A short fat man was sitting at a table. The length of the table was long enough for two people to sit comfortably, but he alone was having a hard time adjusting there.

He was dressed in a black suit and a black bowler hat. The smoking pipe that he was holding in his mouth made him look no less than an evil mafia boss.

It was a big room without any windows. There was a door at the ceiling which could be reached by climbing that stairs at the corner of the room. The whole structure of the room was like some kind of underground hideout.

Seven people wearing black hooded robes were standing at the center of the room making a circle. There was a magic circle below their feet and a black sealed jar was placed in the center of the magic circle. And by the looks of it, they were performing some kind of ritual.

A guy wearing a frog costume was standing behind the table. His whole body was inside the costume and only his childish-looking human face could be seen from the outside. It looked like he wanted to say something but wasn"t confident enough to say it out loud.

"B-b-boss, do you think we will be able to do it? I mean Superior and Joker failed when they tried doing the same thing in some remote village," said the guy wearing the frog costume. Fear could be felt in his voice as he was saying that.

"Hmph! This is why you are not a boss yet, Froggy. You are not confident enough. They failed because they released Beelzebub"s cursed seal among all of them," said the man sitting at the table.

"I-I know that we are trying to r-release Lucifer. B-but will just eleven souls be enough?" Froggy said. His voice sounded even less confident than before.

"I told you to be more confident dammit," said the man hitting the table in frustration. He then leaned back in his chair and composed himself again and said, "Lucifer isn"t like that hungry Beelzebub, he is smart."

"Y-y-yes" replied froggy in a low voice. It looked like he had lost all his courage to speak.

"Men, start the ritual," said the man in a loud voice.

The men started chanting and as they were doing that, the jar at the center of the room started shaking. Soon a red light emerged from the circle beneath them.

The men took out knives from their robe after the red light emerged. They put the knife at their throat and right at the moment when they were about to cut their throats, a loud bang was heard.

Everyone looked towards the entrance of the room. Someone had blasted the door using a magic attack to break in.

"See, I told you this was the way to their hideout." A male voice of someone who was probably in his teens was heard.

"Hmph! You just got lucky this time. Let"s go in," said a childish sounding female voice in a hasty tone.

"Wait! Can"t you see we blasted the door to their hideout that was below the stone too? They already know that we are here. We need to be careful."

"You are holding me too tight... Can"t breathe!"

"Oh! sorry. I didn"t know that you were this delicate."

"Phew! I am not delicate! You just need to be more careful with how you treat a lady."

"Froggy looks like some children are bickering outside. Can you go and deal with them?" said the man looking irritated.

"Y-yes boss. B-but what if they are strong?" said froggy in a low voice. It sounded as if he was hoping that the man wouldn"t hear the last part.

"Ugh, just go. Retreat if they are strong," said the man. It looked like the man was expecting a reply like this.

Froggy replied with, "O-okay". He then went to the stairs and looked towards the door. There was no one there.

A part of him felt relieved. He looked towards the man and was about to say something when he felt a punch in his right shoulder.

The force of the punch was strong enough to send him flying towards the wall where he collided and fell on the floor. He tried to stand but he couldn"t. He wasn"t prepared for the attack; the punch came out of nowhere.

The man who was sitting at the table pushed the table and got up. He had a shocked reaction on his face. Why wouldn"t he be, a boy appeared out of nowhere and punched one of his men.

"How could this be?" The man asked in surprise.

"Heh heh! My illusions are next to perfect," said a tiny fairy that was sitting on the boy"s shoulders.

"Men, attack them with everything you have got," shouted the man without wasting any time.

While others were keeping the intruders distracted, he went towards Froggy. He took out a small green bottle that looked like some kind of healing potion from his pocket and fed it to Froggy.

"B-boss what should we do? The enemy looks strong," said Froggie getting up again. He seems to have completely recovered.

"It"s just illusions, our men can deal with it," said the man standing up.

As they were saying that, the boy backed off a little bit and said, "Zagan, I need a little help here."

Right after the boy said that, a crimson magic circle appeared on the ground and a man with golden-colored eyes and a handsome looking face appeared out of it.

"What! There are more of them? W-wait those golden eyes and that face. Y-you are Lucifer. But that"s impossible," said the man in a surprised tone.

"Hum. No matter whichever the era, the fools never disappear," said the man whom the boy called Zagan.

He took the black sealed jar into his hand and said, "This thing shouldn"t be here". A dense black mist appeared out of his hand and soon the jar disappeared with the mist.

The short fat man stepped back towards the corner and asked, "B-but don"t you want the demon lord to be revived?"

"No. I have a new master now," Zagan said a calm tone without even a hint of hesitation. Instead, a pride could be felt in his voice.

"B-but that"s... Froggy we need to leave now. Others keep them occupied," the man said.

He then took out two small green and yellow b.a.l.l.s from his pocket and threw it on the floor. Smoke appeared out of those b.a.l.l.s and soon it covered the whole room making it hard to see anything.

"Zagan, do anything but don"t kill them," said the boy clearing the air around with wind magic.

Zagan just responded with a smile and attacked the men in the robes one after another. They were too slow to even react and in less than 15 seconds all of them were lying on the floor unable to stand.

When the smoke cleared completely, the man and Froggy weren"t there. There was a small escape hole at the corner towards which the man had stepped back..

"Do you want me to follow them?" asked Zagan looking towards the hole.

"No, the sun is about to come up. I need to return back to others. But before that, how do we deal with these people?" the boy said looking towards the seven men who were lying on the floor.

"W-we are not afraid of death. All hail the Demon Lord," said one of the men grabbing his knife.

"As if I will let you. I have seen this too many times in the movies," said the boy and kicked the knife that the man was holding. He then looked towards the man and asked, "What did you do to the kids that you kidnapped?"

"What else? We fed their souls to the jar," said the man with a creepy smile. Frustration could be seen on the boy"s face as he heard him say that.

"Haha...The world has many lunatics. You are not ready to deal with them yet, so leave them to me," said Zagan with a smile that sent chills down the spines of men that were on the floor.

"Yes, deal with them. I am returning back to others," said the boy while going towards the stairs.

After he got out, a scream was heard. But soon it became quiet again.

Next chapter: The Fairy

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