The Exixtence

Abelard frowns, his jaw clenching violently. His fists clench so tightly. Abelard’s gazing at the goat-headed devil, the look in his eyes filled with deep irritation.

“Our food, you say?”

“Heh! So that’s how you all look up at us?”

His voice is rising little by little, Very smooth and His expression is full of intimidation.

“HA HA HA HA..”

The devil laughs at Abelard again. Its laugh is getting bigger and bigger.

“YOU HUMANS ARE REALLY FUNNY. THEN WHAT ABOUT YOUR HABIT WITH EATTING ANIMALS? ISN’T THAT THE SAME AS WE DO SO FAR?”

Abelard gets stunned when he heard the words of the devil. During his life and in hunting down the devils, this is the first time he met the devil who had thoughts and could talk like humans.

“HUMANS EAT ANIMALS, DEVILS EAT HUMAN. ISN’T IT WHAT YOU CALL FOOD CHAIN, HUMAN BRAT!”

“IN ADDITION, OUR EXISTANCE, THE DEVILS WERE BECAUSE OF THE DESIRE AND THE DARKNESS INSIDE THE HUMAN HEART. EVEN REVENGE AND NEGATIVE ENERGI THAT MAKE US EXIST!”

Abelard’s heart stops beating for a few seconds. It feels like an iron pin had stabbed him through the hole which made his chest hurt. The fragments of the devil’s words swirls in Abelard’s mind.

'No, it’s not true!’

‘No’

‘You have to be even smarter in controlling yourself! Remember that negative emotions can be a source of demonic power.’

A faint smile seems to appear on his red lips. Abelard let out a long breath. He still remembers everything he experienced throughout his life and all the teachings of the Aahva gave him. He thought that giving a tolerance to the devil was the same as killing all humanity.

“Heh! Perhaps you are right for some reason, But We humans also have the right to live!”

Abelard slowly steps into the goat-headed devil. His steps are very elegant. His hands pulled out the knife behind his back.

“Hey Devil! Perhaps that is what you wouldn’t never understand from us humans!"

Abelard runs towards the goat-headed Devil from the front with his courage.

“Cuz you only have darkness and hatred inside!”

“HA HA HA, YOU REALLY THINK THAT PUNY WEAPONS COULD TAKE ME DOWN! RAAHGGHG”

The devil jumps through Abelard. As soon as it reaches the ground, it reaches for a tree that was still stuck in the ground, pulls it out and throws it towards Abelard.

Abelard dodge tree that thrown by the goat-headed Devil. When Abelard realizes that the devil had not been in front of him, suddenly the other tree slid towards him.

“Damn it, what a blind attack!”

Abelard is able to avoid other trees, but it turned out that the devil only used 2 trees before to distract Abelard.

“HEY HUMAN BRAT!! TRY TO AVOID THIS ONE IF YOU CAN!”

“Huh? What?”

A large block of wood is pointed directly in front of Abelard. His body could not dodge anymore. The impact of the wooden block is very strong. Abelard gets bounced until he rolls over on the ground, gasping for breath and coughing several times, even though he parried the wooden block with all his might. Abelard was very surprised when he received it with a heavy hand.

‘Huh? This one is pretty strong, even though it only has one hand.’

‘Where is my sword? I must end this soon! Right here, right now!’

Abelard looks around in the middle of the dark night, hoping that his sword would be found.

A glint appears some distance in front of him. That was where he had bounced for the first time. His breath is still panting. Slowly, he gets up. His legs are a bit weak, making him unsteady.

‘It turns out like this, huh? This is the first time I’ve got beaten up like this. It seems like it’s going to be quite heavy.’

‘What!?'

Suddenly, his chest feels hot again. His forehead tightens several times. His left leg gets collapsed again, making him bow down while his left hand clutches his chest. Abelard’s breathing stabilized. Abelard is so surprised by this feeling that comes back all of a sudden.

‘It comes back! Uhg’

‘Eah, it doesn’t matter now!’

‘I need to fight! That devil is getting closer.’

While holding back the feeling within him, Abelard stood up valiantly. The goat-headed devil walked towards Abelard slowly while holding a large wooden block. His eyes glow red. His face looks so terrible, his mouth is open until saliva is flowing out.

“HEY HUMAN BRAT! WHAT IF YOU RETURN MY ARM WITH YOUR MEET!!! I SWEAR I’LL MAKE IT PAINLESS.”

“What?”

“MANY OF YOU HAVE FALLEN IN MY STOMACH! AND SOON YOU’LL MEET YOUR COMRADES! HAHAHA HAHA AHA…”

“You mean you have fought another devil hunter?”

“SO WHAT? NOT EVEN ONE OF YOU CAN DESTROY ME.. BUT I APPRECIATE YOU BECAUSE YOU COULD MAKE ME LOSE ONE HAND, NO HUMAN HAS SUCCEEDED TO DO IT.”

Abelard moves suddenly. His feet are quick, even faster than a lion or deer. His eyes glares at the Devil sharply.

His heart is full of blazing hot fire, reflected in his sharp and dangerous eyes. All the muscles in his body get tightened too. Abelard was starting to lose control of himself. When the goat-headed devil finishes speaking and blinks, Abelard is already in front of him.

Instantly, the vision on the right side of the devil-headed devil begins to disperse and blackens. Pain slowly rises from his right eye and radiates into his mouth. When he realizes it, there are 2 daggers that had stabbed and tore his head. Abelard moved so fast that when the goat-headed devil realized Abelard had stabbed him, a shower of black blood spread everywhere.

“AAARRHHGGGG…..”

Abelard draws his two daggers back quickly and continues to stab the goat-headed devil’s shoulders. It doesn’t stop there. Abelard still kicks the goat-headed devil’s nose and jumps back because the goat-headed devil is swinging his wooden block at Abelard roughly, but Abelard is able to dodge it.

Instantly, the goat-headed devil falls and one of his knees hits the ground, so he kneels before Abelard. His remaining hand releases the dagger that Abelard had stabbed in his shoulder. While holding his injured face, he groans in anger.

‘What kind of weapon is this? It hurts so much’

‘What the hell with this kid? No one has ever made me like this.’

‘Wait a minute! Why am I kneeling!? Me!? The devil who has devoured many devil hunters!”

Abelard slowly walks. He heads for his sword that lay on the ground, which was not far from him. Now his sword is back in his hand.

“What’s the matter? Is it that painful? So you can feel pain too, huh?”

His tone is extremely harsh, intimidating his opponent. His eyes are filled with hatred. His neck continues to tighten. His mouth spit those words out very bitterly.

“You’ve taken dozens of innocent lives and you were acting like it’s normal.”

“What’s with that face? Ugly as hell! Goat devil”

The goat-headed devil’s ears immediately feel painful. His eyes are wider. It feels like someone had stabbed his heart with an iron peg until it had a hole. The goat-headed devil flinches instantly with Abelard’s words.

The demon’s pupils get dilated instantly until the black veins in his red eyes appear. His jaw grips very hard. All the muscles in his body begin to tense up until the black blood comes out of the wound again. His hands clenched tightly.

“DON’T BE AROGANT, HUMAN BRAT!”

“YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A DIRT!”

The two beings who are dealing with anger welling up inside of them. Their auras collided with each other. One is smoldering as if it would burn anything in front of it and the other emitted a terrifying black aura that made other creatures shudder. Abelard’s chest is getting hot and pounding. The veins all over his body were visible, even though he was just standing. On the other hand, the devil keeps groaning and glaring at Abelard. Both of them wielding their weapons swiftly, dashing towards each other with strong killing intent.

The sound of a strong wind, slightly damp ground, water flowing quietly slowly vibrates due to violent movements, two individuals heating up each other.

The goat-headed devil swings the wooden block towards Abelard’s head. Abelard doesn’t just stand still. He dodges the attack by jumping to his left and the tip of his sword slid into the goat-headed devil’s eyes.

The goat-headed devil’s head turns to make Abelard’s sword hit the goat-headed devil’s horn. His sword and the goat-headed devil’s sign clashed with each other for strength and sharpness. The two creatures who destroy each other face each other with their respective weapons.

“THE SAME TRICK WON’T WORK ON ME TWICE, HUMAN BRAT! RAAHHGGH”

The goat-headed demon flicks its horn, so Abelard’s sword misses it. Not only that, the wooden block also slid towards Abelard’s body. Abelard reflexively dodges the attack and back away from the goat-headed devil.

Just as Abelard was moving away from the goat-headed devil, suddenly a block of wood comes towards him. With all his might, his sword cleaves the wooden block. Not finished with one block of wood, come another log and Abelard cut it as well.

Abelard’s body bounces suddenly he realized that another block of wood hit his body. The goat-headed demon continues to pelt Abelard with the surrounding trees as he uprooted.

“Ughg… Damn Devil!”

Abelard immediately stands up, other wooden beams coming towards him. Splitting and dodging, he keep does so while approaching the goat-headed devil.

The goat-headed devil continues to pelt Abelard with wood with all his might. Suddenly, he realizes that if the surrounding tree is running low, Abelard is almost close to him. There was a large log nearby. With one hand and its tail, it pulls it from the ground.

Abelard makes it through all the trees that the Goat-headed devil threw. His eyes get widened as a big of wood comes towards him. Abelard runs as fast as he could, concentrated all his strength on his legs, jump and run up the tree. Abelard jumps straight at the goat-headed devil, along with his sword gave off a golden glow.

“THERE YOU ARE, BRAT!”

“Time to say goodbye, Devil!”

Abelard’s eyes gleams, the heat in his chest was driving him crazy. Abelard doesn’t care about anything else but slashing the head of this goat-headed devil. When the reach was almost there, suddenly something long comes and wrap around Abelard’s neck.

“Shit! This kind of thing will not stop me!”

“DIE! HUMAN BRAT!”

The goat-headed devil’s tail strangles Abelard’s neck very tightly. The heat in Abelard’s chest is getting hot. Abelard’s eyes slowly bring out red, blue and gold colors that are graded very uniquely and shining.

“EEUUAAHHH!”

Even though the demon strangled Abelard, but Abelard refuses to stand still and die, he cuts the tail with his sword. Suddenly, the goat-headed devil is in pain and grabs his tail.

“DAMN YOU! HUMAN BRAT! EEEAAHHH”

The devil’s claws suddenly became longer. The goat-headed devil is starting to get frustrated and attack Abelard with his claws wildly. Abelard does not lose, his sword dance gracefully. The Devil’s hooves and Abelard’s sword collide with each other.

The two of them attack each other fiercely, fast and deadly. Several times Abelard’s body get hit by the nails and bled. On the other hand, the goat-headed devil’s nails are gradually damaged. His body is also full of wounds from Abelard’s attacks. It seems that Abelard is quite ahead now.

‘Dor’

Reflexly, both of them jump away. There is another person who comes uninvited, even though his shot missed. His figure shot from a distance and hidden in the darkness of the forest in the middle of the night.

The goat-headed devil’s body is really at a disadvantage as it had lost one arm, one eye, tail and his body gets wounded so blood is flowing everywhere in other words it is almost get destroyed, on the other hand Abelard doesn’t seem to be bleeding much. Much of the blood from the goat-headed devil sticking to him is partially exposed to his skin and evaporated.

‘Dor’

When the goat-headed devil notices the source of the sound, a bullet hits its horn. Bright eyes lit up, his body slightly quivers as the bullet hit him. The devil runs away from Abelard. All the anger that had attacked Abelard suddenly disappeared.

“What?”

“HEY! Stop! Don’t you dere to run away!”

“I’m not done with you!”

The demon runs quite fast, but Abelard keeps chasing him and when he almost reaches it.

'Dor’

Abelard dodges, but not with the Devil so that his right shoulder is shot. Even so, he still runs with everything he had. Abelard chases after him again. The devil runs towards the river. When the devil jumps, Abelard was behind him. A jet of black blood spurts towards Abelard from the goat-headed devil’s back. The devil did not expect Abelard to attack him, even though he was already on the river bank. They both end up falling into the river. Abelard appears on the surface of the river water, looks around, but could not find the whereabouts of the goat-headed devil.

“SHIT! It seems I have lost it.”

Abelard climbs up the river bank. Lying with his wet and injured body. Looking at his sword in his right hand, his breath is a bit heavy. His body feels quite tired from the intense battle just now.

‘Huh? Why is it dark again?’

‘All that felling. What was that?’

Suddenly, a bright light hit his face, dazzling his eyes so that his left hand covers his eyes. A figure appears to Abelard, but he doesn’t seem very clear. Instead, he could see Abelard very clearly. Wet, hurt, and exhausted.

“Hey boy… You look quite messy now. Did that creature beat you down to make you like this?”

He crouches beside Abelard. His voice was heavy, His eyes were deep, Aahva was looking at Abelard, who was lying on the ground.

“Stop it already! Turn that flash away!”

“Hahaha, so you are still alive, huh? Can you stand up on your own?”

“Why not? I’m not that weak.”

Abelard slowly sits up and then stands up, his body a bit wobbly, but still quite energetic.

“Let’s go home, old man! That thing is not here anymore. We have lost it, but I don’t think it can survive for long with that all damage.”

“Heh! Okey… Here, let me help you.”

Aahva supported Abelard’s right hand to help him walk.

“Actually, I don’t need your help, but thanks! All I want now is to get home and sleep as long as I want.”

“Heh! You can sleep in the carriage later.”

In a dark place, the cold night wind howls all around, the river flow swiftly. On the bank of the river, a black hand full of wounds is seen holding on to a rock. From the river water emerges a large, ugly, and full of wounds creature. Slowly, the whole body of the creature rises to the ground. He only had one hand, his head was shaped like a goat’s head and there were several wounds in his body.

He looks all over his body, his hands groping all the wounds on his body. His hands clench his fists tightly. His red eyes slowly lit up a bright red color, followed by black veins in his eyes.

“HEEUUAAAHHHHHH…..”

Birds begin to fly into the sky. The wind howls louder and louder until it shakes the trees around the area.

‘THAT HUMAN BRAT!!’

‘SOMEDAY I’LL COME TO YOU FOR SURE.’

‘AND WE’LL SEE! WHO’S GONNA BE THE PREY.’

Suddenly, a memory fragment appears in the goat-headed devil’s mind, his hand holding his horn as if he still felt the bullet that hit his horn and it still attaches to him. When he feels the sensation again, his body starts to shaking and couldn’t stop.

‘WHAT?’

His legs suddenly get limp and his knees hit the ground, his hand supporting his body while holding back the tremors against him.

‘WHAT IS THIS SENSATION?’

‘IT MUST HAVE SOME RELATIONSHIP WITH THAT THING THAT HIT ME EARLIAR.’

‘SHIT!”