Chapter 188 - Who Was I?

The man wearing the red robes shot a rather large fireball towards me. It was then I raised my hand confidently, as though reaching out towards it. The fireball traveled fast, but for some reason seemed to slow down.

After a few moments, that fireball got smaller and smaller, until it disappeared entirely. What was left was a long string of mana that flowed over to my body.

To be honest, this was not what I was expecting. After all, the ability to turn spells into mana sounded just a little bit too strong.

As for the four-horned demon on my shoulder, she began to absorb that mana that flowed over before pointing her finger towards the man in black robes that was getting closer.

A massive fireball, several times larger than the one the man cast before appeared before shooting out. The man with the black robes widened his eyes. He gave up on trying to advance and jumped out of the way.

The man with white robes pointed his staff towards me, sending countless tiny little wind blades that darted towards me. However, I simply reached out with my hand. They slowed before turning into mana like before.

Then, the four-horned demon absorbed it to shoot it back out towards him in the form of larger wind blades.

The white robed frowned and backed off as well, sending several of his own wind blades to ward them off. He immediately shouted.

"We can't use spells on him, what are we going to do?"

The man with the red robes clicked his tongue.

"Just don't use them against him directly, use it to support Ken!"

The man with black robes, Ken, smiled.

"Seems like you will be relying on me now!"

I sighed.

"Why are you guys trying so hard anyway?"

The man in white robes seemed to be incensed.

"Because we care about innocent lives, unlike you!"

He then turned to Ken.

"I can let you walk in the air, just trust me!"

Ken nodded.

"Got it."

With that, he began jumping up into the air, now shooting around in the air erratically. As Ken approached, I took out a stick from my pocket and aimed it at him. At this point, the red robed man shouted.

"He's casting a spell, watch out!"

He then put both hands out, before emitting large plumes of smoke. The smoke quickly traveled and obscured Ken's figure.

I clicked my tongue, then turned to the four-horned demon.

"Hey, you handle it."

In response, the four-horned demon simply raised her finger, before swiping.

A nearly invisible blade of water shot across the air, tearing through the veil of smoke. It revealed Ken, but was unable to hit him.

He had a smile on his face though, as he had already gotten really close.

"You're too late!"

Ken reached out towards my face, but I simply remained there, with the same dead look in my eye. I didn't even flinch.

The most I did was shift my gaze over to meet Ken's.

And right before the hand was about to grab onto my face, it paused. Because the four-horned demon had grabbed the man's wrist. It smiled.

"Did you really think I was just going to let you do that?"

A snap rang out.

Ken's eyes widened.

"AHHHHHHHHHH."

His wrist had snapped, while he had fallen down onto his knees.

I then slowly raised the stick in my hand towards the man's head.

"You should've seen this coming."

The man with red robes reached out with his hand.

"No! Ken!"

My eyes widened while my pupils constricted.

Then, I disappeared.

And behind me, was Ken's body, which slowly fell over, landing face down in the grass. As for his head, there was a giant hole in the middle.

The man with white robes had an ugly frown.

"You... devil!"

A small smile crept up on my face.

"Hah. You already knew my nickname? But I haven't even told you yet."

The man with red robes clutched onto the side of his head, grabbing a fist full of his hair.

"How could you!"

I rolled my eyes.

"So you guys hardly care when I kill a village full of people, but the moment I kill one person close to you, that's when you freak out?"

A sinister smile formed on my face.

"Hypocrite."

The man with white robes turned to his partner.

"We can't win, he can just use our own spells against us!"

The man with red robes frowned deeply.

"But... but..."

He seemed to be against retreating. As for me, I simply stared at him, waiting for his decision.

The man with white robes clicked his tongue.

"Dammit, Leo!"

He began running away in the air, but reached his hand out towards the other, Leo. Although it wasn't visible, a wind whip had wrapped around Leo and began dragging him away.

After watching them leave, a soft sigh escaped me.

"Anyways..."

I turned around to the four-horned demon.

"Shall we continue?"

The four-horned demon nodded

"Yeah, now get over here and help me walk."

The vision... began to disappear.

As it did so, I couldn't help but wonder.

Why were the demons following my command? Perhaps it could be considered to be following the four-horned demon...

But it was definitely my finger that was pointing forward.

I tried to take a deep breath, but found that I couldn't.

After a few seconds, I realized I was still in a vision. I couldn't help but feel a little confused.

Right now, I was sitting down on something that was cold, but definitely a chair of some sort. As for my gaze, it was simply facing forward, almost aimless. The only thing I could make out was that I was looking outside of a window towards the blue sky. It was like the occasional cloud was enough for me to just keep staring.

One thing I noticed was that I had my arm now, but I couldn't move my head to look at it.

Time passed.

I didn't know how much it was, but it was also really boring.

Was this what the other me meant by protecting ourselves? So that we didn't have to sit here?

Eventually, something else finally happened. I felt someone holding onto my hand.

"We finally did it."

I slowly turned my head to the side.

There was a girl, faintly smiling. She had short black hair and bright blue eyes. However, there was one feature that made her stand out far more than the rest.

There were six horns on her head.

I let out a faint sigh.

"Your hair's really short."

The corner of the girl's lip twitched.

"I can grow it out then."

For some reason, my head began to hurt. It hurt really badly. However, the me that was sitting down right now didn't seem to feel that pain.

"I suppose. Is there anything you want to do?"

The pain was making me feel dizzy. As for why this pain was happening, I couldn't tell. By now, I could hardly tell what was happening.

My mind was spinning.

I... I had to break out of this.

With every shred of my being, I attempted to tear myself out of this world, distorting it's image. The four-horned demon's voice still echoed slightly, though it wasn't too easy to hear.

"How about we go to that kingdom? I doubt anyone can see through our..."

I ripped myself out of the vision, coming back to the real world.

My eyes shot open and were definitely bloodshot. It was immediately apparent to me that I was on the floor. An uncomfortable feeling filled my chest, making me feel nauseous. It rose up.

Then, I coughed up a mouthful of... black ash.

Noah was looking down at me.

"Are you ok?"

As for Amy she tilted her head to the side.

"It seems you are awake now."

I grabbed onto the side of my head as a flood of memories entered my mind. They were memories of my other self, the one that I devoured with the dragon hand earlier. It was a little strange to see myself through those memories, but I shrugged it off.

After taking a few deep breaths I calmed down.

"That... was weird."

Noah raised an eyebrow.

"Did something happen?"

I closed my eyes.

"Well... I think I got memories of my past self."

Noah blinked a few times.

"Ah, so that is why you split into two?"

I scratched the back of my head.

"Um. Maybe?"

For whatever reason, I never really thought too much about whoever I was in the past. I figured that at most, I'd be some relatively strong figure that died at some point along the way.

However, I was casually talking to a six-horned demon. As of now, I haven't even seen a four-horned demon that wasn't part of my visions.

Now, I really decided to sit down and wonder.

Who am I?