Who Created The Demon In White Character In The Manga?

I used to reread that scene where the cloth falls away and it all clicks into place — the origin of 'Demon in White' is one of those tragic, muddy myths that turns out to be painfully human. In the novel, she was a healer from a border village, trained to stitch wounds and read herbs. When a fever ripped through her town, she performed an old purification ritual wearing a white shroud to protect the living from contagion. The ritual required a bargain: a sliver of the healer's memory to be offered as ballast. That bargain went sideways. What the text slowly reveals is that the shroud absorbed more than disease; it absorbed grief and the villagers' want of vengeance. The healer's compassion hardened into something feral. She became the 'Demon in White' not because she was born monstrous, but because the white became a ledger of every harm done to her people. The novel layers this with courtroom-like testimonies, blurred flashbacks, and an unreliable narrator who makes you question whether the transformation was supernatural or the inevitable result of isolation and trauma. I love how the author refuses to give a neat origin — instead, the origin is communal: a ritual, a promise, and a town's refusal to grieve properly. It felt devastating and oddly compassionate at once.