"My Lord, please allow me to massage your majestic tail…!"

"No, please let me do it instead!"

"Choose me, my Lord~"

You sighed, reclining lazily on your throne as you took a sip of your wine, eyeing the clamoring imps at your feet as they stepped on each other in an effort to catch your attention.

SWISH

"You useless things." You growled, brow twitching in annoyance as one of the imps' claws accidentally swiped your leg and drawing your precious blood. The other imps froze before backing away from the imp with the bloody claw, not wanting to get caught on the incoming punishment.

"F-Forgive me, my lord!" The imp stuttered, bowing repeatedly in fear as it trembled under your piercing snake-like glare. It felt like its entire being is being strangled with your gaze alone and yet at the same time…

The imp can't help but feel admiration for you even though it knows that death awaits. At the very least, it'll die under your hands.

"You've ruined my appetite." You scoffed, throwing the wine to the ground. Shards flew everywhere as whatever's left of the wine spilled to the carpet. The imps frantically crawled towards the spilled wine, licking on it, not even minding the shards that get caught on their tongues.

Your scaly, hard tail unwrapped from its coil and slithered towards the trembling imp before constricting around the imp, tightening ever so slowly. The imp lets out shrieks of pain as it feels its bones cracking, organs moving around frantically as its occupied space narrows every second. Blood spurted everywhere, coating your tail and making it shine in a beautiful yet deadly display.

The other imps doesn't care about the dying imp anymore.

FWOOSH

You tilted your head in wonder as a familiar summoning circle appeared in front of your very eyes. "What a surprise."

It has been centuries since a human has completed your ritual. The last one that succeeded was a love-stricken, desperate king who wanted a cure for his bedridden son. Upon learning of your ritual, he murdered every virgin maiden living under his kingdom and used their blood to draw the symbols.

You only needed one though. What a fool.

Amused by the king's actions, you gave the son a sip of your blood and he was cured in an instant, eyes opening in a daze and gazing upon you blankly. You let out a grin, raising a hand to gesture towards the king.

"Won't you hug your father?"

That's what you said to the son. The king was ecstatic, not noticing the almost mechanical way the son's head turned to look at him. Following your command, the son got up from his bed and hugged the king.

Seconds pass as the king wept happily not noticing the embrace that was tightening slowly. Even in his death he remained oblivious, expression morphed into a smile as blood replaced the tears running down his face.

You laughed, holding on to the soul of the king in the palm of your hands before swallowing it with relish, snake-like tongue curling in appreciation at the taste of a genocidal soul.

And with a gust of wind that blew off the lights of all candles in the room, you vanished from the human realm. Leaving the son, who has awaken from your possession, to realize what he had just done.

His cries of anguish was music to your ears.

You stood up from your throne and flicked your tail, removing the dirty blood off your tail. You nonchalantly walked towards the summoning circle before glancing back towards the other imps.

"Clean up this mess."

You drawled before crossing over to the human realm. Wondering on what kind of an evil soul awaits for your consumption on the other side.

Mash stared blankly as the drawing he drew on the counter using chalk started sizzling. He glanced towards the cooking book in his hand, trying to see if he missed a step somewhere.

"Is it supposed to sizzle like that?" He tilted his head questioningly. "I should've asked siscon for help."

He pondered for a second before giving up on the assignment. It probably won't matter if he missed out on this one. Plus, it's already getting late and he has yet to complete his evening exercise routine. Mind made up, he placed down the book before grabbing a cloth to wipe the mess off the counter.

FWOOSH

Suddenly the sizzling drawing turned into a black fog and something materialized from within. Except that whoever that was lost their footing when they stepped on air, not realizing that they were standing on top of the counter.

"Ah."

"?!"

Mash's yellow eyes locked with your snake-like ones as you straddled over him after accidentally knocking him over when you fell down.

You reached to grasp this child's face in disbelief. "A child summoned me?!"

Mash stared at your sharp horns and the scaly tail lashing angrily behind you, destroying the counters that was unlucky enough to be in the vicinity.

"…I think I did something bad." He commented.

With a growl, you stood up and slammed him against the wall, holding him by his neck while the tip of your tail is aimed over his chest, prepared to pierce his heart out.

"I have no patience to deal with a mere child. Tell me your wish so I can eat your so- return back to my world."

"Oh. Let me think." Mash asked calmly, not minding that he's seconds away from death. His eyes went blank for a second before brightening as an idea popped in his head. "Okay. I thought of a wish."

"WHAT IS IT?"

"Can you do my assignments in my stead?"

"…?"

Mash nodded to himself, eyes glinting. "That would be perfect. Now I won't have to worry about it anymore. I get more free time."

Your hold on him loosened slightly as the world suddenly stopped making sense for you. This child… wishes for you to do his school assignments.

What has happened to the human realm since you last came?!

"ARE YOU MOCKING ME!?" You bellowed furiously, swiping at his cheek and drawing blood. "INSOLENT CHILD. TO HELL WITH YOUR RIDICULOUS WISH. I'LL KILL YOU HERE AND NOW!"

Mash stared as your tail moved to strike. With just a simple move, he held it in his hand and rendered it useless. You tried to move but found that you can't remove yourself from his hold.

"H-How can you..." You stared in shock. How is this child stronger than your tail?! You have crushed armies of demons with just your tail alone.

This is impossible!

"No fighting allowed in the dorm." Mash said, removing your hold on his neck with his other hand. And before you know it, he has pinned you down on the ground with both your hands behind your back while keeping your tail in place with his knee.

You growled, trying to buck him off but he remained motionless. "Impossible! I refuse to be beaten by a child!"

"I'll snap it in half." Mash threatened, adding more of his weight on his knee.

"!" You cringed as pain emanated from your tail and spreading to your backside, and immediately stopped resisting. "Stop! Stop! Fine! I'll fulfill your stupid wish! Let go of me!"

"Okay. You're agreeing to my deal now, right?" He lets go immediately and you jumped away from him in a flash. You hissed at him angrily, clutching at your pained tail.

You have said your agreement, you can't go back on it. You might be the Lord of Gluttony but that doesn't mean you don't feel pride too!

Mash glanced at the ticking clock at the wall. "Ah. It's almost curfew time. I need to go back to my room." He stared back at you. "Is there a way for you to hide?"

You harrumphed before transforming into your other form. Mash blinked as you suddenly turned into a snake in front of his eyes, you slithered towards him and coiled yourself around his arm underneath his cloak.

"…Makes sense." Mash nodded before going back to his dorm room, leaving the kitchen in a sorry mess of affairs for the chef to discover in the morning.

You poked out your little snake head and hissed at him. "Why in the world do you have food hidden in your cloak? It's disgusting."

Mash stopped in his tracks and rummaged in his cloak for his creampuffs but came up empty. "…Where did my creampuffs go?" He asked seriously.

"You mean that sweet bread thing? I ate it obviously."

"…."

"Grk!"

"Spit it out, now."

"STOP PUTTING YOUR FINGER IN MY MOUTH YOU INSOLENT CHILD!"