[Serph closes his eyes. For perhaps the first time in all the conversations they've had, Serph sounds Tired.]

I know.

[A demon and peaceful existence are incompatible. And yet he yearns for it all the same, unable to give up on finding it.]

Most humans despise those who become demons because they're hunted by them. Yet some took the virus for strength to fight and protect their loved ones.

[He remembers how angry and scared the humans of Lokapala had been when he'd first met them. It seemed seeing their leader take the virus in order to finally fight had galvanised others into the same drastic action. But...]

...Even knowing what that means once the fighting is over.

[They had willingly doomed themselves, just so others may live.]