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“NOOO! STOP!”
“HELP”
The trapped golden haired child is screaming on top of his lungs. Every stab feels like a foreign burning sensation of nerves that becomes cold in an instant when the wound is left. His voice eventually becomes silent screams with a mixture of tears left from his dead eyes.
Tears and blood have mixed together. Voices of everyone in the ritual grounds are mixing together. Nothing makes sense….
He thought everything would’ve been okay with his twin but even that is depraved from him. The sight is excruciating to see. Why was I always the worthless one? The one who is not chosen? The adults with hoods all chanted something with smile on their faces. The statue of ‘god’ seemed to look at him mocking at the sight that the golden children are experiencing.
‘Why… are you smiling?’
‘It hurts…’
‘Why did this happen to us?’
‘It hurts…’
‘They are the ones who stole something and they have the audacity to be smiling?’
‘It hurts…’
‘No one will come save us’
‘It hurts…’
‘This is futile’
‘It hurts….’
‘Why do not I have the power for anything?’
‘It hurts…’
‘I was a fool to believe that god would save us’
‘I need POWER’
‘THE POWER TO ERASE EVERYTHING THAT DARED HARM US.’
POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER
POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER
POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER
POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER
The men around him start laughing, black smoke envelopes around them and the altar. “The summoning succeeded!” they all rejoiced in their upcoming doom.
“Who is the human that turned their back to god?” the voice was akin to a beast growling for food. Everyone that was witnesses of the event shivered in fear. Its form is not entirely visible because of the black smoke but they were able to recognize horns and one eye glimmering with glee. “A human with a lot of hatred to have been able
“D-demon! It is us! The one that summoned you!” the men had big smiles on them as they observe the demon descend from a black cloud of smoke.
“It is not you,” the demon flicked his wrist and all that remained of the man is a headless body.
The golden haired child was surprised by the uncanny action of the demon as it transformed itself to a snake when it saw him. “Oh ho…”
The child goes to the edge of his cage in fear. “W-what are you…”
“You! You are the one that summoned me,” the demon’s face cannot be seen but it was obvious in its voice that it was excited to see the new contractor. “A little child with a lot of hatred to even turn his back against god, what a sight,”
The demon believers are all silent between the interaction of the two. Some feel fear, anger, and also confusion. Because why would the sacrifice be the master?!
“You’ve got it all wrong lord demon---“ a brave soul spoke up and was immediately silenced when the demon’s tail sliced him in half.
“I am currently talking with my contractor..”
The child was surprised and scared of what is happening. Everything is pacing too fast for his mind to catch up. He was soon hyperventilating and crying from being overwhelmed. The demon was obviously disappointed by this action that its contractor did until his contractor smiled.
The power….
The golden haired boy looked at everyone that hurt them.
To kill everyone…
He finally looked at the demon and there he saw those golden irises burn with hared but filled sadness. A sign of a human prepared for solitude for the rest of his life. The cost of everything that he had ever wished for his ‘familly’ is gone after 10 days after all.
That destroyed my family!
“Demon! I will go into a contract with you!” the boy announces earning shocked gasps and looks from the demonic cult. The boy’s eyes are open wide clearly on the verge of insanity. “And my first order is to kill everyone in this room!”
This will be worthwile to cultivate. “Understood,” in just seconds everyone in the room are being killed one by one. Their screams of happiness became that of fear and desperation. Some even tried to bargain to the demon but the demon held no interest towards souls of common quality.
The child who witnessed the bloodshed, the result of his own words gagged and puked everything that the cult forcibly feed them. He is aware that it was through his words that the demon acted upon his order and he thought that it would give them the satisfaction but no… He only felt empty. The screams that came from the cult died out in his ears, a technique he learned from being defiled and tortured by these pigs.
The demon was done and saw his master inside the cage. Oh how beautiful this doll is looking so empty but he does not like a doll but rather a respectable master to serve. He pulls open the cage and there his master gains his bearings and go towards the corpse on the altar.
“It is to no surprise that you summoned me using the soul of your twin brother,” the demon exclaimed earning a surprised look from the boy.
“I-I did not sacrifice my brother to summon you!” the boy was obviously shaken by the revelation that the demon could not help but be unimpressed.
“Face the truth, young summoner. I am only able to appear with the right sacrifice and intention,” the demon said observing how the boy is in the verge of crying again. The demon sighed and transformed into “I am not so unreasonable to take and not give anything,” the demon summons a paper with a quill. He also summoned a table and chairs and signed him to sit down. The demon hands the contract and quill over the boy. “Here, I can grant you 3 wishes and in exchange….” The demon’s eyes glow from amidst the black smoke surrounding him. “I eat your soul,”
The boy was surprised for a second and then eerily calm next. “Okay,” said the boy with no visible expression.
The demon hummed in delight. “Where do you like our contract to be embedded on you?”
“Anywhere is fine!” the boy said impatiently. The demon grabs the boy’s hand and held his hand in front of his right eye. The demon activated his power and marks the boy’s eye of his demonic symbol.
The boy is processing that he really did accept a demon’s contract. He looks at the corpse of his brother and sat down with a sigh. He looks at the demon with a calculating gaze. “First rule is that you shall not lie in any way to me,”
The demon made a surprised sound. This kid is really interesting. “That is a smart way to use your first wish,” the demon hummed. The demon writes on air until the mark on the child’s eye glows signifying the implementation of the first rule. “The second wish?”
“Can… can you resurrect the dead?” the child looked nervous but his eyes were filled with anticipation.
“Yes,” the demon smiled but it was met with a glare.
“Liar, you already said a while ago that you’ve already used my brother’s soul,” the child looked at him with disdain. His golden eyes sparking in contempt.
The demon was amused by this action. “You’re smart, I was pretty sure that you are naïve because of how much you are crying a moment ago,” the demon summons a bunch of illusions with his twin brother. “It does not need to be alive to be resurrected completely, don’t you know?”
The child’s hands brushes against his hair. “Don’t mock me, demon. I am still your master,” a similar thing happened to the mark on the child’s eye and the implementation of the second rule is done. The child was clearly confused about the second wish he is gonna make.
What do I do?! I do not know how to use my last remaining wishes!
Everything suddenly feels heavy. “Y-you should not take another me master other than me!” he confronts the demon obviously not trusting the demon. “Even if their offers are better than mine and they order to kill me,”
“That is not counted as a wish, Sora,” the demon said with finality. “It is distasteful to think that one would exercise disloyalty towards their master,”
The boy displayed a confused face but did not ask any further. “Then, you should never betray me,”
“I understand, Sora,” the demon said
The boy was surprised that the demon agreed immediately. “For my third wish, you are to always protect me,”
“Until when?”
“Until the end of our contract,”
“Hmm…. I agree,”
The flow for the last rule is different from the two even the child needed to close his eyes to prevent being blinded by the light. Alas, the child opens his eyes and saw a figure of a man with ginger hair smiling at him.
“I believe that an Earl needs to have a butler to escort them. Is it not to your liking, Sora?”
Recovering from the initial shock he then he glares at the man. “From now on you are not allowed to call me by name. That is a dead man’s name, after all,” the boy reaches out to his twin’s hand. “Starting today my name will be Aether, Aether of the Viator family. You are not allowed to call me any names but that, demon,” Aether expresses disdain to him.
“Yes, my lord,” the demon then incinerates the contract and held a hand towards his now master. “You should also make a name for me,”
This made Aether look at the demon in interest and smirked when he finally knows what to name him. “Ajax, then, a name befitting for you. A dog’s name, ”
The demon, Ajax, only smiled at his master.
What a brat……