THE LIAR FACE DEMON (Legendary Wizard Saint)

J. TNANGA

Chapter 30: The third wave….

In Nico’s colorful home:

The interior was colorful as if the painting was done in a playful tone. Nico was standing next to a bed that Marytus was on. Nico was wearing a hat covering his hair and his ears, and was skimming through a book, searching for something…

“Is everything fine, now?” asked Marytus to Nico, in a calm depressed tone.

“No, not yet…….you are going to need to rest some more” explained Nico in a matter of fact. “The spells I am currently using on you is decreasing the curse’s effects but it will take longer to remove the curse itself if even possible…….Even I am not sure if I can remove it in its entirely…..”

“You can do anything Nico” said Marytus as she takes a deep breath and falls back to sleep.

“Seriously……what is up with this peasant? Having such a curse I only heard stories about…….and still being so hopeful?.......” thought Nico.

Suddenly, a dark aura was released from Marytus’ body. This dark aura was terrifying, it was as if the dark aura could stop time and destroy anything…..it was as if the dark aura was death itself….

“Whoa, what is that? Did that just come from Marytus’ body? Is that the aura of the curse? It’s gigantic……My spells must be working….I still have a way to go…..if I succeed, this will be my most accomplished feat yet!!”

Nico gave the dark aura one excited glance, and then went back to his book shelf that was also in the room, and picked out another book entitled: The curses from Theodora.

“Dark aura curses with an after-life side effect…….and from Theodora. That should narrow the identification of the curse to only two curses that it can be…….both that are very dangerous …… this is kind of exciting…… I should definitely pay Theodora a visit one of those days…… if only I can..…..”

Demon, Faylatia, as well as Liokart board the boat that came to pick them up. The boat was a small boat with a beautiful blue and green color. They all sat next to each other, except Faylatia that seemed to have made sure she did not sit next to Demon-sama for some reason. She sat across from Demon.

“Thanks for healing all of my wounds, Demon” said Liokart.

“It was a small thing to do, since after all, I was ignoring you for so long”

“Yeah, I usually give off this frightful aura, don’t I?”

“No, really…. Just that you give off this strong muscular aura….. You look really strong and delinquent looking, even your scar make you look like a bad boy…”

“Really?”

“Yeah”

“I couldn’t help but to ignore you….. I always wanted to have muscles and look really cool like that” thought Demon. “But of all people to end up with those muscles it had to be a lazy person like Liokart….. this world is a bit unfair….”

The trio continued their warm conversation without realizing that their hardest wave was just right around the corner….. the wave of only 15 individuals remaining…. That’s right….. the cooking wave!!

In the booth specially design for the Demon Emperor, sat Kiarria, Zonisk, Carlardantis, and the Demon Emperor was left standing with his head down apologizing for his past misdeeds….

“I swear I will never do anything bad again!!” said the Demon Emperor with a sad facial expression. “I really swear!!”

“Alright then……let’s discuss what to do for the third and final wave of Day 4” said Kiarria in complete serious mode on, ignoring the Demon Emperor.

“Yeah, we can’t let an idiot run the competition anymore…” said Zonisk in agreement.

“How about we give them something really easy and then use the climate-changing software to kick out the weak….” Said Carlardantis.

“Yeah, that is a splendid idea!!” said the Demon Emperor with a proud voice. “Now, that’s my beautiful daughter!!”

“Please do not associate me with you” said Carlardantis.

“Please don’t be like that, my darling, you are my only child!!” said the Demon Emperor clearly hurt by what Carlardantis said.

“Anyway moving on” said Kiarria, purposely interrupting the Demon Emperor and Carlardantis because she doesn’t want to enter into another argument. “How about we make them race each other?”

“That would be nice….. but I am afraid they would all give up, there are only 15 contestants left, and if it is about a race, then they all know Demon is going to win, they’ll only be competing for the other two seat for the Royal Guards….. we should give them all a chance, no?” said Zonisk.

“How about cooking?” asked Carlardantis. “If it’s cooking, that would be giving them all a chance, no?”

“Well, that would certainly give them all a chance…. But we don’t know if Demon knows how to cook” states the Demon Emperor.

“Well, since there a total of 15, they can all work in a group of three and try to make the best dish, and there would be judges to judge the dishes, and they would select the top 3 dish (the top three group)” explain Kiarria.

“That would be nice….. but we have to show that this is a tournament and not make it so easy” explains Zonisk.

“How about we activate the climate software, and change the weather every half hour and give the contestants 3 hours to produce the food…. That would be a competition I would want to see….” Said Carlardantis.

“But the people watching the competition might complain, since there won’t be fights and such” explains Zonisk. “Unless we...”

“Unless we what, Zonisk” said Kiarria with an annoyed expression. “I hate it when you keep me hanging”

“Unless we tell them that the judges will taste the food but if the food doesn’t arrive in time to be judge…. That is a very unforeseen unfortunate event…. Wouldn’t you think so?” explain Zonisk with an evil smile. “And since we are now Pro-Demon joining the royal guards, even if he doesn’t know how to cook, as long as he destroys the opponents’ dish, he’ll be fine”

“Hooo, I like where you are going with this….” Said Kiarria. “Who would have thought that Zonisk would act this way? Remind me to never get in your bad side, Zonisk”

“Ah, don’t worry about that kind of stuff” said Zonisk.

“Then it has been decided…. And since Demon has been through a lot, let’s give him a day off to cool his head, so, everyone in consensus raise your hand” said Carlardantis.

Everyone in the booth rose their hands, including the Demon Emperor.

“Very well then, let’s discuss what sort of weathers to give them in the artificial dome, and the weathers we all love….” Said Carlardantis.

The fifteen participants listened attentively to what was said in the intercom in the small boat. The instructions for the third wave was explained in detail, they were told they had a day off and that they were supposed to look for ingredients to make a dish that was going to get judge…..

they were also told, “if due to unforeseen circumstances the dishes made by the other contestants were not to be able to get judge by the time the time limit was reached, that would be too unfortunate for them” which was a code sentence for, “Let’s see who can destroy the most dish”

As long as there is one dish left that survive this food war, that dish will get judged, and even if it gets the worse score in the history of food taste, those three individuals who made the food, will naturally enter the Royal Guards.

The instructions did not say this was a wave to get the highest score but a wave of who’s food will survive, a wave that will make food fights at school seem petty and pathetic compare to the amount of damage and food fights that Demon, Faylatia and Liokart are about to enter…….

A food war so huge and so chaotic, it will come to be called by later generations as the first Food War I. It will be so popular, that the Demonic culture will change, and once a year, a tournament will be held to remember Demon, Faylatia, and Liokart, as legendary figures in Food War, and the tournament will call itself the Demon Food War Festival…… but the story is for a later time….

Outside the Demon Emperor’s special booth stood a demon guard with telepathic abilities, and his eyes seemed to suddenly come to life as he received an urgent message, he runs inside the special booth to deliver the message….

“Commander, Commander” yelled the guard. “Urgent message from the Human Kingdom Demon investigation squad!!”

“Oh, what is it?” asked Zonisk in surprise that there would be an emergency at a time like this.

Everyone in the booth which included Zonisk, the Demon Emperor, Carlardantis, and Kiarria, were all engage in a very serious game of checkers to decide who’s favorite season/weather should go first and how many times should it get repeated in the final wave of Day 4 of the tournament…

“Sire, the squad, the squad has perished!!” explained the guard.

“What?” asked Zonisk in surprise. “What? How can that be? They were the best when it came to investigation and demon-human disguises”

“I am not sure, Commander, but all I know is, I received a telepathic message right before the last of them died, all he said was, ‘The humans…. They know…. They know….and they have one dangerous person….. his name is…..he’s the one controlling all of the strings…. Everything….. he’s coming…. He’s preparing his….’, that’s all I managed to get before the transmission ended with something getting pierced, which I think was that squad member’s heart….”

“What? How does that make any sense?” said the Demon Emperor. “Someone capable of annihilating the investigation squad? But they are a triple B rank, almost A rank in terms of power!!”

“I couldn’t hear properly, your Majesty, the telepathic transmission was not keeping a strong signal, and all the other squad members died before they could even give out a telepathic transmission” explained the guard.

“Just what is going on?” wondered Zonisk. “Just who could have been the one to cause the telepathic transmissions to not go through, and who is the person that squad member was talking about….. Someone capable of pulling all the strings…..”

“Whatever it is that is going on, we know one thing for certain….. ‘They’ know, which I think is implying the Human Kingdom itself…..” said Kiarria. “And if so, the Human Kingdom might attack us soon, so we should keep a better eye on them, and we should secure our borders more, and this time, let’s keep humans in the Human Kingdom and not let them in our Continent……”

“And also, let’s send the triple A-rank Eagle Squad, they should be able to go to the human Kingdom via air and invisible mode as well, as long as they keep their distance from the Human King’s castle, they should be fine….. “continued Kiarria.

“Well said, Kiarria….” Said Zonisk. “The Eagle squad should be able to go and come back in slightly less than two days, let’s also add a chicken to the list as well….. the chicken I am thinking of should be able to send telepathic messages even if someone is blocking it with telepathic disturbance magic, after all chickens do not use telepathic magic, they use voice magic that is similar to telepathic abilities but isn’t, but of course the humans don’t know that…”

“Yeah, that is a smart idea” said Kiarria in agreement. “But which chicken do you have in mind?”

“Well, a chicken that owe us a favor ever since he suddenly did not show up to his work at continuing to comment on the matches of the tournament….” Explained Zonisk.

“Oh, that chicken…. I see, I see….” Said Carlardantis as if she just realized something. “I thought he was very annoying too”

“Well, since we have all come up with plans, let’s start getting them in motion and record who was winning on the checkers match and we’ll continued it later tomorrow morning…”

“Well, it seems that’s about it for today…. We should schedule a time to meet to gather the ingredients for the food” explained Liokart.

“Yeah, we should, any time after 10:00 am is fine for me” said Demon.

“Like wise for me as well” said Faylatia. “And trust me, I did not want to have any similarities with you, creep, so you should stop smiling”

“Oh, come on, you are so adorable when you make that ‘stop smiling at me creep’ facial expression, it’s so adorable!!” said Demon, approaching Faylatia’s direction. “It makes me just want to touch those cute little cheeks”

As Demon rushed to touch Faylatia’s cheeks, she moved back in a quick-sturdy-ninja style way.

“How did you do that?” asked Liokart. “That was awesome!!”

“Yeah, that was Faylatia!! Now, I just want to grab you even more!!” exclaim Demon as he runs after Faylatia, and Faylatia dodges each and every attempt Demon does to catch her.

Eventually Demon gave up (after 6 minutes).

“That was way too much running around for one day, sharks and all” said Demon in a tired voice.

“Well, then, let’s meet here at this district tomorrow”

“Sounds like plan!!” said Liokart.

“As much as it pains me to have to work with you, fine…. It’s fine…… I’ll work with you….” stated Faylatia.

The trio then each went their separate way. Demon to his house, Liokart going to give a quite long speech at his sister, and Faylatia, back to her clan (whatever clan that may be, since she was interrupted when she was about to say what clan she was from….)

And that’s how the second wave ended…