a young boy merely in his teens, Heiwa, had seemed to have almost passed out at deaths door in a pool of monsters inside of the demon kings castle, the demon king was also on his last leg as he asked the young child who was covered in scars and had a missing arm and leg a question.
'what do you think this world was like until your queen came to rule?' he asked with a deep but light hearted tone.
The boy could only reply with groans as he slowly bled out
'I'll take that as a yes,' the demon king exclaimed as he started to tell a story
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this story started as one of happy times of when the humans and demons lived peacefully and fought together side by side to hold back the monsters until one day the demon king entered his castle to see a Royal knight stood at the foot of his bed, with both his child and wife in the blood covered bed, the knight had impaled them both like a skewer, with the mother shielding the child as well as she could, using her body as a shield, but alas the child died in the warm embrace of his mothers corpse, the demon king had froze as the knight turned his head towards him, all he did was smile and said 8 words that made the demon king snap, those words were 'Its their fault they were born as demons.' with that the demon king fazed in front of the knight, forcefully ripping his spine in half and draining his blood from his throat.
'there will be no more peace after what they did to my family!!' the demon king roared to the entire demons nation, explaining how the tortured and killed his wife and son, the demons roared in harmony as they bared arms and executed any human in their kingdom, and that was how their war started, the humans made propaganda that showed the demons as wicked beasts from the fiery depth of hell themselves where as the demons only showed the truth to their people as to keep their dignity.
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'I believe this war has gone on long enough, don't you agree?' he asked the young boy. 'come to think of it, we've been fighting for 3 days straight and I don't even know your name.'
'Heiwa. My name is Heiwa, and now I finally know what the queen has been keeping from me, thank you.' the boy said in a raspy voice.
after this exchange of words a high pitch maniacal laugh could be heard echoing throughout the castle halls, within an instant, they both knew who the laugh belonged to. the Evil queen herself
'Aww, why'd you have to tell him the truth, now he has to die a pain full and agonising death by the hands of his so called beloved, I was going to have fun slowly breaking him by letting him watch his family die in front of him by a so called "Illness", then I was going to use him to tear your kingdom apart with his own hands, but now he has to die.' the queen stated whilst slowly drawing a dagger from her belt, liking it whilst moving towards them.
'Why are you doing this, I trusted you, the whole kingdom trusted you!!' Heiwa Shouted, hearing himself echoing through the halls he knew that he may as well be dead already, never mind having to wait another 45 seconds for the queen to kill him
'they still do trust me and always will, because no one else will witness me kill you both, to them it will be a stalemate with both their beloved hero and despised demon king killing each other. Its the perfect plan.' she said in a high pitched innocent sounding voice. with this he raised the dagger and started to peel Heiwa's skin back, revealing the muscle underneath, ending at the throat making a small hole to mark where to stab, and with this she trust the dagger into his throat, killing him.