"Who are you? Are you that voice from earlier?"
"Do you still want to live human?" (???)
"Who are you and even if I do, how can you do that?"
"It's easy, We.Make.A.Deal." (???)
"What's the deal?"
"I'll save you, and give you my power, but in return. I can borrow your body whenever I wanted."
"Hmm... No thanks!"
"Alright to finalize the de... wait what?" (???)
"No thanks!"
"Wait what WHY??" (???)
"Why should I live to be a slave to a random voice in my head?"
"YOU'RE REALLY GOING TO DIE YOU KNOW?"
"It's okay, getting my freedom robbed is not a good deal for me."
"COME ON, ALRIGHT THEN HOW ABOUT I SAVE YOU, GIVE YOU POWER, AND WE SPLIT YOUR BODY, I CAN USE IT AT NIGHT AND YOU CAN USE IT DURING THE DAY?"
"Still no."
"HEY, YOU'RE SPIRIT ABOUT TO LEAVE YOUR BODY SOON!"
"OKAY LAST OFFER, I let you borrow my power, but I can live in your body, and at least once a year, you have to fulfill one of my wishes."
"Deal!"
"Damn human sure love to bargain. Alright, to finish the deal we need to exchange our name." (???)
" I am The Chief of The Daevas, Angra Mainyu"(Angra)
"And my name is Faust."
"Or should I say, The man who makes a pact with the devil, Faust?"
And with that, Faust and Angra are bound by the contract.
"Faust, for now, release me from my seal first. Go to the safe behind the corner wall. The password is 666." (Angra)
"Come on 666? I know you're a devil but isn't this too cliche?"
"Oh please it's taboo 1000 years ago and people barely knew it."
Faust dragged his ragged body to where the safe is located. He found a small hole in the wall and punched through it. With that, a small section of the moldy wall broke, exposing the safe hidden in there. He inputted the password, opened the safe, and found a ring inside.
"Is this where you're sealed?" (Faust)
"Yes, now cut a little skin off your finger and put on the ring." (Angra)
With Faust's blood and the contract, the ring tightens on his finger and absorbed Faust's blood.
In an instant, his body felt really light. His wound healed at a visible rate, his blood stopped flowing from his wounds, his bones retracted to their place and his skin recovered leaving no scars behind.
With the power surging within him, Faust went after the big mantis Void. The Voids' movement seemed like a slow-motion in Faust's eyes. He easily grabbed the scythe part of the hand and pull it out hard.
With that pull, the hand easily broke off from the Voids' body and blue blood gushed out.
"Wow.." (Faust)
"You're impressed human? That's nothing to my full power." (Angra)
"THIS ABILITY THING IS SO COOL, ITS WHAT I'VE ALWAYS WANTED" (Faust)
"PLEASE GIVE ME MORE!" (Faust)
"I can't." (Angra)
"WHYY?" (Faust)
"I'll explain it later, for now, you should finish these creatures first."(Angra)
"Get ready, cause it won't even take 5 minutes with this power." (Faust)
Faust used the scythe-shaped hand and cut the Mantis-shaped Void body in half horizontally and destroyed the core on its head.
Seeing Its subordinate defeated, the humanoid Void lashed out to Faust. Faust was ready to deal with the Void's annoying speed, but unexpectedly the Void's speed doesn't seem that fast anymore, Faust can keep up with the speed and even overpowering it.
Faust waited for an opening. When the Void wants to cut Faust's chest again, Faust pivoted his leg, and moved to the Void's side and using all his speed he swung the scythe in his hand and cut The Voids' head clean.
With a still intact core, the Void is still alive, but with only its head it can't do anything.
"Well, well I don't think my revenge will come so soon. How does it feel to be slower than me Mr. Speedyhand."
The Void didn't say anything and just stared at Faust with eyes bloodshot and full of hatred.
"Alright I don't like that look, So goodbye, and I wish we will never meet again."
Faust brings his leg up and hammer kicked the Voids' head destroying its core hidden in its head.
Before the leg came and destroyed its head, The Voids' eyes shined a little and then lost all of their colors.
"Alright now, that's everything is over, Can you tell me what do you mean by you can't...."
Faust suddenly felt his head dizzy and body so heavy then he passed out.
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When Faust opened his eyes, he sees a 3 meter tall humanoid with dragon scales covering his body making a full-body armor, and a pair of dragon wings fully unfolded reaching 12 meters from one end to the other. His hands are a pair of sturdy and sharp claws. His body is dyed blood-red with human skin on his face.
Seeing this, Faust only stayed silent with mouth agape.
"I'm so cool aren't I Faust?"
"Who?Me? WAIT WHO ARE YOU?ANGRAA?"
"Yes it's me Angra, and don't ask me why I looked like this, I don't know either."
Angra told Faust that they are in Faust's consciousness and now they are living on the same body, Faust's body. And it is the reason why they can converse like this. And currently, Faust's body is adapting to his new power is the reason that his body collapsed.
"What do you mean by you don't know?"
"I actually don't remember who I am, and why I'm at that place, when I'm awake all I know is my name and what am I." (Angra)
"So I have a question, are you actually a demon?" (Faust)
"I don't know but my intact memories are telling me that I am." (Angra)
"Well does that mean you're evil?" (Faust)
"What is evil? Good and Evil depend only on who can make others believe what they believe and resent what they resent. For example, when you humans butcher cows, you felt nothing but for the cows, you are the evil who murder their family for generations and generations and never felt bad for it. So the concept of good and evil is just bullshit."(Angra)
"Well I don't want to argue because I don't really care about it, All I want to know is if you eventually want to eat me or devour my soul then take over my body."(Faust)
"Not really, and the deal from earlier like the offer of giving me your body is just me being curious, you know locked there for many years I heard that demons do that kinda stuff, but I do want to know how it feels to have a physical body. My goal is to only find out who I really am and why I'm there in the first place." (Angra)
"Alright then we have no problem so far. And by the way, why can't you tell me more about your powers?"(Faust)
"I..."(Angra)
"you what?" (Faust)
" I forgot...." (Angra)
"...." (Faust)
"But don't worry, I am very strong and you can discover the powers yourself along with the growth of your new body. Oh and it looks like it's time for you to wake up."(Angra)
"WAIT EXPLAIN TO ME MORE! WHAT DO YOU ME...." (Faust)
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"DONT DIE CAPTAINNNNN HUWAAAA" (Jess)
"JESS BE QUIET FOR GOD's SAKE, YOU CAN EVEN SEE HIS HEART IS STILL BEATING." (Alfred)
"BU..BUT IT'S ALREADY BEEN 3 DAYS SINCE HE PASSED OUT, WILL HE BE IN A COMA FOR YEARS, UNTIL WE GROW OLD AND HAVE GRANDCHILDREN AND..."(Jess)
"Grand what? You guys are so noisy wth." (Faust)
"CAPTAINN THANK GOD YOU'RE ALIVEEE."(Jess)
"I already told you he won't die that easily."(Alfred)
"What happened to you that caused you to passed until 3 days capt?"(Jess)
"It's okay, I will be writing the full report later."(Faust)
"Oh and capt, when we found your body, it is clear of any wounds, alongside lots of death Voids, and we also found traces of human blood but no wounds from you? Where does it come from?" (Jess)
"I know capt is amazing and all but isn't impossible for you to remain scatheless."(Jess)
"Do you wish for me to be dying Jess? Remember that I'm still your captain and I can give you a week of toilet duty if you need a reminder." (Faust)
"WAIT WHAT NO! WHAT I MEAN IS THAT THERE'S ONLY YOU THERE, SO IF YOU ARE WOUNDLESS WHERE DOES THE BLOOD COME FROM?"
"Yes capt, I'm also curious myself."( Alfred)
"Alright I tell you the story. So after you left...." (Faust)
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"Congrats capt!! Finally you have your own esper ability!" (Jess)
"But, it's rare that it only awaken when you're an adult." (Alfred)
"What Alfred are you jealous because I'm stronger now?" (Faust)
Faust is concealing the truth about Angra because, in this world, there is no known record about demons and Faust don't want any unnecessary attention to him and Angra. So for now, he said that he just awakened his esper power, although rare it is possible that people awaken their esper ability when they're adult.
"Alright capt, now that's your body is all better let's go back home tonight, I think you've had enough action here." (Jess)
'Yes let's go from here Faust, I can't wait to explore the world.' (Angra)
'Gra? Wait how can you speak?' (Faust)
'It's only inside your head so it's okay, umm.. by the way, I think that I gave you the wrong contract.." (Angra)
'What do you mean?'
'We should be having a partnership contract but instead, we signed a unification contract. The former makes us a business partner, while the latter literally unite us together making us into one entity...' (Angra)
'.... so'
'what will happen to me?' (Faust)
'To put it simply, when you die, I will die, when I die you'll also die..' (Angra)
'but there's also benefit, when you already get used to your new body, you can use my full power.' (Angra)
'alright, no problem so far, I only have to keep you company and let you borrow my body sometimes right?' (Faust)
'Ah maybe you can also see spirits later, AND MAYBE, JUST MAYBE you have to eat souls at least once a month, if not your devil side of your body will die and you'll die too because you're literally a half-devil now..' (Angra)
'...' (Faust)
'WHAT DO YOU MEAN ANGRA, WHY ARE YOU NOT TELLING ME THIS EARLIER? ARE YOU TRYING TO TRICK ME?' (Faust)
'Eh, I don't know myself either earlier, so technically I'm not tricking u, I lost my memories you remember?' (Angra)
'Btw, it's hard to find someone compatible with me, that's why I tried to take my shot to leave that goddamn place when you're there, our aura unexpectedly has high compatibility with each other. I've been there for I don't know how long and I just wanted to go out." (Angra)
'Alright then it's okay, you literally saved my life so it's an equal trade. And it's only souls right, I don't have to eat living people's souls do I?' (Faust)
'I mean you don't have to, but if you can choose between eating beans and A5 Wagyu beef, you would choose wagyu beef right?' (Angra)
'I don't want to do unnecessary human killing Gra" (Faust)
'It's okay you don't have to kill it yourself, you can eat lingering souls that exist in this world, but if their souls are not strong or don't have any strong will, it will taste very bland and less nutritious for your demon body.' (Angra)
'Deal! I at least can bear with that, thank you again for saving my life Gra' (Faust)
'It's a deal and now you better keep it safe because your life is my life now.' (Angra)
"CAPT HELLOO, CAPTTT! EARTH TO CAPTAIN HELLO?" (Jess)
"Ah sorry, I'm just tired and missing that korean bbq back home" (Faust)
"Alright we're done here, let's go back team." (Faust)