The Devil

The sun had already set by the time Luka and Tero reached the cemetery.

"What's wrong, Luka?" Tero asked.

"It's nothing." Luka was still unsure about helping Tero, but he wanted to see it himself.

"Did you tell captain Ana about my girlfriend?"

"What am I supposed to tell her? And besides, she didn't ask anything".

"So nothing happened?"

"Something will happen if I don't go back home before the night. And..." Luka trembled and hugged himself, "Liz is going to kill me tomorrow."

"Serves you right," Tero teased.

'Once everything is over, I want to have a proper chat with her, and… confess to her.'

"You have my gratitude," Tero patted Luka's shoulder two times, "Luka Aldini."

"I am not even sure if I can help you or not."

Tero looked at Luka, and glanced around, then said with a solemn expression on his face, "He would be here soon; you should hide somewhere."

"Got it" Luka nodded.

There were many trees in the cemetery. Luka stopped the longest tree and climbed on it within seconds. He searched for a thick branch covered with leaves and hid there.

Luka had always been an athlete since he couldn't use magic.

Tero walked further into the cemetery and stood in front of two graves. The names on the gravestone were 'Releis Urek' and 'Cir Urek'. It was the graves of his adoptive parents.

It was silent. The wind was blowing calmly, and the withered leaves were falling to the ground.

Soon, the silence was broken by the sound of footsteps. The footsteps approached Tero and stopped at some distance away from him.

"I am surprised you knew it was me," The voice said.

Tero turned around and saw a man wearing a strange overcoat standing in front of him.

Tero clenched his fists. "I also couldn't believe it was you," Tero then glared at the man, "Teacher Denis."

That man was none other than the teacher of the exorcist high school-- the same school as Luka, Tero, and others.

"Only If I had killed that human girl..." Denis removed the hood and said, "I should have killed her on the spot rather than slowly torturing her."

"You bastard!" Tero roared. "They were humans! Why did you kill them?!"

"I killed them because they were humans," Denis said with a smirk on his face.

"I will kill you!"

"That human girl… she saw me killing them and ran away. I sent monsters behind her, but she managed to escape. But when she was running, I had already inserted some impurities inside her body, and my monsters also had….!"

Denis' body changed, and his entire eye-- everything inside his eye sockets turned black. "Her body was already infected then...then…" He said in a monstrous voice, "How is she alive?!"

"I will kill you!" Tero took out his swords.

"I kept creating new monsters and let them roam in the city so that they could find her, but they couldn't."

"I will kill you!"

Tero dashed at Denis with his sword aimed at Denis' neck. But, as he was about to attack Denis, Denis punched Tero in the stomach that sent Tero flying, and he collided in the tree.

Denis was extremely fast. Tero couldn't even see Denis' attack.

"Because of one puny human girl! I was caught! I have been killing humans since forever, and no one could ever catch me! It's all that girl's fault! I will kill you first, and then kill her!"

"Hmm. I just got an idea." Denis pointed his finger at Tero and uttered, "Your face kinda pisses me off, so I will first cut your limbs and make you half-dead, then kill that girl in front of you so you could suffer, and then… I will slowly, slowly kill you…. Or maybe, I will just feed you to my monsters."

"I will… tell everyone," Tero said while coughing blood.

"What a shame," Denis started walking towards Tero and said with a smirk on his face, "You won't be alive to reveal my identity to anyone."

"Heh!" Tero smirked

"What are you laughing about?"

"I… have already… revealed..."

"What?"

"Die" Luka jumped down the tree and slashed Denis' neck.

Denis' face rolled down his body and fell on the ground, so did his rest of the body.

Luka walked to Tero and reached his hand at Tero. Tero grabbed Luka's hand and stood up, saying, "Right for the neck, huh?"

"I still can't believe it." Luka was having a hard time believing everything.

Until this day, Luka had always thought that exorcists are kind people who help and save others. Luka had thought of exorcists as a hero. But after realizing that exorcists like Denis exist--who kills people instead of saving, Luka was lost in his emotions.

"Thanks for trusting me."

Luka sighed and spoke, "I can't believe there was a devil this close to me. What if he had attacked other students?"

'What if he had done something to Ana or Liz?'

"In fact, I should thank you." Luka said, "I will cut everyone down who is a threat to my loved ones-- no matter who it is."

Tero's eyes widened, and his face went pale. Luka noticed it and realized that Tero was looking over his shoulder.

"I never imagined Luka was hiding on the tree." The voice said from behind Luka.

"Wh...at?" Tero couldn't believe his eyes.

Luka slowly looked back, and his face showed the same expression as Tero's.

Denis stood up, holding his head, and put it on his neck. The flesh and the skin joined with each other. Then Denis moved his face left and right, and up and down.

There wasn't even a scar left on Denis' neck, as if it was never cut.

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