After the incident, Sel moved to destroy the remaining slavers before freeing the slaves themselves.
Turns out Eri was the only kid left alive as the rest had died out from the journey here. The only reason she was able to escape In the first place was because the adults had given her the opportunity to do so.
After some twists and turns, long story short, Sel adopted her, leading to a brighter mood in the castle due to the laughs of the child.
...
Sel was currently sunbathing on a balcony overlooking a rather tamer looking forest right outside his castle. His gigantic body showed a bronze lustre from being in the sun too long and the curved ram like horns on his head in particularly were faintly glowing red but he still looked relaxed.
A few moments later, a maid walked in head bowed.
" Your majesty, the little lady is done and is currently waiting for you."
Sel,"... "
"Your majesty?"
"Zzzzzzzzzz"
Without missing a step, she calmly proceeded to pull out a bundle of dynamite from her back before shoving it beneath his chair. She stopped and put a hand on her chin before adding a little more then adding a wire with a combustion lever and moving away slightly.
She put a finger in her ear before placing a hand on the lever.
"Ka...."
*BOOOOOOM!!!!!*
She watched as a figure derw a graceful arc in the air before landing a few metres away from it's original position.
" Ivyyyyyy!!!!!"
" Ah you're finally awake your majesty, the little lass awaits you."
" Awake my ass c'mere ya little shit!!"
"I better go supervise lunch." Ivy bowed before dissolving into the shadows, leaving a cussing Sel grasping at thin air.
' I swear that maid's sadistic tendencies are growing worse just you wait, If I just time it just right I'll find you when Eri isn't there to help you then we'll see. Hehehehe '
He then straightened, even though he'd just been exposed to a full blast of tnt at point blank range he still looked absolutely fine heck even the boxers he wore were okay.
' Anyway let's first go see what Eri's been up to.' he thought as he waved his hand in the air slightly, a bathrobe appeared in it which he put on in a cool swinging motion before walking towards the balcony, arranging slides on the pathe he was and putting them on casually as he walked before, hands in his pockets, leaning off of and free falling off the balcony.
Right below him, a portal opened.
...
In a certain clearing, a portal opened and out came a demon with a large frame, tanned skin, white slides and a black robe on him.
Sel looked around for a bit before motioning at a tree, a twig snapped from the tree before flooring into his hand.
He seemed to ched on it's flexibility before turning his gaze around the clearing.
" Alright now that I'm armed you can rest assured, so..." He said as his mouth tilted upwards, " come at me little one."
A brief silence pervaded the area before his ears picked up a whooshing sound, in the next moment four icycles moving rapidly flew straight at him. He tilted his body slightly to avoid them, the instant he did, a fireball could be seen approaching from his front.
*BOOOM!!* the fireball landed right in front of him, raising up dust around him
' A feint?' he thought before a sharp bladed object rapidly came at his face wiedled by a figure shrouded in the dust.
He dodged this and then moved in closer but he figure suddenly seemed to create a shockwave, pushing it back and the air around finally revealing it's true form.
Eri stood in front of him, two twin daggers in her hands both connected to each other by a wire of some sorts.she had been on baggy combat trousers and thick hide boots, her purple hair cut short and her eyes covered in some sort of visor, on her mouth, a mask.
Her chest heaved, covered by a black body suit armour. The white mist emanating from her breath came in short pauses before the grip on her blade got tighter.
Sel seemed amused as he placed a hand on his chin.
Eri's brow twitched briefly before the ground beneath her feet exploded as she launched herself forward.
She first threw one blade forward while coating the other in ice. Sel flicked his wrist at the blade, causing it to be deflected but then dodged to the right as Eri plunged her icy blade into the ground causing an ice spike to spread towards him.
The second he dodged, Eri's deflected blade was swung at his face. Sel immediately bent backwards to dodge but Eri, as if anticipating this, swung the icy blade downwards while coating the other one in fire.
' Ooh?' Sel seeing this casually pushed the ground with his left hand propelling his body to the side in a roll.
Once he got up, he saw four fireballs shaped like waves moving straight for him. He raised his hand, summoning a pillar of ice in front of him to block them only to hear the sound of ice cracking behind him.
There, Eri stood in a posture as if drawing an arrow, in her hands was a rapidly condensing ice arrow.
*Pew!! * The arrow flew right at him,headed straight for his chest.
Sel then lightly tapped the ground with his feet, launching himself in the air, in the next instant, the air above him distorted for a second before Eri's figure showed above him, her leg fully swung back for a kick.
In this moment, Sel's lips curled upwards slightly as he immediately caught the foot before swinging her down along with four ice locks.The instant Eri landed, her arms and legs got bound before the shock registered in her brain.
*Thud!!* A figure landed right beside her before pulling down the mask she'd covered her mouth in.
" Hmmph!! Meanie* she said before sticking out her tongue at the guy.
Sel lightly laughed before helping her up. Eri stretched her body for a bit before looking back up at him and spreading her arms out.
"Piggy back. "
"Aren't you too old for that?" Sel asked a bit amused, causing her to deny it by shaking her head.
" No!! I wanna piggy back!!"
' so she's throwing a tantrum eh? This girl!!'
Sel ultimately sighed before bending down, letting the little girl get on.
"Harry, Kevin."he called out and two figures came out as if out of nowhere.
Harry looked like a gangster with unruly red hair and casual clothes and a smoke in his lips, on the other hand Kevin looked the exact opposite, even dressed in full knight armor.
"Tsup boss man."
"Can't you at least try to be respectful in front of the king??!!" Naturally this was Kevin.
"And can't you stop being such a pain in the ass I mean come on..." Harry jeered back.
" Wanna go..?"
"Bring it on you metal prick... Ouch!!"
" Ugh!!"
They both let out as two large gisys landed on their heads.
" I called you out to fix this place not to destroy it further so stop gibbering and start working you fuckin idiots!!"
"Yessir!!" The two immediately saluted before marching over to the ice pillar and started melting it.
' Those two are never gonna grow up huh, sigh let's just go home.' he was turned to face Eri on his back to find her sleeping, 'well at least there's her' he thought before opening a rift in space to the castle.
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