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"Alright, Miss Tamayo, stop pestering me about my Blood Demon Art. Aren't you curious about that owl swordsman's future fate?"
Mitsuba asked with a smile.
"I mentioned earlier, right? He was supposed to die here tonight, but with our help, he escaped this death tribulation.
Can you guess what his fate will be afterward?"
Indeed drawn in by Mitsuba's question, Tamayo tentatively asked:
"Are the threads of causality still on him?"
"Of course they are! In this world, besides us demons, any living creature will have these things. There are absolutely no exceptions."
"Then, will he live to a ripe old age?"
Tamayo recalled certain novels she had read before.
In these novels, when the protagonist avoided their destined death tribulation, they would often enter the realm of "my fate is determined by me, not by heaven" from then on, taking control of their own destiny, living to a hundred years old and such...
However, upon hearing this, Mitsuba couldn't help but laugh.
"How could our supreme gods possibly be so generous and tolerant?"
Her pupils instantly transformed into the shape of mandala flowers again. Mitsuba didn't let Tamayo continue guessing. She suddenly restrained her smile and said expressionlessly in a deep voice:
"That child did indeed avoid tonight's death tribulation, but the gods immediately arranged a second death tribulation for him.
That will be during a mission three days later. Because of tonight's battle, his confidence will swell, and he will blindly challenge a demon far stronger than himself, ultimately dying at that demon's hands... Doesn't it feel ironic?
The result of us helping him escape his death tribulation ultimately became the trigger for the gods to arrange his second death tribulation.
What a pity. Such a good-natured child. I thought he could live on well after this..."
Mitsuba shook her head slightly and sighed softly.
The supreme gods absolutely do not allow their authority to be profaned.
Mitsuba had no doubt that even if she helped that owl swordsman avoid his next death tribulation, the gods would certainly arrange a third, a fourth death tribulation for him, until he completely died according to the fate the gods originally set for him.
What is destined cannot be changed. Unless that child was willing to hide inside her domain forever, but that was clearly impossible...
Hearing this, Tamayo also fell into silence.
Suddenly, she remembered what Mitsuba said when bidding farewell to the owl swordsman—that final sentence:
"Be happy from now on."
Wait, was she... blessing that Demon Hunter?
Tsugikuni Mitsuba, who had previously killed three Demon Hunters without hesitation, had just expressed blessings to a Demon Hunter she hadn't even exchanged more than a few words with?
Incredible...
Having spent so many days with Mitsuba, this was the first time Tamayo heard words of blessing from Mitsuba's mouth.
Due to this shock in her heart, after a brief hesitation, Tamayo decided to ask.
"Why didn't you kill him just now?"
Upon hearing this, Mitsuba blinked, then grinned:
"Miss Tamayo, are you telling me how to do things?"
"I...!"
Caught off guard and choked up, Tamayo almost couldn't catch her breath.
"Just a joke. Don't mind it."
Having obtained the reaction she wanted from Tamayo's face, Mitsuba, feeling satisfied, then explained:
"I just believe that killing people is something you only need to do to fill your stomach. After all, I'm not some perverted murderer. I can't experience any pleasure from such boring behavior.
Moreover, every person's life is very precious.
Miss Tamayo, think about it—from birth, to growing up, to finally becoming an adult, how incredibly long a time this requires!
And then we just go 'snap' and kill them. Don't you think this is actually a very regrettable thing?"
Drawing a large circle in the air with both hands, Mitsuba looked at Tamayo and said very seriously:
"They clearly still have such long lives ahead, clearly still have so much life left to live. No matter what, it shouldn't end so hastily..."
"What about Demon Hunters? Are they the same?"
Tamayo subconsciously pursued the question.
Upon hearing this, Mitsuba looked at her with a strange expression.
"Demon Hunters are of course different. Why would you ask such an obvious question?
As enemies with completely different standpoints, before viewing them as people, I first view them as enemies!
And for enemies, we must kill them the moment we see them, right? Doesn't Miss Tamayo think the same way?"
A strange light flickering in her eyes, a teasing smile on her face, Mitsuba slowly walked behind Tamayo, leaning against her back once again, and quietly asked by her ear:
"Or could it be that Miss Tamayo actually harbors compassion for our enemies, even longing to... throw yourself into their embrace as soon as possible?"
"I have never thought that way."
Ignoring Mitsuba's actions, Tamayo closed her eyes, her tone calm.
She had indeed thought about relying on those Demon Hunters' power to eliminate Muzan, but she herself had never considered defecting to the Demon Hunters.
She wasn't naive to that degree, thinking that those Demon Hunters who were almost all filled with hatred toward demons would tolerate her—a demon who had once killed many people and was still eating humans to this day.
Even though she and they actually shared the same goal.
"Mhm, I believe you."
Regarding Tamayo's affirmative answer, Mitsuba first nodded lightly to show belief, then whispered by her ear:
"Of course, it doesn't matter if you really think that way in your heart.
Don't worry~ considering my fairly good relationship with Miss Tamayo, unless Lord Muzan comes to ask me himself, I absolutely will not tell Lord Muzan about your little secret... I guarantee it."
She didn't believe her at all.
After spending so many days together, Tamayo had more or less figured out some of Mitsuba's speaking habits.
Although Mitsuba said she believed verbally, in her heart she seemed certain that Tamayo would definitely find a way to betray Muzan and defect to those Demon Hunters in the future.
But Mitsuba didn't care.
Tamayo knew clearly that besides possessing somewhat exceptional medical skills, her strength was pathetically weak. In the eyes of Mitsuba, who possessed bizarre and powerful Blood Demon Art, she didn't even count as a threat.
Mitsuba could even tell her the limitations of her Blood Demon Art without caring whether she would reveal them.
Because she was absolutely confident in her own strength, because her Blood Demon Art was unsolvable.