Chapter 10:Man-eating Ogre 2

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 hapless who walked outdoors under the powerful afternoon sun. 

Under this sky is a forest of intense green color and in the middle of it, as if it wanted to stand out, there is a high mountain. It was composed mainly of rock and forest that is scattered around the place, but never becomes thick enough to block the sun or completely cover the mountain. 

Christopher pov. 

"Now that we're here, how do we find the ogre?"

It was a fair doubt 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 all over the mountain like a madman, but I'm still annoyed and more so now that he called me a fox again then a little scare doesn't hurt. Now seriously speaking I will have an improved sense of smell, I have 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, well tell me, in the meantime I'll go into the pod."

"You'd be more credible if you weren't drenched in sweat, though I've decided to take your advice and so how do I do it?"

I make a casual move to the right, thus preventing Saya from entering inside a clouded fang, on the other hand, and seeing her worried face I give her a few teasing words then ask for guidance, if I just teased who's going to help me. 

"Nothing special, smell the air and look for the foulest smell possible, it's most likely to be rotting meat, excrement and the odd wild vegetable, all that together multiplied by ten."

"I'm going to regret this, uagh, hell why do I listen to you, it's over there."

It was a beautiful experience at the beginning and horrible at the end, like the first day of school, you go in with all the happiness and then you come out with pessimism almost reaching depression, the smells of the forest start being beautiful, flowers, leaves and trees to end with disgusting things like urine, carrion and many rotten things.

Coming out of the trance, I used everything at my fingertips to quickly find where the ogre was hiding and it was quite easy thanks to its peculiar smell. Finished with this we went deep into the depths of the mountain to put an end to this once and for all. 

"This place sucks even for creatures of that species."

We were hiding behind some trees at the top of a ravine as we looked down into a cave embedded in the rock. Out of this there are all sorts of things such as bones, carrion and remains that are in an unrecognizable state. 

"Here I am the one who is sniffing it out with a magic nose. Now the plan is simply to get him out of that cave, as fighting in the dark, in tight spaces and where they most likely have the numerical majority, is not the smartest thing to do."

Jumping out of the ravine which 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 this one and a small cloud of dust to rise into the air. 

"Well, I'll be on my way. Oh, by the way our friend already went out to play."

Without finishing assimilating Saya's words, the dust cloud blocking my view disappears and reveals the so-called ogre. He had a burly body three meters high, claws on feet and hands, a horn on one side of the forehead, curly brown hair to the waist which is covered by a piece of skin and his body is dark red. 

"Food, FOOD!"

Screaming like a mindless beast, the ogre begins to run towards me, each of his steps leaving the tread mark embedded in the earth and for every second the speed of that mass of muscle increases dramatically, causing him to reach me in an instant and begin the confrontation with a bare-knuckle blow of his own. 

"Hum!"

A hum came out of my mouth as I rushed my body to the left, followed by this and seeing that the blow won't hit me I unsheathed the sword gifted by Izayoi, before moving it diagonally towards his neck to use its speed against him and quickly finish him off. 

*Dull sound*

"You owe it to me to be, Ahghd!"

The sword Izayoi gave me snapped like a branch hitting a rock as it came in contact with his neck, on the other hand, his left fist hit the cliff wall throwing a pressure wave and making me destabilize, but almost instantly and without letting me regain control of my body he throws a punch 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 I 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 is shortening by every second, I could already see his ugly inhuman face, smell his disgusting body scent and observe the fist he raises before swinging it towards me, noticing his arm extended and his fist a few inches away from my face, I swing to the right to then slash downwards with brute force to maximize the qualities of this sword. 

"AHGGH, BAD FOOD, ME GET ANGRY!"

Blood was flowing in torrents from the piece of arm still attached to the ogre's torso, he kneels down for a few moments before that wound tries to close, which it fails to do and forgetting that he gets back up, then takes a leap over the ravine from where he rips a tree before going down to continue the fight. Why didn't I stop him? Because of this. 

[KILL HIM! KILL THE ONE SLEEPING INSIDE AND HIM!] 

[The villagers, the animals, the demons hiding in this mountain and all humans!] 

The gem at the end of the cloudy fang hilt began to glow a deep red hue, at the same time the voice first heard inside the temple arises again, making my head feel heavy, though my body has never felt better.