Lilith's POV
"First target, huh? How many more are remaining?" The expression of despair washed up on his face, and he sighed.
I shattered his sprinkle of hope to get back to a normal life at this mont.
"Even I don't know. That's sothing the contract decides."
"So what if that damn contract just keeps giving targets? Will I keep doing them?" I could see the bedsheets clenched between his fists.
This was the first ti he was expressing so much emotion in front of . He was clearly angry. But he was helpless. He can't do anything about this. Except to accept his fate. If there's anything that he hated the most, it would probably be the feeling of helplessness. I could empathise with him for this mont because I was once in this situation too.
"Don't worry, you won't get unlimited targets. Probably like a couple more." I tried to convince him, but words seed to have no effect on him.
"I don't trust you." He looked at .
Of course he wouldn't. Even though we lived under the sa roof for one month, I never got to know him. Neither did he try to know about .
But he was a really useful asset to right now.
I cradled his face and looked into his eyes. They looked so void. They had no emotions in them. Well, he wasn't much expressive, but those eyes were of soone who was hollow from inside. He wasn't angry at anymore. Or to begin with, he was never upset with .
"I know that, but trust this once."
"I can't." He shook my hand off his face and stood up. I caught the sight of his chest from the gap between his shirt buttons.
"Please?" I didn't enjoy pleading with anyone. But this human in front of was different.
He didn't say anything. He kept staring at a point, as if he was in deep thoughts. A few monts passed, and I broke the silence between us.
"I… ah… see" I was trying to say that in such a way that it doesn't sound bad but he cut off.
"Please, just give so ti to think about it. Leave alone." He said in an indifferent tone and showed his hand as a gesture for to stop talking.
I left his room and went to the hallway to get a hold of my own train of thoughts. My heart was racing too because I was nervous about ssing up my opportunity with soone who was finally worthy of becoming the monkey who will lead to my victory.
One often loses the track of ti when they are imrsed in their own thoughts. I was sitting in a dark room and heard his bedroom opening. I turned around and the light coming from his room illuminated my room a bit. His silhouette stood near the door fra and he was wearing his casual clothes.
He looked at and said, "It's already 11 pm, you will not sleep?"
"It's already 11 pm?" I still had problems keeping track of ti in the human realm. He nodded. I got up from the sofa and headed towards his room. He stepped aside, and I went into his room. He followed behind shortly and turned off the lights of his room.
"You'll sleep so early?" I tried to strike up a conversation with him and check how things turned out from there.
"Yes, I have school tomorrow." He got on his bed and laid down. I was sitting on my futon so I had a clear view of him in front of . The silence between us was breaking frequently because of the sound of his breathing. There was an unreadable tension in the air. I tried to read his mind so that I could just say what's going on in his mind and he will have to reply to that. But his mind was empty. There were no distressed thoughts going in there at that mont.
He suddenly turned towards and opened his eyes to look at . "As long as I make them feel affection for . That will complete the criteria right?" He asked.
His question surprised , and I nodded my head up and down in affirmation.
But what I found odd was the certainty in his voice. Despite him not understanding anything about love, he seed pretty confident that he can make any vessel fall for him. I knew he wasn't a person who would bluff for no reason; I wanted to know the reason behind his confidence.
But it wouldn't be right to doubt his capabilities now that he neutralised the first vessel. But how did he do it?
If I were to look at love from a superficial point of view, then I would've the answer in front of pretty easily. He was a handso man, but I'm sure that the love which is required to make these vessels liberate out of their negative energy can't be superficial.
If that was the case, it would've chosen soone more handso than Sakamaki.
"You're pretty sure you can make them fall for you?" Instead of troubling my own wits, I decided to press him on this.
"Indeed." He said and let out a small chuckle.
What was funny about this?
I looked at him, staring at . His eyes had sothing different about them. The insignia in his hand was faintly glowing. That's weird, I didn't cast the spell.
"What do you an?" I asked.
"Well, I don't believe in love." He chuckled.
"I know," I said.
"But I believe in the weakness this emotion called love brings over an individual." He added.
Indeed, it was true. Love is a strong feeling, but it makes a certain individual weak towards soone or sothing. Though I would prefer the latter.
"But you just made soone fall for you."
"Did I?" He answered with a question.
"What? I know you're weird but today you're being extra weird."
"I just made her feel like she needs to fill a void in her." he said plainly.
If I'm right about this, then I'm pretty sure Sakamaki has a different perspective about love which he put to use here.
"What if I deliberately created a situation where I was the only person by her side?" He asked.
"You're the only person by her side?" I was playing dumb so that he would keep talking. I'm loving this.
"Devil-chan, do you rember any anomalies regarding the negative energy?" He laughed.
I knew he was capable, but didn't expect him to resolve to a thod like this. I guess a human's true side can only be revealed if it's in the mouth of death.
He sat up from his bed and covered his face with his left hand. He took a deep breath and looked at from the gap between his middle and ring finger as his palm covered his face. He had this smile on his face and the glowing insignia almost made think it was his real eye that was glowing in red colour.
"Devil-chan, it was " He laughed.
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