The old man look at the demon's fist coming toward his head.
In the old man's eyes, it's seemed slow.
Suddenly, time seem to stop.
He leisurely grab the handle of his sword on the table.
Precisely getting the sword out of its scabard, as if the scabard was not there in the first place, he slashed the sword toward the oncoming fist with one hand.
In the old man's perspective, this sword slash look simple.
However, an unstoppable power was hidden behind this sword.
Although the process sound slow, it all happened in the blink of an eye, the old man's hand movement is impossible for a human eye to track.
Even the demon doesn't seemed to see the entire process, he only see the old man's hand disappear in his eyes.
What replaced it was a split image of the sword millimeter away from his raised fist.
Then, this image disappear again.
The sword cut through the fist like a tofu, splitting the demon's hand in half.
The old man didn't stop his attack.
After cutting through it's hand, he twisted the sword and aimed it at the demon's neck.
The demon didn't even knew that his hand has been slashed by half.
After all, when he see the first split image of the sword, he desperately put all his attention to his sense.
When the second split image appeared, however, it was already beside his neck.
Realizing that he can't do anything in this sword, he looked at the old man and accepted it fate.
The old man sliced the demon's head from it's body and flew it away.
Cutting the demon's head, he looked at the flying head. Then, put his sword aside and raised his other hand to wave at the headless body that are flying on his way.
The headless body was thrown at the side.
After seeing that the body rolled in the distance and starting to disappear from it's existence, he stoop up from his seat and grab the scabbard of his sword.
Putting his sword back to its place, he grab the unfinished cold tea in the table and gulp it in one go.
Finishing up the cold tea, he put the cup back to the table.
A while ago, after the demon appeared inside the inn, he immediately sense it's presence.
He then take the advantage of this and traced its origin.
Sensing the path use by this demon to appear in this inn, he pinpoint the location of the main body.
He narrowed his eyes, his vision seemed to penetrate the wall as he look at the distance.
Then, with a slight movement of his body, he suddenly disappeared, leaving a flash of lightning on the ground.
....
At the manor, inside the servant house.
Ikari and Yoku is still in the dining room.
The candlelight flickered at the center of the table, barely lighting up the entire dining room.
Covered in darkness, Yoku sat near the backdoor of the house, ready to go out incase something happened.
Breathing silently, he look at Ikari, waiting for his order.
Ikari is standing beside the slightly closed window, observing the owner's house.
With the light coming inside the house, he could barely see inside.
Thanks to the moonlight, he could still see the whole house.
His sharp eyes wandered around, looking for any suspicious things the came from the house.
He could still hear the strange sound that came from the owner's house.
However, unlike before where the sound is frequent and intense, the strange sound now is getting low.
Listening for a while, suddenly, the sound disappear.
Ikari narrowed his gloomy eyes and put his guard up to it's maximum.
When suddenly, "Boom!" An explosion came from the top of the house.
Ikari look at the top of the owner's house.
There, he could see a figure standing at the roof.
He couldn't clearly see the appearance of this person.
However, with the light of the moon, he could see that this person have a horn from its forehead.
Ikari look at this person grimly.
"A... demon... it must be a demon." Ikari faintly said.
Although he didn't see a demon personally before, he heard of it in various story as a kid.
He treats thus story as legend's created to scare people, not believing it's existence.
However, this time the demon he didn't believed to exist is in front of his eyes.
Ikari's back is full in cold sweat.
With his good hearing, he could hear a faint sound coming from above.
Clearly, his fellow servants is jolted awake by the sudden explosion.
He turned his head and look at Yoku.
Looking at the nervous friend of his, Ikari nodded and slowly walked towards him.
He's stepped are slow and silent, afraid that the demon will notice them.
Outside, the demon looked around and set his sight at the servant house.
There, he heard the noise the servants make after the explosion.
The demon smirk and wipe the blood in his mouth with his long tongue.
Savoring the taste of blood, the demon suddenly leap up from his position, blowing away the dust.
Jumping toward the servant house, he land at one of the opened windows in the second floor, where two servants was standing beside it.
Squatting at the window, the demon look at the two with its red eyes.
The two servants looked at the demon, eyes wide open in shock, they can't even utter a single word, terrified by the demon's presence in front of them.
The demon opened it's mouth, showing its sharp teeth.
Then, approaching the two, raising it's both hands, he grabbed the heads of the two terrified servants.
Gripping their heads, he squashes it to meat paste, spreading the brain matters all over around thier body.
The demon bring his bloody hands with a brain matter to his mouth, eating it.
After his done on both of his hands, he looked at the headless corpse on the ground, covered in their own blood. Then, he turned his gaze away and to his side.
His eyes seemed to penetrate the walls as he sees the other servants.
He walked toward the wall and punched, destroying it.
"Boom!"
The wall instantly turned into a flying rubble, hitting the two servants inside the room.
The two servants shout in pain, asking for help.
However, the two's shout quickly died out as demon approached them.
The demon peirce the chest of one the servants, claiming it's heart.
While slicing the other ones head in half with his other hand.
The other servants were alert by the shouts and help of their fellow servants.
They want to go out and see what happened.
However, the sudden halt of the shouts quickly change thier mind and rooted them in place, afraid of what to do.
They feel as if a sword was point at their neck, death covered their heart.
With this foreboding feeling, they want to get out of this place as soon as possible.
With this in mind, they immediately ran out of their room and ran downstairs.
The demon notice this change and finished his meal before sensing all the running servants in this house.
The demon moved forward and continued it's massacre.
While all this happened, Ikari took advantage of this opportunity and bring Yoku with him outside the house.
They circled the house and follow a road that lead them to the gate of this manor.
When they ran passed at the owner's house, they turned their head to see what happened inside.
Looking over the window at the owner's house, Ikari could see the bloody corpses loitering around.
Ikari cast his gaze away and look to his back, seeing the servant house where many scream came, he couldn't helped but ran faster.
"Faster!!" He said, turning his gaze ahead.
Yoku's face was pale as sheet of paper.
Remembering what he sees in the owner's house, he couldn't help but feel goosebumps at the thinks of it.
After all, such a sight is first for him.
Thingking of this, he couldn't help but ran faster, as fast as he could.
Getting out of the manor, the two continued their run.
When there about to ran ahead, however, Ikari suddenly heard a similar sound like at the servant house.
So, they'll have to turn and ran in different directions.
Ikari's face is getting more gloomy as they continue.
They take many turns, making thier way outside the town.
When they are in their last turn, however, they suddenly stopped.
Because what up ahead was a demon walking slowly towards them.
With the light of the moon, they could clearly see it's appearance.
The demon had blood over its body, one horned and red eyes.
The demon held a severed slender leg in its one hand.
Spreading it's mouth of sharp teeth, he raised the bloody leg to its mouth and took a bit.
The demon look at the two with its red eyes while chewing the piece of meat in his mouth.
Ikari and Yoku look at the demon in disgust.
Although they heard that demon's eat people, they couldn't help but find it disgusting when seeing it in front.
Looking at the approaching demon, Ikari slowly back up.
Yoku noticed Ikari's action and do the same.
The demon squint its eyes at the two.
Taking a step, the demon suddenly disappeared.
Ikari was surprised when the demon disappear. However, that turn into horror as he sense a presence beside him.
Appearing beside Ikari, the demon then threw a casual punch at him.
Ikari see the attack and defend it with his both hands.
When the punch land on his hands, however, Ikari grunt in pain and flew away.
Ikari rolled on the ground a few times and look at the demon far away.
"So.. heavy!" Ikari said, pain evident in his tone.
The demon's attack just now seems simple. However, the force behind it is so heavy that he could feel like his hands broke.
The demon retracted his fist and looked at the wide eyed Yoku.
Then, in the blink of an eye he raised his leg and kick him away.
The attack is so fast that Yoku couldn't react in time.
His chest cave in and flew toward the wall, slamming his back against it.
"Bamm!!"
Ikari watched in the distance, eyes wide.
He forced himself up an ran toward the demon with a shout.
The demon turned and look at him. He took a bit at the leg on his hand and faced the oncoming Ikari.
Ikari rush toward the demon in his fury. He formed a fist and punch the demon with all his might.
The demon smirked, he formed a fist of his own and threw it casually at the oncoming fist.
"Dang!!"