The villagers immediately recoiled, moving away from the horde of orcs that exited the gate. They huddled behind Seiya for safety, making clear to everyone their trust in Seiya.
"My Lord," one of the village women whimpered, fear already streaming through their veins. The three demons standing at the entrance were neither strangers nor newcomers—they were the very ones who had fled the clash between Seiya and their kind that day.
Seeing them again, it awoke the past the villagers hadn't even healed from, wrapping them in a suffocating shroud of fear.
Seiya himself didn't recognize two among the three demons, for he had only encountered one of them—Denga—the one with the ability to call things. The one he depicted as a coward.
