Does it matter if he's a demon when he's inferior with a sword?

[souji's eyes narrow a bit. he doesn't really give a shit if it takes him to his dying breath—his final dying breath—he's going to be the one to put kaoru's life to a permanent end.

he knows it won't be the easiest task. demons have raw strength that is pretty hard to match. but this isn't the same as going head to head with a demon like kazama, whose raw swings had enough power to be formidable against souji's technique. kaoru is smaller and a bit weaker, and souji knows that as long as his own body cooperates, he can out-finesse kaoru.]

I don't plan on dying anytime soon, anyway. I'm not that easy to kill either, you know. [as long as he's not getting shot with silver bullets, but hey! canon points. he doesn't actually know this yet, and he's really planning on a situation where they go sword-to-sword, not against guns. that's some bullshit, even if it's exactly that kind of bullshit.]