Akaza, Upper Rank Three, and Daki and Gyutaro, Upper Rank Six, had all suffered tragedies of their own as humans. After becoming demons, they had lost most of their memories of their human lives.
Hateful as they were, there were still things about them that deserved sympathy. But Hantengu, that utter scumbag, was another matter entirely.
He had been evil from beginning to end. He had loved lying since childhood, even twisting the facts when explaining things to others to make them work in his favor.
His mind was warped. He always believed he was the victim, that no one in the world was more pitiful than he was. He treated everyone around him as villains and tried to win their sympathy.
Yet because he had been handsome in his youth, he had had many wives. Why "many"?
Because his twisted personality often turned the slightest grievances he suffered outside into rage directed at his wife. He abused his wives and even killed them.
It wasn't my fault. It was these hands. These hands acted on their own...
How could this happen... I couldn't do something like this... Besides, my eyes can't see at all... It couldn't have been me... It couldn't have been me...
"Stop pretending! You can see, can't you!"
Akaza had been forcibly turned into a demon by Muzan after falling into despair. Gyutaro, after experiencing humanity's cruelty, had willingly chosen the path of a demon for his sister's sake.
Hantengu, on the other hand, had become a demon to escape judgment for his crimes. Afterward, he had brutally murdered the man who had sentenced him.
There was nothing about Hantengu worth pitying. He was evil through and through. Chinatsu stared indifferently at his head on the ground, its face filled with boundless self-pity, then stomped down