Author's note: Hello, everyone! How is everyone feeling? This story is something that came to me while I was binging black clover. I don't read the manga, so don't expect me to bring up any of those plot points. I own nothing but my plot.

It was in the wind it was in the air. It had only been a few weeks since the birth of the position of The Wizard King. The fact that the wizard was also the crowned Prince of the Clover Kingdom made everyone stand up for this new position. It was still something slightly new, but it was clear it could only be held by the strongest mage in the Kingdom. But it made something else obvious there was no one to take the place of the actual Royal family of the Clover Kingdom. With the death of both the Princess and our crowned Prince, who was first in line to take the throne. There have been arguments within the Royal parliament about who takes over.

Since the sovereign parliament felt that they need to argue against directly transferring the power to the oldest duchess, the cousin of Lumiere Silvamillion, the parliament feeling that direct relatives aren't what we need right now. Since they could all be corrupted and childish about leading as the rulers, they just had. They need fresh blood and an iron fist! A royal that was willing to do what was right for us. Not weak wills and compassion for the people, and they have shown they are vulnerable.

Many of the Noble families had been vying for that position. The extended Royal family all but demanded that they be at least asked about where their lineage wherein the line of succession. Today do they get the power overall. It had been a power struggle from the beginning, and there didn't seem any end in sight; there was not much anything anyone could do but hope that a Solution was made soon enough. Within the Noble family of Kira, they wanted the position of the Royal family; they more than earned it. They had been the ones who orchestrated the help from the otherworldly powers. I had gotten so much magical power for everyone involved; they thought that they had not only proven that he would be suitable for the Clover Kingdom, but they are of the lineage of deserving to be wearing the crown. But since they weren't of Royal blood and they weren't about to marry into the royal family since they would know that it was just because of power, his family didn't have the finances to meet that high bride price they would demand. And they were a long shot away from doing just that. It was just circling the drain, trying to figure out how we were supposed to gain the title that has so long eluded us that we had rightfully earned.

"You want it, you need it, you earned it, didn't you?"

I could hear a voice hissing behind me. I turn around the sound leading me.

"That's it, come to me, Find me."

The voice led me to the gazebo in my home; it was prominent as one of the few things that survived the demon attack several weeks ago. The fire burned homes and the space of land all around the house. But my house and property were left untouched by fire.

The voice had a smile, a shapeless black blob Sitting like it owned the place right Where we would generally host teatime for visitors and friends alike. The shadow had a silhouette of a person, but it would morph around, never keep me in shape for long. I felt myself wanting to run away, my own fear of taking hold of me...

"Hello, their Buford Kira! I see you followed my words and found me? The right choice they're my dear; that was the right choice!"

"Who are …what are you and what do you want with… why call me out here? At this time of day?" His voice shook his heart pounding in fear, he knew before the words left his mouth that he was devil, kin of the devil who helped rid of the elves and helped us steal their mana. The sun was setting the sky alit with the most beautiful shade of orange, making the shadow's, not the devil's smile seems to grow as the more questions he asked it.

"A name? Handsome, you need my name? Call me meg if you need a name so desperately." The devil purred his words dripping them in seduction; he felt his reservations falling away his barriers and worries falling apart unconsciously.

"All this bickering and arguing Everyone wants power; all of them think that they should be the Royal family, but they should be the ones sitting on that throne? So, what about you, Buford?" The word wrapping him and powering him to hang on the words of Meg, Yeah, what about him? He earned the throne!

"What about you? Weren't you the one who set up the playing field for the Royal family's position to even being questioned in the first place? If it weren't for your idea, the elves wouldn't be dead at all; you wouldn't all be so intentionally filled with power as you are now! So, you didn't make the deal; you were the one who came up with the ritual in the first place! That throne belongs to you!" The shadow gripped his shoulders softly, whispering the truth in his ears a shiver running up his spine.

"The truth is they won't give you the crown. You're not even in the running for the crown. The Silvamillion family has made it clear that they will put one of their sons on the throne, but I have a better offer. If you're willing to make a deal with me."

"A deal, you say." Buford felt himself warming up to this creature.

"For the price of the throne, all you have to say is yes."

"What do you get for putting me on the throne? I'm not foolish enough to think that there are no consequences or prices to this at all?"

"Consequences, dear Sir! I'm offended that you would assume I would ask for a giant price! One day far enough into the future, five hundred years or so from now? I will collect the magic of the firstborn Royal heir of your blood." Swirling around him, the smoky shadowy had almost seductive tone caress his chin with practically the same affection of a new lover. Buford Kira could barely speak as he lost his breath, the devil had taken his tongue.

"That is the minimal price I want you to pay. You can live with that price; it's not like I'm asking for his life! Just the magic of your grandson or granddaughter that you will never live to see and with the items that exist right now? It's not like you can't give this child magic once more! The child never even needs to know, right?"

"And I will become the crowned king? They won't notice I was a noble that was not next in the succession?"

"They would assume it was an oversight or misplaced paperwork. You and your descendants will rule this Kingdom without question or upheaval. I can assure you it will barely affect you; all you have to is sign your name and shake my hand, and the power of the throne is all yours!"

With little fanfare, he signed his name and shook the shadows formed hand the contract he didn't read in his hand. That would only be discovered by the Kira family fifty years later. When their second oldest daughter was disfigured so hideously that most couldn't look at her. The only way they had been able to marry her off was with a veil and promise of a lot of wealth and status for doing so.

The family had read over the contract, one that had been mostly regarded as just a family secret and never openly mentioned. If Buford now a great-grandfather who had his grandchildren read the fine print to him, he would know that he cursed his family, not just that one child. Severe illness weakened magic every generation; there would be something the devil would feed off the collective despair. He, the devil who made the contract would grow in magic power. Once in a generation, one or two members would be afflicted in some way shape or form, for the next five hundred years until the same prophesied oldest child of the royal family would be born. He would have known his greed had condemned them all, not just the royal heir in the future, but there is no breaking the deal once it was sealed. That's not including spots that were invisible or hidden by the devil's magic, meaning there were more clauses to the agreement than even they know about.

Final note: how's that for a first chapter, if you like it, subscribe, favorite, follow to do all the things that show support for this story! The next chapter has a giant trigger warning, but they are mentioned not shown. I don't go into graphic detail.