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It was dawn, coincidentally when they arrive at the village.

Upon seeing the two men in white return from the village with the girls around them. The villagers exchange a few looks with each other. It was the chief who came and welcomed them.

"You have slain the demon? You guys really succeed?" asked the chief.

"Yes, we did," said Jolly.

The two girls hide behind James while holding onto his robe. James looked at them and then looked at the chief.

A smile of relief flashed across his face.

"Good, that's good. Our village is safe!" declared the chief triumphantly. The other villagers were relieved as well.

"Thank you. Thank you so much." The chief grabbed Jolly's hand and shook it vigorously.

The other villagers wanted to do the same as well to James but James was glaring at them as they approached him and the villagers felt tense and backed away. They gathered around Jolly instead who looked more friendly to receive their thanks.

Jolly looked at the chief with disgust and retreated his hand immediately.

"It wasn't any of you who went to request for help from the Church," said Jolly.

The chief became silent. The other villagers started to back away from Jolly.

Then, from the crowd, a desperate woman managed to push herself out from the gathering crowd.

"My children!" she shouted. Tears were dripping down her face.

"Mom!"

The child let go of their grip on James' robe and ran towards their mother.

The sun was slowly rising from the horizon. The atmosphere was starting to feel warm.

The other villagers could only watch from the sidelines. Some watched with guilt while there were some who didn't felt anything as they chose to sacrifice two little girls to the demon in the forest.

"Pardon me, members of the Holy Church. We didn't request for help because we were threatened by the demon. If we did, the demon will obliterate the entire village. We have no choice," explain the chief and he started to kneel in front of the Exorcists.

"We are glad that things ended up like this. I would like to apologize to the girls for our actions." The chief turned and faced the girls and the mother.

Jolly sighed and he looked back to James.

"Our job here is technically over. So I guess we will return," said him

And at that moment, an old man came out from the crowd and pulled the girls away from their mother. The medallion begins to vibrate vigorously.

Jolly and James were surprised.

"What are you doing! Give me back my children!" screamed the mother.

The old man had a hunched back and his eyes were covered with a pair of shade. For his posture, he surprisingly mustered up a lot of strength.

The old man looked frantic and he quickly scanned around the crowd and his eyes fell onto James and James could hear a small plea.

"What are you trying to do, you old man!" the chief came and kicked the old man aside and the sunglasses fell off. From it, revealed a pair of eyes with two pupils on it. It was hideous.

The two girls were too shocked to react to the situation. The old man snatched away the two of them too quickly.

The old man started to cough and he looked at James.

Jolly had barely any strength in him to fight back any demons but the old man looked weak so it wouldn't be that difficult to hard to deal with him.

"A demon!" shouted the chief and the villagers at first was shocked and wanted to flee but they had learned their lessons so they quickly pick up rocks from the ground and throw it at the old man.

James had no idea where their confidence came from. Maybe it is because of the presence that gave them the assurance that they will be safe from harm.

Jolly pointed his spear at the old man and demanded him to surrender the girls which he was holding onto them tightly.

"Release the girls!" said Jolly.

The old man shook his head and his eyes were wide opened and staring into Jolly's eyes. He tried to speak but illegible words came out from his mouth. And as he was trying his best to sound like a human, Jolly saw that his teeth were razor-sharp, which was inhumane.

Jolly summoned what's left of his strength and prepared to thrust it down to the old man but was stopped when James touched his shoulder.

He looked back.

"James?"

"Just rest. I will handle it myself," said James. "The girls are still inside his hand."

Jolly took a step back and James walked and slowly approached the old man.

The old man started to shiver uncontrollably. His feline eyes had tears welling up inside him. His mouth wanted to say something but it was incomprehensible and his mouth was shivering.

The girls were still in his embrace. The girls didn't utter a word. But the youngest one, Taylor, it looked was crying but she wasn't making a sound. Just tears flowing down like a waterfall. The elder one, Ashley was desperately shaking her head as James was approaching the two of them. She too had tears flowing down like a waterfall.

The two of them are strong girls.

James wanders if they know what's he's going to do. Regardless, these two were definitely strong girls. And James wandered. Will they hate me for this?

"Die, you monster!"

A rock landed on the old man's head.

"Go to back to hell, demon!"

Another rock fell on the old man's head.

"Give me back my daughter!" said the mother who was being held back by a group of villagers.

James was slowly walking towards the old man.

The old man bowed his head and prepare for his fate.

James was getting closer and closer.

And then, he walked past the old man and continue forward.

The girls begin to struggle.

The villagers, the mother and Jolly were stunned.

The old man looked up, totally surprised.

Then, in one quick swipe, he sliced off the head of the mother.

And the village fell into chaos.

Everyone started screaming. Some quickly ran away from the scene. The chief looked at the headless body, totally speechless.

And in James' mind, he could hear a demonic voice talking to him. The voice filtered out the surrounding noise. So, James could only hear the demon's voice.

"I can't believe you really did it. Instead of slaying that disgusting beast, holding onto to those two little girls, you really did it. You killed the mother of those two precious girls."

The demon started to laugh.

"I'm not going to be bothered to heal myself now. This situation is more than enough for me. I wonder how you are going to be able to escape from this situation. Your path is sealed, Exorcist. You will be punished."

The demon voice disappeared and the voices of the surrounding came flooding back into his ears.

The old man released the girls and stood up, feeling shocked.

Did that man just slay the real demon? Tears were welling up in his eyes. Does that mean we have hope?

The girls stood on their spot motionless and they were crying out loud.

But behind the old man, a spear was coming towards him. It was too late when he realized it.

But the spear was parried by James.

"James! "shouted Jolly. He was gritting his teeth, unable to process what he just saw. He took a step back.

"The mother is a demon," said James.

"Are you out of your mind!" shouted Jolly.

Jolly took a step back and he performed a hand sign which James had never seen before. His mouth started to move and James instinctively knew that it was some sort of incantation.

James gritted his teeth for what's to come.

But then, he felt an ominous presence appearing from Taylor's shadow. James without hesitation suing his blade at Taylor and cut off the demon. But the demon was able to morph his body and disappeared back into the earth and scramble off.

But nobody saw the demon. They only see James trying to cut Taylor's down. Even, Taylor was shocked by James' action. Everybody was stunned.

"Is she a demon too!?" shouted Jolly. "Are you out of your god damn mind!" shouted Jolly.

"My plan work. Now you are in a bigger problem. James" said the same demon who spoke to him

"I was really planning to snatch away the girls. Because that will blow my cover. But, oh well, I am just glad the plan work. Once you are being dealt with by your own kind. I will be back again to obtain what I want all along." The demon laughed and disappeared.

A yellow magic circle formed on the ground and bright yellow spears flew out from the circle and chain James' down to the ground.

The atmosphere turned calm at the sight of James being captured and contained.

Jolly collapse onto the ground, panting. The casting of this spell cost him too much of his energy. He could barely stand up now.

With James being chained down by this holy sealing spell that was being taught to him by Father Rick as a countermeasure to deal with Rogue Exorcist and with the spell activated, it will notify the Holy Church of the location and a containment team will be dispatch or rather, teleported to his location.

James was immobile. Not only that, he felt his entire body to have suddenly become extremely heavy. It was the robe. The robe was acting as a deterrent. James knew it was futile to resist so he let the weight slowly pinned him down and he was kneeling from the ground with the chain all around him.

"That should be enough. Everyone is safe at the very least."

Then he heard the demon's laugh again.

"Well, what a turn of events. Since I am at it. To make things look more badly for you, I am going to kill off your weakened buddy here. Nobody is going to trust you, James Charter. This is goodbye for you now."

The demon reveals himself behind Jolly. Jolly was completely unaware of its presence.

Jolly, on the other hand, was trying to look for the old man but he was nowhere to be seen anymore.

James was furious and he begins to struggle viciously to break free from the spell.

"Jolly!" shouted James.

"Behind," his mouth was covered by the spell.

James' eyes became wide when the demon rose behind Jolly and was prepared to strike him down.

The medallion wasn't reacting to the demon. The demon is a demon alright. It was disguised as one of the villagers but his face was all twisted with his crooked smile.

"Arghh!" shouted James.

And the chain broke….

The demon looked at James and his eyes were riddled with fear.

"Just what are you?" asked the demon and he quickly scrambled because he knew it would be pushing his luck too far if he continues to stay at the scene.

Jolly was completely taken aback by James' action.

He broke the spell. How did he break the spell?

And he saw it happening in his own eyes, that James' robe slowly turned pitch black and the yellow circle was swallowed up.

"Tch." Jolly bites his lips and push himself up with his spear.

James didn't want the demon to escape. He has no intention to attack Jolly but he has to deal with the demon before anyone gets hurt.

He took a step forward but he stopped as soon as he found out that the four masters were all around him with their weapons raised and aiming at each and every part of his vitals.

"Make one more move and you are dead James Charter," declared Master Ryan.

"A demon has escaped. I must kill it before it harmed anyone else," said James.

"The only person I can see here who is able to cause harm to anybody is you, James," said Master Elion with her thin rapier at his throat.

"You will return to the Church and you will be judged accordingly for your actions today," said Master Ren.

Master Lee shackled up James' arm and legs and covered up his mouth, with a type of handcuff which seems to be able to absorb away someone's strength or seal away someone Soul. He didn't look too happy seeing the current James. He gave no comments.

"Masters Ryan…" called out Jolly weakly.

"You have done well, Jolly. Because you have deployed the spell, we can teleport ourselves quickly to aid the situation."

Jolly was too weak and he fell unconscious.

"Rest…you did well."