“Shakrwa yipfhawni humanni?”

What?

“I…….DONT ……..UNDERSTAND.”

“Humanni laquashi! Humanni laquashi!”

W-What?

The old man with horns pointed his staff at me and kept on yelling “Humanni!”, humanni means human so he kept on calling me human even though I was far from it, just because I spoke the “humanni” language. How would he react if Alexandria, one of their kin, were to speak the humanni language? If I'm gone for too long they'll definitely come and look for me, so I just gotta play the waiting game.

One person from this demon tribe held up his sword, this sword was extremely worn out and it was chipped all over. It looked as if it survived many centuries of warfare.

The man walked up and the elderly man stepped aside, the man put the tip of his sword on my throat.

So much for the waiting game...they might kill me before the others find me.

The demon man was young, maybe in his twenties, maybe in the hundredths if we're talking about some kind of demon years, he had pale skin and horns similar to those of a sheep. He had blue eyes and he wore some kind of traditional tribal clothing of some sorts which consisted of a tunic made of some kind of animal, pants probably made front eh same material, and a cloak made of fur.

“Woah! Woah! Woah! We don't have to take it that far demon...um... people, I'm pretty sure we can work something out can't we?”

“No…”

“Oh hey, you can speak the language! Hey, could ya do me a favor? Id like you to tell your buddies that I'm far from human okay?”

“Not human? What is it that you mean, not human?”

“Exactly how it sounds buddy, I ain't human!”

“Proof...need proof you are not human.”

Ahh...how am I supposed to prove this? Ehh...I have an idea but I don't want to do it...ah! Whatever!

“Cut my arm off!”

The demon man with the sword gave me a confused look, a look that says “What is wrong with this guy?”

“Trust me! Once you cut it off try to reattach it, I promise it'll prove that I'm not human! I'm sure no human can do what I can do!”

“Ok.”

And in a blink of an eye, I felt my arm get sliced of my torso.

“AGHHH!!!!”

Fuck this hurts...ugh...why do I have to do this to myself?

“Try and r-reattach it, c-cmon.”

My left arm started to form a waterfall of blood, I feel like I'm getting light-headed...how much blood is in my body and how much can I lose!

The demon man stuck my ark back onto where it belongs and the two parts started to fuse together getting rid of the wound.

“Not human!”

“What'd I tell ya.”

All the other demon guys saw as he reattached my arm back and he started to speak as he faced them.

“Shifro, shajao naifo humanni!”

After hearing that the elderly man went behind me and untied me from the tree.

“Phew...I thought I was gonna lose all feeling to my body, blood circulation isnt exactly good when being tied.”

“Am sorry for doing this to you.”

“Ahh, no problem.”

“When you come to the forest you were alone, are you alone?”

“I'm not exactly alone, you see I have a gro-”

“Antonio! There you are!”

“Antonio has this where youve been?”

Alexandria and Elizabeth burst from the brush.

“Are you okay Antonio?”Alexandria asked visibly worried.

“Yeah I'm fine, but check these guys out!”

She looked at the demon guys and her mouth was wide open, she knew what this was but the demon had no reaction which meant that they didn't know.

“Who these people, your friends?”

“Yeah, don't worry, their with me, but more importantly, Alexandria I think you should introduce yourself!”

“R-Right!”

Alexandria walked up and faced the many demon people that were present, I’m sure that Alexandria's horns played a role in getting their attention because they stayed where they were.

“Shari, sa citezani deconi emripe, gnow saki sha dakree kingsha, la lashita once!”

After Alexandria said that the demon people all got on their right knee including the one that could speak the human language that was right next to me.

“Risha citezani deconi emripe, gnow obkejive la powripre bashi so deconi emripe!”

What in the world is she even saying…

“I cannot believe the dark king still be alive.” Said the human language translator.

“H-hey buddy could ya translate a bit of this? I don’t exactly speak demon.”

“Sure, anything for the companions of the dark king.”

An alertly man started speaking.

“Shaja fograta, shishay trodin kijona sahija.”

“We cannot all join you my dark king, we must stay in this forest to take care of the children and elderly, that is what he said.”

“Ah, thanks.”

The translator stood up and approached Alexandria.

“My dark king, I wish to accompany you along your journey, I will go on behalf of the village, I swear with my life I will protect you and help you bring back glory to the dark kings and the demon empire.”

“Hmm…”

Alexandria's eyes started to wander and then they landed on me and Elizabeth, her eyes were asking us for our opinions, I don’t mind him so I nodded up and down.

“Okay then, what is your name.”

“Maishaza.”

“Well then Maishaza, I will accept your proposal.”

“Thank you my dark king, it is an honest to serve you.”

A new member in this little group of ours, and another person who’ll be also running from Ezekiel.

“It is dark my king, why not spend the night here?”

Alexandria again looked at us for our opinions and again I didn’t really care.

“Okay then, we will camp here.”

“Well then I’ll go back to Robbert and tell him about all the things that happened here, I’ll probably sleep in the wagon while I’m there.”

“All right Elizabeth, we’ll meet up at the wagon tomorrow morning so sit tight ya hear.”

Elizabeth disappeared into the forest leaving me and Alexandria to stay the night at this tribe village.

“So where am I and Alexandria going to be sleeping?”

“You’ll sleep there.”

He pointed to a small little hut.

“Dark king sleep there.”

He pointed to a house made of the forest wood, it even had glass windows and ornaments were used to decorate the outside.

“Can’t be helped, can it?”

In terms of social class here she’s at the top and I’m just some nobody at the bottom, haven’t been treated like this in years! Guess I got what was coming for me.

“Maishaza he’s coming with me.”

“Dark king…...if that is what you command I will not disobey.”

“Really Alexandria? Y'know I’m fine with the little hut and all, wont this cause some misunderstandings? I mean our social classes are vastly different here.”

“Don’t worry, I have the perfect plan! This plan will change your social status and they’ll stream you the same way as me!”

“Ehh…”

“Maishaza he’s my husband so it’s fine!”

“W-Wait Alexandria…”

She grabbed me and ran into the wooden house slamming the door shut.

“S-Sorry Antonio! T-That wasn’t the plan! I swear!”

“Now you’ve really caused some misunderstanding.”

“I-I know!”

Alexandria crouched and covered her head with her arms, she was red and it almost looked as if she was about to cry.

“Anyway, We’ll clears up the misunderstanding with him when we see him again, so don’t worry.”

“That’s not what I’m worried about!”

“Huh?”

“W-Whatever! S-Sudup! Agh! Why do you have to be so oblivious...agh!!! I give up! Forever about it!”

“Wait what do yo me-“

“SHUDUP!”

“Okay, okay.”

I walk up the wooden stairs and pick a random room to settle in.

“Jeez what was that about? Oblivious? The hell is that supposed to mean!?!?”

I’ll think about it tomorrow, it’s late.

The beds here really are of good quality, no wonder they wanted Alexandria the dark king in this house. Been a while since I’ve been this comfortable, also been a while since I’ve had an actual good nights rest. I’m gonna savor this experience.

………………………………..

I hear faint voices outside the house, it must be morning right now.

I get dressed in my suit and sling my golden BAR around my shoulder.

I really did get a good night's rest.

I walk downtown he stairs and open the front door, behind the door was Maishaza, the moment he saw me he bowed and said.

“I’m sorry for misunderstanding, my lady the dark king has explained everything to me.”

My lady? When’d he start saying that?

“Erm...no problem.”

“My lady and I are leaving soon.”

“Alright.”

He leads me to Alexandria, once I’m there Alexandria starts to pout. An awkward silence fills the air, guess I gotta break it.

“Not even a good morning?”

“Why should I?”

She’s a little cold today, was it something about yesterday?

“My lady let us leave.”

Maishaza gets on his right knee as he holds Alexandria's hand, he kisses the top of her hand and then gets back up.

Hey, hey, hey, what’s going on here? Did something happen while I was asleep?

“Let’s return to Elizabeth and Robbert.”

As we walk the path that leads us out of the forest Maishaza was in front of us guiding the way. This gave me some time to talk to Alexandria.

“Soo, did something happen while I was asleep?”

“Nothing.”

“Where you so cold today? Was it something that happened last night?

“.......”

Maisazha stopped and turned around, he faced me and held up his damaged sword.

“You are troubling my lady, anymore and I’ll have your head.”

“O...Kay…”

The two of them walked up ahead leaving me keeping some distance, they started talking and to be honest I’m feeling a little left out here. I guess the only way is to apologize, if I only knew what to apologize for, I’m not going to give an apology without any meaning. But it ain’t gonna be easy trying to find out the reason.

If I pester Alexandria too much Maisazha will go after my head, guess I’m all alone in this.

Alright, brainstorming time.

The sounds of some type of fly distract my brainstorming and it made it difficult for me to start it up again.

STOMP STOMP

What in the hell is that?

STOMP STOMP

“Watch out my lady!”

Maisazha grabbed her hand and kept her close, the animal that came out of the brush was some type of wild boar but the thing was that it was massive.

“That nose probably has a lot of meat in it, let’s get it!”

Before I could get my bar ready Maisazha held his sword and in the blink of an eye the boar was sliced up into sections. The head was severed, the body was divided, the legs were on one side.

Damn…

“Your really strong Maisazha.”

“Thank you my lady.”

Pfft it wasn’t that impressive, I definitely could’ve done better if I was given the time to prepare.

Maisazha made a makeshift basket, he placed the bits and pieces of the boar in it and he carried the larger parts with his hands.

“Hey you need any help with that?”

“There is no need, I can handle this myself, if you were to carry any of this you’d become a burden to me and my lady.”

“That’s quite harsh isn’t it?”

“The truth can be harsh sometimes.”

Alrighty then, guess he isn’t a “buddy “ after all.

Before we knew it we were at the wagon, Robbert and Elizabeth looked amazed at what Maisazha had brought with him, of course they’d be amazed, who wouldn’t be enticed to meat, especially when all you’ve been eating have been vegetables and fried meat, nothing beats fresh meat.

Robbert and Elizabeth all hopped off the wagon and came to greet this groups new member.

“Woah did you kill a giant boar?” Asked Elizabeth.

“Yep! My shadow knight is really impressive! He killed the boar and chopped it up into pieces in a blink of an eye!”

“Yes! I’m so sick of eating dried meats and vegetables!”

Wait when did she start calling Maisazha her shadow knight? And I’ve told Robbert before that I wanted fresh meat but he said that we couldn’t! And Elizabeth...is just Elizabeth, nothing really going on with her.

And most importantly of all, THEY ARE IGNORING MY EXISTENCE, they haven’t greeted me yet, all their focused on is Alexandria and her “shadow knight”.

“Oh hey Boss.”

Ah! Thank you so much Robbert! I knew I could count on my number one subordinate!”

“You were here boss? When you get here?”

W-what!?!?! Seriously!?!?!? Your gonna get it soon Robbert!

“Oh hey Antonio!”

Thank you Elizabeth, at least someone acknowledges that I’m here.

“Look at what Maisazha got us!”

Don’t start a conversation with me and just start talking about him!

I feel like I’m losing my spot in this group every second I hear about Maisazha. I wonder where my future is headed towards...sigh, I can’t wait to find out.