Chapter 96 (1/2)

I have unpleasant memories. I lived with my human mother and my little sister that was the same as me, a ryujin. The three of us were on good terms and live happily despite being poor.

We had no father. Being the only Ryujin who lived in the village, moreover with unknown origin, my sister and I weren't welcomed by the people. My mother was also detested because she gave birth to such children. She never told us about our father either.

Since there was no place for us in the village, we had no other choice but decided to leave the village in the end.

Because there was nothing we could do. No matter how much I said that I would be useful for the village, nobody listened to me. The children imitated their parents and never tried to approach us.

I think that it wasn't a mistake to leave the village, it was just the timing when we left that was bad.....

The time when we left the village was exactly when the demon king’s army rampaging around the world.

Without the power to fight nor preparations, everyone would arrive at the same ending when walking in the forest.

We got attacked by monsters and ran away just like some kind of pre established harmony.

Left to the right, go to the front and back. The place where we ran as far as we could was a dead end surrounded by rocks.

We were surrounded by many monsters with no place to hide, then my mother stood up to protect me and my little sister.

Her back was trembling. But in order to protect her children from the monsters, such thing was irrelevant.

My mother was killed in no time.

I was scared of that sight, I couldn't move, my body was trembling, it was hard to breath, but I endured it while thinking about my sister who was in no better condition than me.

The monsters slowly approached us while licking with their tongues as if telling that it was our turn.

I moved to the front of my sister immediately but then get knocked off against the rocks behind and lost consciousness.

The first thing I saw after regaining consciousness was the monsters which emitted some kind of dirty laughter, trampling the already dead mother and little sister's bodies.

I screaming until no voice was coming out.

Why do we, the mother and her children have to receive this kind of treatment?

I didn't desire something disproportionate..... I just wanted to live a simple life with my mother and my little sister..... why was this kind of fate coming to us?

Why? Why? Why? Why..........?

I cursed my fate and at the same time I also started to hate the world.

In response to my cry, the monsters turned their attention at me as if finding a new toy.

At that time I thought,

I want the power..........

I want the power so I can show it to the people of the village.........

I want the power to kill the monsters who killed my mother and my little sister..........

If nobody wants to protect me, I want power to protect myself..........

I want power to protect my mother and my little sister..........

I didn't remember what happened after that.

Before my eyes, the corpses of monsters which have been twisted powerlessly into strange positions were scattered.

The first thing I realized was that there was a lot of blood on my hands. Once again I checked my whole body, it was wet with blood as if the rain of blood had fallen.

I thought that I have did it. I thought so because there was a sense of strange power overflowing from within my body.

I realized that the dragon blood which was flowing inside me was instinctively awoken.

Is this the power I wanted?

I couldn't think well with my hazy consciousness. But still, I understood what I should do at that time.

I carried my mother’s and little sister's bodies carefully to a good place with beautiful scenery which was near. I dug the soil and buried them, I made their graves.

I want my mother and my little sister to be happy if the afterlife world truly exists.....

After that I went around and trampled monsters who caught my attention. They were not the monsters who killed my mother and my little sister but still..... I couldn't forgive every one of them.

I was walking around without destination and killed any monster as soon as I found it.

In the meantime I continued seeking the power greedily. I began to learn various martial arts and weapons at random.

A few years had passed since then. People from the surroundings started to call me Hero.

I am not such a good human being.

At that time I made Osen town into my base operation. I began to feel the limits on my strength. I had been fighting against other people who were called the strong as to seek some different form of strength.

I fought again and again, but no one approached my strength,  no one could win against me.

Was this the strength I was looking for? I don't know the answer. I got tired of fighting.