Chapter 45 - Alex no demon volume 8 chapter 45

Alex stood infront of Dairadel, understanding how sad he felt for telling his story. Alex thought to himself in the quiet office room "That's something. Going to war with someone you once called a friend, all because your races had a certain disagreement. It's actually something that can happen very often than not.", Dairadel looked at Alex "Did my story make you feel a certain way?". Alex waved his hands "No. I mean, it's kind of sad. I understand how you feel, fighting someone you don't want to.", Alex said. Dairadel scoffed with a soft smile "Hm, very well then.", his head raised up straight "Well, you're excused from my office. Sorry for calling you all the way here.", Alex turned around "Sure thing. If there's anything else you want me to do, just let me know.", Alex said to Dairadel as he opened the door and left the room. Now standing In the hall ways, he took a sigh. Alex walked forward before stopping to think "Having to fight your friends in a war huh?", he started to think of Kinto, Baraka Kazuki and even Sōn all as kids during their early days of going on missions "If that where to be the case, does that mean it could have been the same for all of us too?". Alex also started to think of Kazuki, Mori, Deo and the rest of the girls. He snapped out of his thoughts "The world's a messed up place, I realised that more and more as I grew older. So being turned against your own friends would have been emotionally detrimental.", he sighed once again before taking a few steps forward "Whatever, I'm just glad it didn't happen to us.". Alex heard a female voice from behind "Where are you going?", he looked back and saw Astavel resting on a wall with her hands folded "I was waiting for you until now.". A few moments later, Alex and Astavel where walking down the garden of the castle, Alex looked around the beautiful garden with all sorts of colourful plants "A garden huh? It's been a while since I saw one", he thought. Indeed, it has been a while since Alex actually saw a garden. Back at the academy, teachers would usually take Alex and the rest of his classmates to gardens, it was a way of making the kids feel like kids rather than children preparing for wars. Usually the gardens where also shown to the children to understand what plants where nice or dangerous. At that time, Alex would usually just look at the plants while Baraka, Kinto and the rest of the children like Serena and Sukuna, would study the plants while having fun. At that time, Alex didn't fully understand what was exciting about plants, all he knew was that they looked beautiful. Alex, currently with Astavel, asked "So, you guys take care of this garden a lot?", Astavel glanced at him "Yeah, I do. I was the one who started this garden as a kid, so I took care of it by myself". Alex looked a little stunned "Since childhood, huh? That seem nice. Looks like you've been through a lot of hard work.", Astavel started playing with her fingers "Well, yeah, I have been through a lot of hard work. Especially having to deal with pests constantly tried to peck on them, as well as creating traps to deal with all sorts of serpents and small reptiles that liked to eat the fruits that the plants bore.". Alex surprisingly understood what she was talking about, he scoffed "I guess I understand.", Astavel paused for a moment "Hey, Alex? Can I ask you something? When you spoke with my dad, I over heard your conversations with each other. You said something about you being trained from childhood. Is that really true?". Alex looked at her "Well, yeah, that's true. It's nothing to be talking about like a topic or a flex everyone's been through all that.". Astavel asked, her tone feelings a little saddened "Well, don't you think its a bit cruel? Being trained to kill others just for your own benefits.". Alex looked at Astavel for a moment before shrugging it off and walking forward "Well, I mean killing people is what we were trained to do back at the academy. We went through insane combat drills, don't get me started on how it was like being given permission to use your abilities in a spar after a rough spar.", Alex scratched his head "But I understand what you're talking about. You don't like to kill, you'd prefer to just break the person's body rather than just kill the person.",(Nah, its only you who thinks like that.). He continued to talk "But then again, you're not left with much of a choice.". Alex stopped walking for a moment before looking at Astavel "If you really feel bad about killing someone, try understanding the person's reasons for doing the wrong they are portraying. And if you can't grasp it, then there was'nt any point to it.", Alex continued his walk. Astavel tightened her fists "Understanding the enemy, huh?", her fists loosened "Usually I feel bad for the enemies I kill, but I've never truly understood them. Guess I'll do that.", she walked forward trying to catch up with Alex. Meanwhile, in the wastelands of the dimension he was transported to, Kinto was on his hands and knees, coughing and vomiting blood while his surrounding area got wrecked with terrifying and powerful gusts of wind and tornadoes. Kinto, his tone weakened, mummerd "Why?! Why did it.... have to be you?!", he struggled getting up slowly "I know.....i killed you back then, there's no way I missed!". Kinto was already trying to get balance on both legs "No way you could have survived being turned into a bomb and then being blown up. I'm confident that whoever I kill with my bombs are dead! So there's no way!", Kinto's eyes were red and filled with rage and disbelief "WHO ARE YOU?!", he growled. Hundreds of feet in the air was an angel like being that looked feminine. It's armor was slim and white, it had a good body shape but was a little bit on the busty side. Not just that, it held two powerful swords with white symbols on their slabs, as well as six wings on its back with a white mask on its face that showed its eyes and creepy smiling mouth. To Kinto, it was like as if the tornadoes around him were laughing at him, every howl sounded like a laugh of mockery. It got louder and louder "Ehehe! Hehe! Heheheheeh!", Kinto couldn't stop hearing the laughing. Kinto thought to himself "I know I killed you, I know I activated my explosive mark and turned you into a bomb back then. I destroyed your legs so you couldn't walk, and then I finished the job!". Kinto stood straight, blood flowing out of his already bleeding eyes, he kept quiet for a while as the angels laughter kept getting louder and more enraging. The being above him was non other than the [WIND WITCH: ANGEL WITCH RIKA.]. Kinto looked at her, flying hundreds of feet up in the air as her tornadoes blew around her, throwing powerful wind currents around. The silently enraged Kinto looked and growled at her as the Wind Witch's mocking laughter kept ringing in his head without stopping "Stop laughing!", he muttered.