As he stumbled his way in the dark towards the ominous dull purple light in the center of the field Hironori saw two figures, one of which he was familiar with, the other was a complete stranger. The one he knew was Haruka, and when she noticed him she smiled and said, “ Hurry over here and I will introduce you to the man that will help decide whether or not you will ever be free of this demon.”
Hearing that, Hironori quickly ran over and saw the man in more detail. He looked to be in his thirties, and while not extremely muscular, gave off the feeling of being as sturdy as a mountain, he had extremely dark brown hair, and he was clean shaven and far better looking than Hironori could ever hope to be. He said nervously to the mysterious man “ my name is Isa Hironori pleased to meet you!”
The man gave off an extremely pleasant to hear laugh and said, “So you are the boy I’ve been doing all this extra work for. My name is Endo Naoki, but most people call me Nao.”
“Well then Nao, I have a few questions before we start, the first being what exactly the difference between a contractor, and a summoner?”
Nao quickly answered with “Its simple, a contractor is anyone who has made a contract with a demon, while a summoner is just a contractor that has the required knowledge on how to construct circles like you see here.”
“Thank you, now the second question is, Haruka has already explained to me what I am supposed to do, but can we go over it one more to, just to be sure?” said Hironori nervously.
Nao then responded with “ Hahaha of course! We can’t have you messing up your only shot at getting your freedom back now can we?”
Nao said with the same amiable smile on face “ First you just need to just stay a few feet away from the circle to make sure nothing get ruined, then when I finish tell you to you need to simply step into this area right here.” He pointed to a much smaller version of the circle of ruins a few feet away from where Hironori is currently standing.
Continuing on “ Then we wait and when the demon comes you will just negotiate and create your contract with it.”
“Is it really this simple? Hironori’s doubt was completely understandable because it truly did seem far too simple.
Both Haruka and Nao burst out laughing. Since she was the first to calm down Haruka told him “ you only say that because you have yet to experience it. To give you a better idea of it is as if you are using your soul, your very being, as bait to attract the strongest demon you can. It is truly terrifying. Also it isn’t that uncommon for people to pass out immediately afterwards.”
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Nao shivered slightly then pumped himself up by saying to himself “ While it may be terrifying, what is it compared to the demon currently inside me, where if it was able to it would torture me both physically and mentally every moment of every day?”
After seeing Hironori nod with resolution Nao said in an extremely domineering voice “Heed my call demons of another world! Respond to my summons and be greatly rewarded!”
After Nao spoke Hironori quickly entered the small circle and after both feet entered he felt something being pulled out of his body. He then felt as if his body and consciousness had completely separated and felt as if he had been thrown off the ledge of a thousand foot mountain, only to land into a sea and be surrounded by monster all with varying shapes and sizes. They could get up to a few inches then were repelled back. After being in this situation for ten minutes he had gotten used to it to some degree, but still flinched whenever they got close, then it happened, something came at him so fast that all he could see was a black blur coming from the distance. Hironori felt a sharp pain on his hand and when he looked down he was a large, bite mark and before he knew what happened Hironori was on his knees back at the field with Haruka and Nao.
They were just silently waiting off to the side, and when Hironori looked down at his hand he was shocked to see that where the bite was in it’s place was a large maroon circle. Then before his very eyes three think maroon lines slowly coined around his arm up to his shoulder.
As he was about to ask what this meant large multicolored flames filled the entirety of the large circle. Then she appeared she looked to be the same age as Hironori, wearing a white tanktop and a very short frilly black miniskirt. With hair that matches the flames exactly, a beautiful mix of many different shades of purple and blue. Her bright pink eyes could easily entrance anyone who looked at her, she had a figure that anyone, man or woman, would rate as absolutely perfect and her devilish smile can make anyone feel as if it were natural to bow to her.
She looked Hironori in the eyes and said while walking closer and said “Hello human, you may call me Asmodeus!”
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For anyone who wants to get an idea of what i had in mind for Asmodeus here is an image close to her, but she is more mature, and there are slight differences in their appearances. http://itsukatenmanokurousagi.wikia.com/wiki/Saitohimea.