It was evening at the hotel.
Click!
The door opened, Teiichi walked in carrying a large bag of food containers.
Looking at Kanae's current state, although she wasn't as dejected as she had been that afternoon, she was still somewhat lost in thought. Teiichi asked:
Are you still thinking about what happened this afternoon?
Upon hearing this, Kanae turned her head, stared blankly at Teiichi, then turned her head back and nodded slightly.
"Yeah, I'm really confused right now, really... confused..."
Teiichi placed the food box on the table and then said:
"Come and eat first!"
Kanae shook her head. "No, I'm not hungry right now. I don't want to eat. You guys eat first!"
Teiichi said softly, "Listen to me, you have to take care of your health first, no matter what!"
Upon hearing this, Kanae hesitated for a moment, but ultimately got up and walked over.
Teiichi opened the food box, prepared it, and pushed it in front of Kanae, then turned to look at Nezuko on the other side.
Nezuko rested her hands on the windowsill, palms overlapping, her chin on the back of her hands, gazing at the Kuroishi Village under the night sky.
Teiichi called out to Nezuko, " Nezuko, would you like to come and have something to eat?"
Nezuko turned slightly around upon hearing this, straightened her body, and strained her eyes to see what they were having for dinner.
Rice, grilled fish, vegetables, miso soup...
Hmm, there's nothing she likes to eat...
Nezuko shook her head to indicate that she wouldn't eat, and then continued to lean on the windowsill.
Seeing this, Teiichi smiled helplessly and did not insist.
Although the drug to turn demons into humans has been developed, it hasn't been given to Nezuko yet to prevent Muzan from discovering that the Demon Slayer Corps has mastered it.
Teiichi and Kagaya Ubuyashiki plan to tell Muzan about Nezuko's ability to overcome sunlight, and then turn Nezuko back into a human.
So Nezuko is still a demon, and whether she eats or not is irrelevant to her. Before, she ate simply because it tasted good.
However, Nezuko doesn't need to eat or drink, doesn't get sick, recovers quickly from injuries, and even lives forever...
This is truly... perfect...
Teiichi sighed as he opened a food box for himself.
Then, Teiichi eating, Kanae a question.
What are you confused about right now?
Kanae didn't reply immediately upon hearing this. Instead, she lowered her head and thought for a moment before slightly raising her eyes, her pale purple eyes quietly looking at Teiichi.
Was this a similar situation you faced on Shoura Island?
Teiichi, then immediately shook his head.
"Somewhat similar, yet not exactly the same! The Shoura Island was much simpler than this one! That time it was just the village chief and his son committing evil deeds, but here..."
Teiichi moment before continuing:
"And here, the entire village is cooperating with the ghosts!"
Kanae raised her eyes slightly upon hearing this and retorted:
"But some people still refuse, like Delia's mother, didn't she?"
Teiichi chewed his food, he looked up at Kanae.
Do you really think she rejected him?
"If she wasn't refusing, then why did she tell us so much today?"
"Yes, she did refuse today, but that's because it's her child who's to be sacrificed! What if it weren't her child?"
"If it's not her child, then she... she..."
Kanae opened her mouth, but ultimately didn't say anything more.
Teiichi, Dingyi continued, "If it wasn't her child, she would just act as if nothing had happened, just like before! Then she would sit at home and enjoy the annual harvest!"
Kanae opened her mouth, unsure what to say for a moment, before finally speaking:
"This is probably because our Demon Slayer Corps hadn't discovered this place before, so she didn't know who to talk to..."
Teiichi shook his head. "Ordinary people don't know much about the Demon Slayer Corps, but they all know about the police."
"If they really wanted to resist, they should have gone to the police immediately."
"But this happened two years ago, and it only came to light recently after we started investigating religious matters. Does this village look like someone went to the police?"
"..."
Kanae lowered her head silently, her long, black hair obscuring her face, making it impossible to see her expression.
After a long while, a whisper came from behind her hair.
"So... what have we been fighting for all these years...?"
"Well!"
Teiichi sighed softly, got up and went to Kanae's side, pulled her head to his stomach, and then gently comforted her.
Faced with such a mission, even the Pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps now suffer a great psychological shock.
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Aside from Tengen Uzui, who has assassinated countless people, this kind of thing can't shake his resolve.
But as for the other pillars, it's likely that none of them will escape unscathed.
Although those who become pillars have basically all gone through countless missions.
But their mission can ultimately be summed up in four words: demons devouring people!!
At most, because different ghosts have different strengths and different Blood Demon Art, the difficulty of the missions varies.
But there's only one thing they need to do from beginning to end!
That means finding the evil spirit and then killing it!
Although they also witnessed many tragic stories in the process.
Such as an already unfortunate family being afflicted by a ghost; a survivor who has lost all hope in the world and is rescued by chance; and horrific scenes caused by the ghost's peculiar habits...
But in the end, all these tragedies can be attributed to ghosts.
This is also why the longer Demon Slayer, the more likely one is to feel hatred towards the existence of demons.
Because they had witnessed too many human tragedies caused by ghosts.
But here...
Ghosts play a role, but they are by no means the sole cause of the current situation in Kuroishi Village. The cause of the current situation in Kuroishi Village is...
The poverty of Kuroishi Village in the past was the evil buried deep in people's hearts...
Teiichi gently stroked Kanae's long hair and asked softly:
Do you regret fighting evil spirits to protect ordinary people?
Kanae's Teiichi body, her eyes lowered, and she fell into a brief silence.
After a moment, her head slowly and gently swayed.
No regrets!
"So you feel that the tasks you carried out were meaningless?"