In an instant, a grin started to form on the broken face, and eyes that seemed to have diminished started to glow again in fiery flame, with chilling words resonating throughout the whole place.
“Bore….soulsss…to…eattt, kekeke”
“It’s nice to meet you again, Belial,” said a young man as he entered, turning his amber gaze toward the entity levitating in the middle, a huge red magic circle formed beneath it.
“Do you..know…be..Huban?” The demon’s grin started to fade away, looking at the man who identified it, while not showing any fear on his face.
A demon’s soul, mostly belonging to the noble ones of a lineage where they are immortal with an undying ethereal body, makes them an entity worshipped by those who want to bring hell upon this land.
‘Is that a demon?’ Esme entered with her golden eyes first falling on the creature in the center, causing her pupils to contract with visible coldness as it fallen on magic circle, understanding that this was a ritual to summon the demon which was already halfway formed.
“You appear the same as before,” Ryuk’s narrowed eyes kept looking at the demon, continuing, “disgusting.”
“Huh…Thank you for the…cobplibent, Huban,” Belial never thought that some random human who knew about it would compliment it to this extent.
“Hm, this confirms that your brain still works the same,” Ryuk, already aware of the meaning behind his words taken to this demon intentionally called it as such, so that he could confirm the minor changes from his past life to now in it.
Belial looked at the young man for some time before saying, “Are you bocking be, huban?”
“I do,” Ryuk straightforwardly answered, not caring a bit about the widened red flamed eyes or the Demonic aura around it.
“hahaHAHAHAHA… Brave!… Your soul will be delicious,” Belial burst into laughter.
A silhouette formed by the light accentuated the devilish aura of its body as if materializing out of the shadow.
With a grin, Belial turned towards the young woman, adding, “But, let’s eat sobe dessert first.”
SWOOSH
In an instant, the whole space turned crimson due to oozing fog before a mist burst towards the young woman standing calmly, holding the young man’s hand and not taking action herself due to trust in the man.
“It really stinks,” Esme said while being surrounded by crimson fog, turning her eyes towards Ryuk, who was completely composed even in front of a noble demon.
“Do you want me to kill it?” Ryuk inquired casually, already aware of the demon’s premature form being unable to even pull out half of the energy, let alone enough to defeat him.
“No, you can do whatever you want,” Esme replied, understanding that there was some reason for him to not directly kill the demon. She shook her head and started to bear the dirty stench assaulting her nose, her lone support being the hand which she held.
‘Is her olfactory receptors sharper than mine?’ Ryuk thought, being beside her and also surrounded by the red mist but somewhat unaffected by the smell unlike her.
[Host, she prefers hygiene, that’s why she feels bothered by small dirt unlike you, who bathe once every several months.]
‘…’ Hearing the system’s voice and understanding that it could be a reason, while also not appreciating the way it phrased those words, Ryuk stated, ‘Do your work first; I don’t want any mistakes.’
[Host, you beat this shit here, and I will beat that shit there. You just wait; I’ll come after cutting one or two limbs of it. After all, this is my first battle cameo; brutality shall fall ^_^ ]
SWISH
‘Hope it didn’t make any mistakes,’ Ryuk thought, feeling the hollow sensation like the one he felt when the system went previously to collect data about the Neolith Harem System possessed by Host Lin Feng, making him aware that it had gone outside again.
Everything now depended on the system and how it would execute last night’s command and plan that Ryuk orchestrated: keeping Drishti in check, learning about another System’s Host, and gaining the trust of Dariants—all while remaining in the shadows.
Yes, last night when he decided to scatter the potion at the risk of making another System aware of his presence, he wasn’t solely interested in the well-being of Dariants.
Like indeed, he was kind and merciful, but not enough to do charity like Esme.
His intent was clearly to get Dariants who are known for their physical strength, detailed stone architecture, and Titanora as a whole on his side.
After all, what could be a better place to get raw materials for his battleships than a whole devastated continent, filled with a race which was most suitable for being labor to do heavy lifting of ship spare parts.
Being hated by these people, while Esme being trusted by them, he used Esme’s support to accomplish his goal without letting anyone doubt his intent.
His stay here was maybe due to Esme, but not at all he was bound to always remain here without having some profit in the long run, which was establishing trust between these people in the most convenient way.
Which was by being their Savior.
If not him then Esme, after all, she loved him, so indeed he could have her do some work for him.
Like the reason he rejected her to accompany him outside this Continent being also the part of his plan, where being already aware of her feelings, which will force her to make decisions in his favor while not prioritizing her attachment to these people.
Feelings were on one side but by flowing in them, he can’t let his future decisions get blurred, now that remaining was, how perfectly System do its work.
He was not insensitive or cruel to anyone, it’s just his actions aligned to the side where his profit was more— as simple as that.
Thud
“Haa….Haa….Why I can’t touch her?” Belial’s half body fallen on the ground, looking at Ryuk’s direction not understanding the reason for it not being able to possess her soul, and being repelled by something.
“She prefers hygiene, that’s why,” A smile formed on Ryuk’s face as he leaned and gripped one of the red horns coming out of the demon’s forehead and lifted it up.
“Kuughhh!….what did you do to…be huban!” Belial shouted with eyes already burning with hell flame enhancing even more, gazing at the smiling young man, making it understand that the sudden disruption it felt from its main body was somewhat linked with this human.
“Belial, be grateful that, I will not kill you,” Ryuk was definitely not going to kill the demon in his hand, already cut its connection with the main body, he had separated a consciousness here, which was now going to become his tour guide in the demon continent.
Yes, not because of some soft heart towards the pain of Dariants, but he wanted to go to the demon continent only to kill the Flagbearer.
Humans are creatures prone to forget the sacrifice of others, move forward have some amount of ungratefulness but it doesn’t mean one can stop doing kind deeds.
It’s just while doing any kindness, always keep one’s losses and gains in check, others’ kindness on oneself’s loss is definitely plain stupid.
SWOOSH
“Dabn you Huban!” The demon shouted causing the dense Demonic energy to condense inside the place, shrouding the whole a mile range into black dense cloud, with visible ominous aura filling the whole space.
‘Grimoire,’ Not caring a bit since, his ability kept repelling this energy and Esme also tightly gripped his hand which was expected since, it was favorable for her.
WHOOSH
“What is this!” Due to having concentrated Demonic energy in the surrounding area, Belial’s voice was not more clear with its vision seeing everything in red, for the first time saw something dark black covering its body.
A slimy object of black color devouring its physical body, making the demon release even more intense Demonic energy.
SWOOSH
CRACK
Due to intense energy, the ship’s interior already rubbles started to expand outward with visible dents forming and tearing, slowly whole roof destroying revealing a huge tornado of black and red mist above the ship, trying to devour everything nearby.
SWISH
“Don’t leave me,” Ryuk pulled Esme closer with his and wrapped around her waist, with his Amber gaze which was outshining even those shiny crimson clouds, fading behind the red fiery eyes and intense enough to tear through the darkness, fixed on rampaging demon in his grip.
“L..e.. A.. ve…be Huban!” Belial cried with enraged voice.
With a cold gaze, few words left Ryuk’s mouth,” Submit Belial”
Hearing those words, Belial’s oozing anger, rampaging Demonic energy and surrounding intense pressure instantly bombarded towards the man clenching his horn, with a restoration coming out Demon’s mouth,” How far a mere huban, order a noble debo— AAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!”
And with this Belial screamed for eternity, lol.
So, I wanted to inform you guys, Enough of Romance, I tried my best, but being inexperienced, I can’t stretch this love story further, now, Action will begin, Ryuk’s motives and his cards will be shown, next chap will tell what exactly he did and where did system went to, (no spoiler since, I need to write the chap now, which will take time)
