Reincarnated Into A Hell Hound - Chapter 143

As I used my trump card the relief that I thought I would feel didn’t come, instead a worry and a frown for how calm the Demon seems to be even after realizing we outnumber him and have just disarmed him.

It wouldn’t be a situation where one would be calm and carefree like this, but here he is.

As we stop to breathe, a graveyard for a battlefield, I end up asking:

“Why did you do this?” Even though I knew these lives meant nothing to him, not the dare consequences of his actions, I still ask: “Why did you have to kill them all? They got nothing to do with you, they didn’t even intend to interfere with your plans, so why?!”

The moment I ask he seems a little bit uninterested, kicking the hand of a body that had landed on his fit in the commotion, as one would do to a meaningless object. Without a single care or respect.

“Is very simple, they did not play a major part in my plans so to avoid any trouble in the future I decided to strike while they are with their guards lowered and not have troubles with them in the future. Plus their lands interest me, so I’m thinking of putting trustworthy humans in care of them.” You mean to control them to take care of it for you don’t you?

“Really how important can your plans be for you to get this far?” He stops and looks at me then, moving his head to the side as if pondering about it as he says:

“Curious aren’t we? Very well, since we will end this tonight, why not tell you? I bet you are curious as to how I managed to grow so fast and how I got to you so easily…”

That makes me really curious indeed, and I cannot stop my ears from perching up and my eyes to stare attentively, which earns a chuckle from his part. “So eager, very well, let me tell you…”

“Let’s just say that your friend Leonel wasn’t the only that came back in time with those little tricks of his…”

“What?!” I say in shock, not believing it for a second, so I stay in silence to hear him as he continues:

“Yeah, I know all about it, how you lost your precious brother back then, how you massacred an entire race for that, how the continent burned with your rage, so you can imagine my surprise when I came back and not only that but your brother, your precious little brother was safe and sound… And I know of things that even you do not know about…All my memories were intact from the beginning.”

“I know a lot about the future, so I prepared myself for it and… well, changed it, just like you did to your brother, and know my kin is prospering, is alive and growing stronger by the day.” I frown at that, attentive at the words he used.

Prospering, stronger, alive? And the hesitation when he said he changed the now… there is more to it than he is telling me I’m sure.

“Indeed…” He says, looking down. “My kin suffered many loss in the other past, and in the hands of those filthy cultivators who dare think themselves gods among sheep and harvest my kin like cattle in the pasture!” For the first time I do not doubt his words, the anger and sorrow visible in him, but he composes himself before losing all calm.

“There is where you come in, my little hound, you, my friend, massacred them in the other life, I don’t know how you did it, but you just wiped them off the map like any other humans around. And I want, no, I’ll have your powers in my hands to end them, turn the humans who once idolatrized them and wanted to be like them against them, and squish the cultivators like the c.o.c.kroaches they are!”

“I know, I know, you want to ask how I, magnificence Demon King, in all my glory, did not put an end to them already with my own hands, but you see, for some reason they are able to resist my powers, and I cannot control them like other kinds, and as my lackeys proved to be the weakest of them all I have to do all by myself. And that’s why I’ll use you, and you shall do as told, otherwise who knows what may happen to your brother… But fear not, he won’t be needed after tonight, so at least you can find comfort in that.”

“Ha! As if you are going to let him free after tonight.” At that the prick smiles mischievously, making me growl at him.

“Well, he will find the same calling that you will… in helping our noble cause. You two should be thrilled with the honor of serving me directly.”

He smiles, but something is odd about the way he does it, a slight curve that almost makes it look forced and sad as he says:

“But hound, round and round we go, you keep asking me this and that when I have always been very clear of what I wanted from the very beginning. I want you, and I’ll have you tonight for dinner.” I growl at that.

“As if.”

That strange smile stays as he says: “Very well, how about we play seriously a bit then hey? Take off this…weak form of mine and let you know what I’m truly capable of uhm?”

At that a blinding light shines not behind but from within his body, making us narrow our eyelids to avoid the burning sensation as, even if I still had many questions to ask, many loopholes of information to fill in, I’m left stunned with this new form that unfolds before me, and clenching my jaw I realize that things may be starting to get serious now, wondering if, finally, we are to see the Demon’s King true form.

And his true powers too at that.