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    ke was right all along with his assumptions.


    The King of the Elves had died roughly seven or six years ago, when Mammon parasitized his soul and slowly ate it.


    The question, however, remained.


    How did he do this? How could he get to the King so easily?


    The King of Elves, from what ke had learned, was someone that had reached the Level of a Spirit Saint.


    He was a Master of his Divine Spirit Swordsmanship Arts and could control all five basic magic elements with extreme mastery.


    Above all, his eight Spirits were all incredibly powerful beings, which cemented him as the Elven Continent''s strongest man.


    To allow Mammon to parasitize his soul and then eat it… It didn''t made sense!


    Unless he was betrayed, and someone close to him, from his own family, approached him enough to give him the parasite.


    But even then, how couldn''t he tell it was inside his soul?


    "There''s no point in questioning this now…" ke thought. "I have to kill him quickly before things get even more uncontroble."


    He analyzed his surroundings with a calm expression, which only seemed to piss out Mammon, who had always hated Asmodeus for being someone incapable of showing his emotions.


    That was the same damned face he had when he sealed him away several years ago, and it only made him more infuriated.


    "Asmodeus, you bastard… You''ve never changed even after your reincarnation," Mammon smiled,ughing. "Have you told your friends and family who you truly are? have they never questioned why you''re so strong? Why you''re so different?"


    Suddenly, Mammon turned against ke''s friends.


    "Have you never asked him who he truly is?!" Mammonughed.


    ke''s friends were all confused, Mammon was talking anguage they could understand this time, mostly thanks to having assimted the Elven King.


    So he was talking about all these things with them being able to understand them! He was calling ke "Asmodeus", and he was treating him more like an old acquittance!


    "ke? What''s going on? What is he talking about?" Elizabeth wondered.


    "Asmodeus? Who is that?" Erika wondered. "Is that your name? But you''re ke, right?"


    "That Demon''s just talking nonsense, don''t listen to him!" Chris said. "ke is ke!"


    "…" Erdrich, who kind of already knew most of this, remained in silence as he was wary of the demon, preparing his Demonic Aura.


    "B-ke?" Eric asked, confused.


    "I wish I could just tell you he''s talking bullshit to buy himself time, but he''s not wrong," ke said with an expressionless face. "I''ve slowly been gaining the memories of a past life, where I relentless fought these bastards, the demons, for thousands of years. They''re blurry, but they reveal to me that my soul once belonged to someone named Asmodeus.


    However, there''s little time to exin things right now, would you fight at my side and trust me? I promise I will exin things to youter, once we''re done."


    His sharp red eyes nced back at his friends, as everyone remained in silence, but then nodded, smiling.


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    "Of course, why wouldn''t we trust you anyways?!" Chrisughed. "Let''s kill that bastard!"


    "Memories of a past life…" Elizabeth muttered. "If that''s true, then that would exin many things… But indeed, there''s no time to think about that now."


    "We''ll always trust you, whatever your past life was, it doesn''t really matter anyways, friend!" Eric smiled, readjusting his sses.


    "Y-Yeah!" Alberta was a bit confused, but she had the spirit.


    "Always!" Erika smiled back at him. "Now I''m super curious though! But let''s leave that forter, yeah!"


    At the cheer and trust of his friends, ke felt… rather fulfilled, he had never felt this way. He had been slightly afraid deep down that they would find him strange or reject him for confessing the truth right away.


    He did it quickly because he wanted to get that out of his chest and not make unnecessary drama with it. However, he was fully expecting their rejection and disgust after hearing that he remembers that he was once a monster that lived for thousands of years.


    Yet there was none of that!


    They trusted him, as their friend, as their family, and as the one they loved too, in the case of Erika and Elizabeth.


    Whatever he was in his past life, it didn''t matter to them.


    They were true friends.


    ke remained in silence, but he smiled, a different expression Mammon had never seen.


    It made the Archdemon recoil with disgust!


    "Hah, how disgusting… So you''ve indeed grown weaker, and more pathetic," Mammon sighed. "I used to admire your cold-headed mind and your ruthlessness, but it seems Lucifer''s n worked, you''ve grown softer, weaker, and emotional… Hah, but that''s good too! I''ll enjoy shredding those you love to pieces. You finally gave yourself a good weakness, ASMODEUS!"


    FLASH!


    Mammon finished talking, rushing towards Asmodeus'' friends. Using the Elf King''s body, he quickly conjured his powers, as an Aura of Rainbow Spiritual Energy surged from his body.


    At the same time, he summoned one of the Elf King''s Spirits, a blinding fairy made of pure light, which quickly transformed into a huge great sword of pure gold.


    Mammonughed internally, knowing that Asmodeus wasn''t fast enough to intercept him this time now that he was using the Elf King''s powers fully!


    "I''ll cut their heads off for you, Asmodeus!" heughed. "{Divine Spirit Swordsmanship Arts}: {Arc of Light}!"


    SLAAASH!


    Mammon swung his de; a horizontal sh became a wave of holy light rushing towards Asmodeus'' friends. Its power enough to shake space itself lightly and create a shockwave that made the entire castle tremble.


    The attack was almost instantaneous, reaching them within an instant as an explosion of holy light impacted the wall behind them, the castle''s foundations broke down, part of the ceiling copsed into the gardens below.


    BOOOM!


    "Hahah… Hahaha!" Mammonughed as he saw blood below the rubble, ring back at ke. "So? Now that I''ve freed you from your burden, can you fight like you used to do before, Asmodeus- huh?"


    Mammon''s eyes widened.


    ke had appeared right behind him, and only when he twisted his head towards his back was when he finally noticed him!


    "When did he get there…?!"


    That was the only thought he could conceive as ke''s Aura erupted, an overwhelming pressure pushed him down, before his spear impaled Mammon''s body a hundred times.


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