THE LIAR FACE DEMON (Legendary Wizard Saint)

J. TNANGA

Chapter 23: Marytus POV (final)

I then proceeded to the direction that the demons everywhere were running to. My sense of hearing was picking up something. Something rather large was making heavy footsteps, but of course not many demons have super hearing and those that do are too busy with running away to hear anything properly.

I continue to the direction to investigate. I had my suspicion but I was hoping it wouldn’t be true. That there wouldn’t be another bear.

As I continue to walk heading for the direction of the sound, it became more apparent that it was a bear. I could hear their breathing. I was now certain that it wasn’t a different demonic creature but really another bear and it wasn’t just that. It was two bears, to make matters worse. I decided enough was enough and started making my way back.

While heading back, I saw two demons that (must be crazy since even with all the commotion) were fighting it out.

“Hey, hey, hey” states one dark long haired demon girl with purple eyes and red tail. “Just who do you think you are?”

“Oh, is that right…..I am baraclus” states a simple looking average demon. “I am the greatest of the greatest. If you kneel before me now, maybe I’ll forgive y-“

Before that demon had a chance to say another word, the dark-haired demon blasted him with a magic that I never saw before.

It was so fast that I don’t believe it was a magic spell, the blast was way too fast for it to be a spell and even if it was, the spell should be one of those long incantation ones. It completely turned the average-typical-demon to nothing but crisp and dust.

“There are still some powerful demons around….” I thought. “I wonder how she did that blast? It was kind of cool”

After continuing on with my fast pace and minding my own damn business, I quickly arrived to the scene………the scene of Demon cruelly tossing the bear up and down and cutting it…..

Before I arrived at the scene I could hear the noise of something getting tossed up in the air and then a slicing sound. What I didn’t know was who was doing all that. It never occurred to me it would be Demon. But now, looking back, I should have noticed something was wrong faster but whatever, what’s done is done.

As I approach the area with the sound, my body suddenly became tense. As if I was going to a very battle with someone dangerous. I could feel my muscles tensing, I could feel my body preparing for one of those fight-or-flight situations developing. Even then, I choose to ignore it and continue in my path to find Demon and Roshturn.

Taking nothing more than a couple more steps, I felt fear. I am not talking about little fear like you see a mouse inside your house (AND YES, A WHILE BACK, THERE WAS A STUPID MOUSE IN THE KITCHEN OF MY HOUSE AND I DID RELEASE A VERY EMBARRASSING GIRL SCREAM BUT THEN, WOULDN’T YOU?). I am talking about true fear.

A fear so strong your instincts are fighting for control, a fear so strong you can feel it in your bones. A fear so terrifying, you want to run, hide, find a whole and put yourself inside (and I am not talking about those EMBARRASSING MOMENTS when everyone is staring at you and you just want to put yourself in a hole and forget everything that happened), I am talking about a really serious situation.

I could feel myself breathing hard, still, I persist forward. After taking a good amount of steps, goosebumps decided it was their time next. Goosebumps were all over my arms and some were trying to appear on my face as well. I truly thought I was going to die. I was even imagining my own death.

I was having one dark thought after another. Negativity took over my mind. I couldn’t think clearly. And then, I finally saw the back of someone I knew……..someone I thought I knew……..but clearly there is a lot I don’t know about him…..

I observed him tossing what look like the rest of the bear’s body and slicing it. I then call out to him two or six times (my brain was no longer functioning at this point. My eyes were also starting to get blurry with the amount of tears are coming from my eyes as I sense my death is near).

But the man I thought I understood better than most, did not answer until after quite some time.

He spoke in a sad slow tone as if I was in his funeral. My heart completely melted in pain and sadness.

“What could have caused such a pain?” I thought. “What’s going on?”

And with no further ado, the truth has been revealed. Roshturn. It makes sense in the end. The only way Demon would be capable of getting so upset would be if someone close to him have died. Only someone that have lost someone they cared for could be so sad….

The moment Demon tried to explain. I went into shocked.

“What is Demon talking about?” I thought. “There is no way Roshturn is dead. I mean it’s Roshturn. I just saw her a couple of minutes ago, we were both down here and came here together…..there is no way she’s dead”

Even though I was thinking of all of that. I replied the opposite to Demon. I tried to remain this rational person for Demon-sama’s sake. I was still in shocked and in denial, yet I was trying to support and help Demon at the same time. What does that make me? A hypocrite? A liar? A crazy person? Someone unfit for society?

All those thoughts came rushing in, and that’s when Demon turned around. Then everything went black. Ever since I saw Demon’s back when I first arrived and noticed he was tossing the bear up, I knew I shouldn’t look at Demon. I felt as if the very motion of Demon turning around was capable of destroying me, and with that, I saw Demon-sama turning around to face me, and suddenly and with no warning everything went dark.

I really thought I was dead.

While in this unconscious state, I could not feel the passing of time, I felt like I was always in this darkness I find myself in, as if there was nothing prior to this. I could not feel my body, I felt free and liberated. I felt like I could fly. I felt weightless. I grew more and more scared as this feeling of nothingness and weightlessness continues.

As I continue to observe this dark nothingness, I could feel this warm energy entering my body.

“Is Demon healing me?” I thought. “This feel nice”

I then heard Demon talked and then he suddenly went quiet. I heard him cried yet during that time I could not talk or move. I was certain my eyes were close too.

“I need to help Demon” I thought. “Demon need me. I need to go back and support him. Demon is wounded”

I don’t know how, but suddenly I could feel something carrying me in this darkness. I felt alone and scared, but something strong was carrying me somewhere. Whatever it was, felt nice and clean. I felt better getting carried away in this darkness.

I couldn’t see what was carrying me, but I felt like it was a good thing, so I did not resist. And suddenly, I could feel my body’s senses again. I felt like I was in my body now, as if I momentarily left my body earlier and didn’t even realized it. I felt like I went on a journey to a faraway place and have just returned.

I used all my strength and opened my eyes, and the very first thing I saw was a crying little Demon….

Demon and I talked for quite some time. I did my best to put up a front and pretend that I was alright but truth be told, I did not feel alright at all. My body felt heavy, extremely heavy, as if I had some weight put on me, but it was because I felt so weak that I couldn’t even lift my arm up. My body still seemed to be in shock of what happened.

My mind has finally calmed itself, now, I just need to wait for my body to catch up to my mind…….or so I thought……but who was I kidding?.......it was the start of something serious…..

Seeing the look on Demon’s face, crushed my heart. I couldn’t tell him how bad I felt. I decided to continue with my front and maybe I’ll be fine later……maybe I am just overthinking it……but the moment I started to cough, I knew I didn’t have long until, until I d--…….

I couldn’t tell Demon. Even now, currently getting carried away by that STUPID LOOKING CHICKEN still, isn’t making me feel any better. My coughs were getting worse. I could feel it on the inside of my body.

I rushed Demon to leave and told him about all the possible casualties that is happening at the other direction where the two bears are at. Demon did not want to leave me alone and unprotected, but I put up quite a front and pretended I’ll get better soon, to allow his worries to decrease.

I know I am doing something bad right now. Something that could possibly destroy Demon in the future, but I just can’t tell him I am d-----, Demon has just witness the death of someone close to him, close to us, if I tell him that soon I might be next, what do you think he’ll feel?

Besides, there might still be hope. I did not want him to worry incessantly about me, especially when I want him to act like a hero and save the demons getting crushed by the bears. I needed Demon to be able to think clearly and fight those damn bears properly and show them hell.

When I saw the demonic chicken, I thought it was the worst thing that could possibly happened. I did not want him to record me being this weak. I did not want my parents to see me on those gigantic magic screens, being so helpless. I didn’t want to worry them, at least not yet. Not until I am sure of my condition yet.

All I know as of now is that, my condition is getting worse and worse, and that Demon’s healing did not fix me completely like it was supposed to.

It wasn’t anything wrong with the healing magic itself, but something else. Something that cannot be heal no matter how powerful you are in healing. I could feel it now. I could feel it in my inside. It was death.

When I was in that darkness, I felt I was going somewhere faraway and moving away from my place of comfort, but then something else came out of nowhere and brought me back home, back home to my body, to my place of comfort. I no longer felt uncomfortable.

Whatever the thing was that carried me back to life, it had a nice smell and made me feel refresh. But it couldn’t fix everything. I can still sense death approaching……And death does like getting cheated……I want to hide that from Demon, I just don’t know what I would say to him if he were to cried again, if he had to watch another person he loves died again in front of him.

I am sure I would go crazy if something like this have happened to me as well. I don’t want to make Demon sad, I want to tell him the truth, but if the truth is going to make him sad, then, I’ll hide it until the last couple of minutes………until the last moment….

Until I am sure there is nothing that can help me get better…….I will not tell Demon anything…..