fallen Angel

"Curtis...Curtis...Please be here..."

Walking quickly on the way to the teacher's dormitory, Arthur's mood became restless as the sky gradually darkened.He forced himself to forget his complicated feelings about the demon and devote himself to the task of finding the student.

The faster time passes, the more dangerous the children are.

He didn't know who else he could turn to for help besides Curtis.At first, the person he wanted to find was Raphael. For some reason, he always felt that if it was him, he should be a good person to discuss, especially since he knew a thing or two about his relationship with Lucifer, so he might be able to confide his troubles to him.

But when he walked into the health room, he found that the original doctor had been reinstated. He also said that he had been working here and had not asked for leave, not to mention asking a doctor named "Rafael" to replace him. The student who applied medicine in the room also said that he had never seen this person.

Only then did Arthur remember that no one else in the school had ever talked to Raphael except himself and Lucifer. At that moment, he realized that even Raphael, whom he trusted the most, was not human.

However, he could feel that Raphael, who loves creatures, is not a demon who enjoys destruction. Maybe this doctor who appeared briefly is not only the same name as an angel, but the real archangel Raphael.

But a series of unthinkable events happened one after another, and he has no intention of pursuing Raphael's whereabouts. Since he chose to leave, there must be his reasons, and the top priority is to find the children as soon as possible.

"Curtis, Curtis! Are you there?" Arthur hurriedly knocked on the door of his friend's bedroom, but there was no reply for a long time, indicating that the only person he could find was not there.

He hung his hands down in frustration, and no one would answer the door if he knocked any further.At this time, something tugged at his trousers, and when he looked down, it was indeed the ubiquitous Brother Huai again.The little white cat was biting his trousers, and seemed to want to drag him somewhere.

He suddenly remembered that Brother Huai had wanted to go with it by himself during the day, but he was too busy looking for someone to completely forget about it.

"You must know something, right? Take me there."

Brother White gave a "meow" as usual, and then rushed forward, Arthur also raised his feet and followed closely.This time, he didn't care whether it was dangerous or not scary, he just wanted to find the children and bring them back to his family.

The kitten turned around deftly in the teachers' dormitory, and Arthur was also out of breath after chasing it.

Finally, they came to the corner of the stairs far away from the dormitory. There was not even a light there. If you didn't look carefully, you would never find a door hidden in the dark corner under the stairs, and the kitten was sitting in front of the door, with its eyes in the dark Gleaming blue light.

"Why is there a door here?" Arthur tried to pull the doorknob, but the narrow door didn't move, obviously locked, but the pattern on the doorknob evoked his memory.

"Is this... an eagle?" He groped for the shape of the doorknob, and confirmed with the touch of his fingertips that it was engraved with eagles spreading wings, and the key he picked up in Dean's room was also engraved with lifelike eagle patterns.

Holding the thought of giving it a try, Arthur took out the key from his pocket and carefully inserted it into the keyhole, unexpectedly turning it smoothly.

After the door door made a slight sound, it slowly opened outwards, and in front of you was a staircase extending down.

At the same time, a gloomy aura came oncoming, making one's hair stand on end.Arthur knew very well in his heart that there must be something evil hiding under this.

"Huh? There's a light." Lowering the volume of his self-talk, he saw a faint light flickering at the bottom of the stairs, as if someone was inside.

Just as he was hesitating whether he should go down to find out, Brother Huai was already walking down with light steps.

Now Arthur didn't hesitate anymore, and hurriedly followed behind it, trying not to make any footsteps, and walked along the stairs to an unknown place.

The closer to the bottom, the more obvious the light, and the thicker the cold atmosphere.

After walking up the long stairs, Arthur was so nervous that his palms were sweating. He tried to breathe evenly, hid beside the last staircase, and looked into the light with his head.

It was a secret room that was much more spacious than imagined. Even though countless candles were lit, there was still a creepy and weird atmosphere, especially the small body lying in a circle on the ground, motionless as if unconscious.

Taking a closer look, he recognized the same students who had been missing for a while, and Sam and Dean were among them.

"Why..." Arthur covered his mouth in astonishment to prevent himself from screaming.He didn't know whether these children were dead or alive, and he prayed desperately that they were only temporarily asleep and did not lose their lives.

In the center of this eerie circle, a man stood in the shadows, counting the bodies.

"...31...32...the last one..."

At the same time when he heard the familiar voice, Arthur was surprised that the other party was his friend Curtis whom he had known since childhood.

Could it be that Curtis did all of this?No, maybe he's just a discoverer. Curtis is an upright and kind person, and he doesn't know how to deal with demons...

Regardless of Brother Huai biting his trousers desperately to stop him from moving forward, Arthur strode into the secret room with flickering candles.Seeing that he insisted on moving forward, the little white cat stomped its feet anxiously and angrily, turned around and disappeared in a flash.

"Curtis, why are you here?"

"Arthur?" Curtis, who turned his head, showed a frightened expression for a moment, and then turned into a deep bitterness, "So you picked up the key, and it took me a long time to find it, so I have to ask 'him' to give it to me again." one pair."

Knowing that Curtis was referring to the key he picked up in Dean's room, Arthur's heart suddenly fell into a bottomless abyss.If it was left by Curtis, it means that he went to Dean's dormitory, and even...he was the one who took the child away.

Arthur whispered "why" in disbelief, and he approached Sam, the boy who was always alive and kicking was now lying quietly on the cold ground, his pulse and breathing were weak.

Strong reluctance and pity welled up in my heart, followed by bewilderment and anger.

"Why... Curtis, why did you do this?! They are all your students! Why do you want to hurt them?"

"Why? I did this to save you."

"save me?"

"Don't you understand? You are haunted by demons! That Mephisto is the incarnation of the devil, the devil who came to tempt you and make you fall into hell!" When mentioning Mephisto in the form of Lucifer, Kou Diss's usually cheerful face became uncontrollably angry.

"'He' said it's not okay to go on like this, you will be taken away by that demon soon, I can't sit idly by, so I have to advance the plan, now it's almost finished, you just need to be patient..."

Arthur was puzzled, but the growing foreboding in his chest made him feel cold, "Wait! Who are you talking about 'he'? What does this have to do with the children? What are you planning?"

"33 pure souls." Curtis held up three fingers, his expression serious to the point of terror.

"'He' said that he couldn't understand the devil's temptation to commit crimes for a long time. As long as I make a contract with him and lend him my body and soul, after collecting 33 pure souls, he will have enough. If you use your strength to destroy that demon, you will not be poisoned by that demon."

The word "contract" fell like a lightning strike, and Arthur was so shocked that he couldn't speak. This is a common trick used by demons!

"So you... you made a pact with one demon to fight another? Curtis, is this true? How could you..."

Hearing this, Curtis responded with silence instead, the answer was already self-evident, and Arthur was heartbroken immediately.

"You shouldn't make a contract with the devil... Those who voluntarily trade with the devil, and those who commit suicide or commit the seven sins, will also fall into hell after death! Why do you want to do this? Why? ?!"

"Because I love you!" A sad wry smile replaced the previous cheerful smile, "I have loved you ever since I met you in the seminary, but in the end you chose to become a priest and dedicate your life to the Lord, so I had no choice but to give up .But that demon... that demon is trying to get your chastity, I can't bear it!"

At the mention of Lucifer, Curtis's expression instantly turned furious, but the next moment it became tender again. He stretched out his hand and gently stroked Arthur's face. The crazy temperature made him flinch.

"Don't worry, as long as I collect the last pure soul...Look, how beautiful these white lights are!"

Curtis opened his hands and raised his head in enjoyment. The translucent pure white light slowly rose from the children's bodies, and then turned into strands of silk threads, gathering on top of his head, as if it was pouring into his body. Inside the body, the color of those rays of light also became lighter and lighter, gradually becoming almost transparent.

At the same time, Arthur felt that Sam's breathing became weaker, and he stepped forward to grab Curtis's hand, preventing him from continuing to absorb the energy of the soul.

"No! Curtis, please stop...you know I love you too, you are my most important friend, and I don't want to see you suffer in purgatory for me."

"Friend? No... no!" Curtis shook his head frantically, his eyes were red with excitement, and he grabbed his wrist with his backhand, "This is not the love I want, all I do is hope that you will too can love me..."

"Curtis, please let go."

"Do you understand? I want you to love me!"

"Let go! It's impossible for me to love you!" Arthur shook him off forcefully, and Arthur had no choice but to say decisive words.

Curtis showed a hurt expression, and in a blink of an eye, it turned into a strong resentment, and even his facial features were distorted, "You don't love me, do you love that demon?"

Arthur gasped, Curtis exposed the question he didn't want to face.

"No...I..."

"I saw it all, he kissed you by the playground, kissed you as a priest! What a sinful crime!"

The word "evil deeds" that Curtis said pierced Arthur's heart like a sharp knife, and he, whose heart was beating endlessly for the devil's kiss, was indeed equally sinful.

"When he kissed you, you didn't reject him. Before, you desperately asked about his affairs, and ran behind him when you had nothing to do... I knew that you must have fallen in love with him a long time ago, and that's why you refused Me! Aren’t you a priest? How can you fall in love with a devil!”

"It's not like that!" Arthur wanted to refute, but didn't know where to start.

At first, he was only curious about Lucifer's identity, so he kept inquiring about him. He didn't really have a good impression of him, and he didn't know that Curtis actually took this matter to heart, thinking that he fell in love with the devil.

But now, even if he denies the mood at that time, it doesn't make any sense, because the current self is already in deep trouble.

"Curtis, listen to me, no matter how I feel, you cannot compromise with the devil and sacrifice the lives of your children."

"They are not important at all, what matters is you, I only want you." Curtis' eyes became greedy and misty, and he gradually approached Arthur.

Arthur retreated and dodged, but still did not give up persuasion, "Curtis, please wake up..."

"It's too late, most of their souls are in my body, one more is not bad at all."

"Please stop! What is the difference between your behavior and that of a demon?"

"Devil...hahaha!" The man who suddenly burst into laughter looked crazy and ferocious. He had never seen such a terrifying side of his friend, and Arthur could hardly believe his eyes.

"That's true, anyway, I have made a contract with the devil, and I can only go to hell after I die. In this case..." Curtis stopped laughing, his eyes were reddened terribly, he grabbed Arthur's shoulders, and suddenly Push him to the ground and straddle him.

"If you can love him, a demon, a man...then you should be able to love me too?"

"Let me go! Curtis, stop!" Arthur desperately punched the man on top of him, but the strength of the man was astonishing. No matter how hard he pushed and punched, he still remained motionless, as if he didn't feel any pain. .

At this time, he swung a punch indiscriminately and accidentally hit Curtis on the cheek, and the powerful impact caused his head to sternly tilt to one side.

Unexpectedly, the punch would hit the face directly, Arthur was also stunned for a moment, but Curtis, who turned around, had a fierce look in his eyes, and gave him a slap in the face first, taking advantage of the pain that made his eyes shine. , and clasped his slender neck with the other palm, tightening it tightly.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu who pinched the neck with his nails, but he couldn't get rid of it no matter what.

He felt that this person was no longer his considerate friend, but a puppet blinded by the devil.

"Ku...Des...please...you...sober..."

"Ugh...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

Suddenly, Curtis let out a strange cry, and let go of his hand, and instead grabbed his face frantically, as if something was scurrying around inside him, causing him to suffer great pain.

A more evil breath overflowed from his body, and the black mist almost covered his whole body, forming an eagle with wings spread, and his roar became more stern, and the right half of his face was severely deformed, as if it had turned into another hideous face.

Witnessing such a horrific scene, Arthur was so surprised that he lost his ability to react, and couldn't even shout out.

Suddenly, a golden light shot out from the side, only to hear Curtis scream, and the whole person flew backward together with the black mist above his head, and slammed into the wall.

After finally regaining his freedom, Arthur got up quickly, only to find that the golden light was his own pocket. He reached out and took out the velvet bag that Lucifer gave him not long ago. The small box containing the badge was shining, obviously. protecting him.

"Lucifer..." whispering the name that made his heart hurt, Arthur remembered that Lucifer once said that with this badge, other demons would not dare to approach him...

In other words, Curtis, who was repelled by the badge, has already been possessed by a demon.

"Damn it——" Curtis, who had stood up again, let out a beast-like roar, and that creepy roar was not a sound that humans could make at all.

I saw that the right half of his face had been completely deformed, his eyes were like huge red glass beads, staring at Arthur fiercely like protruding eye sockets, the corners of his mouth were cracked almost to the ears, revealing jagged dirty sharp teeth.

But the strange thing is that the left half of the face is still Curtis's original face, struggling with pain.

Arthur immediately realized that his friend was being half-occupied by another demon, even tending to be overpowered.

"Hateful priest, have you already made a contract with Lucifer?" Curtis asked with a split hoarse voice, only the right lip squirmed quite strangely.

Arthur knew very well that the person speaking now was not his friend, so he remained silent, looking at him with guarded eyes, wondering whether he should protect himself with a badge or fight with a rosary.

"Quickly tell me! Why do you have the mark of Lucifer? It is a treasure given to him by God in ancient times, and it is the highest symbol he was appointed as Seraphim. How could it be on you?"

Even Arthur himself wanted to know this question, and only now did he understand what a precious gift the badge in his hand was, but it was given to him by the demon whom he once suspected of lying, just to fulfill his promise to protect him.

The pain in his chest was so insane, Arthur could only hold the badge in his hand tightly, mustering the courage to fight another demon.

"This has nothing to do with you, I warn you, get out of Curtis's body immediately!"

"Otherwise? Are you going to destroy me? That badge can only protect you at most, not a weapon for attacking." The demon put on Curtis's right cheek with a sneering expression, "Forget it, it doesn't matter, anyway, his I want to take everything, even your little prey. My first soul needs a fool like him who pays for love, and the No.30 three souls need a fool like you Only the clergymen can complete it.”

"Samael! You promised me to let him go, we made a contract!" Suddenly, Curtis's left face showed anxiety, and he grabbed his hair in pain, trying to resist another ray in his body The voice is like a dangerous patient with schizophrenia.

And the demon named Samael who occupied his body laughed arrogantly. "Yes! The content of our contract is to keep his soul from falling into Lucifer's hands, but I didn't promise that you wouldn't fall into my hands!"

"Damn it! Have you already made up your mind to want Arthur? You lied to me! You deliberately didn't tell me that No. 30's three souls are priests, you despicable devil!"

"Don't be so wronged, anyway, you just want to monopolize him. At worst, before I take his soul, I will give you some time to turn the clouds and rains. I also want to try this thing that even Lucifer is crazy about. The body, how wonderful the taste is."

Samuel looked at Arthur through Curtis's right eye, and Arthur couldn't help taking a step back with that lewd gaze, sweating in the palm of his hand clutching the rosary, while Curtis on the left showed a look of shame and annoyance .

"No, I don't want to monopolize him, I just want him to love me..."

"Stop pretending to be aloof. If you didn't have evil thoughts and want to invade him, how could I sneak in and attach you?"

"No! Don't talk nonsense!"

"Shut up!" A roar that made the floor tremble came out of his throat, Curtis held his head down almost collapsed, and beat his temples and body from time to time, even though Arthur desperately called him to stop, he I couldn't hear it at all, and just kept yelling crazily.

Gradually, the left half of his face also began to distort, the left eye became red, and the whole face completely transformed into a ferocious demon face, and even the hands and feet curled up in unnatural positions, turning into sharp claws.

"Curtis... Curtis!" Arthur tried to call his friend back, but in vain.

"It's useless, he can't hear your voice now, and disobedient dogs should be locked up and disciplined."

Samuel, who was occupying Curtis's body, had a cruel smile on his mouth, and walked towards Arthur, "Hey, little priest, be obedient, obediently lose the mark, and I will give you a reward, and make friends with those cute children." go with me."

"Impossible." Arthur held Lucifer's badge in front of his chest, and secretly slipped the rosary into the other hand, "I won't lose it, you leave Curtis's body immediately, and give me the souls of the children! "

"I think you still don't understand the situation. From now on, if you don't lose it, I will bite off a child's hand, and if you refuse to lose it, I will eat the next child's foot. If you continue to be brave, I will bite directly Lose the other's head!"

Samuel grabbed a child's hand casually, trying to prove that he wasn't joking, when Arthur shouted "Stop", he smiled treacherously.

But Arthur couldn't let go, even if he did, he was afraid that he and the children would all have their souls absorbed in the end. At that time, the power of this demon would greatly increase, not only Lucifer, but the whole world might be turned upside down by him.

Seeing that he was still refusing to obey, Samael sneered coldly, grabbed the child's neck with the other hand, lifted it in the air, and raised the fragile little arm with the other hand, as if to break it, "In a way, you guys Clerics are quite cold-blooded! Then I will start.”

"Let him go!" Arthur threw out the rosary in his hand and threw it on Samael's face, only to see the devil let go of his hands, let out a mournful wail, and covered his face scorched by the rosary in astonishment.

He hurried forward and held the child tightly in his arms before the child's small body fell to the ground.

But this heavy fall made his eyes go dark, and even Lucifer's badge was thrown away.

He struggled to get up, trying to reach out to retrieve the badge, but a sudden impact hit his head from the side, causing him to collapse limply on the ground.

"You are really blessed!" A hand grabbed his hair fiercely, pulled him up from the ground, and the horrifying face that was almost completely destroyed approached, "You even managed to get Michael's rosary, Is this what you sacrificed yourself for?"

"Shut up! You can't insult my family, let alone the archangel!"

"Stop pretending to be pure, you smell like Lucifer, you've been loved by him long ago, haven't you?" Samuel clasped Arthur's neck with his claw-like hands to stop him from resisting, and he was scorched black The nostrils, which were almost left with only two black holes, approached him and sniffed hard.

"Only this stupid guy is still desperately trying to maintain your purity. It's really ridiculous! But it's strange that the color of your soul has not changed, and it is still the blue light of a steadfast priest. It is quite beautiful! No wonder Lucifer is so beautiful! I want you..."

Saliva dripped from the corner of Samuel's grinning mouth. The injury caused by the rosary was more serious than expected. He was panting in pain, and Arthur's soul was the best supplement for him.

"But you are about to become a part of me, one of my powers to destroy Lucifer. Come on! My No.30 three souls——"

"No..." Seeing Samuel put his hand on the top of his head, Arthur struggled with all his strength and stretched out his hand, but he couldn't reach the badge that fell in the distance.

The power was gradually withdrawn from the top of his head, and his whole body became light. He could only shake his head vigorously to force himself to stay awake.

He couldn't give up hope, he had to protect the child, he had to save Curtis.And someone once promised to protect him and prevent other demons from invading him...

"Lucifer!" With the last remaining strength, Arthur shouted out the name that occupied his heart.

In an instant, the candlelight in the room jumped upwards, and a golden light burst into it like splitting a sea of ​​flames, dazzling so much that it hurt the eyes.

Arthur narrowed his eyes, making it difficult to look directly at the light. Samuel also raised his hand to cover it uncomfortably, temporarily loosening his grip, and a painful groan escaped from his mouth.

"Samail, you should know what will happen to my prey."

The melodious voice, like the sounds of nature, carries an incomparable courage, echoing in the room full of fire.Appearing from this bright red color is a lean body surrounded by golden light, the peerless beautiful face is reflected by the flames into a fiery red, the bright blond hair rises with the foehn, and the green pupils shoot out a sharp light like a sharp blade .

What appeared was the guardian whom Arthur had prayed for.

"Lucifer..."