The weakened demons would be much easier to deal with.
Tetsu no Sosuke said thoughtfully, "While we have the chance, I think we should capture a couple of demons."
"Capture them?" Shinobu Kocho paused. "Are you planning to experiment on them?"
"Not me. You," Tetsu no Sosuke said. "So far, we haven't fully tested what wisteria poison can do. You've only formulated it around a lethal dose. I'm wondering whether you could develop poisons with other effects. For example... one that causes hallucinations, leaves them weak and helpless, or makes them act drunk. Something like the effect of the Wind Pillar's Rare Blood, or something else entirely. If it works, we could put it to use across the board..."
Tengen Uzui stared at him, dumbfounded. "I'm starting to feel sorry for them. Even demons would be broken by that, wouldn't they?"
But Tetsu no Sosuke wasn't joking. "We know a great deal about humans. How much do we know about demons? We know they eat people, recover from injuries remarkably fast, and can only be killed by beheading them with a Nichirin Blade. What else do we know? Do we know whether there's a way to turn them human again?"
"Turn them... human again?"
At those words, the Pillars looked at one another—all except Kanroji Mitsuri.
Shinobu Kocho was silent for a moment. "It does seem worth experimenting."
"But I don't know what good it would do," Kyojuro Rengoku objected. "Becoming human again wouldn't erase their crimes of eating people."
"I know." Tetsu no Sosuke nodded. "But the one I'm thinking about is... Kibutsuji Muzan."
The moment he spoke that name, everyone present tensed.
Kibutsuji Muzan's failure to come in person tonight had been a stroke of luck for Tetsu no Sosuke and the others.
Otherwise, the night could easily