Scarlet

“I can tell you one of his Titles, aside from Demon King, of course,” Tar corrects me, making it clear that the Demon King has quite a few Titles. The tanuki then floats up into the air, making me scoot back to my pillows to sit up with my back against them as I watch him.

“Now, we do not know the exact story behind how he got this Title, but we do know one of its requirements,” Tar says, surprising me a little bit. “He got his title by killing over one billion sapient creatures. In his case, over a billion humans.”

My jaw drops open.

“The Demon King slaughtered all of humanity on Tartarus, committing genocide personally,” Tar continues, sounding rather grim. “We do not know most of the reasons behind his doing this, but we do know that he has at least four important reasons for his actions. The only one that we personally know though is that the Demon King’s wife – the Blood Lord’s mother – was killed by the ruler of the humans previously on Tartarus. But from what we understand, that wasn’t even the worst of what the humans did to the demons.”

I stare at Tar with my mouth agape for several seconds. Long enough that he just decides to continue speaking, “All we can do is speculate as to why the Demon King killed off all of humanity from this. Because the Demon King is not the type of person who would slaughter an entire race for one man’s faults.”

A few more seconds pass before I finally find my voice and ask, “So what was his Title?”

Tar stares at me for a moment, then answers with more than a little fear in his voice, “Beast of the Apocalypse.”

I feel a shiver run down my spine just at the mention of the Title for some odd reason.

Was that the power of a Title? Or just coincidence?

Either way, I ask, “Do you know what the mythical skill bearing that Title does?”

“It’s his beast form transformation skill, just like the beast form skill you just got,” Tar answers, still sounding slightly afraid despite the Demon King being on an entirely different planet. “The Demon King is by far the strongest mortal in existence. And his Beast of the Apocalypse skill significantly strengthens him even more despite his massive lead in levels over the second highest leveled being, that being one of the four Demon Lords who is at about level 1930 or so. The skill lets him transform into two different forms. His werewolf form, and his beast form. The beast is far stronger but less maneuverable, standing at over five meters in height with the pure strength to crush your own mother in a single strike with ease.”

My jaw drops open at that.

He can kill White with just a single strike?!

“Yes, he can,” Tar answers, sounding serious and still slightly afraid. “Do you remember what Blue did to that Class III Rogue when you met him?” I nod my head. “The Demon King can do that very same thing to White with ease.”

Well… shit. Humanity has no chance at survival if he ever makes it to Earth somehow.

“There’s no doubt about that,” Tar says, sounding grim. “But I don’t think he’ll ever be able to make it to Earth. So humanity is still safe in that regard.”

That’s good.

I lean back while stretching my arms up towards the ceiling with a yawn. Then I glance at the clock to find that it’s already about midnight.

Guess time flew by while I was trying out the new skills and catching up with everything.

Overall though, I really enjoyed that tournament. Both of them, actually.

There were quite a few good fights in them, and I got to experience a mental attack which should prepare me for one when I find a demon that can do it.

The new skills are great as well.

Should get started on training pain diffusion with Allen either tomorrow or the day after though. Not to mention blood regeneration.

I should also be able to start going into Class II Fractures now that I’m Class II and have my lovely platinum pass. Something I will be cherishing when it actually arrives in person.

Wish they would just send it digitally, but apparently this is some sort of tradition, so they don’t.

I slump back with my arms spread out on either side of me and my head on my pillow. Then out of nowhere, I feel the weight of a certain tanuki climbing on top of me, making me narrow my eyes on him.

“The three days have passed now…” Tar mutters rather shyly, making me raise a brow before chuckling and flopping my head back onto my pillow.

Go ahead then.

Tar quickly moves up to my chest before curling up into an adorable ball and closing his eyes.

I reach up with one of my hands to pet the little furball while looking up at the ceiling again.

This has been one hell of a year, that’s for sure. And I don’t have any classes until about halfway through January. Meaning plenty of time to train and fight in Fractures.

Not to mention that the beta testing window for that game finally opens up the day after tomorrow. And I am very much looking forward to that.

I can’t help but grin at the thought of playing that game.

Wouldn’t surprise me if Belle tried bribing me to go to some of the tournaments with her just as spectators though. That could be annoying, but I guess it’ll be nice to spend time with the team – and Aria of course, since I’ll be bringing her with me – in something outside of just fighting.

Next year is going to be a busy year though, what with the Class V Fracture, my second semester of university, the adoption, all of it.

I continue staring up at the ceiling for a few more seconds before slowly closing my eyes.

“Really should have Tar teach me to control my sense of smell in the morning…” I mutter as I begin to fall asleep.