Awakening Lullaby

Streams of sunlight fell through the thick wall of trees, filling up every space between the leaves with warm, sugary light. The sunlight shone through the oval window, lying on the tiled floor like sweet honey.

In a small restaurant called "Mary's Coffee". A green-haired young man wearing a black and white uniform like a waiter. His hand raised a stainless steel tray on which there was a dish ready to be served to his customers.

He approached a table and lowered the dish he held on it, "T-this is your order, sir, p-pl-please enjoy" with nervousness he serves his customers.

"Nathan, you have to be more relaxed in serving customers. The way you speak is stuttering, your movements are too stiff and more importantly, smile more when talking to customers!" A young woman with blond hair appeared wearing a female maid suit nagging at inexperienced Nathan.

"Ugh ..." it cannot be helped, this is the first time he has served someone! instead, they should feel blissful that they can be served by a prince. The amount of money will not be enough to make him serve them. Thinking about that, he turned into a smug face as he strengthened his back and he looked down at Lucy as if the word 'Right, I'm Prince after all' was written on his face.

"..." what with that face! for an unknown reason, Lucy was annoyed at the drastic changes in her 'cousin's' behavior.

"Lucy, your skirt is up! Is that your new way to attract customer attention?" Happy tells her with a disdain face.

"What!!?"

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"Good work out there, everyone!"

The sun illuminated the shimmering the residents of the town. In the far distance, the silhouette of the skyline pierced through the warm glow like a jagged mountain ridge.

Nathan had just entered the inn with fatigue face because he had worked as a waiter all day, despite that, until the end he still could not master the techniques of serving customers.

He really screws up this time, broke the plate, spilled coffee on the customer and made the wrong order. It could be said that his first quest was a total failure if there were no Lucy and Happy of course. They both helped a lot, thanks to them the restaurant manager can forgive his mistakes repeatedly.

Then again, he was amazed at Lucy who perfectly executed her job as a waitress, even though she was a daughter of a conglomerate family before becoming a mage of Fairy Tail.

Nathan sighed as he walked gloomily up the stairs toward the door of his inn's room. Arrived at the front of the door he opened the doorknob and immediately walked in.

He threw his body on the bed, then turning his head to the side, "I don't want to be a waiter anymore" he muttered as he gradually closed his eyes and ended up asleep due to tiredness.

He didn't know how long time had passed, suddenly his body was like an electric shock that woke him up alertly from his deep sleep.

Before going to sleep, he was used to installing automatic alert mode on his body every time he fell asleep. The point is to give him a warning when there is a danger of approaching when he is unconscious.

This mode he has been using since he was little because oftenness assassins infiltrate the palace at any time. Just now he felt the danger of approaching. Moreover, he felt the aura of danger was very familiar.

He looked across the side of the room, then looked down and made his eyes lit up in stuntedness. A black-robed man lay on the floor right beside his bed. It assassin! but why is he lying down? he doesn't even make a move, is it a trap?

Nathan made a large hand-shaped shadow and grabbed the assassin's body and turned it around. He frowned, "Dead?". He opened the assassin's hood and saw his facial feature. His eyes and mouth were wide open, expression of his death as if he had seen something horrible.

"What in the wo..." before he finished his sentence, suddenly a very ancient voice echoed in his room, "a nice soul ... I need more"

Nathan was taken back, he immediately took an alert pose as activated his Eyes of Horus and solemnly asked, "Who are you?" from his eyes he could see the flow of magic in that ancient voice's direction come from.

As he follows its flow of magic, and in the end, he was surprised that the flow of magic stopped in his bag that lay on his bed, precisely in the next position where he fell asleep, the bag opened up as he exclaims loudly, "Lullaby!!?"

"Kekeke... boy, you truly surprised me! you have fed me a soul, even though it's only one soul but that's enough to wake me from my slumber"

"As the reward, I help you eliminate this man who secretly wants to kill you... he has a dark soul, I like it"

Nathan frowned as he tilted his head, "Dark soul?"

"A soul that has been polluted by negative feelings and darkness" Lullaby explained.

Nathan sneered sarcastically at Lullaby, "in the end you only want a soul". It made a cheap excuse that it helped him eliminate the assassin, in fact, to put frankly it only want the assassin's soul.

"If that is my intention, I will also swallow your soul" Lullaby nonchalantly denied.

"Ha... it pity, with your current state, it can be said that 'impossible' for you to hurt me, let alone swallow my soul" he ridiculously laughed.

Lullaby was sealed for hundreds of years, its strength decreased over time. Whereas eating one soul is only enough to wake it up, it is still far to restore the peak of its strength.

Nathan was very confident that he could defeat the demon in Lullaby. Even Erza, Gray, and Natsu in the state of their magic power drained can still defeat it easily. Let alone fight him!

In other words, the current Lullaby is very weak, too weak to the point it not worth to make him using half of his power.

Lullaby did not deny that. It was true that it was weak at this moment as it did not know how long it slept and how strong this boy would be if it takes a stake to deal with him. It decided to keep listening to this boy speaking, "How about this, you give me loyalty, and I will make your power gradually restore to the peak of your previous prowess"

"Hahaha... you want this Mighty Demon King to submit to little tiny humans like you? hahaha..." Lullaby burst out laughing as if it had just heard the biggest joke in the world.

As soon as he laughed, the Lullaby's body released a very thick Evil aura that instantly spread throughout the room, but suddenly the spread of the aura was stopped by the golden barrier covering the entire room.

"Don't waste your energy! I told you, you have no chance against me!" Nathan said in a deep tone, the pattern in his eyes which was originally in the shape of a circle of golden rings now changed into a sun and moon pattern. His left eye was a moon pattern and his right eye was a sun pattern.

Immediately, the aura that Lullaby emitted was suppressed by Nathan's aura. His aura making Lullaby was trembling, it felt its aura as swiftly devoured by this boy's aura.

It even felt that it could harm its demon soul. It is still very weak at this moment, if its soul is injured, it will make its situation worse.

After all, this boy is very strong, for a child his age can be this strong, it can be said that he is truly a genius. It might not be bad either to follow this child as it gradually restored its strength.

"You only have three choices now:

First, I will destroy your soul vessel now and devour the rest of your weak soul,

Second, I will hand you to the Council,

Third, you submit to me!"

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