From the moment I was taken inside of this village, nothing came good, I was handcuffed by female villagers, and my goodness I was locked up like a pig—the cell I was trapped in is a planked of wooden rails, it's like a prison for animals unable to break free from the clutches of the wooden bamboo.
My head will soon blow up, I promise, it will really blow the hell out of my brain. Jeez, I said to lower your guard but I was handcuffed instead. That's not how they should greet people properly as a guest, but well nevermind, I am a monster and humans don't care much.
But it shouldn't pose any problems, right? So why? Argg... "You," I was startled when I suddenly heard a high pitched voice so I immediately turned and looked.
It was not someone I know, that's for sure. "Ah!" I smirked and looked. "I could slaughter this whole village with a snap of a finger, know that, but that depends on how you choose for the sake of your village should not be taken lightly," I threatened and then I heard him walk, his footsteps was the only thing echoing at this point.
"That's why I am asking, how are you able to stay calm here when you can easily break out?" I looked at the man in front of my cell, he was there with his eyes locked on me while his hands were on his back. He wore a typical outfit that fits a human outfit, embroidered in black and white patterns.
"I do not mean to harm anyone," I said in a low voice. Then I stood from seating on that rough and hard wooden bed. "You humans look frail, it will be disastrous if one of you gets injured upon my escape."
I know that because once a human body gets hit, it will get injured enough to lose much blood and it will take its life, while a monster whose body was made to be sensitive and rough on the outside is not injured once gets hit by a car or running train.
He looked at me and then he pointed out something on my back. "So, you know that destroying that wall can lead to stones falling off the sky landing on the houses below?" He asked and so I nodded. There is human flesh below us, or in fact, on this side of this cell, if breaking this wall can lead me to freedom, it will cause havoc on the village houses.
Of course, I could break the wooden cell easily but there's a human guard protecting this prison—as humans like to call it.
There might be casualties I cannot afford to contain. "A monster caring for us humans had never happened before, you know that? Since you are a spawn of demons in flesh," well, I couldn't really deny that fact. However, we have—I mean my race had evolved through those processes, which created us Ogre's.
Demons had created monsters but slowly even monsters were able to attain the ability to understand, learn knowledge, speak language, think and walk like a normal being. Since then, monsters took efforts to be no part of demons, killing their ancestral blood relatives even though they knew that they came from demons blood.
However, it cannot be said to humans who branded us monsters as part of the demon race. The demon race—or which ever they came from is beings that appears on the land and sea as pry beings, evolve only to take control and murder. They don't have a permanent area, a place they can stay like land they can contain.
Demons are savage though. They will kill either monster or human, because demons have this instinct that has been embroidered inside of them.
I really understand why humans are being careful around us, but this discrimination—I had enough with just watch from distance. "What of you then?" I took a long breath while putting much strength inside of me.
"Me?"
"No, all of you." He looked at me then he shook his head in confusion.
"If monsters are being branded as evil, what of you—humans with wicked hearts and dark personalities? If we are monsters in appearance then humans are monsters in disguise."
Humans aren't as innocent as they proclaimed themselves to be. They aren't saints as well, but when it comes to the origin of where they came from, they act as if they are good people when the truth is they have hearts as black as satan.
No human shall dictate deeds of one person—different as they are, humans have no rights to tell them they are evil or good, nor they are humans or not. They have no rights to tell them who they should be, or what side they should pick.
I gaze upon the man's expression as it changes from being calm to a surprise but agreeable face. He doesn't seem mad, nor offended. He was in fact understanding of what I was trying to say.
"That I cannot remove, I admit that we humans are not innocent as well, but—"
"Are you basing this fact on the fact that my race came from demons' blood?" I said cutting him out of his sentence.
I laughed. "Then should we treat you the same? Calling you pigs, a spawn of idiots?"
He looked at me and glared furiously but soon he calmed down and approached my cell. "What do you know about humans? You feast on us like total animals," I clicked my tongue and breathed out.
"Feast? Now that you mention, human flesh is delicious," I mocked before pointing my hands to the sky. "It is the taste one gets obsessed with."
Of course I didn't mean much, because eating flesh from humans is like eating rotten meat made of many entries. I am not into cannibalism, it's disgusting, so even if my family eats human flesh like nothing, I do not touch those foods instead I hunt for animals instead.
That is a cycle of life. The same way cannot be said with humans either, they feast on animals, nor monsters in flesh. We aren't much different, because we do things that may be morally wrong or right depending on it.
Humans are capable of wickedness and monsters are capable of goodness. I know that based on how I observed what kind of people I have met—like my father, despite being an asshole, he still cares for the health of his own kin.
"Enough, I will not waste time hearing this anymore," I looked at him and smiled.
"So what will you do to me? Execute me?" I paused and then I nodded. "Well then, try it! I'm sure before you do so, this village will know true horror."
I am not forcing them to choose, I am just not sure if they can survive here or not. I want to help them but they don't want anything from me. I feel offended by that thought as if they see monsters as complete serial killers. Reyes told me that some humans are still wary about monsters, even though one of the human kingdoms is trying to cooperate with us.
But if they are this worried, coexistence will not be an easy task both in will and reality. Since to cooperate with this project they proposed, humans and monsters must not be wary of one another and accept each other as part of coexistence.
"Fine, fine, just enough," when he turned, I approached him with the collars broken from my grip. "I am the chief lord in this village, I apologize if that is what you want to hear but stop insulting us with your facts that we all know."
I was shocked, I thought he would never give up this unnecessary debate but instead he surrendered himself and apologized. It was surprising that he did, I thought he was too stubborn enough to even consider.
"We have lived in this village for as long as we can remember, everyone of us lost track of time here, no villagers were able to get out of the barrier and we don't know how to undo this curse we have to suffer. This is the only day we have seen light—the sunshine in the morning ablaze, and a monster of good intention."
Is that so? I nodded. "This is by an accident, I had no intentions here at all, I was also dragged into this mess."
"Pardon?" He asked.
"The barrier dragged me into this mess, I defeated it and now I became the master of it."
"Erkkk!"
He was so surprised that he almost fell on the ground. So I looked at him confused. Why did he moan like that? Is there something I said? I just stated how I got into this ugly mess, but then he gave a long silence before fixing his posture.
"You didn't seem to know what you did, is that right?" Well, yeah, I guess so. I mean I did acquire it, for what reason? The man in front shakes his head.
"The barrier was a punishment to us by the Gods, and ever since it was created, no man has ever defeated the barrier nor has it ever seen surrendered. What you have done there proves to us that we can trust you."
"Then why did you cage me?" I am disappointed.
He bowed his head. "We really do apologize, the villager was only shocked and surprised, they didn't mean to lock you up here forever."
"That's why, I am here somehow to get you out of there hoping you didn't break anything," he added.