Rise of the Rejected Deity from Chaos-Chapter 118 117: The Third Demon [2]

"Oops!" The male demon, reclining on the rooftop as he observed from afar, let out a quiet chuckle. "You've earned Kei's wrath. She despises it when men speak so arrogantly—she believes women should reign supreme. Now, instead of granting you a swift, painless death, she'll make sure you suffer every moment of it." He shook his head in quiet solemnity as if concerned for Seiya.

"Well, good luck," he added, bringing his hands together dramatically in prayer.

Seiya, who had already scanned the demon to see he possesses five hearts, paid no mind to him—for he had decided he would be an easy one to take down considering the amount of hearts he has—so he would pay attention to him after dealing with the female demon.

The female demon, known as a Kei, burned with fury. Her eyes flared wide open with rage, long veins bulging along the corners of her eyes to her temple—blazing energy emanating from her body as she stood, eyes locked on Seiya.

She panted softly, fangs growing.

Kei's lips parted, hot breath escaping like a veil of mist. "You," she breathed. "You're dead!" Was all that left her lips before she vanished, appearing before Seiya instantly.

She folded her blood dripping hand into a fist, throwing a fierce jab straight at Seiya but Seiya swiftly moved his head aside, prompting her jab to swipe through the corner of Seiya's face, cutting through thin air—mere inches away from Seiya's ear.

However, instead of adjusting and pulling another attack, the demon, instead, smirked. Her real attack hadn't been the jab which had been a mere feint but the sticky blood she had instantly pooled beneath her blood dripping hand on the floor behind Seiya—the instance her hand swiped across the corner of his face, landing and extending across his shoulder.

The blood moved to entangle Seiya's legs like vines but Seiya, instead of counter attacking and getting her to move, didn't launch a single attack on her. He merely dipped, moving the opposite way of her body and leaping high, then backward out of her reach.

The blood that had been curling on the floor to bind Seiya's legs to pin him in place, stopped, merging back with the blood dripping from her fingers.

The demon's eyes widened with tightly wrinkled brows as she breathed out. "Why?" Her pants were low, she remained unmoving from her spot and not even lifting or turning her gaze to glance at Seiya—her head remained dipped.

"How did you know the jab was a mere feint and the blood was aiming to bind you when I made sure it all happened behind you and that too, at a speed you shouldn't be able to follow?" She seethed in question.

She tilted her head to the side, her hair cascading with the motion. Without lifting her gaze, she glared at Seiya from beneath her lashes, her eyes rolling upward in their sockets, giving her a dazed, almost otherworldly look.

"Also, why didn't you launch a single attack on me? I was wide open for any attack yet you didn't land a single one, why's that?" She snarled, fangs gritting as her face slowly contorted into the simmering rage welling up inside her.

"It's almost as if," she paused, finally lifting her face and tilting it slightly to the side to get a good look at Seiya, all while appearing to be looking down on him. "…you could predict all my moves," she completed, glaring daggers at Seiya and contemplating the possibility.

Seiya remained silent, only watching her from the distance he had put between them.

"What," she asked when Seiya offered no response. "Don't tell me you actually have eyes at the back of your head and that is why you have a blindfold on—to hide it." Her eyes shone with mild confidence, a bit assured that her speculation was right.

An exasperated sigh escaped Seiya, gaze straight at the demon with a fed up look behind his blindfold.

His frustration spiked off the roof, knowing he would have to explain to the demon how he could see everywhere around him within a certain radius—his 360° vision. Not that he was obligated to, he just had to.

To Seiya, he saw no benefit in hiding his abilities from his opponents. After all, only when they know about it do they try more to counter it, thereby making the fight a lot more interesting to Seiya.

"Do you?" The demon asked again, referring to him having eyes at the back of his head.

"I don't," Seiya clarified instantly.

"…." The demon remained silent, only staring at Seiya with eyes filled with doubt.

"…." Seiya returned her silent stare of doubt with an exasperated stare hidden behind the mask without a word for a moment before trying to clarify things again. "I…I really don't."

"It's simply that my eyes grant me the ability to see in a 360° field," he blurted. "It also pierces through things. That was why I was able to see the blood aiming to bind me," he explained while the demon listened intently in silence.

"It was also why I didn't launch any attack on you because I saw you coated your entire body with the blood and might've trapped my hand in, had I launched any attack at that time," he further revealed.

After several moments of silence, the demon spoke. "You," she paused, studying Seiya. "Are you sure you aren't our kind pretending to be human?" She put out bluntly, her tone serious.

Seiya stiffened, body slightly trembling at the demon's speculation.

"I..," Seiya started, stammering. "I-I'm not…I'm not a demon," he said out mechanically. "I'm a human," he added.

Scoffing, the demon continued. "So why the blindfold?"

Ibyu and Kaeliyus twitched, their ears in disbelief of the question.

{Why would she ask more after all the info dump she's been given?!} Ibyu seethed.

Impudent! Kaeliyus commented.

They both sighed, packing the matter aside—trustful that their Lord wouldn't be foolish enough to reveal the reason.

He wouldn't tell, Ibyu and Kaeliyus concluded.

Seiya gazed at the demon in silence, a bit reluctant to reveal this because it somehow felt wrong. However, as always, our MC's danger radar doesn't function.

"It is because…. my eyes are very sensitive to harsh light," he blurted without awareness, jolting both Ibyu and Kaeliyus.

{Why would you—!}

My Lord, why—?!

Both Ibyu and Kaeliyus couldn't completely form their words, at a loss of speech at Seiya's behavior.

With a smirk gracing her lips, the demon replied. "Must be hard."

Stomping a leg forward, the demon crouched into a sprinting stance, her grin ear reaching as her eyes brimmed with excitement. Veins pulsed all across her body, eyes flared red. Her fangs grew longer, one of each horns on the back of her wrist elongated, her muscles bulging—rendering her appearance strikingly demonic.

"If your eyes are ones able to see all around and pierce through everything," she paused, huffing out hot air from her mouth. "Then I just have to up my speed so much that your eyes won't be able to keep up!"

With a fierce kick, she launched a blast of thick blood across the ground, sending it in a straight line toward Seiya. Without a moment's hesitation, and even before the blood reached him, she appeared before him in a blur of speed too swift for Seiya to follow. In an instant, she conjured a wall of blood, hurling it onto him with such force that it sent him crashing against the wall.

The blood adhered to him like a spider's web, binding his body and limbs. It pressed his hand flat against the wall, and no matter how he struggled, Seiya couldn't break free.

With a shrill, echoing laugh, the demon lunged at Seiya, a spear of blood materializing in her hand, thrusting directly toward him.

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