Reincarnated into a Snow Griffin-Chapter 162

That voice... it is from the devil girls of the Rotherhithe demon island that speak up from beside us, and yet as I turn and look, giving a good sniff of the air, they are nowhere to be found.

"Here, right here! Didn’t you talk about us Ethan?"

"Oh, sorry sorry, I was....ah... distracted." The sideways look he gives me makes me stare at him for a sharp moment, daring him to say anything about our nightly activities.

"The girls could not follow us but they wanted to keep in touch so, well, they found a very... unique strange way." He says, looking around before sitting a little more straight and pulling his arm up, wrist towards me as he holds it in place.

I just look and wait, and fair enough a few seconds later I see movement under his sleeves, small and fast paced, a swish and splashy sound coming from the small steps of the strange being.

A small head with a pair of big black eyes shiny from the edge of the cloth as it peeks out, and once it locks eyes with me it backs down towards the safety of the shadows, but with a smile and a nod from Ethan and the enthusiastic voices from the girls telling it not to be a coward, it comes back out again, twitching its long barbel mustache, a catfish face reveling itself coming from a lizard’s small body, a gecko round slimy body with round ends at the edge of his fingers that helped him hold tight against any surface, a strange pinky size creature mixing a fish and a lizard, turning out strangely cute as it small tongue goes and licks his own face clean, the long barbel catfish mustache tingling as if tasting the air.

Odd, but not the oddest thing I’ve ever seen, just a small animal, until my eyes view the back of it where the thin transparent skin of the gecko is embracing what seems to be a very small twig going along its spine just under the surface, only the end sprouting out behind its head and carrying a single leaf that shivers when the girls speak up again:

"Yeah, we are here with y’all, somehow... and the old oak too!" The leaf shivers with every word, and as absurd as it may I am led to believe that they were speaking through it... and something tells me is Eanraig doing.

A raspy old voice sighs before saying from the same leaf: "Name is Eanraig MacIlleBhuidhe, little misses, do well you do to remind that."

The Old Spriggan from the Ghost City, I did wonder how he was doing after deciding to stay there as we messed all up and literally made a city fall over his head.

Sturdy as an old oak indeed.

"Glad to hear you are safe Eanraig, how have you been doing? Still unable to move?"

"Ah, yes, dandy bird, fine I have been, the breeze is nice now, the sun long lost shines once again, but freeing myself seems like a feeble dream, so these little guys are my eyes and ears, new and old lives now reach me."

"Indeed I thought I had you to thank for this little special guys." The little gecko looks at me and seems happy with my words, what seems to be a smile appearing on his small catfish face as he shakes his little body in excitement.

"Well, beyond that, you did not think we would just leave things be and forget all that happened and be done with you two now did you?" She says sounding just like the feisty woman in red, two voices in one as one would have a higher tone of voice and the other would lower more and drag the r’s, the age showing at the speed of which each one is speaking, the younger lady fast pace while the ancient Demon Lord has more pauses.

I sigh as the noisy people at the back. "What is this all about?"

I can almost see her pumping her chest as she says: "You did not think we would simply go on our merry way without paying back for saving our lives now did you?" Says the woman.

"Do you have us in such a low stem?" The demon completes, but I can tell it is playfully, only to become serious when we finally go down to business.

"We talked to Ethan about the whole Demon Lord situation and how a new powerful demon like myself would bring chaos and conflict to the demon world." She starts saying, and I realize how I had not thought about the fact that another Demon Lord had just been freed, and no matter the condition she finds herself in at the moment she can still become a very powerful threat against the current Demon Lord.

"Go on." I say, having my interest peeked.

"So we figured a plan up." Ethan continues. "A plan that will benefit both of us against the Demon Lord." He says, and it makes me wonder for a split second just how much had he told her, if it goes all the way to his lineage or just his rise against the injustices.

"We are joining forces against him, so you are not getting rid of us that easily." I can hear the smirk in her voice. Great, I think sarcastically.

"And how do you plan on doing that?" I ask, truly curious.

"Ah, it is quite simple, a few spies here and there, making alliances under the cover of darkness, that sort of thing." The young lady says, but of course I would not be satisfied with such a short answer, wanting details, strategies, all sorts of stuff.

I even sit up to listen to them speak, and with a smile Ethan gives me the juicy details that I was waiting for, sparkling eyes and all. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"Let just say that, as one of the few sons of the Demon Lord to survive I have always been treated in two ways, with utmost disgust, and utmost respect. One side wanted me gone and treated just as my father treated me, with passive aggression at best, and some took his silence as a thumbs up to hit me, but others... they saw me as a chance to get rid of the Demon King, and more often than not offered alliances to overthrone him."

"So while his focus is on him, we gather our forces on the sides..." Says the demon, clearly having fun with this endeavor. "I am gathering followers from the island and raising an army from the lower cities, while Lewis is gathering forces with the higher demon aristocracy."

"The more allies we have the better."

"And then we strike with force at once."