Walking alongside the demon who'd been trying to kill him so far, Haruki kept venturing deeper into the mines in an attempt to get closer to the echoing voice of a crying demon. Despite the stranger truce between the two, he kept one of his eyes fixed on her from the corner.
'She hasn't complained or even tried to hurt me since we came here, what's going on?' Her silence was suffocating, which was only further intensified by the dust of coal floating around in the mines.
"I can see you staring at me, you know?" shooting Haruki a sharp gaze, Nabe stopped in her tracks and just stared at him.
Her arms crossed together, she seemed more bothered by him staring at her than the whole invading her memory part.
"I'm just making sure you're not plotting anything behind my back," giving her that reply, Haruki kept walking towards the sound of the baby's cries deeper into the cave.
"Like what exactly?" Following Haruki once again, Nabe continued. "I can't do anything to you in this place, did you not even know that an incubus's greatest strength is controlling the dreams of others?"
'I can't admit that, can I?' Keeping his mouth shut, Haruki kept moving forward.
Finally, after walking for what felt like an hour, they both arrived at cradles of devils being nurtured in a dark corner. Surrounded by walls of coals, countless devil children were scattered around the floor with only one female guardian's body crushed under a giant rock. The children were no more fortunate either as only one of them could still draw any breath to cry. As for the rest? Their bodies were buried under rubble which in turn painted the whole floor in a crimson red.
"What happened here?" Haruki asked, slowly floating towards the only living child.
"You'll see," stepping off the entrance to the section of the cave, Nabe glanced back at the sight of inquisitors marching right in.
Perplexed by the whole thing, Haruki watched as the men scanned the room with their swords drawn and their torches held high. Their shadows scattered and danced around the coal as if teasing an accidental ignition to happen from the flames in their torches. Thankfully, however, as a man cloaked from head to toe came into the place, he ordered them to extinguish all the torches to bring him the crying devil child.
"Is this not enough?" Her eyes downcast, Nabe pulled Haruki's attention towards her again. "I know what you've done to my body in the real world, I can already feel its composition turning. So please, can we just leave this place?"
Hearing her plea was not something Haruki had ever expected to come out of this interaction. However, since he'd already placed the mark of the lust demon on her body, he had little reason to fear her in the mortal world.
"I have a few questions that I need some answers to, if you can do that we can leave this place right now and get back to the real world," keeping his fingers ready to snap them out of the nightmare, Haruki kept his eyes locked with Nabe's.
"Fine!" She replied, her teeth gritted shut.
'To think I wanted to control this imp, but got put into a controlling spell instead!' Grinding her teeth like sand, Nabe glared at Haruki in rage until he finally snapped them out of the 'This is all that bitch Asmodia's fault!'
Consumed by the light that awakened them both, Nabe woke up to her still laying in bed with Haruki's demonic body towering over her. Still having the injury on her face, she squinted her eyes in pain and a frustrated groan left her mouth. To top it all off, she could feel the curse taking hold of her heart as it slowly turned her into a half-demon half-devil hybrid.
"Once we're done with my questions, I'll heal you so you can move again," holding his hand towards her, Haruki bound her with holy chains and a pair of slithery tentacles as a precaution in case she tries to rebel.
"Fuck you!" She yelled, her eyes bleeding and bloodshot.
'One more thing just in case…' Digging his nail into her chest, he infused her with a yet controlling ability called the crimson-tongued demon. 'Now if she tries to kill me, I can make her organs burst out of her body.'
No stranger to what he was doing, Nabe now knew better than to go against her captor.
"What do you want?!" She growled, her fangs laid ready to tear Haruki's skull.
"First, I want to know who you are, and why you're trying to kill me?" To his question, she tried to resist by looking to the other side, but as her organs began squeezing in on her, she was forced to cough out all the answers.
"Stop! I'm telling you! Just stop!" Groaning in pain, she drew deep breaths as Haruki let her organs relax once more. "I-I…Uhm, I'm Nabe Bloodhorn, a devil adopted by the emperor, and now one of his war generals to the western fronts."
Her loaded answer took Haruki a moment to process, but at the end of his assessment, a wide grin took over his face. If Nabe was anywhere near the level of Michael, then draining her levels and skill was sure to make Haruki and his party have a much better chance at striking down the rest of the war generals.
"And why were you trying to kill me?" He asked, his breaths growing heavy at the thought of soon melding with her body.
Turning her gaze back onto him, her resentful look broke into a saddened grimace. Her mind was finally being broken by the curses, and her body was soon to follow suit. Even the torture made her skin crawl with a chilling sensation that was more orgasmic than anything she's felt before.
Although reluctant, she raised her hands to draw Haruki in. Seeing how much the curse had taken hold of her, Haruki quickly used rejuvenation on her body before climbing into bed with the devil.
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