After waking up at almost noon, Lucifer made his way towards the building where he left his sword for further sharpening. It was an old building with smoke rising from its chimney. The inside of the building was nothing fancy and can be summed up to a single word 'simple'.
When he reached the building's entrance, he heard someone shouting inside. Having missed the morning hunting party and had nothing to do for the time being, he decided to waste some time. Moving in he was met with an old man sitting behind the counter, giving looks of annoyance to someone in his early twenties standing beside the counter which also was the source of noise pollution.
His decision of maintaining the status of random bystander was not approved by the old man, who upon seeing him enter, gestured Lucifer to come towards the counter. Lucifer did as was told with confusion on his face. After getting to know the 'tragic' background of this unexpected invitation, Lucifer turned towards the young man with a blank expression on his face.
It seems that this young man had the habit of playing the role of 'Young Master' type character. Fancying his sword this 'Young master' Demanded that the sword should be sold to him.
"You should be thankful that I am even willing to pay for it."
Were his words coated with special arrogance effect of any random 'Young Master'. Surrendering himself for not being able to find the reason why 'Young Master' took fancy to his sword when it was just above average despite wasting all his brain creative juices.
Why creative, you ask? Well…. You can't understand the thoughts of higher existences like 'Young Master' with normal standards.
Overusing his remaining brain juices to think of a suitable reply to this 'Young Master', all he was able to accomplish was to move his lips, but no words came out. Lucifer sighed, retrieved his sword, gave a look to 'Young Master' and left.
'Young Master' tried to chase him to return this 'humiliation' of being ignored after waking from his daze, but even in that he failed miserably.
Before hell descended, he was the heir of a powerful company, a capable one at that. Comparing to heirs of other powerful family, he was not quite outstanding but his skills in management and business were still nothing to scoff at.
If trying to find his faults then one, which would outshine others, would be how much he boasted about his skills with that proud and arrogant expression. There was also his stepbrother who did not excel as much as he did but was still above average, just above average.
After the chaos started, he started losing his worth because in the present time they were not of much use. His talents, which were the source of his pride, becoming useless hit him hard. Unfortunately, he was not much blessed in physical department.
On the other hand, his stepbrother right now was one of the five people known to be in the 'High' rank, which at first caused him work harder. But after finding that this kind of thing was not his strong suit, he gave up.
He started relying on his brother. As for other survivors, they already had much on their plate and keeping in view of his brother they avoided him. Constantly being looked down upon, which he was not used to since the looks that he mostly got before this were of admiration, awe or envy, he started despairing and eventually he started getting delusional.
In hope of getting revenge, he hired someone to spread false rumors about Lucifer. Lucifer being the introvert he didn't interact much with others in his time on this island. So, when the rumors started spreading there was no one who knew him enough to stand on his side. On the bright side, no one knew him enough to openly say that the rumors were true.
In present time when human population was only about three hundred, there were severe punishments for those who falsely accused others.
Three days after the event he was invited to the house of one of the 'High' people. Which was the brother 'Young Master'. For Lucifer, whose mood was joyful after finding that he had made breakthrough, this invitation was like bucket of cold water on his joyful mood.
The breakthrough was not anything special. He was at 'Middle' rank which was rare but not enough to cause a racket. After storing enough nutrients, he started making more layers of skin, flesh and bones. Spending quarter of his nutrients in that then using the rest to compress his body back to its original size. That doesn't mean he has left the 'Middle' rank to join the 'High' rank. On the contrary he is still in the 'Middle' rank, just that now he has a toe in 'High' rank, before he was completely blocked at door.
Getting to the point, when Lucifer was making his way towards the invited place, he was also scanning his surroundings to find some way of escape. The hospitality he received was not bad. Then he was escorted to the back side of the house where the host of the invitation and 'Young Master' were sitting.
Lucifer was gestured to sit down, and he did with a look of pure curiosity on his face much eager to know for how long this 'Young Master plot' will continue and after hearing what the stepbrother had to say he had to admit he was surprised.
"I apologize for my lack of hospitality. I would love to have our conversation over a cup of tea but as you know the current situation so…. Let's just cut these pleasantries and get to our topic.
As you might have guessed the source of your bad rumors so, I would like to sincerely apologize on my brother's behalf. I have been ignoring his attitude thinking that he was having difficult time accepting reality. But I guess I left him unattended for much longer...…."
And so, he kept going trying to apologize on his brother's behalf with a sincere look. Lucifer, on the other hand, was not a fan of long chats so, he cut him short by saying that he accepted the apology. After wasting some time on pleasantries, he left.
Next day Lucifer heard an interesting rumor about the stepbrother no longer looking after the 'Young Master'. After that he didn't bother about it.
The weather started getting chilly and Lucifer started feeling an ominous premonition in the atmosphere with the warning bell in his 'sub-conscious' getting louder.
Next day on his hunt he stumbled upon a wild Pokémon (Young Master) with an angering look in his eyes. Lucifer's reaction was "hm…oh!" with a blank expression on his face. This further challenged the 'pride' of the 'Young Master'.
The wild Pokémon started the battle with a Body Slam. Lucifer dodged it by easily side-stepping. 'Young Master' unsheathed his sword and swing it in a circle trying to cut Lucifer right after noticing Lucifer side-stepped.
A body slam might be a delusional throwing a tantrum but after seeing the 'Young Master' swing, Lucifer no longer hesitated. Jumping backward enough to just dodge the swing and making a dash towards the 'Young Master' right after his foot touched the ground.
Lucifer was in the 'Middle' rank and was thus faster so, Lucifer when got in range did a roundhouse kick towards the face of the 'Young Master' which he tried to block but failed and flew back until he slammed into a nearby tree.
Lucifer made his way towards the 'Young Master' to put him to unconscious. When Lucifer got near to the 'Young Master' and then he abruptly kicked his left foot to jump sideways. With a loud 'bang' Lucifer felt something piercing into his right shoulder.
Eyeing the 'Young Master' who was breathing heavily had a small grin on his face with one of his hands holding a pistol. Lucifer didn't want to waste his time thinking where he had gotten hold of a pistol when he saw 'Young Master' making his way towards him.
Lucifer ignoring the pain tried to quickly move behind the tree but was shot in the foot the moment he tried to move. After that 'Young Master' started bickering about this and that, that Lucifer didn't bother paying attention to.
The bullets didn't fully enter his body and being at peak of human limits it wouldn't take much longer for him to heal but in the short term it can get critical like now.
The 'Young Master' put his gun on Lucifer's head with a smug smile on his face. Lucifer feeling the gun on his forehead thought of something and moved his eyes to the right without turning his head. Lucifer unfortunately right now was quite a distance from the other party members.
'Young Master' noticing his action thought for a moment and realizing that there might be someone coming moved his gave towards that direction. Lucifer taking this chance used all the explosive power that was left in his left arm and punched 'Young Master' in the stomach.
The 'Young Master' feeling the sudden pain in his stomach bent while Lucifer tried his best to sprint towards one of the nearby trees ignoring the pain. He was one step away from the tree when he heard 'DIE!!' from the direction of 'Young Master' and Lucifer instinctively turned his head toward the source.
He saw pistol pointed at him and the face of the 'Young Master' twisted in pain facing his direction. Facing this kind of situation, Lucifer panicked but after moment he started calming down. As he calmed down, he visibly felt the world slowing down as he saw 'Young Master' pulling the trigger of the gun slowly, in his vision.
As he was focusing on everything slowing down, he felt electricity running through his body stating from his brain. With each passing moment he felt the electricity growing stronger as he got faster. Deciding to analyze this feeling, which was surprising familiar to when he was imprisoned as an AI, later, he arrived behind the 'Young Master' and struck him in the head to make him lose conscious. Just as the 'Young Master' fell on the ground Lucifer felt a sudden chill running down his spine which made him tremble like someone sleeping naked in a snowstorm.
After the other party members arrived at the location, they found the un-conscious 'Young Master and heavily panting Lucifer. Upon returning he explained everything. It was decided that 'Young Master' would be abandoned in some faraway random island. The idea was surprising brought up by the stepbrother.
During the middle of the night, Lucifer woke up from his sleep, panting heavily. After calming down a little and organizing his thoughts a look horror appeared on his face. Lucifer frantically ran out of his dwelling.
The night was chilly with winds like hurricane and one could even feel the electricity present in the air.