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Neon Genesis Demon 2

Prologue

Los Angeles, California

2021

The boy thrashed about as the young man in the black trench coat entered the room. The boy had been tied to the bed by his parents, worried that he might hurt himself, or even them. Even now, the child seemed dangerous. The man in the trench coat glanced at the boy briefly as he stood beside the bed. He then pulled out a simple wooden cross and a bible and began to read.

"In nominee Ptris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti extinguatur in te ominis virtus diaboli per…"

The man jumped back as the child thrashed violently, struggling to reach out for him. The man held the cross before him and continued.

"Impositionem manum nostrarum et per invoctionem gloriosae et sanctae dei genetricis viginis Mariae….."

The cross ignited in flames. The man in the trench coat stared at the burning cross, then casually tossed it out the nearby window.

"Ok." He muttered, "So you want to play rough……." He reached into another pocket and removed a very ornate golden cross. This he placed in direct contact with the child's forehead.

Smoke rose as the gold came into contact with skin. The child howled as the cross burned him.

"……never want to go the easy way." The man in the trench coat muttered, "Always the hard way. Dad never…." He was cut off by the sound of breaking ropes and a hand clamping itself around his throat. The man stared down at the child, struggling to break the strangle hold on his neck, but the child held on with inhuman strength.

"Know this Exorcist!" the child hissed in a demonic tongue, "You are but the first! Mammon WILL rise again!"

The man in the trench coat stared at the child curiously, not fully understanding what the child said. He looked into the child's glowing red eyes.

Something looked back.

The room was soon filled with the man's screams, followed by a crash as he jumped out the window.

Across the continent, a husband and wife both sat up in terror.