5 Another entity? Stronger than the demon?

As she saw the letter beside her, she read it "By when you wake up I've already gone. I have my duty. And I can't leave it alone, if we meet again. I will be free from that duty." She read it while crying, during the five days he stayed there, she couldn't help but get attracted to him. And didn't Kazein promise responsibility? Or did he? She kept the note and left the room, there he saw the two old men unconscious by the floor. She carried them to their homes and just left them to sleep.

It was so simple how Kazein left. He just left a note and then went away. But his choice was right, for the demon was ready to devour his heart if he made the wrong choice on choosing to stay.

That night, he passed over in a cave. While he slept, the demon once again spoke to him, though only for a brief moment.

"What're you gonna do now?" The demon asked.

"I'd get stronger, to control your powers and get revenge to those who took everything from me."

"Is that so?"

"It is." He calmly replied.

"Well then, go on. I won't be bothering you for a while now."

For that brief moment, the demon asked something interesting. And it was then that night passed, and the sun began to rise.

As Kazein slowly opened his eyes, he got up and went on his way. But where?

"I really am going more blind by the days, my eyes, they used to be able to see some blurs, now I can't even tell tree from rock." He said to himself.

He began to walk on once more. But what he didn't notice was, he entered the territory of demon wolves, a territorial pack that will have at least 80 of them. The wolves saw that he was blind, they slowly approached him. And silently, as not to alert him, they were preying on Kazein. It was when the alpha howled the signal for attack, did Kazein learn he was surrounded.

Kazein, who couldn't see any blur stood there feeling how he should attack. "Slash!!!" A wolf went at him from behind. "Howl!" One wolf came at him upfront and bit his leg. Luckily it didn't rip it off.

The wolves ganged on him, he was weak if he didn't know where his enemies are. He doesn't even know how many there were. And it was when the leader howled once more, it's howl was so loud it almost deafened Kazein.

"My ears hurt!" Then, he got his idea. "If I can't use my eyes. Then I should use my ears!"

He decided to put what he learnt into action. He calmed down, he stood up straight once more, and he then closed his eyes to shut off any distractions. As the growling of the wolves became more distinct. He then tried to judge distance, by the time a wolf came at him from behind, he got the knife in his pocket and stabbed the wolf's neck. With one clean strike, he killed it.

The wolves saw this, but they still attacked. They knew he found a way to fight them, but they also knew he can't fight more than 3 at once. Once again they ganged on him. When Kazein found out 5 at once we're attacking him, he decided to kill 3 and let 2 attack. An exchange! That was his idea.

And surely, when the wolves attacked, he grabbed one by the neck holding it in place, then stabbed a wolf behind him, took the knife back and then killed the wolf he pinned down. When this was over a wolf already got his back, it scratched him skin deep. Kazein, then grabbed the wolf and stabbed it. It was then that the other two wolves attacked his arms. The wolves retreated, surrounded him once more, Kazein couldn't lift his arms up. As he thought death was near, he felt his heart throbbing. He began to scream in pain as his heart beats irregularly.

Suddenly, something dark arises from his eyes, he screamed more in pain. This startled the pack of wolves, they attacked him once more. But just when they were near, did the dark which came from his eyes, exploded and killed 60 wolves at once, this left just about 23 of the demon wolves. Suddenly, the alpha felt what's wrong. The darkness from his eyes was something it must fear. It ordered retreat, the wolves under it went back to the forest. While the alpha kept watch, it saw Kazein slowly transform. The darkness wasn't from the demon. But something more powerful than the demon, a power left inside his heart.

Slowly it devoured him, and then, Kazein suddenly got his consciousness back. He felt his body becoming something hideous. He controlled it, and then the transformation stopped, and reverted. When it was over, he gasped for breath. Afraid of what he almost became.

The alpha wolf was still there, but now with a ripped backpack in front of it. It slowly approached, and with the ripped bag in its mouth, it left it in front of Kazein. Then it left, Kazein who heard it approach, was on guard. But it was a needless worry. As the wolf left, Kazein felt the bag in front of him. He opened it and felt what was inside. He found a ring, something with a skull engraved on the head. There he also found old clothes and something like a container, though it was locked. He just got what he thought was useful.

"These wolves, how the hell did it gather something, no not gather. Obtained. Did it just find these by the forest? Or did they take it from a traveler? I don't know. But, I should keep what might be of value." He thought to himself.

But he never thought everything might be of value, so he grabbed it all and put it in his own bag.

When he came to notice, his wounds were gone. How? He didn't even treat it yet. It was then he narrowed everything down. The powers of what he almost became must have healed him, hyper-regeneration. An ability he has only heard of.

That same time he continued to walk, all the while thinking what he almost became of. Then, he slowly felt faint, and in the path he once again collapsed. Even though his wounds were healed, he still lost a lot of blood. He dragged himself to sit by a tree. He laughed, "I can't believe I collapsed a lot in just one week. If this goes on it might be the death of me."

"Yes. It will!" A voice not from the demon spoke. It came from everywhere, he didn't know where it came from, he tried to find it, but he couldn't.

"Fool! Where are you looking at?!" The voice once again spoke. It was loud, but Kazein knew it was just him who heard it. He then got himself to think that the voice was inside him. And a whole different entity than the demon to be able to speak to him without requiring to be in his unconscious stage.

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