In an instant, a grin started to form on the broken face, and eyes that seemed to have diminished started to glow again in fiery flame, with chilling words resonating throughout the whole place.
"Bore....soulsss...to...eattt, kekeke"
"It's nice to meet you again, Belial," said a young man as he entered, turning his amber gaze toward the entity levitating in the middle, a huge red magic circle formed beneath it.
"Do you..know...be..Huban?" The demon's grin started to fade away, looking at the man who identified it, while not showing any fear on his face.
A demon's soul, mostly belonging to the noble ones of a lineage where they are immortal with an undying ethereal body, makes them an entity worshipped by those who want to bring hell upon this land.
'Is that a demon?' Esme entered with her golden eyes first falling on the creature in the center, causing her pupils to contract with visible coldness as it fallen on magic circle, understanding that this was a ritual to summon the demon which was already halfway formed.
"You appear the same as before," Ryuk's narrowed eyes kept looking at the demon, continuing, "disgusting."
"Huh...Thank you for the...cobplibent, Huban," Belial never thought that some random human who knew about it would compliment it to this extent.
"Hm, this confirms that your brain still works the same," Ryuk, already aware of the meaning behind his words taken to this demon intentionally called it as such, so that he could confirm the minor changes from his past life to now in it.
Belial looked at the young man for some time before saying, "Are you bocking be, huban?"
"I do," Ryuk straightforwardly answered, not caring a bit about the widened red flamed eyes or the Demonic aura around it.
"hahaHAHAHAHA... Brave!... Your soul will be delicious," Belial burst into laughter.
A silhouette formed by the light accentuated the devilish aura of its body as if materializing out of the shadow.
With a grin, Belial turned towards the young woman, adding, "But, let's eat sobe dessert first."
SWOOSH
In an instant, the whole space turned crimson due to oozing fog before a mist burst towards the young woman standing calmly, holding the young man's hand and not taking action herself due to trust in the man.
"It really stinks," Esme said while being surrounded by crimson fog, turning her eyes towards Ryuk, who was completely composed even in front of a noble demon.
"Do you want me to kill it?" Ryuk inquired casually, already aware of the demon's premature form being unable to even pull out half of the energy, let alone enough to defeat him.
"No, you can do whatever you want," Esme replied, understanding that there was some reason for him to not directly kill the demon. She shook her head and started to bear the dirty stench assaulting her nose, her lone support being the hand which she held.
"She prefers hygiene, that's why," A smile formed on Ryuk's face as he leaned and gripped one of the red horns coming out of the demon's forehead and lifted it up.
"Kuughhh!....what did you do to...be huban!" Belial shouted with eyes already burning with hell flame enhancing even more, gazing at the smiling young man, making it understand that the sudden disruption it felt from its main body was somewhat linked with this human.
"Belial, be grateful that, I will not kill you," Ryuk was definitely not going to kill the demon in his hand, already cut its connection with the main body, he had separated a consciousness here, which was now going to become his tour guide in the demon continent.
Yes, not because of some soft heart towards the pain of Dariants, but he wanted to go to the demon continent only to kill the Flagbearer.
Humans are creatures prone to forget the sacrifice of others, move forward have some amount of ungratefulness but it doesn't mean one can stop doing kind deeds.
It's just while doing any kindness, always keep one's losses and gains in check, others' kindness on oneself's loss is definitely plain stupid.
SWOOSH
"Dabn you Huban!" The demon shouted causing the dense Demonic energy to condense inside the place, shrouding the whole a mile range into black dense cloud, with visible ominous aura filling the whole space.
'Grimoire,' Not caring a bit since, his ability kept repelling this energy and Esme also tightly gripped his hand which was expected since, it was favorable for her.
WHOOSH
"What is this!" Due to having concentrated Demonic energy in the surrounding area, Belial's voice was not more clear with its vision seeing everything in red, for the first time saw something dark black covering its body.
A slimy object of black color devouring its physical body, making the demon release even more intense Demonic energy.
SWOOSH
CRACK
Due to intense energy, the ship's interior already rubbles started to expand outward with visible dents forming and tearing, slowly whole roof destroying revealing a huge tornado of black and red mist above the ship, trying to devour everything nearby.
SWISH
"Don't leave me," Ryuk pulled Esme closer with his and wrapped around her waist, with his Amber gaze which was outshining even those shiny crimson clouds, fading behind the red fiery eyes and intense enough to tear through the darkness, fixed on rampaging demon in his grip.
"L..e.. A.. ve...be Huban!" Belial cried with enraged voice.
With a cold gaze, few words left Ryuk's mouth," Submit Belial"
Hearing those words, Belial's oozing anger, rampaging Demonic energy and surrounding intense pressure instantly bombarded towards the man clenching his horn, with a restoration coming out Demon's mouth," How far a mere huban, order a noble debo— AAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"