"Dear, don't," it says inside my mind. My hand holding the door suddenly pull over. The aura feels like someone outside. The noises stop and only I hear is splashing blood. I open the door as possible, Aiko Itoh was the one purging them out.
Our eyes stare in the straight line, more like a chain. She looks away as I found our love mark right on her neck. So... that is our promise after all. But, why does she call me dear?
"Mom, I want to confess something. Something..." said Aiko.
"Something? What?" Megumin asked.
"I...I'm free," she said.
"What?" Megumin confused. "Is it a good thing or a bad thing?" Then, she pinches her Index finger and her Point finger together.
"Huh, I impressed," said Takeru Itoh with an amusing face, while Megumin cover her mouth as she trembles.
"My daughter is finally free from her curse. Who did this for you?" she said.
Then, she looks at me with her sweet grin and her red, shy cheeks.
"How you do it?!" said Akemi. I just said something like it was just an ordinary curse. But, I didn't talk about how.
Back where I help her, those love mark I gave her is cured of her sickness, thanks to Tomioka. She sits down on the ground, splitting her legs to the sides. I can barely see a black curse aura on her neck flying in the air.
Now, it's my time to take that off her. I bite on her love mark again and suck all of the curses she has. She moaned. But this time, Aiko moaned in irritation. It's quite a lot inside of her.
She turns her body pale as I almost finish it up. The harder I suck her neck, the harder she moans. She grabs my orange hair and pulls it. I just have to hold it and am finally done. She went to her slumber because used a lot of energy.
I spit out her disease and burn it down using my holy potion mixed with a bit of herb in it. Man... it tasted horrible. I look at Aiko, she's like an Angel when she was sleeping. So I carry her and enter a route with a reason, to release Aiko from her plagued that God gave it to her and forgive her sins. There, I realized that this was heavily promised from her back than she asked me for. The disease was too thick, it almost killed me in the process and even Aiko as well.
And I'm back where I am now, standing in front of her, smiling with relief. She's back to normal where she used to be. Now, I need to know about Takeru. I stare at him and his reaction is like an innocent boy. He's not even a "Maou" but an "Oni".
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"Akira, have a minute?" I asked my brother for a little chat. I and the others continue our way to the place we need to go, based on Takeru's plan.
"What's the matter?" he said.
"We've been through a lot of circumstances, yet I still don't know the motives from Megumin herself. What do you think?"
"Revenge, to be precisely is," said Akira.
"I don't know, bro. We have to find out," So, we investigate the motives of our expedition.
On that night, we've stayed at the hostel for two nights. For that time, I and Akira won't waste any moments scrutinizing her motives. Akira goes near the wall since we're just next door. He has good ears that can listen through any solids such as walls, and even underneath the floor, but he needs to get close to it. "Osamu-chan, I heard something," We put our ears on the wall and heard Megumin speak something.
"What did she say?"
"I don't know. But, I think she said it in a nasty way. Do you think there is somebody she hates the most?" he said. I think deeply about Megumin's hateful feelings. Sometimes she said something too loud and sometimes medium tone. Nevertheless, I understand that she's in emotional distress.
"Should we check it outside?"
"Well, I don't know. I just follow you," And so, we go outside and investigate more. At that time Aiko was standing outside, did the same thing as her mother does. She realizes us and called me.
"What do you guys up to?" she said with a grin.
"Uhh, you horny?" I randomly said it. She bashes me in the head. It hurts.
"Not now, Osamu," she said.
"Hey, I really wanted to ask you something. Something about your bloodline," said Akira.
"Sure. What do you guys want to know about us?" she opens her mind to tough questions.
"Who is your father?" he said.
"Acheron, our bloodline basically from Demon generation history,"
"Wait, wasn't he a Diablo?" I got concerned.
"He was," when the word 'was' comes out, then everything just back to normal. "What's wrong?" she said. Akira looks at me, worrying if it took it too far. I nodded to him to ask her, but the moment he asked her, he realized that this situation felt different.
"Wait, can you hear something?" Akira asked me. I said that there was no one said except Megumin's chanting. "Stay here," and he left us alone.
After he left, only me and Aiko remained. "Can I be honest to you?" said Aiko.
"Definitely. What is it?"
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"Where does that sound coming from?" he's finding out where does the sound at. The sounds were like a person needs help. But, can't precisely know its gender. He went room by room until, at the end of the lobby, the aura got stronger. He almost vomits but kept finding it.
"Bingo," I finally found. It's inside the staff room. He opens it and all the stench scents rapidly grow. He holds his mouth and nose with his cloth that is used for keeping him warm.
He went inside and there were a lot of dead bodies, mostly, women and children. He holds his hand together and prays for their forgiveness. He continues ahead to the voice. Then, he found out that there was a hole in the wall. "I think there's someone who needs help. but if I call the others, it won't fit in. Maybe, just maybe, it chooses me to save them. I need to keep my guard on if this could be a trap. But seems like it is desperate for it," he states.