Chapter 3: At Muraki's Mansion

"Bad boy." A dark, silky voice said. The owner of the voice walked into view, the once pleasant features was now marred by scars from a fire, but the silvery scars were now beginning to accentuate the fine features. "You were supposed to kill them, not run away with your tail between your legs." He faced his captive, the demon was tied up, held by enchanted wire. The wire was digging into his skin, and some of his blood was dripping from the wounds onto the floor. "Aren't you answering me, Kuronue? You know that I love to hear you screams.".

The bat demon clamped his jaws shut, refusing to give the man the satisfaction of hearing his scream. This just made Muraki smirk as he collected one of the sharpest knives amongst the instruments that he had near to the demon. Kuronue seeing this, knew what was to happen. He tried to move away from the dangerous man, which caused the wire to bite even more deeply into his flesh, making him hiss in pain. Muraki walked behind the bat demon, one hand roamed over Kuronue's wings. A sharp pain lanced through his body as the knife shredded Kuronue's wings, making him scream in the greatest agony he had experienced in a long time.

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After some time Muraki left the room, releasing Kuronue from his bonds. "It was good, but not as good as that boy, Hisoka Kurosaki." Muraki said with a smirk. He started the shower as he dumped his clothing in a bin. Blood was hard enough to get out, but demon blood even more so, especially from white. Stepping under the shower he washed the blood of the demon off of his body. He was satisfied, at least for now.

His mind travelled back to his… venture with the bat demon and how the lines of the curse that he had laid upon the other glowed fiercer than before. That was a pleasant surprise, did this mean that the curse was strengthening? Now that he knew that he could revive dead demons and control them to an extent, he knew of one that he wanted to fight by his side. He had seen this fighter fighting in the Dark Tournament, the Ankoku Butsukai. He had been one of the more esteemed members of the human race to have been invited there to bet on who he thought would win. Muraki had lost a lot of money by backing Team Togoro, by backing the demon he wanted by his side. By backing Karasu.

Author's Note

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