"We meet again young one" the woman said
"Im back here huh? guess I did almost die. So you'll answer my questions right?"
"Is that what you see us as? A way to answer your questions?"
"I mean everytime im here I you answer all the big questions at the time so...."
"Very well then...you are lucky about his incompetence" the child said
"Who's incompetence? What do you mean?"
"You will see why soon. He goes by many names, you call him Bell but he is also known as Dolus, Apate, Loki, or Belial the Lord of Deceit"
"Who took over me? Didn't you call him "the beast within"?"
"In truth he is another of the Forgotten Lords he goes by Lyssa, Odr, Maniae or Mephisto the Lord of Wrath, whom we sealed inside you body"
"Why?"
"....."
"Alright, why did you grant me power? did you deem me "worthy"?
"You are worthy at your most wrathful, only then will he be able to lend you his power or his mind, we merely hand the reigns over to you and let you decide what to do, but the wrath he generates gets imbued into your soul after every usage of his power until you two will inevitably become one"
"I once asked Bell this but, who are you really?"
"...We will speak again one day"
Your eye's slowly open to a familiar sight, it was Sam and Chloe, we were in the Guild Master's room.
"Your alive! How!? I saw you both get shot" you realized that Sam was still missing an arm
"Shhh, keep yer voice down, Chloe didn't die from the arrow and managed to heal herself and came over and healed me while whatever you were was distracting him, if he checked tae make sure we were dead none of us would be here right now. Currently all of Calmite is on a witch hunt for yeh, what the hell did you do!?" If he's stuck by you this long even after that, you decided to tell him the whole truth. "Mephisto huh? well ah can't say I've ever heard of him but ah guess that's why they're called the "Forgotten Lords", but ah believe yeh, you'd never do something like that consciously"
"Forgotten Lords, Ancient spirits!! Ooh! it's all so fascinating!" Chloe was gawking "tell me, what's it like to be possessed like that?"
"Umm, well id say its like your looking through a window as your body moves on its own, I could hear and see everything but I couldn't move or talk. Im truly sorry to both of you. It's my fault all of this happened, I can't apologize enough"
Sam began to speak but someone walked in and interrupted him
"Umm hello..." Right as you saw him you started to reach for your sword "WAIT, WAIT, Im not Bell!" you set your sword down, he let out a sigh of relief "My real name is Markus, and a few years ago something rather similar to what happened to you happened to me but instead of lending me power he just took my body and I was to weak to get it back, so, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for getting my life back. If you ever need anything don't hesitate to ask me and I will do everything within my power to help" you could tell he was speaking sincerely.
"Speaking of which why am I here?"
"Well bluntly speaking" Markus began "There was no other safe place to go, after Mephisto massacred thousands, everyone wants you dead, and this isn't my real office it's a temporary one made for me till the guild hall is rebuilt, the guild halls are independent so no government has any authority in them and no one would dare offend a guild master by entering without permission, though that title should be gone since most of the guild was wiped out but you'll be safe here for the time being."
"Ah am heading out for a wee bit"
"Where're you going?"
"I have a friend who specializes in metal prosthetics, ill be back in a day or so, see you!"
"Oh yeah! before I forget, here this is for you" Markus handed you a blue card with your identification on it "Hello, Cobalt class adventurer Andrew"
"Why did you give me this?"
"Well Henderson approved of you right?"
"I guess so?"
"Well that means your strong enough to be at least Cobalt rank, so congratulations!"
"Oh yeah, where did he go?"
"I don't know, originally he was supposed to "help" Belial when he gathered everyone but I guess his conscience got in the way, it's probably why he was teaching you so adamantly"
If he had been there who knows what would have happened. I owe him don't I? Well, if we ever meet again I WILL make it up to you.