001. Demon Lord and Hero

“And now, I found you guilty!” the judge shouted as he tapped his gavel.

The courtroom is filled with only a few people including the judge, the prosecutor, security, defendant, and the grieving victim’s family. Everyone except the lawyer.

“Hey! Where’s my lawyer?!” shouted the defendant with a strange handcuff in his hands.

Thick iron handcuff with runes written on them and glowing brightly. Apart from the shape of the handcuffs, the defendant’s appearance seemed normal.

A rather large man about 2 meters tall. Although slightly different from most men, he still looked like an ordinary human being, except for a pair of horn on his head.

Short shabby black hair, bright red lazy eyes and a sharp jawline that keep opening cause the yawning. His facial expression truly describe how uninterested he was with the situation. Long pants, long sleeved hoodie with sentence [ It’s not stealing, it’s liberating] written on the back of the hoodie didn't help much either.

“Silence, criminal!” scolded the judge, unable to tolerate the fact that the defendant is still breathing.

The defendant took a deep breath and exhaled.

“Your honor, listen. You can’t kill me or seal me, the closest thing you can do is steal all my hearts, hide them all over the world and stab them every second just to weaken me. TO WEAKEN ME!”

“Silence!”

“AND YOU’VE BEEN DOING IT FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS!”

“That’s the punishment for your crimes!”

“It’s not fair! I need my civil rights! This is torture! Where is my lawyer?!”

“You have no rights and you don’t deserve a lawyer! You are a demon lord and deserve all the punishment there is!”

*TAK!

The sound of the gavel ended the court and the mood remained gloomy.

“Oh great, what are you going to do? Jail me? Oh~ I’m so scared~.”

A large man took the defendant to another room. The demon lord may have been big, but the security guard is even bigger.

The security guard wore special gloves that were inscribed with runes and glow brightly.

The door to the room opened and an immense killing aura immediately greeted the demon lord.

A woman in military uniform stood up, ready to strike down the evil incarnation she faced right now with her sword infused with holy light magic.

“Your tyranny ends here! Demon lord!” The soldier woman screamed out loud.

The demon lord looked away, rolled his eyes, and sighed heavily. “Oh great, another righteous hero came to save the day. Why am I immortal?”

The young woman with long length black hair and her specialized weapon for fighting demon-like creatures now faced the greatest calamity that humans ever encounter.

Despite a scratch on her check, her beauty still radiated clearly with her dark blue eyes and baby face. Although her piercing glaze seemed deadly, her 1.6 meters body didn’t pose any significant threat to the demon lord.

It wasn’t a look of fear or even threat. What the demon lord saw was nothing but an angry chihuahua. 

“He’s on your watch now.” Said the guard as he stepped out of the room.

“No! Don't leave me alone with this maniac!” the demon lord begged as the soldier jumped straight at the demon lord. Knocking that tall man to the floor.

The glowing magic sword is now stuck on his throat. In normal situations, this is very intense, but it’s different.

“Alright hero, I give up.” The demon lord glanced at her uniform and looked at her name. “Miss Luna. Pfffftthh… who are your parents? Astrologist?”

“Don’t say my name with your filthy tongue!”

The demon lord grasped Luna’s butt with both of his hands so tightly that Luna’s face turned red.

*Jrash!

Luna decapitated the demon lord and jumped backward. Blood pooled on the floor and continued to flow. Luna’s face was still flushed with embarrassment and immediately cried out.

“Hah! Take that! You… you… YOU PERVERTED DEMON LORD! I have the right to end you and –”

“Ah… Now you’re making another job for the cleaning service guy. You should have known that my blood is hard to clean. That poor guy will get fired for this and all of that because of you.”

A voice was heard from the demon lord who was trying to connect his head back to normal.

“Y… y… You…”

“Immortal? Duh! What did they teach you before giving you this job?”

The demon lord stood back up, his head back to normal and the wound slowly disappeared.

Luna slightly trembled but she regained her resolve.

“I’m assigned to watch you 24 hours no matter what and be –”

“… be the judge of every crime I commit, ever commit and will commit. Bla… bla… bla… yada.. yada… another typical hero formality and so on and so on.”

Luna fell silent and he stepped closer.

“No! Your duty isn’t that, your job is to satisfy me!” The demon lord’s hand approached her breast with his questionable finger movement.

Frantically, Luna cut off both of his hands. Blood spurted once again but this time there was only a smile on his face.

“Freedom!” Shouted the demon lord as he ran out the room, kicking the door and kept running.

Luna froze for a moment and then saw both of his severed handcuffed hands lying on the floor bleeding and several streams of mana that were almost transparent.

Her eyes widened and chill crawled on her back. Luna immediately rushed to pick up those hands and ran out with a pale face.

“No, if he is roaming freely…”

Luna imagined the demon lord bringing his demon army and taking over the world.

“…Humanity will end.”

Luna hurriedly ran out of the court, bumping into people unknowingly passing someone who was sitting and reading the newspaper.

That person was the demon lord, he created the pseudo arm using his magic. It looks like a transparent hand with the color of purple.

There was nothing strange about it at first glance and everyone seemed too busy to even notice.

The demon lord saw Luna running past him and could only shake his head.

“It’s truly horrifying when someone in panic mode, all their critical thinking ability goes out of the window. How horrifying.”

The demon lord walked out casually without a bit of weight on his shoulder. He looked up at the bright blue sky and sighed.

“What a nice day to rob some banks.”