The splash of cold water followed by a crisp slap landed on my face.

Groans.

"What's your...?!..."

The shock that I received quickly woken up my senses. The place where I was slapped felt numb and hot, I could feel that my nose is bleeding too.

Carefully looking around myself, I noticed that I was in a dimly lit room. The room itself is not that big but it is made out of largely cut stone bricks. The floor is somewhat damp and the smell inside is not that quite appealing to breathe in.

There was this creature wearing full set of armor standing in front looking down at me.

I could feel its disgust just by looking at its eyes. 

Out of instinct I tried to move away from this creature. With a thud, my back was forced to bump in the wall. I could now feel that both of my arms are restrained with a chain.

Clink.

After I heard that clicking sound, both my legs and neck were bounded to a circular metal brace thus restraining me from doing any more actions.

Now, any resistance with this creature would be futile. 

I wanted to scream but then I realized I should not agitate this creature in front of me.

Suddenly, I remembered something similar. It was a time when I was riding a bus when a robber with a gun entered and started to ask for our valuable things. Some of the passengers started to scream making the robber hesitate to what it was gonna do. But there was this one guy that shouted at at this robber and mocked him that it will not shoot anyone of us. After getting all of our valuables the robber that was supposed to exit the bus suddenly turned back to the man who shouted and mocked him. This robber decided to kill this man before running away from the bus. The man fell limp on where he was seated and some of its glorious brain juice splattered to my face.

That was a really traumatizing event in my life and I don't want to end up dead or mess things up right now.

These kind of situations doesn't heroes and loudmouths, what I need to do is to calm down and think this through.

Close your eyes.

Breathe slowly.

 Speak to yourself and trace back everything before this shit happened.

'It was the last day of my work for the week and I got out of the office at 10 p.m. I took the same path when going back to my boarding house and did not do anything special before I laid down my bed at 12 midnight. I quickly fell asleep that time and it was quite the same as the previous nights. So how in the name of fuck did this happen to me?!' 

 As I was thinking deeply to myself, I could hear light foot steps that echoes behind the metal door. These steps became louder and louder and suddenly the athmospere felt heavier than before and it was so suffocating. It made me cough for a few times while gasping for air to breathe.

When the foot steps stopped, the creature in front of me tried to open the heavy looking metal door with all of his might but suddenly...

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Bang!

A loud bang resounded inside the room, something has definitely exploded behind the door. 

The creature who previously tried to open it was flattened together with the door.

'Serves you right.'

I thought to myself. I did not know but I enjoyed the sight of that bastard being flattened against the stone wall.

I could still the smoke coming from behind the door.

Now that the door is open what stood there is a single female. From what I could see her height must be around 4 feet and half.

Don't be fooled by its size. That's what I thought to myself. This cute size just made a panini out of that creature.

Pale blue skin, majestic pair of horns, dragon-like wings, silky smooth white hair paired with deep crimson reptilian like eyes. All in all a creature blessed with serene beauty. But I could not feel a bit of serenity when I look at this little girl. One thing is definitely for sure, the one in front of me is the epitome of death and terror itself.

Based on her characteristics which are often described in novels, I believe that she is from a demon race. 

It made me realize how feeble and insignificant my life is.  

She then started to speak. Her voice was calm and there was this certain depth to it but it is somewhat sweet. However I couldn't comprehend what she was saying and all that I could do is to stare at her.

With a snap of her finger, everything that restrains my body turned into dust. 

I sat down lying my back at the wall.

There was a stinging sensation in my forehead. Something must have bitten me.There's blood dripping from my forehead.

 The demon seductively licked her sharp nail.

A brief silence fell on the room.

"How unsightly."

"Human. Tell me, what is the most important thing to you?"

"..."

"Famliy?"

"Friends?"

"Fortune?"

"Or is it your life?"

A very strange question which I did not give a thought until now.

Looking back at how my life, I did not really have a grand dream to myself. I just lived at moment and did not have anything that I could be proud of aside from a loving family. I've been working for three years after I graduated from college. I do have a nice girlfriend but I should admit I don't have any plans on marrying her. Well I can't really say if I love her or not but I do enjoy her company specially in bed.

"I want to live."

"If this is a dream please wake me up. Please let me leave this place safely." 

I pleaded her from the bottom of my heart.

"Hahaha! Human, what you are saying is preposterous. This is not a dream and you will never leave this place even in death. But I admire you for being calm."

"..."

"Calm? I am not calm, I'm scared to death. Just by talking to you I could feel my soul leaving my body already."

"You said you want to live. But have you ever lived your life to the fullest?"

"Life is one of the most beautiful things in the world. However in your case human, you never really valued the life that you had. You were only living for the moment."

"..."

"I know everyting from you human. Your thoughts, emotions, experiences and everything you have learned in your life."

"You love to see people's demise. Hmmm let me see, you were actually smiling when you saw the man got killed in front of you. You are a trash of human society but you are great in hiding it. A hypocrite dressed in beautiful clothes."

 The demon licked her lips.

"I find it beautiful human, let me give you a chance to live and teach you the value of life." 

"What do you mean?!"

"You will know soon... Human."

"Shades."

The shadows around us flickered and started to move. These shadows started to rise and walk, it took a humanoid form and lifted me up mid air. One of the shadows approached me while holding a sinister looking black dagger. It then started rip off my clothes to expose my frail body.

The demon made a small cut to her finger and it started to bleed. 

"What are you doing?! No! Let me go! Please!"

She was murmuring something I could not understand.

The blood in her finger has started to set aflame.

This demon started to write something in my chest on top of my heart. 

"Aaaaaaaaah!"

I could feel the searing heat burn my flesh. The intense pain is robbing ny conciousness away.

As I fell down the ground, the demon said something but I don't care about it anymore. I just wanted to sleep and forget everything.

"The branding is complete, you are now my property and you will follow everything that I will say."

"For now I will savor these new found knowledge from your memor and welcome to Tierra Gloria human from another world."