Regarding the aftermath of demon slayers slaying demons, the Demon Slayer Corps had always handled it very crudely.
After slaying demons, demon slayers left—those who needed to return to recuperate did so, those who needed to take the next mission went to take the next mission.
After this, the logistics unit Kakushi appeared.
Cleaning up battle traces at the scene, clearing away possible human corpses, then instructing possible eyewitnesses—those who needed hush money got hush money, those who needed compensation got compensation...
And then, that was it.
Yes, just like that.
For those similarly possible humans who once colluded with demons and aided the tiger's fierceness, the Demon Slayer Corps' attitude had always been only one—
That was to directly ignore them.
This sounds unbelievable, but hidden within are various complex reasons.
Over the past several hundred years, the Demon Slayer Corps had always adhered to an iron law established by the Ubuyashiki clan—
As demon slayers, absolutely not permitted to participate in any disputes of the human world.
And once becoming a demon slayer, that meant being a demon slayer for life. Unless special circumstances, absolutely not permitted to "resign" midway.
The reason for doing this, besides the Ubuyashiki clan not wanting to excessively reveal demons' existence to the populace and cause unnecessary panic.
More importantly, it was to prevent demon slayers from relying on their own powerful strength to wantonly interfere in human world disputes.
Although to powerful demons, the strength of the vast majority of demon slayers couldn't be considered very strong.
But to those truly ordinary humans, even demon slayers who only superficially mastered Breathing Styles were already incredibly powerful!
And Hashira-level swordsmen standing at the peak of demon slayers, when facing ordinary human soldiers of the cold weapons era, could easily take on a hundred enemies without issue!
Especially after the Sengoku period, this was even more obvious.
The gods created Yoriichi, and Yoriichi brought Breathing Styles to the Demon Slayer Corps.
The appearance of Breathing Styles was originally a "cheat" provided by the gods for humans to eliminate demons.
It should not have existed in this world, yet under the gods' tacit approval, it became the standard equipment of every demon slayer today.
Mastering such terrifying power—once the opening was made for demon slayers to freely participate in human world disputes, the consequences would be unimaginable.
At first, perhaps everyone only wanted to better handle those humans who colluded with demons, to let justice be more thoroughly implemented.
But over time, who could guarantee this original intention wouldn't change?
When people truly tasted that wonderful power of being able to freely judge others' life and death, how many could always remain firm in their hearts and guarantee they absolutely wouldn't overstep boundaries?
First those villains who truly colluded with demons, then those poor people who never harmed anyone but were forced to provide partial help under demons' coercion.
Then, those who clearly already knew of demons' existence but out of fear didn't dare provide help to demon slayers—cowards.
Finally, completely evolving into, in order to block information about demons' existence, handling all humans who knew of demons' existence regardless of good or bad.
The opening grew larger and larger, judgments became more and more arbitrary.
The fall of human nature began just like this, step by step.
Then, if the Demon Slayer Corps didn't handle it themselves, could they hand these people over to the Magistrate's Office for handling?
The answer is, this was also very difficult.
Besides some truly special circumstances, the vast majority of killings committed by humans colluding with demons were very hard to convict through human society's legal procedures.
A very important reason was that you simply couldn't find the victims' corpses.
After all, they were all eaten by demons...
No corpse to confront, not even a body to be found—how can you say I killed him?
I warn you, don't slander good people!
To have the Magistrate's Office try these people, sufficient evidence must be provided, even informing them of demons' existence, otherwise from a legal perspective, it would be very difficult to convict these people.
But this, in turn, violated the Ubuyashiki clan's... or rather, the gods' goal of wanting to hide demons' existence as much as possible.
Precisely in this situation of being stuck between two ends, the Ubuyashiki clan simply chose to ignore everything entirely.
Whether you truly colluded with demons or not, whether you killed however many people in the past together with demons—as long as I cut down the demon, that's enough.
My Demon Slayer Corps is only responsible for killing demons. All other matters have nothing to do with me, and I won't manage them either.
Thus, over time, even when facing those very obvious accomplice behaviors, demon slayers would no longer intervene to handle them...
After all, as long as they could slay demons and protect other humans from their hands, that was enough.
Other matters had nothing to do with demon slayers.
This was also normal—after all, Lord God had never said that everything He did was for justice.
He only wanted to eliminate demons, this kind of existence beyond His control, nothing more.
But it doesn't matter!
As the embodiment of justice, as a kind demon slayer, Mitsuba will take action!
Thus, on the second night after Mitsuba and Shinjuro left.
Led by a certain Councilor Tsugikuni, police from nearby township police stations mobilized together, arresting all members of this family that very night!
Then a week later, a piece of shocking news rapidly occupied the headlines of major newspapers in Tokyo!
[Shocking! Ancient family passed down for hundreds of years actually had cannibalistic tendencies?!]
[Incredible! The legendary hospitable family actually had unknown cult beliefs?!]
[Ancient family, vanished travelers, mysterious sacrificial rituals—what secrets lie behind all this?]
[Regarding this famous "Cannibal Family" case, let us once again thank Councilor Tsugikuni for...]
"Councilor Tsugikuni! What views do you hold regarding the recent outcome of the 'Cannibal Family' case?"
"Are the newspaper reports all true? Did that family really have a three-hundred-year cannibal tradition?!"
"Councilor Tsugikuni! How exactly did you discover that family's secret?"
"Councilor Tsugikuni..."
Before Tsugikuni Michikatsu's residence in the Tokyo city district, a crowd of reporters holding pens and paper swarmed in.
Already familiar with this scene, Michikatsu—like usual—was dressed in a neat suit.
Standing in the shadows beneath the front door eaves, arm in arm with Nakime beside him wearing a kimono, he calmly and composedly dealt with the reporters' questions one after another.
Presumably, for some time in the future, this young and promising handsome councilor would certainly stir up considerable discussion in Tokyo...
Elder brother's official career—truly a smooth path ahead~