I Was Born With A Demon Lord Inside Of Me, Who Wants To Kill

Chapter 30: Change

As you already know, this world is abnormal. There are hundreds of places where monsters populate and reside. These places are named dungeons. Each of them are unique in appearance and monsters. No matter how many monsters you kill in a stage, they all spawn again. No one knows where these places came from, or why are there monsters inside. Adventurers often come in dungeons to get stronger. There are 50 stages in most dungeons, but are more in some. Each stage becomes stronger as you progress. In every 5th stage, there is a strong monster. In every 10th stage, there is a boss monster. These monsters don't come back after being killed, but are hard to do defeat.

After a long day, Whitebolt came back home. He reached stage 15 and gained 100 PL, which is a lot. Maids greeted him. Whitebolt ate food and bathed. Before he went to rest, he went to the basement to check Rekka. To his surprise, he was awake.

-It didn't take even a week. – He thought to himself.

He observed the little boy. He didn't look the same when he fought him. His eyes weren't red and his teeth and nails didn't glow.

-Who are you? – Asked Whitebolt.

Rekka didn't answer. His eyes were dead and looking down, staring at the same place. He didn't even glace at Whitebolt.

-He's completely different, so this is the real him. – Though Whitebolt – Are you okay Rekka, do you remember what happened?

The little boys eyes started to tear up.

-Yua... Hideo... Touma... I'm sorry... I couldn't control myself again... - Whispered Rekka.

Whitebolt kneeled. He put his hands on his shoulders and tried to calm him down.

-Look kid, I know the troubles you are going through right now, but you need to calm down and answer my questions, okay? – He smiled.

Rekka nodded his head slightly. Whitebolt wiped the tears of him.

-You aren't putting on a facade now, right?

-No...

-Were you born this way?

-I... Don't remember...

-Okay... His personality is completely different when he was a demon, I'll trust him for now. – Thought Whitebolt – Is there something controlling you from the inside?

Rekka started to tear up again. This time, he put his head up and looked at his straight in the eyes.

-IT'S HIM! IT'S HIM! IT'S HI-I-I-IM! – Rekka shed tears of despair – I, I DIDN'T WANT ANY OF THIS! I JUST WAN'T TO STAY WITH DAD!

-You need to settle down.

-I KILLED EVERY ONE, IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF ME! HE CONTROLS ME BECAUSE IM WEAK!

-*Tsk* - Whitebolt started to get irritated.

He slapped Rekka in the face, not so hard. Rekka was in shock and stopped crying.

-Look kid, you have the worst mentality of them all! – Whitebolt got serious – Quit blaming yourself! Did you even try to stop yourself once?

Rekka shaked his head.

-What did you expect, the demon will just go away? Look, I know you are young, and I know you may not understand what I'm telling you, but you need to change. If "he" takes control of you because you are weak, you just need to become stronger.

-I tried to become stronger! – Rekka got agitated – I trained for months and killed hundreds of monsters, even if I didn't want to, BUT IT ISN'T ENOUGH!

-Train more! Only way to go now is going forward. You think by training a couple of months will be enough to defeat strong opponents? – Whitebolt thought – I'm going too off track, he is just a kid, I need to calm him down.

-I'm... Weak... - Rekka started to sob.

-Look, kid, I may have been too harsh on you. You're far too young too understand what I'm saying.

-What to do... How to become stronger...

-Rekka... *Sigh* How about I tutor you for a while, just to make a stepping stone. You already possess magic.  Let me grab something.

Whitebolt took a scroll from a high shelf.

-This is a magic test. It's a scroll where you can check your magic LVL or PL. Let's check both of them. Is this fine with you?

Rekka nodded.

-Put your hands on the scroll and try to concentrate MP into it. Be careful, only concentrate MP, don't let out any magic.

Rekka started to flow MP.

-Its red? First time I have seen this. – Thought Whitebolt – Let's see.

Whitebolt checked the scrolls and was amazed.

-LVL 3 fire magic and 8500 PL!? At such a young age... How old are you Rekka?

-I just turned 8...

-Tutoring you might be more interesting than I might have though. I want to see a couple of things. Can you use magic right now?

-I... Don't want to... - Rekka got down.

-Don't worry, these chains will prevent you if you have a demon inside. Also, I'm strong, after all, I defeated him.

Rekka eyes shined brightly.

-You defeated him?

-Yes? – Whitebolt got confused to why the kid got so happy all of a sudden.

-Can you protect everyone when I go berserk?

-You won't go berserk again.

-How?

-Try to use magic.

Rekka tried to create a fireball in his hands, but couldn't.

-I... Can't? – He got confused.

-I was right. The demon inside of you supplies you with magic. It's the source of your power. These chains block the passages of where the MP goes through, so you can't lose control.

Rekkas eyes started to tear up, this time with joy.

-Thank you! – Rekka smile for the first time in a long while.

-Don't thank me, thank Daichi. – He couldn't bring up the fact that he was trying to kill him.

Whitebolt left and brought food and water to Rekka.

-Eat up, soon, we are going to start training. For today, stay in these chains. Sorry.

Rekka started eating the exotic foods.

-It's okay! If you're going to protect everyone, I'm going to stay with you!

-No, I promised to bring you back to Daichi, you are going to stay here for a short time, until you become stronger.

It started to get dark. Whitebolt brought a mattress and a blanket. They both went to sleep.