Reincarnated Golden Emperor

She bit her lips as she stayed silent. Saito coldly glanced at her and said, "Tell me, why are you running away from Alvaneth?"

She remained silent when she heard his words. Saito didn't give her the time to reconsider and continued, "And you once again show your foolishness to me. Now that you understand that I am not Alvaneth's ally. Can't you understand what this injury means? This Alvaneth and I are on bad terms…"

He muttered under his breath, "It's tough to talk to idiots."

Helena was provoked by his words. She gritted her teeth and pointed at him, "Yes, I didn't understand that. But what do you know about me? You don't understand my circumstances! Yet, you are judging me right now as if you are above me. You are judging me as if you really know me. It disgusts me."

These words didn't affect Saito in the slightest. He replied her with a rather cold voice, "I don't understand your circumstances. True… I don't. I don't wish to nor do I care enough to understand your circumstances. They sound pretty pathetic."

"Let me make a guess. You were Alvaneth's prisoner who was tortured for years? He killed all your precious people? Raped you and your precious sisters? Tortured your family or friends in front of you and laughed about it. Berated your family repeatedly but you couldn't do anything?" Saito started to list off the circumstances that she must have gone through.

"Even if you had gone through all of these situations… which I doubt. I would not find you any less pathetic than you are right now." As those cold words fell upon Helena's ears, she felt rather hopeless.

Hopeless yet she wanted to know the reason why he thought so. He was right. Not all that he mentioned had happened with her. She hadn't been tortured. Nor had he abused her friends.

For now, she simply wanted to ask, "Why?"

Saito gave her a simple response, "Because you have failed to grow from those experiences."

Helena ground her teeth as she snarled at him, "Not everyone thinks about growing mentally from such experiences! When you find yourself in any of those situations, you will know despair."

Saito started laughing at her claim and said with a cocky tone, "That very thought is stupid. For me to find myself in such a situation, my intelligence will have to drop to your level, which I doubt will ever happen."

This infuriated Helena to no end. His cocky tone which was filled with such high confidence in himself and his ability. This part of Saito strongly reminded her about that Alvaneth.

"Anyways, you should know that I am not an ally of this Alvaneth guy. I am his enemy. Tell me about you and him. Who are you? And who is he? Where does he live? Whom does he serve? Why did he appear in the south near the territory of Demon Lord Azaroth and Bakaul?" Saito asked her with a straightforward voice

Since he had said so much, he decided, it was better to be straightforward now and get the complete answers to the questions he needed.

Before Helena could even have the time to think, Saito added, "And as for a reason for telling me about him. It is because I am his enemy. Since I was able to force him to run away, I have a great chance of killing him."

"I want to take my revenge myself." Came Helena's response with a strong and determined voice.

Saito casually points at her and asks, "You?" He then facepalms.

"What? You don't believe me?" Helena gritted her teeth as a tick mark appeared over her forehead.

"Frankly, I don't. I don't think you can kill Alvaneth. I fought against him. I know how strong he is. Anyways, you have any plan to defeat him? Like, do you think that after a certain period you would be able to surpass him? Is that your plan?" Saito's words suddenly reminded her of an important fact.

The Growth rate of Alvaneth's Power. She remembered that in just the short span of a month, his power was considerably higher than before.

That growth rate was monstrous. Helena was also rather young among the demon lords, and her power was growing steadily. But in front of Alvaneth… It was growing at a turtle's speed while his ability was growing in huge strides.

As the main difference between the two of them was pointed out. Helena started to think with a rational mind 'It's true… Even though I hate to admit it. As the current situation stands, I don't stand a chance of defeating him at all. Not now and not in the future. Even though the future is unknown, there is no way for me to conveniently gain a huge amount of power to defeat Alvaneth. I need to have allies… I have truly been too foolish.'

She calmed down and looked straight into Saito's eyes, "Very well. I will tell you what you want to know."

"My name is Helena. The Demon Lord Helena! I ruled over the territory of Bourges for 100 years. However, just one month ago… This monster arrived. This monster, named Alvaneth arrived at my territory." Helena gritted as she remembered that day.

The day she came to understand her powerlessness and curse herself for it.

Saito patiently listened as he was cross confirming it with what he understood about that man from his fight with him.

"He challenged my 7 Great Demon Kings and me in front of the entire court. The condition was that the if he wins, then he would rule over them all, and if Alvaneth lost, then he would forever be my servant. I made a mistake that day. I agreed." Her words were filled with great regret as she mentioned this to Saito.

Saito once again didn't say anything, but his expression seemed to say "Foolish. If he was confident enough to challenge you all then deeply analyse his strength."

However, he somewhat also didn't believe her words. Even though he understood that Alvaneth was strong. He shouldn't be strong enough to overpower a Demon Lord along with 7 Great Demon Kings.

If he was that strong, then he wouldn't need to run away. His Red Lightning was powerful, but it didn't seem like Alvaneth didn't have any way to deal with it.

However, he didn't say anything and continued to listen patiently, "Our fight was held on that same day. It was witnessed by many demons from my territory. Even though his power was great, I was confident in defeating him."

"Yet, I never expected 3 of my Great Demon Kings to suddenly attack me while my whole attention was on fighting Alvaneth." She said while gnashing her teeth in great anger.

Saito sighed when he heard her and understood while he thought 'So, that's how it is, huh?' He somewhat guessed that something like this must have happened or Helena was lying.

"So, what did the demons of your territory do?" Saito asked with a straight face.

Helena chuckled at his question and answers him, "What do you think they did? They don't care. For them… once my back landed on the ground. I lost the right to be the one who ruled over them. The one who defeated me, no matter the tricks used was the 'rightful' victor."

She said 'rightful' word with sarcasm dripping from her voice.

Saito said with a cold tone, "Did you think that was unfair?"

"Obviously… To use a sneak attack on me in such a manner. It was unfair." Helena said with a spiteful voice.

With a chuckle, Saito said to her, "You are really shameless."

"What!?" Helena was startled to hear him say that. She didn't understand the meaning behind why he said that.

Saito then proceeded to explain why he said that, "You were going to fight against him with 7 of your strongest comrades. Isn't that unfair to him? Even though he proposed the deal. You also agreed to this deal. You were unfair to him from the start of that match, so he just evened it out. Tell me, if you fought against him alone, do you have the confidence in defeating him?"

"No…" With just one clash, she could feel his strong power. She had planned to use her 7 Great Demon Kings to corner him before dealing the blow. She was even prepared for the death of 2-3 of her Great Demon Kings…

"Then your dissatisfaction is even more ridiculous. What Alvaneth did was to make things not only fair to himself but also easier. I would have done the same as him. Anyways, continue to talk about him." Saito said with a casual tone as he wished to know more about this guy.

Though Helena wasn't pleased with his first words. She continued speaking, "After my territory, he waited a single day before he attacked the neighbouring two Demon Territories and razed them to the ground. The only reason he hadn't done that with my territory because he needed a place as his foundation.. All other places were going to be built from scratch."