Chapter 8: Emotional Damage

Ishida then looked at the women in the crater who was currently unconscious and he breathe a sigh of relief.

'Luckily I lessened the blow of the Zoltraaks by using a barrier on the last second...'

'I just need to incapacitate them.'

'There's no need for unnecessary blood shed.'

'God, I sound like hypocrite...'

Summoning another set of white arcane circles, Ishida then continued firing Zoltraaks at the pair who was hiding behind a cracked hexagon barrier.

*Boom*

*Boom*

*Crack*

"Tuli!" Eisen with his grimoire at hand quickly shouted at Tuli with panicked tone.

'I can't hold this barrier for long!' Throd with sweat dripping from his face looked at Eisen behind him with a worried face.

"Eisen do you know any offensive spells that you can fire at him?" Throd quickly asked while still maintaining the barrier from the barrage of attacks.

*Boom*

*Boom*

Snapping out of his dilemma, Eisen quickly nodded and made a silent prayer.

"Goddess magic: Holy smite!"

Eisen summoned a magic circle and a bolt white lighting suddenly moved towards Ishida's position.

Seeing the lighting bolt, Ishida quickly stopped casting his Zoltraaks and quickly use defensive magic to block.

*Pang*

'A Chance!'

Not letting a chance go to waste, Dispelling his defensive magic, Throd summoned a magic circle in front of him.

"Support magic: Restrain!"

After finishing the chant, ropes of pure mana started to slither it's way towards Ishida

Seeing the ropes, Ishida's eyes immediately contracted and quickly summoned a larger white magic and fired a zoltraak towards the incoming ropes.

"Goddess magic: Binding Vows!"

'Shit!'

'I forgot about the priest!'

As Ishida was about to summon another zoltraak to blast the series of white threads that were getting close to him, a single bluish rope tangled his left foot.

"!"

Being caught by surprise, Ishida was quickly pulled from the ground and quickly got slammed, with his body first into the forest floor.

*Gasp*

*Smash*

"Gah!"

'Fuck, can't think straight... I got to summon a zoltraak to get off this.' Ishida who was currently in the air, summoned another set of arcane circles and quickly fired them at both Throd and Eisen.

Seeing the absurd amount of Zoltraaks coming there way, Throd and Eisen stopped suppling there spells and immediately group together with Tuli who still unconscious and conjured a spherical defensive magic.

*Bang*

*Bang*

*Crack*

*Bang*

'Wait!! I didn't think this through!'

Ishida who was on the air suddenly started to free falling since he stopped the caramel haired man from supplying his spell with mana.

'Crap, Crap, Crap!'

Immediately as Ishida was falling, he quickly started to make an visualization of the spell used for flying.

'Flying magic is a spell that makes the user the same weight as the air around them, they spread out there mana and make the wind flow through there bodies making an illusion that they are floating'

'Agh please work!'

Ishida who was about to hit the forest floor saw an arcane circle appear on his soul and quickly activated it's trigger.

*Swoosh*

A gust of wind flowed from the surrounding trees and quickly cushioned Ishida from falling to his death.

"Holy shit that was terrifying!"

Ishida cursed while looking at the ground just couple centimeters away from him.

'Wait... now that I learned flying magic why not I just run?'

Feeling that the solution for his problem was to merely run away, Ishida then poured more mana into his spell and flew into the the sky.

"Fuck this I'm leaving!" Ishida who was currently on the air, pointed a middle finger at both Throd and Eisen and quickly flew north.

*Pang*

Throd and Eisen who was currently on the ground, witnessed the demon boy who was falling from the skies suddenly fly to the skies again and threw profanities at them before suddenly flying face first into the barrier Eisen casted long before the fight began.

"..."

"..."

Throd and Eisen made a deadpanned face before controlling there urge to laugh at the absurdity of the situation.

Ishida who was currently stuck on barrier made an embarrassed face, before looking at the two humans who was trying there hardest not to laugh on the ground.

'I will never let this down...'

Ishida then flew back to where Throd and Eisen is, like the situation from last time didn't happen.

'Should I just obliterate this place from the face of the earth?'

Ishida with a face that denotes a lot of shame thought of erasing the section of forest in the Southlands with a kilometer wide Zoltraak but quickly rejected it since it would be bad for the local ecosystem.

"Can you please remove the barrier?" Ishida embarrassingly requested for Throd and Eisen to remove the barrier.

Seeing the demon child, who was trying to kill them just moments ago, suddenly ask them to dispel the Barrier with a weirdly embarrased face that doesn't fit well with his dead emotionless eyes, both Throd and Eisen made a deadpanned face.

"..."

"..."

Seeing the look, that his late father used to use, when he did something wrong or fail his exams, Ishida couldn't help but retort.

"Don't look at me with that face!!"

Ishida then flew down to the ground and quickly looked at them like they were one of his enemies who discovered his vulnerable weakness.

"Buahaha!" Throd could no longer supress his urge to laugh and quickly eyed the demon boy from head to toe before continuing on laughing.

Eisen who was beside him then cautiously eyed his colleague who was currently laughing whole heartedly, couldn't help but inwardly thought

'Did Throd become crazy?!'

Eisen started to flow his mana into his grimoire to cast an anti-charm spell on Throd but was quickly interrupted by a scepter stopping him.

"It's fine Eisen, I haven't been hypnotized"

'Thats what a person who has been hypnotized will say!'

Eisen ignored his words and quickly casted an anti-charm spell on Throd, but his complexion stayed the same.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Eisen cautiously looked at the demon boy who was now standing in front of them shielding his face in embarrassment.

"..."

After a minute of laughing, Throd then looked at Ishida like he was no longer an animal that needed to be put down, but instead an actual fellow human being who could experience, grief, love, pain and embarrassment like them.

"Kid, Do you hate Demons?"

Throd nonchalantly asked Ishida if he hated his own race.

Ishida then looked at Throd with anger in his face.

"Yes..."

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Silence permeated the surroundings until Throd then continued laughing all over again.

"Hahaha!"

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*Gasp*

All of a sudden Tuli who was laying on the crater immediately gasped for air and quickly stood up and was able to see the demon child and his colleagues being in front of it.

'Shit, Throd and Eisen is in Danger!'

Tuli quickly picked up her ax and ran towards Ishida as fast she could.

Just as she was about to swing and chop Ishida in half, Tulo's movements were quickly halted by Throd and Eisen's binding spells.

"Throd, Eisen what in the goddess name are you doing!!" Tuli shouted angerly at both Throd and Eisen who was currently stopping her from killing one of the race who killed her husband twenty years ago.

"Tuli calm yourself... we're not hypnotized, we were just talking to the demon child and all of a sudden you came swinging at him without any warning."

Eisen raised both of his arms to calm down the seething female warrior.

"Why are you talking to him?! Throd you said that demons couldn't be reasoned with?! Why are you backing out now?!" Tuli filled with rage looked at Throd who is still supplying mana to his spell.

"I maybe a hypocrite for saying this, but I believe that this demon child can actually be reasoned with..." Throd made a pained expression while looking at Tuli in the eyes.

"i-I y-You traitor!!" Tuli looked at both Eisen and Throd angerly before looking at the Demon child in front of her in rage...

Ishida who saw her face who was filled with unbridled rage couldn't help but step back in fear.

Tuli seeing Ishida suddenly flinch and step back a couple steps away from her, she was quickly reminded of the time when she saw her trembling daughter scared and injured, when she found her after a demon raided there village.

"..."

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'He looks like her...'

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After a minute of waiting for Tuli to calm down, Throd and Eisen removed her bindings one by one until finally she was face to face with the demon child with black hair and curved horns protruding into the sky.

"What's your name?" Tuli emotionlessly asked Ishida for his name.

Just as he was about to speak his old worlds name, he stopped and quickly answered Tuli's question.

"I don't have a name..."

Eisen, Throd and Tuli quickly eyed the demon child like he was a one in a billion anomaly before Tuli asked another question.

"Do you want a name?"

Ishida thought for a while before nodding in response

"From now on your name will be Lacht"

Ishida felt that the name feels cool enough and happily called out his first name in world of Frieren.

"Lacht..."

"Lacht!"

"Lacht!"

Looking at the demon child who suddenly started happily calling out his name, Tuli, Eisen and Throd had a simple smile written on there faces.

Tuli then quickly huddled with both Throd and Eisen away from the now named 'Lacht'

"Explain..."

Throd and Eisen quickly looked at each other in understanding before retelling what happened to them when she was unconscious.

"Bwahahah, the kid flew face first into the barrier and embarrassingly asked you remove it?! I can't believe it!" Tuli made a quick glance at the demon child who was currently looking at them in curiousity before stopping herself.

"Ye- yeah we know..."

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"So what do we do with Lacht?" Eisen then asked a question to both Tuli and Throd with worry in his face.

"Lacht is too much of an anomaly... He looks and feels like a human being, hell he even cursed at us like a human being and it seems like he is the source of mana wave..." Throd fearfully glanced at Ishida who was still curiously observing them before continuing on with there discussion

*Cough*

*Cough*

Ishida who was currently looking at them, all of a sudden started coughed up blood.

'Ah fuck, the last two slams did a lot of damage to my lungs and stomach...ahh shit I'm about to pass o-'

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*Thud*

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"Lacht?"

Hearing the sound of a body hitting the ground, Tuli, Throd and Eisen immediately looked at Ishida who was currently laying motionless on the floor.

"LACHT!"

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In the snowy mountains of the Southlands Frieren was still currently flying towards the south forests when suddenly, the mana on her surroundings suddenly vanished without a trace and started to converge into a single point in the forest.

"I have to hurry."

Supplying more mana to her flight spell, Frieren moved as fast as a jet fighter on earth and worriedly thought to her self.

'I hope I am not too late..."

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Living in the main building of the continental magic association, Serie siting on a throne covered with mountains of grimoires made a disappointed face towards the south lands.

"And here I thought that a new era of wars would commence but it seems that 'thing' is still only an infant..."

After a while of speaking Serie then made an exited smile for the future.

"You better don't disappoint me boy..."

"I will wait for you to burn this world in sunder"

"Fill the rivers of this planet with blood."

"Turn the heaven and the earth upside down by your will alone..."

"Ahh"

Serie felt aroused thinking of the amount of wars and bloodshed she could witness.

"Until then, grow well boy, learn from the humans and see what carnage they can bring upon themselves and use there knowledge against them!"

"I just can't wait, my little demon lord..."

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Somewhere in the snowy mountains, Frieren who was currently wearing a snow coat suddenly shivered in thought and cutely sneezed

"Hachoo"

"I don't like the cold..."

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