The atmosphere between them eased before they knew it.
Shinazugawa finally managed, for the time being, to pry those two people's identities away from the word [demon] in his mind.
At least he could speak to them calmly now.
And as they talked more and more,
Shinazugawa gradually came to understand the woman named Tamayo.
Why she had become a demon.
What opportunity had allowed her to break free of Muzan's control.
And even why she now walked among humans in such a low-profile manner that she hardly seemed like a demon.
She told him all of it in her unhurried voice.
By the time he finished listening, Shinazugawa finally understood completely.
No wonder she hated Muzan so much.
Tamayo had already been a mother several hundred years ago.
But shortly after her child was born, a terminal illness had left her facing an early death.
More than her own death, what she could not bear was leaving her child behind.
She had wanted to live a little longer... at least long enough to see her child grow a little older in good health.
Muzan, who had been wandering around disguised as a traveling doctor at the time, had seized upon that very desire.
Through lies and deception, he had turned Tamayo, who had just turned nineteen, into a [demon].
By the time she regained her human consciousness...
Her newborn child and the husband who loved her deeply alike.
Had already been killed and devoured by her own hands after she became a demon.
Tamayo... still remembered the sensation of chewing the flesh and bones of those she loved most.
That sensation had seared itself into her heart like a brand.
It was nothing like what that doctor had promised when he said he would "cure" her.
Muzan had simply