Slap!!
There are many ways I have woken up in my short life, but this was the first. Firstly, my cheek was in pain. My hands were tied to my back. Surprisingly, my feet were left loose.
Not opening my eyes, I tried to clear my head.
"Wake up, human!" Someone shouted, pulling me up to my knees. Still not opening my eyes, I tried to teleport away, only to feel a giant wall blocking me.
'Tch, where the fuck am I? Last I remember, I was being attacked at home.' I thought, trying to get the ropes off my hands.
"Are you awake, Ren Bell?" A deep voice spoke in front of me.
'Did he just talk in the demon language, Narlic?' I thought, opening my eyes slowly. Looking in the direction the voice came from, I saw a 3-meter-tall, blue-skinned man sitting on a red throne. He had black hair and black eyes. He was also not wearing any shirt, showing his well-toned upper body—a bulky body, to be exact. What stood out the most was the black ram-like horns on his head.
"Aah, it seems you are." The demon said, sitting on a red throne.
'Fuck, how did I end up here?' I thought, looking around, confused. I notice a younger female demon standing next to the demon on the throne. She also had ram-like horns on her head with black hair. Her body shape was well-toned for a female model with pearl skin.
Surprisingly, she had the same-coloured eyes as the blue guy. She was also wearing lightweight red battle armour with a thin sword on her waist—probably a rapier.
"What are you looking at, human?" The young female demon said, narrowing her eyes at me and unleashing killing intent upon seeing me look at her.
"Hmm." Ignoring her, I looked around the room, looking for an escape route.
"I don't think she can understand us, dear." The Blue Demon said this to the female next to him.
"Humans are so dumb they can't even understand something as simple as a language. Don't you think we should just kill her father?" The female said, putting her hand on her sword, which was hanging from her waist.
"Dear, we don't speak their language. Why are you expecting them to talk in ours?" The blue demon said this, shaking his head.
"That's no excuse for her not to understand my killing intent." The younger demon said he was annoyed.
"Can you understand English, girl?" I suddenly said it in fluent English, surprising everyone in the room.
'43 demons around me and the 2 on the throne with weapons, and most of them I already saw in videos of the battlefields. That must mean I am in the demon king's castle.' I thought, smirking at the young demon girl.
"YOU!" the demon girl yelled, grabbing the handle of her sword.
"To think you can speak our language so fluently." The Demon King interrupted his daughter while grabbing her sword out of her hands. Looking at his daughter, he added. "Calm down. We are only here to talk."
"Talk! She killed Darian! She must pay for killing him!" The girl yelled at her father with the crud, shouting to confirm her statement.
"Yes, in a fair fight, she won. That does not mean we will execute her." The Demon King said it sternly.
"GRRR, fair fight? I bet she just used-ugh!" The demon girl shouted, only to be hit over the head. Looking bewildered at her father, she spoke. "Why did you hit me!?"
"Shut up and leave now. You are only going to get in the way if you stay!" The demon king said this, pointing at the door behind me.
"Grr." Grinding her teeth, she did as her father said and walked towards the exit.
"Better go study some English, girly," I said, not missing the opportunity of her walking past me.
"You!"
"Julia!"
"Tch, you're lucky."
"Julia, leave now," the demon king said in a low voice, which made my back shiver a bit.
"Yes, father," Julia said, running out as fast as she could.
Bang!
"If anyone else wants to leave, now is your chance to do so. I will not blame you." The demon king said this, making me narrow my eyes at him.
'How did he know?' I thought, feeling the ropes around my wrist go slack.
"I guess there is a reason why you are the king of demons," I said, bringing my hands to the front before standing up with my right hand supporting me. Seeing my actions, everyone in the throne room except the king took a few steps away, drawing their weapons.
"You are full of surprises. Your file has nothing on you about you being good at escaping and talking Narlic." The king praised him with a smile.
"Of course it doesn't. I never told anyone about it," I said, rubbing my wrist, before a question popped into my head. How do you know what's in my file?"
"Of course, it was in our dealings with humans," the demon next to me said.
"What deal?" I said, looking between the demon king and the one who talked.
"The deal is for peace. We get you as our revenge for killing Darian Protar, and the humans get a peace agreement from us," another demon said, this time to my left.
'Did they give me a secret mission? No, then they wouldn't have sent them to capture me. Ha-ha, I got betrayed by my own country.' I thought, feeling my anger reach its limits. 'Fuck it. I won't go down easily.'
"Oh, I see, but did you think I would go out with some execution?"
"That's not what-"
"Heh, what do you think you can get out of this place alive?" A demon to my right said, brimming with confidence.
'Seeing how the demon king is passive, I guess this isn't what it seems like.' I thought, seeing the demon king sigh in defeat.
"Tch tch tch, the question is more: Will you get out of here alive?" I said, smirking at the demon.
"Attack!" Hearing a man's command, everyone started running at me.
"WAIT!" The king shouted, but no one heard him. It was more like he didn't want to stop them, seeing as he just stayed seated.
"Too late, King," I said, teleporting behind everyone. Grabbing the closest demon's neck, I crushed it in my hand, killing him instantly.
"Behind us." The demons yelled, turning around.
"Too slow," I said mockingly, teleporting onto a pillar with the dead demon's body. Lifting the corpse up, I took the sword out of the corpse's hand. I smirked at them and said it arrogantly, throwing the body to the guys under me. "Let's get started."
Teleporting away again, I appeared behind a demon, stabbing him in the heart. Pulling out the sword sideways, I blocked and pushed back two demons who attacked me from the side.
"Whahaha, you guys are as weak as ants!" I yelled with a crazy smile, blocking another sword. I grabbed the demon's head before crushing it.
"Get her!"
"Get who?" I said from behind him before cutting his head off.
"Just kill her already!"
It was total mayhem. No one could hit me, and I was going on a massacre.
"Ha-ha, Mister King, aren't you going to do something?" I said, appearing on a pillar and looking down at the demon king still sitting on his throne.
"…"
"Not saying anything? Tsk, how boring," I said, teleporting away, continuing my massacre.
"Augh!"
"Kill her!"
"Die!" The last demon said this, rushing at me just to lose his head.
"Ha-ha, what's next?" I said, looking at the demon king, who was smirking all this time even though his subordinates were being slaughtered like cattle.
"Enough!"
Boom!
"Cough, cough, you finally moved, huh?" I said, coughing while struggling with the demon king's hand around my throat, pushing me against the wall.
"You killed all of them in 2 minutes." The demon king said, intrigued, still not showing any emotions about her death.
"I killed your general. Do you think it was some kind of fluke? Whatever it's not like, I will tell you anything." I said with a husky voice, stopping to struggle against his hand.
"And why won't you do that?" The demon king said he was tilting his head at me.
"Because then I can do things like this," I said, disappearing from his grasp before appearing next to him and stabbing a sword into his gut.
"Hmm, sadly, that won't work on me." The demon king said this, looking down at me.
"What!?" I said, baffled, looking at him with wide eyes.
'Shit, how dumb can I be? Why did I think that might work for him? I should have just used my hands.' I thought, calming myself down.
"I am not as fickle as the rest of the demon race," the demon king said, pulling the sword out with ease.
'Nah, my hands wouldn't have worked. I guess running is the best,' I thought, thinking about my escape plan.
"I guess you're right. You are the demon king, after all." I said, teleporting towards the door.
Boom!
"Ugh," I grunted in pain, feeling the demon grab onto me again the instant I arrived in front of the door.
"I won't let you just go like that, you know." The demon king said this, looking down at me on the floor again.
'As I thought, I am too slow.' I thought, seeing that my most powerful talent speed wasn't enough to run away.
"Well, it can't hurt to try," I said, letting go of all my fights.
"Giving up?"
"What can I do? I was betrayed by my family, my country, and probably my friends. I have nothing left but my pride dying in a fight." I said, looking into the air.
"Betrayed? You, humans, were given peace because of your sacrifice. How is that betrayal?" The demon king asked, looking at me weirdly.
"Do you know how many people from the army I saved? 100 000 easily, but look at the thanks I get. I got attacked at my own home, which only my close friends knew of. They even used an elite group made up of 12 SSS ranks to capture me. Where did I kill half of them in self-defence?" I said it sulkingly but did not forget to have a small brag at the end.
"This sounds like bragging." The demon king said it with a deadpan expression.
"I am pointing out what happened to me before all this and that they are ungrateful, badly trained, and useless," I said, flaring my hands around in frustration.
"But didn't you give yourself up?"
"Hell no, were you even listening? Why would I do something like that? I never told anyone what I could do. No one knows how powerful I really am—well, except you, it seems. I am quite selfish. Anyway, just after I killed the general, I retired from the army. I was planning to travel the world because there was no use in me staying with the army anymore," I said, getting a bit depressed.
"Oh, and why are you not needed in the army?"
"I had only one goal when I joined, but that never happened, even after killing your general," I explain, not moving.
"Do you mind telling us your story before we move on?" A female voice spoke from behind the demon king.
"You must be the Demon Queen." I said, standing up from the ground after the demon king dropped me.
"Yes, I am."
"I see well. I don't mind if it brings the true colours of the human race into the light for you," I said, shrugging, not caring anymore how or when I will die.