Watching this fight hurts me. You know that time in games where you fight an OP boss character and you get it as a playable character, only for it to be nerfed?
This is that exact moment. Gesine is slowing down every second as the fight continues. The demon has begun to fight a bit more normally, and his flexibility is something astonishing.
Gesine threw her spear towards the red demon. It seems that she's too tired to move any longer. But wait? Isn't that a bad idea? She just threw her only weapon at the enemy.
The demon dodged it, but it left a wound on his shoulder, and the spear was stuck to the ground. "Well, what are you gonna do now? Cry?" The demon laughed at Gesine, but she was unfazed.
It's true, though. What will Gesine do? She can't just tell the dude to have a fistfight. She raised her hand and did a hand signal, 'come and get me.' She's gone mad, genuinely.
"So that's how it is, alright," Gesine managed to provoked the demon, and he charged at her with a full thrust. Then something unpredictable happened; she smiled.
She made a strange hand gesture, but we thought nothing of it until the demon suddenly stopped his movements. He looked below and saw the side of his stomach was gone.
"What just happened?" he said as he was bleeding. I'm curious as well about what the hell happened. That was until I saw Gesine holding her spear again, covered in blood.
Huh, what kind of Mjolnir mayhem is this? Is she Thor or something? Because no way that spear is coming back just like that.
"A magic weapon? No, a relic?" The demon was sweating all over. He was trying to catch his breath. Well, that wasn't as much fighting as I anticipated.
But what magic weapon is he talking about?
[A magic weapon is when a weapon, a spear for example, gets an attribute from the four main elements such as earth, water, fire, air.]
Sounds like Avatar, but what about the relic?
[A relic is like an old weapon that has been passed down as a family heirloom. Relics are special since they have a special ability that can be engraved in them.]
Oh, I see you sure are knowledgeable about these types of things.
[Bruh, goddess remember?]
Oh yeah, but aren't you the goddess of monster Echidona? I thought the goddess of wisdom, Mere, was smarter than you.
[That short goddess? Nah, I'm smarter, Esmond, just a tad bit, but I'm still smarter.]
I feel an inner conflict here, but as we were talking, the demon had already passed out, not dead yet. Gesine needs to make her decision to kill or let live.
But knowing Gesine, she will obviously let the demon live...
Sqwelp!
I looked at her as she cut the demon's arm off; his demon minions were enraged, but I stopped them. "I let him live and gave him mercy since mercy has a cost, and this will be it."
I looked at her as she put the demon's arm into the ground and burned it with fire magic.
"Let's go, Cassius," she took off and headed back towards our horses, her spear still covered in blood. I looked back at the demon minions and said.
"If I learn that you demons destroy any more villages, the demon region will burn again."
I said that, but I don't really know what decision I should make. Obviously, I have already been marked as the demon king.
So should I side with the demons? But I'm a human being, the previous hero. I hate this. All because I was transported here. All I wanted to do was to live an average life, make an average living, have a decent wife, two kids, retire, and die of old age.
But it seems that the Gods don't plan on doing that to me and decided to make me a damn hero to villain. Heck, I'm having a mental breakdown, am I?
[Calm down, Esmond.]
I'm trying, okay? Just let me go through with this. I sat on the grass and took a deep breath. I stayed there and meditated.
A few minutes later...
"Haaah," I calmed down a bit. I asked Echidona, "Did I have it again?"
[Yeah, it's fortunate that you didn't lash out like last time.]
I have been suffering from hero syndrome ever since I became the demon king. Every time I had the urge to save something, it was basically engraved in my mind.
But now that I'm the demon king, I try to save the demons. As a previous hero, I also tried to save humans, even though they hate it, and that's the bad part.
Saving the demons means I have to kill humans, but saving humans means I have to kill demons. I hated it. Why can't these two races just exist together in harmony?
It's an impossible task because I know humans fear things they don't like, and for demons, the feeling of being oppressed drives them mad.
As I was deep thought something slapped me. I looked up and saw Gesine riding a horse, she also took my horse with her.
"Come on and get up", she gave me the horse. as I stood and smiled at her.this time I can bare it for a while, I guess.
We rode the horse's and continued down the path. My hero syndrome might happen again, so I decided that Gesine should take the lead on this trip.