Soma would not dare come back to this place in the near future, better to loot everything this place has to offer before calling it quits for now.
Reaching the other place of combat in the forest around the church there were clear signs of struggle. Many trees were torn and destroyed, on the floor, there were two charred corpses that were clearly dead, a man and a woman that were fried with electricity.
By the expressions on the faces of both, they both were electrocuted just enough so they would stay alive for as long as possible without passing out from the pain, both suffered as can be seen by their faces locked in an eternal scream even as their flesh was seared and burned by thunder.
A third one was also there, only this one was still barely alive even if death might have been mercy at that point. There is playing with your prey, and then there is this.
She was spasming on the floor, her face was a messy chunk of meat after apparently being hit against the floor multiple times until whatever her looks once were was now impossible to discern, and burn marks covered her entire form. Only some tufts of blond hair were still present since the rest was burned away by the electricity or ripped out by hand.
In her back one could also see two dark feather wings, only one of them had most of its feathers burned away and the other wing was cracked and twisted wrong in three different places. Her legs and arms were all turned this way and that in different angles as well and it was quite clear that she was made to suffer for longer.
Soma could only think that the demons in town had found this. .
. thing as he did not know WHAT she was, after a confrontation the demons took their normal sadistic pleasure in torturing their enemies out of sick enjoyment of other's pain.
Whoever did this clearly had something against either this creature or the species as a whole, either that or it was just that special sort of twisted monster that got its kicks out of pain and suffering. Regardless, such a monster was far too dangerous to let roam free if THIS is what it would do so easily.
Anyway, seeing as this one was also alive like the exorcist he saved Soma took her over his other shoulder and ran home while making sure to avoid leaving any traces of his path OR any possible tracker. He was so careful that a path that would otherwise take no more than half an hour took one hour and a half, but at least he could be sure no one was following him.
Now, before going to sleep, it was time to start the treatment. It was a good thing these two were passed out since Soma lacked any anesthetic and, to be fair, he did not know anything about anesthetics.
According to Nightingale and Asclepius anesthetics were unnecessary, what is important is saving lives. Besides, even without anesthetics the patient would probably pass out anyway, pain does that to a patient.
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