Ace Didn't Mean To Summon Satan's Child

Chapter 1

Ace was finally in front of his and brothers' house. He just came from the estate agency, to take the key, it had been a godsend to find such a house in this neighborhood and at such a low price. The house had been inhabited for years after what the realtor had said, the government had recuperated it at the death of the previous owner, when she died without next to kin.

The realtor had warned them that the house was still in the same condition that when the owner died. It was Sabo who visited the house alone, Ace and Luffy had been in the outskirts of the town to see the premises they wanted to buy for their bar and grill. The owner wanted to sell his place for him to enjoy his retirement with his wife. He had been searching for months, but nobody had been interested.

After their respective visits, the three brothers had talked about it. Sabo had said that the house needed some work, most of it was purely decorative, but he wasn't sure about the electric installation, and the water system. But it was a great deal, the house had four bedrooms, two bathrooms, however one needed a make-over, a large living room and a kitchen, the garden was completely abandoned and was overgrown with weeds and trees that had grown out of control. But Sabo assured that once the work was done, the house would be lovely.

"Will we have to ask Franky about the cost of the works, but if we do everything by ourselves that will reduce the cost greatly." Ace remarked, "But if it had been abandoned, we might offer a lower price than they are asking."

"We will ask him later. And for the price, the realtor told me that the City Council had decided, if the house is not sold before the end of the year they will destroy it, but that will be paid by the municipality, so they preferred to sell it." Sabo explained. "And the bar, how is it?"

"A bit old, but it's well-placed, with a big parking lot. The kitchen is just the right size. We will need to replace the fridge and the oven but that all. Most of the work would be to change the decoration of the dining room" Ace said, taking his phone out and showing his brother the photos he had taken during the visit.

"The bar part looks good." Sabo remarked.

"Yeah the counter needs to be sanded and varnished again, but it's good."

"There are others buyers interested?"

"Yes," Luffy responded "But they are trying to lower the price too much for the owner."

"So if we ask just a bit lower than the price asked, the owner might agree with it, if not we still could pay the asking price"

They discussed with Franky the next day, and he agreed to go look at the places. He had done a bid of what would need to be done. Two days later, Ace was signing a proposition for the house and the bar. A week later he got a call, his two offers were accepted.

That was how one week later, he found himself in front of his own house, his car parked in the alley, full of most of his stuff. He had already called the electricity and water company; Franky had told him that everything was conformed to standards, he had been surprised it was rare for a house this old, but if Franky said it was good, it was good.

Ace took one of his boxes, and climbed the stairs of the porch. The door was stuck a little, but he arrived to open it.

Sabo had been right, the house definitely smelled abandoned, there was a lot of dust on the furniture. And well there were the walls, now Ace understood why most of the potential buyers had been cooled down, they were covered with symbols, drawings, and other things that Ace wasn't able to distinguish them from each other. You couldn't even see the original color of the wall in places.

Ace put his boxes on the floor of the entrance "At least I know where to start" Dusting off, and cleaning the walls will be the first thing to be done, it was a good thing that Rouge, Ace's mother, had forced him to take everything he needed.

Ace decided to go take out of the tank, the bucket, brooms and dust cloths, and began to dust what he could.

Three hours later Ace had cleaned the entire living room, the kitchen and an entire bedroom which was empty of furniture or symbols, at least Ace now knew where he was going to sleep tonight. The technician of the electricity company arrived just after, the guy just went to the electricity meter in the basement, did everything he needed to do, and left the house after he gave Ace the duplicate of his contract.

By this time, it was lunch and Ace was hungry. He looked at Maps on his phone to see where he could go to eat or buy food, there was a convenience store two blocks from the house.

Ace walked to the store, like this he could explore a little the neighborhood, at the store he took sandwiches, chips, a bottle of water, and some cookies for tomorrow's breakfast.

"Hey, you're new around here?" The teenage girl, behind the checkout, asked.

Ace smiled at her, and put all his stuff on the conveyor belt, "Yeah, I just moved in today. Don't know a lot about the town, though."

The girl began to scan the articles "Yeah, not a lot to do here. We have a cinema and if you're hungry, there is Dolce Vita, it's an Italian restaurant in the city center."

"It's any good?"

"Depends if you have taste buds" She replied. "Most people preferred to go to the bar and grill near the N66, but the owner had closed and searched for a buyer. I heard he finally sold it, I hope it'll open soon" She scanned the last of Ace's purchases, she waited while he finished packing them "That will be thirteen fifty-seven"

Ace took the money out of his wallet and gave it to her. She gave him back his change and his receipt. "Have a nice day!"

"You too"

After eating, Ace went back to his cleaning. When he finished the last bedroom, he decided to stop the dusting for the day, he would finish the following day, along with beginning to clean the walls. Geez the old lady must have gone crazy for her to write all this on her walls. Ace hoped that the detergent he came with would be enough to get rid of the old paint.

Ace went back to his car to finish unloading it. Three round trips later every box was now on the living room floor. Ace looked at the furniture still in the room, it was actually a good news, his and his brothers' stuff would arrive only in three weeks and Ace could use what was in the house in the waiting. Only the electrical appliance from the kitchen would be removed before that, Franky had promised him to come to take them away, and to lend a mini-fridge and a portable stove for the time being.

Speaking of the kitchen, it was going to be some snack time soon for Ace. But before that, Ace wanted to see if the paint could be removed.

He took his detergent, and some rags, the front door would be perfect for the first test. Ace began to wipe the painted star and symbols around it, it needed some time, but he was able to clean it off. After he had done, he wasn't really feeling his right arm anymore, a perfect time to make himself a sandwich and rest a little.

He prepared one of his special sandwiches, baguette, jam, cheese, salad, slice of roast, and his mother sauce. After that, he settled down on the floor and looked around while eating. His eyes stopped on a sentence written above the glass door leading to the garden.

"Daemonium veniet ad me" Ace read, he shrugged "Weird thing to write here"

"You called me, human?" A voice said behind him.