Redo of a Romanceless Author’s Life Devoid of Love; Another Chance at Youth Chapter 455

Chapter 455. An Exciting Night with Two Girls Outside the City: The Alleged Haunted Castle. (5/7)

I’d been silent the entire ti. I didn’t particularly like touching on the subject of god very much. It always left a bitter taste in my mouth. Rosa essentially said exactly what I thought for the most part. We’d occasionally talked about the subject of gods before so she had a pretty good idea about my take on them. We felt the sa for the most part. It was a pretty simple one too, ‘Screw god, we don’t need him in our lives.’

Other people were more than free to believe in god, in fact, I believe those kinds of people were needed in the world. Not everyone had tempered their minds the sa way we had and they needed sothing to cling to when hit by sudden disaster. People needed sothing to help them cope with how cruel a hand reality dealt them.

Essentially, what god provided people was hope. A belief that there would be better days ahead so long as you persevered through the hardships you faced. Hope was sothing I accepted that people needed. It was just a matter of where people derived that hope from. If there was no hope for the future, all that would be left was despair.

But as for the two of us, we wanted nothing to do with god. If the grim reaper cos to find us, we won’t bend over and let him claim our lives easily. We won’t despair. We’ll fight him with everything we have and once we’ve exhausted all options we’ll take our lives into our own hands. We decide when and where we die. How we die. Not the grim reaper, the harbinger of death, not nature, and certainly not god.

“Haaaaah…” Dawn seed a bit down as a sigh leaked out of her mouth and she said, “I guess… yuh might be right… Rosa...”

“Sorry…” Rosa apologized when she realized she’d said a bit too much.

“No… it’s fine. Sowhere… deep down… I always believed if I prayed to god every day for it to happen my mom would return in the future so my dad wouldn’t be lonely anymore.”

“Have you ever considered praying to a devil?” Rosa shot a discreet glance my way as she asked that.

“No… I’d go to hell if I did that.”

“Well, maybe you should try it soti. Who knows, maybe devils exist and one would offer his services to you.”

“I wouldn’t even know how to find or where to begin looking for a devil.”

“Oh? Did you not know, you don’t find or look for a devil. A devil cos to find you. You simply need to call for one.”

“Call for one? How?”

“Isn’t that pretty obvious? You just need to summon one.”

“But how do yuh summon them?”

“Hmm… a summoning circle…” Rosa tilted her head to one side before she added, “and maybe offering sothing they would want in exchange?”

“Yuh an… like a soul?”

“Yeah, that’d probably work. Or maybe you could offer to be their woman or sothing. Don’t devils like virgin sacrifices or sothing.”

“That’s so defamatory propaganda, don’t go randomly sacrificing virgins when no one’s asked for that. Not all devils are going to want the sa thing. I bet one devil just asked for a virgin sacrifice on a whim one ti then everybody started doing it thinking they all accept the sa thing.” As a devil, I couldn’t stop myself from retorting.

“Hahaha, is that so?” Rosa asked with a bemused expression.

“Yeah… probably.”

“You really sure about that, you didn’t sound very confident just now.”

“Forget it.”

“Hey, since we’re already in a place with the perfect ambiance, why don’t we try summoning a devil?”

“Summoning a devil? Here? That’s crazy, Rosa.” Dawn shook her head adamantly rejecting her sudden proposal.

“Why not?”

“Who knows what a devil will do. What if we die?”

“If he attacks us, we attack him back. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. But I doubt devils are that strong anyway. Their true power lies in their silver tongues, their ability to smooth talk and deceive people. As long as you’re sharp-minded and don’t let them deceive you into making a bad deal, you should be just fine.”

“But I’m not exactly that sharp though. I’d definitely be deceived by one.”

Yes, you would definitely be deceived. Considering how one’s beside you right now.

Rosa reassured, “You’ll be fine since we’re here with you. With us here, there’s no chance you’ll ever be deceived by so random devil. You can count on us.”

“Will a devil even appear if I’m with the two of yuh?”

“Devils are surely social people since they know how to talk their way out of anything. So unless that devil is sohow a misfit reject among devils and extrely antisocial - (like my boyfriend lol) - ehem or that devil only likes girls, I don’t see why he wouldn’t appear just because we’re with you.”

But... I am a misfit reject among devils and I’m also extrely antisocial. Are we actually trying to summon a different devil right now? I sohow felt perplexed. She was obviously saying these things just to take jabs at .

“What was that yuh mumbled just now? I didn’t hear everything yuh said.” Dawn sought clarification.

“It’s nothing. It wasn’t important. Anyway, let's get to work.”

“Get to work? How do we even start?”

“Uh… drawing a summoning circle on the ground I guess.”

“What would it even look like?”

“A circle with a hexagram in the middle of it?”

I internally rolled my eyes. As if summoning a devil would be that easy. I only knew that since I’d already tried it out of desperation a long ti ago in my attempt to better understand devils as a devil.

“The hexagram is the Star of David. Wouldn’t yuh use a pentagram, the seal of Solomon instead?” Dawn suggested.

Huh?

Rosa countered back with her reasoning, “What? But a hexagram has six points, a six-sided hexagon at the center, and six triangular spaces. So it’s 666, the mark of the beast, right? Also, I thought the seal of Solomon was the hexagram.”

I was under the sa impression as Rosa. Movies always used the hexagram, didn’t they? Was that just so propaganda? The two of us were a bit clueless when it ca to religion-related matters and I honestly had little interest in actually touching or reading the bible. As far as I was concerned, it was a work of fiction.

“Hmm… honestly, I’ve seen the seal of Solomon depicted that way too so I’m also a little confused about it.”

So even Dawn wasn’t completely sure about it.

“In that case, can’t we just try both?”

“That’s true, but what would we even draw it with?”

“Blood?”

“Uh… Rosa, that’s a bit… extre, don’t yuh think? We don’t even know how big a summoning circle would need to be. We might not even have enough blood in our bodies to complete one.”

“Who said we had to use our blood? We can just use animal blood.”

“I can’t agree to that. If yuh’re going to kill an animal it should only be to eat it.”

“Haaaaah… right… well, there’s nothing saying we can’t cook it and eat it after we’re done, right?”

“Mmm… though I do keep a revolver in the gun safe under the seat inside my pickup truck… hunting an animal down at this hour would be pretty difficult.”

“No need for a gun. I’ve got sothing perfect for the job with . As for hunting at night, you can leave that to .” Rosa had a mysterious smile on her face as her eyes narrowed.

Well, she had the skill set of an assassin. Hunting at night should definitely be sothing she’s practiced and well-versed in.

“Oh, right. Yuh’ve probably got a cooking knife among your things, right?”

“Yeah, you could say that.”

I was pretty certain the first thing Rosa thought of were her nails rather than the knife in our bag.

“Alright then, while I go do that, you two should check out so of the floors above, find an appropriate location, and clear the ground so we can get to work as soon as I get back.”

“Okay, let’s do it,” Dawn seed strangely eager to et a devil for a girl who’d been a devout believer in god up until this point.

I suppose that rely reflected how much she loved her dad. The two were one in the sa, willing to sell their soul for the other’s happiness.

Really now, this father-daughter pair…