You know, after spending an indeterminable amount of ti in hell, I was starting to feel like it didn't deserve its title.
I an, apart from the S-tier custor service, I had access to all rooms in the royal palace, an all you can eat buffet of souls just being welded into the walls right outside, the ability to travel to any part of hell if I so chose to and access to actual electrical technology!
Who would have thought that hell of all places would resemble modern earth so much?
Sure, this city in particular was practically empty, but there was a room with a tv that connected to channels from other rings and layers. It consisted mostly of torture, fighting, learning and other immoral acts. Surprisingly, the sloth ring was filled with incredibly intelligent devils, and was sort of futuristic. However, it seed to comprise of the weakest devils in the entirety of hell, whereas Hell, Wrath and Pride consisted of the strongest.
I'd been browsing the channels for an absurd amount of ti, so I had basically seen a huge amount of hell content. Enough to not ever want to visit this place for at least the rest of my second life.
Well, it was enough ti for to start asking the agent a lot of questions. The most prominent being what happened to its actual body.
It was sowhere in the castle, simply hidden at an impossible to spot location. It wanted to keep it as far away from the devil king as possible. If he ever found the body, the agent dreaded to think of the things he'd be doing to it.
I wanted to consu the body to acquire all its power, or at least, a great majority, but apparently, absolutely no soul could handle that much power. It was like the whole thing with chaos energy. Too much of it would simply corrupt my soul and I would die.
A specific definition for the term die, here was I would simply lose my sense of self. I'd beco absolutely chaotic and simply go on a rampage. I'd be a literal mindless beast of chaos. A Chaotic Beast, so to say. I imagined the sa would happen to those who got too much divine energy. Leave it to Alpha to tell things in the vaguest of ways imaginable.
Anyway, figures my only chance at obtaining enough power to rival a Devil Prince so easily was completely thrown out the window before I could even think about it. I wondered if there were other things I could do other than eating souls and watching tv, but the next best thing was fighting other devils of a similar rank, which I wasn't too interested in doing.
I was bored enough to start practicing my own magic. It was hard to create simple flas at first, but with ti, it grew easier to manipulate the mana orbs. Well, not easier, but I was getting more accustod to how to do it.
Devils that couldn't carry a certain level of ruthlessness or authority couldn't really manipulate the orbs. They were reluctant to listen to anyone. It was as if they had wills of their own and chose who was worthy enough to use them. Unsurprisingly, no one in hell was worthy enough to use them. For this reason, Devils brute force their way into using them.
aning, only really strong devils could properly manipulate mana orbs in hell. Because of restrictions like these, when devils pop up in Elecryea, they had imnse control over magic, as the mana orbs over there aren't nearly as resistant.
Its what led to the belief of devils being absolute masters of magic, even though so of them aren't allowed to use a great majority of their strength. So cults have been created in Elecryea worshipping certain devils.
Calling them cults sound a bit bad, but they were simply branches of the Great International Magic Guild and were in no way illegal. If I made a na for myself as a devil and got summoned by soone, would I eventually receive a cult of my own? The cult would probably be sothing edgy like the Raven Sorcerers or the Masters of Dark Fire. Maybe the Dark Church… naah, I wouldn't ever allow myself to be the figurehead of a cult called The Dark Church. That's just beyond cringe and embarrassing.
Just thinking about it sent chills down my spine. And not the nice kind when you're getting goosebumps.
"W-We f-found th-them.", Malius ca just in ti to prevent from thinking about this any further.
Pai followed right behind him, both of them carrying a black horn each. They bowed before and presented the horns to . I was sick and tired of the whole fear thing, but there was nothing I could do about it anymore.
"Ooh, nice. Thanks.", I snatched the horns from both of them and quickly flew towards Shitsuke and Kuro who still hadn't budged an inch from where I told them to stay so ti back.
"You guys ready to go back to Larm?", I asked, not really expecting a response. However, I saw Shitsuke tearing up and him trying to contain himself from smiling. He was excited to see his friends once again. I was certain both he and Tsuna wouldn't be able to contain themselves. If only those two would hurry up and get hitched. Maybe I could do sothing about that… no, it was best if they sort it out themselves.
I knew that they would be able to properly celebrate this while being in my presence, so I simply shattered the Devil Horn, activating it.
"As soon as you two get there, you'll feel a massive loss in power. This is because devils aren't allowed to maintain their full strength outside of hell.", I had the agent explain how things would work to in my free ti. It wasn't nearly as easy as I was thinking, but it wasn't a problem so long as I had the agent. "And since you have no contract that's allowing you to maintain your form there, go find a body to stay in temporarily. That body will decay faster than normal, but it should last long enough for to co and sign a contract with you two so you can stay indefinitely."
Having explained all of that to them, I had them jump through the portal, leaving to the gates alone.
'I guess all that's left is to get the akashic records.'
But first, I had to sort certain things out. I hurriedly returned to the castle to go through the closet.
I wasn't proud of it, but I had to admit that I… kind of liked trying on clothes. Don't get wrong. I wasn't a cross-dresser or anything like that back on Earth, but considering I was a girl now, I've had about one or two thoughts about checking out dresses.
Even better, Vagetha was a fashion freak and the most extravagant out of all the Devil Princes. Her closets were filled to the brim with the utmost absurd and over-the-top attire you could even think about. Like so of those fashion models from Arica or sothing.
I never got the point in their totally useless fashion choices, like wearing a couch for clothes, but maybe I simply didn't have the right artistic eye. I doubted most of the people who went there to watch understood it either, but there was definitely a reason people went for those things. A plebian like had no right to speak on such things, I guess.
My next mission was to acquire the ultimate attire! Or so I thought before,
"Vagetha! Let our conversation begin!", the ultimate stalker had arrived for the agent. My shopping trip was destroyed before it even begun. I was forced to use the Royal Sheol instantly to get to the 9th layer.
Stupid Devil King.
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PAI POV
Both Pai and Malius let out a heavy sigh the mont Hinotori left through the Royal Sheol. King Ozvon imdiately left the mont he sensed her disappear from the ring, aning there was no point in keeping up any sort of pretences.
Fortunately, the castle was empty. Almost all the devils had left this city after Prince Vagetha stopped giving out commands. Most devils that belonged to the Greed ring weren't too happy about that. Their new leader was the most obnoxious and the greediest devil ever, and it made their lives a living hell. There were so devils that admired this and sought to surpass her cruelty by learning as much as they could from her.
The mont she stopped giving out commands, no one bothered to check if she was alright. They were simply pleased she was dead. Most imdiately left this floor to go explore other floors and the strongest devils held a tournant in the 1st ring to determine the next ruler of the Greed ring. That hadn't been too long though.
Who would have thought that that very sa devil prince had simply popped up in the Lust ring? That was completely unprecedented and Pai couldn't even dare to co up with a plan involving taking advantage of her in case her ignorance was simply a façade.
"T-That was overwhelmin-aah-ooh!", Pai grabbed Malius by the arm and sped down the hallway, cutting him off. Her destination was the treasury in which those two had spent a decent amount of ti searching through for an item Hinotori requested.
"Ti's a wasting!", she entered the room and ran past all the valuable treasures that laid about the floor like so unnecessary trash. The greediest devil prince in hell really cared not for her positions in the slightest.
Pai only stopped once they ca across a white podium. This podium had a glass case on it, and in this case, there was a creature sleeping. Pai wasted no ti in pushing off the glass case, exposing the creature to the open world.
It hissed the mont it sensed its ho was disturbed and almost snapped Pai's hand, but Malius quickly pulled her back.
"Oh… thanks for the save Mali- I see.", she looked up to see Malius staring right at the golden snake's eyes. It wasn't an intimidating glare in the slightest, but more like both were entranced by the other and didn't want to let go.
"P-Pai?", Malius hesitantly called out to her. She tapped his shoulder in response, as if that answered any of his questions.
"You know what to do, right?", as soon as she said that, he gulped.
"T-That is what terrifies .", slowly, he reached his hand out to the serpent's face.
"Fear not! I am here with you!", Pai reassured him. Still unsure, beads of sweat snaked down his forehead as he inched closer to the snake.
"A-Are you sure about this?"
"Yes. This is it, just touch it."
"Ah!" as soon as his palm was withing 10 inches of the snake's head, it shot out and bit his palm.
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