I suddenly woke up in our house as if nothing happened. Wait, nothing did happen. How am i alive? Didn't i die? What happened?
"You're finally awake."
A kid wearing black clothes, white hair, and is weird.
Yuuta: You're the kid i saw on my way back!
"I told you you're going to die."
Yuuta: What happened back there?
"In the eyes of normal human beings, nothing happened here all was a bad dream. So the one who witnessed what happened yesterday, all of them thought it was just a nightmare and forget about it."
Yuuta: How is that even possible? And didn't i-?
"Let me be frank. You died a useless death."
Yuuta: What?! I mean i did die but it's not meaningless, yeah there is this reapers that took my wife... MY WIFE?! Where is Shinda?!
"Well calm down boy."
Yuuta: How can i calm down? My wife is kidnapped by those reapers and they said she's going to marry the dark lord!
"It's your fault for being such a weak creature!"
Yuuta: I did my best to save my wife that's why i died!
"You were just trying to satisfy yourself! You didn't want to save your wife! You just want to satisfy yourself that you tried everything to save your wife. Didn't she say something about even if she die, she will find a way to save you and be with you!"
Yuuta: What do you know about her?!
"A lot i can say. Like how she became the chosen one for the ritual, and what will happen to her once the time has come."
Wait so that glowing thing in her nape has something to do with this thing?!
Yuuta: One night... i saw something on my wife's nape, something glowing, what was that?
"That mark... i guess she really is the chosen one. I thought the dark lord just wants some girls to be with him."
Yuuta: I need to go save my wife.
"You sure? If you save your wife without knowing how to get to the underworld, you'll waste your time and most likely you'll die, but this time for sure."
Yuuta: I don't care, i'll do what it takes to save her.
"That's why your wife was taken, you're so childish, maybe you're thinking you're the hero of justice. Are you kidding me? Face reality! Your wife will die once the ritual and the new dark lord will rise. The only way to stop it is to kill the dark lord. How will you go to the underworld in the first place? Do you have the guts to jump into the unknown? Even if you have, no normal human can withstand the pressure of the underworld. The moment you jumped in there, you're good as dead.
Yuuta: What... should i do then...?
"Don't show me you're pathetic side. Humans are weak beings that let's emotion get in the way of their doings, so that's why everything is messed up here. The only thing you can do is to kill the dark lord yourself that's why i revived you and you can't survive this battle without me."
Yuuta: Why did you save me?
"I didn't save you, i used you."
Yuuta: What do you want from me?!
"I was waiting for this events to happen. We have the same goal now so you can be a good vessel."
Yuuta: What are you talking about?
"Shintaki Yuuta my goal is to defeat the dark lord Zargon. If you want to save your wife, i can help you and you can help me."
Yuuta: So, you're saying that you want us to help each other to bring down this dark lord?
"We're not helping each other, we're using each other. My only goal here is to kill the dark lord."
Yuuta: I am very confused... how am i alive? Where did they take my wife? And how will i get her back.
"There is no use on dawdling on that. For now, let me introduce myself, let me warn you i am a being known as a devil."
Yuuta: And of course a devil like to use the weaknesses of humans for their own use.
"Certainly. My name is Shi, and i am tasked to kill the dark lord Zargon."
Yuuta: What did the dark lord do to you?
Shi: Long time ago the demons and the reapers had a great war to decide who will take the souls of humans.
Yuuta: Souls of human?!
Shi: Of course the only ones who didn't succeed in life and died a miserable death like you, if i wanted i would have eaten your soul. But i need a vessel so that i can fight those reapers.
Yuuta: So, what happens to those who had a fulfilling life?
Shi: Those bastards go to the celestial home or you humans called it heaven.
Yuuta: What's the deal? So, you devils want to take down the dark lord and eat all the souls here.
Shi: Yes, and i'm using you because your wife is going to be the savior of the underworld.
Yuuta: My wife?
Shi: In this world, every thousands of years, the dark lord will choose different woman in the human world to be his sacrifice.
Yuuta: Why? Don't they have a queen there or something?
Shi: The only way to give birth to the next dark lord is through a ritual. This ritual needs a sacrifice, a girl who is pregnant and her baby is a boy.
Yuuta: Wait. Don't tell me!
Shi: Your wife is pregnant, so the dark lord will use the baby to be the next dark lord. It is repeated through generations.
Yuuta: I don't know if i should be glad.
Shi: The only way to save your wife and child is to stop the ritual or your child will be a dark lord who only knows how to take souls for their life source.
Yuuta: So, what do we need to do to go to the underworld?
Shi: First i need to ask you a question. Are you prepared to die?
If this is going to save my wife and my child, i'm ready to be a devil and surpass death itself.
Yuuta: Yes, i am prepared for any consequence that might happen to me.
Shi: Then allow me to say it again. You will die Shintaki Yuuta
~to be continued~