Demon Slayer Manga Chapter 149

Before the demon, there was a boy named Hakuji. Demon Slayer Chapter 149 opens Akaza’s buried past: a child in the slums who stole medicine money for his sick father and took beatings and criminal tattoos without complaint. Every crime was a desperate attempt to keep the only family he had alive one day longer.

His father, learning of the thefts, hanged himself so his son would not ruin his life for a dying man. Hakuji’s grief curdled into rage at the whole world, and he beat grown men senseless in the streets until rumors called him a demon child. Then a martial artist named Keizo found him and knocked him flat.