The new about the war not ending was a shocking. Aaron was confused was all that was told to us , was that really a lie. "No it was not, All that was told to you was not a lie but rather we demons decided it was better that the same be said in the mortal realm", A soft voice spoke. Both of them paused to see where the voice was coming from. "Alright Sai, come out", said Haku.
"H-hi, and u-uh sorry for reading your mind", voice from what seem to be an orb came out. "You can read mind?, how?, Who are you", questioned Aaron with an amazed look. "u-uh I am Sai, elementary demon". Said the bluish orb. It had this wonderful glow like a fire. "Whats an elementary demon?"
"A demon born without any powers tend to get this fundamental power of the hell, and loose their physical body in doing so and they tend to get these kind of powers",said Haku with a gentle smile. "Either way we are already at the inn so why not go inside and discuss further". Aaron was too busy to notice before but they were already at the inn.
Sai guided them to a nice room , and Aaron also found out that Sai was the owner of the inn. The room was neat clean with a table, chair , redwood flooring, well maintained bed and soft grey mattress with a nice tea table . It was just like a human's room as if humans themself built it.
"This inn is good as always" said haku with a relaxed expression. They all sat down by the tea table. It got quiet for a moment then haku breaking the silence, " So Kid , you said that you came from a gate ? and you said you don't know anything about magic nor do you have any money with you. So how do you plan on tackling that situation, you cannot live in this inn forever now can you?", Asked haku with a concerned look. "I don't really know, for now all i ever want to do is to know how i can get back to my home.", said Aaron.
"How much do you know about the gate", asked the orb with what felt like a concern voice. "Not much, rather i know nothing of the gate or what it is actually supposed to do." replied Aaron. Aaron looked at haku and noticed that he had this sad , sympathetic look. "why , is there anything i need to know?" , Aaron added again.
"Let me tell you this, A gate is what you call a one way portal connecting one place to another, although there has been incidence of people going and returning through the same gate it required a lot of magic knowledge and is so dangerous that it might require sacrifice of more than thousands of silver grade demon just to reverse open a gate and even so the force of gate will kill you the instance you reverse enter",
"So is there no other way for me to go home ? am i stuck here for ever ? what will happen to my father? he said he will be waiting for me to return back?", tear ran down from Aaron's eye.
"B-but there might be just another way to get to your home.", Aaron look at the orb, he knew he still had hope to reach home. "It will be a really tough journey both mentally and physically. But if you can work your way up then you might be able to"
" I am ready to do whatever it takes , i want to see my father , my crying mother and i want to tell them there is no need to worry and i want to see them happy like before.", said aaron with a clear ,loud and strong manner.
"Then you will need to work for my inn , earn some money before the up coming Great Demon's Enrollment", said Sai.
"The great demon's enrollment!!?? Are you CRAZY?!", exclaimed haku. "He's just a boy who has no idea even how magic works and you are telling him to be ready for the great demon enrollment?", said haku, in his voice a small fear could be felt.
"What's a great demon's enrollment?", Asked aaron
"Ever year 200 demons get an opportunity to enroll in the arch, a magic school for those who are really capable. The problem is the exams. Even being able to get a single score in the entrance test would be considered amazing. The applicant ranges from 3000 to 7000 each year and only 5 out of 200 empty seats get filled. ", said haku. "But he's not even a demon can he even take part in such event?" , exclaimed haku again.
"Although they are called great demon's enrollment they don't mind even humans taking the test as all they want are capable and strong individual." said sai.
"S-so I can join the test ?", asked Aaron
"Yes , very much" replied sai
"How does that help me get back home?", Aaron asked again.
"Well it doesn't , taking the test wont help you go home but rather it will help you get into the school. You see there are about 5 gates around the universe and so far only 3 of them are used. The school has this prize waiting for an individual who is really strong, And this prize is something called purple stone one of the great power stone once used by hades himself and this has a capacity to summon a gate, but the problem is that this stone chooses it's own master.", said Sai.
"If i can go home with that stone , then will try my best to acquire it" , said Aaron with a smile and a new light of hope in his eyes.