Part 7

The large army of the Kaldimar kingdom for the most part consisted of many hurt men with hopeless eyes when I came out. The demons must have had dealt quite a blow to them. Of course it was not only the infantry, there was also a large chunk of those fighting against demons that had priests or paladin like jobs and of course those looked much better than the common soldier.

When I was noticed their mood became better in a matter of seconds. Men that had their feet amputated and were screaming from pain now looked relieved and hopeful.

I was wondering why in a world of magic there was a need to amputate body parts, but just left it be as there must be a reason for that.

A high ranked officer joined me together with a group of 10 more riders and we moved towards where the fun was.

It took only a few days and we arrived to where the demons pushed us back. On my way there I heard of our losses. Seventy thousand dead or taken people, I can only assume the demons like to take slaves.. disgusting.

I was greeted by the general very soon.

“Sir Kotatsu! I am soo glad to finally see you joining us on the battlefield! You cannot imagine how hard it was without you...”

I patted his shoulder. “I was sure you would be fine without me, well even the greatest of us can be wrong once in their life time..” I sighted loudly. “Do not worry, nothing is lost, we still can turn it all around!” I turned around and now spoke loudly to everyone that could hear me. “ I, THE HERO WILL MAKE THE DEMONS PAY FOR ALL OF OUR LOSSES!”

Loud cheering as always was what I got.

Soon the demons started to march against us and we did the same. Their positions were weird however, there were about 100 people in the very front who on their feet slowly walked forwards and the main demon army was further back.

I just thought that those people were nice warm ups for me and ran straight at them.

“The hero!” A soldier behind me shouted. “So heroic! Storming the enemy alone to concentrate all the damage on himself!”

I just ran with high speeds towards the enemy and saw how they all looked with cold gazes at me, not fazed by my appearance at all. They must not have heard of the new hero, I though.

Jumping high, I flew right in the middle of them. Quickly they build a circle around me, all standing at least 10 meters away from me.

With a big smirk I told them. “My name is Kotatsu and if I were you, you demon filth, I would be running back right now or it will not have a pretty end.”

They all stepped back and I smirked even more.

Waiting for anyone to attack me, I stood there and just observed. Not even a few seconds later I noticed a demon that looked different than any other. He was... similar to me, an extravagant armor, the body of a sexgod and with a cold look on his face.

I snorted. “Hphh, If you won't come to me, so be it!” I started to chant my “Banish Evil”.

The demons just listened to my chants and did nothing against it.

When the song was over, a giant sphere of light shout out from me and expanded, engulfing all of them in it.

To my surprise none of them died. Or were even pushed away. I started to panic but then saw how all of them started to visibly pale and all fell to their knees.

Even the demon lord looking guy fell to one knee. He looked in disbelieve at me as I had a wide grin and watched his power leaving him.

“Ohh no!” He looked like he had trouble breathing as his hand tried to hold the place on his chest where his heart should be. “NO! H-how c- can this be? T-this power! I-it it..” he fell to the ground and started his whole body started to shake visibly.

I walked slowly forward. Well, this was easier than I though..

“ IT TICKLES! ha ha HA HAAHHA! WHAT A JOKE!” He started to laugh hysterically while holding his belly and crying from both eyes. IT looked so ridiculous seeing a giant of a man in complete black armor behaving like a manchild and also sent shivers down my spine.

Around me the others joined him.

A lone demon said out loud when the laughing became quieter. “Dude, it really burned a little...”

The demon king laughed at him. “From that? What are you, a little faggot?”

Another demon spoke up offended. “Hey! We talked about it! IF you will say homophobic shit like that all the time then everyone will think it is okay to bash them! This is not okay! You have a responsibility to represent---”

The demon lord rolled his eyes. “Yes, I get it!”

“No YOU DON'T! Or you would not have said that!”

“Yes, yes, of course. Stephen you are right as always. Can we now... please...” He mentioned to the dumbfounded me and implied that it could wait for later. “And now about you... “ He gave me a cold and disappointed look. “You get all this power and what do you do? Fuck around all day? Jeez... I thought it might get interesting, I thought you would be fun, I mean it was a shame that the country of brain dead racists got you but even then we could have had fun fighting against each other, but you my friend, are a legendary disappointment... Buuuhhhh!” He started to chant as the others joined him and they all gave me a thumbs down.

I became outraged, it has been a long time since anyone has called me that and I was a different man now! I will not let this go over me! “Yeah?! Well...Your mama is a disappointment!” I showed him the middle finger.

The demons looked at each other and started to laugh even harder.

The demon lord then calmed down. “You call that a joke? Even in this world your mama jokes are out... Guys! Tell that poor lost soul a real joke!”

Stephen from before started. “Knock knock!”

Another random demon answered. “Who is there?”

“The hero!”

“The hero who?”

“The hero who is about to loose his anal virginity!”

The moment the last words were said I got a bunch of hungry and lustful looks from the demons around me. I could not help myself but cringe as my whole body shuddered.

'Oh no... everything but that that..' I thought in horror and started to clench my butt hole as tight as possible.

As a few demons started to slowly approach me, I jumped out of the circle in horror and used my new found skill “tactical retreat”. I was so horrified that I could not even hear the loud and roaring laughter behind me.

When I returned to my men, I stood before them and realized that I could not look weak right now. “ MEN! Did you see that! I walked right into them and returned unscratched! Those demons are a joke! We are gonna win this!”

Loud roaring ran through the ranks and the battle started.

…........................................................

We lost.

Battle after battle we lost. We lost cities that were taken by demons and the humans inside were probably all slaughtered and raped. Our army also got smaller by the day.

In every battle I tried to fight against the elite of the demons but always they would just surround me with a few people and we would exchange hits as they looked amused at me. It became a running gag between us as they told me unfunny jokes.

Once a demon actually made me laugh.

“Hey hero boy! Did you know that light travels faster than sound? This is why sometimes people appear to be bright until you actually hear them talk!”

Somehow that just cracked me up in the middle of the battle and I started to laugh, to only calm myself down forcefully and having to retreat.

The others congratulated him for that. That demon got something like a promotion as was now in high regards and whenever he talks to me, the others watch us with anticipation...

When I managed to damage some of them, they would always run back and shout with amusement that I managed to hit them and just get healed in a matter of seconds by their team mates or maybe even themselves.. So unfair...

It was now desperate for us that the demons were in front of the capital as we had to defend our last lines.

“I've had enough of that!” I shouted as I was in the middle of another battle and saw our situation. I stood and fought a few demons as usual and looked at the demon lord who had a bored expression. 'When I kill him it will all be over!' I thought.

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Jumping up and above the now even more amused demons, I flew with a loud roar straight at the demon lord.

My sword thundered down with all the might I had and was aimed straight at his head.

It was now only a few centimeters above his helmet as he just looked at the blade with his eyes betraying a hint of excitement.

The blade... it just slid of his helmet and left a tiny scratch on it. He looked very displeased to say the least and frowned.

“Well, now it only is annoying...” The demon lord said out loud and rolled his eyes. “Guys! I've had enough! The fun is over!”

Before I knew what that meant, seven different demons came and surrounded me in a matter of seconds. I had no time to react and had the feeling that like always for me, the demons saw me in slow motion. In nine different parts of my body, I was impaled with razor sharp blades and looked in horror at the demons that managed to surpass my defenses so effortlessly. I was so consumed by my shock that I did not notice them sulking over that and feeling disapoited.

Feeling the hellish pain I could only scream and cry. My body started to move on its own as I desperately tried to free myself and tried to jump in the air as they retreated their blades. With all my power in my feet, I ran as fast as it was humanly possible for me to get into safety.

I arrived inside the capital again and started to immediately heal myself, disregarding all the other hurt soldiers around me that watched me with awe but also some confusion.

Feeling rage inside of me I saw as the king stood there and commanded his forces and talking with an officer and the pope about the battle plan, looking desperately for a chance to turn this war around.

“YOU!” I screamed at him. “It was all because of you!” I stormed at him feeling all the rage pouring out of me and finally getting a target.

A target that I could easily use to get all this anger out of me.

He was confused. “What are you talking about?”

“It is all your fault! You, you.. incompetent and greedy old fuck!” I thought about that it was him that brought me into this world to fight the evil and it was him that used me for his own benefits, yes, like the princess said, he was only using me to get more money in his pockets, this degenerate.

Packing him by his throat in my furry I started to choke him with the rest of the army watching me in shock and confusion but not daring to say or even do anything.

“N- no wha--” He looked at me with horror that was quickly replaced by void as his neck was snapped and he lost his life.

The people around me did not know what to do, I just shouted at them to get back to work and that I was now the king.

The soldiers nodded hesitantly and the people of faith smiled at me, telling me that my actions must be true and the king must have been a heretic, that as long as the demons would perish god would forgive me and reward my actions.

I just nodded and stormed towards the castle where the love of my life was. Behind me I heard how the gates broke down and the city was stormed by demons.

Arriving there I found my princess in the throne room.

I ran up to her and kissed her passionately. “I have done it. The king is dead.”

She looked very happy as she also kissed me back and shrieked from happiness. “Yes! You did good, finally we can be the king and the queen!”

I nodded. “Yes, but right now we have to flee, the demons will be here shortly and we have to run.”

She looked confused. “But you are the hero! How can that be? Also I am the queen now, no way I will leave that behind!”

I tried to pull her in my frantic state. “No, he will be here! He is too powerful! I will need to level up a lot, yes this is what I will do now and then soon I will avenge my shameful moment and take this kingdom back! But now we have to run, yes running is what we need to do now.”

Behind me I heard that the door was broken up and on horror I saw the demon lord walking towards me with a wide grin on his face and some blood under his feet.

Anna saw him and started to throw a tantrum in her rage. “NO! You go away! You are ruining everything! I was finally the queen arghh!” She was stomping her feet on the ground and got red from rage.

The demon whistled as he admired Anna. “Uhhh... sexy lady, nice nice... We will talk later on. “He snapped his finger and she fell down on the floor.

My mind was racing and thinking of what I needed to do now. The result: run!

I tried to jump out of a window that was to my left, but before I could even move he had me already in his grip.

He suddenly smirked at me. “I've got another one for you.” he coughed. “Get this... How many heroes does it take to change a light bulb?”

My eyes widened because of the implication of his joke.

His smirk got wider. “Silly, a tool can not change anything!” He threw me across the room. “You know, I wanted to kill you, give that little story of your pitiful life that dark and edgy ending, but then I was told that it was not original enough... “He sighted and took a deep breath. “This is why you will live! Good news, no?”

I stopped shaking and had a slight smile on my face.

“Bad news, you will become my little bitch.” He came to me and started to caress my face, giving me a kiss on my cheek. “Don't worry, I won't mistreat you...” He said as he started to pet my head.

“How about it? We give you a slave seal and give you lots of... rewards depending on your behavior!”

I started to cry uncontrollably and beg him to let me go or that I would serve him or just about anything to ensure my live and my ass would be fine and untouched.

“Ohh, do not cry darling... This is just the beginning, what fun is it if you break from the beginning... have you ever watched game of thrones? From what time do you come by the way.. no this is irrelevant, so have you seen it?”

I nodded in between my sobs.

“Are you familiar with the character of Theon greyjoy?” He asked me with a grin and as he saw me getting even more desperate, he continued. “Well, there are a lot of people salty over you killing so many of my brethren so we will have to... train you.”

I started to cry even harder now and tried my hardest to get away from this psycho.

He saw my reaction and just roared with laughter. “Lol, I am just fucking with you.” he hit my back in a friendly gesture and put me back on my feet.

“Come on you brainwashed monkey, we are not soo bad... How about it, we will travel to the demon kingdom and I will show you what lies you were told the whole time. I mean here we will still have to kill all the religious extremists, in the end they are literally Nazis to us being Jews, you understand? But the other common people that have reason in them will be fine... “He shrugged of. “No need to piss yourself. “He looked down onto the wet spot under me. “Well, this is awkward...” He scratched his head. “Anyway, you are a fun guy, I am sure with a lot of unused potential that is just waiting to be in proper use.. Those fanatics have summoned you to fight evil and pointed the finger at us, while ignoring all the other wrongdoings that are present in this world. We will put you into the right direction.. No wait, then we would be no better than them hmm... How about we will just show it to you and you decide, ay mate? “He hit me in the shoulder softly.”Come, I will introduce the guys, they also have taken quite the liking to you. Even Stephen has told me how fun you are... you Don't even know how surprised I was hearing it from him of all people, you can imagine from the few times seeing him that he is a quite guy, but you do not even know mate...”

Like that I stood up and we walked away, still shocked and dumbfounded while the demon lord talked with me about his hobbies and fun places around his kingdom.

-the end-

There you have it, my first complete short story.

Was it a fun ride or was it a waste of time? Have I told an original tale or have I been victim to the same cliches that I made fun of?

Either way, I can only hope that you will bear with me.

The next short story will be quite different, that I can promise.

A much more likable character with an actual story since immersion is very important in the next story type and it is less of an empowerment fantasy/porn than this here.

Next week on The fantasy tropes Encyclopedia....: Reincarnation.