Demon Slayer: I am a Demon.

These rural demons are incredibly brutal, and their hunting methods are extremely crude. They often break down doors at night, causing a great commotion, which quickly attracts the attention of the Demon Slayer Corps.

The ghosts in their city are different. They hunt with methods in mind, and their targets are homeless people, children sold to the city... prey that won't attract attention even if they die.

He had always been at home in this town, but now, the demons from the countryside had attracted the Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen, making his life difficult.

"I will be leaving in the next two days."

Su Mu lowered his head slightly and spoke calmly.

Demons are generally solitary creatures, and each demon has a strong sense of territory and its own hunting grounds.

Clearly, he had trespassed into the hunting grounds of the demon before him.

"Ah……"

The man sneered, "Is it enough to just leave? Do you know that I've been starving for the past few days because of your arrival?"

Because of the Demon Slayer Corps' search for swordsmen, it hasn't dared to hunt for the past few days.

Su Mu didn't speak, he just stood there quietly.

The man was furious and wanted to beat Su Mu up, but he was worried that making a commotion would attract the Demon Slayer Corps. As for killing Su Mu, he never even considered it. It wasn't that he didn't want to kill him, but because of the immortality of demons, it was very difficult for them to kill each other.

Of course, while it's difficult for ghosts to kill each other, it's not impossible.

For example, one method is to devour the other party.

In this way, the opponent can naturally be killed.

Moreover, by devouring the opponent, one will become even stronger.

However, it is not allowed for evil spirits to devour each other. Any evil spirit that dares to do so will be executed by the 'adult' himself.

No ghost dared to disobey the 'master's' orders.

Almost all the ghosts that dared to disobey the 'adult's' orders disappeared from this world.

Although they cannot kill each other, it is very easy for demons to torture each other, especially since the demons' immortality and strong vitality make the torture even more painful and perverse.

Therefore, the evil spirit was not worried that Su Mu would be ungrateful. After all, it could sense that Su Mu's aura was very weak. This was the weakest among the evil spirits, and only those who had never devoured 'flesh and blood' had such an aura.

Such weak demons are not even killed directly by some swordsmen of the Demon Slayer Corps. Instead, they are captured and taken to Mount Fujikasane to be used as subjects for new recruits' trials.

The evil spirit strode forward brazenly, standing before Su Mu and staring at the weak ghost before him: "Get out of my territory today..."

However, halfway through his sentence, the demon's gaze suddenly fell on Kanao Aoi, who was standing next to Su Mu. Looking at the girl's delicate body, the demon unconsciously licked its lips.

"What sweet food."

Suddenly, the demon's eyes filled with greed. Because of the Demon Slayer Corps' close surveillance and search of the city these past few days, he hadn't been able to hunt properly, and his stomach was growling with hunger.

Sensing the demon's gaze, Su Mu reached out and pulled Kanao Suhana behind him, then looked up and quietly stared at the demon that had already approached him.

Seeing the 'food' hiding behind Su Mu, the evil spirit reluctantly withdrew its gaze, looked up at Su Mu, and said, "Is this the 'prey' you caught today? It seems to be a rather docile 'prey'."

Normally, when 'food' is caught, it will fight back fiercely. Although most of these resistances are ineffective against evil spirits, it is rare to see one as docile as the one before us.

"In that case, as an apology for your intrusion into my territory, use the 'prey' you caught."

The demon's throat twitched involuntarily; it was so hungry that it couldn't wait to enjoy its meal.

Almost instantly after speaking, the demon reached out to grab Kanao Aoi, who was hiding behind Su Mu, completely ignoring Su Mu who was still standing in front of her.

In fact, he didn't take Su Mu too seriously. For demons who follow the law of the jungle, it's common for weaker demons to obey stronger ones.

And he was that powerful evil spirit.

However, an angry expression immediately appeared on the demon's face because Su Mu blocked its hand reaching for the food.

How dare a weak demon defy him?

At this moment, he wished he could immediately burst out and torture the brat in front of him, but he was considering that making a noise would attract the attention of the Demon Slayer Corps, and if he were targeted by that pack of hyenas, it would be troublesome.

So the evil spirit finally suppressed its anger slightly: "How about this, I'll give you a thigh later, this is my last act of mercy."

Clearly, the evil spirit dared to be so bold because it thought the other party wouldn't part with its 'food'.

Some hungry demons are sometimes blinded by their own desires, their eyes fixed solely on the flesh and blood.

Su Mu didn't speak, but reached his other hand to his waist, where there was a long, strip-shaped object wrapped in cloth, which looked like a weapon like a sword.

This is not surprising. With the existence of the 'Sword Ban Order', even the swordsmen of the Demon Slayer Corps will not openly expose their Nichirin Blades. They will wrap them in strips of cloth or hide them in other ways.

The evil spirit naturally noticed Su Mu's subtle movements and roughly guessed that there was a weapon at his waist, but it didn't care too much.

Unlike humans, even the most powerful person can be killed by a young child if they are not careful.

But for ghosts, the probability of this happening is almost non-existent.

The immortality of ghosts means that it is very difficult for evil ghosts to kill each other. Even if Su Mu takes out his weapon and sneaks up on him when he is not paying attention, he can only injure him, but not kill him.

Doing so will not only fail to solve the problem, but will also make him angrier and invite even more frantic retaliation.

Therefore, the evil spirits were not worried that Su Mu had the guts.

At this moment, under the confident gaze of the evil spirit, Su Mu's hand rested on the hilt of the sword at his waist.

"Shh!"

The blade, faintly radiating a scorching heat, was drawn from the strip of cloth, its flame-like light filling the demon's crimson pupils.

Everything became unbelievable and terrifying.

Chapter 33 Kanae the Butterfly

"Shh!"

The time from drawing the hilt to the blade striking is only a fleeting moment.

The evil spirit could only see the scorching heat flashing between the blades, and the aura of sunlight that terrified it also emanated from the blade.

"A Nichirin Blade??"

The demon opened its scarlet eyes wide in disbelief.

He knew that Su Mu might be carrying a knife or a sword at his waist.

But I didn't pay much attention to it.

Because even if the other party uses a knife or sword to sneak up and cut off his head, they cannot kill him.

Swords and knives are effective weapons against weak humans, but they are not very useful against demons.

However, to everyone's surprise, this sword was a Nichirin Blade.

A Nichirin Blade capable of slaying demons.

All demons are familiar with the Nichirin Blade; it is the sharp blade used by the Demon Slayer Corps to fight against them and to kill them.

But how could a demon carry a weapon that can slay evil spirits?

It should be understood that these Nichirin Blades contain elements that can slay demons, and contain a sunlight aura that demons hate. Any demon has an almost instinctive aversion to Nichirin Blades and will instinctively avoid them.

The evil spirits could not understand it.

But at this moment, sensing the aura contained within the Nichirin Blade, he wanted to dodge, but it was too late.

Su Mu's knife was too fast, too fast.

The demon only saw a flash of red light before feeling a cutting pain in the bones of its neck, and then the world began to spin around it.

In the quiet alley, only the head with the chonmage hairstyle was seen lying in the air, while the body standing in place was headless, and crimson blood spurted from its neck.

"boom!"

His head fell to the ground and rolled several times, his eyes still staring wide-eyed at Su Mu, as if he still couldn't believe what had happened.

He couldn't believe that the other person would kill him over such a small thing as 'food'.

They didn't believe they would die so easily.

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Crimson blood flowed on the ground, adding a touch of eeriness as it shone in the moonlight.

Looking at the demon's head rolling on the ground, Su Mu slowly put away his Nichirin Blade and then wrapped it in a strip of cloth again.

This ghost was too careless, or rather, not careless, but overconfident in its demonic body.

After all, demons are not as weak as human bodies. They are so weak that even a young child can die if he or she is stabbed in a vital spot by a sharp blade.

Such a thing is almost non-existent among evil spirits.

It was precisely this carelessness and overconfidence that led to the demons realizing that Su Mu had drawn the Nichirin Blade, a weapon capable of slaying demons, by which time it was too late.

As Su Mu sheathed his blade, the head whose neck had been severed by the Nichirin Blade was slowly dissipating, and deep regret could still be seen in the opponent's glaring eyes.

But no matter how much you regret it, it's too late.

As its head and body slowly dissipated, a foul stench began to fill the air, along with an atmosphere of sorrow.

This sorrowful aura is undetectable to ordinary people. The Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen who sever the necks of demons with their Nichirin Blades wouldn't smell it, and even if they did, they wouldn't care, nor would they care about the sorrow of a demon's dying breath.

But Su Mu, being a ghost, could smell it.

I could smell the ghost's sorrow.

The sorrow was mixed with pain, regret, and despair...

These sorrows are not the sorrows that arise from the end of one's own life, but rather the pain and grief left behind when one finally recalls the memories of being human before death.

Perhaps, this ghost also had its own happiness that it destroyed with its own hands, and in the end, it became someone it could no longer recognize, someone whose appearance had been completely altered.

But no matter how painful it is, it can only be accompanied by endless despair and then vanish completely.

As the chestnut blossoms fell, Kanao stood beside Su Mu, watching her uncle stare at the demon. She tilted her head and looked at the demon as well, her pinkish-purple eyes watching the demon's head gradually disappear, and she saw tears dripping from the demon's eyes.

"He looks like he's crying."

"The chestnut blossoms are falling," Kanao whispered.

Sensing the sadness in the air, Su Mu responded softly, "It's right to cry."

With that, he took Kanao Aoi's hand and quickly left.

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