Chapter 6: Skin-Shifter

How often can a man meet with misfortune while running? Maybe once a week, or twice? that too if he's unlucky. Even if he is the unluckiest man alive, he would slip and fell on his head because of a banana peel only once a week, but Marvin has stumbled upon a deathly battle scenario that could become the end of him.

He had just completed two of the five tasks and was returning home to get a dagger to complete the last task, but along the way, something inconceivable happened.

Walking through the alleyways, he stumbled upon a man and a woman fighting each other using their flashy skills. Normally, the protagonist of novels could swag their way through such situations with ease, but Marvin wasn't convinced that he had become one, so he hid behind the alley walls and peeked at the fight.

Lighting snakes and flame pythons swirled around the woman as she clashed with the shiny black head man in a black-suit using her sword.

The man blocked her sword attack with his own, and grinned at her, almost immediately, a lightning python bit his ankles and the man received an electric massage. Right at that moment, Abigail used her sword to slash at the man.

The man couldn't properly react in time as he was being electrified. He was barely able to move his head out of the range of her sword slash, but his head was never her goal!

Abigail smirked as the sword changed its trajectory to the sides and his arm was cut off, but the man in black didn't wail or shout.

A spike protruded out of his leg and stabbed the lightning Python. The lighting Python dispersed and the man regained control.

The moment he gained control over his body, the man in the black suit clawed at Abigail, sending her flying in the skies, she tiptoed her way to the top of a building roof, so did the man in the black suit.

With a simple "Ahem", his hand that spurted blood started to regenerate!

Flesh and bone protruded out of the wound and in some seconds, a new bloody arm without skin has molded.

Marvin was staring at all of this from a dark corner.

The woman was a smoking hot babe. She was tall, and her pale thighs were partially exposed. She has an oval face, a sharp nose, enticing and kissable red lips, and her eyes were bigger than almonds. Tattoos of the silver moon decorated her muscled and well-defined legs and inner thighs.

Her panties were the reddest Marvin has ever seen. They were Scarlet.

Marvin managed to glimpse at her panties when she tiptoed her way to the rooftop of the building nearby.

Abigail's shoulder-length dark red hair fluttered with the wind as she murderously glared at the man in the black suit. She pointed her Moon Sword at him.

On the other hand, the man in the black suit was distressed and confused. Standing on a roof rail opposite to her, he shouted,

"Why are you attacking me? I believe I don't even know you!"

Abigail rolled her eyes, how dare It spews out such bullshit!

"Why you ask? Because you are not even a human being. You can escape from the detection of the city guard by disguising under the skin of a human being, but not mine, Shape-shifting Demon!" Abigail shouted back. With a humming sound, her Moon Sword flickered in bluish light, and lightning was generated.

The man in black was further confused by her accusation, he said with a distressed expression, "Huh? What do you mean!"

Abigail shakes her left and right and her lips curled up in disdain, "Che, you can change your shape but not your disgusting stench. No matter how much perfume you sprinkle upon yourself, I, Abigail Redhawk can still smell out your kind!"

The beautiful woman stated her name with a prideful stance.

The man in black heard her words, breathed in a lot of air, and started to chuckle like a mad man. There was no need to put up a fake pretense of humanity any longer.

"Oh, so you are from that family. I guess putting up this fake act is no longer necessary!" the man in black said.

His fingers gorged into the skin, and the flesh was ripped apart, revealing a grotesque monster. Two abyssal eyes stare at her and glanced at the place where Marvin was hiding with an overpowering animosity, and another screech surges from its crooked mouth in an attempt to intimidate her and Marvin.

Abigail glanced in Marvin's direction and said, "You should run away."

She turned around to stare at the demon.

"Shapeshifting demon, since you have finally decided to reveal your true self, it's time for you to die!" Abigail said, her heroic charm enchanted her beauty under the moonlight. She was not intimidated by the demon. She was going to fight the demon to death, even if it meant death!

Marvin had been silently hiding in the darkness of the alleyway. The woman and the demon have sensed him, but his presence was like thin air to the two almighty beings, so he was ignored. In a situation like this, he should have run away as it's the best choice, but Marvin chose to stay. It's because of the demon. It was clear that it will come after him after it kills the woman. Moreover, a shapeshifting demon hides among the human by taking on the skin of the human. Letting it live will lead to the death of many innocent lives.

THAT CAN INCLUDE HIS MOTHER AND SISTER THAT WERE NEARBY THIS PLACE!

He wasn't gonna let something as unfortunate as that happen.

"Heh, as long as I kill you then I can remain undercover in this city as long as I want. Also, your skin is so pale and smooth, I wonder how I would look in it!" the demon pulls out its tongue with a sharp metallic end. It drops down and cuts the metallic rail in two.

Abigail felt grossed out by Its words, and her determination strengthened so did the lighting that has started to crackle around her body.