From Another World

twelve

We were getting the horses ready, gave them something to eat and checked the booze before leaving the inn. We boarded the cart and Dazel and I got in, I got the leash and whipped it and the horses began moving, as they neigh along the road.

We were following the path the innkeeper told us to follow. As we move along birds are chirping from the trees, squirrels are running from branch to branch and other small animals were playing in the forest at the side of the road. We passed several other carts and we greeted them friendly with a smile and in some instances waved at them.

Dazel and I were quiet the whole trip, she was only admiring the environment while I led the horses. I wanted to open up a conversation, but I didn't know what to talk about, we still got a lot to go before we near the hill but were almost halfway and we didn't even talk in this trip once.

A whip of the breeze slipped through our noses, it is superbly quiet, and it looks like Dazel's getting a little bit bored.

"Dazel?" I called out to her. I can call her that when we're alone right? Nobody's here to hear our conversation.

"Yes Shane?" It looks like I got rid of her boredom.

"What do you do as a demon lord serving the Demon King?"

"Oh! It's just like what you humans call politics, it's kinda like that but the Demon King is concerned about prophecies and stuff so we demon lords just follow what he says and don't attack small villages and towns which is so boring!" She let out a huge sigh and

"You don't go to war? Or something like that?"

"We did, three thousand years ago when we fought against the Gods and Goddesses. We demons suffered a tragic defeat, but they lost all their best men in battle, some died and some couldn't fight anymore, we only lost about half of what they lost. Yeah we lost some of our best of warriors but they left us with their powers before they passed on. They won the war but we won overall."

I thought the demons today were weak and didn't even dare touch a single village, but it's just because of the Demon King's prophecy. What would it be?

"W-Wait... How old are you again?"

"I'm only a thousand years old... This is just a story told to me by Big Sis when I was still young."

"I thought you were in that war."

"Nope, everyone except the Demon King had already passed on. The Demon King is an upper class demon which makes him immune to die from old age but he never engaged in battle even once, but the other demon lords say he is a good leader but not a good fighter."

Wait... Am I getting this information for free? I am supposedly to defeat the Demon King and I'm getting information about his weaknesses for nothing, or is she fooling me again? I never know but true or false information can still help me so the least.

"Do you believe he's weak?"

"Um, no! I haven't seen him in a fight so mere rumors won't dirty my expectations of him."

Wow, that's a mature thing for you to say Dazel.

"Well, thanks for your answers..." I don't have anything to say anymore...

"Well Shane, I have a question myself."

"U-Um, what is it Dazel?" Why am I shivering? She's just gonna ask a question and why am I getting goosebumps.

"Are you a God? Or do you have any kind of divine blessing?" She looks serious, more than her normal childish self does.

"W-Why do you ask that Dazel?"