AN: Warning this chapter gets pretty graphic and a bit dark.
Willem and a dozen of the villagers started to climb up the mountain, armed with pitchforks, cheap swords and handmade spears. Some of them carrying torches as the sky was turning dark. The villagers were already angry at the wolf girls, but Alex insulting them the way he did was something they couldn't tolerate. They thought they could easily outmatch Alex and the wolf girls and finally bring peace to their village.
The group continued walking forward until they saw a figure standing ahead on the dirt path. A all too familiar man, armed with his foreign sword.
"Turn back." he warned.
"We will not." Willem said with authority. "I let you sleep in my home, eat my food and this is how you repay me? Repay my village? You betray us for what? Some abominations?"
"Mayor, I gave you one last warning back in the village. It seems you did not heed that warning, but I'm generous. Last chance. Turn back now." Alex said as he gripped his sword.
"Fuck this." One of the younger male villagers said. He was maybe in twenty, had short black hair and green eyes. He charged at Alex armed with nothing but a pitchfork. The boy was filled with confidence and bravery as he believed he could kill Alex easily.
Little did he know just how wrong he was.
The boy barely even got close to Alex before his head, now severed hit the ground. In his final seconds the boy looked up at Alex who had showed no expression, no emotion at all. The boy's life faded from his eyes and the rest of the villagers took a step back.
"Anyone else want to try?" Alex said.
The villagers all looked at each other and nodded. Everyone but the mayor charged at Alex together hoping to overwhelm him with numbers. All Alex could do was sigh at this attempt.
"How pathetic."
Alex used his magic and quickly shot a bolt of purple lightning down in the middle of the villagers causing them all to ragdoll to the sides. As the villagers regained themselves they saw two of their members right where the lighting hit, their skin now burnt to a crisp.
Three of the villagers, one armed with a spear and two others armed with the cheap swords tried to blitz attack Alex attacking him in the front and on both sides. However Alex quickly stepped back before counterattacking by charging them. He stabbed the spear guy first right in his stomach, then quickly spun around slicing the others necks. All three of their bodies fell lifeless.
Then the rest of the six, all nervous as hell as they watched half of their number be mercilessly slaughtered right in front of them began having second thoughts. However it was far too late. Alex channeled his lighting into his sword and quickly sliced the air causing a lightning wave to hit the six. Some managed to barely dodge however they all received injuries and two of them were killed. The four survivors were on the ground, in agonizing pain over their wounds.
"H-Help..."
"Please....s-stop..."
"I...I have a family..."
Alex however didn't listen to a single one of their pleas. He passed by one man who was laying on his stomach. His hand was burnt because of the lightning and he was holding it in pain. Alex stabbed the man in the back and kept walking.
Then he passed another, he was sitting up but holding his shoulder. Alex quickly cut his head off and kept walking.
Then last two were also wounded by much like the others, he quickly killed them and kept walking. The only one left now, was the Mayor.
"P-Please Alex...I'm sorry I didn't mean!"
"How pathetic...where is all that bravado from before?" Alex questioned.
"I was stupid! I made a mistake!" Willem pleaded.
"That's obvious Willem." Alex said coldly.
"Look...how about you let me go? I'll go back to Oshka and tell everyone to leave the bitc- I mean wolfgirls alone!"
Willem had tears in his eyes as he begged and pleaded.
"You know what's funny Willem." Alex said. "All this time you called those girls monsters, yet here you are. Acting like a real monster. You killed innocents all for your own gain."
"A-Aren't you no different!?" Willem screamed. "Look around you! You killed so many people, many of them young and had bright futures ahead of them! Yet you cut them down with hesitation."
Alex said nothing as he looked at Willem. Willem stood up leaning against a tree.
"You are a monster."
Willem smirked as he said that. However what he didn't expect was Alex to slightly have a tear come down his cheek.
"Don't you think I know that Willem? I know what I am...but sometimes in life. We don't get to choose what we are. I didn't...but you had a choice. You couldn't made peace with the beastman tribe...yet you hunted them like animals. Your right...I'm a monster...but at least I'm not ignorant of that fact."
Alex raised his sword and cut down the Mayor from where he was standing. Alex didn't know what to say...the words "You are a monster" repeating in his head. He knew what he was...but that doesn't mean it still didn't hurt him. He wasn't always like this...this world forced his hand...and he played the cards he was dealt.
Alex cut off the Mayors head and took it to the villages front gate, tossing it for all too see. It caused panic amongst the people. He heard them call him the devil, a monster, a freak, a murderer. However he didn't pay them any mind, he buried his feelings as deep as they could go and moved on because...
That's all he could do.
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