“you fool!” said the villain “no man can slay me!”
“I am no man” said the hero
“Okay I get that but actually the prophecy says no _varashi_ can slay me, like all prophecies it’s just glossed from the original angelic, and...”
“oh, shit, really? I was kind of banking on there being that kind of loophole. varashi means, like, “mortal” or something?”
“yeah, kind of, it’s like a type of soul I guess, angels use it for classification” (1/) #noxp
“and, I guess, I’m definitely a varashi”
“I guess it’s possible you’re _not_, but that kind of thing is really unlikely. to the point where it’s expensive to check because nobody’s prepared the spells to do so for, like, the last thousand years, because there’s been no need”
“damn”
“if you were only here because you misread the prophecy I might as well let you go, it would be kind of rude to slay you”
“ha, thanks. next time I come back with a non-varashi?”
“yeah, maybe next time 😄” (2/2)
three years later, she returned to the dark lord’s lair with ALGALOR of the third ring alongside her. the battle was legendary and just as prophesied.