I open my eyes and I instantly puke into a bucket that someone is holding under my chin.

"Blehh! Fuck! What the hell is that disgusting... blehh!"

The person holding the bucket is no one other than Haruki.

"What the hell was that disgusting smell, Haruki?!"

"Maybe a thank you, huh?!" He replies, putting the bucket on the ground.

I look around the room, recognizing it immediately as the room is in plebistery.

I try to stand up, but I'm tied up to the chair.

"Haruki, what is going o-..."

A shiver runs down my spine and from out of nowhere someone grabs me by the back of my head and smashes my face against the table.

Sebas is sitting on the other side of the table, a cup of tea in front of him.

"What the hell?! My nose! Aghh!" I see blood leaking out of my nose.

"I don't think that physical violence is crucial in this situation, Seraphina," Sebas says calmly, taking a sip of his tea.

"Uhmm... yeah! The Father is right, your Angelness, I guess? Besides... you've told me that you only want to help my friend, yes!" Haruki says with a hint of uncertainty, walking away from the chair I'm sitting on.

"'Angelness'? What the fuck do you mean, Haruki?! Is that a fucking Angel behind me?!"

"Human, your scent gives me hard demon vibes, your friend told me that you've used dark magic before, you're puking and experiencing nausea because of holy water that should be like a cure for humans in case they were cursed. Just answer my questions and I'll consider letting you go, but I do not respect liars." A cold feminine voice whispers into my ear.

"You're cursed, Shoji? Why didn't you tell me before?" Haruki asks curiously.

"Who exactly are you, Nakamura Shoji?" Seraphina adds coldly.

"What the fuck is going on?! Let me go! I didn't do shit! I don't fucking know what are you talking about! What the fuck do you mean by questioning what am I, huh?! I am goddamn fucking human, you stupid bitch!"

"Uhh... Shoji I don't think you should be talking like this towards an-..." Haruki is cut off by Sebastian who shakes his head dismissingly to stop him from speaking further.

"Oh I see, I see! You've got a sharp tongue didn't you, Shoji? Oh well~! You know what else is sharp?! YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS SHARP?!" She raises my head again and smashes it against the table even harder than earlier.

I scream in pain. "Aghhh! Ugh...! My fucking nose! It hurts so fucking much! You bitch! You've broken it! You've broken my nose!"

"Yes, I did, four limbs and twenty fingers to go."

"Stop it! Please! It's enough, Seraphina! Please! Release him! He didn't do anything wrong! I swear on my life!" Haruki screams, pleading for her to let me go.

"Took you long enough, Haruki!" I say loudly, biting my lip out of the pain.

Sebas takes another sip of his tea and calmly stands up.

"Yeah. He doesn't know anything, so let him go, Seraphina." He says calmly.

"Hmph! Finee!" She releases her grip on my hair and turns her back on me.

Sebas walks up to me and unties me. He rubs the back of his head with an embarrassed smile.

I stand up from the chair, looking at him with a furious expression and wiping the blood off my face.

"I'm sorry for that, we'll heal your injuries, but if you want, then you can pun-..." I punch him in the face with all the strength and fury I have.

He falls to the ground and Haruki runs up to him, kneeling next to him and looking up at me with a mix of disappointment and relief.

Seraphina doesn't even turn around to help Sebas or anything.

"Shoji! Why did you do that?! I understand that he ordered her to take all the information out of you... which led to this... uhh..." He looks at my beat-up face for a moment.

"...But this is an old man! Even worse! A priest!"

Sebas slowly stands up with Haruki's help and before I could even lash out at Haruki, Seraphina starts to speak.

"The human did the right thing, I would do the same."

I look over at her, finally seeing what she looks like.

She has six huge white-feathered wings grown out of her back.

"Huh?! Okay then! Let me punch you as well!"

She turns around to look at me, her expression surprised.

She's clad in a white dress that's reaching the floor. Her hair is blonde and her eyes are blue. She's about 162 cm tall.

"Wut?"

Before she could even react, I threw the chair at her.

"Not the chair, please!" Sebas screams in terror.

After some time of arguing and everyone throwing things at each other, the whole room ends up in chaos.

The four of us are sitting at the table, a cup of tea in front of everyone.

A bandage is apparent on my broken nose.

"Now that everyone's calm, we can finally talk. Why won't we introduce ourselves again?" Sebas says calmly.

"My name is Sebas, only you do not know me, Haruki so I'll give you a summary of my role here. I am a priest and an exorcist. Your turn Haruki-kun."

Haruki stands up.

"My name is Haruki, Hadeka Haruki. I am Shoji's friend and I have no clue on what is going on, nice to meet you all."

I stand up, rolling my eyes slightly.

"Shoji Nakamura. I'm fourteen, cursed and I like naturally gifted girls. Now you, pigeon!" I point at the angel.

She stands up with a red blush of embarrassment on her face, putting her hands on the table.

"Pigeon?!"

"Hmph...! My name is Seraphina. I come from heaven obviously... aand I can sometimes lose control over myself when I'm let loose."

"Yeah... we haven't noticed you know?" I roll my eyes at her.

The blush on her face deepens.

"Oh yeah Shoji, here you go." Sebas takes out a bottle of holy water and throws it at me.

I catch it and I look at it for a moment.

"Why are you not drinking the water, Shoji? I mean your nose is really in a bad shape." Seraphina asks curiously, her wings slightly moving.

"I won't drink it now because I look pathetic while doing so, y'know?" I roll my eyes yet again.

Sebas just laughs softly and I know he's laughing at me.

Haruki then speaks up with curiosity and hesitation apparent in his voice.

"Shoji, Seraphina earlier mentioned that you were cursed, and you've just repeated that. Are you cursed? Why haven't you told me about it earlier?"

"Mhm." I nod slightly.

Sebas speaks up.

"Seraphina, you were examining Shoji's curse earlier, what have you found out?"

At this moment, everyone's attention was on Seraphina. She was no longer blushing, as she started to speak in a serious tone.

"Shoji's curse is weird. I couldn't tell what it did, nor who cast it. I'm sure you've noticed how I zoned out earlier, Sebas... And it was because the curse pulled me in, pulled me into some kind of never-ending fall surrounded with darkness that tried to corrupt my soul and Vymir itself. The person who cursed Shoji, is someone powerful, having even higher Authority Level than me... or maybe even Seraphim himself..."

"This person probably has something to do with the Vymir Overload that happened fifteen years ago."

Sebas gasps in horror, his eyes are wider than ever before.

"That's bad! We cannot just simply ignore something like this... that's why..." He looks at me and Seraphina starts to speak again.

"This person has some twisted morals and has taken a liking to you which surprises me, Shoji-kun. You seem so ordinary, unlike your friend over here..." She looks at Haruki but then looks at me again.

I look down, clenching my teeth in frustration.

"So Haruki is special, huh? He could probably take on Carmilla with no help at all... he also has Oozarith to help him..."

"Yet you are here, cursed by some unknown evil entity. Then Shoji-kun... do you perhaps know anything? Maybe even the day when everything started to become weird... people other than us you've stumbled across... any subnatural things happening to you lately.... anything, just anything..."

"She's right Shoji, I am more experienced than everyone in this room, I've seen many things I shouldn't... but this thing is the worst out of all of them. I want to apologize for not calling Seraphina earlier, but I'm also looking forward to you answering all of her questions, because if the one who cursed you, starts to do something that's forbidden in the Peace Pact Lucifer and Michael signed a long time ago... then the next War between factions will begin, many humans will die... you guys both have your families, right? So Shoji, please be honest and tell us everything."

"Kaori..."

Haruki looks at me with worry.

"I probably won't ever understand what you're going through, but I also don't understand why haven't you told me anything about it earlier... I don't understand how important this conversation is... but be honest... just this once... please, Shoji."

I look at them, my frustration replaced with determination.

"Very well then, I will say everything I know... but I have actually come up with a way to confirm what I am saying."

"We're listening," Seraphina says softly.

"Compelling Pact... I will make a Pact with you Seraphina... I will vow to say everything I know, that's the only way to confirm the information I have. Do you agree?"

"What's a 'Compelling Pact'?" She asks curiously.

"Shoji named the rule that Michael's room forces onto your soul 'Compelling Pact', it's a nice name so we will use it from now on."

"You've shown him the room?! Our sanctuary?! You're stupid, or what Sebastian?!" She says in frustration.

"Okay, okay! You two please stop arguing! Just make the Pact already!" Haruki says loudly, looking at the two.

"Fine, fine!" Seraphina stands up from the chair and walks over to me, offering her hand.

"Remember that you need to promise something in return, or else the Pact won't work." Sebas sighs softly.

I stand up from the chair, and I take her hand.

"Now speak Shoji. Do you suspect anyone?"

I look at her with determination.

"I-..."

The red-eyed blonde's face flashes before my eyes and the light from my eyes fades away.

"I haven't met anyone suspicious, I have no suspicion towards anyone and I have no clue what my curse does,." I say coldly.

"Well... that's very bad then..." Seraphina shakes her head and breaks the handshake, sitting down on her chair again.

"Huh?!" The light in my eyes reappears as I sit down on the chair again.

"What the hell was that?! It's just like my memories were wiped in that moment... I didn't remember..."

I tried to speak again, but I forgot that I wanted to speak again.

"What the hell?! Is she preventing me from saying it out loud?!"

"Well... that was underwhelming..." Sebas says in disappointment.

I just sit there, looking at the ground.

"I think that's time for me to go. I need to report everything to Seraphim." Seraphina says as she slowly starts to become transparent.

"Oh yeah, Shoji-kun. The Compelling Pact needed a hefty price, so I've placed a spark of Hilo inside of you, but it's up to you whether you want to master it or not." She adds and then disappears.

There's an uncomfortable moment of silence in the room which Haruki breaks.

"So... uhh... Father, can you tell us what happened to Shoji when I brought him here?" He asks curiously.

"I've probably used almost all my Vymir in one go..."

Sebas sighs and sips his tea. "Yes, you're right, that's what happened, but Haruki said that the thing that formed was a black Revolver or something like that."

"Yeah! Exactly! It was cool! But then you fainted and uhh here we are?" Haruki adds.

"So what? Like it's not that big of a deal, I probably have almost no Vymir at all, judging by the fact that one spell drained all of it and was canceled three seconds later."

"Yeah, you're right Shoji-kun, but it's not the thing I'm curious about. The thing is your capability of casting a spell you've never seen before or practiced before."

"Is that something bad?" Haruki asks.

"No, it's just intriguing... that's why I want to teach you two, how to use and control Vymir correctly."

Haruki stands up, his eyes shining with excitement as he starts to freak out like a child.

"Really?! Really?! Oh my God, I'm so excited!"

I just sip the tea, rolling my eyes at Haruki's childish behavior.

"Fine, I can be your student Sebas, but under one condition."

"Oh? A condition? Very well then, what is that condition of yours?"

"You've mentioned that you're an exorcist, that's why I want you to teach us the basics of fighting a demon in two days." My determination comes back to me.

Haruki smiles at me, his excitement growing even further.

"Sure, then the first class will be tonight."

I smile to myself.

"I'll learn how to fight demons... AND I'LL DEFEAT YOU WITH MY OWN STRENGTH CARMILLA!"