Valkyria Squadron

Ch77: Fight in time

Shiba Park, Minato, Tokyo.
March 1st

Remembering that I was in an emergency situation, I woke up as fast as my body allowed. looked around and I could see how I was on a park bench, quite close I could see the Tokyo tower, so I must have been in Shiba Park. But how did I get here? Did I fall asleep here and everything that happened in Akasaka was just a bad dream? But just when maybe I thought that everything had been a creation of my imagination, something caught my peripheral sight, I turned to see and I could notice something that made me want to vomit.

Near me there were three people, the first was a child crying completely defenseless before what he was seeing. In front of him was something that could only be described as a demon with blue skin, black wings, and horns, who was quite busy playing with what was behind her. The body of an older man, but it was so shattered that it was almost unrecognizable, it was nailed by numerous metal stakes in the ground, next to a huge pool of blood, it was undoubtedly dead. When the demon got tired of playing with the remains of her victim, she stood up and out of nowhere took out another metal stake. But this time he turned to see the boy and started walking towards him. The crying boy could only call out to his father, who seemed to be the thing nailed in front of him. The demon upon hearing this began to laugh as if she enjoyed what she was causing. His next victim would undoubtedly be the child, he would end up just like his father and I couldn't allow it, I had to do something. So betting everything on a small guess I had about the devil, I ran and got between her and the boy. I extinguished my arms to try to defend the boy in case she attacked. I didn't know what I was doing, but it was better than doing nothing.

"What do you think you're doing?" said the demon asking for my actions
"If you don't get out of the way I won't be able to play with him!"

"What do you think you're doing!"
"He is just a boy!" I said confronting her

"That is exactly why!"
"Men deserve to die!"
"They are all nothing but hideous beasts trying to prey on women, and the few men who are truly different kill them for getting in their way!"
"Also just look at that boy, that look of panic is so innocent that it makes me want to turn it off myself for reminding me of my stupid past"

The demon was mad at me for getting in her way, but there was something funny about all this. Well despite this she had not attacked me in the slightest and was even willing to talk to me, which seemed to be a great exception to her way of acting. I must have been important alive to her in some way, but what exactly was it?

"If you want to hurt him you will have to step on me!" I said taking my luck to the limit

"That's stupid!"
"Why are you so stubborn to protect that brat?"
"He's the son of that bastard back there"
"Do you know how many people he could have saved but preferred to kill them himself?"
"Ten innocent people"
"Ten human lives wasted by that guy's greed"
"How are you sure that his son will not repeat the same mistakes as his father?"
"That you do not dedicate yourself to the same?"
"To kill the people who would cause the most damage in the long run?"

"The child does not have to pay for the crimes that his father committed!"
"He doesn't even know what's going on"
"The best way to make them understand what is wrong is by teaching them."
"Perhaps his father did not comply with his part, but the rest of his family or neighbors, or his own teachers taught him that it is good and bad that his father did" I said the first thing that crossed my mind trying to reason with the demon

"Are you not thinking of getting out of my way!?" Said the demon very angry.

It seems that I had made her angry with my actions, but she could not back down now, because it was up to me that the child could be saved. In the worst case, I will have to buy time for him to escape.