AT. DEMON SLAYER
Chapter 24 - Saiyaka and Erl Marline

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Feeya was astonished to see xavier who even smiled as if there was happiness buried when he heard the name erl marline.

Feeya's eyes flickered at xavier's facial features, "why are you smiling to yourself ? " ask feeya, confused.

" What? "

" Is there something wrong with me until you look at me like that? " look at xavier, awakened when asked by his staring feeya.

" Have forgotten it. "

" Now you answer where erl marline is? " ask xavier back.

" Marline erl? "

" Why do you even want to know about him? " ask feeya.

" Why do you ask so many questions? "

" Just tell me where he is now, because I have to meet him" said xavier.

" He. he. "feeya did not dare to say about the erl marline that had been considered as the master for him, all the secrets he knew would be covered by him.

Suddenly a frantz blitz sword was stuck in the rock right where the feeya was sitting, "gleekk...! " feya was shocked to see the sharp sword reflecting off a flash of glare that had been stuck in front of him.

Feeya imagined that the sword was stuck and hit him, because the distance with the sword was only a finger tip different from him.

Feeya's widened eyes made her unable to speak anymore, to the point that her face was now turning pale eloquently.

" I don't want to beat around the bush any more, you better answer all my questions or this sword will talk to you. "xavier said unceremoniously and he cornered his fee.

" But you take it easy, I won't make you die useless. "

" I'll slice and slash your flesh and I put it in the soul melting furnace and you'll be mixed into medicine" xavier said, cornered his feeya, feeya who heard him grew frightened until the gurgling of her teeth could be heard.

" Eh, or what if I eat and I just swallow alive? "

" just choose to obey and answer all my questions or feel it all! " xavier again threatened his feeya, a terrifying smile piercing sharply that made his feeya fall down while taking a step back.

" Where are you going?! " creepy xavier that increasingly looks scary.

" Not anywhere, hehe.not anywhere." said a foolish-looking feeya covering up his fear of words to eat.

" How? "

" Where is erl marline?! " collapsed xavier, startling feeya.

" It's gone. ttttino more. "

" Erl marline has been gone for a long time" replied feeya nervously out of fear.

" liy...! "

" How could he be dead?! " excite xavier back.

" There really isn't. "

" 500 years ago, he had just left this place. "

" He died fighting the demon echi damarun to protect this place and his children. "feeya said telling what happened, about the death of erl marline in the hands of echi damarun.

" You mean the echi damarun great creature that was chasing us back then? " ask xavier.

" no. "

" It's just his bodyguard" said feeya.

" Guards?! " xavier was increasingly wondering about the figure of the echi damarun.

" The real Echi damarun is like a boy, but he can turn into a tall, sturdy, muscular figure, and he always wears a black raven-feathered hat. "

" He was a formidable opponent to the marline erl, even though the marline erl had sacrificed himself... "

" Erl marline was only able to seal his strength and make the echi damarun figure fall asleep long. "feeya explained to xavier.

•••

In xavier's mind, if erl marline is gone then what about the purpose of him who came to this place.

Xavier returns his book, staring in joy but still filled with fear and questioning.

" this...? " the question felt in his heart stared at xavier who suddenly frontally returned his book.

" Why is something strange? " refute xavier.

" Don't look at me as bad as that, nor will I be able to use it even if I can open it" said xavier, shifting the subject.

" Feeya, can you take me somewhere? " then xavier asked feeya.

" where? " tanya feeya looked back at xavier.

" To the place where erl marline was buried" replied xavier.

" Are you sure?! " feeya exclaimed to question xavier's answer, but xavier just silently did not answer her speech and instead looked up at the ceiling around the place.

" Come out...! " the real xavier said from the beginning had been aware of the existence of kenz following them for that long.

Kenz came out from behind a large and tall stone statue, which was shaped like an eagle's head and half of its body was shaped like a devil-tailed human body with a standing position holding a stone spear.

" So you know I'm here? " kenz said from a distance as he walked closer to xavier.

" Eh..., why are you...? "

" there... in...here...? " ask the muffled feeya as she looks at kenz through it and heads to xavier.

" It's been since the beginning that I know, and you must have heard it all" xavier replied.

" So you know?! " call feeya exclaims questions about kenz that xavier has found out, but is not influenced by kenz or xavier.

" Yes, how else. "

" Your voices are so loud that they make me hear everything" kenz told xavier.

It makes feeya upset himself because he feels not considered by kenz or xavier, "uggghhhh. sucks! " call exclaim feeya waist.

" What do you think I'm a stone statue here?! "

" I've been talking but not being heard ! " feya shouted in search of kenz and xavier's attention.

" We heard. " said kenz and xavier, briefly and simultaneously.

" What do you want to talk about? " ask kenz.

" Flying rat! " cry little kenz who then ignored it again with a pee.

" What flying rats?! " feeya exclaimed, annoyed when kenz called him a flying rat.

" I'm a feeya, not a flying rat! "

" I'm a nymph fairy! " it screamed in annoyance, but carved a scorn of kenz on the tip line of his lips and kenz still ignored the feeya with his cold demeanor as if the feeya did not exist.

" Don't ignore me! "

" I exist and I am not a stone...! " cried feeya with her floor.

" We know." said xavier.

" Yes, we know you're a living stone statue." continued kenz, sneering feeya back.

" You...! " feeya suddenly closed her mouth, with wide-eyed eyes she looked back at kenz and xavier.

" Why with you? " tanya xavier noticed the oddity of feeya's twitching.

Then xavier turned his head and xavier was quite surprised by what he saw, "how could it be?! " small cry xavier who was staring intently with his hands clenched tightly the handle of his frantz blitz sword.

" What's up...? " kenz saw xavier speaking like that immediately turned his head while asking, and suddenly became silent when he found out what xavier and feeya saw.

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Without them realizing it, they had made a stone statue of the guard area where the kenz had been hiding behind it had suddenly come to life and moved.

The large and tall stone statue that had the head of a human eagle with a devil tail, shook and moved slowly.

His hand holding a stone spear stick began to lift, and his body moved in the face where xavier, kenz and feeya were.

" Pa.. The stone statue moves! " exclaimed feeya, suddenly the eyes of the statue lit up brightly and his legs raised no longer fused with the surface of the ground he was treading.

" How is this, how is this? " feya was terrified and went straight into the Kenz robe.

" Eh, what the fuck are you?! " little kenz cried at that moment.

" Feeya tell me what happened?! " excite ask xavier.

" What is that statue?! " call ask xavier.

" What do you mean? "

" Why me? " ask kenz feeling accused.

" Yes, if not who else. "

" You said that the stone statue was alive. "feeya said firmly kenz's greeting table.

" That's it. " said xavier.

" It looks like we have to fight this big rock"." continued xavier who then pulled out his sword stuck on the ground and prepared to swing his sword back.

" Who is afraid. "

" After all my strength has returned by half. "

" So just a stone statue doesn't matter to me. " continue kenz's words while smiling coldly and then stretch a little palm then release back the earrings he wore that were shaped like a small size katana sword, but when it slipped from his ear, it turned big.

The earrings were turned into an enryuukenz katana sword, which was his indigo-dark dark dark dark weapons filled with death aura which on the handle of the katana sword was a black bell hanger carved with a golden dragon.

" Good weapon! you hold this big one for a while." praise xavier a little, so as to make the atmosphere less tense, then take a step back quickly.

Xavier then moved further away and put the eagle he was carrying and also the crown prince who was carried by him behind a large rock that was located quite far from the living stone statue, to ensure his safety do not forget xavier paired a magic protective shield to protect the crown prince and the eagle.

Not long after that xavier immediately returned to fight, he quickly ran from afar to slash his sword at the huge stone statue and joined the kenz who was also fighting with the large stone statue.

Cling... sling...

The sound of the sword rubbing against the rock continued to ring violently...

" This stone statue is not easy to destroy" said xavier.

" be careful...! " continue the exclaim xavier who suddenly dispelled the fire attack from the stone statue that led to kenz with his frantz blitz sword.

The stone statue was spitting fire nonstop, "this fire did not stop, and instead grew bigger. "xavier continued to try to hold the fire that came out the beak of the statue, xavier continued, but the hand of the stone statue suddenly moved and pointed the spear stick up and issued a glare light that pierced the eye so as to make the xavier off guard.

" What is this light?! " xavier said at that time with his eyes closed while holding the frantz blitz sword in hand in a defensive position from the fire attack.

" Be careful! " cried kenz crashing xavier's body to avoid the attack of small blades flying from metal shaped like feathers of bird wings and out of the hands of stone statues that do not hold spear sticks.

" Thank you. "briefly said xavier who had been saved by kenz.

" This light interferes with vision, and the severity of this small flying knife is very disturbing. "

" What is this stone statue? " clear kenz.

" You're right, we can't take this statue for granted. "

" Not to mention with the burst of fire. "connect xavier dot the plan.

" There's a strategy? " ask kenz.

" I don't know, we have to look for the weakness of this stone statue first. "sahut xavier, still think hard how to deal with the large stone statue.

•••

Feeya peeked out from under the kenz robe, "this is the last stone statue of erl marline." he said.

" Erl marline often travel space-time dimensions, and is made with the most advanced mechanism system without magic" said Feeya.

" you mean? " xavier's lyrics ask.

" Beware...! " exclaims feeya seeing a small knife flying towards kenz.

Hearing that kenz reflex he quickly deflected the little flying knife with the katana sword he was holding so that the blade fell, "the mouse flew, thank you. " a little kenz said, but several other small knives suddenly came attacking the kenz from behind.

Cling...

Xavier hurriedly fended off the knife, "your eyes have improved? " ask kenz, they turned their backs and stood guard.

" It doesn't matter" replied xavier while remaining introspective.

" Feeya what are you about that big thing again? " just ask xavier.

" I don't know much" said Feeya while thinking.

" I remember, erl marline once told me that this statue was made to protect the land of the new nobles ! " please explain to the two of them.

The two of them moved as well while listening to the feeya explanation, "then? " said xavier who turned his magic sword back into a wand of wand ash, while kenz from earlier repelled the attacks of small knives that flew towards them without end.

" Kenz! " excited xavier called kenz to get closer to him, because at that time xavier had made a circle and cast a magic spell to make a magic shield the same while he was in the fog forest while protecting themselves from the smoke of death kai.

Kenz, who knew it, got closer to the side of the xavier, quickly running because the shield wall was almost closed touching the ground.

Kenz ran while dropping a few small flying knives in his way, as he jumped up and pushed a little of his body to roll over to get into the magic shield that was about to close.

As soon as Kenz made it into the transparent wall the shield closed on the ground, "are you okay? " xavier asked about kenz.

Kenz immediately got up and took a few seconds of deep breaths.

" Good landing. "xavier pats kenz on the shoulder.

" As good as the circle of this shield. "reply kenz who soon rose to his feet.

" How much longer will this time last? " kenz joked with a flat smile.

" For a long time until we listen to Feeya tell us how to beat the boulder." joked xavier to kenz.

Then kenz pulled out his feeya from behind in his robe by tapping it with both fingers holding his wings, " hey.

" Continue your explanation that was feeya. "so did xavier who immediately asked the meaning of the feeya speech earlier.

" Feeya doesn't know anything anymore. "

" Mrs erl marline only ever said that the stone statue has a heart center that can make it live" explained Feeya.

" heart? " kenz was filled with question marks.

" Right, heart. "firmly back feeya justifies his speech, but cut off by xavier's speech, "center of heart, not heart." xavier continued.

" I think what is meant by the center of the heart is not the heart, but the mechanism that moves this stone statue. "obviously xavier is trying to examine further, while looking at the stone statue that still pulled out a small knife in all directions.

•••

Hearing xavier's words just now makes kenz and feeya look at xavier, but xavier's words also make kenz remember something.

" Mechanism system... "xavier was staring at kenz at that moment, "do you know anything ? " ask xavier.

" Saiyaka studies the mechanism system and he says it's like magic, but the difference is that they all use the program as a brain" said kenz.

" Saiyakas? "

" Who is he? the name is not foreign to hear. "

" If it's not the wrong name that you and I mentioned while in the fog forest, right? " ask xavier, critic.

" Yes, you're right. "

" Saiyaka is a human who is trapped in the demon world to search for his sister who was lost because of entering this demon beast country" explained kenz at the time.

" But because of the saiyaka's skill in mechanisms, it made the demon beast king not kill himself and instead accept himself in the demon beast kingdom" kenz said.

" Saiyaka, in order to stay in search of his sister, accepts the request of the king of azzriel to help make many weapons and transform every change of the demons to be even stronger. "

" But unbeknownst to me all the transformations were not only used for demon beasts, but for the humans who had been captured by the demon beast kingdom all this time. "

" As soon as I knew about it, I deeply regretted everything that happened and then I tested myself for the transformation I had created. "

" It turned itself into a half-demon beast, and then the rebellion happened. "it was clear that kenz was cut off because it was interrupted by feeya.

" The girl came from a different time ! " excited feeya, inviting the eyes of kenz and xavier.

" What do you mean? " ask xavier.

" You know sayyaka? " so does kenz ask questions simultaneously with xavier.

" no... "

" But I see from your eyes" said Feeya as he flew closer to the kenz, who then explained the incident while in the basement of the earthareum.

At that time feeya saw all of kenz's eyes by using his safi nymph eyes ability to retrocognision see the past of kenz, where kenz knows a girl named saiyaka to the closeness of his relationship with saiyaka.

" I saw the girl coming out of the broken dimensional portal" Feeya said.

" Dimension portal? " ask xavier.

" Yes a dimensional portal made erl marline, but the portal was damaged because of the actions of humans in his day. "

" This incident caused some humans to enter the demon world, but it was later known as erl marline. "

" Since then the portal has been locked by magic energy erl marline and hidden by him so that it is not known by the demon beasts or the demons." firmly explained feeya.