Chapter 85.5: flashback and date

"¿little brother why do you have so much blood on you¿" a little girls said as she ran to the little boy.

"¿leave me alone Mia¿" the child said irritated as he walked past her

"¿lotus tell me what happened?¿" she said as shadows shot out of the ground and tied him up.

as she did his mana went rampid and his dark green eyes glew with a crimson enveloping the center.

"¿why can't you ever leave me alone! put me down ahhhhh! I hate you!!!¿" he yelled as he kicked and squrned and even his tail appeared and he tried to use it to free himself but then the shadows grabbed it.

"¿be quiet or you'll wake Jenny, she's still sleeping inside her crib¿" she said using a shadow to cover his mouth.

he continued to kick and scream cursing at her but she just sighed as her eyes glew purple "¿I swear to god if you don't calm down I'll kick you and lock you in the closet untill mom and dad get home¿" she said annoyed but somewhat amused by her little brother who was about two years old.

"¿ okay one more time, what happened? and whats with the blood? or should I do what I did last time?¿" she said laughing creepily.

he shook his head and his mana calmed a little and she let him down, baby lotus then told what happened.

"¿so that girl lily and her friends jumped you and tried to beat you up and you snapped¿" she said summarizing it

"¿yea but I didn't mean to...its just-...I couldn't control myself. . . .for some reason I wanted to hurt them and I knew I did. . .so I did it and it felt so good to make my bullys suffer, but now, I didn't know, I want to hurt them real bad again but I also don't want to¿" little lotus said calming down.

"¿lotus you can't just lose control like that, remember what dad said, your an incubus and you have to keep yourself under control, especially when it comes to rough-housing with the other kids, after all we grow up mentally faster than the humans and other races and their just little fragile creatures compared to us¿" mia said as she yawned and fixed her hair.

"¿we age faster?¿" he said as his mood flipped.

"¿just remember that I'm a succubus and your an incubus, are race grows faster but stops earlier that mostly all other races¿" mia said not wanting to explain.

"¿what's an incubus?¿" he asked

"¿ask dad¿" she said before walking up to him and hitting him in the head with her small hand.

"¿you need to control you rage, remember what dad said, your like ying and yang, stop being bad and hateful its not good for you, stick to that yang side and be good and peaceful¿" she said because he's been losing control of his anger and rage alot recently.

"¿but how? all I want to do is play and have fun but they keep bothering me and this overwhelming feeling always envelopes me¿" he said but she shook her head.

"¿it they bully you again try and to hurt them with kindness and don't fight unless you have to, oh I have another story for you actually¿"

she grabbed his hands and took him upstairs to their bathroom and she grabbed an extra pair of clothing.

"¿take off your clothes, we need to get the blood off of you and we'll also take a bath together and I'll tell you another story about uncle Rin¿" she said as she was already undressed and helping him to take off his clothes revealing his dragon wings tattoo.

"¿also deactivate your transformation I'll help you wash your tail and you can do your horns...I wish I awakened like you so I might as well as play with it¿" she said jealous of his horns and tail.

"¿oh yea after were done don't forget mom's gonna teach us more of the human language, she says it's not good to speak enochian in public¿" she said as she helped him get the last of the blood off.

they both hopped In the tub and his eyes lit up again as he really wanted to hear about his uncle Rin "¿can you tell me the story now¿" he said happily.

"ask in hestian (human language)" she said as she mastered it and here little brother lotus only knew enochian.

"¿but its so hard~¿" he did a cute pout.

"I guess no story then?" she said grinning.

"cahan uawu tell tee stomawy pwease" he tried speaking it and she just laughed

"okay sure, but maybe you might wanna pay attention to mom's lessons more, after all you only got one word right and you start kindergarten next week and your best friend Olivia starts first grade and she learned enochian just to talk to you so you better catch up to her" she said with a giggle messing with him.

"¿okay lets begin, there once was a dangerous but kind Demon and his name was Rin Ito, he's our uncle, one of the five incubus's and here's his tale about how he and his brothers and sisters waged war against the giants¿. . . . . . . . . ."

*****present time*****

sitting in her room she looked over to the bookshelves and a shadow hand poped out of the ground and grabbed a book bringing it to her

"¿my baby brother's changed alot since back then, I remember when he used to tell me he hated me and Jenny alot and he was always annoyed or irritated by somthing, such a feisty and angry kid,

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but after that incident happened with me and Jenny he blamed himself even tho It was actually my fault. . .and he suddenly chanced, he became carring and obsessed with trying to make sure we were happy and safe haha.

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I wonder if still remembers his real name, I like lotus better, after all it was my idea to name him that, but I guess him taking after uncle Rin isn't that bad, apparently their both just as kind¿" Mia said as she opened the book.

but then her door suddenly opened "can we call Rin today, he hasn't answered any of our calls since Wednesday" neko said as yuu opened the door for her.

neko still couldn't open door's

"its not like I wanna talk to my idiot of a master, but if neko's doing it I wanna make sure she doesn't act weird so I have to join in" yuu said being a typical tsundere.

"hahaha you all were asleep when he called a few hours ago so I guess we could call him again" she said pulling out her phone and they thanked her like usual, but she liked them so she didn't mind it.

"so have you been studying yuu" she asked as the number was being dialed "yea but this realms language is hard when it comes writing it" she said since the writing system is diffrent than on pandemonium.

she started to laugh "Rin said the same thing when we were learning hestian" she looked confused.

"what do you mean? didn't you pick it up easily while growing up" neko said confused.

she shook her head "no, haha me and Rin originally speak enochian and we still do actually, Jenny knows some of it by instinc but after that she's kinda stupid, okay never mind that,

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well I picked it up easily but Rin wasn't so found of hestian, it took him four years to master it unlike me who it took only a few months" she said bragging.

"but I though Rin was like a nerd or somthing, or atleast that's what Jennifer tells us" yuu said questioning her.

"yea he is, but he used to be a lazy and a delinquent, its kinda funny to see how much he's changed" she she said laughing.

"you wanna surprise Rin, I'll teach you some things he might praise you for" she said and the phone call went thorough and she immediately put it to her ear.

"¿heyoooo, how's my baby brother doing¿" she said as she sat up and kicked her feet joyfully.

he answered her in enochian since he was with Chloe and she talked with him for a few minutes before lowering the phone.

"he said he's busy and he's sorry but he also said that if you call later he can talk" she said to them and they looked disappointed expecally neko.

she chuckled as she saw them and she said "he said he'd come home sooner but he needed two more week's" she said and that made them even more discouraged

"such a stupid master, what are we supposed to do without him for a whole two weeks, after all he's been gone for three week's already" she complained.

"make him proud and keep up the good work with your studies and I'm sure he'll reward you" as mai said that she saw the excitement on yuu's face and she waved goodbye as she was about to go do something.

neko groaned becuase she was tired of waiting and she was about to track him down using her senses since she had a grater connection with him than anyone due to him turning her, but before leaving to sleep In his bed again she said to tell him she missed him and to hurry back as well.

"neko he said he had a present for you and that he'd take you somewhere when he got back and not to forget to have fun while you're here" as she said that neko nodded in acceptance thinking he possibly had some corpse for her to eat.

its been a while since she's eaten flesh and the other servents nor does anyone in this house look tasty enough to eat, she needs something from pandemonium.

***on the other side of the phone after five more minutes***

"¿have a good day big sis¿" lotus said as mai hung up

"hey lotus I'm back" Chloe said as she came out of the restroom.

"okay lets go then, he said as he had a bright smile and Chloe grabbed his hand walking with him to somewhere she knew they'd both enjoy muhahahaha.

after a few minutes lotus's smile faded as they appeared infron of a haunted mansion entertainment place.

his joy was gone and as they entered and got a wirstband he held her hand as the place was so spooky it made a Demon like him a little hesitant

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but luckily Chloe knew this place well and she wanted to scare lotus and make him cling to her making her feel like the fearless one In the relationship. . .and it worked.

"I don't know about this Chloe?" he said wanting to back out but she grabbed his hand and put her fingers in between his.

"hold my hand if your scared, it will be fine, after all their's nothing to worry about, it's not like anything's real" she said as he looked up and saw a floating ghost illusion roaming around like this was luigi's haunted mansion.

"right. . . . . . . . . ."he said in disbelief.

she just chuckled as she pulled him along "be a man trurp" the ancestor said as he was walking next to Chloe and lotus 'shhhh' Chloe said mentally communicating with him to say shut up.

"but did you have to chose this guy, he seems puney and weak chloe" ancestor spoke again 'who I like isn't your concern' she said to him.

"does he have a use, like he could be your food or-" she interupted him 'if you keep talking about him I'm gonna stop talking to you' she said since he could only communicate with her.

"okay okay I get it, you like him" he said basically saying chill out.

as they walked lotus couldn't help but be terrified of this dreadful place

"ROAR!!!" a magic illusion appeared pouncing on some Little creapy the rings type girl and savagely tearing her to prices as they were supposed to go the other way.

as soon as it jumped out and stared tarring at her lotus jumped and clenched onto Chloe's arm making her have a soft smile as she looked over at him.

"lets keep going" she said pulling him to the next area, luckily lotus's oragns didn't really surve a use, seeing as he only actual ones he needed was his hearts and the others were just a third substitute for his darkness and or mana.

she laughed a bit as he was jumpscared three more times and he held onto her more making her ancestor disapprove even more.

he knew that there was no threats in this place thats why he didn't attack anything, but he was still being overwhelmed at how creepy this place was.

but then suddenly as they were about to enter a room he came to a complete stop as his eyes lit up and crimson started enveloping them..

"Chloe we need to back, we can't go in there" he said as he felt a real sense of danger come.

she laughed and just pulled him along "come on there's nothing wrong, just stick with me and you'll be fine" she said with a smile.

"come in don't be a pussy this is just an amusement place" ancestor said.

lotus wasn't lieing tho, he felt sothing dangerous, something vile and filled with bloodlust.

but if Chloe was going in he might as well as go in and try to protect her from whatever it was.

as they were walking a few jump scare came up but lotus didn't even flinch seeing as he was focused on tracking the scent.

they we're getting closer he tried releasing his Demonic pressure but the system had his power sealed.

their was nothing he could do but hope for the best.

but as they walked for another minute, whatever it was it suddenly dissapeared and they came to another jumpscare but this once was covered in a supposed "fake" blood...

lotus wasen't byeing it and this place was either a trap or their was psychopath on the lose, but lotus saw how happy Chloe was so he just chucked it up and stayed on guard as he held Chloe's hand again and said with a smile "lets keep going~"

she was a little surprised by his answer but she felt his hand shake and just stayed besides him as she saw him continously getting jumpscared by people, illusions, and objects.

***one hour long terrifying experience later***

"that was fun~" she said with a delighted smile as he hugged her arm tightly "how could a creature like that exist" he said remembering one of the monster illusions.

"my grate grate grate gradaughter chloe here is much scarier than those illusions boy" ancestor said actually making her chuckle.

lotus saw how happy she was, this was the longest he's scene her smile, actually that's all she did as they were in there, and he liked it, it was good to see that she wasen't faking it or tring to lie.

"you wanna go again" he asked even tho that place was absolutely terrifying "naw, lets get something to eat first. . .then we can hit up another three horror places" she said as they walked out of the entrance.

"sure thing. . . . .wait what???" no! God's no!!!

***

for the next few hours after getting lunch they hit up more horror places and after that they finally did somthing normal

the date continued for a little bit longer lasting around eight hours and as they did lotus felt that same danger following them.

were were being tracked, okay I gotta come up with something quick.

"Chloe I'll be back I have to. . .you know use the restroom" he said and she just sat down on the bench waiting as her ancestor followed the boy since he showed no signs of actually having to go.

as lotus walked off a minute later someone went into the restrooms following him.

but as he was entered in their lotus was waiting for him, and before he could even notice lotus was standing their a whip-balde made of darkness pierced his heart.

"I don't mind you hunting me, but no one hunts my Chloe" he said coldly as his green eyes were fully crimson now.

"hahaha kids got spunk! and isn't completely useless, I guess he won't hesitate to kill for her. . .good to know" the ancestor said to himself as he watched this all playout, but the only thing he didn't understand was that darkness he was using and why was is so terrifying...especially to someone like him.

but there was something familiar about that darkness, and it seemed like he knew it from somewhere.

"I haven't did this in so long" he opened his palm and pointed his hand to the now dead human who tried to kill him.

[devour]

lotus's whip blade turned back into his arm and the body that now fell to its knees burst into flames and and it the mist seemed to be gatting sucked into lotus.

after the body was gone and the black mist dissapeared into lotus he got a system prompt.

[ lvl 22 human: 2,200exp ]

(A/N: killers are totally different and it will be explained later)

[ 1 Random stat increase by +1 ]

[ exp unable to be gained, need to evolve first ]

after devouring someone I didn't feel satisfied and now my hunger was at 33% so I was still pretty hungry, and all I had for lunch was a drink so its pretty annoying right now because I'm craving somthing not on the menu.

"oki doki time to head back" he said in a playfully childish way ignoring the fact he just killed someone without hesitation.

getting back to Chloe they left and the ancestor just nodded as he looked at lotus "I won't tell her, this is a secret amongst men now" he said in to himself in his old and wise voice.

"it's getting late lets go back" she said as she pulled out her phone from feeling a vibrate and then she said

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"Joshua wanted to know if you wanna sleep over, he also said he's challenging you to see who truly knows the "heart of the cards" or something like that" she didn't know what that ment.

"sure I'd love to stay over, after all I love games" he said and they walked to the dorms.

but as they did his eyes lit up and he adjusted something on his hip.