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Sanemi sneers as he watches the demon girl stare at his bleeding arm. He ignores the screams of her brother telling the demon girl to resist or the stares of the other hashira.
‘Pathetic. A demon resisting human blood.’
The very notion that this demon brat has gone without consuming a human was simply laughable and Sanemi was going to prove this demon girl was just like all the rest. No matter what her brother said.
Perhaps the smallest part of Sanemi felt pity for the Kamado boy. Blinded by the very notion a demon could resist human blood just because they were family. Sanemi knew fully well that it didn;t matter, demons will attack anyone for blood. Family or not. Sanemi was gonna teach that boy right now.
There was no doubt in Sanemi’s mind. This demon girl was gonna break seeing and smelling his marechi blood after being stabbed so throughly. Sanemi could even see drool leaking from beneath the girl’s bamboo muzzle. Sanemi’s grip was already near his sword in preparation to behead the demon the moment it attacked.
Though..the attack never came.
“Hmph!”
The demon girl turned away in disgust.
…that wasn't supposed to happen.
Sanemi frowned, gasping a little in shock.
This damn demon..was refusing to attack and consume his marechi blood despite being offered it to her face. Even after being stabbed. Any other demon would be losing it by now.
“Tell me. What has happened?” The master's voice was gentle like he knew this would happen.
“The demon girl even being presented with Shinazugawa’s blood has turned away in disgust.” one of the master’s children confirms.
Sanemi stares in shock. He hears some others speaking, but it gets drowned out by his thoughts as a memory passes through his head.
Sanemi remembered his own mother. Such a kind and caring young woman who always treated him, Genya, and their other siblings with such kindness. No matter how small she was, she still protected all of them from the piece of shit Sanemi refused to call his father. Even using her small body as a shield.
Even after their piece of shit of a father and husband died, their mother always worked hard to take care of them, getting into the role of both the caregiver and the provider for him and his siblings.
She was a hero to Sanemi.
However, that kindness ended up not mattering the moment she became a demon
Sanemi remembered the shock upon seeing the wild creature that killed all his siblings, but Genya on the floor. It was his mother who had become a demon. Killed by him.
Sanemi was in such a shock to see what happened to his kind and caring mother he barely even registered Genya’s screaming and sobbing as he called him a murderer.
It felt like a stab. Sanemi had lost his siblings and mother in one night.
Though seeing his turned mother like that taught Sanemi one thing. Demons must be destroyed. If even the kindest person he had ever known can become a man eating demon, then all demons were evil and had to be destroyed.
Yet this girl..this damn kamado brat was able to resist his blood! His marechi blood that completely drives demons wild to eat!
‘How!?’ Sanemi wanted to scream.
‘What made this girl so special!? Why was she able to resist human blood?! How was she able to keep her humanity despite being a demon! How!? Why?!...Why…’
‘Why..couldnt his mother do the same..?’
Sanemi paused as he wondered..could he have gotten through to his mother?
Could he have stopped her?
Could he have talked and gotten through to her?
Could he have gotten out of that situation without his siblings and mother dying?
Could..could he have done more..?