"Fair enough. Equivalent exchange and all that. I'm not one to force people to do things-unless they aren't people."
"Although you two are demons, you've retained your humanity. Compared to certain 'humanoid' creatures who are human yet have no humanity to speak of, I'd rather regard you as people."
"So if there's anything you need, you can tell me too. We can treat it as a trade."
Tamayo gestured for Yushiro to be quiet again, then gazed into Kanzaki Kumo's eyes and slowly asked, "Can I trust you?"
"You don't seem to have any other choice. At least, in the current Demon Slayer Corps, you'd have a hard time finding another Hashira who can talk to you as calmly as I can."
Kanzaki Kumo shrugged. As for why he'd said "a hard time" rather than "impossible," that was naturally because of Kanae.
Given her personality, if she encountered Tamayo and didn't immediately try to kill her, she might genuinely be able to coexist peacefully with her after Tamayo confessed her past.
After all, even in the original story, Kanae, who had a blood feud with demons, felt pity for them and sought a way for humans and demons to coexist peacefully.
In her eyes, most demons were pitiful people who had once lived at the bottom of society, suffering oppression, and had ultimately become demons under all sorts of circumstances that left them no choice. Those demons should have understood all too well how pitiful others were, should have been better able to understand their suffering, and should have lived in harmony with them.
Though that thinking was naive, Kanae was simply someone who was gentle to her very core.
She wouldn't spare evil demons out of kindness, but she was willing to search for demons who weren't enemies of