Another chapter in wich shit happens, wanna find out what that is? then read the fucking chapter.
But enough about my bad attempts at comedy in the autor notes.
Let's just get on with it.
CHAPTER 2 START.
So sleeping on the ground is very uncomfortable, another thing to add to my mental notes.
After i joined with nafumi we just have been, killing random monster in the forest, i haven't talked with neuther of them because i don't know whatto say and it's fucking killing me.
I felt a tug from my pant i look down at my left and see raphtalia, we are going back to malrolc right now naofumi said it's to sleep in an inn and get something to eat, makes me wonder if he likes me or not.
"what do you need Raphtalia?" i said to the little raccon girl.
She looks at my right hand in wonder, "mister flint, what's that thing on your arm?" god that moe is just criminal.
"Just callme flint raphtalia, and this is my arm a... demons arm" no use lying about it, hope it doesn't bite me in the ass.
She flinches at hearing that, "i-is it a curse?", cute she is worried about me, it jut melts my heart every time i look at her.
"not really, hell it's the only thing that has keept me alive, really i see it more like a blessing than everything else" i told her, wonder how will she react to that.
"But... aren't demons evil?", goddamnit she is so inoccent it's just so pure.
I shake my head at that, "here's the thing raphtalia, there is no evil race just evil people, you can't judge everyone by the actions of the few", yeah equality for everyone and shit.
She seems to be thinking really hard about what i just said, i smile and turn my head back up, looking at naofumi who was walking ahead of us, he turned around slightly and looked at me... he was just looking at me, he stoped doing it and keep walking in silence.
That was kinda weird, i start walking a little faster to catch up with him, raphtalia did the same.
"so boss, how long until we reach malrolc" need to start the conversation somewhere.
He tilted his head slightly to my drirection, "if they ask it's a gauntlet".
Eeehhhhh... not what i asked, "you mean my right arm right?, any particluar reason for that?"i have an idea for why he would tell me that but just want to make sure.
He sneers, "because they would use it against you, to harm you just in spite of me", yeah that fucked up.
"if you say so boss, hear that raphtalia? this is a gauntlet" i say to her and she nods.
Naofumi speaks again, "about your previous question, i'll say an hour or two".
Hummm, the rest of the walk was in a pleasant silence.
A couple of hours later.
Huh, for a medieval place it's pretty fucking impressive i would have tried to apreciate the city more but the glares don't let me do it in peace.
"well this is quite a warming atmosphere" i joke to try to lighten up the mood, it kinda works i saw naofumi's lips twitch upwards and got a giggle out of raphtalia.
"we are going to the blacksmith first to get flint some armor, then take some food in the tabern after that we are going to a village not far from here to mine some materials" , naofumi says well more like order but i'm not going to argue with the guy.
I look up to see that's afternoon, the walk back here took way longer than naofumi said.
"who is this blacksmith?" i ask because i don't remember if that guy had a name.
Naofumi stoped for a moment and me and raphtalia did too, "i... didn't ask him his name" , well naofumi that seems rather dumb from your part.
"it's erhard" me and naofumi look at raphtalia, "he told me when we were buying my equipment".
"and you didn't tell me because?" naofumi says a little annoyed.
"you... didn't told me to" she says all timid, calm your shit naofumi mke her cry and i'll beat your ass to the ground.
He grunts and starts walking again, and we follow him ignoring the people around us because they're assholes.
We kept walking until we reached the place to buy me some shit, no idea why since naofumi is not exactly rich.
We entered and i saw a tall man behind the counter in blacksmith clothes and the manliest beard i have seen in a while.
"hey shield kid, seems you have company", erhard or i think he is anyway seems like a cool dude.
"Yeah i can spare 10 silver coins, what kind of armor can you give me for that?", still don't know why is he buying me armor before buying one for him.
Erhard puts a hand under his chin thinking about it for a moment, "i have some leather armors that fit that bill".
He goes to the back of his shop, while we wait i take a look around he has a lot of variety, axes, sword, pole arms, claws, cestus, you name it he probably has it.
Naofumi comes to me, "hey this maybe a weird question, but could you hold that dagger?", you are right nafumi that's a weird question, but i know what he means can i hold weapons?.
I reach with my left hand to the dagger in the counter, i see somekind of electrecity go trough my arm then the dagger went flying from my hand.
Rules of legendary bound weapons: all legendary weapons that are bound to you would not let you use another type of weapons.
Well that answers my doubts, "okay that's a thing".
Nofumi just nods, "as i though you can't use other weapons aside from your gauntlet, raphtalia put the dagger back in the counter", he tells her and she complies.
We see erhard come back with a bunch of brown leather plates for my arms, legs, shoulders and chest, "that's the cheapest i have on armors it's 5 silvers for it", something is better than nothing.
Naofumi gives a nod at erhard accepting the armor, "we'll take it, okay flint go ahead and put it on" i supousse i'm puting it above my clothes okay, can't be that hard.
But i also don't want to risk looking like a dumbass while doing it, "hey blacksmith, can you help me putting this on?", he shrugs the grabs the leather plates and gets close to me.
With his help i was able to put the armor in like a minute, the armor was... something.
[Basic leather armor] 3 def, 10 hp.
[Bonus] nothing.
[Skill] nothing.
Don't know why expected more than that, this thing is kinda comfy, "thanks naofumi i'll pay you back when i have the money, thanks to you too erhard", still don't know why i have armor.
The blacksmith raises an eyebrow, "how do you know my name" i point at raphtalia who waves timidly, "oh well it was nothing boy", right i'm youner than naofumi by a year.
Then naofumi says, "i'll keep it in mind, let's go to the bar so we can eat something quickly", he sounded pretty angry right there, probably because for a while the food tastes bland for him.
We say our goodbyes to erhard and go to the bar, which was surpringly close to the bar.
Once we entered the murmurs started, something about that poor boy or some shit, we seated far from everyone else.
The waiter came and naofumi asked for the cheapest meal for all of us a kids one for raphtalia, my food and naofumi's is eggs and fucking bacon the basic bitch of breakfasts.
The plaes with our food also has a fork and a spoon, well time to dig in i grab some of the eggs with my spoon and eat it, it's pretty good i give naofumi a side glance to see his reaction he is scowling.
"you okay buddy?", i know he is not but i want to show him that i care for him, that he is not alonne.
He looks at me for a moment, he looked surprissed for a moment but his darkned exression came back really quickly, "yeah just some bad memories" that's a fucking lie not that i can actually prove it's one.
We eated in silence well raphtalia didn't she was eating lie any normal kid her age would, like a goddamn animal... wait was that racist?.
No matter we filled ourselves naofumi paid and we were on our way to that village naofumi said that was close to a place were he would mine materials.
We were walking through an alley to go to the exit faster, but a fat guy a lanky shit and a buff giant were waiting for us there.
I saw naofumi stiffen i think this guys tried to rob him but failed miserably, the big guy is new though, "know this guys?" i wispered to him.
He wispers back, "yeah, tried to rob me didn't work", and it won't work now.
I see the lanky guy walking foward to stop us, "well,well, well if it isn-" he didn' get to finish it because i back handed him to a wall with my right arm.
Naofumi just stared at me again, "how?" wait he doesn't know?.
"you don't know how good this gauntlet is?" he just shakes his head, what i'm sure he could see it in the party menu, unless he doesn't know... oh.
I see the fat man telling the buff guy something, "go billy kick his ass!" billy? really that's the name of the dumbass on steroids.
Billy tries to punch me but i simply grab his hand and start pushing it, then i start twisting it now he is on his knees trying to pry the devil bringer of.
I just punch him with my free hand, knocking him out, i just stare at the last guy like saying 'want some too?' he does the smart thing and drags his friends running the fuck away.
I turn towards my team, "that was easy" i saw raphtalia who was clearly surprissed and naofumi who was scowling at the air.
"fucking shit", the shield hero muttered.
I wave at his direction, "you okay there boss?", he just shakes his head.
"no it's just more things that i don't know because of her..." ah he must have finally seen my equipment and saw what the devil bringer gives me, must regret buying me that armor.
To be honest i though he knew turns out he didn't.
Naofumi releases a deep sigh, "let's just go" he starts waliking while me and raphtalia follow him close behind.
In the village.
Well this place a dump, most likely the kings fault seriously that guy is a dickhead.
Not far from were we got to the village there was a merchant, more specifically the one who sells tha ball to raphtalia.
Naofumi was the first to speak to him, "excuse me do you know where the mine is?", mean while raphtalia was looking at everything he was selling untill she set her sight on the balls, i was just chilling behind them.
The merchant noded, "yeah the coal mine is not far from just a couple of meters away to the north actually".
I decided to step in, "is there a reason for the village to be this rundown?".
The merchant grimaces, "yeah since the first wave came a coule of demons made they're home in the coal mine, none have come to deal with it", again fuck the king.
Naofumi notices how raphtalia was staring at the ball so he grabed one, "how much is this sir?", i knew she will melt your heart sooner or latter.
He looks at the ball for a moment, "15 copper, also when you comeback from mining could you sell me some materials? i want to restock but i have no way of deffending myself in that mine"
Naofumi shrugs and pays for the ball, "i was going to sell the materials anyway", then he gives the ball to raphtalia.
Poor girl she is so confussed right now, "wha-what?", see what i mean?.
Naofumi just rises an eyebrow, "don't look too much into it, it's just a price for you because of a job well done keep going at it".
She smiles brightly then nods with entusiasm.
She puts the ball... somewhere wait they have bags with them?, when did they get them?.
"let's go, there is mining to do" naofumi that was so lame.
We started our walk towards the coal mine were we inevitably will face a two headed demon dog that i'm going to fuck up.
While on our walk i decided to make some small talk, "so naofumi tell me about this place, how is it like?" oh shit!, wrong thing to ask.
He kept walking but he got notisably stiffer, "it's unique... and... injust" he sounded like he wanted to commit genocide, quick flint change topic!.
"ah okay, what about your shield what does it do?" yeah that's good topic.
Naofumi looked more calm now, "it grant's ridiculous defence and can transform in other types of shields" he turns his head slightly, "what about your hand?, i saw some of what it gave to you but not everything".
Raphtalia is also curious about that, "yeah flint, what does it do?"
Well..., "it empowers all my stats by a wooping 75%, and a ridicolous amount of defence and atack" pretty fucking powerfull if i say so myself.
Raphtalia seems really impressed by how her jaw is hanging open, and i think naofumi is somewhat jealous of it.
We came to see a cave with a rail that has a cart that leads inside of it, probably for the mining, there is also a small wood house at the side of it, probably with instruments for mining.
Naofumi noticed this too, "let's enter that wood house there should be a pickaxe and some rope in it"
We wen't inside of it, were naofumi got two new shields and a new skill that he decide to show us by scaring the crap out of raphtalia, i won't lie it make me chuckle how she jumped when he used the [air strike shield] skill.
We were entering the mine, before we could go depper naofumi told us something, "if it get's too dangerous we will escape, so stay close to each other in case i have to protec you", this guy just likes to defend other people ironic considering how no one defended him before.
The inside of the cave was pretty hot and it wasn't because of the torch raphtalia was carrying, but since i was never inside a cave i don't know how hot or cold it should be inside of one.
Deep inside we found some basic iron ore that naofumi was hoing to mine with his pickaxe whith his pick axe shield to get more iron from it.
While raphtalia was using the torch to light up the place that naofumi was mining i was watching our backs, i know that the dog should come at any moment.
Naofumi was aparently done, "well i got a good amount of iron from that maybe we should go back".
Raphtalia noded at that, but i was confused where is the dog?.
That's until i heard heavy thumps something walking, like that of a dog but heavier not only that but it was getting hotter.
That put me on edge, "back to back everyone!" we rushed each other back to back looking everywhere i could feel raphtalia trembling and hear naofumi breathing.
"what's going on!?" raphtalia said scared wich i was too by the way.
Naofumi replied to her, "don't know, just keep your guard up!".
That's until i saw the two-headed demon dog, well the wrong one.
TWINBELLOWS
That's one hot dog.
okay that's straight out of borderlands, also that's a fucking burning two times taller than me and i'm as tall as naofumi, two headed dog.
Wich comes from another fucking game and is going to kill us.
"Jesus fuck!" i scream to alert my teammates, i saw how raphtalia just froze naofumi was also losing his shit but he did it more discretly.
I saw the edge of a waterfall that was close to us that means that at the bottom there is water, twinbellows charged at us maws open with the intention of eating us.
"JUMP!" i grabed the frozed raphtalia and made a mad dash towards the edge of this place, i saw naofumi who was running right bessides me, the we jumped down.
We fell in the water i saw how naofumi used the rope shield to drag himself out of the water, i used [phantasmal hand] to drag me and raphtalia too.
"Okay, that was way too fucking close" i said on edge.
"twinbellows?..., must be a 'boss' wich is very bad for us" no shit naofumi.
I put raphtalia down she still looks out of it before i can say anything naofumi spoke, "you froze back there, what happened?" yeah got point we don't really have timefor tact right now.
She stared at us i could see the tears in her eyes then she told us about wjere she cae from and how itcame to an end because of the chaos waves, hearing it instead of reading it broke my fucking heart.
But we didn't have time for much else, because twinbellows came here, fuck that dog is big.
Naofumi screamed, "damnit!, we don't have other option but to fight!, get ready here he come!" son of a bitch, well here we go.
Both head of twin bellows opened their mouth and threw fucking fireballs at us i quicly used [phantasmal hand] using the aparition i grabed the fucking firebal and threw it back at it, the other fireball was blocked by naofumi's diamond shaped black shield.
It dodged the fireball and threw itself at me i charged right back using the aparition of my right hand to give a hook to it's left head hiting it dead on and pushing it back.
But the other head spited another fireball at me and i couldn't move in time thankfully i have the OG tank main with me, "air strike shield" good one naofumi!.
I jumped back no wanting to try my chances against that dog again.
Still looking at the dog that was shaking it's heads to stop the dizzines, i heard naofumi talking to raphtalia, "raphtalia!, attack damnit you don't have to worry about getting injured i'll protec you!" hurry up naofumi it's almost out of it's stunned state.
Shit it's comin back at us!, naofumi got right besides me at my left, "if you are not going to fight then run!" he is here i rear my right fist back read to punch it's left head while naofumi was going to block the right one.
My demonic fist hitted it but it didn't push it back, shit should have use the aparition!, i saw how naofumi was strugling with the other head i was going to help but the left head tried to take a bite at me, but i maneged to stop it with my right arm.
That's when i saw somthing jumping above us and stabing the right head, the pain made it back away but it's still had the sword loged in his right head, "nice raphtalia!" i called out as i charged at the right head and punched with my demonic fist the sword makind the sword go through it's whole head i could see the tip of the sword on it's jaw.
Then i got hit by a fireball that threw me back towards my team i landed in my back but i got up as soon as i could, one of it's heads was death, we just need to kill the left one and we will win.
The dog didn't got closer at us, that thing is smart it won't try to just charge at us now, but it gives us time to make a plan.
"anybody has some bright idea to take it out?, because i'm a little tired here", i asked the other two people in this room.
Naofumi shook it's head, "not really, that's a pretty nasty hit you took right there are you okay?", i just nod my eyes on the demon dog who was probably making a plan too.
"umm..., flint could use one of those stalagmites with his phantom hand to stab it" well raphtalia gave us a way to kill it, i look at the earth spike that was in the ground, there is a lot of those.
"not really a plan, it's still better than nothing", right when i finished i saw twinbellows started to take a deep breath, wich is probably bad.
"Naofumi shield!" he quickly casted air strike shield, and i used phantasmal hand, puting the aparition right behind the shield, as if my phantom hand was using the phantom shield.
The the dog ROARED, a goddamn sea of flames came afterwards i could see our improved defense cracking, and i fell the pressure in my demonic arm.
"COME ONNNNN!!!!!" me and naofumi screamed at the same time holding the defense until it's attack stopped.
Then it stoped the air strike shield was pretty much destroyed and my phantom hand was slightly charred.
But twinbellows was breathing heavilly, it decided to kill us in one go to make sure we died, it took a bet and it failed i could see it in it's glowing green eyes, it knows it lost.
I quickly grab a stalagmite with the phantom hand, rushing the dog like a madman, i reared back and stabbed it in his ramainging head.
Twinbellows died, we won.
The dog falled to the ground bleeding from it's heads, "it's over we won..." i said as i fall to one knee.
"finally..." i heard a thud probably naofumi letting himself fall to the ground.
"Lord naofumi!, flint!" a... flustered more mature voice said, wait what?.
I quickly got up and turned around to see a older raphtalia who has clothing that is all torn and shit, how many level ups did we fucking get from twinbellows!!??.
I quickly checked the party menu... okay, so i'm level 20, raphtalia is level 19 and naofumi is level 18...
WHAT THE FU-!.
CHAPTER 2 COMPLETED
DEVIL HUNTER RANK: C
What? did you people think that i was just going to grab demons from the DMC series?.
Please, there is a lot of sick demons out there, it would be dumb to not give them some credit.
Twinbellows for those who don't know, is from the kid icarus game wich is pretty good.
Okay see you all next chapter.