Demon Slayer: I am a Demon.

"Even though I can't taste anything, I still have to try it. Maybe I can taste a bit of what it felt like when I was a human being."

He smiled, shrugged as if it didn't matter, and then sighed deeply: "I really want to experience what it feels like to be drunk, I really want to get completely drunk."

Tanjuro Kamado sneered inwardly. This legendary, cruel creature had always fed on human flesh and blood.

"Is this girl part of your food stash?"

Su Mu looked up at Kanao, who was running over with a bottle of wine, and chuckled softly, “Mr. Tanjuro is almost dead, how can you still be so boring, talking about sad things all the time.”

"Yes, it must be the food you stored."

"If I said no, I'm afraid Mr. Tanjuro wouldn't believe me, would he?"

Kamado Tanjuro ignored him and looked around: "Why are you the only demon? Call out all the other demons."

Su Mu seemed not to have heard Kamado Tanjuro's words. He took the sake bottle handed to him by Kanao and poured two cups: "The old man is about to die. It won't hurt to have a cup. He's going to die anyway. Even if it's poison, it won't make any difference to him."

As he spoke, Su Mu handed over the wine glass.

Tanjuro Kamado didn't take the sake cup, but looked around and said, "Are you the only demon here?"

"Old man, I invited you for a drink, but you're always trying to kill me."

Su Mu chuckled softly, picked up his wine cup, took a sip, and muttered to himself, "Demons are terrifying creatures to humans. They are almost immortal. Ordinary people cannot kill demons. The only way to kill a demon is to use a Nichirin Blade to sever its head."

Tanjuro Kamado continued to stare coldly at the demon before him, showing no emotion despite hearing that demons were invincible.

'Tanjuro Kamado' is like a plant sitting there, without breathing or emotion.

"That's right. You can't kill a demon without a Nichirin Blade, but there are people in this world who still have a way to kill demons."

As he spoke, Su Mu looked at Kamado Tanjuro, who seemed to be 'not breathing': "Those who practice 'Sun Breathing' will have their attacks contain some of the energy of the sun once they reach a certain level of 'breathing'."

'call……'

The man, who hadn't been breathing at all, suddenly took a rapid breath.

Yes, practicing the 'Breath of the Sun' will cause unusual burning damage to demons. Even if he doesn't have a Nichirin Blade, it doesn't mean he can't kill demons.

And the other party actually knew all this.

Why do you still dare to...?

"Mr. Tanjuro, you want to know why I dared to appear before you, don't you?"

Su Mu took a sip of wine, looking at Kanao who had already handed him a bowl full of food from the pot. His scarlet eyes lowered slightly, and he reached out and gently stroked the girl's head: "What is there to be afraid of? It's just death."

He smiled, drank another glass of wine, and poured it down his throat as if it were water, without tasting any alcohol at all. Then he looked at the old man opposite him and said, "If Mr. Tanjuro isn't afraid of death, do you think... I would be afraid of death?"

As he spoke, he gently lifted a piece of clothing beside him, revealing a knife hidden beneath the clothing.

A long, fiery red sword that faintly radiates the heat of flames.

A Nichirin Blade for slaying demons.

A... excellent sword for slaying demons.

He gently stroked the blade of the Nichirin Blade, feeling the repulsive warmth of the sunlight emanating from it. After a while, he raised his head and quietly looked at 'Tanjuro Kamado': "I think Mr. Tanjuro could easily sever my head with this sword, wouldn't he?"

He seemed to be smiling, yet he didn't seem to be smiling; he was simply watching the dying man before him, who was like a plant, lifeless and emotionless.

Chapter 66 You Have No Choice, You Have No Other Choice (3/5)

"I think if Mr. Tanjuro were to pick up this Nichirin Blade, he could easily slay this demon, right?"

Su Mu glanced at 'Kamado Tanjuro', then lowered his head and gently stroked the blade of his Nichirin Blade.

Then he picked up the sword by the blade with his fingers and handed the hilt to 'Kamado Tanjuro'.

"Mr. Tanjuro, look at this, isn't it a fine sword to cut off my head?"

Looking at the hilt of the sword handed to him, and then at the demon before him, 'Kamado Tanjuro's' thin body, which seemed to contain destructive power, began to tremble for no reason at this moment.

The fact that the other party dared to openly hand over the Nichirin Blade that had killed him clearly showed that they had come prepared and were not afraid of death at all.

Even if he kills the other person, how can he protect his home, his wife, and his children?

Seeing that the old man did not take the knife, Su Mu seemed somewhat bored and held the blade over the campfire to heat it. The flames scorched the blade and also the hand holding it.

You can clearly see that the hand is red and charred from the flames, and you can clearly see the blisters on the hand. You can also faintly smell the aroma of burning meat...

For no apparent reason, Tanjuro Kamado's eyelid twitched.

Kanao, who was standing next to him, immediately stepped forward and, with her eyes almost red, pulled his hand back from the flames. The girl's eyes were red and wide open, which looked quite frightening.

He smiled, patted Kanao's head, and then sat down by himself, calmly saying, "All ghosts are 'human predators,' there are no exceptions. But in this world, there will always be ghosts who don't want to 'prey on humans'?"

As he spoke, he turned his head and placed his hand in front of Kanao: "It's alright, Kanao. Look, it's just a little burn. It'll be fine in a bit."

The hand that was just burned was completely healed in no time.

Kanao's eyes were red as she held the big hand tightly with her small hand and examined it closely. She even clumsily blew air into the big hand with her mouth, as if that could relieve the pain of her hand being burned.

"How could you bear to eat a child who loves you so much?"

'Kamado Tanjuro' looked at Kanao, who was constantly blowing air into Su Mu's hand, and lowered his eyes slightly.

"So, I want to be a ghost that doesn't 'eat people,' but... it's so hard, so hard."

He looked up at 'Tanjuro Kamado': "I'm really hungry, really hungry, do you know that feeling...?"

Tanjuro Kamado turned his head and looked outside. His son, Tanjiro, was trudging towards them, his steps uneven.

They didn't care whether he was hungry or not, nor did they believe he would be willing to eat the child who loved him.

Su Mu didn't really want to share the feeling of being starving with 'Kamado Tanjuro'. This kind of pain can only be endured by oneself. Others who have not experienced it cannot understand it at all. If he talked about it, it would only make him a laughing stock.

He simply poured himself another glass of wine and drank it, sighing softly, "Wine that can drown sorrows for humans has absolutely no effect on ghosts!"

As he drank, he again offered the cup of sake that 'Kamado Tanjuro' hadn't drunk to the other man, his gaze fixed on the outside of the cave, watching the children rushing towards them:

"You're about to die, right? You have people you can't let go of, right? You're also feeling helpless, right? But there's nothing you can do, that's just how people are."

He sighed: "People will always get sick, grow old, and become weak. Even the strongest person becomes useless when they get sick."

"No matter how powerful one is, one is still just a mortal being."

Kamado Tanjuro's already dim eyes grew even dimmer. After hesitating for a moment, he finally accepted the cup of sake.

"Don't worry, I didn't poison you. You won't live much longer anyway, so why would I poison you?"

Su Mu smiled.

Kamado Tanjuro hesitated for a moment, but finally raised his sake cup, took a sip, and the fiery taste of the sake seemed to invigorate the old man's vitality.

"Speak, what exactly do you want?"

At this moment, Kamado Tanjuro did not look at Su Mu, but only at his son who was rushing towards the cave, as if he wanted to remember the child's voice and appearance so that he would never forget him again.

"I want to know about a flower, a flower that only blooms during the day, a flower called 'Blue Spider Lily'."

Su Mu looked up, his eyes fixed on 'Kamado Tanjuro'. He had asked Kanao to search for a long time, but they couldn't find this flower.

He has tasted many, many kinds of flowers.

Kanao, standing next to her, also stared at the other person with wide eyes at that moment.

Tanjuro Kamado frowned, thought for a while, and then shook his head: "I don't know anything about Blue Spider Lily."

The old man spoke without emotion, and his voice was very soft.

Su Mu leaned forward slightly, his scarlet eyes fixed on the other person, but no matter what, he couldn't tell whether the old man was lying or not.

"Really...you don't know?"

He squinted.

Kamado Tanjuro fell into deep thought for a while, then shook his head: "I don't know."

"Have you ever seen any particularly special flowers?"

Tanjuro Kamado looked up at the demon, not understanding why the demon cared so much about a flower, but with his family facing the demon's threat, he was really... terrified.

If he could, he really wanted to kill the ghost directly to prevent future troubles.

But he dared not. Killing this ghost would be easy, but if this ghost was so unafraid of being killed by him, then was there really no trickery or preparation behind it?

We're all adults, not children; he's not that naive.

He dared not gamble, nor did he want to gamble. He only hoped to get rid of the ghost in front of him, and he just wanted this ghost to... not threaten his home.

Even now, his gaze towards the ghost had become somewhat pleading.

"Okay... think about it."

Su Mu looked at the children rushing towards him from afar: "It's just a flower. How can it compare to my family that I care about, or to the things that I need to protect?"

Kamado Tanjuro closed his eyes in pain. He truly didn't know anything about blue spider lilies, but the demon before him didn't seem to think so.

“Special…flower.”

At that moment, Kamado Tanjuro racked his brains and finally remembered the flower that his wife seemed to have picked before, a flower he had never seen before.

“Every day at the turn of spring and summer, there is a flower that blooms for a very short time, which Kui Zhi once collected.”

Where was it collected?

Su Mu suddenly stood up and stared intently at 'Kamado Tanjuro'.

"Will you spare my family?"

At this moment, 'Tanjuro Kamado' was also staring intently at the demon's scarlet eyes, which were so close to his own, as if trying to find the answer in the demon's eyes.

"I never intended to hurt your family."

Su Mu gave a very honest answer.

Tanjuro Kamado stared intently at the demon, but he couldn't find any trace of lying in it. However, none of this made him believe it.

Who would believe in a ghost?

"I know you won't believe me, but you're dying, you have no other choice but to believe me."

He looked at 'Tanjuro Kamado': 'Unless you kill me, but if you kill me, a new demon will come soon, and that demon will definitely break into your house at night and destroy what you are trying to protect...'

He spoke softly, but his scarlet eyes held a cruel glint in them.