Reincarnation Monarch

One.

"Hey, in the end... you mean you're gonna eat us?

Alberto said so in a trembling voice.

Then the devil gently tilted his little neck and nodded his tongue with a long tongue.

"Oh, I'll eat. But that's only after I've done my errands. So until then, you're safe. Good for you, huh?

Then Jody bit this hard.

"You can't go! You're kidding me!

"Come on, come on. As I said earlier, you're a much more prestigious lady, aren't you? Is this the one you're saying in anticipation of what you can't do right now? Or is it just a single cell?

"Fuck! Who's a single cell!

"Come on. Apparently it was the latter."

Jody was outraged and as soon as he opened his mouth to argue, the balance broke in from the side.

"You said we couldn't do anything right now, right? Why not? Why can't you help me?

"What, it's no big deal. I'm just saying that's the kind of contract I got."

"Contract?... I've heard that. But the devil can't appear in the human world on his own. If it were to appear, it would only be if humans called it in. In doing so, the man and the devil must make some kind of pact. So that means whoever called you in traded that kind of contract with you, right?

"Exactly. Ask him why he wanted a contract like that. I'll be in front of you in time. I hope I'm waiting here until then... I'm tired of it."

With that said, the devil quickly scratched out into the void.

They were all so surprised, and then they just stared into a space where there was no longer anything.

And after a little while, they finally realized that the subject of fear had disappeared, and for now they all exhaled with relief.

Two.

"Now what are we gonna do... anyway, if we stay in this room, we'll all be eaten by that demon"

Some time after the devil left, the leaders who calmed everyone down for now were gathered in the corner of the room for future consultations.

"So if we don't manage to find an exit before then..."

Alberto put the whip on first.

"That's right... I wonder if I can find it... I've been searching for a scattered exit since I walked into this dome one foot away, but I didn't see any of them at all ~"

That's what Max said and looked around the room anxiously.

"But there's nothing else to do. In the meantime, we should all look again."

The balance was in favour of Alberto's proposal.

The others, too, as the balance put it, gave their assent to it, either because they found nothing else to do.

Then Max, too, had no choice, but managed to convince himself to agree.

"Okay. Then let's all split up and find it"

Alberto's signal scattered them all around the room.

Max, like everyone else, started looking for an exit sticking to the wall.

(Hmm. I can't help looking... but hey, I didn't see you looking all over just now... hah - Gaius - where the hell are you?)

Max accidentally looked up at the ceiling and leaked one deep sigh.