Sudden Change

Orion skidded beside his legs as he quickly and also painfully rolled over to be behind him. Now he was the one facing the empty wall, while Orion was exactly behind him.

His right hand was pretty much useless and hurting with a fracture that's why he kicked hard in the back of his knees to make him bend over. The Demon was surprised that this Conjurer could still move. He was bent over due to an impact on the back of his knees and at this moment taking advantage of his bend-over position Orion threw the chain he had doubled over around his neck from behind.

He twisted it hard and because his right hand couldn't move he could only tug it with his left hand. The force would never be enough to choke this monster-built demon, so he improvised and forced his body against the demon.

He pushed him to the wall side while he turned and began to yank the chain which was coiled around the neck of the demon over his shoulder. The chain quickly began to suffocate the redneck of the Demon.

Then, it was smooth. The demon began to try to get off the chain from his neck but the terrible force of the whole body Orion was using on the chain was too much for him to overcome. The chain was bitterly digging into his skin, as he was suffocating for the air. He tried to push off Orion from his back but still due to pressure on his neck was unable to do so.

The adrenaline rush in the body of Orion helped him brave the struggle of Demon as he despite terrible pain in his right arm due to jerks and pulls, still managed to hold down the chain from his end. He further tightened the cord as he could to kill this Demon.

Finally, coughing and not getting much redder than he was before due to lack of breathing, the demon finally succumbed to unconsciousness. He fell on the floor and Orion who was also very handling this rough work finally released the chain from his hands, which were all sliced down due to pressure. His hands were bleeding but he couldn't care less as he had done it.

IT WAS SMOOTH, RIGHT? EXCEPT IT WASN'T.

All of this was something which was predicted by Orion in his mind as he took the action. His ability helped him plan further to the smallest details to actually pull this out.

But Orion soon realized one flaw in his power. Even if you have all means to predict the future, Reality not every time turns out similar to what you had expected.

Now, in reality, He was able to tie the Chain around the Demon, and just as he pulled it to make it tighter, the Demon instead of getting hurt from the choker grabbed the chain from the front and pulled it hard. His claws were sharp enough to break that magical grade chain by just one forceful pull.

Orion due to already on his sequence of steps of throwing his whole body weight on the chain fell hard on the face first as Chain broke down. He hadn't at all expected Chain to be the breaking point of his plan.

The Demon scoffed as he threw the iron chain pieces away like it was some kind of garbage. He turned and crouched down to see Orion in pain because he fell on his right arm first this time,

"Pathetic! You are really new to this if you think you could force a demon through the physical confrontation. "

The Demon snarled as he grabbed the Orion through his collar and lifted him in the air. He shoved him straight into the wall, bruising his body from the impact.

He raised his other hand and without any further nonsense, he passed it straight through the stomach of Orion. His claws ripped apart the belly, going straight in.

The blood splashed like a fountain from his front as Orion felt the unimaginable pain in his stomach. He looked below to see the demon's hand almost inside his abdomen.

"If you can't amuse me, I don't think I have any need to keep you alive anymore.

It would be far better than to eat you and prepare to face that summoner who had summoned me. "

The demon began to laugh hysterically as he watched the Human Conjurer getting tortured in his hands. He was taking a full dose of his entertainment here.

The ice-cold laughter felt like burning oil in the ears of Orion who was feeling almost unimaginable pain. He could feel his life waning, bringing him closer to death by each passing second.

It was his mistake, he was too weak-hearted to let Demon ambush him so brazenly. He was a fool to not think how such a weird uncle could appear on the subway at such an appropriate time. It was all his missteps, which led him to the almost verge of his life. Maybe Cassius was right,

'I'm not like my father in any way…..'

Orion was already too much in pain to think coherently. He was regretting, regretting hard to try, to take this threat by himself. If he only had told this to Mr. Asahi or at least to Ai, maybe he would have been not close to death so suddenly.

This Conjurer thing is not my cup of tea thought Orion. He had bet his life on his strength but to face the demon and come out alive, looks like he was not that level of ready. Moreover, who had thought that a literal Demon would come to take his head?

Tears flowed from his eyes from the pain. He couldn't breathe, he couldn't move, he could feel the sharp claw-like hand in his stomach. He could feel his death calling to him. Suddenly, before his eyes began to get blurry he watched a vague Apparition forming behind the Demon who was statistically watching him suffering.

A figure cloaked in blurry black clothes, a blackbird on his shoulder preparing to take flight and in the hands of the figure was a gleaming sword, which was shining brightly.

He watched through his half-closed eyes as suddenly the apparition pushed his sword into the back of the demon's chest which passed through him and went straight to his own heart.

The Bird flew off with the start and shock from the vision instantly brightened the eyes of Orion to full abrupt awareness. He looked hard but the apparition was nowhere to be found, but he looked stunned as he instead found the sword tip sticking out from the chest of Demon.

It was dripping with black blood which was rapidly turning into invisible gases once it escaped from his wound. The Demon coughed as he threw off another mouth full of blood, he looked back and his eyes widened in surprise.

"You?....."