KNOCK!! KNOCK!! KNOCK!!
"Come in..." Aine looks at Frine who has just put on a black suit, the same as her master.
"Let's go, Frine." he spoke as they walk towards the training room in preparation for the killing game the next day in the night.
"Awwwww!! so this is the rumored 'Demon' s Nightmare Room' I have heard about," she speaks in an excited tone as she looks at the newly rebuilt room that was almost pulverized in Elize and Aine's training regimen.
"Demon's Nightmare, just why did they give it such a horrendous name?" Aine looks around the room that seems normal, in a dumbfounded like manner.
"Darling, you didn't know," she tilts her head as if trying to bring out the essence of this room's history.
"Know about what?" he tilts his head but in confusion.
" This fairy tale is a popular one in our Imperial Capital of Demons, as it states that whoever enters this room, will never walk out the same way he/she did coming in."
Aine looks up as he remembered how much he was an inept fighter before in Vartila, but all that quickly changed after he spent one week alone with Demon Queen Elize.
" Hmmmmm!! It seems you're right - - anyways, "they both look at each other with emotionless smile.
" The reason you suggested that I rest was to prepare the complete obliteration of the Area faction tomorrow, " she was right on the money with her reasoning.
" As you know, I was informed about some troublesome rules that hinder my participation in the killing game and one of them said, the participants are supposed to be five in number. "
" Then the other says, any other race is exempt from participating except from demon kind,~ SIGH!! ~" Aine sighs at the fact of not getting the chance to crush the demons who harmed one of his lovely wives.
" Darling, you really are a battle maniac..." she continues as she drops one more bombshell on him;" In that one week you spent with Elize, you became her perfect copy."
"Eh!!"
Back in Asmodeus' room as she is sitted on the bed next to Asmodeus, Lynn and Julia playing the curse game;
SNEEZE!!
"Excuse me!!" she says so while covering her nose with her handkerchief.
"Eh!! Elize are you getting sick," Lynn asked her while smiling.
"Demons are immune to sicknesses," Asmodeus answers while she is laying on the bed still resting from the earlier attack from the Area faction.
Back in the training room, "Anyways since Asmodeus is not in top shape, you, Julia, Lynn, Elize and a surprise replacement Asmodeus told me about, are going to participate in this fight to the death--and in light of that."
"Since I couldn't beat you back then, you want to train me..." Frine puts one of her fingers on her lips as she has figured out his reason for summoning her.
"... Right---right now you are on Julia and Lynn's level in fight attributes I think - - but powerful in all magic aspects since you are a descendant of the great all powerful demon, Mephisto--" Aine pauses as he notices Frine's blank expression.
"What's wrong..." he pulls her into an embrace as her face reddens at an absurdly fast rate.
"It's just that--one time I had a nightmare where I activated his power during a mission and - - it went berserk and killed a mass number of demons in the area," she was scared of hurting anyone so she suppressed the urge to fight using that all so terrifying ability.
" So that's why..." he smiled wryly as he continued," It's just as I thought - - you're similar to someone I know. "
" In what way? "she tilted her head in confusion as she probed further.
He puts on a forced smile to distract her and he continues excitedly, " In contrast of that , I want us to fight without holding back so--I want to rid you of that nightmare and help you to adjust to that ability."
She didn't want him to forsake her so she smiled as tears were flowing down her bloodred eyes, "Thank you--master."