Demon Slayer: I am a Demon.

Makomo clutched her heart, her expression pained.

"Not only Hiroshi Furukawa, but also his teammates."

Su Mu looked at Makomo and said calmly:

"I ended their lives."

The girl's pretty face suddenly turned pained, as if she couldn't accept it.

Why did you kill him?

Makomo could hardly cope with these things.

“If I don’t kill him, he’ll kill me. I don’t want to die, so the only way is for him to die.”

Su Mu offered a brief explanation.

Makomo fell silent; she didn't know how to face this.

Whether it was Hiroshi Furukawa hunting down Su Mu, or Su Mu killing Hiroshi Furukawa in order to survive, there were some issues, but both can be considered reasonable.

Was Hiroshi Furukawa wrong to slay demons as a demon slayer? This is something every demon slayer would do: strive to protect humanity and eliminate demons.

Was the Shetland Sheepdog at fault?

While Hiroshi Furukawa is a hero to ordinary humans who protects them, he is a vicious man to Su Mu. What is wrong with killing the person who wanted to kill him?

Whether it's Hiroshi Furukawa or the gentleman, they are both right. So whose mistake is it?

Suddenly, Makomo felt a little lost.

She really didn't know how to deal with this.

"Hiroshi Furukawa, as a demon slayer, became an enemy of the Master in order to hunt demons, while the Master, in order to survive, took action against those who threatened him..."

Makomo bit her pale lips, her delicate body trembling slightly: "Then, how should I view all this? Is it right to consider that Hiroshi Furukawa and the others died at your hands, sir? Or..."

"Can't you distinguish right from wrong?"

Su Mu looked at Makomo and spoke gently.

Makomo bit her lip, looking at Su Mu with hopeful eyes.

She desperately wanted to find an answer, an answer that would convince herself.

"There are ways to distinguish them."

Su Mu looked at Makomo and said calmly, "How can there be no right or wrong? It's just a matter of which side Makomo is on."

Makomo looked at Su Mu with some confusion.

"If Makomo stands on Furukawa Hiroshi's side, then it is my fault. I cruelly murdered the brave swordsman and am a bloodthirsty demon."

At this point, Su Mu shrugged and glanced at the girl: "If Zhen Gu is on my side, then it's not my fault. What's wrong with killing the person who wanted to kill me? I just wanted to live, what's wrong with that?"

Looking at Makomo, whose expression was filled with pain, Su Mu said calmly, "The root of your pain lies within yourself, within Makomo's own heart."

"Which side does your heart truly stand on?"

Are you on my side?

Chapter 301 Just kill me, Makomo, you'll end my life.

There is right and wrong in this world.

But right and wrong is a very subjective conclusion.

From a human's perspective, a demon that feeds on humans is wrong; from a demon's perspective, what is wrong with hunting for food?

Whether something is right or wrong depends on whose perspective you're on.

If you stand on Hiroshi Furukawa's side, then the valiant swordsman was brutally murdered by the evil spirits while protecting humanity and eliminating them.

But from Su Mu's perspective, he was someone who had never been bloodthirsty, who had been persecuted for no reason, and he wanted to kill the perpetrator. If he didn't kill the perpetrator, the perpetrator would kill him.

In order to survive, he killed the person who wanted to kill him.

They fought back in order to survive.

What's wrong with that?

It's clearly a case of one perpetrator cruelly treating another victim, yet they have such high expectations of the victim.

"Right or wrong, whose side am I on?"

Makomo raised her head and stared blankly at Su Mu, but the pain on her face did not lessen in the slightest: "But in the end, people like Hiroshi Furukawa died at your hands!"

This is an unchangeable fact.

The deaths of swordsmen like Hiroshi Furukawa are completely different from the deaths of Kanao's parents, which Su Mu killed.

Su Mu killed Kanao's father, which should have made Su Mu the person Kanao hated the most. However, Kanao's childhood experiences meant that she never received love from her parents. All she had was a perpetually hungry stomach, constant cold, and constant beatings.

Repeated abuse had robbed Kanao of any affection she felt for her parents, or rather, the concept of parents had vanished from her mind.

At this moment, Su Mu killed Kanao's father, but Kanao felt nothing about it, and had no emotional fluctuation at all about killing her father.

They wouldn't think their uncle had done anything wrong.

Or, in Kanao's world, whatever her uncle does will never be wrong, only right.

But Hiroshi Furukawa and his ilk were different. They had once hunted demons together with Makomo, and during the hunt, they received care and support from these people.

Ghost hunting is dangerous, and he has even been rescued by his companions on several occasions, risking their own safety.

These friendships forged through life and death, the care they received from Hiroshi Furukawa and others, and the shared experiences of hunting demons together...

For Makomo, these things cannot be treated like Kanao's, as a death she doesn't care about, or as someone who is dispensable.

"Hiroshi Furukawa and the others died at my hands, but what could I do?"

Su Mu shrugged, looking at Zhen Gu:

"Tell me, if you were me, what would you do? Teach me a solution?"

Makomo opened her mouth, wanting to come up with a solution, but when she did, she remained silent.

Was I really wrong?

Su Mu looked at Makomo, his voice filled with sorrow: "If there is any mistake, it is because I am a ghost, therefore I am wrong."

"Just because I'm a ghost, does that mean I'm wrong?"

"Because I am a ghost, therefore, I deserve to be hunted down, even if I have done nothing?"

"Even though I struggle to suppress the bloodlust of demons, even though I try my best to uphold the bottom line that once belonged to humanity, even though I endure inhuman torture every day..."

"I not only have to fight against the desires that come from the demons, but I also have to be hunted down by you demon hunters."

……

At this moment, Su Mu's voice was filled with dejection, which made Makomo's delicate body tremble slightly.

She seems

This problem has been ignored.

Perhaps, from the moment we met Su Mu, all we saw was his human side: gentle, patient, knowledgeable, and kind to everyone...

But they overlooked the fact that these are not aspects of the ghost.

As a demon unable to suppress its own desires, it struggles to emerge from the muddy sludge, experiencing all sorts of cruel, painful, and terrifying things along the way.

Just thinking about it made Makomo feel sorry for Su Mu.

I find today's questioning of Su Mu so cruel and heartless.

How could she question Su Mu about these things, or distance herself from him during this time because of them...?

Yes, swordsmen like Hiroshi Furukawa died at the hands of Su Mu.

This is an unchangeable fact.

However, this is not the gentleman's fault.

Hiroshi Furukawa and others kill demons to hunt demons, which doesn't seem wrong, simply because all demons in this world deserve to be killed, and these demons that feed on humans deserve to die by sword.

but

This ghost is different from others, sir!

He is different from other cruel ghosts. Why do Hiroshi Furukawa and others treat him like other ghosts?

The real mistake

Shouldn't we blame Hiroshi Furukawa and the others for deciding to kill Su Mu without understanding the situation? Admittedly, this is what ghost hunters should do, but does that mean they can just kill him without considering anything else?

Regardless of whether this ghost has ever harmed anyone.

Even after being transformed into a ghost, this ghost still upholds the bottom line of humanity.

No matter what kind of suffering this ghost is going through.

Regardless of what kind of torment this ghost is going through in order to uphold its inner convictions.

Does the fact that we hunt ghosts mean we can disregard everything and just shout for killing?

At that moment, Su Mu bent down, picked up a piece of wood and threw it into the stove. Looking at the flames burning in the stove, he lowered his eyes.

"If you think I deserve to die..."

His voice was low and filled with disappointment.

He almost gently untied the Nichirin Blade from his waist and handed it to Makomo: "If you think that I should die because I am a demon, that being a demon is wrong, and that a demon should not exist in this world."

As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at Makomo: "Then you shall end my life."

"I accept it."

As he spoke, Su Mu slowly closed his eyes.

The Nichirin Blade was handed over and landed in Makomo's palm. At that moment, Makomo felt a sudden heat from the hilt of the blade and immediately dropped it to the ground as if she had been electrocuted.

"Clang!"

The knife fell to the ground with a crisp sound.