Valentine wanted to tell the demon to 'loan' him one of the knives and he would pay it later, but he knows that the bastard isn't going to accept.
He had 30.000 coins on him, but he also had three cores of beasts, hopefully, that should be enough to reach the 600.000 else, he'd have to get a horntail even though he really liked that 'G-Rain' blade.
If not, well... he could always try to steal from the corpses he 'found'.
...
Valentine walked through the street until he spotted his 'objective'.
He merged through the crowd again, but this time when he reached an alleyway, he entered it, however, he didn't forget to take one of the cloaked demons by the shoulder and drag him in!
!!!
"BASTARD!"
The purple-skinned cloaked demon immediately gaped and took a knife out of nowhere while inside the alleyway, right at the edge.
But Valentine was way faster.
*BAAAANGGG!!*
He received a kick right on the balls, an elbow to the face as his nice fell, right on Valentine's hand who slashed it through his eyes.
Two shadows flashed through from the street, ready to kill the human scum, they were all cloaked and ready for slaughter!
*BAAANGGG!!*
Valentine kicked the now blind demon, he wouldn't be a bother even if he's not dead.
Evaded two consecutive slashes from the demons, he only has one horntail and the two bastards aren't bad either, he has to finish this fast.
Because he knows there are two more to come!
*CLAAANG!*
*CLAAANG!*
"UGGH!! K-KILL HIM! HE IS JUST ONE UGH!!!" He shut up when a kick right on the face blasted him away, prompting the only remaining demon to engage Valentine himself for a brief moment.
A brief moment was all he needed.
The daggers clung releasing a lot of sparks as Valentine's eyes moved like lightning catching every single movement and flaw, these demons reminded him of five years service veterans, not too difficult, but time is in high demand, it's going to become more difficult when the other two enter the alleyway.
With only one demon against him, Valentine went to the offensive, evaded one of the knives and quickly punctured the demon's chest, releasing a wisp of purple blood, and making him grunt in pain but otherwise, keep attacking.
He evaded another slash only to notice how the blind demon on the ground held one of his legs, making him sigh in annoyance.
After headbutting the demon and getting a great deal of pain in the process, he kicked the blind demon harshly, making him spit blood and coat the filthy alleyway.
Sadly, this minimal flaw gave the other demon time to recover and once again they were two against one.
Valentine grit his teeth and noticed how two more demons snuck inside the alleyway swiftly, yelling curses at him and he knew it was time for plan B, there is no way he can fight four of them in such a close space.
Therefore, he ran, not before sinking his knife on the blind demon's skull!
"BASTARD! YOU WON'T RUN, COME HERE AND BEND THAT ASS!"
!!!
That shout gave him whatever motivation he needed to kill those filthy beasts, how dare he!?
As he ran through the alleyway, he noticed all kinds of atrocities taking place, the filthy, the blood everywhere, it's disgusting.
Demoness and demons abused humans relentlessly, tortured them, molested them, ganged up against them, regardless of whichever is, it's always humans suffering the wrong end of the stick, he even caught a glimpse of a demon sinking his fingers on a man's eyes, squashing them as he laughed madly, he didn't waste the opportunity to run his knife through that demon's neck to cut his head!
But that wasn't all, he took the head and pushed the body of the man towards the incoming demons that pursued him, making them stumble, then proceeded to throw the head at them too, making two of the three fall!
'CHANGE!'
Seeing such a chance inside this dark netherworld, he wouldn't let it go, taking advantage of the darkness he sunk his knife right on the skull of the first one, only managing to evade a fist from another one that already recovered however, this one lost his knife as he fell, making it easier for Valentine, right now, there were only two demons left and one of them is unarmed.
The slaughter began, but it didn't go as nicely.
When he bisected the neck of the second one, leaving only the last demon, someone took him from behind, trying to restrain him!
"COCKY HUMAN, HUH?! TRYING TO KILL DEMONS IN HERE AS IF THIS IS YOUR TURF!"
"MIND YOUR BUSINESS, CUNT!" He headbutted the demon behind the head, but the last demon that remained took this chance to sink a knife through his ribs!
"TAKE THIS! YOU! HELP ME, I'LL GIVE YOU PLENTY OF SOULS, LET'S ABUSE THIS BASTARD RIGHT HERE! HE MUST BE A BRONZE SOUL AT LEAST!"
!!!
It would have sounded better if it was a sexy demoness like Lucretia at least, not two grown-ass filthy demons!
"FUCK YOU! FUCK... YOU...!!" He took the knife out of his rib, holding the pain back as the other demon tried to recover after his nose was literally obliterated with the headbutt.
*PUCHI!*
*PUCHI!*
"AHHHHHHHH!!!!"
His hand itched horribly as he grasped the knife and lounged on the bastard that stabbed him, puncturing his chest many times before swiftly stopping to evade it just in time.
The headbutted demon that was naked by the way fell right on top of the stabbed demon, he had the two of them where he wanted them.
Valentine took the damned pervert from behind and sliced his neck open, raining blood on the cloaked demon that wailed in pain.
"Ahhhh.... Ahhh...."
Valentine panted and held his bloodied ribs before taking the corpse of the naked demon from the top of the other one, throwing him away like trash on the filthy alleyway that seemed to be so disgusting that the floor appeared muddy.
*PUCH!!!*
"AAAAHHHHHHHH!! B-BASTARD!!"
He sunk his knife right on the demon's hand, pinning the other hand above his head.
"Who do you work for...?"
"FUCK YOU!!"
*PUCH!!*
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!"
*PUCH!!*
*PUCH!!*
*PUCH!!*
"..." Valentine's cold gaze remained on the wailing demon as he kept puncturing watever place he could, giving the demon reasons to 'talk'.
"Who do you work for...?"
"... I'm not... telling you shi- AHAAAAHHAHAHA!!!"
*PUCH!!!!*
*PUCH!!!!*
The next stabbing went through his crotch... and the demon stopped laughing.
"Who... do you work for...?"
"... L-Lord... Gleipnir..."
"Who is Gleipnir...?" He doesn't recognise his name, in fact, aside from Lucretia and Sandmortelle... he doesn't know any name of any other demon.
"H-He's... the l-lord... of the east's soul tax... office... p-please stop..." The demon begged as he saw the knife about to puncture his other ball.
"A demon asking for respite... how funny... the last question and I will let you go... what is a 'protector'...?"
"They're... humans... that have formed contracts... with royal demons... depending on the rank of the demon that contracted them... they have their own tiers... that's all I know..."
"Is there any of them here in Mahogany Devilish?"
"...N-No... p-protectors are the strongest humans... they're... difficult to find or qualify... there isn't any... assigned to this city..." The demon squirmed, if nothing is done he might die here... hoping to leave this place, he answered honestly and Valentine removed the dagger much to his relief, he only needed to leave the city, there is no way Lord Gleipnir is going to forgive him for this failure.
"Good, I'll let you go... into nothingness!"
*SLASH!!!*
"AHHHHH!!!!"
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By the time Valentine came out of the alleyway holding his waist, he had quite the spoil... those five demons had a total of 823.000 coins in them together with several items... such as human fingers... and eyes.
Whether they're used as amulets or snacks, he doesn't want to know.
He took three of their sets of clothes together with their robes and managed to squeeze them inside the bag, they could be useful for later.
it seems they were no pushovers, he doesn't believe any random demon in the streets has this much wealth.
...
The undefeated assassin didn't bother to exchange the cores and went directly to where the vendor was, he wasn't surprised when he saw Valentine struggling to walk in with bloodied robes, and bloodied with all kinds of colours.
Valentine's appearance called for attention, if it was his own blood, it would be normal, but that's demon blood.
"Give me the G-Rain, quickly..." He presented the 600.000 coins in the form of many cars with numbers in them, he wanted to leave as quickly as possible lest a demon soldier pops out to investigate, there is no way he can defeat a demon soldier while this injured.
"Nice hunt, brat... you're truly surprising, how many did you kill? what a savage." The demon smirked on the counter, Valentine immediately took it and left without saying anything.
While he panted, cursing Lucretia for sucking his energy, he glanced to the sides and tried to merge with the crowd onwards to the Hotel, but as he did so... he regarded, two demons soldiers, one in each side of the street!
They seemed to be looking for something!
"Shit..." His gaze moved quicker now, trying to look for an exit, perhaps he could round the demon soldier? but what if he was spotted?
Eventually, his gaze landed in an alleyway, he could make a mental map of where the hotel is...
'That's the most secure option, if I'm to fight, I'd rather fight a normal demon....' thinking that he moved through the crowd and entered a dark alleyway, hoping that it would lead him back to the hotel.