Chapter 9

In one of the rooms in the mansion, there was one that was dark-lit. A certain someone rejoices.

"HAHAHAHA! YES! It was delicious! I never knew that I could find such fine quality of food in the human world. All thanks to that detective. It was the ultimate flavor of despair. I'm very thankful for the opportunity, King-sama"

"It's fine. As long as you do your job, everything will fall into place" A man smiled behind her and disappeared into the night. "It's time to reap the harvest"


A maid returned to Yako's room to clearly clean it. She knocked but no one answered. She knocked again but still no one answered. She entered instead. She was surprised to see it dark. She looked around and saw a figure on the bed.

"Ah, Miss Yako. You are here. I thought there was no one here because no one was answering. Did I wake you?" Yako was not answering so she went closer to her. "Are you alright?"

When the maid is a meter away from her, she stood from the bed and ran out of the room quickly without another word, passing by the maid that is close.

"Ms. Yako?" The maid surprised as she looked at the detective as she ran out of the door.


"Having fun, aren't we?" Neuro emerged in the dark-lit room.

"Ahhh Neuro, you came. I was very lonely when you didn't show up early enough" the person smiled with glee.

"I couldn't keep you waiting especially that you've left footprints on my doorstep" he grinned. "Miss Sara"

"Haha of course, It's all part of my fun" it giggled.

From the dark corner it emerged, it was Sara. She was smiling in pleasure, her eyes slit and golden.

"Same mystery catcher, Nougami Neuro. It was just like yesterday when hell was shaked when the king candidate that the King chose himself went to the Human World for the first time just to catch his desires. As you left, there was a battle of power " She walked towards and circled him, her hands trailing Neuro's shoulders. "Hell's female population were saddened by the loss of such a perfect breeding partner. I was too" She whispered on his ear.

"I never thought you would care" he said smiling sadistically.

"Oh, I cared alright. I've always been waiting for this moment since the day you rejected me" her voice ended furiously.

"Still, a sore loser I see" he said amused. Sara gone from his side and was in front of him in a millisecond. She stroked Neuro's cheek and leaned to his face, lips almost touching. Their eyes locked into each other as Neuro stood unaffected still grinning at her.

"I'm not a sore loser, Neuro. You ARE!" she shouted closely. "I'm not a lowly demon who can't even describe such baseless emotions of humans. Doesn't. Even. Know. What. They. FEEL!" she jumped away from him enough to kick but Neuro deflected it easily.

"That was very polite of you to kick me like a leaf. But about what you said, noble demons doesn't need to understand such emotions of humans. Only lowly demons like you can think it would be necessary" He still grinned.

"Ha! Say whatever you want to say. It won't last for long, Neuro. Ignorance will be your end."

The door opened behind them and footsteps can be heard resounding on the floor.

"AHHHH! Glad you came to the party. Oh Neuro! Look at our familiar guest that just arrived. She'll be joining us in our little talk today. Surely, you knew her very well. Isn't that right?" from the dark recesses of the door, it emerged a blonde walking casually with her eyes blank "Detective Katsuragi Yako"

Yako walked towards Sara and before she could reach her, Yako tripped and didn't react and was suddenly pulled again with chains, thrown into different directions and finally, hanged from the ceiling, upside down.

"How sweet of you, Neuro"

"When was I wasn't, demon worm?"

"You just saw her a while ago and now, you can't wait to torture her" She smiled. "Let's stop with the games, shall we?"

Sara cut through the chains that binds Yako from the ceiling and let her fall from the floor with a thud. Still, Yako didn't react. Neuro grinned in amusement.

"I was quite intrigued, you know? I first went here to earth to feed and it was going well. Until I heard of the infamous international detective they call, Katsuragi Yako. I saw a documentary that humans watched in their current technology and curiously saw that a puzzle-eater was beside a mere human girl. It was preposterous!" She laughed.

"What does a worm of hell don't comprehend?"

"A worm, you say? Hahaha. Well, if you really want me to spell it for you. You of all demons in hell has taken value of such weak creatures and dare lower your high intelligience to their level. It's an outrage! Out of my curiosity, I made this case to lure her to me."

"Is that so? What business do you have with her then?"

" Ne, Neuro. Thank you for giving her to me on this case. Her despair was of top quality a demon can feed on. It was the most satisfying" she said holding her like a doll. "She was so sad , do you know that? Her despair compared to other people has deep darkness and depth to them, it was delicious. It's all because of you" she grinned cupping Yako's face.

"How does this relates to me, dirt worm?"

"Why, you don't know?" a television was switched on and a video played on the screen. It was a video of buildings in rubble. The camera closed in and saw two people in the middle of it. The blonde detective he knew was in a position of complete despair and scarce in hope, kneeling on the rubble. The camera shifted beside her and Neuro saw himself dead. At that moment, the video stopped.

"Now you can see, that all her despair comes from you. It was so fun to play with your toy, Neuro. Her face when Haruse was missing was the same reaction when she saw you die. Isn't she loyal? She searched for you all this time and remembered you. She even reacted to the card I left in the murder. One little nudge on that subject, she secretes high-quality despair that I gladly feed on." She smiles and puts a hand on her head, Yako screamed. "What's wrong Neuro? Can't stand to see your precious toy being fed on?"

"Not at all" He said sadistically.

"What?"her face astonished.

"You don't even care for your so-called 'partner'? You know what a demon means when he calls a person like that, don't you Nougami Neuro?" she grinned evilly.

"I'm well aware but seeing Yako like this is so much more entertaining. So, please continue"

"What are you saying? You really are a monster. For someone you called a partner, you're….." her face showed irritation. "Heh. Well, in that case, it really is a downer that I have to do this. You're toy was really the most delicious food I have ever tasted but now it comes to this. I believe I have to let her go her own way." She lifted Yako by her neck in a tight grip, making her squirm violently under her hands. There was tight click on her neck and she stopped moving in her hands.

"It's over, Nougami Neu-" she glanced to him and still see a grin on his face. She was puzzled as to why until she heard a voice.

"hurts….."

"What?" She let go of the fragile human on her hands and clashed with the floor.

"That….." Yako struggled to get up and was now on her hands. "HURTS!" Her eyes looked intently on Sara and the once chains that clasped her ankles were now clasped Sara's.

"Impossi-"

"Punch it!"

Before Sara could answer, the chains on her now were pulling her in different directions like what happened to Yako earlier but it moved more violent than earlier with an extra green glow from the chains.

"Took you long enough, wood louse"

"I was brain-controlled! You even go for the extra mile to torture me while in a daze" she said annoyed. "You're going to pay for this later"

"Since when did you speak to me in that tone,Yako?" he said threateningly, grabbing her head, facing him.

Yako gulped and Sara's chains ended in halt, dangling her from the ceiling upside down.

"You…." Sara shouted mildy. "How did you break my power on you? You're just a human!" she said angrily looking at Yako, full of malice.

Yako and Neuro directed their eyes to her.

"Ne, Yako. Look there's a caterpillar in the ceiling" Neuro bursted out.

"Don't ignore me!" Sara said furious.

"Ms. Sara you helped me come to terms to the happenings inside the house. I'm very thankful but….the culprit is you! Ms. Sara" She said raising and pointing her finger at her.

"Wha-" Sara said in puzzlement.

"It seems you're a sore loser until the end. You killed the sister of Shironui. You're cover has been seen through by her, you scared her and put her in a psychological distress, arising the manager's jealousy to Shironui who took advantage of her despair and frightened state that has gone perfectly well to have her murdered on the night of their show and it brought us here"

"So?" she said nonchalantly.

"So? Ms. Sara. One thing I can't forgive is the monopoly of humans just to be fed on. We are not as fragile and weak as you think we are. Something you've already experienced" She said sternly, Sara intimidated a little by her willful eyes.

"NO! NO! I can't be defeated by a human!" She said trying to go out of the green chains that tied her.

Neuro grinned and went forward Sara as her chains were lowered abruptly, her hair almost touched the floor. He halted in front of her.

"She's not human!"she panicked.

"You lower the standards of demon women, Ms. Sara. I trained my human well, didn't I? Now, let's go back to business. Let's teach you a lesson for feeding recklessly and not to enter somebody's territory finding for it. Ms. Sara, who do you say is ignorant?" Neuro grinned and opened his mouth to feed on every last drop of mystery and energy left on her to survive in the human world "Itadakimasu"

Neuro finished feeding on her and Sara's chain were gone, leaving her on the floor.

Yako watched him as he gone past her.

Sara can still move a little and in any minute, she would shrivel and die. Before that happened, she laughed weakly making Yako and Neuro turn their eyes to her.

"Hahahaha….you don't know what's coming, Nougami Neuro. You are still ignorant. Our king will come….and no one can stop it...Prepare yourself, Neuro…you will meet your end….You have been warned…"

"Defeat me? No one can"

After that, Sara laughed loudly until she turned into dust. Neuro continued to walk on his way. Yako stared at the dust in the floor thinking of the warning. She best not have to think about it now and eventually followed Neuro out. 'Neuro can't die again, would he?' she thought as they go back to her room.


A/N: See you next chapter