Demon Slayer: I am a Demon.

After watching the fireworks, Su Mu and his two companions casually found a hotel in the town, intending to stay there for the night, but the circling crows in the sky startled them.

Kanao, Makomo, and Tanjiro's Kasugai crows all landed, each landing on their respective masters' shoulders, while Su Mu's Kasugai crow remained circling in the air.

"There is a ghost five miles ahead."

There's a ghost.

Tanjiro's shoulder-mounted Kasugai crow issued a simple command, and Su Mu couldn't help but glance at it.

At this moment, Tanjiro and Makomo also turned their gazes to Su Mu.

Su Mu hesitated for a moment before nodding: "Let's go take a look."

The raven flapped its wings and flew into the air, beginning to lead the group.

'breathe'

The current began to surge, and Makomo and Tanjiro's speed also started to increase rapidly.

Once you leave the town, there are no more lights, only the bright moon hanging in the sky, bringing a little light to the dark night.

"Ta Tata..."

Their footsteps made a loud thud on the ground. After about half an hour, the group finally arrived at a small village. The four ravens also landed in a room with lights on.

"Take a short rest."

Su Mu looked at Makomo and Tanjiro, who were slightly out of breath. Their breathing techniques had not reached the level of "total concentration and normal concentration," so it was impossible for them to maintain a constant breathing state. Moreover, they had not yet seen a demon, so they had to be prepared.

Tanjiro knew that Makomo was also aware of this, and he tried to calm his breathing, preparing for the possible battle that was about to begin.

During his rest, Su Mu looked at the room with lights on in the distance, and even from a distance, he could smell the fragrance of wisteria.

It looks like someone has lit wisteria-scented candles in this room with the lights on.

"There seems to be no sign of it being damaged."

Makomo was also looking at the room with the lights on.

"Go and see for yourself to find out the specifics."

Su Mu spoke calmly.

"I go."

Tanjiro gripped his Nichirin Blade tightly, calmed his breathing, and walked towards the brightly lit room, knocking on the door.

"Who?"

From inside the door came a man's wary voice.

"Demon Slayer Corps".

Tanjiro replied.

Soon, the door was opened, revealing the face of a man with a panicked expression. Behind him was a woman holding a baby, but neither of them looked well.

"Why are you the only one here? Isn't anyone else here?"

The man was clearly anxious when he saw Tanjiro; Tanjiro looked so young that he wasn't entirely at ease with him.

"What happened?"

Tanjiro looked around the room.

All the lights in the house were lit, making it very bright. Inside, incense sticks made of wisteria flowers were also burning, and the fragrance of the wisteria flowers was very strong.

Although he wasn't entirely at ease with Tanjiro, the man quickly explained the situation.

The man's name is Maeda Hiroshi, a 'Hermit' of the Demon Slayer Corps. He is mainly responsible for the surrounding area. After discovering that people were starting to go missing in the area, he came to investigate during the day and discovered the traces of the demon.

So he quickly reported the situation. When he returned to the village where he was resting that night, he heard screams coming from the village. Maeda Hiroshi knew that someone in the village had been attacked by a demon that broke into their room at night. So, while lighting more wisteria candles, he also hurriedly called for help.

Not long ago, Maeda Hiroshi even saw a terrifying figure standing in the distance through the crack in the door, staring at his room. Perhaps because it disliked the smell of wisteria, this horrible ghost did not enter the room to attack.

"Is that right?"

Su Mu, accompanied by Makomo and Kanao, approached and, upon hearing Maeda Hiroshi's words, asked in a low voice.

"Yes, sir. The screams heard on the east side of the village must have come from the 'Wakabayashi Eiji's' house."

"Let's go take a look."

Su Mu said something and headed east of the village. Maeda Hiroshi hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and followed after closing the door.

"Turn left ahead and you'll find 'Eiji Wakabayashi's' house," Hiroshi Maeda explained as he followed.

Even before we arrived, we could smell a very strong stench of blood.

"Be careful."

Su Mu said something.

Makomo and Tanjiro also gripped their Nichirin Blades tightly at this moment, their expressions serious.

Tanjiro sniffed slightly; the air was filled with a thick atmosphere of sorrow and the smell of blood.

They hadn't walked two steps before they arrived at 'Wakabayashi Eiji's' house. The door was already broken and the front door had collapsed. Su Mu and the others cautiously stepped forward.

As soon as I reached the door, I saw bloodstains on the ground, which looked incredibly scarlet under the moonlight.

Su Mu and the others quickly walked over.

The house was stained with blood almost everywhere, and in some places there were even bits of flesh left, leaving almost no place to step.

Several skeletons, their flesh and blood completely devoured, resembled the boneless meat hanging by a butcher, their skeletons dripping with blood.

Skeletons come in large and small sizes.

The smallest is probably no bigger than a child.

In one corner, a skull the size of a child's palm remains, half of it chewed up by teeth.

A bloodshot girl's eyeball fell on a door panel.

When he was a ghost, Su Mu had already seen this kind of scene before. Although he was still not used to it, it was still okay.

Kanao didn't seem to feel much, she just quietly watched the blood on the ground.

Makomo had followed Hiroshi Furukawa in hunting demons several times and had witnessed the cruelty of demon hunts. Although it was not as tragic as this, it was not unbearable to face, although her face under the mask was still pale.

Tanjiro, however, was doing it for the first time.

Tanjiro wasn't unfamiliar with demons; for example, there was one right in front of him.

When I was on Mount Fujikasa, I killed demons and I also saw the demon, the adult, kill people.

But whether you've witnessed adults killing people or seen the cruelty displayed by the demons on Fujikasa Mountain, it's in fact far more than what you're seeing now.

This was the first time Tanjiro truly confronted the cruelty of demons.

Although he always knew in his heart that ghosts were cruel, and even adults told him that ghosts were cruel, he didn't actually have a clear concept of it. The cruelty he understood was only being cruelly treated when he was no match for an enemy.

But there was never the cruel scene of suspected torture and murder that we see now, where even children were not spared.

Looking into the eyes of the girl under the door, Tanjiro vaguely sensed a scene of extreme terror, sorrow, and despair.

Perhaps it was because he could smell those cruel, desperate, and terrifying scents that Tanjiro was able to understand more deeply the despair this family had experienced.

"vomit……"

When Maeda Hiroshi, who was following behind, saw the scene before him, he could hardly hold it in and immediately vomited.

A gentle breeze blew through the room, and it seemed as if one could hear people's pitiful wails.

Tanjiro gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, and couldn't help but look up at the adult, his teeth slightly clenched.

Previously, when the adults sent Tanjiro down the path of demon hunting, he only knew that it was a dangerous path and understood the cruelty of demons, but he did not have a clear understanding of the demons he was to hunt.

even……

Having slain several demons at Mount Fujikasane, Tanjiro had witnessed the sorrowful aura left behind by the death of demons.

Every ghost has a sad past and has suffered pain.

Tanjiro felt pity for this.

But at this moment, seeing the blood everywhere, seeing the half-eaten child's skull that had been bitten off, seeing the girl's desperate eyes under the door...

Tanjiro then truly realized what the demons he was hunting really were.

Perhaps, after death, these evil spirits will remember the time they were once human, and at the moment of death they will regret it, and feel sadness and pain for everything they did when they were ghosts.

Tanjiro can smell the sadness and pain in the demons, and he shares their sorrow and understands their suffering.

But these ghosts, what these ghosts did...

The cruel things done

This is absolutely unforgivable.

Absolutely not allowed.

Chapter 149 The Ghost Knocking at the Door at Night? No, It's a Ghost Hunter.

“These ghosts, the things they did, the cruel things they did, can never be forgiven.”

Tanjiro, pale-faced, looked at the bloodstains on the ground. What was once a happy and ordinary family had been completely destroyed by the strong smell of blood after encountering a demon.

The parents who protect their children are eaten, and the children who are protected watch helplessly as those who love and protect them are eaten, and then they are eaten as well.

Such a tragic thing

Such wanton destruction of other people's happiness.

They will be punished no matter what.

Tanjiro's face was still pale, but at this moment, his hand gripping the hilt of his sword was tight.

Before, joining the Demon Slayer Corps and becoming a swordsman, everything was done under the guidance of adults.

Before he knew it, he had become a swordsman in the Demon Slayer Corps.

Seeing the scene of wanton destruction before him, Tanjiro finally understood why he had joined the Demon Slayer Corps.

He also vaguely understood the significance of joining the Demon Slayer Corps.