead, she gazed into the distance, toward the direction Mu Yang had gone.

To kill or not to kill was merely the outcome.

Why one chose such an outcome was the key.

A new constable with both strength and a heavy killing aura... It looks like things will get lively soon, Lei Jiaojiao thought.

"Sis, why exactly?" Lei Sai still looked completely lost.

"Think for yourself."

"Brother Mu, once we enter the city, you can't act as impulsively as you did just now. What if there hadn't been a Monster in that carriage? Wouldn't that have been the end of it?"

On the road, Xue She earnestly tried to persuade him.

Mu Yang understood Xue She's concerns.

After all, Xue She possessed neither a Keen Sense of Smell nor the Tracking Technique. He was merely an ordinary Blood-Marrow Realm martial artist, so naturally he could not detect the abnormalities within the carriage.

In truth, if Lei Sai had not blocked the road and said there was a Monster in the carriage, Mu Yang would not have noticed anything either.

Only after hearing what Lei Sai said and fully activating his Keen Sense of Smell did he confirm that something was wrong inside the carriage.

Otherwise, no matter how righteous Lei Sai had appeared, Mu Yang would not have paid him any heed.

"All in all, before you join the Demon Slayer Bureau, it would be best for you to stay at the Constable Office. Even the Eight Directions Chamber of Commerce and the Pingwei Escort Agency would not dare cause trouble at the Constable Office in the Prefecture City."

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