Reincarnated into a Snow Griffin-Chapter 179

The man in front of us does not seem to be an old monster nor a creature from nightmares, but actually a very well kept youngster with black clothing, legs hugged tight by leather pants, a black silk blouse with a V opening that showed more than hid, stopping short from the belly button, and a wavy long black hair that shone more than the silk from his clothes.

By glaring does not go unnoticed when he looks at me, and an unsettling smile spreads on his lips as he says:

"My, such a place to meet my son’s lover for the first time, how shameful of me come now, have a seat, let me get us a bit more light shall we?"

This man has a cocky attitude and a permanent smirk on his red smeared lips that makes me want to beat that smile out of his face, but even if trying to look harmless I still can feel the pressure his presence has, too much power for him to even hide completely.

Plus he does not try hard to hide it, I think when he claps twice and the room we are standing in starts shifting, the bricks moving and the earth swiping in only to join in forming a larger bigger room, the walls moving and bringing down the torches from up above almost as if thousand of hands were behind the stone, passing the ablaze wood forward.

Even a chair and a table are brought down in a cascading way, only for him to sit down and look more feverously than ever.

"Now, why all the silence? I thought you two were here to steal my throne? Kill me in the process I’m sure."

"Steal it? No, we are here only to end it." Says Ethan, which makes the Demon Lord raise an eyebrow as he takes a flash out and sips at it.

"Oh? Is that so? And you are simply going to leave it open for the next demon to come and snatch? Kill the guard and leave the gold for others to steal? If truly that is the case then I am very disappointed in you, having a fool in our family does not suit our name, tsk tsk. How utterly... naive of you."

But Ethan is determined, focused, and so am I. "I’m not here to steal this rotten empire from you, I am here to end it! To put an end to all the deaths caused by your wicked ways!"

There is fire burning in his voice and in his eyes, and for a second there is silence as they measure each other out, a cracking moment that ended with the Demon throwing his head back in a full out laugh.

"And you think that will work spawn of mine? Do you think I am the source of it all? The big and bad Demon Lord is that it?" He chuckles behind the flask as he takes another sip. "Well now, such naivety does not match you indeed, do you think that I, alone, would be able to scheme such big and long term plan of invading the main continent if I did not have any support? If I did not have other demons do the dirty work?" He pauses before saying: "If I did not have others to kill your brothers and sisters?"

I can hear Ethan gritting his teeth from here, barely containing his anger after hearing his own father say such barbaric things without a hint of regret or regard for their lives, for Ethan’s siblings above all.

"If it comes to that we will beat them up too!" Even I hear how childish this may be, but the fire in Ethan’s eyes gives me confidence, and letting this go and stop fighting just because there are too many to go against has never been my style, even if the odds are against me, against us, we can and we will not just sit idle and do nothing.

"Oh, so full of fire my spawn... but now, are you full of shit or do you have the power needed to support those words I wonder..." He pretends to be thinking, tapping his finger on his chin as he says: "Oh well, only one way to find out right?"

At that the Demon Lord simply kicks the table at Ethan, and the moment it takes for him to cut the table in the air before the furniture hits him, drawing his black blade with speed, he has to bring it back down in front of him fast to parry a followed up attack from the Demon Lord that ran up to face him, just behind the flying table.

At close distance, with the blades touching and fiery eyes locked on each other, the Demon Lords says:

"But at least you are not so useless after all and got your father’s fine tastes, so I may spare you lover there to keep him for myself, after all whining woman humans break far too easily... a little beast may last longer."

Ethan does not hide his anger as he pulls his other shorter blade out and slashes in front of him, forcing the Demon to step back to avoid the blade.

"My my, look what we got here, I had my doubts but seeing the blade that was in Lewis possession in your hands proves it all, thank you for letting another cockroach out of the sewers for me, he and I will have a nice chat later...."

And yet, as much as this man talks and acts in a lazy condescending way, he is actually very sharp and attentive to his surroundings and even catches up on some details, like a lazy tiger looking at its prey, not worrying in the slightest and yet ready to pounce at any given opportunity and opening. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

So this lazy gaze actually grasps how I could not stop looking at the bodies of the two evildoers, my former master and the lion, and question how they fit in all of this scheme, why they were here of all places, something is off and I can’t quite make it just yet.

He gives me a fag smile before putting it all together in words for me.

And it was something I did not expect at all.