A Sheep Among Demons

Lesson One Chapter Seven - The Tale Of Seven Lords (1)

  After dragging me for a while Levi got to a door for a room and opened it. He threw me into the room which caused me to let out a small "oof" as I hit the ground. As I got off the ground I was thrown on. I happen to see Levi looking outside the door nervously before he quickly close and locked it.

". . . Why did you look around before you closed and locked the door?" I could feel my back grow cold as I looked at Levi cautiously. I was picturing all the things that could happen to me, a human, alone with Levi, a demon, and all of them weren't good at all for me. 'Is this death? Am I going to die? I will curse Mammon with bad luck if this is my death. . .'

". . .What's that now? You want to know why I looked around to see if anyone was watching before I closed the door? Why do you THINK I did it?! Isn't it obvious?! Imagine what would happen if someone saw me inviting you into my room! A human who doesn't even look like an otaku, but a normie! You know what people would say, right?!" Levi was pointing at me with disgust in his eyes and I wondered if I acted like this with my family whenever I told them they wouldn't get the anime or manga I was interested at the moment.

"Um, actually, I'm an otaku, too." I know I didn't really look like an otaku right now in this uniform but my sense of fashion was centered around the thing I watched and read. My brother had to force me to wear clothing that was more appropriate for social gathering.

"Really? You are. . .? W-Well, if you think that means I'll give you special treatment now, you've got another thing coming! Because I won't!" Levi crossed his arms around his chest puffing out his cheeks that were red. I could feel my heart beat increasing once I realized this was a classic tsundere attitude! I could feel that my expression was going to get weird so I quickly looked away from him and noticed a bookcase.

The bookcase is full with thick, hardcover books as big as encyclopedias. On the bookcase I saw one book that was facing toward me and I inch closer to it to read the title of the book. 'The Tale of the Seven Lords: The Lord of Shadow Awakens' was on the book and I wanted to grab the book to see what was in it but Levi's voice stopped me.

"What is it, human? What're you looking at? Wait, that looks like. . . The Tales of the Seven Lords. Are you a fan of that, too?" Levi was looking at me with stars in his eyes and I felt nervous to answer him. I am pretty sure I never heard about this story before and I shouldn't lie to him even if it means I could get closer to him.

"Well . . . I never heard about it. . ." I awkwardly rubbed at my neck while awkwardly looking away from Levi who was still looking at me with interest. I could feel the interest in his eyes disappear and get replaced with disbelief and disgust.

". . . Excuse me? You don't know TSL? And you call yourself a human?! Just how clueless ARE you?! How could you not know?! Just the fact that you don't know TSL alone is proof that you've been wasting your life! So, I'm going to do you a favor and teach you about TSL. Make sure you pay attention!" Levi gestured for me to sit down on the bean bag chair that was in his room. After I was sitting he sat down as well and held the book in front of him.

"The Tale of the Seven Lords, otherwise known as TSL, is a series of fantasy novels written by Christopher Peugeot. It's a heroic epic spanning 138 volumes, and it's the most widely-read fantasy series in the world. There are even theatrical versions, an animated series, and feature films, too. And it's been translated into a total of 182 different languages. The 1990s theatrical version was an utter disaster, owing to the fact they added several characters that were NOT present in the original manuscript. At the time I was like, "This producer totally needs to crawl in a hole and die!" But then the 2015 version came out, and it was AMAZING! Better than amazing! If you ask me, it showed that needlessly cramming a female lead in there alongside Henry was a bad idea. That's not what he needs. What he NEEDS is a friend who really understands him, and the 2015 version proved that. Also, the most vital element of the story is that each of the seven lords is so unique. They're all so interesting in their own peculiar way. That's what makes TSL so great!" I could feel my head getting lost as Levi continued on talking about TSL and I was kind of understanding what he was saying but at the same time I was getting confused with what was currently happening.