Sayu never had never thought she would see something like this in her life
‘ Wh-What’s happening? Where is mama? I…I am so scared!’
‘ WAHHHHH!!!!!!!’
It was simply an ordinary day as she went to school as usual. However, as she went to the washroom, she felt something was amiss.
Her eyes twitched violently as she felt something ominous was approaching her. The suffocating feeling was so powerful that Sayu almost fainted.
She didn’t think twice before she thought of running away from the school. However, the moment she arrived the corridor, Sayu realized it was quiet.
A bit too quiet.
Her heart chilled as she remembered the thing from the last night. ‘ Papa…I am so scared! Please come here!’
She knew her dad can hear her thoughts and can arrive if she feels endangered. However, unlike other times, Sayu didn’t felt any sense of security at all.
It was her most powerful barrier had vanished in that instant.
” Kekeke! So, I finally saw the heavenly vessel…”
Sayu turned around as she saw an old man in a dark green robe holding a cane made up of a a human spine. A bright skull etched on the head of the can, gives off a sinister light.
” Wh-Who are you?” Sayu was alarmed as she took a step back in fear.
” Well, Greetings, Lady. I have come here to take you away.” The old man grinned. ” You are the precious vessel of our true lord after all.”
” No! I am not going anywhere!”
” I am not here to ask your permission.”
With a wave of his hands, Sayu felt an invisible force lifting her from the ground. As she floated, the old man dragged the invisible chains and pulled Sayu away.
Sayu looked around and saw everyone was lying on the ground, sleeping peacefully.
” Wh-What did you do to them?” Sayu panicked as she shouted.
” They are just sleeping as I have sealed their souls.” The old man laughed. ” However, not after too long, they shall achieve the greatest purpose of their puni lives.”
” Becoming one with our true lord, allowing Him to descend.”
” Yo-You! You are going to…Kill them?”
” Kill? That’s a filthy word.” The old man snorted, his eyes glowed with a fanatical light.
” All I am doing is to allow them to attain the paradise, to be one with the true lord.”
” The moment he descends, he shall purge all these sinful beings of this world, allowing everyone to attain eternal happiness.”
As he stepped outside, Sayu’s eyes widened in horror. The majority of the teachers were standing outside, their eyes completely vacant. They were helping other cult members to set up the ritual altar on the ground.
It was a gigantic altar, with eight bronze pillars set in eight directions. In the middle there was the main altar, which gave off a suffocating feeling.
The teachers and other gathered near each altar as the old man looked at the sky.
” The time has arrived! All my fellow believers! Start the grand event!”
” Hail the Lord of The Fallen!”
” Hail our savior!”
Suddenly, Sayu felt her mind turning blank as each of those teachers held a sacrificial dagger. Without any hesitation, they started to see off their neck.
It wasn’t like a swift slash on the neck. But it was slow and deliberate as if they were cutting rubber with a blunt knife.
Blood splattered around as their face contorted with pain. Sayu could feel that some of those teachers came back to their senses. However, their body wasn’t in their control at all.
Sayu could see their eyes, filled with unwillingness and horror. Yet their hands didn’t stop. Slowly, their heads fell on the ground with thud sounds.
The corpse of those adults slowly dried out as the blood vitality and soul got sucked by the bronze pillar, making their bodies mummified.
Sayu felt her stomach retch as she closed her eyes. Her body trembled violently, yet she could only float helplessly without being able to do anything.
The bronze pillar shone as they shot out the blazing red rays into the sky like laser beams. The eight rays in eight directions shone with a sinister light, making the sky churn with demonic red clouds.
The clouds slowly turned into a vortex as a giant crimson seal appeared on the vortex.
The red beams bombarded the seal, trying to break it with sheer force.
” HAHAHAH! THIS! THIS LOOKS SO MAGNIFICENT!”
The old man laughed maniacally as he floated Sayu to the main altar.
” Soon enough! The precious body of yours shall be the house of our true lord!” The old man clenched his staff and chanted an incantation.
” You should rejoice! As not many can receive such divine glory!”
” Let me go! I don’t want to be here!” Sayu struggled. She was truly terrified as she looked at the sky, her face stained with her tears.
She felt like it wasn’t a giant vortex, but an eye of an unknown being. The gaze was far too horrifying. Sayu wanted to shut her eyes, yet she couldn’t.
She tried to struggle free, but strange cuffs appeared and locked her body to the altar bed, making her unable to move.
With a wave of the old man’s hand, the clothes of Sayu tore apart, revealing her petite bare body. Her eyes flinched in shame and disgust, yet she couldn’t do anything at all.
The cultists walked towards her as they started to smear paint on her body, drawing strange symbols. The paint smelt putrid, like a rotting corpse and dried blood.
“Finally! Everyone!” The old man shouted. ” Chant the spell!”
*BOOM! BOOOOOM!*
Everyone in the city was alarmed when they saw the scene. The Exorcist’s Association was also in chaos.
” What the hell is happening?!”
” Those bastards! They are trying to summon a demon god!”
” But what’s with this surge of energy.” Ren couldn’t help but clench her teeth. ” This is…This is something I never felt.”
” It’s surpassed a million! Even a Celestial Master isn’t capable of that!”
” What sort of dreadful being is being summoned?”
The chairman of the Exorcist’s Association took the charge and announced.
” This is an emergency! I repeat, This is an emergency!”
” All personnel, Gather at the source of the anomaly! All the elders, please take your team and gather all their power for the battle!”
Ren clutched her sword, but she heard a sigh.
” You don’t need to go there. Your power is irrelevant.”
” Tuba San?”
” Just stay here and protect the civilians. The monster outbreak may happen.”
The chants of the cultists resonated with thunderous booms in the sky, The clouds tore open as countless dark hands slowly descended from the crack of the sky.
However, before they could fully touch Sayu, a dark dome covered her entirely.
The old man and the demon cultists flinched as they didn’t know what had just happened.
However, suddenly, the beam of light shot as black flames showered on them like rain.
” ARRRGHHHH!”
” AAHHH! THIS HURTS! MY BODY!”
” I AM METLING! GARRRGG!”
The chants were replaced with the painful howls of the cultists, who turned into puddles of black swamps.
” Disgusting! Using a child for all this shit.” Tuba San snorted as Sayu looked at the black cat before her.
” A…A talking cat?”
” Girl, I think that should be least of your concerns now.” The black cat rolled its eyes as it waved its paw.
Instantly, Sayu’s bare body was covered with a black frock.
” Wh-What’s that? Why is it trying to harm me? Where is Papa? Why didn’t he come to save me?”
Sayu couldn’t help but burst into tears. Tuba san sighed when she saw that.
” Child, Your father is also busy and protecting a lot of things. Don’t worry, he shall be back soon.”
” Now, Let me see the bastard who finally lured out.”
*BOOOOM!*
The black hands retracted into the sky as a giant metor fell down. As the meteor landed on the ground, it cracked like an egg and a monster walked out for it.”
” Hand over my vessel…NOW!”