Chapter 9

Three months ago after the explosion that claimed Asta's life.

Asta's POV

I had pushed Noelle out of the way, when I felt something off about the man, we had captured. In the process I was caught in the explosion. It broke two of my arms, and I felt pain, greater than the one I felt back when I fought Vetto. My entire body was aching, I was dying. "No not now I haven't become the Wizard king yet, I haven't told Noelle how I feel about her, I can't die here" I thought to myself. I couldn't move, when I tried, it felt like a thousand needles scraping my skin. I felt so weak and helpless, I closed my eyes and slowly accepted my fate. But then I felt someone's ki close to me, it felt gloomy and cold. I heard him say "hmmm you look beat up and tired, well let's get you healed". He picked me up, but then I felt my consciousness slipping away. When I woke up, I felt better than before, I looked around I was in a dark room, the room looked like a noble's room. "I see you're awake" a strange voice said from across the room, judging from the ki it was the same person that helped me. "Thank you for helping me" I said as I got up, "But if I may ask who are you?, and why did you save me?" I asked, " Well you really like to jump right in don't you, anyways my name is Nacht Faust, the vice captain of the black bulls." The man said showing his black bull's bagde. "Wait did you say Black Bulls? So you are the man, that is Captain Yami's second in command?" I asked, " Yes and don't call me that fool's second in command I don't take orders from the likes of him" Nacht said smiling, 'how can you say something so mean with a straight face' I thought to myself. I felt someone's ki approaching us, it was another man he was quite tall. "Isn't he awake yet Mister Nacht?" The man said scratching the back of his head. " Don't worry Alec, he is awake now" Nacht said facing Alec, "Say Asta, you were training to fight against the Spade kingdom right" he said as he faced me this time. "Yes how did you know that?" I asked, "I have been watching you, I also know about your devil and how you can't  use it's power at the fullest" Nacht said. Saying that I was dumbfounded was an understatement, I was astonished. "How did yo-" before I could finish the statement "We can help you with that" Nacht said, " How can you possibly help me? You aren't even devil possessed" I said. Nacht snapped his finger, and six  small beings appeared, they had bat wings and little horns. "You were saying" Nacht said looking at me, I was to surprised to talk. "It seems he is in shock ha ha" Alec said laughing, "Let me introduce them to you, those four are mid class devils" he said pointing at Nacht's shoulder, "Plumede, Wargunner,Gimodelo and Slotos, they are with Mister Nacht, these two are Amos and Asmodeus, they are the third and fourth highest ranking devils." Alec said. "Don't show us off like some trophies, you wanna die."  Amos said while grabbing Alec by the collar. "Wait how can you help me use the devil's power at it's fullest?" I asked. "We are gonna perform a devil binding ritual, that way you use your devil's power at it's fullest, but can you do it? You are going to face the devil living in your grimiore, if you win you can use the power." Nacht said, "But how will I win?" I asked, "That's up to you." Alec said, Nacht then gave sword that looked like Captain Yami's sword, "Rest now you will need it" Nacht said as he patted  me on the head, Alec waved me goodbye when Amos was still trying to strangle him. "How DARE YOU? I will have you know I am feared after Beelzebub in the second gates of the Underworld." Amos said still trying to strangle Alec. When they left I laid down to sleep, I dreamt of me and Noelle holding hands she turned and told me "Asta I love you". I then woke up.

The next morning Alec and his devils came to pick me up. "You ready shrimp?" Alec asked me. Alec had the character of calling me shrimp just like Yuno and Zora. "I am" I replied as I finished my morning push ups, I follow him to a cave before we entered the cave He stopped and said. "If you face your devil make sure to make the right decision, if not you will regret" Alec said slowly. We then went in, Nacht asked if I still had the sword, i did, it was with me. Nacht then made the devil appear then the fight began. (It went just like the anime). It turned out to be in my favour I defeated the devil but I didn't see anything bad about him, I decided make an equal contract. "That boy is weird" Asmodeus said, "He is stupid that what he is" Gimodelo said hugging Nacht's hair. "No, he made the right choice" Alec said smiling.  I asked my devil what his name was, "The name's Liebe" he said. As we shaked hands a mark appeared on our hands. We spent the last three months training , Nacht taught me to understand the powers within the devil, although he wasn't always around. He always kept Gimodelo with me to help me train. Amos and Asmodeus help my devil unlock his powers. Alec helped train my physical body, we were always on par with each other. He turned out to be fun, last week Nacht came back with another sword, it was captain Yami's sword. "Yami has been taken, it is time please get ready we are going to be attacking but I need you two to stay behind and protect the clover kingdom, Asta you will bring the remaining black bulls, I have to go now" Nacht said as he vanished into the shadows, I honestly wanted to charge into the Spade kingdom and take Captain Yami back but I was told not to. Today's morning while waiting for the signal, Alec said he felt an enormous amount of mana coming from the Clover Kingdom, when we got there We were right on time Julius was about to be killed by an Ancient demon. Alec told me to take care of it, I erased the attack, then used my new spell. "Anti Magic : barrage of a thousand fists" I yelled to my surprise the demon was destroyed, "Who are you?" I heard Julius ask from behind me. When he saw me, he started tearing up, he hugged and said he knew I wouldn't die easily, before I knew it knights started coming to meet me, Klaus, Sol and other knights came to meet. Klaus hugged me crying, "Asta, welcome back" Klaus said hugging me. "As-ta" said a voice from behind, it was Vanessa and the other bulls. They all were crying they all ran and hugged me crying, " Don't scare us like that again you stupid boy" Vanessa said letting me go, "Asta, Asta I glad you are okay" Finral said still holding me. "Honestly, you gave us quite a scare you Damn little shrimp" Zora said cleaning the tears in his eyes. Our fun was cut short, when Gimodelo came crying telling us  about Nacht. We then took off to the Spade kingdom.

FLASHBACK END

Nahama's attack was powerful, I needed to use union. "Liebe union 20%" I shouted, "Alright let's take the monster down" Liebe said in his little (chibi) form. He then fused with me, Anti magic: Double Katana strike, I brought out the two swords I had and sliced the attack. "Impossible how is this happening? Nahama shireked as she tried to run away. "Haha to think the day will come when I will see a high run for it's life" Liebe said from inside the union, "Asta let's finish this"  He said, "Ok Anti magic: Erasing world" I said as I slashed the demon destroyer in the direction Nahama was going, it erased her. I and Liebe then left union, I then heard Liebe say " My revenge starts now".

Chapter end