Imagine you're a 23 year old man named Kiro. He's practically still a kid that hangs out with his friends at college. Imagine you work at a library and get paid a decent amount. Think of how average your life is. How normal it is, and how decent it seems to be. You could work at the library for a long time, probably. You don't have to do too much stuff, and the job is really consistent.
Now, imagine finding a dead corpse of a rat with bite marks in it when you go into a room that stores the Holliday decorations. Pretty freaky, right? You didn't let any dogs in, but the window is open. Something outside had done this. That is the logical conclusion. But why do you get this ominous feeling from thinking about it? Why would an animal leave the rat here? Why aren't there any tracks left? How did it push the rat behind the boxes? Why?
One couldn't help but think something was wrong with this situation. Most would probably not dig to deep into this unless they found more dead rats, but perhaps Kiro was different.
Kiro really was a cynical young man.
[Demon POV:]
Aha! He did tell someone!
A dirty blonde walks into the room with all those manager vibes. He looks around, pokes at the boxes, but nothing is out of place thanks to me! They start talking and whatnot... But my focus is a bit elsewhere. A small dark cloud, negativity flows away from Mr Dark Blu hair. However, it's different.
There's a different kind of energy to it, I can feel it. I'm changing again. I-I don't want to change in here. I float up towards the vent and easily squish through the grate. The demonic energy gathers at the intersection in the vents where I lay. My previously blank forehead without our a face, (think of alien) starts to morph. I instinctually start gathering some of the energy into my body. I think I have an idea.
What if this is like what cultivators do in Xanxia Worlds?
I start reinforcing my ghastly body, compacting the energy and in a way, cycling it. Unlike how cultivators have byproducts, I don't. I'm just eating the energy. I guess that's what demons do, right? Eat and take and steal an- ARGH...
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My Xeno forehead aches...
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Demonic reinforcement learned→Demonic Imbuing Technique
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A bubble apears on my forehead. Ouch. Is this a demon pimple or what? No. It's a body part. Suddenly liquid fills the clear bubble, a foggy white. Could it be... An eye?
The realization causes sudden shudders in my body.
It has no direction, however. The energy is moving, but it's not doing. Can I help it?... An eye is connected to ocular nerves... It's pupil constricts in light, and expands in the dark to allow more or less light in. I continued thinking about it, but instead of me having to guide it, the energy did the work for me.
There's something blocking it. A null energy? That energy is all throughout my body?! I start pushing some of it out, but my body clings to it... I force it to let go and the gas bubble pops and melts into the rest of the air. So weird... !!!
Some of the null energy suddenly takes a turn and mixes with the darkness. My eye is quickly formed like a sudden change in the tides. Holy crap... I can see. While I was able to see/sense with my spiritual sense, I couldn't see what was outside of it. My ocular vision showed me what was infront of me with ease! I felt energy was gather in my iris. Cool! Can I shoot lasers?
Haha of course not...
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[.→>Class raised to 1B<←.]
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Slipping through the vents I feel the changes well. It feels like I was previously restricted, but now I could move easier! I can actually focus on stuff in my sight. I bump a book on a table and it MOVES! AHAHAHHAHA I have the power!!! Hm? A glowing little light? It's made of spiritual energy... I can see it now. I chomp it and it's GREAT-... But that atmosphere shifted a bit when I did that. I don't think that's good for the natural environment, judging by how nearest person looked a bit off after I did that. Sigh... No light things for me. I don't want to scare the humans away.
Movement? There yes! It's a spirit! Or demonling? I don't know but I can eat that, right?!
And so, I hunted some of those things. It's been about a week and a half now with my simple life. I've trolled people too! I yoinked a money from a poor man, hid a few books in the wrong places, stared uncomfortably at people... This is dah life! And dem rats are purdy good.
A certain Blue haired man started being more observant. They saw when shadows moved wrong. They saw the books having slight movements. Being the ever so suspicious man, he walked over to a bookshelf and pulled out a book titled 'a basic guide to the supernatural.' He's seen enough happening to get suspicious, hasn't he?
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He keeps getting this erie feeling. Something is wrong.
His coworkers didn't feel the wrongness nearly half as much, but he knows what he's feeling. This young man is very hard to deter. For some reason, he just doesn't conform, does he?