Devil's Business

Warning from the Sky

“Begone, knave!”

The demon has his own body strengthened, amassed with bulking power from its natural prowess. It grows three times the size of Heck’s burly physique, with glowing red aura emanating from every strain of his veins.

“Being serious, are you? Heaven’s not wrong this time around. You’re a naughty boy for pretending to be good, and precisely a threat for us today.” Heck snarled, but the demon ignored his taunt and laying a fist to the man. Conversely, Heck is good enough to snatch it up with ease and parrying the bash with his own right hand.

“A mortal with god-like powers. I love you, Heck.” Said Lafath to the mighty mortal before him up front. To the compliment, Heck given an ample grin and pressing his fist even more to the brawl,”Everyone likes me, but I prefer my father over a closet god like you.” He ridiculed as the push got even more than before against the demon king.

“What about this?”

A gruesome layer of blazing fire oozing up from his left hand and covering his arms with blue flame. Not so long after, Lafath’s entire red aura has turned blue by the color of its flame, which coated his entire body. He got even more bigger in frame, as a bunch of tormented souls inside the lava pit instilled themselves within.

(Smack!)

With his right hand, Lafath grabbed Heck’s left palm and intentionally let it bashed up against. Due to its size, Lafath could easily entangle his arm in the meantime and forcing it to stick apart from one another.

“I’ll have to rocket you up to daddy’s crib. Good bye, Heck, and I hope you’ll never swing by anymore. Not until my last invasion begin.”

“Haha, I could-“

Lafath is swinging his both arms up and down, tilting Heck’s body like a rubber band. It goes faster and more intense with each of its blistering power before Heck’s body launched upwards to the seamless sky above.

"Hope you have some word to the sinister god of heaven about me, young mortal. You have a lot to learn against me." The demon mumbled to the soaring white sky before it turned back to the red state of its usual behavior. With the threat’s gone back to the white cloud of heaven, Lafath has himself gotten ill by the upbringing from the benevolent man and sitting down to the sandy ground of its crumbled castle.

By pondering across his once-beautiful bastion, It has remembered something important, the one it can't dismiss once the drum of war has been initiated by the other party of the realm. It laid his thoughts out loud, trying to muster everything that he could, all before the havoc from Heck's insight comes due.

“ for the extra part, I have to teach him how to defend, or else the envoy of heaven would blast him away too chiefly.” The demon mumbled before vanishing back into the air, working on the lastly arrangement against the deathly threat of the open sky. 

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Despite the prior decision to be prudent on his own savings, Juno’s realm are hectic and sprawling with enormous task from the partnership that he has signed with Je-llo. The in-house team have to hurdle every tasks with more time to bargain over their usual work-life balance that they could bear way back. Melina Tanto, Juno’s personal secretary, even have to go mobile on midnight for negotiation with their partners abroad as Juno’s representative. They have spent more than one billion dollars in only two weeks of their starting month, but Je-llo does not laying his gaze upon the shady deals that occurred under his nose.

After all, who would protest against continuous profits and no loss from the other party?

Of all things, Juno has had preserved his partner with partnership notion, which stipulated about the trade secret of his company. Despite the abundant payment as penalty, Juno himself longed for no trouble on that issue, since it would be regarded as breach to his own devil contract with Lafath in his own consideration.

(Blip!Blip!)

As Juno stroking the tabs of his own laptop, bland noises are erupted within his mind. Endless loops of bleeping sound buzzing inside his brain, wrecking down the concentration to the work he dwell upon. Seconds later, the red guy has appeared, bending to him with elegance and dazzling smile of the innocent face.

“Good day, my friend. If you receive this message, it means that I have moved to my second castle of hell. I won’t disclose it to you this time, so find that one out for yourself!”

(Blip!)

The seemingly-pocket message was dismissed from Juno’s mind before he could have his own mind to work on it. He is in the middle of busy night, thus halting himself to talk about this important case with his own thoughts while speaking out loud of the matters. It could be a clue to where he should kick the king of demon’s bottoms, or way to locate its actual position to the final fight of hell itself.

“That pesky demon is annoying sometimes.” Muttered Juno to himself. He forgot to notice that one of his residing staff is there and being a witness to his random thoughts, as he glanced over him in worrisome feelings,“Something problematic, boss? I wonder if I-“

“Don’t worry, Joko. It’s nothing to your issue. Please back to your task-“

“But you have no task for me.” Joko interrupted,”I am an intern, remember? All I have to do here was making coffee for the staffs, sweeping the fl-“

“Okay, now you’re granted one simple work, young man. Sit there to start.” Juno ordered the new employee to the nearest vacate cubicle of his home-office. The young man has no choice but to follow the command and resting himself on the swiveling chair of the cubicle desk.

“Now what, sir? Seriously, I’m overjoy-“

“Now pipe down over there and think of something from your class, that’s your first duty of this day.”

The intern is irritated, but incapable to dismiss the order from his chieftain. Juno has given him two times the actual wages of an intern, and it is not multiplied from zero to count on, so he has no right to protest or being humiliated in front of the busy man of the mansion.

(Ring!Ring!)

The office’s custom ringtone was resonating from the office’s telephone. It’s currently idle for the time being, so the blaring tone from it has everyone surprised, including Juno that has stationed close to the old device.

“Boss, the phone-“

Melina was rushing down to the phone before Juno could react to the impulse and pulling up the call immediately,” Juno Ayodhya collector’s office! May I help you with-“

She froze to her stance, holding the phone with her hands and opened her mouth with no voice to blurt down. Juno’s whole office happened to embrace the same issue, since everyone was immobilized in place of their latest act. Contrarywise, Juno is alive and unharmed, moving his hands and gripping its fingers inwards to calm his beating pulse.

“Good evening, is Juno here? Heaven’s sent me to annihilate you.”

A blonde male is entering Juno’s office from the only way out. He wears a plain-white tuxedo and a rose-knitted long hat upon his head.  With one sword on his left hand, his presence has advised otherwise to Juno, as it means danger is on his very own door that persists to this very second of his life.

“Heaven? What’s going on here?” Juno tried to ask him over the reason, but the man ignored him and starting to charge him onward. He could only feint over several of the attacks, and some of them have landed with slight clearance to death over his torso.

‘Here, have your twin swords to fight that man. This is life-or-death, so I’ll excuse you to this one only. Or two, perhaps? Nah, I’ll resort on this once you’re done, don’t worry Juno.’

While Juno wandering off the enemy’s sword advance by running across the room’s corridor, an abrupt-but familiar voice has indicated a turn-around to his fate on earth. Suddenly, the twin swords of hell’s realm has summoned upon his hands, granting himself a kickback to the lone sword of the blonde strangers of the office.

Being amazed of the recurring premises that aiding him to the promising victory, Juno given his opponent a smirk to the brawl,”You can’t have my soul that easy, weird bush. I have two partners to begin with, if you not object.”

“Prove your worth, cursed mortal. Heaven’s wrath has damned you to death!”

(Clang!Clang)

The twin swords of Juno could not grasp the glorious victory right away. His opponent’s mastery over the long sword of his made himself have to retreat in numerous occasions. He hurled two of his swords side-by side, but all of them are just deflected with deafening clashes from the brisk movement of his swordsmanship. However, in a swift moment of the opponent’s steady movement, Juno found a gap through the constant bashes and quickly flashed the two of his swords upon the torso. Conversely, the opponent seemingly conscious to the short-handed chance and quickly torn two of his arms aside and cut it clean as a result.

“Haaa! Haaa!” Juno Screamed, squealing in agony by the monstrous pain he felt from the hole to whom his two arms have affixed. The blonde guy only have his tuxedo ripped out by the clash, but posed no harm nonetheless, and beaming at him with uttermost satisfaction before gouging his head out of its socket.

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‘That’s my projection for future feud, if there’s any. But it could be possible since it’s heaven to talk with.’

Juno has sweat all over his body, drenched him entirely with cold breeze of the conditioning air of his office. The whole event apparently were only there as a form of warning from the red guy, which resides in his mind and tattered his concentration to the work.

‘what do you want, big guy? Desperate for attention from your favorite kid?’ Rattled Juno to Lafath’s apparition inside his mind. The demon laughed and ridiculed him more by expressing a whining state of him before,’blah-blah-blah, and you’re there pissing your pants because of a mere happy dream.’ The demon continued.

‘anyway, I wanted to announce this with you, since it seems your safe deposit box of money has grown back to its former glory. You can use half of your current power to the real world if something like that have to happen once more, okay?’

(Poof!)

Yet again, the demon leaves him around when he has query to resolve.