Akaza Quotes

Three names and a word he has not been entitled to for over a century. The demon has lost, and losing gives back what being a demon took: he was Hakuji, a boy who stole to buy medicine for a father who then hanged himself so that he would no longer be a burden on his son, and who was afterwards taken in by a master, Keizo, and engaged to his daughter Koyuki, both of whom a rival dojo poisoned. A demon's human memories fade, which means Upper Rank Three spent more than a century unable to recall what he was angry about. What the fight returns is not redemption. It is an address. He stops regenerating, and the last thing the character does is decline to survive.

Set it beside Light Yagami, who opens Death Note by observing that a look around will show you people the world would be better off without. Both are culling arguments and they are not the same argument. Light's is administrative: a category, a register, a workload, and no feeling whatsoever about any individual inside it. Akaza's is personal to the point of embarrassment, stated four times in four ways, and delivered mid-fight to a boy he is correcting. He is not describing a policy, he is describing disgust, and the tell is the second sentence, where he cannot leave the first one alone. Light believes he has built a system. Akaza has a grudge more than a century old.