Blood demon leveling - Chapter 192

Chloe could not believe her eyes, to her side sat a literal demon from myths and tales… And it appeared that he was eating instant noodles while his blue bone-spiked tail swayed from side to side

“Oh, right you can’t eat like that… I hope you’re left-handed”

The demon then whipped its tail faster than Chloe could see, before she managed to flinch she realized that her left hand had been cut free, then came a simple command

“Eat before it gets cold… Nobody likes cold noodles… Unless it’s soba…”

Chloe tried to pick up her fork but realized that her hands were shaking too much for her to eat, it was only now that she realized how terrified she was, this was a primal fear, something that no amount of training could have prepared her for, the demon sighed and just as Chloe feared the worst it picked up the fork and curled some noodles around on it before it brought the fork up to her mouth, after a few seconds of Chloe not doing anything the demon spoke again

“Here comes the airplane?”

Chloe carefully opened her mouth, the demon nodded and brought the fork into her mouth, she closed her mouth around the noodles and after the demon pulled the fork out she began chewing, she realized that she was unable to taste anything, at that point a thought went through her head

‘Ah… I am probably going to die here…’

Once that thought entered Chloe’s head tears started to spill from her eyes, no matter the amount of training she had received, once she realized that all the things she wasn’t going to be able to do, all the people she wasn’t able to meet flashed through her head, then she heard the demon sigh again, and realized that it was probably going to kill her now but to her surprise, it reached up towards her face, Chloe closed her eyes and some time passed before she realized that it was wiping her tears away with its fingers, she also realized that its hands were warm, at that point, she realized that there had been no anger or annoyance in its tone, the demon spoke again as it wiped her tears

“Good thing you are a woman, no way I am wiping some sweaty buff man’s tears”

Mike eventually finished wiping the tears of the female pilot he had captured, she was African-American and short black curly hair, brown skin, and eyes also she was a head shorter than Mike, still, she was well built as expected of a fighter pilot, Mike helped her eat the rest of the noodles before he opened a bottle of water and placed it on the table for her to drink, she looked at the bottle of water for a bit, probably to decided if it was worth risking poison to drink, Mike showed a slight smile and spoke

“If I wanted to kill you I would have done so already, come on drink”

The female pilot drank almost half the water bottle before she put it down on the table again and looked to her side over at Mike before she asked

“Why am alive?”

Mike’s smile widened a little before he raised 3 fingers

“Firstly because I have to check if I carry any infectious diseases that Earth’s population is valuable to”

The female pilot nodded, then Mike spoke again

‘”Secondly because I need some information about the current state of the world”

She nodded again then Mike’s smile disappeared

“Thirdly because I come in peace”

Then Mike made a hand gesture from a popular Sci-fi show, the female pilot’s eyes widened slightly before she asked

“You’re from Earth?”

Mike nodded as he spoke

“Yeah believe it or not I was born here in Denmark, my name is Mike”

The female pilot nodded before she spoke

“My name is Chloe Williams”

Mike nodded before his tail wiped a couple of times, cutting the ropes binding Chloe’s hand and feet were cut, she showed a smile and stood up before she bolted towards the exit of the building, Mike sat and looked at the door she had just run out of before he sighed, then he looked down at the table and muttered

“She didn’t even finish her noodles…”

Then he sent a mental message to his newly acquired servants

Chloe ran over an open field, from the surroundings she gathered that she was somewhere on Fyn in the countryside, up ahead was a forest, she hoped that she could lose Mike there and find a way to regroup with the Maries, she noticed a pack of deer off to her right side that seemed to be moving towards her, she was puzzled by this but figured that they had been spooked by something… That’s what she figured anyways, but when they suddenly surrounded her in a perfect circle she was forced to stop running, as she gathered her breath she looked around when a voice came from above

“You realize I can chase down an F-35 fighter jet right?”

Chloe looked up and saw Mike floating in the air with two wings behind his back that seemed to be made of pure blood, he landed next to her and spoke to the deer that had stopped Chloe

“Thanks, guys”

The deer all lowered their heads before they walked back to where they came from, Chloe looked after them before she turned to Mike and asked

“How did you..?”

Mike grinned before he asked

“Do you really want to know?”

Chloe looked at Mike for a few moments before she shook her head and began walking back towards the house where she came from, Mike floated down and landed beside her as he spoke

“You are kind of dense, you know that?”

Chloe frowned

“Why?”

Mike sighed before he spoke

“I wasn’t kidding when I said I wanted to use you to test for diseases, I’ve been on another… Planet for some time”

Chloe stopped walking and turned to Mike before she laughed for a bit, Mike kept a straight face, eventually, her laugh turned slightly nervous before she stopped laughing altogether and asked

“Really?”

Mike nodded before he spoke simply

“Yeah”

Chloe looked at him for a bit before she nodded and continued walking back towards the house, Mike shrugged before he followed after her…

In the evening Mike was sitting in front of a lit fireplace, Chloe was sitting a bit away from the fireplace on a chair as she looked at the side of Mike’s face before she looked into the fire like he did, then after a bit, she asked

“You’ve been in a war right?”

Mike nodded, eyes still locked into the fire, Chloe gathered her courage before she asked another question

“…Why are you here on Earth Mike?”

Mike continued looking into the fire, then just as Chloe had given up getting an answer and was about to ask another question he spoke

“…My superior discovered my conviction was faltering and sent me home to take some time to rediscover it”

Chloe nodded before she asked a question she knew was taboo for soldiers

“So… You’ve killed people?”

To Chloe’s surprise, Mike answered right away

“Yeah, I started here on Earth when I was young by accidentally killing my old man with an empty beer bottle… Just bang, over the head, he never woke up after that… When I came over there I killed beasts, men, women, and children to grow my strength, to survive… If you ask me if I regret it I don’t have a clear answer… Not yet anyway”

Chloe nodded again… then she thought for a bit before she asked another question

“How did you turn into… That?”

Mike chuckled before he answered her question

“By pursuing strength… Plus having a tail is handier than you think”

Mike swung the tail from side to side before he suddenly stopped looking at the fire and stood up before he stretched, then he turned away from the fire and looked at Chloe as he spoke

“Now for my questions… First, what happened since the EU was destroyed?”

Chloe sighed before she began speaking, from what she said Mike learned some key factors, firstly ‘the Red death’ was the name of the event, from the red glow that had taken the lives of so many people, it had been 3 years since it happened, there was no known cause for the event but it had exposed mana to the general public, for sometime after the event the Earth had united, but once it was clear that it was not some sort of alien invasion the superpowers were at each other’s throats again, this was mostly over claims on the so-called ‘de-colonized zone’ or simply the area that ‘the Red death’ had spread itself over, though the superpowers feared a second ‘Red death’ the promise of all that land was enough for them to ignore the threat, Mike sighed as he finished asking questions before he spoke

“I’ll have to sleep on that… you are free to go outside if you run away from the house again the deer will bring you back in a sorry state, oh and no entering my bedroom… I’ll be sleeping in the room upstairs”

Chloe nodded and spoke

“I am not going to run away and risk my countrymen’s lives… Or your anger for that matter”

Mike nodded before he walked upstairs, as he ascend the stairs he spoke out without turning back

“Good night Chloe”