The woman threw her ginormous sword right at me and disappeared in a blink of an eye. I move to the right dodging the flying sword.

I look to the left and I see the same woman charging at me too fast for me to dodge so I held up my BAR.

The BAR and the sword make contact and I'm launched off my feet and into the wall, instead of the wall breaking upon impact all I did was create a dent and several cracks.

How thick are these damn walls?!?!?

”Is that all you've got?!?!” the woman yelled out.

I aim and shoot a couple of shots as I get myself off the wall and onto the floor.

The woman stood there analyzing the green bullets as they rained down. Instead of dodging she kept still taking the shots head-on.

The shots hit doing a little damage, on her abdomen, there were pieces if armor scraped off with holes in the middle. Her snow white skin could be seen with a little blood.

”so this is what you're capable of!”

Oh, man, she's kinda crazy……

She shrugged if the wounds like it were nothing and readied her sword and started to run at me.

She did an overhead swing and I parried it with my BAR and shot her right in the middle of her stomach knocking her back an inch or two but it did not stop her.

She changed her stance and swung low, I barely escaped but what I lost was my forearm. My forearm was cleanly sliced off, it was like cutting butter.

AGH! FUCK!

No bone stuck out and blood was walling off of the cut.

But she didn't stop, she swung one more time but I once again blocks it with my BAR by since I only had one hand the gun was batted away.

I might actually die this time, I'm not in a very good situation, am I?

Wait…….what's this? I…...i can still feel my chopped off forearm?!?!

I look past the woman in front of me and I see my severed arm moving its hand and its fingers. What also lied there was my BAR.

I might be able to make this work! I just gotta stall time.

The woman held up her sword over her head.

”this is the end, you were a formidable foe.”

”wait wait wait! Before I die can I at least know who you are and what this place is?”

”I will grant you this out of honor for you, my name is Alexandria shrondice, I am the last demon heir to the Dark King throne.”

”last?”

”yes, they've all perished in battle.”

Almost there!

Throughout her explanation, I was crawling towards the BAR, I just need to stall just a bit more!

”to be honest it's been very lonely, I'm trapped in this manor and I'd really like to get out of here, you are the first person I've seen in years.”

”why don't you just leave?”

”because I was told stay here and defend.”

Seriously?!?!?

”just because someone told you to stay here doesn't mean you have to do it! Just do what you want! No one's here to tell you not to stay any more right and what are you even protecting!?!?”

For a moment she went blank.

”What's there to protect?”

”I don't know…..”

Ya gotta be kidding me.

”You seriously didn't think about that!?!?!”

”n-no.”

She started to shake her head as she put her hands on each side of her head. She even started to sob.

”AAAAHHHH!!! I'VE BEEN HERE FOR YEARS AND NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IIIIT!!!!”

Right there she started to have a cute little fit, she lied down and started to kick the air.

Now I feel bad about what I'm going to do next.

She stopped after a minute or two and picked up her sword.

”T-Thank you, and goodbye.”

My severed hand pulled the trigger hitting her in the back knocking her out unconscious.

She dropped her sword and fell onto me.

I smile and start to laugh, oh what a day it's been…...what time even is it now?

Amongst all the armor and weapons she's just a normal girl, quite an airhead she is as well. I lay her on the floor and notice that her wounds are clearing up.

The same kind of ability as me huh, must be common.

I pick up my forearm and ironically try to smash it back into place.

Heh not happening is it……….oh.

The forearm started to reconnect to the rest of the arm.

Well, now I know something I've never known about myself. I let out a large and everlasting yawn.

After all of what happened today, I'm feeling a bit drowsy myself, a little nap wouldn't hurt.

I look over at the Alexandria sleeping and she is fast asleep.

No need to worry about her trying to cut off my head while I'm asleep, or at least I hope that doesn't happen.

Just in case I sleep a bit further from her so if anything happens hopefully I'll wake up from footsteps.

My eyes become heavy and all the stress built up throughout this job started to fade away and I'm gone.

……………………………

I wake up from quite a while of sleep, I'm feeling a lot better and I'm filled with energy!

I look at the girl slowly getting up.

Oh…….forgot about her.

She stretches and yawns.

”so you're up too?”

She stares at me for a couple of seconds squinting her eyes in the process.

Her eyes open and she gets up hiking her sword.

”Y-You!”

”not my name but I'll accept it.”

”why didn't you kill me?!?!”

”did you want to die?”

”no but…. I lost the fight, therefore, I should die!”

Man, what was she taught as a child?

”well, I don't think that way, you lost, therefore, the fight ended so no need to fight anymore.”

”but.”

”no buts!”

She started to pout and cross her arms.

”oh yeah, by the way, how do we exit this place?”

She looks away and ignores me.

I walk to her and grab her by the horns, I shake her head.

”oi, I asked you a question.”

She pushed me away and pointed her finger at me.

”how dare you touch my horns! Y-you fiend! Monster!”

”Woah Woah Woah sorry about that.”

She drew a magic symbol a large one, once it was finished what could be seen as the entrance to the city. She goes through the portal.

She sticks her head back.

”You want to go back here right?”

”yeah.”

I to step into the portal.

And now I'm back in front of the city.

”Alexandria you really are something huh, magic and a strong fighter.”

”thank you, as the heir to the dark kings I must be strong and able to do anything!”

She's really proud of her lineage, isn't she?

”so what are you gonna do now?”

”guess I'll explore do my own thing for a while.”

”Alright, hope we meet someday.”

We both say our goodbyes and we go our separate ways.

In the distance, I see a familiar face.

”Hey, commander!”

It was the kid that was the co-commander of the group that went up the stairs.

”Oi co-commander what happened when I was gone?”

”Everyone was transported outside of the manor, once everyone was outside the manor just disappeared.”

”interesting.”

”oh yeah, commander here's you pay!”

He hands me a bag full of coins.

”thanks, well I'll be seeing you someday.”

”alright! Take care!”

And he runs off at the distance.

The manor disappeared huh? Must be happened when Alexandria left.

I feel like I'm missing something.

I pat down my clothes and J check my pockets.

Oh shit! My room keys! Must've dropped them somewhere! On am, I supposed to explain this.

I enter the tavern and tell the old man what had happened.

”good thing we have spares so no worries, just try not to lose it again, oh, by the way, is the beautiful woman behind you with you by any chance?”

”what woman?”

I look behind me and I see Alexandria stare off at different directions while whistling.

I grab the keys and Alexandria and dash into my room.

”Alright time for an explanation, why are you here?”

She started to get red.

”W-well since I've been in that manor for years I don't know what I'm supposed to do or where to go.”

I sigh and rub my temples, this girl.

”Oh I never asked but how old are you?”

”How rude! Do you ask every woman their age as well?”

I give her an annoyed look.

”it's just a joke calm down, I'm 257.”

Two...hundred….and…… fifty-seven?!!!

”demons live long and so do ghouls like yourself.”

G-ghoul?

”G-ghoul?”

”Oh am I wrong?”

”I'm a ghoul?”

”looks like it to me…..you didn't know?”

“No, not really.”

“So what are you gonna do now since you clearly don’t have a plan.”

“Well, I could………..tag along with you.”

“Is that the only plan that you have in mind.”

“Yep!”

“Can I? Please!”

“You're lucky I’m a sort of nice person.”

“Thank thank thank you so much!”

“But you're also gonna have to help with work.”

“I understand!”

“I hope you do.”

“Anyway, you hungry because I am.”

“I would love some food right now! All I ate at the manor was whatever was in there which was a lot of dried meat, got boring really fast.”

I couldn't imagine eating that for more then two hundred years.

“Well the food they serve down here is not dried meat, let’s go.”

We both sit at an empty table, the tavern is busy as always.

Alexandria sat there smiling probably thinking about what new things she’s gonna eat.

I look around the tavern and all the other men seem to be staring my way. I wonder why?

I give Alexandria a menu while I call over a waitress.

“I’ll have the gin fish and popto sticks, how about you Alexandria?”

“Hmm, I’ll have the facien.”

“Coming right up!”

“What’s a facien?”

“I don’t know, never heard of it, just ordered it because it looked good.”

Of course, to think she’d know what she would be ordering.

“Hey wipe that look on your face!”

Oops, guess I showed what I though on my face.

“Oh yeah, my name is Antonio.”

“Antonio….. what an unusual name.”

Ouch, that kind of hurts.

After a couple of minutes of waiting and being stared at by the other customers. Our food finally arrived and the smell was very pleasant.

I looked at Alexandria and her face lit up.

She quickly dug in once it was on the table and upon taking the first bite her face produced sparkles and rainbows formed over her head…….well it looked like that in my head.

Seeing her enjoy her food brings me to smiles as well, seeing that face makes me think that having her tag along might not be so bad.

We both enjoy our meals with smiles on our faces, ignoring our surroundings.

And this begins my life with Alexandria, an heir to the dark kings. One demon and one ghoul.