Is the Demon Pitiful?

Today is Setsubun.
Once the sun sets, I must perform the bean-throwing ritual.
"Demons out, fortune in."
It is a solo bean-throwing session.
And a quiet one at that.
Today, I think I will first send the "demon" out before inviting "fortune" into the house.
If I call for "fortune" first, it might run into the "demon" inside the house.
Even so, it is cold today.
The forecast says "rain or snow" from the evening.
The north wind also looks cold.
It is a bit worrying to chase the "demon" out into such cold weather.
Surely even a "demon" must be vulnerable to the cold.
In that case, perhaps I should try saying "Demons out" even more quietly than usual.
If the "demon" doesn't "hear" it and misses its chance to leave the house, then so be it.
I am only going to throw two or three "beans" anyway.
If the "demon" doesn't notice the "voice" and avoids the "beans" to stay, it shouldn't be much of a problem. Perhaps the reason I have been able to live this long is thanks to being tempered by the "demon." It is pitiful to drive it away "cruelly" into the "cold sky."
Even if it runs into "fortune" inside the house, surely "fortune" is "battle-hardened" and used to such things.
To treat a "demon" that has "fatefully" ended up here "callously" would be lacking in "compassion."
Well, I will just "let things take their course."