"..." Levi silently gazed up at the night sky." Huff...Huff...I was sure that he would come here..."
" Why are you even doing this? You know that he will not be thankful!"
Two people talked to each other below the building that Levi lay on.
No matter where he went to look for lodging, they were all full.
Even after searching until it was deep in the night, he still couldn"t find a place.
The building he was laying on was the last inn he found.
Although he had been to demonic city before, he had quickly pa.s.sed though it, so he didn"t know his way around very well.
" It"s pointless to continue searching, i will just sleep on the roof." He though silently.
" So, just to confirm this again, you came here to kill some guy you had a grudge with in the past?" The demon saint asked.
"....Yes." Levi replied simply.
" You b.l.o.o.d.y moron! Why are you trying to get revenge? What will you gain from it?" The demon saint asked.
"....Nothing. Satisfaction? Probably not even that." Levi thought of the azure clan.
Even after killing the people he had hated for so long, it didn"t make him feel any better.
In fact, he felt even more anger and hatred, even now.
" Then why are you doing it?!" The demon saint shouted incredulously.
" Is this guy an idiot? Is he really risking his life, our lives, just for revenge?!" The demon saint thought.
" If i want to survive until i find a proper body, i will have to start changing his way of thinking, slowly." He thought, as he waited for Levi"s reply.
" Because i promised myself to kill anyone who tried to kill me." Levi spoke aloud, as a cold voice flowed from his mouth.
" Levi?! Is that Levi?" He suddenly heard shouting, causing him to sit up.
Because the roof of the inn was slanted, he had to look over cautiously so he wouldn"t fall off.
Looking down, he saw Noah and Ryan.
Their breathing was heavy and they looked tired.
" Hey! Hey! Hey! Keep your mouth shut!" The demon saint shouted, causing Levi to close his mouth.
" What?" Levi asked.
" You changed your face and even your hairstyle, so why are you talking with the same voice? Are you an idiot?" The demon saint asked.
" How am i supposed to change my voice?" Levi asked.
" Speak in a higher tone! Change your speech patterns! Put some emotion in your voice! Anything is good as long as you aren"t talking in that monotonous voice!" The demon saint shouted exasperatedly.
" Furthermore, you should already know how to act! Can"t you remember how you escaped from that gladiator situation?" The demon saint asked.
"...Oh, when the collar was around my neck. I felt like killing myself while i did that. I don"t want to do it again." Levi said with reluctance.
" You don"t have to behave in the same way as that time, but don"t do everything how you usually would!" The demon saint said.
"..." Levi kept silent as he looked down.
" Ah, sorry, i thought you were someone else." After looking at Levi"s face, Noah said.
He had thought that he heard Levi"s voice, but after seeing the ugly face of the person on the roof, he was sure that it wasn"t Levi.
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" Senior brother Noah, why are you looking for him anyway?" Ryan asked with an annoyed tone.
" To repay a personal debt. I told you already, my arm was crippled."
" If it wasn"t for that medicine that Levi applied to me, i wouldn"t be able to use it now. And i already told you that you didn"t have to come along." Noah said, as his breath slowly returned to him.
" If senior sister didn"t react so strongly, even going so far as attacking the elde- i mean, sect master because of him, your arm wouldn"t have been crippled in the first place!" Ryan shouted.
" So it"s his fault that my arm was crippled?" Noah asked.
" Yes! If it wasn"t for him! If it wasn"t for him...." Ryan shouted.
" My arm was crippled because i chose to protect Ava from that b.a.s.t.a.r.d"s attack. It was also her who brought that on herself." Noah said, as he looked down at ryan.
" When things aren"t good, or going how you would like, it might be easier to push your anger and resentment onto someone else, but it is not a good practice." Noah spoke, as Ryan lowered his head.
Since elder rock became the sect master, a lot of things changed.
He surrounded himself with young girls from the sect.
If anyone complained about it, they were either crippled or killed.
People learned what kind of person the new sect master was and changed themselves accordingly.
But there were always certain idiots who couldn"t adapt in certain situations.
" The demonic G.o.d sect isn"t what it used to be. Why do you think i left in the evening? When the people of demonic city see us now, they either shy away in fear, or throw rocks in their anger."
" Plus....No, i can"t say that out in the open. Anyway, if Levi is coming here for that b.a.s.t.a.r.d, then i have to warn him about "that" before he get"s himself killed!" Noah started running once again.
" Tsk! He didn"t get to the part that i wanted to hear. What is "that"?" Levi thought silenlty, as he lay his back on the tiled roof.
" Hehehe, do you want this demon to tell you?" The demon saint asked.
"..." Levi silently waited.
A few minutes of silence pa.s.sed before the demon saint spoke.
" Tch! How boring! It has something to do with those soldiers we met earlier, along with all of the full inns." The demon saint said.
" What do you mean?" Levi asked.
" If you put everything that we have seen together, then it points to those soldiers." The demon saint said.
" You have been to this place before, but this is the first time you have seen these soldiers here. Now, when you think of the soldiers, what else comes to mind that feels off?" The demon saint asked.
"....I don"t know." Levi said.
" The inns. All of the inns are full, right? That is very odd. Besides that, have you seen any more of those soldiers since?" The demon saint asked.
" No." Levi replied.
" Back to the soldiers, then. Why would they try to extort money from you?" The demon saint asked.
".....So that they can stay at an inn?" Levi asked after some thought.
" Go on." The demon saint said.
" What else is there? Maybe they wanted something to e Wait!" Levi shot up.
" Wait....all of the inns are filled...are they filled with soldiers? Why would so many soldiers be here?" Levi mumbled, as he looked down at the empty street.
" You are here to get revenge, right?" The demon saint asked.
" Old demon....Are you saing that that coward has something to do with these soldiers?" Levi asked.
" It is a possibility." The demon saint said.
" Even if that were the case, i could kill those soldiers easily. Why would Noah feel the need to warn me about soldiers?" Levi asked.
" Humph! How arrogant! You should stop underestimating people, before we have to regret it."
" Ah ah, look at the time. This demon is going to sleep, don"t call me anymore." The demon saint yawned, before silence fell.
"...Am i underestimating them?" Levi mumbled.
" I am just stating the truth, how is that underestimating them?" He thought.
...
Morning.
Levi"s eyes cracked open, as the blue sky entered his sight.
The streets were not as busy as one would expect.
The people looked lifeless for some reason.
Tap!
" Hey, what is wrong with you guys?" Levi jumped from the roof.
His feet kicked up a bit of dust as he landed on the ground.
"....Who...are you, kid?...you should...leave..before he comes....here again..." A middle aged man looked helpless, as he feebly spoke.
His legs trembled from exhaustion as he shot Levi a helpless smile.
" Hey, didn"t this young master ask you something? Where are you going?" Levi asked, his eyes narrowing.
The demon saint woke him up in the middle of the night more than once to remind him not to speak like himself.
" My stomach turns at the thought of acting like this, but...." He thought silently.
" Yo-Young master? Who"s young master are you? Can...Can you help....Can you save this city?" The man stopped, before walking up to Levi and reaching out to grab him.
His hand stopped midway, as he hurriedly withdrew it.
"....How annoying." Levi mumbled coldly.
" P-Pardon?" The man said, his voice shakey.
" Answer this young master"s question first. How am i supposed to help you if i don"t know what is going on?" Levi once again began speaking with the voice of a spoiled young master.
" W-Well, the thing is..." The man paused, as if it was difficult to speak about the subject.
"....If you don"t want to say it, then i will just find someone else!" Levi shouted impatiently, his young master aura increasing.
" WWait! I-It"s just that....if...if i told you...would young master bring me from here?" The man asked, hope s.h.i.+ning in his sunken eyes.
" In the end, people only care about themselves."
" They all walk around with righteous expressions, pretending to care about each other, but will abandon each other easily depending on the situation." Levi though silently.
He didn"t think that anything was wrong with this.
It just annoyed him that people went around pretending to care about each other.
" I guess that makes me a hypocrite..."
" Hmm, but if i think about it, i don"t care or pretend to care about people..Ah, whatever! It doesn"t matter how people see me." He thought.
Taking Levi"s silence as a yes, the man began speaking.
" The truth is....since the sect master of the demonic G.o.d sect changed, living in demonic city has become difficult." The man paused, as if recalling something.
" Now, we have to pay a tax of 100 gold coins every month for the entire city. This city is not that big, which means that that amount is nearly impossible!"
" Everyone tries to sc.r.a.pe together what little money they have every month to pay, becasue if they don"t....well, anyway..."
" Now, to make things even worse, recently, a group of soldiers appeared..."
" They extort money from everyone, and use it to stay at the inns. Anyone who stayed at an inn before was chased out."
" The soldiers then take the money back from the inn keepers, before paying them with it again."
" I don"t know why they do this, since they could just force the inn keepers to allow them to stay indefinitely..."
" But, because there are so many of them, everyone is too scared to say or do anything."
" Ha, the money, well, none of us really thought of it as important. As long as we were allowed to live peacefully, we didn"t care...."
" It would just be a little more difficult to live without it, but not by much..."
" But now....Of all of the situations, this is the worst....."
" The new demonic G.o.d sect master is coming down to the city in a few days...." The man paused, as his face scrunched up.
"....to pick out some new wives!"
" If anyone with a daughter was to refuse, they would most likely be killed and have their daughter taken anyway!"
" How could you, as a father, give your daughter to someone she didn"t love or wanted to be with?"
" How could you seperate her from the one she truly loves, the one she grew up with, the one she didn"t know she felt that way about until recently?!"
" But what can you do when you don"t even have a choice in the matter?! What should you do when you can"t even leave the place in which such things are happening?!"
" If you know that refusing would cost you your life, and your daughter would be taken anyway, do you offer her up to save yourself?! Do you resist and die pointlessly?!"
" Tell me, what should you do?" The man looked up.
Tears dripped from his face, as he looked at Levi inquiringly.
"....This man....does he have a daughter? Is that why he wanted me to take him from this city? Or is he just trying to get inside my head?" Levi"s eyes narrowed as he looked at the man.
" Oh, how sorrowful. Having to offer up your unwilling child into marriage to save yourself....hehehehe, how very sad, hehehe...." The demon saint laughed evilly.
".....Do you think that he is telling the truth?" Levi asked.
" Hehehehe, of course. He has an air of desperation around him."
" Desperate to leave this place without having to make a choice."
" Desperate, so that he doesn"t need to see the look of disappointment and reluctance on his child"s face...."
" Desperate, because he knows that if it comes down to it, in order to save himself.....Hehehehe, he will even sacrifice his most precious daughter!" The demon saint explained.
"..." Levi kept silent.