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Chapter 15

How many days had it been? Yuuri woke up feeling extremely painful. His wings were no longer nailed to the wall and was all tore up from all the torturing. The reapers were heartless. Well, they were designed to be heartless in the first place. Now, Yuuri couldn't even move his wings. All the bones in his wings were crushed to the point of no return. He usually healed himself fast. But there's a reason why the lords asked reapers to torture him. They have been blessed by a power that was deemed the most powerful. Everything that they do, every action will become permanent and fair. That's why reapers were in charge of taking people's life as well as torture.

Yuuri could smell his own blood. All of Viktor's scent had gone. And the blood masked his child's scent too. He could tell that the child was still inside him. he couldn't tell if it were still alive. It could be very much dead by this point. Yuuri cried silently. This would have never happened if he just accepted his fate and die a painless death before his heat. "They will turn me into a surrogate…" he thought for a while. But his punishment was nowhere near done. The reapers would torture him again and again till they were satisfied.

The tortured succubus looked around. The walls were stained with blood patterns and dried wing bone. Clearly he wasn't the first to be in here. He wondered if his mom was in the very same room when she had her wings and tailed clipped. He wondered what it would feel like to be powerless and almost human.

"Awake already?"

Yuuri looked up to see one of the reapers outside of his cage. The reaper was female and she wore a skimpy short Lolita dress. She had a scythe and a hood on, Yuuri could barely recognize her face even since from the beginning. He groaned a little. The reaper entered the cage. "Look at the mess you've made" she began. "All these blood… they might fool the others and masking the human's scent but it can't fool me."

"W-what do you want?" Yuuri asked weakly. "You've tortured me enough haven't you satisfied?"

"Hmm, no" she said blatantly. "well, that's the catch of being reaper isn't it…? You can never be satisfied at what you do. If the lord was nice enough he would let us eat your soul."

"What?" the succubus was surprised to hear that. The seven lords all each of them had their own specialty and represented the seven deadly sins. Yuuri's lord, Minako represented Luxuria or in other words, Lust. Which was why she was in charge of the succubus and incubus. Reapers' lord represented Tristitia, in other words, sorrow, which was one of the category in the sin Envy.

"I am so jealous at how beautiful your body is," the reaper continued. "even after it being tortured. Your lord has blessed you." She traced Yuuri's body with her nails occasionally digging them in his flesh.

Yuuri screamed in agony again. No matter how much he was tortured he still couldn't get used to the punishment. But it felt like the reapers were playing with his body more than actually punishing him.

"Hey Jinny," the other reaper spoke. "save his play time for us later."

The female reaper groaned. "Alright, alright… no one likes a party pooper." She turned to Yuuri again. "Shall we have another game?" she grinned.

Viktor woke up feeling like his body was vibrating. It only took him a moment to realized that he was still travelling with Chris carrying him bridal style. "How many days has it been?" Viktor joked knowing he couldn't possibly be out that long.

"You awake?" Chris noticed him. "You were out for about 3 days."

"…Really?" Viktor was hoping that Chris would be joking. But there's not a hint of joke in his voice. "Why I was out that long?"

The succubus sighed. "While we're in mid flight, you opened your eyes and saw one of the corrupted souls. It was trying to grab you and you fainted."

Viktor quickly closed his eyes. "Am I safe now?"

"Yes, we came to the dead animal zone, it's usually calming." Both of them heard a sad roaring from somewhere. "That was not calm, someone had abused that animal. Try not to make a sound, we're getting close."

"…Why?"

Chris slowed down. "We need to pass the animal guardian without triggering him. but your human scent is very strong." He stopped flying and landed on the ground. He put Viktor down. "we need to mask your scent."

This was what Viktor didn't want to hear. How to mask his scent? By sex? From what he learnt from Yuuri he only knew that succubus could get some human scent rubbed off on them and a human can get a succubus scent on them as well and vice versa. "…Are we going to sex?" the skater asked.

"Come here…" Chris called gesturing Viktor to come to him.

"NO THANK YOU!"

"It's not what you think Viktor. Come now!"

As much as he wanted to reject, he trusted that Chris knew what he was doing. He went closer to the succubus hoping for the best. Chris took a bunch of souls. "I kind of know that you had a pet that died. Are these one of yours?"

Viktor looked at the souls. They're just souls. How would he tell the difference? "Uhm…no, what are we doing exactly?"

"The animal guardian is blind." Chris explained. "She can't see but can only smell. Sometime, we come in here to get some animal to go back and play. So she's used with other underworld creature's scent but not human. We're finding a dead animal to mask your scent when we pass through her gate."

That sounded legit. "But how am I supposed to know if any of these is my dog? I mean they don't even have a body." Viktor looked at the glowing orbs of life. Everything looked the same. Though, they sounded like animals, cats, dogs… even birds.

"You'll know… I'll help you find your dog."

They heard a loud banging. It was far but it's very clear to them that it was a loud banging. "W-What was that?" Viktor asked feeling very concerned.

Chris calmly answered. "The demons are torturing no good dead souls."

Ahh, so that's why— wait a minute… "Are we… ARE WE IN HELL?!" Viktor asked again as realization hit him.

What was he talking about this clueless skater? "…It is called the underworld for a reason, and we're in Limbo, it's a world between human world and underworld."

"But you have demons torturing human soul that sinned right?"

"Yes."

Viktor knew it. They were in hell. Suddenly a small orb of light approached him. "Hm?" the skater looked at the orb. "…shoo" he tried to get rid of it. The orb kept approaching him. "Get away, I'm trying to find my dog." The orb floated around him. Viktor panicked. "CHRIS THIS ONE IS ATTACHED TO ME! HELP!"

The succubus turned around and whacked that orb away. The orb fell down on the ground with a yelp. "Viktor, are you alright?" Chris asked.

"Wait I know that voice…" Viktor said. He went to look at the orb again. "Makkachin?"

The orb gave out another yelp and float back to Viktor.

"MAKKACHIN?!" Viktor's voice lit up. The orb barked gently and floated around Viktor as if it was playing with him. Viktor found his dog back! He laughed as Makkachin floated around.

"Good," Chris smiled. "now put him in your shirt, we're going to get Yuuri next."

Makkachin yelped a bit.

"Okay, Makkachin… uhh…. Where's your face?" Viktor looked at the orb. "Chris could you turn him into a dog please? I can't look at him like this…"

Chris looked at the orb. "It's beyond my power, maybe his body already decayed?"

"Oh… well okay at least he's here…"

Makkachin yelped again.

Viktor smiled. He had to admit even though he had Yuuri with him for a couple of month he still missed Makkachin. His dog was his best friend, his child. he missed all the yelp and barking. "Okay, can you help daddy take back his beloved person?" Viktor asked.

Makkachin barked happily.

Chris smiled. "Right put him in your shirt."

Viktor obliged and stuffed the orb of Makkachin's soul in his shirt. It took him a while to calm the orb down. Then, Chris led them to the animal guardian's gate. "Viktor, close your eyes." he whispered.

"Why?" Viktor closed his eyes.

"Just do it…"

Now Viktor was curious. Surely after what he saw at the entrance of the limbo was scary enough. Nothing could surprise him now right? The stubborn skater slowly peeked as they passed through the gate. What he saw could make him scream a bloody murder like a high school girl. He thought that the animal guardian was at least have a bit of human features but damn right she was ugly. She was naked with the body of a beast, head of a cow and fangs in her mouth. And she was huge. Very huge that Viktor had to look up to see her face. Her eyes were white probably because she was blind. Viktor was about to scream when a hand covered his mouth.

"I told you to close your eyes!" Chris whispered. The guardian felt as if something was wrong. She moved her head around and sniffed the air. She smelled a bit of human scent but also a strong succubus scent. She also smelled a strong dead dog scent. Figured that it was nothing, the guardian went back to her guarding place and continued to guard the gate.

Chris and Viktor quickly passed through the gate.

After his torture, Yuuri were brought to the Lords' chamber again. They would discuss about what to do with a fallen succubus. The head Lord Raphael, would be the one to judge on what and how he should receive his punishment. The reapers brought Yuuri in a cage and he was presented to the lords.

Yuuri had no idea why he was summoned again. "M-My Lords…" he painfully bowed in front of the lords. He looked up, there were all seven of them behind the curtain. He must have done something terrible if all the seven lords were there.

The first one spoke. "In terms of recent events, it appears that one of your colleague have brought a human into underworld. A living breathing mortal. The father of your child."

Yuuri was surprised to hear that. Viktor was here? How?

"Do you deny that statement?" the first lord asked again.

Yuuri didn't know how to answer. He didn't expect Viktor to come into the underworld. "D-Don't hurt him." he begged. "He didn't know anything."

The second lord spoke. "But having a living human in the underworld is a taboo. Despite everything the human must be killed. As well as the accomplice. And it seems like another succubus had brought him in here, Minako." The second lord looked at Minako who was Yuuri's lord and was in charge of all the succubus.

Minako thought for a while. Yuuri hoped that his lord wouldn't take drastic measures. "Do what is must be done. I will hold responsible for all of my succubus's actions."

Yuuri didn't dare to ask what they were going to do to Viktor and Chris.

The first lord spoke again. "What are the punishments, Raphael?"

Yuuri need to pay attention to this. He needed to to know what future would he have. "The situation is worsening." Raphael began. "The human will be punished and he will have his life taken away from him. I want both of the succubus to be turn into surrogates."

Oh no. Viktor will have to die.

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