Owl's Inn owner was still awake, He was on the reception desk, Reading a book- The main gate of The Inn was open, You could see the outside-street from The reception desk. It was not strange for Owner to be still awake this late in the night since there are Adventurers who go for hunting in the night for a certain type of monster and He also has to fill the job for the watcher.
The book he is reading is medium in the size and has a red cover with a sigil drawn on top of it and there was no title on the book, one could tell by looking at the book's topnotch condition that it is important. Inn's owner turns to the next page of the book, On the new page- There was a picture of a humanoid demon, The demon was colored in black, in the figure of a human. Below the picture was written description of the demons-
Demons - Are Divided into multiple categories
First is - Shamber Demons: are the lowest level demons, which lives off on the fear from the other race and cannot change their appearance, unlike Ashmber demons. Shamber Demons are the kind of living beings, which doesn't show any sign of sympathy and mercy and are fond of destruction. They don't live in a group unless there is a demon king [Demon King- Page 42] guiding them to do so--Shamber demons are weak but in a group, They can be the most destructive weapon of the demon king But right now, They are banished from the demon continent because of the destruction they cause in their own land. The appearance is of Shamber demon differs but mostly, they are similar to the monster, Goblin. Shamber demons are mostly found nearby human settlements, attacking merchants and solo adventurers. (They almost never attacks a village unless they are in a group.)
Second Type of, Ashmber Demons; are the most dangerous kind of demons, one should never let his guard down when facing this demon. Even though Their magic capability cannot be called Good, their magic level is the lowest level and their combat ability, with swords and the fist, is low but-- They are still the most dangerous type of demon because of the level of intelligence they possess: They tend to fight their opponents with strange weapons they invent themselves, their weapons could boost their magical capabilities to the level of a {Second Level (Human)} mage- They can also change their appearance and appears similar to a human- One cannot easily differentiate between an Ashmber demon and a human without skill called, Analazy. They are hard to fight against since they can take on the form of your child or your wife. They are not prideful, they will run away when they feel the danger and are willing to use underhanded tactics to defeat their opponents. Beware of the fact that they possess intelligent level above a human but because of how cautious they are, they failed to take advantage of their ability thus, they are often found alone.
Owl's Inn Owner closes the book and sighs in worry, "An Ashmber demon- I Wonder if my son will be able to handle this mess." He was about to stand up but suddenly, he hears footsteps coming outside of the main gate of the Inn-- 'They are returning?' he stares at the main gate and sees someone walking inside
"... Owner? You are still awake-- Sorry for the mess but it seems my friend got little too drunk from the excitement and got himself injured "That was Adger who just walked in, and These were words He spoke casually when he saw Inn's Owner still awake and while carrying someone on his back
When Inn's Owner saw Adger, His face became pale in shock 'How is he still alive?!'-- Adger casually walked pass by Inn's Owner towards his room while the person on his back, was bleeding from his feet and left a trail of blood on the floor and Inn's Owner stood still in a shock, He was not even able to reply Adger or asks him any question
Inside Adger's Room--
There was only a single bed in Adger's room and He dropped Russhel on his bed, had cut a clothe off his bedsheet and wrapped around Russhel's leg, from where he was bleeding, his right leg- 'The wound itself is not that serious but if I don't stop bleeding, He'll die for sure.' There are two gunshot wounds on Russhel's leg, One of them was on his ankle and other was on his thigh- Both of these wounds were not severe but nonetheless, these wounds could possibly lead a person to his demise from the infection- Adger was well aware of it.
Russhel blinks his eyes and was conscious while Adger wrapped cloths on his wounds. Russhel could see everything, but he was barely able to comprehend the situation he was in and was unable to move.
Meanwhile, Inn's Owner came to understand Russhel and his companion failed in their mission-- Owner sneaked to, beside Adger's room and opened the door slowly, to see what Adger was doing to Russhel 'huh? he is treating Russhel!? but wasn't Russhel--- ' to see Adger treating Russhel, surprised Owner. After all, It was Russhel's and his companion objective to kill Adger so, Why is Adger treating someone who tried to kill him? and what happened to Russhel's companion? Did they end up dying? These were the kind of question that came to Owner's mind.
Adger suddenly looks behind his back, towards the door since he sensed as if someone was watching him and before Adger could see Owner peeking on him, Owner had already closed the door and went downstairs.
"What was that?" said Adger to himself when he sensed as if someone was watching him-- He looks back at Russhel, Russhel mouth was half-open, his eyes sockets were filled with water and there were dark circles under his eyes. "Phew...that's all done but seriously, I can't believe this guy. How badly do you want to cling on your life? I know you can hear me, listen-- I didn't save you out of sympathy or sort-- I just wanted some money since I am almost broke and You will be giving me some for saving your life and treating your wounds, you could think of it as compensation for my efforts. good night now. " said Adger to Russhel while he stood near Russhel's (Adger's) bed-- Adger kept on staring at Russhel, and when Russhel blinked his eyes twice Adger turned around and left the room and left Russhel alone in the room.
{Early In The Morning}
Adger was lying on the floor in front of his own room and he didn't have a good sleep so woke up early in the morning. He had bent his legs and wrapped himself in his trench coat since the night was rather cold "Why did I even sleep outside? I could've kicked that asshole out on the floor after treating him since he did try to kill me! " said Adger in the morning when he woke up-- He stood up and opened the door of his room, Russhel was still on the bed, still not moving 'Why is this guy not moving at all? I can't see it happening because of the blood he lost. Is he perhaps paralyzed?' Adger walked to the bed and said to Russhel "Dude? Can you hear me? if you do hear me-- Blink your eyes three times. " When Adger said that, Russhel did blink his eyes three times " I see, so you can hear me huh-- Did you try to move your body? if yes than blink once and if no then blink your eyes twice " Russhel blinked his eyes once and Adger realized that Russhel indeed was paralyzed. 'Okay I know he is paralyzed but what now? ' Adger sat down on the bed beside Russhel and started to think of a solution but he couldn't come up with anything-- " I don't understand why you are paralyzed, my guns do not possess ability such as to para-- Well, at least not used to-- Hehe" Adger giggles at the end of his sentence as he realized that his guns were manipulated by someone and now they could possibly have this kind of effect "shit... I am gonna kill whoever did this to my sweethearts! Anyways, Rus--Heail was it? " Russhel started to blink his eyes furiously when he heard Adger still pronouncing his name wrong "Yea, yeah-- I get it! Who cares? It just a name! anyways What I was saying? Yeah, I will try to ask the owner if he could help me in this case to find someone who can cure you but I am not sure if he will help since we are not even well acquainted-- But I'll try, Okay? " Russhel quickly blinks his eyes once "Hmmm-- Well, then I will be back with Owner. "
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{In the hall of Owl's Inn}
Adger walked downstairs, to the hall where the reception desk was. There was no one in the hall beside Owner since it was early morning and almost everyone was still sleeping in their rooms-- Owner was still awake 'Is this old geezer even sleeps? ' Adger thought when he saw Owner still standing behind the Reception desk, There not was a single sign of exhaustion of fatigue on the owner's face.
Adger walked to the desk and when Owner saw Adger coming towards him
" Oh-- Adger, Is your friend feeling alright now? "
Adger kept on walking towards the desk and when he finally reached it. he replied to the owner
"Yea-- About that, Owner, You see-- I think my friend is under some sort curse or something. He cannot move and seems to be paralyzed for some reasons. It could be that he got poisoned from something while he injured himself but I don't know what to do, Can you help? "
The owner didn't respond to Adger for a few seconds 'So, Russhel is paralyzed... I did cast a magic barrier around Adger's room to keep an eye on him in case if he does something to Russhel but--Whatever he did, everything was to help Russhel! He even came to me ask for help, What does this Ashmber demon intent to do? no matter what, I got to help Russhel-- In the end, Russhel is a pupil of my son.' After a few seconds of Silence, Owner replied to Adger-
"Yes, I understand-- I'll do what I can to help your friend and my name is Curtis Crosby"
Adger had thought that he could ask him if there is someone who could help Russhel in his condition and these were Adger's intention to come to Owner but when he heard, 'Huh? This geezer can help Russhel? well! that saves a lot of trouble for me! ' Adger smiled and replied to Owner, (Curtis Crosby)
" Curtis Crosby, I understand so, Shall we head to my room now? My friend is kinda suffering. "
"Yes, sure. " Curtis replied to Adger as he left the reception desk and started walking towards Adger's room with Adger.
Curtis Crosby, He looks like an old person but does not act like one-- He wears clothes similar to of a villager, which are pretty simple. He is pretty big in size, around 6feet and has a scar on the left side of his face under his eye- his eyes are normal (Normal in this world) the color of his eyes is black.
{In Adger's Room}
Adger and Curtis Reached Adger's room and when Curtis opened the door of the room-- He saw Russhel lying on the bed, His left feet was covered in bandage though they were not actually bandaged but a cloth of bedsheet wrapped rather badly around Russhel's leg-- The cloth had soaked a lot of blood so it turned into red but thankfully, there was no bleeding.
"He was in pretty bad condition, wasn't he? Say, was it really an accident? " said Curtis when He saw Russhel's condition 'I couldn't see Russhel's wounds quite well in the night but now that I see the condition of the cloth that this guy used a bandage I can somewhat guess what Russhel had to go through.. '
"Maybe--? " said Adger while he avoided eyes contact from Curtis and looked away--
" I see. " said Curtis and 'Why is this demon acting the way it is? I know Ashmber demons don't care about the pride so-- Why did he save Russhel? Anyways, First of all, I have to see the wound-- To learn what kind of magic this person, Adger used'
Curtis slowly redo the bandage to see the wound-- He sees a clean hole in Russhel's ankle and thigh, There was no trace of resistance in the flesh and bone-- "This is... It's as if something pierced right through his leg and the wound doesn't show any sign of resistance at all. " said Curtis while looking at Russhel's right leg
Adger doesn't show any interest in the wound and carelessly says "Ummm--- Can you treat him?" and because of that, Curtis 'One doesn't show interest in something they already aware of... I can only wonder, what kind of weapon he used.'
Curtis replies to Adger while he asks him to stand back "Yes, I can- Please, stand back. " and then Curtis touch Russhel's forehead with his right hand and closes his eyes and starts to chant, mumbles unknown words-- Words that Adger 'What the hell is this guy saying? I can't understand a single word from it! ' couldn't comprehend and never heard of before.
After a 15 seconds or so, Curtis was done with his chanting-- There was no shining of light or any sign of magical phenomena occurring "Huh? Is it done already? " Says, Adger
Curtis looks at Adger and smiles and suddenly, Russhel starts to move his hands while his wounds on his right leg, start to disappear--
"Yes, Your friend should start to move. and slowly, he will regain control of his body but it will take time so, let him rest for a day," said Curtis
"I see..." Adger looks at Russhel 'He will be fine huh? ' but Adger's eyes, they didn't show any sign of relief but instead, now he was troubled 'Shit-- Sometimes I just do whatever the fuck I want, and that's what I hate about myself. ' Deep down, Adger was hoping that Russhel would not recover and stay the way he was, Paralyzed. Adger looks back at Curtis with a smile on his face "Thank you, Old man. "
"Old ma...? Anyways, You don't have to thank me. You are living at my Inn so, I'll do whatever I can to help the residence in order to improve the quality and opinion of people regarding Owl's Inn. Well, I am done so I will be on my way to reception desk-- That desk cannot stay empty for long. "
with those words, Curtis Crosby left Adger's room and now--
Adger walks to Russhel's bed-- There were no wounds on Russhel anymore but the cloth of bedsheet Adger had used as a Bandage was still covered in blood and color of it had changed to red. Adger picked it up and throws it towards Russhel while saying "Don't you dare forget it." and then leaves the room. and Adger never saw Russhel blinking his eyes when he threw that piece of cloth filled with blood towards Russhel and when he spoke those words.
{30min Later}
Adger was on his knees and There two people standing behind him, pointing their swords directly at Adger's neck and keeping Adger on his knees. The person who stood in front of Adger in the dark, " This the end for you, now You are gonna die, Demon. " Adger looks on his sides and He sees Shila and Meeya standing-- Looking back at him with Disgust. When Adger see both of them like that, his face starts to twist while he says "BASTARDS---- I'll FUCKING KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU "
; End of Chapter.