anwhile, in the other SUV, the atmosphere was vastly different.
anwhile, the driver, a picture of charm, was outside, sipping a steaming coffee. His presence was akin to a Japanese Idol, perched on the hood, causing the younger girls in this tourist spot to blush and giggle when he flashed them a smile.
Inside, the five were engrossed in a lively conversation.
David, who wasn't all for talking casually, especially not with these younger people, was dragged into their conversation against his better judgnt when they started discussing end-of-ti scenarios.
"No, no, no, and no! A super demon won't co out of a portal and kill everyone. The more powerful demons won't co on this side for a long ti. They'll be too busy handling the powerhouses in New Eden!" David growled, palming his face in annoyance.
Cory grimaced at him.
"How would you even know what will happen, huh? You were the one who said that so many things had already changed with your future. For all we know, your future will never co to pass!" he argued.
David growled, wanting to refute his claim as nonsense. But he could hardly deny the claim. Truth be told, he had no idea if what he lived through would happen again anymore.
"Well, I still doubt anything stronger than a vanguard demon will enter Earth in the first wave. And stop jinxing us, you little shit! Keep sending those scenarios into the universe, and they'll co true!" David argued back.
This made Cory chuckle. Seeing David on the verge of popping a nerve was entertaining, to say the least, but he also loved talking hypotheticals.
It was why he loved gaming so much. He could construe all kinds of scenarios and alternate endings to stories yet to be written and still end up surprised when sothing different from his wildest thoughts happened.
anwhile, Jonathan fantasized about fighting the demons, bouncing back on the comnts of the two 'Ninjas' who were still in the car with them.
It was hard to picture them as lethally trained assassins and infiltrators when they were casually dressed.
Up front, the oldest of the two still in the car looked around twenty-one or twenty-two, and the other looked around Cory's age and were both dressed the part.
"I've already fought a demon, and trust , those things are the fuel of nightmares," he said with a slight shiver.
The two Japanese were enraptured by his words, waiting for him to get into more detail. "What did it look like?" the youngest asked.
Jonathan focused his gaze on him, dredging into mories he would rather keep buried. But he couldn't keep the teen wondering in good conscience.
"At first, it was a young boy, probably around the sa age as you. He had used his powers to try to rob a bank before our leader Alexander smacked him around and captured him.
"We locked him up, trying to get him to reconsider his actions, but instead, he got possessed by a demon who preyed on his thoughts of vengeance and hatred. His face was deford, his body ripped and grew in size, and his muscles bulged unnaturally.
"He was so strong, he blasted his way through three concrete floors, making his way to the surface from an underground compound, and even sliced off my arm with his bare hand," Jonathan recounted, trying to contain the sickness rising in his stomach from rembering his arm getting lopped off.
The other man looked at the kid with a look of horror, thinking such a wound could only leave deep ntal trauma on a kid. He didn't understand how the child recounted this with an almost straight face, not welling into a teary ss.
"Wait," he interrupted Jonathan.
Jonathan looked at him, wondering why he was interrupting his tale.
"If your arm was severed, how co you still have both arms and no scar?" the young man asked, looking at Jonathan with a frown.
Cory interrupted his conversation with David, slipping into Jonathan's like he had been part of it from the start.
"That would be thanks to our leader's tily intervention. He used one of his demons' powers and rewound ti for the limb, reattaching it like it had never been severed. I heard it was a complicated and risky process and wished I had seen it. I'm sure it would have helped figure out things for my healing magic," he said, sounding a little too joyous. Jonathan shivered again, rembering the pain of his arm reattaching itself, his nerves reconnecting, and his bone reforming. The pain of the limb reattaching had been a hundred tis worse than losing it, and the mory made his arm itch in phantom pain.
The Japanese man looked at Cory with a look of disbelief.
"If you weren't there, how would you know? It could be an elaborate tale to make it sound worse than it actually was, no?"
Jonathan shook his head no before looking at the young man with a serious gaze.
"No, it's the truth. I can still rember the pain. That mont will haunt my mory until
the day I die," he said, the last words coming out in a trembling manner.
It was hard to fake the emotion the young man could see in Jonathan's eyes, and he stopped questioning it.
"Then what?" he asked, curious about the tale's end.
Jonathan cleared his throat, ready to keep going, and glanced at Cory, ensuring he wouldn't interrupt again.
Cory returned to talking with David, acting like he hadn't interrupted them at all, and Jonathan inwardly scoffed.
"Well, before reattaching my arm, Alexander dealt with the demon, killing it with the ease of squashing an ant," Jonathan grinned, trying to make it sound badass.
The man frowned, curious how sothing as powerful as he had described could be swatted like a fly.
"You realize your leader doesn't look that powerful, right?" he asked, trying not to insult
them.
David scoffed at him.
"You say that, but if he got serious, which I have seen only once, he could wipe the shit out of this entire group single-handedly. It took , and my entire undead army, to contain him for
a few minutes. You wouldn't stand a chance against him even on your best day and his worst," David mocked.
The man looked at David, a frown appearing on his face, but Jonathan's words then only confird David's words.
"He crushed the demon's soul. That's how he killed him. And it barely took a second."
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