My heart hammers loudly in my chest as fear and panic sink in. I can’t explain how I am feeling at the moment. I just know that I feel so lost to the point that I wish that I could turn back time—of course I doubt that I can travel back in time again. Questions bubble up inside of me. How much had he seen? How much does he know? My head is starting to spin and I am starting to develop a headache because of it. I want to know what he thinks but I could not do that because I don’t have the time to confront him without seeming guilty! My duties as a healer can’t even distract me from the thought of Archer, that my healing time took longer than usual. “You must be tired, Zarah. Do you want to rest?” My brother nudges me after I healed my last patient. “I’m fine. Why’d you ask?” I stare at my brother. I wasn’t sweating or anything, nor am I yawning to show any signs that I am tired. “You have this distant look on your face.” “And what’s wrong with that? That doesn’t explain an
The battle between Mammon and Asmodeus took an unprecedented turn. The hotel would have been completely blown up if I had not intervened. Actually, it was supposed to be over earlier but Mammon decided to keep playing with Asmodeus, so the fight was prolonged. It was obvious that he was torturing the demon prince of lust. However, due to his greed of wanting to torture Asmodeus, the building starts to gradually collapse. It took me, Leviathan, Beel, Remoire, and Kirin to evacuate everyone and keep it partially repaired. However, when we got back to Mammon and Asmodeus, the demon prince of greed gave us some bad news. He lost Asmodeus. Needless to say, the pinning ceremony was postponed. Nobody complained as it was broadcasted that it was a demon attack and one that the hunters felt like it belonged to one of the demon princes—which they are right on that part. What they don’t know is that there is more than one demon prince responsible for the attack and they are only out to search
My attention is on Belphegor, not knowing what’s happening. I only know that there’s a question at the back of my mind at the moment. I understand that it is not unavoidable that Belphegor will know about Jackie, especially when he is constantly following me. The only thing that bothers me the most is how he seems to know Jackie and sounds like he genuinely cares. There are still more questions following up about why Belphegor acted the way that he did, but it’s hard to formulate the questions, especially when there’s another wild demon prince in the area. “I thought that you guys would never get here.” Asmodeus speaks, bringing my attention back to him. “Shit.” Leviathan curses. “Beel, gen in here now.” It is my first time hearing Leivathan sounding so commanding that it makes me question if he really is the real Leviathan. “BEEL!” He was getting a little bit emotional that the barrier he created is starting to sway. “Leviathan, calm down.” I have to order him. “Your barrier is
The demon of lust is one of the bitchiest demons I ever get to face. Asmodeus has the power to completely brainwash anyone who gets stung by his scorpions. And, based from all the scorpions crawling inside the hotel, I can only guess that everyone is now under Asmodeus’s control. Based on my previous experience, taking off the scorpion that latches itself on its victim should undo the brainwashing—that or defeating Asmodeus. However, I need to find him first in order to accomplish it. But that might be a challenging task to accomplish with all of the humans surrounding us. I don’t know if I have mentioned this before but there are a lot of them in the lobby just staring out into space as if they are all sleeping. A shy movement on my leg made me aware that there’s a scorpion crawling up my leg. Before I got the chance to shake it off, it stung me with its tail. I flinch, but I did not make much of a sound out of fear of catching the attention of the hypnotized people. Right. As lon
“B–Belphegor…” I manage to whisper his name. The way that I seem to feel relief when I see him is strange and alien to me. Belphegor stands in front of me, guarding me from the demon that is Asmodeus. I know that Belphegor heard me. He just didn’t acknowledge me so far because there’s another demon prince in the room. Asmodeus doesn’t look like the happeniest demon at the moment. I notice that there’s blood on the side of his lips, so I can only assume that Belphegor must have hit him. And, just like the rest of the other demon princes, the wound is gone before the demon prince of lust speaks. “Seems like another pest has come. Your lucky that you have such a pretty face. Otherwise, I might have killed you.” I have never seen Belphegor’s face even once and yet Asmodeus here sounds like he sees him without the mask. “You damn creep!” Belphegor seems like he was about to hit him, but his body seems to feeze. The hand that he used to hit Asmodeus suddenly starts to burn. “Tsk, t
My neck feels stiff as when I wake up from a dreamless sleep. I find myself in an unfamiliar room. There are faint rose scents lingering around along with a light and romantic music. Piercing pain in my head hits me almost instantly. I already know that I must be in a hotel room. When I open my eyes, I am not even surprised that I am right. However, instead of being in my room, I realize that this isn’t even mine to begin with. I jog up the fog in my brain to remember what happened to me. The moment I do, I quickly sit up on the bed that I am lying on and immediately check my body. Thank goodness I still have my clothes on. I am sure of it. Right before I lost my consciousness, it was the demon Prince Asmodeus who caught me. Or maybe I was just too drunk and thought that it was him. In any case, I need to leave this place before whoever stays here comes back. I kick off the sheets aside, rubbing sleep from my eyes as I do. My legs move to get off the bed, but as soon as my