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Chapter 288 A New Spirit!
Chapter 288 A New Spirit!
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I saw part of why Beelzebub had turned into such a person when he was alive. I felt… pretty bad. I didn't liked what I saw, and it just made me realize how horrendous this world is. Is this… is the world just darkness? Every time I see the past of those involved in wars and the only thing I see I just… sorrow and darkness. There's nothing redeemable about what they went through. It was just… I guess this is what happens in war.
I am not going to begin hating humans in general or something. I am not that kind of person. Nor I will hate demons because they hurt humans or something. But this just made me realize how terrible the current situation is. I doubt this has changed at all even after the death of the Demon King. Is it even possible for me to… do something?
As I saw Beelzebub's past, and saw the faces of these people… these humans who were too scared of the Beelzeflies to even consider them people, and immediately tried to kill them because they found some of them were stealing their provisions… I don't know what to think. In one place, the humans had some sort of justification to be angered, but it didn't really meant they had to kill them all… And so horribly at that.
I get it, they really look scary in a normal human's perspective, especially people raised with just more humans or at most elves and beast-kin people. It must be pretty hard to accept monster-looking demons as people, especially the Insectoid clade, who are all very big and… very bug-like.
Furoh himself seems to belong to a clade of Worm-like demons as well, and even between demons there is a strong discrimination. It seems that more stylized human-like demons discriminate the ones that look more like monsters or are more beastly-looking. Demons such as Beelzeflies, or the Shapeshifting Worm Demons that Furoh belongs to are seen as the bottom of the food chain and as monsters by a lot of the demons.
I guess it is way more complex, because even between demons there is not any unification. I suppose this is why the Demon King is born, to unify all these different-looking people together, while humans, elves, dwarves, and beast-kin look very similar with one another, so its easy to socialize and work together. It is often hard for me to imagine these things… But after I saw their perspective, I cannot possibly look at these people as monsters, even less insects now, I think if I ever find a friendly bug monster I might keep it and tame it as a friend.
Maybe in my previous life I would had given up into the whole thing about "changing the world" stuff, which honestly, seems very unrealistic coming out of a person so down to earth such as myself… but now that I have so much strength, I am sure that I can… at the very least, create some sort of change, even if small… I am a long-living race as well, I could slowly try to change things with my long lifespan, and my strength. It doesn't sound so unrealistic when I add all these types of abilities I have, which would be pure fantasy in my previous life.
Beelzebub had changed as well, he had become brighter, and his size… decreased? Wait a second! He became a super adorable caterpillar? No, well, a maggot, that's how fly's infant stages are called, right? Though I prefer to call him a caterpillar because it sounds cuter.
"W-Wha… Eh? I changed way too much though?!" He asked in surprise. "First of all, why am I a maggot again? I am pretty sure I am a full grown adult!" He said adorably, he was silky white like milk, with a few black and purple patterns around his body. He also had small hair around his face that looked like whiskers, and two big eyes staring at my soul.
Ah, so cute!
"You're so cute!" I cried, grabbing him and hugging him.
"C-Cute?! Me? I-I am a maggot! How come I am cute?!" He cried. "F-Fear me!"
"I won't! You're cute!" I said. "You've become a little infant spirit, I think the same happened to Ignatius. When souls convert into spirits, they have to start out as infant spirits… It could even be said that it is as if you were reborn again, so you have to start from your baby stage."
"Yeah, I am still a Walking Egg stage…" Sighed Ignatius. "I barely remember the time I was a walking egg. We dragons pop our legs and tails out of the egg while we develop, it is a way so we can ensure our survival and begin moving and feeding ourselves seven while not being completely developed as infant dragons… After eating enough, we would develop and break the rest of the shell!" Ignatius said proud, I guess he really got into the conversation.
"S-So that's how it is… But this is… I can't even have my wings?!" Cried Beelzebub. "Aaagh, I am beginning to regret this!"
"Hahaha, don't be like that! You're a cute little caterpillar. You can sit over my head if you want to." I said, putting Beelzebub over the top of my head.
"E-Eh? Oh, I like this… I feel like I am in the highest position!" Said Beelzebub.
"Hahaha! Who's the worm now?" Asked Furoh, provoking Beelzebub.
"Y-You'll see! I will one day become a fly again and even stronger than ever before!" Beelzebub roared back at Furoh; it seems the two would become rather competitive companions in the future. I was… not really looking forward to this as much, but I was happy if they were happy, and that's all that matters.
As I finally made Beelzebub my fourth spirit, I felt a strong connection with his soul. The power of Darkness and Poison Attributes had become very strong within my soul now.
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