Living Ghoul 2

She beckoned to him, "Continue."

He was getting more and more energetic as he talked. "I remember that it was after the war that I became like this."

She was shocked. "So old?"

"…Old?"

"Yes, it's been…you know, hundreds of centuries after the war?" She didn't expect that the weirdo in front of her was older than she was. The slightest apprehension she felt vanished and she was getting more intrigued.

"Hundreds of centuries?" His jaws fell opened and she could see his broken teeth and slick blackish tongue which made her wince in disgust. "How—How could it be?"

"Believe it or not." She shrugged. "I am the protector of Hell's Gate. I have been here for at least around three hundred centuries. Despite of that, at that time, Earth had begun to stabilize and peace had been maintained, there wasn't any gods or demons fighting up on the sky anymore."