Shadow and The Jester
Chapters 10

Chapted 10: Reasons for Assault.

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(POV Third Person)

The Dafa group was now standing in front of an old castle, which had nothing of interest, except a horror and deadly atmosphere coming out of it.

The castle looks like an ancient Roman castle, which they have seen in history books, when history lessons were first studied.

Although it was said the same, but this castle looked much more unkempt, which in addition to giving a horror atmosphere around it, but it also made Dafa sigh, he said, because he had somewhat been able to guess the reason behind it.

"Please don't tell me you don't have any subordinates at all?"

Not long after Dafa said that, Orobas immediately giggled, before he said; "Heh~ Bawahan~? Why would I have someone weaker than me~?"

Hearing that, all Dafa could do was sigh, gesturing the other three to be quiet first, because he's not in the mood to talk about anything.

Then, the five of them began to enter the castle, where the first thing that greeted them was an empty hall that was really very shabby, like it had been abandoned over a century ago.

There are so many damaged items in there, that most of the glass that is there also looks completely intact, with the worst again is the roof, which is the roof, where it looks to have a pretty big hole there.

"It's going to be hard to fix this whole thing."

All the people who were there, with the exception of Orobas, could only nod their heads in agreement, because they did have the same thoughts as Dafa.

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"Oh yeah, I almost forgot to ask this. But, why are you attacking us so suddenly?" Dafa immediately asked that question with great seriousness, after they arrived at the throne room inside the castle.

Orobas, hearing this, initially jumped down from Dafa's shoulder and sat on the throne, before the Demon Lord girl finally answered him.

"If the matter is sih~ I was asked by Zagan to immediately finish off all the intruders who suddenly appeared in my region~ But not so, because he is now my friend~"

"Zagan's?" Dafa asked curiously, which Orobas immediately replied very casually, "Yup, yup, Zagan~ He is the sixty-first of the seventy-two Demon Lord~ One of the weakest men among us~ Dan, although he is actually that stupid, even though he is, but always act smart ass~"

"I'm pretty sure, that you will definitely laugh, after meeting her, My Friend~" continued this Demon Lord girl with a refreshing smile on her face.

But, unfortunately, by this time Dafa had fallen into his own thinking, because...

'Zagan, huh? Is he one of the main causes of our summoning?'

After all, there was no way that there would be such a coincidence, let alone to send this monstrous girl like Orobas, just to take care of a random person who appeared suddenly in his territory.

Not to mention, from what he had heard about this Demon Lord council, Dafa had actually been able to deduce, that they all had a strange relationship, where some were very close, as well, and quite a lot of them are also very loose.

A simple example is this Orobas, where he only had a close relationship with the first Demon Lord, with his relationship with the other Demon Lords really very tenuous.

But the problem is that... 'If it's true, why would he do that?'

That's absolutely right. After all, this agreement of Goetia should have been enough to make the entire race reconcile, because from what he heard, it seemed like this first Demon Lord was really a very powerful person, really, to dare to oppose Heaven alone-Or that is what Dafa heard, from Orobas.

It's just that, since this girl doesn't seem to be exaggerating the person and lying about him, it makes Dafa only be able to think of his words as the truth.

So, if this person was that strong, then only a fool would dare to break the agreement on behalf of him, or perhaps that person had too much confidence.

'Huhh... Thinking about this too deeply now, won't take me anywhere. I'd better refocus on my arm this first.'

After all, other than him who still lacked so much information, but Dafa also still needed to immediately make a replacement arm, for this severed arm.

Then, while answering some questions about the ability he had, which was asked by everyone here, even Orobas also asked, too, Dafa then began to look for ways to clean up the entire place, while thinking of ways to trouble his broken right arm.

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Meanwhile, somewhere else...

Opening his eyelids lazily, the first thing he saw was the sight of the ceiling being covered by leaves on it, while around him there were so many things that it should be, it couldn't be where he lived.

"So, it's not a dream, is it..." The teenager could only murmur this tiredly, because he was actually still a little hopeful, if this whole thing was just his dream, but after waking up in the same place as where he had fallen asleep yesterday, Souji ended up just being able to believe it.

Sitting and leaning against the nearby cave wall, Souji then began to observe the surroundings quite lazily, until his eyes managed to catch the movement of one's shadow, not far from them.

Of course, before he thought of anything that was a no-no, Souji then decided to look first at the people he went with, just to make sure of something.

And, like one of the two main guesses, it turns out that it was indeed one of them, because there was one person who disappeared from there.

'It's a hassle. I remember Sanada not liking dark places, if only he got lost, then it would be a very troublesome matter, even more so in a place like this.'

Sighing, Souji then got up and started walking closer to the shadow of this person, while getting ready, just in case it turned out to be not Sanada, because not necessarily also this shadow does belong to Sanada.

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On the Sanada side itself...

The girl is now seen sitting leaning against one of the nearby trees, with her purple almond eyes seen staring at the two moons hanging in the night sky, although it was covered by quite dense foliage from the trees around it.

A lot of emotions were stored in his eyes, especially when he kept going back to remembering his parents, who had very little chance of getting the girl to meet again.

Because, from what the girl got, it seemed like these people who called them were lying about the whole thing they were explaining back then.

Although it is not very clear, this lie anywhere, but the girl strongly believes, otherwise the Senpaya will lie, because he can be said to know her very well.

After all, these were childhood friends, and even from childhood, until now, this Senpai could be said to have never lied at all, to everything that the person said.

So, if asked to choose to believe the words of whom, Sanada would not hesitate at all, to believe the words of this Senpaiya.

Even so, in the end... "Sanada misses Otou-san and Okaa-san." He could only mutter that with such a small tone of voice, when tears without him noticing, came out from both corners of his eyes.

At the moment when the girl was sad, a voice that sounded so warm, but at the same time, quite filled with anger, suddenly appeared from behind her.

"Then why are you still awake? Didn't I tell you to sleep? Because, tomorrow we'll leave this forest soon, to find something in the nearest town."

Sanada immediately flinched, after hearing the voice, before the girl immediately turned around and replied; "Sorry. Tha-that... Sanada..."

However, his words were immediately cut off by the person, as he patted his head gently, "It's okay. I'm not mad. Just please don't do anything like this again. Because, if something were to happen to you - No, to all of you, I don't know what to say to your family later."

"Senpai..." Sanada could only be touched, at the words that this man, who was none other than Shimotsuki Souji, said.

Although it was not only for himself, but also everyone, but it was enough to make the girl very happy, knowing that this Senpaiya was so worried about her.

Later, Souji decides to listen a little to Sanada's curses, which end quickly, as the girl unknowingly falls asleep on his lap.

Seeing that, a gentle smile immediately grew on his face, because... "Based on a stupid little girl. It is not impossible to return to Earth. It's just that we still can't find a way back. Least... Not for now."

The muttering of the teenager was not heard by anyone, and was only carried away by the night wind was quite strong, with the teenager himself who decided to return, after he felt it was not good to leave those people alone there.

Just like that, the night passed back quietly, to Souji's group.

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Note Author:

Yayy! Update again!!

In this chapter, there is so much new information, and even in this chapter, it somehow feels so strange, which is most likely due to my lack of mood, when writing this chapter.

But, luckily it managed to finish fittingly, without the need for any cliffs in the end.

For the next chapter, if there is no problem, it might explain a little about Magic on Earth and some of the background of our other MCs, aka Dafa, aka Dafa, and a little bit of his plan for the future.

So, most likely, Souji's group will appear a little, not even to appear, in the next chapter.

That's what the author wants to say, and for those of you who want to support the author, you can treat the author on the author's tracter account that you can access through BIO IG author @Panagakos_Void.

See you in the next chapter! Adios~!