"Madam, you might not quite understand what I mean, so let me explain it to you first."
Su Yan took the glass bottle containing Muzan's demon blood from the demon's hand, walked over to Kie Kamado, and crouched down. "Given your current injuries, you are basically beyond saving."
"You should already be well aware of this yourself, right?"
Having the harsh truth laid bare by Su Yan, a trace of despair immediately surfaced in Kie Kamado's eyes. A line of tears inadvertently slipped down her cheeks.
"Hey, don't panic. I haven't finished speaking yet."
Seeing her reaction, Su Yan shook the bottle in his hand at Kie Kamado and continued, "Do you see this bottle of blood in my hand? This is good stuff. Just by drinking a little bit, even a terminally ill patient can fully recover their health..."
Hearing this, before Su Yan could even finish, Kie Kamado couldn't wait any longer and pleaded, "Please, save my children."
"Look at you, rushing again. I haven't finished."
Su Yan immediately interrupted Kie Kamado's pleas, pointing to the demon under his control nearby. "Do you see that guy over there? Once you drink this demon blood, you will turn into monsters just like him. You will never be able to walk in the sunlight again, and you will need to feed on human flesh. Can you accept such an outcome?"
After speaking, Su Yan quietly observed the woman in front of him.
If she chose to accept it, he wouldn't be stingy with the Muzan blood in his hands. As long as he saved Kie Kamado and her two children, he believed that with this life-saving grace, Tanjiro Kamado wouldn't refuse to teach him the Sun Breathing technique later on.
However, if Kie Kamado was unwilling to accept the demon blood, Su Yan didn't mind either. After all, he couldn't exactly force them to drink Muzan's blood and turn into demons, could he?
So, it all depended on what Kie Kamado chose to do.
Kie Kamado was deeply conflicted. She harbored a deep, agonizing hatred for the demon that had hurt her children, wishing she could tear it apart and eat it alive. But right now, the only way to save her own life and the lives of her two children was to drink the demon blood and become a monster just like it.
"M-Mom..."
At that moment, perhaps experiencing a final surge of terminal lucidity, her youngest son, Rokuta Kamado, who was lying in a pool of blood not far away, suddenly let out a weak murmur.
Kie Kamado instantly broke down in tears. Her gaze firmed as she spoke in a trembling voice, "Please, save us."
"Understood."
Seeing her finally make a decision, Su Yan didn't hesitate. He immediately positioned the bottle over Kie Kamado. She cooperated with his movements and opened her mouth.
Su Yan tilted the bottle, allowing the demon blood inside to flow out and drip into her mouth. He only poured a little bit, not giving her too much.
It wasn't that he was being stingy. For one, he wanted to save some of Muzan's demon blood for experiments. Secondly, based on the Demon Slayer plot he had seen before crossing over, he knew that ordinary demons transformed by Muzan generally didn't exhibit major differences from their human selves, aside from physical changes.
However, the heroine, Nezuko Kamado, had lost her sanity for a period of time after turning into a demon. It even took her a very long time before she could speak again. Su Yan suspected this might have been because she received too much of Muzan's blood all at once.
After feeding the demon blood to Kie Kamado, Su Yan walked over to her other two children and fed them the blood as well.
Afterward, looking at the three people who had just ingested the demon blood, a rather wicked thought suddenly crossed Su Yan's mind.
In the anime's storyline, after the Kamado family was attacked by Muzan, almost everyone died. Only Nezuko Kamado was left, transformed into a demon with the ability to freely alter her body size. Because of this, the protagonist, Tanjiro Kamado, carried her around in a wooden box on his back, never putting it down even during battles.
But now, three of his family members had been turned into demons all at once.
'Does that mean Tanjiro Kamado will have to carry three boxes on his back while fighting in the future?'
After being fed the demon blood, a healthy, rosy flush slowly began to return to their faces. This was especially true for Takeo and Rokuta Kamado, who had been gnawed on by the demon. Their mangled bodies gradually began to regenerate.
Watching from the sidelines, Su Yan couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement at the sight.
Following that came the physical transformations. Due to their family's poverty, Kie Kamado and her two children all had rather frail builds. But now, under the influence of the demon blood, their muscles bulged as if they were being pumped full of air. The veins on their faces bulged prominently, looking as though they had just activated the Byakugan. The teeth in their mouths also sharpened, becoming like those of wild beasts.
In the dead of night, six streaks of crimson light ignited in the darkness.
"Mister, you smell so good. Can I take a bite? Just one bite..."
Kie Kamado stood up, her eyes filled with a ravenous, insatiable desire to feed. She looked as though she wanted nothing more than to devour Su Yan alive.
Even her two children, Takeo and Rokuta, had crimson light glowing in their eyes. They stood behind Kie Kamado, staring at Su Yan, looking ready to pounce at any moment.
Without waiting for Su Yan's reply, the three of them staggered toward him. They spread out slightly in a surprisingly coordinated manner, seemingly trying to flank Su Yan from three different angles.
Su Yan's mouth twitched slightly.
'It would be one thing if a gorgeous beauty said something like that to me, but Kie Kamado?'
He carefully sized up the mother of the Demon Slayer protagonists. Judging by her appearance, she was dressed like a standard, rustic peasant woman. Although, based on her age, Kie Kamado should be around thirty years old—roughly the same age as Takagi Yuriko.
But there was absolutely no comparison between the two. Her skin condition alone was terrible, not to mention the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes, which couldn't be hidden at all. Under these circumstances, people would probably believe it if you told them she was a woman in her forties or fifties.
However, since she was able to give birth to such a beautiful heroine like Nezuko Kamado, she was probably quite the beauty in her youth. But her husband had passed away early, leaving her to toil endlessly on her own to raise six biological children, including Tanjiro and Nezuko.
The sheer hardship of it all was enough to grind down even the most vibrant and playful young woman into a haggard, broken shell of her former self...
Su Yan shook his head, tossing those thoughts to the back of his mind. Instead, he couldn't help but sigh at the behavior of the three people—no, the three demons—in front of him.
'The desire to feed right after turning into a demon really is immense.'
He recalled that Tamayo was the same; when she was first turned into a demon by Muzan, she couldn't resist the urge and ended up eating her own family. And when Nezuko Kamado first became a demon, she also couldn't hold back from attacking her brother, Tanjiro, when he returned home.
Naturally, Su Yan didn't think a mere life-saving grace would outweigh the bonds of close family in the face of such hunger.
In that case, he had no choice but to take action and force them to cool down first.
With a flick of his wrist, three silver-white chains materialized from his hand. Like silver snakes, they slithered out toward Kie Kamado and her two children.
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