The demon lord

In a large room, a few people were sitting around a round wooden table. The windows of that room were closed so the only light which was in the room was coming from the lamps hung on the wall.

"Your majesty, is it really necessary for you to go there?" a man among those people said. He was an old man with a long beard.

"Yes, it could be a trap," another one said, he was a young man.

"We no matter what, we can't trust those humans! They can do anything to win this war," another man said, he was a person in his 40s.

"Yes"

"Yes"

"You definitely shouldn't go there!"

One after another all the people sitting there started to speak. They didn't want that person to go *there*.

"Quiet!" a man spoke in a loud voice, soon after all the people who were rebelling were gone quiet.

He was the man they didn't want to go *there*. Aside from those people, he was sitting on a golden chair which was placed at a distance.

"If we don't trust humans, they won't trust us," he said.

"But your majesty, it could be dangerous there," a person from the group said.

"I'm the demon lord, what could pose danger for me. Besides, if this war can be stopped by me going there then I won't mind even dying," the man on the golden chair said. He was the current demon lord, Lucifer.

He continued, "This war is ongoing for many years now, yet we don't know what caused it. If we don't know what we are fighting for then it's better to not fight. If kept killing each other like this then it won't be long, when both humans and demons will go extinct."

"The one who has invited me there is the hero himself, I have met him before in the peace meeting and like me, he also isn't in support of this war."

When all this was happening, a little girl who was standing behind the door was listening to everything. She had light purple coloured hair and a pair of crimson eyes.

As she noticed that the conversation was almost over and everyone was about to come out, she ran away to her room.

As she ran, all the things around her started turning dark. Soon after, it was pitch black everywhere. She stopped when she suddenly saw a man standing in front of her.

"Father?" she mumbled.

In front of her was standing Lucifer, the current demon lord and that girl's father. He smiled when he saw her.

"Where are you going?" the girl asked.

"Don't worry Hanako, I'll come back soon. And this is the last time," the man said as he sat on his knees.

He hugged the girl and stood up, turned around and started walking.

"Maybe," he whispered to himself as he peeked behind to see her daughter, he then turned back and started walking.

"Wait!" the girl suddenly screamed, like she had just come back to her senses.

She started taking quick steps toward her father, and soon increasing her pace she started running.

She ran as fast as she can but she was not able to reach her father who was walking normally.

Tears flooded her eyes as she raised her hand to grab the man.

In a blink of an eye, the distance between her and her father increased. She saw the man slowly walking further and further as he slowly faded away.

The girl tripped and fell.

But, instead of falling to the ground, she kept falling into the darkness. She saw some numbers floating after her eyes. Those numbers were showing the passing of years after his father left.

One day to one year, then a decade, a century, the number of years kept increasing and she continued falling.

[319 YEARS]

The increasing numbers suddenly stopped.

Gasping a girl suddenly woke up in her bed.

She went up a little and sat on her bed. Feeling liquid on her face, she touched her cheeks and found that tears were coming out.

She was crying.

"That dream again," she whispered.

She was the same girl as the one in the dream. Light purple hair and crimson eyes, her skin tone was on the fairer side. The only difference was that instead of a grade school kid, she was now looking like a girl in her teens.

She wiped her tears with her hands and left the bed.

*Several minutes later*

After getting dressed she left her room.

***

Demon kingdom

Demon lord's castle

Three people, two men and a woman entered a room; the room was on the upper floors of the castle.

Inside was a girl on the balcony looking outside, she was the current demon lord: Hanako.

The three people who entered the room stopped in the middle of the room before a round wooden table.

They were the generals of the demon army: Beelzebub, Asmodeus, and Mammon.

"How's the situation?" asked Hanako, still staring outside from the balcony.

"Humans haven't mobilized their army yet," said Beelzebub.

"Hmm, how are things on our side?"

"All forces are on standby, we are ready to defend and counter-attack anytime," Asmodeus replied

"Any updates from the spies?"

"Not anything major, but it seems like they have delayed their preparations for war after an unknown individual entered the castle. He entered the castle with their princess and was seen many times after that going in and outside the castle," explained Mammon.

"An unknown individual huh, any clues on his appearance?" she asked and turned towards the generals like something got her interest.

"He was wearing a dark-blue coloured cloak and his hair colour was cyan," Mammon replied.

"Dark-blue cloak and cyan hair, it's him probably," Hanako mumbled.

"Is he a threat?" asked Asmodeus as she curled her hair.

"No, nothing major, any other updates?"

"No miss."

"I see, okay you all can leave."

"Understood," said Beelzebub as bowed.

Asmodeus and Mammon also bowed to Hanako and then left.

After they left, Hanako again turned towards the outside view, half of the demon kingdom could be seen from there. The balcony was also at a height where Hanako could easily feel the cold breeze hitting her.

"Can it be that he knows my plan? No, it can't be! Only I and Beelzebub know the full plan." She said to herself as she bit her nails.