The drunk woman started to speak in a tired and lazy tone.

“Ohhh, I knnow this kid, hiii Neila, remember me? I was in the same orphanage as you”.

“Didn’t you kill yourself Akari”?

“I was revived as a demon, the only time in my life that it felt so free”.

Neila was taken in from the streets after his father had abandoned him, it was an old creepy man with blonde hair, it seemed like he liked the kids too, especially the little girls, Akari was only 11.

She was like an older sister towards him, a family that they both never had.

She cared for him deeply, he was extremely silent and distant from everyone only she talked to him.

“I haven’t seen you in a while Neila, where have you been”?

“I’m still in school, living in an apartment by myself”.

“I haven’t gone to school in years, I wonder what it’s like”.

She swirled around the alcohol in her glass, she stared at him, her eyes barely opened and tipsy.

“It’s shit”.

“I bet but aaat least you aint alone, you have friends and people you care about, while I have nothing, nothing at allll~”.

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She chugged her last drink of alcohol, trying to forget the night away.

“Watch me play! Did’ya know I learnt the entirety of moonlight sonata in 5 minutes”!

She walked towards the piano, sitting herself down, every single key started to echo in the crooked and old walls of the bar.

“Moonlight Sonata, this is my favorite piece to play becauuse it’s the hardest one I knoow~”.

Neila stared at her fingers intently, moving at a fast pace, they were slim and pale like that of a malnourished dead body.

“Neila, dance with me will you”?

She grabbed his hand, tapping her feet on the wooden floor.

“Someone play for us will ya~”.

She pulled him close, putting her hand on his chest.

“Come on, cool down, stop being so stiff”.

“Fine”.

They started to dance together, she put her hand on his shoulder and got closer, but the only thing on his mind was her, a broken scent of first love.

“You’re surprisingly good at dancin aren’t ya”?

“Weren’t you the one that forced me to learn”?

“Don’t remind me of that orphanage, I’m sick of that~~”.

She was having fun, swinging her hair around and around, Neila’s eyes were empty, thinking about what once was.

“Y’know my life had been a lot better since I became a demon”.

“Ok”.

“You’re so dry, you seem so detached from reality, like you couldn’t even care about what’s in front of you, what happened”?

“Ok”.

The ground started to shake, the alcohol fell out of the glass.

“Oh shit, do you feel that or is it just my mind”?

She started to slip and fall, there was a large crowd outside running from the crowd of monsters.

Goblins made up the horde with large green monsters following from behind.

A demon commanded them from a higher place.

Akari stared out the window, dragging her finger across the cold glass window.

She grabbed the sleeve of his shirt and lightly pulled it.

“Hey let’s go back now”.

“You haven’t paid for your drink”.

“Teleport”.

We were both in her bedroom, a large green crystal was floating above where we stood. She had the ability to set crystals and teleport to them, but she could only have two at once.

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The walls were bad and old, the entire apartment smelled of cigarettes and alcohol, a ruined apartment that hasn’t been cleaned in years, proof of someone who wasn’t in a good place.

“What’ll happen to the monsters”?

“The adventurers will take care of them”.

She pushed Neila onto her bed, restraining him with her hands.