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"Lord Ainz. I will be going now" Demiurge said in his Jaldabaoth mask.

"O-Oh, yes. Onto the next phase of your plan..." Ainz said, despite only knowing the bones of it.

"If all goes smoothly the reputation of the Country will be much higher," Demiurge said, proudly.

And Ainz felt he had to wing it and pray that he got lucky in whatever Demiurge was doing, again.

And then he remembered something.

Or someone.

"How is Gazef?" Ainz said he hadn't seen the now monster in several days.

"From my report's, he is adjusting to his new life quite well," Demiurge said, "He is taking his job seriously as he should and seems proud of the fact, that he serves a Country who military could crush another Country easily. But of course, that is to be expected, this land is your domain"

"And how does he treat, Monsters compared to Humans?" Ainz said this what he really wants to know.

"He treats us non-humans as comrades while he views Humans as food" Demiurge said, just as he should. "Your orders force him to be civilian with the humans of this Country. It is my personal opinion right now, that he is not ready to leave the walls since it's very likely that he won't be able to keep himself in check"

It was no secret that Gazef liked to peer over the wall into the city down below with a hungry look in his eyes.

He knows what he would do if he ever got passed the border and was unsupervised.

And Ainz sighed.

What he wanted was a man, not a loyal beast.

Well, it could be worse.

The man wore a mask most of the time so the Kingdom wasn't currently knocking at his door demanding their Warrior Captain back.

Now that was a mess, he dreaded to think about.

#Guards Tower#

Gazef Stronoff slept inside a cocoon made out of the crust his body produced when he was ready to sleep and it hung up high the air as if the soft looking bad in the room did not exist.

The moment, the sound of the door opening reached his ears, his mind was instantly awake.

With his keen ears, he heard something slide through the carpet.

"Wakey, Wakey," Said, a deranged voice. "Your shift is about to start soon"

Now a normal person would be horrified to be greeted with such a voice so early in the morning but he had been here long enough to not be surprised by an unsettling voice.

He really felt like pretending to be asleep.

But then his web was breached and he fell to the floor with a thud.

But it didn't hurt as he made himself sit up, but seeing the monstrous face that greeted him would be good cause to scream.

It was like seeing an ugly slug that had dozens of eyes.

"Mr Stronoff. I was not informed that you were so good looking." Said, the thing, all the eyes creepily blinking at once. "You could pass as a human. Maybe, I could put a word in for you, if there are any upcoming infiltrate missions." before adding. "Of course, you have to give me a kiss to convince me"

And then it hit him.

This thing was a woman!

He rather not touch, her...

"Are you sure you want a kiss? I find it enough to admire you from afar" He said.

She blushed or what he thought was a blush.

"Mr Stronoff, you're such a charmer," She said, obviously in a good mood. "Maybe, I will put in a word for you, free of charge."

Then one-half of eyes winked at him before she slid out of the room and closed the door.

He breathed a sigh of relief, there was just some thing's even he would not touch.

Then he smelt himself.

He smelled fine.

He only needed to bathe once a month and he had taken a mud bath last night so he was all good.

He took off his clothes and went to find his armour which he put it on, before placing his mask on his face.

He walked out of the room and walked down the corridor until he came to the steps, during his walk he had passed several none humans who were also in full blown armour.

He used the steps to get to the second floor, where the billboard for all the guards who lived in this tower was stationed, on it, where the instructions of where to go and when.

He squeezed past a dozen non-humans as he tried to find his name on the board.

Gazef Stronoff: Team Batho

Team Batho?

Gazef squeezed his way through some more to find out what that team did.

After 10 minutes of shuffling around, he finally found the team.

They were one of four teams deployed to patrol certain parts of the land.

But then his expression dropped as he realized one thing.

He would have to mingle with humans.

Ch 2: A touch of warmth in a black heart.

Gazef found the team, that he was assigned to in the opposite wing and saw that none of them was remotely human looking.

With the humans being so scared, wouldn't the sight of them have the opposite effect? He had to wonder.

Not that he cared anyway.

They teleported to the section of the town they were supposed to be guarding, the nearby humans almost had a heart attack seeing them suddenly appear using high-level magic.

"Spread out and cover more ground," The squad leader said through their minds, he had a mushroom for a head.

Some leapt in the air and opened up their wings to perform an Arial search while other stayed grounded.

He could have opened his wing's but unlike the others, his wings did not look as majestic or basic looking, they looked horrific like they were the embodiment of an experiment gone wrong.

So, he did not take them out as much.

He began to walk down one street; his sword was on his back and his eyes were sharp on the lookout for anything that may cause harm to the overall town.

Of course, the fact that he was wearing a mask and he seemed to have an amused smile permanently glued to his face got him look's.

There weren't many adventures out here because a lot of them had fled to the neighbouring, much weaker countries because they couldn't accept the fact that a monster was ruling over them.

It was humorous because all of them were ordered not to give in to their desires to massacre and enslaving the humans on the land.

However, it wasn't just humans who wore mask's but monsters as well, so you can never truly tell what you're looking at.

That's why he was smiling because his very presence made the surrounding humans feel uncomfortable.

"GIVE IT BACK!" Yelled a little boy.

Gazef reached a corner and looked to find a little boy being harassed by a fully-grown man.

"What have you got here?" Said, the man, unwrapping something that was so neatly wrapped and revealed an object that was, in fact, a standard potion for restoring health.

It was nothing in his eyes but if a human got sick, it could mean the difference between life and death.

"GIVE IT BACK!" Said, the boy jumping, he had spent months doing favours trying to raise enough money to buy it.

"Or what?" the man sneered. "You going to tell the authorities?" in which he laughed. "Wake up kid, none of those monster's care about what we do as long as it doesn't affect the overall impact of this Country." anybody who was brave enough to stay behind had come to realize this or would eventually realize this. "Why would they care if your mother receives this low-level potion or not? If she died, it would be one less human to them in their eyes."

And then the man noticed him and naturally the kid noticed him as well.

"Mister. Help me" The kid said, with eyes filled with hope.

However, Gazef got a good look at the boy.

The boy wore sack-like clothes with hands that had clearly been overworked a few times, his brown hair was wavy to the front and his face was round not yet even old enough to shave.

He was skinny without any noticeable meat on his bone.

So unappealing.

And then he looked at the adult.

The man had blond hair but he stopped at the man's mere face because it sent a warning to his stomach that he would get indigestion if he tried chewing on it.

Both of them looked extremely unappealing.

So, he did the next best thing.

He continued walking and the kid's eyes fell into despair.

"See kid, they don't care," Said the laughter of the man's voice from behind him. "We can do whatever we want as long as it's nothing major. And if you don't like it, then nobody is stopping you from leaving just like the hundreds of people who have already left. There's no true Knight around anymore"

And Gazef did not even notice that he had stopped.

A True Knight...

He shook his head, where was that thought even going?

He should keep moving and mind his own business.

But.

For some reason, he couldn't get his legs to take a step forward.

Was he really going to help a human?

But that was a human, something to be viewed as food, not as a friend.

"So, you couldn't look the other way?" Said the man getting him to snap out of it.

Gazef was confused, he found himself in the alleyway.

When did he turn around?

When did he make his way back here?

Why was he standing here looking like he was going to step in?

"Give the potion back," He said, the hell with this.

"Mister!" the little boy said, happy that he had come back.

Gazef ignored the boy and walked towards them.

God damn it. What the hell am I doing!? He told himself.

He convinced himself that he was doing this because the person, who that potion was for, might be delicious looking and having them back to health, would do wonders for his craving for Human flesh.

"Or you'll do what?' Said, the man smirking before seeing the sword on his back. "I bet you can't even use that sword. You're just trying to look cool"

Reminding him that he couldn't actually fight here.

Damn.

"Your right," He said, much to both of their surprise. "I'm not permitted to use my sword to harm you...but this boy can" He took his sword out of his hilt and handed it to the boy.

Both the child and the man were surprised.

The child had never held a real sword in his life!

The man burst out laughing, knowing this as well and actually was stupid enough to let them try.

"M-Mister. I've never held a-" The boy began.

"It's easy," He said, in a calm voice that surprised even him.

The boy found himself being easily adjusted into a stance so unique that it could only belong to one man.

Unfortunately, neither of them was a Royal guard or a Warrior for the Kingdom so they didn't think much of it.

"Look straight ahead with confidence." He said and the boy did so.

Then he leaned in before whispering into the boy's ear a set of instructions that made him nod.

"Are you finished yet?" The man mocked.

"Go for it," He said.

The man thought this was going to be hilarious and waited, the boy ran to him and was so clumsy that he could have easily tripped over his own two feet.

NOW!

The boy shockingly sped up and went straight for the thing between his legs.

There was no armor to protect the man from the strike.

The man let out a scream so painful that every male in town got the urge to protect their family jewels.

The man dropped the potion in his hand, which the boy just managed to grab and then almost drop.

"You BRAT!" Growled the man, his gene line was cut and was currently stuck in his pants with no attachment to his body and an unholy amount of blood was painting his underwear red. "DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!" he roared.

He would end both him and his mother!

The boy was scared.

"Just go," He said, surprising the boy. "Take the potion to your mother and then leave the Country. With the injury you gave him, he has to be healed for at least 6 hours or he would bleed to death. This is as far as I can go to protect you."

Gazef said this all while his unsettling smile got wider.

The man got the sickening feeling that he would never be able to 'perform' again and the masked man know it as well and was enjoying every moment of it.

Where did this madman come from?

But what the boy did next left Gazef stunned.

The boy presented him, his sword and said. "Thank you, Mister. Now my mother can survive."

Gazef was confused, he had only given the boy some instructions and pointers.

It was not like he had killed the root of the problem.

He took the sword and then the boy smiled and something in his heart just felt weird, before the boy ran away completely ignoring the man who was bleeding on the floor and cursing both of them with swear words he was very interested in using one day, himself.

Gazef than left the man, so that it was somebody else problem.

However, the leader of the team appeared before him and he know he was going to have to explain his actions.

But the trouble was, even he could not understand his actions just now.

#Sundown#

"So, Gazef Stronoff. Can you please explain your actions today?" Said, the leader in a square room using telepathy, all the others had left the room and he was made to stand.

But he wouldn't put it past them to ease drop.

"...I don't know" He said, surprising the monster. "Before I know it, I was helping that human child which I know is unacceptable." before saying. "But I will take whatever punishment you have for me. I will do whatever it takes to wipe the disgrace to my master and my Country."

If possible, he would lay down his very life to get rid of the shame he had brought today.

However, he was surprised to hear.

"Disgrace? You didn't disgrace anybody" Said, the monster. "I came to congratulate you"

Making him blink owlishly.

"There are not many guards who can think for themselves," Said, the monster.

"I-I'm, sorry sir. I don't quite understand" He said, what was going on?

"I'll let you on a little secret. The King, himself, wants all races to live in harmony with one another, under him of course" Said, the monster dropping a bombshell.

"T-The King, wants to do... what?" He said he could have sworn he had just heard that the King wants him to shake hands and be merry with his food.

"I was shocked when I first heard it too but he's serious" Said, the monster. "We guard, are tasked with keeping the peace. He wants the guards to not only think about what action would be a threat to the overall country but what actions would be a threat to an average human being. The point of being a guard is to make the people within the walls or gates, feel safe."

Then he continued.

"But how can they if we don't even have a basic relationship with them?" Said, the monster. "We have the best Military and yet, countless civilians flee every day. The humans are scared of the fact the land is no longer their own and we monsters treat them as second-class citizens. What's happening right now goes against the King very wishes, but no monster wants to go beyond what they need to do. The boy you helped today, may have an overall better impression of non-humans and could return one day, because of what you, did. So, good job"

He was stunned before he smiled and said. "Thank you but I still want to eat humans"

"I know. I'm not asking you to change" The monster said. "You're a Mothbrow, so it's only natural. I just want you to be kind to a human, every once in a while, to improve relations. How about every time you be kind to one of them, I'll provide you with a nice meaty human corpse from the battlefield?"

The two Countries were too scared to realize a lot of the corpses were missing and it wasn't due to the hellish creatures released that day.

"Hmm?" He said he was now suddenly very interested.

Meanwhile, a little boy and his mother were making their way to Re-Estize Kingdom, craved into the little boy's body was the 'late' Gazef Stonoff signature battle stance.

And scene!

Next chapter, Vice Caption of the Gazef Stonoff famous Warrior Troops, can't believe his eyes when he sees a little boy practicing Gazef own battle stance, that not even he was given the instructions to learn. Review/fav and follow!