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Right? You're not wrong. It's true that Momotaros were raised from birth to hate Oni, but at this point a lot of them are just willfully cruel. Some of them feel like natural-born monsters who refuse to question anything because of their ego and ignorance. They’d rather keep labeling Oni as evil than admit that they themselves are the ones being cruel.
And the fact that people like Mikado or Shiki’s father exist proves that being understanding is actually possible... They show that Momotaros can choose a different path. Which honestly just makes the rest of them look worse, because it means many of them simply choose not to change ;-;
I might be wrong but the Momotaros seems kinda racist. Like they have no reason to attack thoes Onis who are just quitely living their lives expect from the fact that they have oni blood and there might be a possibility somehow they might go berserk but like some of them doesn't even awaken powers. It's just like people from a race hating an another race because some of them turned out be bad people and now they are labeling the entire race bad because of a deed from one person, while they conveniently ingnores that some from their own race or family done the exact same thing but they are labeled misunderstood or wrongly accused. I know it's not their fault because they believe what they were taught from a young age and also seeing Onis hurt their loved ones but they miss the fact that they are the ones who attacks first most of the time. At this point it became a generational hate towards oni rather than saving civials and their families.