Ch 23: Inhuman

Fever (Villain4ever): Hi guys!

Don't worry, I'm still alive. However, there is something that I want to announce with a heavy heart.

I know that I promised you to release a chapter daily, but I feel that if I continue like this, I will get mentally exhausted. So I'm planning to take a two day break each week to think more about the development of the story.

That's all what I wanted to say, and 'see' you tomorrow.

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As soon as Zircon saw that the stranger is a devil, he knew that he needed to go with Asako.

Even if he is stronger than a common child is, he is still a child. He didn't even has the chance to escape, at least not with Irina. But he refused to leave her.

He tried his best to find a way to escape, but there was no way that the devil was going to let them any chance, so at a high speed, he dashed towards them.

His sharp insect legs left various cracks in the ground. The mouth with sharp teeth in his abdomen was opened wide, and the foul scent of blood filled the air.

Zircon could barely react after seeing that the demon was charging towards them. He jumped to the side while holding Irina in his arms, avoiding the charge of the demon.

"Now, now. Why don't you little sheep just stay still?" The devil smiled sadistically. "Even if I want to 'play' with you a little more, I don't have much time. So don't make it difficult for me and just become my meal."

The devil once again charged towards the two of them. Irina was still in Zircon's hug with her eyes closed. She was too scared to even open them.

Knowing that this time he wouldn't have enough time to avoid the devil's charge, pushed her away from his trajectory, while Zircon prepared himself for the impact.

When the devil clashed his body Zircon's, he made an amused smirk, seeing that the stupid human child was going to be the first one in become his meal.

However, as soon as he felt the child in his mouth, he tried to crunch him inside it, but that never happened.

What Irina saw was something that she never expected, simply to put, it was impossible.

In normal circumstances, a human adult, not even to mention a child, would have died in that instant. However, Zircon, with both of his hands and legs, used all his force to prevent the devil's mouth to close, but that didn't mean that he was without a scratch. One of the fangs of the devil's abdominal mouth pierced his right hand, and even if he was holding to avoid to being crushed by the devil, his strength was slowly decreasing due to the force applied by the devil.

Zircon's thoughts began to run at quick pace, trying to find a way to get out of that situation.

(I think I don't have any other option.) He thought.

By the moment the devil was about to crush Zircon, he smiled maniacally. "Good try. But livestock is livestock in the end."

Then the devil closed his mouth, with Zircon inside.

"Zir-chaaan!" Irina screamed with a horrified expression.

Then, hearing her screams, the devil turned his attention towards Irina, who fell on her knees, unable to move.

"Don't worry." The devil said with sadistic grin. "You will be able to see your friend, inside me."

Irina wanted to escape, but the shock caused by the death of her friend was simply to much for her. Even if she was brave, there was no way in which a normal child like her would be able to tolerate such scene.

Her legs were paralyzed, and she couldn't move. The only thing that she was able to do was watch the devil getting near to her.

The devil enjoyed seeing his victims' terror impregnated in their eyes, even more if they were children. Hearing the children's scream of pain and fear, while seeing their parent cry in desperation. Even if the parents weren't there, he still enjoyed it.

That's the reason why he left his peerage, who were just a bunch of cowards who didn't even dare to kill pathetic humans, as he once said.

Killing was his joy, and the screams were his stimulation. There was no way that he was going to give up such pleasure.

His hands went towards Irina's head, while preparing himself for his next meal. Then...

"Blurgh." The devil started to vomit, and tried to cover his mouth with his hand.

"*Cough* *Cough*." The devil cough hardly while, then he examined his hand, and after seeing the red liquid on it he was shocked. "What the- Agh!"

The devil began to squirm his body in pain; a pain like no other that he felt before. He felt like if his inside were being crushed, then chopped, and finally being eaten by something.

"Agh! Ahhhh! Ahhhh!" His pain didn't decrease, it only increased by each passing second.

Then, the next scene scared the shit out of him.

Four sharp metallic looking blades pierced his stomach from the inside, and his blood spurted from his wounds.

The devil tried to stop the bleeding using his magic, but each time the wounds were healed, the blades pierced again his skin, inducing him more pain.

No matter how many times he tried, the demon couldn't stop his bleeding due to the constant attacks of the blades. It was until his magic power was depleted, that he felt too exhausted to heal himself.

He felt scared, that he was going to die. And he was damn right about it.

The blades started to move, as they cut his stomach horizontally to the right, leaving his blood spurt like a fountain and his intestines hanging outside his body.

Irina was scared and felt like throwing up, but she contained herself after seeing the person coming out from the devil's guts.

A great black hand with sharp silver claws and red veins was replacing left hand, and a strange mask with red glowing fangs covered his mouth and left eye, making him look like some kind of predatory creature. His appearance was simply, inhuman.

Blood was dripping from his body, but it wasn't his, or at least, not in the most part.

"Z-Zir-chan?" Irina stuttered while asking.

Zircon's bare eye glimmered with a dangerous red light, and turned his attention towards Irina, who was still sitting in the ground. By her expression, she was scared.

He didn't want to show that form to Irina, who just recently became his first friend, because he knew that he would scare her. He could only saw her in the eyes, filled with fear while being in front of her.