In the slave trading center, a multitude of immoral acts were being committed. There was no such thing as common sense in the corrupted place. The aura of lust and greed filled the air and ran throughout the building.
On the top floor, the boss of the slave center looked down smiling wickedly. “Another new customer? Or is it another foolish ‘defender of justice?’ that I can turn into a slave?”
He waited till the man came in to the front counter. Sure enough, he saw an entire row of suitcases full of money. Greed shined in his eyes as each stacks of money was at its highest bill forms. All 100,000 D. The boss drooled at the sight of so much money. ‘Now I know that he is a customer. But that mask… Where have I seen that before?’ He tried to remember but there was no luck.
Down below, the blue haired masked man gave a letter to the receptionist. They then saw him going to the man hall sitting down on a sofa all by his lonesome. He was not like the others around him. He just sat quietly carrying ten suitcases with him. This made the staffs in the slave center confused. Where ever they looked, they either saw a man doing one girl, or a woman pegging a man. So why was he sitting by himself not enjoying the night like everyone else? But they did not questioned him. They left him alone as is.
Five minutes later, they saw him going up the stairs carrying the ten suitcases and a mysterious air around him. ‘So he was a VIP? I guess he wanted to rest before the fun’ some of the staffs thought.
“I’ll go deliver this letter to the boss. You guys stay here” The manager ordered the receptionists. The manager took the elevator up to the boss’ room to deliver the letter.
“Huh? What’s this?” The boss frowned.
“This is what the blue haired man wanted me to deliver to you within five minutes. He seems to be a very important person so I don’t think he should be ignored sir” The manager respectfully suggested.
Seeing the insight, the boss nodded and opens the letter. Inside reads, “I’ll give you five minutes to run. Your Mother’s F*cker”
The boss eyes widen and turned red when he saw the words. He instantly punched his manager in a fit knocking her down to the floor. “You idiot! This was something important? He just f*cken insulted me!*Humph!*” the boss threw down the letter like garbage into the manager’s face.
The manager did not even know what was going on. She didn’t even know why she was hit. She then saw the paper and finally knew that she’d done nothing wrong. ‘*Sniff* So he got mad over a piece of paper? …. I hate my job *sob*sob*’ She inwardly sobs but did not show it. She rubs her cheek and got back up with a poker face and bowed. She then got back up and turn towards the door walking to the exit. She was about to walk out until a vengeful thought came across her mind.
She wanted to kill her boss. She too was once a slave that was caught and sold. She’d worked all the way up to being a manager while being other people’s onahole. Though treatment was slightly better and money was not a problem, she was still treated like garbage. She’d hoped to save up enough money to buy her freedom one day and to work like a normal person instead of being her boss’ plaything. Until recently, she’d never had the thought of getting revenge against her boss. “I’ll kill him one day…”
She snaps back into reality and opens the door pulling to the side.. In front of her stood the blue haired masked man who told her to give the letter to the boss within five minutes. She was about to burst in his face cursing him out until he shoves her out of the way. ‘!!!!!’ a dagger flew past her and it barely misses her.
The blue haired masked man just threw the dagger aiming at the boss. She didn’t even have a chance to scream and saw that her boss’ bloody back. “I told you to get it to him within five minutes” a cold distorted voice rang out from the blue haired masked man’s mouth.
He then turns toward her and said, “Girl. Do you like it here?”
She did not even speak for a while because she was stunned. The swift cold murder happened in a split second but it left a cold imprint in her mind. Her head instinctively turned towards the door wanting to escape. But beyond the entrance to her boss’ room was a world filled with blood.
By the looks of things, he dragged the security guards’ faces all over the room and painted the halls criminson.
“…. I’ll ask again. Do you like it here?” his voice soft whispers into her ear. She instinctively screamed when she heard this and backed away crawling in fear.
“I’ll take that as a yes. But I’ll have you work for me. Understand? This entire place now belongs to me. Your boss? He is now a thing of the past.” His voice was like ice. No emotions came out of it. “Nod your head if you agree. If not… You know what will happen to you right?”
She quickly nods her head without hesitation. If she did, she feared that he would kill her like her boss. But what she did not know was that her boss was still alive. He was in too much pain to scream.
The blue haired masked man then walked over to the boss laying on the floor and grabbed the head. Using a lot of force, made the boss head bang the floor numerous times until his face was all bloodied and in a state of confusion. But he did not stop there. The man took out the knife, rolled the boss over and punched him in the abdomen knocking all the wind out multiple times to ensure that he was out cold.
The blue haired masked man stopped when he felt satisfied when he was done with the ex-boss. He walks over back into the hallway, opened one of the suitcase and took out a first aid kit.
The manager was so confused why he took a first aid kit. Until he came over to her with it. Gently, the blue haired masked man felt the spot where she was punched. Since her face was only a little swollen, he took out a few needles, poked in a few places and then applied first aid. “I’m an expert in acupuncture. Don’t worry. I’m just going to treat that swelling first.” He softly said which was an entire one eighty degree turn for her. Just a moment ago, he mercilessly threw the knife at her boss and beat down on his corpse. Now he was treating her wound like a doctor? Unbelievable. But his hands felt so cold and warm at the same time. It was an indescribable feeling to her.
When he was done, he puts away the first aid kit and stood up. “Come. We’ve work to do. If you rebel against me. Don’t blame me for acting merciless as well”
But she didn’t. This was the first time in a long time someone had actually treated her even a small amount of kindness.
She followed him like she was being hypnotized by him. Not saying a word, not thinking of rebelling against him, and following him like… a cat who found a kind person willing to give up a fish for her.
Strangely enough, every floor she went down, she saw every person being knocked out unconscious and not moving.
“They all’ve been poisoned by aphrodisiac in the drinks and air. I’m guessing it was your boss who did it to increase revenues. I knocked them all out myself. So don’t blame me for doing what I did just now.” He coldly said to her.
This shocked her. ‘He knocked over a thousand people out in an instant? How?’
No matter how one look at things, it was impossible. But then she thought about the suitcases. Inside must’ve been something. Something that could knock out a thousand people in an instant.
“Tell me all you know about the slaves and the customer miss manager” he blurted out while she was lost in thought.
“Oh? AH yes. Not one person have any form of disease. Even our merchandises are kept at their healthiest in order to be used to satisfy our customers. We guarantee the satisfaction because we trained them ourselves.” She quickly answers.
“Then tell me, how do you acquire your slaves?” He then stopped to ask.
She bit her lips and did not want to tell the truth. If she did, then what would happen to the business? But if she didn’t say anything, what would happen to her? She caved under pressure in the end telling the truth. “We use people. Be it little children to adult to lure other people in and they are kept here and trained for years until they are ready to become a merchandise. Even children as young as six are brought here to be trained for a full twelve years. We also modify their bodies so that their sexual parts can grow bigger in order to satisfy our customers.”
When she said this, Jin choked inside the mask. Tears streamed down on the inside of his mask. ‘Trained for a full twelve years? Lured? Body modification? … Now they are about to be used in an experiment against their wills. ....... Am I even doing the right thing?’
The manager saw a droplet of water falling out the crack of his mask down from his chin and was shocked. ‘Was he crying?’ Her face changed when she saw the tear drop. “Are you okay sir?”
“I’m fine. My eyes are red because I didn’t get enough sleep” he told her.
It sounded exactly like a kid’s excuse in her ears. It almost made her think that he was human. Almost. Until he ordered her to carry the people down to the lower level where the laboratory for human training was being held.
In the first lower floor, Jin saw visions of lusts and corruptions. He’d seen this many times in his life but no matter how many times he sees it, it would always break his heart. Men, women, and even trans-genders were being degraded in every way of the word. Some were forced to drink p*ss and eat sh*t as a part of their training. Others were … unlucky to be surrounded by horny men. As the two continue down, the feeling of twisted horrors grew. But one made him feel disgusted. Extreme fetishes were being held in many different rooms but they were all scenes of lustful hell.
‘It is fine if the person loves the act. It is fine if the person is doing the act with the one they love. But it is not fine if they are forced to do it against their wills. Especially every day for them to get used to the feeling to the point of twisting their minds into liking it.’ Jin scowled inwardly.
Ban and Lucian was right behind Jin in ethereal forms and even they felt like they wanted to leave. Both Ban and Lucian went to hell before and explored all ten levels. They felt sorry for Jin because this room was almost an exact picture of the first level of hell. In the domain of lust in the first floor of hell, this was like an everyday commercial. This was a norm seen even if one just glance into hell. But in eyes of a human, it was hell itself. They silently prayed for the slaves’ happiness once they are released from this hell hole.
In the next twenty minutes, they moved half of the people onto beds on the lowest floors where the slave centers actually had a laboratory.
“But what about the other half? We don’t have enough beds.” The manager said.
Jin didn’t say anything. He dragged some of the slaves into storage rooms and piled them gently. As for the customers, he threw them rough like a toy into a separate storage room.
This was strange in the eyes of the manager. The strangest part was that they did not wake up.
“Alright time to get started. Woman. I need you to close down the doors. Also, don’t let anyone in. Can you do that?” The blue haired masked man said to her.
“I have a name as well you know.” She frowned.
“I don’t have time to remember names as of now. Instead, I’ll call you another name.” He said flatly.
“Hey! That’s rude you know!” She pouted. Be he gave her no face.
“Hmm… a good name. I got it. Your name will be Farrah. I’ll call you Farrah” The blue haired masked man nodded.
“… My name is Aleaha… it means nobel and exalted…” she wanted to cry because she lied about her real name. She couldn’t even remember her old real name and was forced to forget it. So the name she was given was, “Mawh*re” and that was the boss being nice. Other slaves he had was named far worse.
“Eh? But Farrah means beautiful, pleasant, and fair. It also means joy and happiness. I was thinking that you were really beautiful and pleasant to be with... But if you wish, feel free to act on your own will” He said disappointingly.
“!!!…. Fine. *sigh*…. I’ll take the name” She grumbles. But inside she was happy. At the very least, it wasn’t something embarrassing or horrid as one of the slaves’ names. One was even named ‘Titlogib’. The worst was really named, “B*tch” which was not even funny. This blue haired man was kind enough not to call her anything terrible so she went along with it. “But what is your name?” she ask.
“Huh? Me? … I have many names. Which one do you want?” He shifted his eyes away.
“Oh? Anyone would do.” She said plainly.
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“… If you know my name, that is the same as never getting out of this underworld ever again. I really want you and many other of the slaves here to be safe after what will transpire here. Do you understand? Don’t ever get involve in these types of business ever again. Especially with me. Now… Do you really want to know my name?” he said in a low voice.
To his surprise, she nodded. “Of course I want to know your name. You own me now after all. You are my master and the best one so far. So why would I stay far from you?” She hugs his arms tightly showing her affections. ‘At least he is not a douche bag and is kind. ^^’
Belphegor/Jin, seeing the happy woman hugging onto him made him sigh. “… *sigh* Belphegor.” He mutters.
“Eh?” she was shocked to hear this name.
“My name is Belphegor.” He said and shook her off his arms.
‘… One of the four rulers of the underworld!!!?’ Her eyes bulged out. She was not expecting him. Aside from him, only three others were given the names of the princes of hell. The first being Mammon but he died six years ago. Mammon was known for the wealth the person amassed over the years. It was close to one billion before he died. Later, it was said that another person inherited his name and was able to amass a billion and continued his legacy.
The second underworld ruler was Leviathan. He was known for making entire businesses to be ruined within an hour. His twisted mentality was rumored to be beyond human and enjoyed all types of games to immoralities. Also known as the strongest amongst the four underworld rulers in terms of twistedness.
The third ruler was Beelzebub for his overpowering commanding ability and one of the greatest leaders in the underworld. He was able to make anyone follow him through pure charisma. He is also known as the ice cold tactician and was able to make the impossible possible through any battle or war not losing any men whenever he commanded his troops. Six years ago, Beelzebub made an appearance and took over six underworld families in one week and that was by himself. Two weeks later, he took down many families through many means. Be it torture or underhanded blackmail, he would even go as far to make their lives a living hell without any hope. But he disappeared a few months later disbanding his group never to return.
The last ruler of the underworld was Belphegor. He was the most mysterious of the four. He would appear whenever he wishes. When he does appear, it was almost as if he stole all the luck away from a person. Money would disappear at the snap of a finger and luck would be blown all away by his breath. Six years ago, people of the underworld tried to get rid of him. The result? The same as waking up a sleeping lion. He did not only ruin the person, but those around them and caused ill omens to appear whenever he wakes up. He destroyed an entire underground network! Even the ones claiming the other titles of princes of hell fell at his hands. But then, he too disappeared six years ago a few months later just like Beelzebub without signs of ever returning.
But of course, all these were just rumors. No one really knows the full truths and no one was willing to pursue the truths. Only, Belphegor left behind the most evidence of the four and thus no one wanted to go after him. Little did she know that Belphegor and Beelzebub was one in the same.
Now, seeing Belphegor, she was doubting the rumors. Only when she remembered how he was a few minutes ago did she stick with the rumor. No matter how nice he was, even if he was really Belphegor, there was no way that he was fully nice. ‘Maybe he is just in a good mood? But he was crying…’ The more she thought about it, the more wrong the rumors were.
“Hey Farrah. It is best if you sleep somewhere. In the next four hours, it won’t be a pleasant dream” He warms her. This caught her attention making her frantic.
“O.o Sleep? If I sleep, and it won’t be a pleasant dream, then wouldn’t it be the same as a nightmare? No thanks. I’ll stay up” She replied.
“Suit yourself. But go to the upper floors and don’t come down at least. That is my first order for you.” He said to her.
Hearing this, she was about to go against what he was about to say until she remembers that her life was in his hands. Thinking of the past few minutes, a sweat drop formed and she was scared as to what he was about to do. Not asking anymore, she went to the upper floors to wait for him.
The first hour passed on quietly which made her nervous. Not one staff woke up yet and she was technically all alone in the darkness on the ground floor sitting on a sofa in the lounge.
Two hours passed only then did she hear screams on the lower floor. Blood curling screams ran through the building and not one person woke up by the screams. She thought it was a vengeful spirit haunting the building. ‘It’s okay… He said that it won’t be a pleasant dream… But things will be okay… Right?’ She kept telling herself.
By the time the third hours passed, it was no longer screams but howls of despair. Not just men’s’ voices but women’s’ voices as well. Shouts of despair rang down below. But the only one down there was Belphegor. Even through this, not a person woke up within the building or outside of the building. But there was no one coming. Almost like an illusion, she saw wailing shadows coming from the elevator and the stairs creeping towards her. Her heart dropped when she felt the temperature in the building changing multiple times matching up to the screams and howls. It sounded like a symphony of hell itself. ‘Is he raising hell down there? Why is it changing so fast? Or is he the devil himself?’
But by the end of the fourth hour, everything was silent. The sounds and temperature became normal as if everything was a bad dream. The elevator began to move but what came out was a man covered in blood from head to toe in a latex protection suit/overall used when isolating one-self from a the surrounding in order to do an extreme experiment. *Puchi*Puchi* went his boots and it came up to her. “AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” She screamed.
“What… it’s just me” the man in the suit said plainly. He took off the head piece showing his blue hair and his face.
This really shocked her. “Are you really Belphegor?”
“Huh? Wuhut? Do I look strange to you or something? Or is it my face? Does it not match up to the image of a handsome devil?” he joked
Her jaws fell when she laid her eyes on him. ‘…. What the hell? Is he that bipolar? Four hours ago, he was raising hell. Now, he looked like an innocent kid who’d done nothing wrong! THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS IMAGE!!!! WHO IS THIS BELPHEGOR MAN!!!!???’
“I’m not a pure evil asshole you know.” He smirked. “I tend to let loose every once in a while. Keeps my humanity in check. You should try it sometimes.”
“… I didn’t know Belphegor was a handsome young man… I thought he was a business man who had the air of success around him. But you look exactly like a kid who’d just got into puberty!” she said unconsciously.
“……. Okay… That is far enough… Follow me. Now.” Belphegor said in a flat tone. He stepped outside of the building to take off the suit and to smell the fresh air. “*SNIIIIIIIFF* Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!! Being alive is a wonderful thing!” He then stretches his stiff body and started to exercise in place smiling happily like a kid.
This was really random to her. Belphegor just told her to go outside to watch him act like a kid? This made no sense to her. Also, why was he smiling?
He turns towards her and warmly smiled. “Now that you’ve seen my face and know my name, I guess I won’t hide it. Belphegor is my underworld name. Don’t bother trying to find my real name, it was erased a long time ago. So I am a nameless person now. If you are wondering why I disappeared six years ago… I guess you can say that I was tired of the underworld. It was stressing me out too much and I wanted a peaceful life. So I left without a word. There were too many corrupt bastards in this world and not enough hands to get rid of them. You should know as well as I do that corruptness runs deep in the blood of many since the depression. So I thought that if I’d left, there would be one less evil person in the world and one more person helping out people doing good deeds only in the world.”
‘Such a stunning smile… Almost like a perfect masterpiece made by the hands of god…’ her heart fluttered when he smiled at her. But that feeling didn’t last when he confessed that he was really Belphegor and the reasons why he left.
“I was not raised in the dark business. I was forced to go into it. I wanted to do many things in this world but unexpectedly, a few was added to the list. Helping slaves became one of them because one of my friend was once enslaved and it was I who had to help him out. His family sold him into slavery because they were running short on money. So it wasn’t like he had a lot of choices of wanting to be a slave. Oh! Slavery was brought back as a way to help the government out of debt because politicians kept on creating slush funds. Eventually, it caused the down fall of the nation. But they were castrated, pulverized, mutilated and burned as punishment by the people. Fun fact for your brain.” He said in a light tone. “But … no matter how many people I’ve helped, slavery still runs strong in this country. *sigh* I really wanted a world without such sadness. But one man can’t change much by himself you know. Even as an underworld ruler. So I tried my best to change those around me. Even if it was one more person to be changed, I wanted this world to go back to its beautiful, blissful, and prosperous age.”
“....So what was that thing you did downstairs?” she still was wondering what the sounds of hell was.
“Oh that? … Torturing the good and the bad people impartially. If you want to put it in the perspective of a bystander. All else? Getting information. I needed information in order to help others you know. Not like people will give it to you for free…” He grumbles.
‘… How can he keep such a straight face when saying such things? I don’t get his bipolar attitude. *sigh* But I do get that he is very kind and would do whatever to help those in such a terrible state’ she shook her head in disbelief.
“I really didn’t expect to come back. Really did thought the world was a better place by now that we are getting out of the depression… Seems like I was wrong. *sigh*” He sat down in tiredness. “But in any case, what will you do now Farrah?”
“Huh? Follow you of course. You own me now don’t you? Didn’t you say it yourself?” She smirked at his foolish question.
In reply to that smirk, he frowned. “I can’t have you following me Farrah. Where I am going, no one can follow me. It would be best if you lead a normal life from here on out. I’m going to stay in the shadows a little longer.”
But the girl did not listen. She straddles onto him, wraps her around him and (Rapes his lips) kisses him on the lips lovingly. She pulls away from him and said, “Nope. I”ll follow you. No matter where you go. I want to go as well. Hihi” She giggles.
‘… This girl is stupid? She could die if she follows me. Yet she is still willing to go? A returned ruler of the underworld. Of all the people in the world, you pick me? Alright. Let’s see how you will deal with this!’ Jin was determined to get rid of her for her own sake.
“Fine. As your master, I order you to live a good life, to find a boyfriend, to marry that man, and to never go back into the world of darkness. I don’t even want you to mingle with people from the underworld. Also, after this, I will no longer be your master. You are a free person now. Do you understand?” He said in a cold voice. But this got the girl to turn into a ball of happiness.
“I unnnnnnnnnddddddeeeeeeeeeeerrrrssssssssstaaaaaaaaaaandddddddd!!!!” She shouted in a high voice and tightly hugs him. “I choooooooose yoooooooou!!!!!!”
Jin was beyond confused. He clearly said that she cannot mingle with people from the underworld. Yet she is doing it right now! Seeing that unbreakable determination, he gave in. “Sigh… Fine. You can follow me… Guess I can’t win at everything. *Sigh*” He hugs the jolly girl in his arms. But he was happy enough to finally be able to get things over with. He created the vaccines within four hours with the help of Ban and Lucian. Now the slaves are also cured and also about to be free as well.
The day couldn’t get any better. In a far off distance, even Lucian and Ban was happy knowing that they played a part in saving so many lives from slavery. But they also took many lives just in case behind Jin's back. It was something Ban and Lucian kept between the two of them. Jin was too soft and chose not to kill people. But Ban and Lucian did it anyway because they knew that Jin was too good. Thus even he needs to be protected from the shadow sometimes. Even if it means keeping him ignorant and happy. The two smiled awkwardly at each other knowing that they did the right thing if it was to keep Jin safe.
‘Thanks Ban for agreeing to protect Jin. Jin is too nice. So it is our job as the ‘big brothers’ to take care of him right?’ Lucian was all smiles.
‘Eh… Big brothers eh... Not a bad sound to things. See you in dream land Lucian. Good job as well. Remember, never to tell’ Ban said and then disappears back into Jin’s mind.
“… Stay a happy person Jin. It is our wish for you to live as normally as possible.” Lucian softly said. He soon followed after Ban after confirming that things were okay and the ending was good.