Talk:Kaigaku/@comment-44043170-20191006125848

It should be noted that in the past, Kaigaku went out at night because he was caught stealing. In the recent novel for kny, it says that after Kaigaku was caught stealing, the other kids in the temple forced him out of the temple at night, fully knowing that it is dangerous outside. After that the kids (except the girl who survived) lied to Himejima that Kaigaku was sleeping. Kaigaku is definitely a bad person, but he was under the age of 10 and I see no difference with him and the other kids who died in the temple. This is why in the chapter that shows Himejima's past, he calls ALL kids innocently evil and greedy, not just Kaigaku. Himejima later gets noted that Kaigaku was forced out when the demon(who he killed) presumably told him about the stealing.

Kaigaku's past is lot darker than what it is shown. His motive from the beginning to the end was to become "special". If Kaigaku lived a few more years with Himejime, he might have become a completely different person. Also there is a weird hole in his story. The author never tells the reader why he started stealing. Kaigaku never hated Himejima (in one of the extra drawing, Kaigaku is seen smiling while Himejima pats his head), so when he has a house to live under, why did he steal? Did he not like the fact that Himejima told him that he loves everyone equally? Did he not like the other kids? There are so many possibilities of why he became like that.

Back to his past, after Kaigaku became homeless, he continues stealing, until he was caught by that Lightning breath user. He practices endlessly, and was doing what he wanted to, to become special. Until one night, boom, some unknown kid comes in and the breath user tells him that this kid will become a sucessor together. This kid, from who knows where, who cries, whines, and does not want to become the breath user.

Somewhere around this time, Kaigaku joins the demon slayer. He may have met Himejima or not. Probably not since, by how the manga is written, most demon slayers don't meet the pillars. He does what he is good at and he gets unluckily caught by Kokushibo. Like any human, he wants to survive so he becomes a demon.