the challenge

Episode 6

I looked up at the towering giant before me, and cold sweat drenched my back. Even if I was to fight with this shameless bully whose legs are as big as a pair of sturdy pillars, how can I defeat him?

I didn't plan for this!

Why don't you come to take the mark or whatever it is that identifies me as a prince consort!!

Just let me go home!

My mind was in turmoil, but I didn't show it on my face. Within a split second, I had already found a way to get out of this mess.

I called back my courage and slightly raised my head to look that bastard bully in the eyes ( that's to show how tall he is) and talked.

"Who are you to challenge me? What has it got to do with you if I'm the prince consort or I'm not?"

Then I held my head high with my nose nearly touching the sky, and I shouted to everyone hearing.

" if any of you feel that me being the prince consort is a shame to the green monster tribe and the monster race in general, and wants to challenge me for the title… step out now, or forever remain silent," I announced.

The number of monsters who came out was not that many, so I added a little oil to the flame of doubt burning in their hearts.

"You all are cowardly and weak, yet you call yourselves strong and shamelessly tagged the human race as weak creatures. You're nothing but hypocrites, turtles in monster skins who could only hide behind their mothers.

On behalf of the human race, to defend its glory, I challenge you all to a fight." I spoke every word with righteousness flowing in my veins. I can't believe I'll one day challenge a group of monsters to a fight or plan to marry an ugly monster just to survive.

Nice one author! you won this round!

This time around, they all rushed out from within the crowd; about 200 young men-cough—monsters who are eligible for marriage. The other monsters quickly separated themselves from these young ones, isolating them in the middle.

The other monsters, after coming out silently stayed behind the first monster that challenged me, and the five other monsters beside him… they were afraid of this group of monsters.

"Now that we are all here, how do you plan to fight with us? Do you think you can defeat over 200 monsters all by yourself? So it's only just a rumor that the humans have superior intelligence to other creatures, it's all a lie…" a giant monster came out of the crowd, he was the only monster who was different from the rest.

He's a seven feet tall burly monster, with deep blue skin and hair. "His head was on his neck " Yes! it was in the right place.

There were strange vertical markings that looked like scars on both of his cheeks. Except for the markings on his cheeks and his gold-colored eyeballs, he looked normal to me,( unlike the green monsters whose heads were in-between their thighs).

"On behalf of the blue-skinned warrior clan, I accept your challenge. Fix a date for the fight and wash up your body for me 'cause you wouldn't live past that day… hmm." The blue-skinned monster scoffed.

But before he could even say anything more, I replied.

"Who said I'll be fighting you all by myself? If I should start fighting every dick, tom, and harry that comes to challenge me, wouldn't I be exhausted at the end of the day?"

"Then what's your plan for challenging us all if didn't even plan to fight us all?" the first monster questioned.

" it seems that not all of you are brainless, you're not like a certain monster whose brain has been used to exchange for brawn. He's long lost his sense of reasoning since the day he started wearing his brain on his legs as slippers…" I said slowly while using every means to provoke the blue monster to attack me and suffer from that ruthless rebound force. Unfortunately, he didn't take the bait. So I continued.

" I challenged you all because I don't want you guys disturbing me with challenges after winning a challenge. So I have a game I wish we all could play, and it wouldn't be a fair game if everyone wouldn't be able to participate." As I was about to explain to them the rules of my new game, I saw all the green monsters create a path in the crowd by moving to either side of the road and they all bowed at the same time while chanting in a language I could not understand.

"Dgydhohgfbh ghjtdghgd buff…" they all shouted in unison before doing a 360-degree bow, except for the blue-skinned monster and some other blue-skinned "people" in the crowd who only bowed their heads slightly.

For the first time since I got here, I looked up straight and I saw a marvelous sight, the dangerously funny one. I controlled every fiber of my being to stop myself from laughing out loud. Just imagine finding yourself in a comedy show but no matter how funny the actors on stage acted or how much you wanted to laugh, you dare not laugh.

It was like an invincible gun was placed on my head, if I should laugh, I'm dead.

A bulky figure was "sitting" on a golden sedan chair carried by four strong monsters. The chair was designed to look like a throne, it was intricately designed with pearls of different colors inlaid at the base. It was covered with golden fabrics that looked luxurious. But that was not what triggered the laughter. The main culprit is the giant monster "sitting" on this luxurious throne of gold.