[ But he'll also turn back to Lux and smile then, not brightly but with a certain sort of calm, undeterred certainty. ]

But an ayakashi is different than that. Sometimes it's a soul that's fallen to such an extent, but sometimes I think it's just the dark feelings people have that take on lives of their own and turn even normal people into monsters.

Regardless, I think they're creatures that don't deserve the sadness of their own existence. That they should be freed from the darkness that binds them.

So I hope they go somewhere they can find rest, too.