...3rd person pov...
The omnipresent blue sky could be seen in all its splendor, every now and then a cloud or two passed by, giving shelter to the unfortunate ones who walked outdoors under the powerful afternoon sun.
Under this sky there is a forest of intense green color, in the middle of it, as if it wanted to stand out, there is a high mountain. It is composed mainly of rock and forest that is scattered about the place, but never thick enough to block out the sun or completely cover the mountain.
...Christopher pov...
"Now that we are here. any idea how we found the ogre?"
It was a fair doubt that I asked my fellow spirit Saya, who by the way, seems to be on the verge of death from the full speed run in the last half hour.
"You're, you're a fox. Just try to track it by scent."
"Umm... Looks like it will be faster to run all over the mountain."
I wasn't going to start running around the mountain like a madman, but I'm still annoyed and even more so now that he's called me a fox again, so a little scare wouldn't hurt.
Seriously now, will I also have an improved sense of smell? I've noticed that my physical ability and reflexes have improved abysmally, at the same time I learned Japanese without doing anything... Maybe it's out of necessity? Speed to chase Akemi the first time, reflexes to stop her father's sword and language to be able to communicate.
"When you make up your mind, then tell me, in the meantime I'll enter the sheath."
"You'd be more credible if you weren't drenched in sweat, though I've decided to take your advice, so how do I do it?"
Making a casual move to the right, he easily managed to prevent Saya from entering the inside of Clouded Fang, at the same time I sneered at him.
"Like what do you do? You're a demon, smell the ogre!"
"Too smart it seems to be, maybe running around here isn't a bad idea. But it can be avoided, if there's a detailed explanation."
Hesitating whether to try to hit him with the magic sword, I say maybe between them they can make contact, I slowly move my hand closer to Clouded Fang.
"Nothing special, sniff the air and look for the foulest smell possible. It's most likely to be rotting flesh, excrement and the odd wild vegetable, all that together multiplied by ten."
"What a great explanation, although it's not like there's a big mystery either... Not bad, aghgv, yuck."
It was a beautiful experience at the beginning and horrible at the end, like the first day of school, you enter with all the happiness and then you leave with pessimism almost reaching depression.
The smells of the forest start out beautiful, flowers, leaves and trees end up with disgusting things like urine, carrion and many rotten things.
Coming out of that trance, I used everything in my power to quickly find where the ogre was hiding and it was quite easy thanks to its peculiar smell. That mishap over, we set off into the depths of the mountain, so to end this once and for all.
"This place sucks, even for creatures of that species."
We were hidden behind some trees at the top of a ravine, as we peered into a cave embedded in the rock.
Outside this cave made by mother nature, there are all sorts of things, you see bones, carrion and remains that are in an unrecognizable state.
"Hello, here I am the one who is sniffing it out with a magic nose. Now then, the plan is simple, you have to get them out of that cave.What? It's idiotic to fight in the dark, in confined spaces and where they most likely have the numerical majority."
"A demon who thinks and is not guided by his fists, now I can die happy."
"You are already dead."
Jumping from the ravine that is at a height of seven meters above the level of the cave, my landing was soft at least physically, as the ground beneath my feet did not meet with the same fate, causing multiple cracks to be created in it and a small cloud of dust to rise into the air.
"Well, I'll be on my way. Oh, by the way, our friend is already out to play."
Without finishing assimilating Saya's words, who disappears in an instant, the dust cloud blocking my view disperses and reveals the so-called man-eating ogre.
"It's real, not a collective imagination or something?"
Looking at this beast with a burly body three meters tall, claws on feet and hands, a horn on the side of the forehead, curly brown hair to the waist which is covered by a piece of skin and its body is dark red in color.
"Food, FOOD!"
Screaming like a senseless beast, the ogre begins to run towards me, moreover each of his steps leave a footprint embedded in the ground and for every second the speed of that mass of muscles increases radically.
It was certainly surprising the speed he managed to take, I had thought that those muscles would make him slow, but no, his fist came with a cannon towards me.
"Hum!"
A brief hum came out of my mouth, as I swung my body to the left. Following this and seeing that his fist didn't hit me, he unsheathed the sword gifted by Izayoi, before swinging it diagonally towards his neck, so as to use the speed against him and finish him off quickly.
*Dull sound*
"You owe it to me to be, Ahghd!"
The sword Izayoi gave me snapped, just like a branch hitting a rock as it came into contact with his neck. On the other hand, his left fist hit the cliff wall, throwing a pressure wave and causing me to become unbalanced.
Continuing with his movements, almost instantly and without letting me regain control of my body, he throws a blow with his right hand, sending me flying to the side like a rag doll.
"HEHE, WEAK FOOD, DUMB FOOD."
Finishing his barely comprehensible words, he pulls his left arm back from the cliff wall, before running back in my direction. I wasn't going to let him take the initiative again, so he unsheathed Clouded Fang and advanced even faster than him to strike the first blow in the fight.
10 meters, 6 meters, 3 meters, the distance gap between me and the ogre getting shorter by the second. I could already see his ugly inhuman face, smell his foul body scent and observe the fist he raises before swinging it towards me.
Noticing his arm outstretched and his fist inches away from my face, I swing to the right, then slash downward with brute force to maximize the qualities of this sword.
"AHGGH, BAD FOOD, ME GET ANGRY!"
The blood flowed in torrents from the piece of arm still attached to the ogre's torso, he kneels down for a few moments, before the wound tries to close, which it fails to do, and forgetting that he gets up again.
With fury written all over his face, the ogre leaps over the ravine, from where he pulls out a tree, before going down to continue the fight. Why didn't I stop him? Because of this.
[KILL HIM AND THE ONE WHO SLEEPS INSIDE!]
[The villagers, the animals, the demons hiding in this mountain and all humans!]
The gem at the end of Clouded Fang's hilt, begins to glow a deep red hue, at the same time the voice first heard inside the temple arises again.
At first it was erratic and highly illogical shouting, making everything seem to slow down. Perhaps noticing that this approach was incorrect, the voice changes to a slightly seductive one.