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It all starts with the boring but calm adventure of Judy on her vacations with other students at the moment, travelling to a camping site to have more interaction with the nature and its beauty. Judy is mostly like any other nerdy girl: glasses, clothes that hides most of her skin, shy and of course, a certain addiction to technology to the point she carries a backpack around, containing items like a laptop, tablet and other portable devices. Not knowing about this existence of angels and imps yet, her choices kept feeling boring, a little too exaggerated at some point. Someday, while on her cabin cleaning up her bed from the crumbs of potato chips on her bed, she was feeling a bit too stressed with this vacation, as there was nothing more to do during the other one week left living on this camping site. Leaving her cabin and going to sit on a wooden lunchtable a few meters away, she would just take her smartphone out of her pocket and keep using it. While the noises of sound effects could be heard from a few meters away, it would end up getting the attention of someone, a bit special for Judy. A few footsteps of what seemed to sound like shoes walking on dirt could be heard, on which upon looking behind, turns out it was just her friend Marco, wearing some generic uniform that seemed out of a cartoon about kids learning skills in a camping site as well. Marco was a bit curious about the sound effects coming from Judy's phone, on which he just played jokefully to her and sat right beside her. Smirking a bit, he said "What kind of game are you plaaaying..?", in an obvious sarcastic curious tone. It felt a bit cringe to her, as she looked away while lowering her head and shoulders a bit, with her hand right beside her ear as she felt like covering it. "C'mon, don't be shy. It's not like I'm gonna shame you for playing a generic slider game.", he implies to his previous question, before getting answered by Judy as she felt just a little bit more comfortable to talk about, "Yeah, it's just... a sliding game.", looking back at Marco before her attention gets caught again by the game. As there was just a short period of silence, her friend once again starts speaking, "I don't know if you feel the same but... this summer is so freaking boring.", as he gets a bit closer to Judy and lowers his shoulders as well, taking a deep breath. As well as Marco, Judy felt the same, having to explain it and having a certain conversation about the boring camping site, although there was other things to do like dip in a safe river, a space to play games and sports, before going back to feeling a bit uncomfortable about chatting and playing the same game on her phone again, as the silence was kept for a few seconds as well before Marco started speaking again. "Look, I know this place is a complete piece of ass, but could we please somehow keep chatting other than... you might've guessed it, stay in silence and keep playing games?", he asks for a favor, hoping for the 'yes' as an answer. As Judy is still a really shy girl at the moment, she would try to sneak around some excuse, not really knowing if it's factual or a made-up information, "Could we please chat at... at night?- People are usually more open to chat at night.", staring at Marco before looking away as she couldn't really maintain eye contact with people. A few seconds of silence was kept before Marco spoke, "Uhm- sure, sure. Just walk to my cabin and call my name.", feeling a bit upset but accepting Judy's decision. He would then stand up and walk away, leaving Judy alone once again, playing on her phone while the noises of sound effects were coming from it. During that time, there were just some few moments where Judy would sometimes be greeted by other students and teenagers who were passing some days in the camping site, maybe having some other snacks while time passes by, but overall, it was just like any other day after this stressful and annoying boredom came, in matter of fact, it felt like time was running so slow during that moment, as if the universe wanted this vacation to feel like a suffering. During the evening, where the sky had a orange tone while the sun was almost setting in the horizon with many pine trees, again, Judy was on her phone but this time, watching some content on social medias by using some of her mobile data. The only thing that was getting her attention at the most of time, until something unexpected happened. As no one was currently around the place she was, the lunchtable sitting a few meters away from Judy's cabin, suddenly some footsteps could be heard from behind her. At first it sounded like one of the teenagers who were passing some time in the camping site, until a voice was heard, on which sounded effeminate and manly. "Hey, miss! Miss!", this one person said before getting into some talk with Judy. Looking behind, she was surprised to see that this one person wasn't the kind of people it would meet during these days. This person had a reddish skin, with white hair and its eyes being a bit more yellow, adding with the other details like the stripped horns along with this clothing that covered his body, like some sort of variation of the usual camping site uniform. Although this person clearly knew this was going to be a problem to explain but decided to act like a normal person, awkwardly smiling while going to sit besides the teenager. While Judy was looking quite surprised and weirded out, this certain person started speaking, "So, uhm... how's it going?- I like your hair.", trying to take things slowly as he wanted the skin and other weird features to be taken away from this conversation. However, Judy didn't hesitate to ask about his weird characteristics. "Wh... what happened to your skin?", she asks, making the guy panick a bit, followed by the question "Are you cosplaying? You... look okay, I guess-", being interrupted by the certain person, clearly an imp but that wasn't really seen by Judy, "Uhm, well- uh-", he gasps a bit nd stutters, then leavingt a short pause of silence between them before answering properly with, of course, a made up reason. "It's kind of a skin condition. And it happens when uh... the sun makes the skin sooo sensitive to the point it... it turns red. Don't mind it, it's... it's not like I'm in pain, hehe... it's just a weird tingling sensation I can tolerate.", while making gestures with his sweaty hands and sometimes moving his face to the side as he spoke. Some few seconds of silence was kept as they both didn't know what to say, on which the imp would simply take one of the thoughts Judy just said and make it part of the excuses, "And yeah, the horns and stuff are... just a cosplay.- Yeah, just a cosplay of... Hitokaro, uh... Avocado.- Yeah.", he says, nervously. Judy knew that something was off about that guy, by the way he spoke and couldn't really keep a straight face while giving those excuses in order to sneak around this topic and follow something else, however, she decided to just tell him she knew about all of this being a lie, "Look, I know you're just lying to me but... it's okay if you don't wanna tell me, if it's embarrassing, or... shameful—", on which the imp immediately went with, saying "YEAH, YEAH. It's something different I don't want to say.", on which was then kept away and the imp could continue the topic he was looking for. "I was thinking if you were interested into chatting about... demonology..? Ehm— you know, that thing about demons? Hell thingy?", he asks to Judy, leaning a bit forward as he places in of his hands on his knee, while the other arm was positioned on his thigh. She looked away for a bit, weirded out still, before looking back and answering "S-Sure- of course.", stuttering while getting the smartphone back on one of her pockets and adjusting her sitting position on the seat of the lunch table, until she was asked to stop since it wasn't what he was planning about. "N-No, not here though.", he says, showing his palms to her as a sign to stop. Again, as Judy looked away and went back to stare at him as it felt quite weird of his part, he then said "It's... educational- no, to show stuff that is quite interesting for someone new... new as you in the demonology concept. Here— Come with me.", before getting up from the lunchtable seat and walking towards a dirt path from the camping site. Although he seemed to feel safe with Judy, the teenager wasn't unphased about the whole situation, hesitating that she would follow him. As she refused to follow him, he would somehow act a bit childish over her, begging her to be following him to this certain place where she will learn more about this content, "C'mon, I'm not gonna hurt you or anything!", he shouts as he scratches his foot on the dirt as he feels upset. Not wanting to cause more trouble to him, she just sighes before accepting his request, or in the words, demand, getting up from the lunchtable seat as well. The imp's eyes sparkle with joy as the plan seemed to be working, suddenly jumping a bit of happiness and knowing their payment is near. Judy was a bit annoyed at his behaviour, but smiled a bit as the way the imp kept jumping was a bit funny. As the imp started walking, he would gesture with his hand to the teenager as he said "C'mon! Follow me!", as he kept smiling happily. As Judy kept following him, maintaining a bit of distance as she doesn't really like to be close to people or feel their touch, well, at least to avoiding the imp from wrapping his arm around her neck as he seemed to be pretty energetic. She tries to think, but the imp's voice seemed to be louder than her thoughts, "Well- if you don't know already, we have a special place where we all demonologists can meet up, by the use of magic!- By the way, my name is Freezy, just in case if I didn't speak about it before...", his name was Freezy, or maybe his nickname, as he seemed to be a freezy boy by his appearance, "...but listen, don't tell anyone about this, alright?-", being interrupted by Judy who looked at him with a quite surprised, scared expression as he spoke about some weird kind of magic learned fom demonology. He tries to calm her down, at least trying to touch her by the shoulders even tho she didn't wat it to happen, "Hey- HEY, CHILL. I'm not gonna kill you- just don't tell anyone... okaaayyy?", with a bit of excitiment in his voice as he finished his sentence, trying to seem like it wasn't that much of a deal but at the same seeming to be something quite good to show her. She would look away for a moment and then look back at her phone, seeming to open an app and type something before speaking to him once again. "I'm just going to... prepare a phone call just in case, if you try to kill me.", she spoke, on which left the imp in silence for few seconds while staring at her, before letting her go from grabbing her shoulders and gently smiling, "Okay!", answering as if he was completely okay with that, for some reason. It was already giving many different flags for Judy, but she thought there would be a certain way she could annoy Freezy while he tries to lure her to this certain trap. Taking a deep breath and keeping one of her hands in her pocket, she says, before walking to this certain direction she was being introduced, "Fine.". Freezy would take some few quick steps to take the way so he would guide her properly to a certain cabin from the camping site. Upon arriving to this certain cabin, there was something unusual about it: The cabin turns out to be an unclaimed cabin from the camping site as there were a few signs located over the door, as well as the entrance, windows and the wooden logs that made most of the cabin's structure were much cleaner than the general claimed cabins by other teenagers, that usuallly didn't really care about cleaning. Knowing that, Judy wondered about how they were both going inside it as it was already clear that Freezy didn't have the key to enter, until something quite unexpected happened. As the imp approached the door and tried to turn the wooden knob to open it, he noticed it was locked and pretended like it wasjammed in someway, constantly trying to turn it to the other side to open it, until he turns back to Judy with an awkward smile and says "Uhm...- the door seems... q-quite jammed.- Here, uhm- let me try a secret technique!", gripping his hands onto his waist. As he stuttered while speaking to Judy, he would then quickly turn around back to the door of this certain unclaimed cabin, and dash against the wooden door while his shoulder positioned on the way, trying to slam the door wide open. However, by his weak body, he would just cause a loud noise in the cabin door as well as his arm getting really hurt, making him squirm as he positions his other hand over the shoulder, quietly saying "O-Ow..." while trying not to cry. Upon looking back to Judy, she was quite surprised, but confused and even scared as this seemed like a quite terrible idea in the first place, as it seemed like they were both trying to break through a cabin to take something in an illegal way. "Dude... what the heck are you doing?!--", Judy yells at Freezy before being interrupted by the imp who shushes the teenager by hovering his finger over her lips, speaking over her, "K-Keep it down!- Do you have a...", trying to think before grabbing her by the wrist and walking somewhere else with lots of trees and bushes in the camping site as he spoke one more time, "Y'know what? Let's... take another way? Maybe?", following a dirt path that was seen to be pretty secure from the camping site before suddenly Freezy took a different way and could finally speak to the teenager behind some trees and bushes. It was already getting out of control. " D-Dude, are you trying to K-KIDNAP ME?!! ", Judy shouted in fear at the imp as she was trying to get her hand of the imp's strong grip before grabbing her own phone with more precision and start to dial a certain emergency number by the lockscreen feature on her phone, which alarmed Freezy to the point he almost tried to take the phone off of her hands in a moment of impulse and desperation, in fear of going to jail or ruining this certain plan he was following. He was heavily breeathing in fear as he begged for the human to listen to him immediately, almost to the point he was crying as he shouted, " HEY, HEY!-- NOT LIKE THIS, PLEASE! ", trying to put both of his hands on her shoulders to calm her down, " I-I can explain-- I... I can even prove you that it's all real and I'm not like... ehm, some sort of person trying to capture you... I promise. ", later a few seconds of silence was kept where they both could only hear each other's heavy breathing. The imp would quicken his moves a bit a he grabbed the phone on his pocket, in quite desperate to not make the teenager call for the police as they were in this situation, pulling out a phone that seemed decorated in some sort of shiny reddish metal cover, dialing a certain number and calling for someone. " Please, just a moment- please, please. ", Freezy says, before the call was accepted a few seconds later of silence. " O-Oh heyy! Uhm- Yeah, this is Freezy.- Uh, could you please... come over?- ", he spoke while the phone was positioned close to where there was supposed to be an ear, suddenly closing his mouth as he heard the guy behind this call say something, before speaking again in annoyance, " Dude, pleeease, PLEEEASEEE.-- I don't wanna go to jail, dude!-- Just come over for five minutes to prove person, okay? ", then slowly looking back to Judy as this certain persn responded to him while the girl looked at him in a bit of concern. Fortunately for Freezy, this friend confirmed to show up in a few seconds, which left the imp extremely happy and warn Judy about this. " Okay, they'll come up in just a few seconds! ", Freezy spoke happily as he positioned both of his hands behind his back, raising a bit of his shoulders, maintaining a more straight posture as he closed his eyes to Judy. The teenager questioned him, " Wait- W-What do you mean a few seconds-- ", being flabbergasted by a portal that would magically appear right beside them with a human figure leaving the portal. The imp who was in hand to lure Judy to Hell immediately gave a big hug to this newcomer off the scenario for being able to help him, even tho most of the time, Freezy is responsible to take care of his own work by himself. " Alright, alright. You can let go of me now. ", the newcomer says, as he keeps pushing the imp away from him trying to go speak to Judy. The newcomer had some darker clothes however, seemed much more human than imagined and more trustable to Judy, giving the feeling that this sort of "demonology" was actually quite true and they just wanted to show off their work and magic spells. Approaching some few steps to the teenager, he extends his hand to her and speaks once again, " You may call me Allan! It's nice to meet someone who held the urge to reveal this secret of ours.~ ", smiling calmly to her. Judy was still quite flabbergasted from this moment, and slowly etended her hand to him to shake his hand, while the phone she was holding with the other hand was turned off, cancelling what would possibly be an attempt of trying to call the police. " Don't worry, we are al humans in this place, and we promise that we won't hurt you. Well, even tho this little guy looks like something that came out of an ass... ", Allan spoke in such calm way while literally insulting Freezy, on which the imp looks at him with his eyes wide open as he felt quite offended and a bit maad, whispering to him something like " What? " in a bit of a serious tone, but being ignored by this "human" figure that continued speaking, " ...we just wanted to introduce you better t this incredible world of... demonology, if you know what I mean. ", making gestures with his hands and turning his face a bit to the side as he was finishing speaking and waiting for Judy's response, still looking at her and not looking away. The teenager felt a bit quiet, looking to the side but quickly looking back at Allan, questioning " Will I be able to go back home after this? You guys promise that I won't... ", closing her mouth once she hears Allan giggle as it felt quite stupid from Judy. " Ooohoho, this is so funny!~ Pardon me, but your question is quite silly to me... Yes, you'll, indeed, get back home once we are finished. It's just for a few minutes. ", Allan says, ignoring Freezy that was right by his side still, looking at him with a quite envy look as he was doing a much better job than the imp himself. For a few more seconds of silence, Judy would sigh again as she lost a bit of fear, taking little to no courage she had and accepting their requests to join them in this way to see what they had to offer and show off to her, some of the secrets from this demonology and the magic that should be kept hidden from many people, " Okay, fine. But I'll make sure that if anything bad happens, I'm calling the police. ", before deciding to follow them through this portal. Allan sighed as it was a bit annoying to have to do Freezy's job as it was the imp's responsibility to take care of this, but in the other hand, Freezy was skipping from happiness as they finally managed to drag the girl to this place for the other step from this plan, the Hell. Walking over this city alleyway that seemed quite empty, not having any knowledge that this was just the Imp City itself, they were walking through this alleyway that was quite dirty. Some few pieces of trash laying around, some few words and even symbols drawn around the walls with a dark spray, as well as the trashbags that seemedto be laying around for some reason, even tho the dark green dumpster lying around the place wasn't even full yet. Walking a few more steps towards this way, they finally arrive to this metal door on the alleyway that had a sign saying " EMPLOYEES ONLY! ", leading to inside this tall building where, what Judy didn't know, would completely change the way she would live her own life. The three people, the human teenager, the imp, still keeping this small lie of him being a cosplayer, as well as the human-like person in dark clothes, entered the building and the two responsible for this type of "demonology study" started guiding Judy to the elevator as they passed by some paintings on the walls. Allan pointed out two of them to seem like it was just an introduction of their work, mentioning how they had a deep meaning and was really important for what they meant, however, giving an excuse to Judy so she would think something else about those portraits. "Although they seem super simple, they're just far beyond from your manner of understanding shapes.", Allan spoke as he seemed to be heading to some stairs, some few turns after walking this corridor they were. While they were walking, Freezy started to speak quite quietly as if he was speaking to himself in that moment, saying " This guy is so good at lying-- this ability should have been given to me... ", which caught Judy's attention, turning her face over to the imp as she asked " What did you say? ". Allan almost raised his hand to slap the back of Freezy's head from anger, as he almost gave off the truth of what they were all doing in this situation. " N-Nothing-- hehe-- ", the imp kept stuttering as he laughed awkwardly, continuing to walk with them as if nothing much happened. As they kept going up the stairs, they could see the other floors and have a decent view of what they were, which was going to be an issue later on as the floor they all needed to arrive was the last floor of this building, where all the changes in Judy's life would happen. Afraid that it would give more feelings that they were trying to kidnap her, Allan suddenly changed directions and said " Actually... let's get the elevator. ", turning back and going to this elevator that was currently with its sliding doors shut, tapping the button to call for it a bit aggressively. As they had to wait for the elevator, this awkward and morbid silence was kept between the three of them, without speaking a single word for a few seconds until someone break the silence. Freezy was sweating a bit, and Judy was feeling quite awkward in this silence as well. Still not sure what to do in this moment, she just tried to have a talk with Freezy as the silence was really awkward at this point, " So... where are we going? ", waiting for an answer from him. " We are going to a... specific floor.-- you'll know what I mean once we reach up there. ", Freezy responded, keeping his hands behind his back and raising his shoulders a bit. Judy looked back at the elevator door, waiting for it to open as she didn't know what to say at the moment. A few seconds later, the elevator arrived and its doors slided open for them to get in, having no issue, letting Allan do more of Freezy's work and press the correct button that would direct them to the right floor. As the doors slided closed and the elevator started to rise, another awkward silence was kept and it wasn't broken until the elevator arrived to this certain floor. There wasn't a single word spoken during that moment other than the chill and calming music that the elevator played, as well as a small screen attached in the top right corner in the inside of the elevator played a certain commercial, something about a mark of cigarettes that could be bought by a really cheap price. Judy never heard of this brand, but never wanted to talk about drugs and cigarettes anyways, keeping her mouth shut as they were ascending some floors. Upon arriving to this floor, there was another long corridor with many fancy decorations and paintings. The three walked by, slowly arriving to the door at the end of this hallway. Judy was a bit concerned, looking at the paintings and seeing what seemed to be the main leader from all of this, as the image of a specific man was seen in many of those paintings. Upon arriving to the door, Allan gave it a gentle knock before hearing the voice of a person shout " You may enter! ", on which as they were granted to get in the room, Allan grabbed onto the doorknob, slightly turning it and opening the door. Revealing what seemed to be an office of this main leader, as in the back this huge window revealed a countryside, showing the many other buildings in this city. This leader was sitting in his chair, drinking some coffee before looking at the three people who got in, putting his coffee mug back in the office table as he smiled at them. " Welcome back, Freezy and Allan! Oh!... Who's the newcomer? ", the man said, leaning a bit forward in his chair as he positioned his elbows on the table, putting one of his hands on his chin as he glanced over to Judy, calmly but still seeming menacing. Freezy, who was slightly in the back of Allan and Judy, gave a tap on the teenager's back as a way to tell her "Go ahead. Walk forward and sit down.", as he walked forward to sit in one of the chairs to stay beside her. Judy, still a bit concerned about what was about to happen, she cleared her throat by coughing a bit, walking forward just like Freezy and Allan, going to sit in the other chair to stay beside Freezy, while Allan kept standing behind the two of them, then introducing herself to this leader wearing a red suit, " H-Hey there- uhm... my name is Judy. It's... a pleasure to meet you. ", extending her hand to the man as she tried to be the most kind possible. Freezy kept looking at her with an awkward looking, as he knew this was a terrible introduction. However, the leader wasn't angry at all. The leader also extended his hand to Judy for a handshake, introducing himself as well in a slightly happier tone, " It's a pleasure to meet you too, Judy! My name is Lux, the main leader of this demonology group. Have you been brought here because of our magic? ". Judy looked at Freezy, in a bit of fear, then looked back at Lux, the leader of this whole demonology concept, nodding a bit as she felt awkward and a bit scared of him. Lux immediately spoke as soon he saw the little to no movement of Judy's head, as if he was trying to bring everything to point, " That's a nice thing! Glad to know we'll have a new demonology student like you! ", then introducing a bit of what will happen, as he kept making gestures with his hands as a way to seem more expressive, " So, as you got to know about the demonology and its magic, we would like for you to be part of one of us! You'll be free to learn more about our magic and maybe become a lot more expert in this area! But firstly... ", he started to stand up and walk around the table to get right beside Judy, " ...let's get started with three things. ". Judy was anxious, Allan wasn't really impressed as he was used to this kind of stuff, yawning and looking at his phone, while Freezy was extremely happy that he would be able to receive his paycheck from selling this human through this rabbit hole from the corporation. " Firstly, what's your favorite shape? ", Lux asked Judy that was confused as she was asked that, " It's just to identify your way to manipulate magic. You'll know more about it soon as you learn your first trick! ", Lux added. Judy looked away, the back at Lux before answering him " Uhm... square?--", being interrupted by the next question right after the first one being answered. " Now, how would you like to be called? ", Lux asked. " Well... my name is Judy and everyone calls me that, so... I guess Judy-- ", Judy spoke, being interrupted again by the next and final question of Lux, as well as given a pen to her and Freezy, and a paper being magically placed on the office table by the leader. " Now, considering that, would you like to benefit your fellow partner Freezy? If so, sign this deal! ", he spoke as he pointed to the paper in the table, tapping it with his finger before letting both Judy and Freezy write down their names on it. Freezy wrote down his name onto a blank space on the top of the paper, before looking back at Judy as she was trying to understand what everything in this paper meant. He was worried that she would find out and reject all of this plan, however, as she kept trying to read what was written on it, she was really confused as the grammar seemed to complex for her. It was actually a trick from Lux to make her feel exhausted from trying to understand and immediately write the contract, which just so happens to follow this way Lux imagined. " I don't know what it means... I'll find out soon. For now, I'm just going to sign it. ", Judy spoke, writing down her full name in the contract as she felt tired of trying to understand what many of the sentences written on the paper meant, it being the biggest and worst mistake of Judy's life. Freezy kept his eyes opened widely, feeling extremely happy to know the teenager signed the paper as if she had zero worries. Lux then grabbed the contract, rolling it up and giggling a bit. Judy was confused, looking back at the man, then hearing him say " Great! TO THE WHEEL OF FATE! ", before suddenly a hole opening underneath the chair Judy was sitting in, making her fall through it and see many flashing red lights as she kept falling. The teenager screamed as she kept falling and feeling scared thinking it was a living nightmare, which it was. She kept falling for a few seconds, as if it was a really deep hole, until she ended up falling onto a pile of red and crimson pillows, on which, somehow, by any magical logic, completely negated the fall. Her face was shoved against one of the pillows with the messy hair, with the wind that was blown against her face from all that fall, and then she slowly raised her head to look around the room she was now located in, completely terrified of what just happened. There was just a light shining on the pillows, as if the room was completely dark around her, until a second and massive light started to shine and reveal a massive spinning wheel, that had many colors on its sections, a variety of black, white, red and yellow color tones. On each side of that spinning wheel, there were demon imp ladies in a certain suggestive uniform, as if this was some sort of show Judy was in, and while she was trying to understand what was going on, dark and red flames appeared in front of this wheel, which turned out to be the effect of teletransportation from Lux. " Welcome to the Wheel of Fate! Here the wheel will decide your destiny in Hell! Are you ready to see if you'll either receive a " Blessing "... ", he spoke with a menacing smile, moving his fingers to quotate the word 'blessing', " ...or die?! ", he asked, in a really happy tone. Judy was completely devastated with what she heard, she felt like she couldn't feel more fear than what she ended up hearing. Judy quickly stood up and tried to adjust her outfit as it seemed like she just woke up from a deep sleep, speaking milisseconds after Lux spoke, " N-No, wait-- I-I don't think you understand! I-I didn't sign up for this! ", before a paper magically popped right in front of her, in black flames. She nearly fell on her back, as nothing of this was common for her. As she was going to take a closer look, suddenly a sentence on this paper, which turned out to be the deal she signed up a minute ago, was highlighted in a deep red as Lux was speaking, " Oh? But you just have turned out to sign our deal! ", making the teenager a lot more scared. Upon reading the highlighted sentence, she saw with her own eyes something written saying 'Upon signed, the person will be handing their soul to the dealer as a property, as well as being forced to join the dealer's one-time game " Wheel of Fate: Fly Or Die ". ... ', then taking a closer look on other parts of the deal paper and seeing how she'll be 'stuck in Hell'. She still kept trying to read, but her fear was taking so much of her that she couldn't think straight properly, and Lux wasn't helping at all, as he started to talk over her thoughts, " Oh well... Let's spin that wheel! ", in a happy tone as he turned around and started to walk towards the large spinning wheel. Judy immediately lowered her hands with the paper, trying to call for Lux and beg that he wouldn't do such a thing. " W-WAIT- THAT'S NOT RIGHT.-- P-PLEASE, GIVE ME A CHANCE!- ", Judy spoke in complete fear, trying to get the overlord to cancel this deal and maybe free her from this place. However, Lux had no sympathy for such soul. He was getting his hand closer to the spinning wheel while he spoke to the teenager, leaving her a lot more terrified, " Nope! Too bad! ", proceeding to use his hand to slowly stop the wheel from spinning. Positioning it by the side of the wheel, making it slow down by each second, Judy just could see the pointer keep passing by different kinds of curses, blessings and even ways to die, with each one having their own name, different levels of violence and misery, and even one that was listed 'all the curses shown'. She couldn't hold herself as she was breathing heavily from that much fear she was feeling, which by impulse, made her immediately shout at the overlord to beg once again for mercy, " STOOOOOP!!! ", begging that he would stop the wheel and cancel this all. But, instead of that, he slammed his hand by the side of this large wheel, making it immediately stop on a section that had its unique name from the others. Judy looked up, seeing that the pointer has been landed on the section 'Moneybath'. She wasn't sure of what that meant, but just hoped that it was just the overlord stopping all of this game once and for all. However, as Lux walked to her, he was happily smiling, then saying " Congratulations! You've received your own mysterious amount of money! What do you have to say to our spectators? ", he sspoke, putting on of his hands on Judy's shoulder, and the other suddenly presenting her many lines of people sitting in seats, watching the whole thing. They were smiling as well, some even clapping for her. She didn't know how to react, but was still scared. " W-Wait, you don't und- ", she tried to speak, but Lux immediately interrupted her by speaking over her sentence, speaking to the spectators as they watched the whole thing. " Well, congratulations to our new visitor, who'll stay in Hell for their eternity! We could say that disasters will be coming BLAZING HOT! ", Lux spoke in a sarcastic tone, making all the spectators laugh over his unfunny joke. It wasn't sure if the spectators were real, paid actors or a complete mirage created by the overlord, but it didn't matter for Judy, as she was completely terrified of knowing she would be stuck in Hell. She turned to Lux, with her legs shivering from fear, speaking in a complete tone of fear, " W-WH-- I-I AM STAYING HERE FOREVER?!-- ", before the overlord turned to her and spoke in a happy and calming tone, " Don't be scared! There will be so many cool things to do in here! ", then doing a certain gesture with his hands as he said " Now keep up! ", before suddenly the floor revealing a really firm and strong platform, that launched the teenager up in the sky. Judy had nothing to do other than scream upon what seemed to be her death. She started to fall towards a building at a high speed, until suddenly she felt the touch of someone on her shoulders, that started to pull her gently, making the fall much slower. When she looked back, it was Lux himself, just making sure she falls in a way that isn't lethal to the point she would get hospitalized, but still in a way that she would hurt herself. Holding her by her shirt, Lux was holding her near a building, and seemed like he was gonna let her stand up soon, but suddenly he just let her go and made her fall on her face on the sidewalk. " Well, well, well... it seems like you'll need some help. Why don't I call Freezy for you? ", he spoke, giggling a bit as it seemed quite funny for him to see Judy's face on the concrete, then seeming ike he was about to snap his fingers. Judy slowly stood up, looking around in fear as she wasn't sure of what to do in this place, before looking back at Lux and being completely flabbergasted for a black fire being created right on her, making someone suddenly get on her and make her fall on her back. Having a better look, after screeching in a jumpscare from that sudden apparition, she noticed that this person sitting on her torso was no one other than Freezy himself, the one responsible for throwing her in Hell and making all of this mess. He stared awkwardly at Judy as he knew what he did to her, and then waves at her as he spoke, " Ehm... how's your day? ", he said as he smiled awkwardly. While Lux was standing there, smiling gently as he watched Judy and Freezy start beef between each other as to what happened and the change of the teenager's destiny, Judy immediately pushed the imp from her, making him roll on the sidewalk before he stood up as well as Judy standing up quickly from the fear and frustration she was feeling. " W-WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY LIFE? WHAT IS THIS? ", she started yelling at Freezy, even grabbing him by the throat and starting to shake him. The imp couldn't do a single thing other than make noises with his mouth as if he had water in his cheeks, just listening to the girl yell at him about how much she hates him for trapping her in Hell, as well as violently shaking him as if he's some sort of ragdoll. While Judy was hurting the imp and not causing much damage, Lux was just happily watching them go completely insane in this fight, until he looked over to the left and saw a common imp from the city they were located currently, an ordinary imp that seemed to have a completely different occupation, that would end up seeing both Judy and Freey fighting. However, the thing that made them feel flabbergasted wasn't the fight, but yet the fact that they saw how Judy was a human in Hell, something that most imps wouldn't tolerate normally. Lux pretended to look at the watch in his wrist, a watch that was coated in a dark black metal with different sets of diamonds, still smiling as he said " Oop.-- Guess it's time for me to go. Also, my dear Judy... be sure to deal with those imps, even the ones seeing you as a human. ", calling the attention from both the human and the imp she was fighting over, making them both notice the presence of an ordinary imp seeing them completely flabbergasted with what they saw. The moment they both saw the ordinary imp's reaction, it was too late to talk to Lux, as he immediately disappeared in a dark black flame hue, leaving the three in this awkward, fearing scenario. Noticing Judy was too stunned at this point, Freezy had the time to quickly take her hands off his neck and run away from that moment, however, pulling her by the wrist to run away with her, so there wouldn't be even more issues. Judy was surprised to know how strong Freezy was, yet he was shorter than her, pulling her by the wrist while running to a certain alleyway between two buildings, making her have a really hard time trying to keep composure and stay up from all that runnning. " W-What the hell are you doing?! ", she shouted at Freezy as she was still being dragged to a certain place, in an alleyway that differently from last time, this alleyway was a bit more cleaner and less smelly to chat without any other problems. " W-Why are you doing this?!-- You literally dragged me-- ", she tried to speak, but Freezy, who was looking around to have a better sensing of where they were at the moment, immediately shushes the teenager by hovering a finger from one of his hands near her lips, while making a 'shhhh' sound. " K-Keep it down, or we might end up dying! ", Freezy spoke, leaving Judy scared yet again. She whispered " W-What?! ", on which immediately received her answer from Freezy. " L-Listen, how can I... explain this in a nicer way? ", he asked to himself before speaking the answer, " Listen... people here aren't too fond of humans... well, they're usually going after them. ", knowing Judy would question so much of what he just said, while expressing her fears and concerns over the situation, on which happened just like that. She started to talk about her concerns over staying in Hell, which Freezy immediately tried to speak over, " C-Calm down!-- Listen, I know we can make things okay-- JUST LISTEN TO ME! ", almost yelling at her as it was quite frustraring for him. Before Judy could even speak to the imp as he was looking around this alleyway in the city, he suddenly started sprinting to a certain direction while dragging the human by the pulse. The teenager had to try to keep composure as it was really hard to keep up with the imp's speed and agility, later having a place to rest a bit as they entered this random local abandoned building that was quite close to the one where this one ordinary imp have left. Judy was trying to understand what was his plan, but all that desperation from Freezy made her feel like thinking straight was a super difficult task, as the moment they approached one of the windows from this dirty and filthy building, the imp jumped over and tried to drag her inside. " OH!-- ", she yelled as she was quickly dragged to this building, falling over on the dirty floor and getting many parts of her clothes in dust. She started to stand up while Freezy was speaking about something, probably telling her to calm down and that she was going to be okay if she followed his plan, " W-What the hell do you have in your mind?! ", quite angry as it felt like unnecessary from Freezy's part. " L-Listen-- I know it sounds bad... ", the imp spoke, " ...but if you want to survive for at least some few hours, then you'll have to follow my plan. ". A silence was kept between them, the imp staring awkwardly at the human while the human stared back at him, with a slightly angry stare, quite fearing for him. " Okay-- so... first we need to hide your identity. You can take my clothes- I don't mind.", Freezy spoke to break this silence, immediately reaching for his shirt and pulling it up to take it off right away, to later hand it to Judy and start taking his pants off. The shirt was thrown right at Judy's face, which she immediately held it far from herself before she again received another outfit piece from Freezy, thrown on her legs. The smell she could feel was extremely weird, and didn't want to be wearing that used shirt in any way, even tho it was quite similar to the plain uniforms distributed from the camping site she was. She took a closer look to the pants that was thrown at her, not sure of how she would use those outfit pieces to hide her identity for at least some few minutes, lowering her hands and being quite flabbergasted as she saw that Freezy had some sort of latex outfit that was revealed. Her eyes opened widely as she saw that, almost yelling back at the imp, " ARE YOU GENUINELY S- ", before having her mouth covered by the imp who immediately panicked over her reaction. " I-I know this sounds bad!-- ", he tried to explain, but was immediately pushed by the human, making him roll on the floor and get his latex outfit dirty with the dust on the floor. He squeaked as he hurted the same shoulder that was used to try slamming that one cabin right open, squirming and curling himself a bit. Judy just stared down at him for a few seconds, before trying to help him get up as she started speaking, holding the shirt on one of her arms, " OKAY, FINE-- I'll do it! But you'll have to pay me somehow. ", letting the imp know that she was looking for a way to hide her identity wearing those outfit pieces temporarily, taking a deep breath and wearing the given shirt in such a way it would only cover her head. Seconds after, as the imp smiled a bit, his smile faded away as he saw the girl start coughing and complaining about the terrible smell she felt from the shirt, making Freezy completely embarrassed. At this point, he didn't even want that Judy would wear the pants he gave to her, after all, he didn't want her to know if the pants was also scented with his piss like the shirt having the slight scent of sweat. As Judy kept coughing and tried to tolerate this disgusting smell, he went quickly to grab his shorts back and wear them back on, to at least cover up his legs during this time. " O-Oh my god- that smell is horrible. ", Judy kept complaining, slowly stopping herself from coughing. While she tried to make it in such a way she could see through the shirt in her head, trying to pike some holes or stretching a bit more of the fabric to make it more see-through, Freezy reached for one of his pockets and grabbed his own phone, that had a red finishing touch on its corners with what seemed to be the brand logo responsible for the making of the smartphone. He started to quickly tap on the screen and have a certain choice of apps and taps on the screen, as if he was desperately trying to call for a driver for him while in desperate. The teenager could hear him start typing something on a phone as everytime he would tap the screen, a sound effect would come out of the small sound box from the phone. " H-Hey, what are you doing? ", Judy asked as she approached the imp while raising the shirt on her head just a bit, to see more clearly without a piece of clothing keep making extremely common things that much hard. The imp turned his face to the human after a bell ringing sound came from the phone, saying " Oh- well, I'm calling for a driver to bring us home.-- Calling for a Heller. ", which made Judy quite confused by the knock-off name. " Heller? ", she asked. " Yeah, you... probably haven't heard of it before anyways.-- Oh! ", he said, then immediately turning his face back to the phone as he heard a ringing noise. The driver who acecpted his request was just a few seconds away from the starting point they had to get on, something like a good sign. " I think it's just a knock-o- ", Judy tried to say something about 'Heller' being a knock-off from a different brand, but Freezy suddenly started to tuckle her hands inside the long sleeves of the sweater she was wearing right now, saying " Okay, so-- keep these inside the shirt. D-Don't reveal your hands UNTIL we get to the bedroom from my father's home. Okay? ", which left the teenager quite scared again. She tried to question about going to the exact location where his father lives, but she was immediately dragged by Freezy who had a strong grip on her hidden wrist, jumping right from the window and running towards a point that was near a spotlight. As Judy was trying to keep a good balance of herself, pulling the shirt on her head down to hide her face better, she suddenly saw an incoming car with a certain brand logo on its windshield getting near this spotlight. As she imagined it would be the driver that Freezy called for, she was quite right as he said " Over there! Let's go! ", running towards it with Judy hiding her face with the given shirt. Freezy didn't hesitate to dash to the cardoor and open it as fast as possible, as if he was trying to escape from someone, then taking Judy by the wrist again before running with her inside the car. The driver who was just calmly enjoying some donuts was flabbergasted by the desperation the imp had while bringing the teenager inside the car, as if they were planning something evil and mischievous. The driver tried to ask for the imp's name, which received their answer immediately, " Yeah-- Freezy, Daemonium's residence- you get it. ", Freezy spoke, mentioning a new name: Daemonium. The name itself for Judy was quite scary to hear, having to imagine who Daemonium actually is. The driver who stood in silence for a few seconds while staring at the car mirror, being able t see both Judy and Freezy sitting in the backseat, left the donuts on a box that was near the front window of the car in the inside, saying " Alright. Gotta drop the Kramu Kreme now. ", mentioning an off-brand like the Heller Freezy mentioned before. With that, while Freezy closed the car door, Judy started to think: considering that she heard about Heller and Kramu Kreme, it would be easy to assume that Hell would have its counterpart of every popular brand on Earth, except it would have a helluva type name on it followed by a more demonic theme, with other hellish kind of imagery and demonic unddertones. As Judy kept thinking about its counterparts in Hell, the driver started to drive away in this certain direction that would bring them to Daemonium's residence. While the imp driver was taking control of the car, the three keeping this morbid and awkward silence between themselves, the driver decided to question about something upon looking back at the car mirror and seeing Judy's face, that was hidden by the shirt with some few holes poked out. " Who's the girl? And why is her face covered? ", the driver asked, still looking at Judy by the car mirror. Freezy and Judy kinda panicked as they were asked that, trying to cover up the truth with some lies, " Oh- well, uhm- ehm- I-It's just that her makeup got... ruined a while ago, and... yeah, that's it. ", Freezy spoke while making gestures with his hands and keeping this awkward smile while Judy tried to give fake excuses as well. The driver seemed to understand it somehow, but said " Don't be shy, we are in a friendly space right now. ", making Judy have to give her own excuses while they were inside the car. " NO- Uhm-- it's because uhm... I have to hide uhm... these red spots... from the Sun? ", Judy spoke awkwardly also making those embarrassing hand gestures. Freezy who was looking at the teenager looked back t the driver, nodding in an awkward way as well. The driver was quite confused at this point, hearing about this certain condition they revealed. " Wouldn't it be more safe to apply some type of cream to protect it? ", he questioned. Judy realized where they both took a wrong step while making this weird lies, but the imp who was at her side this whole time tried to cover it up for her, " WELL UHM... it's a protective type of makeup... from... I'nfernum Paris. ", mentioning another hell's counterpart from popular brands. The driver tilted his head a bit to the left, looking back at the road to keep attention with the streets and keep going with the trip, as he never heard of this brand before even tho it was quite popular in Hell. However, instead of questioning even more of this type of brand, he decided to carry on with it and continue the trip normally without asking too much about Judy's "weird condition". " Never heard of it before... but I'll consider that. ", the driver said as he shrugged and straightened his neck again after finishing his sentence, keeping his eyes on the road to keep the silent and calm trip, well, at least for himself. Freezy and Judy laid a bit more on the backseats to calm themselves down, taking a deep breath from relief as they were able to cover up the truth. Freezy, after a few seconds from calming himself down, he opened his eyes a bit more and thought to himself, " Who the hell never heard of I'nfernum Paris?... Doesn't matter. ", just laying back to the backseat again, waiting to arrive home. After minutes from almost pure silence on that entire trip, they finally arrived on the so called 'Residence of Daemonium', this almost-like mansion where Freezy's father lives in. The car stopped upon the streets as they were almost right in the front of this house, leaving for the driver to check some things up on his phone to confirm the final price to pay after the trip. However, as the friendly imp was desperate to arrive home, he started to open the car door and leave, alerting the driver about it. " Hey, HEY-- You have to pay first. ", the driver almost shouted at Freezy, alerting about how he forgot about the price tag from this trip. He almost completely forgot about, turning around and apologizing for his weak mind, smiling awkwardly as he reached for his pocket to pay the driver up. However, his smile quickly faded as he felt fear from something: the wallet he had wasn't there. In a matter of fact, his wallet was at his father's home for some reason. He desperately tried to reach for other pockets on his pants to see if there were at least some pennies to pay the river up and leave the rest of the price tag to pay after another trip, but no sign of such thing. He smiled awkwardly as he looked back at the driver, later saying " Ehm-- hold on, I think I forgot my wallet in the house. ", which raised many suspictions from him. " Hey, hey-- no leaving without payment. ", Judy was able to hear what the driver said, as he suspected that Freezy was trying to escape from the trip's price tag as he suppoedly didn't have money. The teenager remembered she had some few dollars in her pockets. Hell probably had a completely different, but she could at least try paying the driver up with her own money, is what she thought. " W-Wait-- maybe... I have some money in my pockets... ", she tried to call for the driver's attention as she was still inside the car. Freezy looked at her, immediately walking up to her as he knew that Judy had a completely different type of currency, but trying to play it off so the driver wouldn't find out that she was a human. " Hey, no need to spend that money.-- We have some few other imp... ", he spoke, until his jaw almost dropped just like Judy's jaw did. She reached on one of her pockets and suddenly felt something much larger on her hands, something bigger than just mere one dollar bills. She felt extremely confused at first, pulling it right out of her pocket. She was completely surprised to magically pull out a stack of cash from her pocket, as if the space inside there was completely infinite, being equivalent to ten grand on Hell's currency. The driver even tried to look back at Judy whom was holding the stack of cash, quite curious as he heard Freezy gasp loudly upon seeing that much money. That was a long moment of silence as the three watched it. The driver was confused, but Judy and Freezy were completely flabbergasted by the amount of money. Until then, Judy looked back at the driver and noticed how they just kept in this silence for a long period of time. She just handed him a random quantity of cash and left the car quickly, which was equivalent to a hundred cash, just waving at him awkwardly as she then started pushing Freezy towards the house's door to indicate for them to quickly get in the house. It wwas really awkward for a moment, watching the driver still question about that weird moment. For a second, he thought about questioning both people about that moment, but then he decided to just leave it at there and reach for the car door from the driver's seat to close it, then driving away. It was quite the unbelievable moment for both of them, later the imp staring back at the teenager and saying " Dude, who the hell d-did you pull out that amount of cash?! ", as he looked at Judy and then back at the stack on her hand. " I don't know!- I was just trying to get some money I had in my pockets!... ", Judy tried to explain to Freezy, " ...unless... ", she thought to herself as she looked back at the money she was holding. She was trying to understand what was going on, and how did she manage to pull out this stack of cash from such a small space, until the answer poped right up her mind. Her eyes opened widely as she finally discovered about what happened to simply just give her the power of pulling these stacks of cash from her pockets: the Moneybath "blessing". She remembered about being told about this certain mysterious amount of money she got from the wheel of fate, not knowing what it actually meant until now. " I get it now!-- It's the moneybath! ", Judy exclamated to Freezy, who was pretty confused, " Money... bath?-- ", he questioned the teenager's answer, although seeming like he didn't know anything about this, he had the feeling he heard of this name before. " Lux-- y'know that maniac.-- told me that since I got the moneybath blessing, I got a mysterious amount of money..! I just... didn't know about it at first. ", Judy explained, a bit nervous about this whole situation, then confused as she watched Freezy's pupils dilatate upon hearing about this "blessing". Freezy was actually tempted to do anything to receive larges amounts of cash from Judy, and this was a huge opportunity for him to receive money more easily. This was such a miracle for him, but suddenly the noise of someone unlocking the front door of the house was heard, as well as the deep voice of someone. " Freezy? Is that you talking? ", this person asked as he slowly unlocked the door and opened, being revealed Freezy standing there with Judy. " Oooh, a new visitor! Well, welcome to the Daemonium's Residence! ", Daemonium spoke, opening his arms, " I sincerely hope you enjoy your stay in here and that our family members respect you equally to everyone! ". As Daemonium, Freezy's father, was speaking during that moment, Freezy just kept staring a bit awkwardly at him, then back at Judy, as it was a bit annoying from his father's part as a form to introduce the family to the teenager, not knowing she was actually a human. After that small introducton, he then asked Judy " Have Freezy, my son, introduced himself to you? ", leaving for her to answer. She sighed, taking up courage to speak to this godfather like figure, " Well, uhm-- y-yeah- actually, I'm just here to... hang out with him f-for a while so... uhm... ", then she started to stutter a bit as she kept thinking in a way where she could educatedly ask for Daemonium to give her some space so she could, as well with Freezy, be directed by the imp to his bedroom, where all of that disguise would be made. Freezy tried to talk over Judy as a form to try to complete her words, but suddenly Daemonium stared angrily at his own son and said " You better shut the f*** up, you disgusting little creature. ", which was quite horrible knowing Freezy is literally Daemoium's son and shouldn't be treated this way. " Continuing... what do you have to say? ", Daemonium stares back at Judy, with an open smile on his face as he awaits for the request. Judy was still struggilng to speak in the formal way she imagined Daemonium to hear, but then she said " maybe... give some space..? ". Freezy knew that the teenager messed up once he saw Daemonium's smile slowly fade away from his face, looking at her with a serious stare. Judy then knew that she made a mistake when speaking like that to Daemonium, however, he responded " That's a quite unpleasant way to speak... but I appreciate your courage. ", giving space for both of them to get inside his house without any other problems. Freezy who saw that opportunity immediately grabbed Judy's wrist and pulled her as he walked inside to bring her to the bedroom, while his father stared at her with this serious look to inflict fear on her. It was not comfortable at all for her to be inside a stranger's house. even after going upstairs with Freezy to walk by a hallway and get inside a bedroom where most of the unusual stuff would happen. As soon as they both got in the bedroom, Freezy immediately closed the door and started to take some deep breaths to calm himself down from that embarrassing and fearing moment. " What are we gonna do at this point?! I want to go back home. " was what he heard from Judy say as she started to take that disgusting clothing piece from her head as well as leaving the stack of money on Freezy's bed. He would slowly turn around as he was thinking about a certain way to disguise Judy from other imps to fit in without being hunted down, looking around his room and seeing if any of the props inside there would be useful at disguising Judy for this moment. Upon seconds of thinking, he looked at the wardrobe and ran to it, opening its doors and looking through some clothes as he said " I think I have a disguise for you, but... ", making it more annoying for the teenager as there was a catch for that disguise. She kept looking at him keep searching for some clothes, throwing them behind expecting for Judy to grab, then suddenly opening her eyes widely as she looked in disgust by Freezy pulling out a fake muscle body suit for her. However, it wasn't like the skin colored ones that would be seen on Earth, instead, it was a reddish suit with many white spots. " ...you're joking, right? ", Judy spoke a bit angrily, as she kept holding the outfit pieces on her arms like tall shoes, pants, an open jacket and a beanie, all seeming to be black-themed. " J-Just follow my plan, pleeeease- PLEEASE. ", Freezy spoke as he turned around to Judy, speaking and making gestures with his hands as if he was desperate and in agony by his voice tone, and then he quickly turns back to the closet and keeps looking for other outfit pieces that would fit better with the style he was going through, before completely deciding what Judy would wear and proceeding to dash towards another part of this closet, looking for some makeup utensils to help Judy with the disguise. Judy still was in disgust looking at the fake muscle bodysuit that Freezy decided to keep carrying on his shoulder, before going to sit on the side of the bed on the bedroom and think about all of her life decisions, and how she could have missed everything from this place if she wasn't so naive and tired from everything. As she was thinking, she would then suddenly wake up from her thoughts as Freezy suddenly said " Alright! Salon'ing time! ", dragging many makeup utensils and packs, together with the bodysuit that Judy was so disgusted about. It would go all according to plan and it would easily be able to create this fake identity Judy would use for a long time, until he heard someone suddenly open the door quickly. Turns out, it was his younger brother, this annoying demon imp who somewhat like Freezy, was quite annoying to deal with. He just opened the door to jumpscare his older brother as a joke, raising his arms to the air the moment he stepped inside the room, and his face from the annoyingly evil he pursue changes from total surprise in just mere seconds, looking at Freezy who was standing there with a human on his bed. " WH- L-Look- Look- It's... not what it seems to be- ", he tried to explain to his younger brother, but then he just slowly approached Judy as he spoke, revealing his high pitched voice, " Is... that a-- HUMAN! ", pointing right towards Judy's face as he curled his legs up by a slight movement, almost like he was about to fall from being so flabbergasted about the new visitor in Hell. Freezy immediately threw the makeup utensils onto the bed and grabbed his younger brother by the shoulders, having this whole lecture between the two, starting with Freezy saying " PESKY! LISTEN TO ME! ". After that, it turned into a whole beef between Freezy and Pesky, his younger brother, which upon saying his name made Judy finally know how this "kid" is called. As they were both fighting, the teenager just stood there listening to all that noise between the two imps, thinking about other things like how will it be for her to be standing in Hell, or trying to find a way to escape from this place, and even thinking about her life decisions as how it would be a lot better if she didn't sign the deal with Lux, until suddenly the three heard a loud bang as if someone literally pulled out a gun and shot inside the house, before suddenly Daemonium started yelling from the living room below " HELL SPOKES, MAKE SOME SILENCE FOR ME! I'M NOT HERE TO LISTEN A BUNCH OF BEEF! ", leaving all the three quiet for a few seconds before Pesky started speaking again, " You both are dead for sure! ", while Judy stared in space in complete fear of dying, knowing Pesky was probably about to tell Daemonium, Freezy's father, that the imp brought a human to his house, while knowing the godfather from this place literally had a gun upon his hand, meaning that if in anyway they told about Judy being a human, it would take one single bullet to take out Judy from this place and, as her soul was given to Lux as a property, she would be brought to Hell again instead of being brought to Heaven. Judy and Freezy knowing that, the imp immediately begged for Pesky not to tell on him, grabbing him by the shoulders as he started making offers with money that he didn't have, " L-Listen, Pesky! I-I know it sounds bad!-- But... could you... please stay on our side? For ten grand? ", turning his face to Judy and tried to make a sign for her, as he moved his eyes back to Pesky and then right back at her, before saying " Y'know? ", looking back at Pesky as he was a bit afraid. Judy tried to understand what Freezy meant by that sign he gave, until she realized what he was trying to do, turning her mind on. Knowing that, she took a deep breath, leaving the other outfit pieces on the bed before standing up and slowly reaching for her pockets, looking at Pesky with a slight smile as she was still afraid from what she heard and thought about the situation. " Y-Yeah... we c-can give you ten grand! ", she said as magically she managed to pull out a stack of money from her pocket, equivalent to ten grand in the hell's currency. Pesky looked at her in complete shock as he never, in his lifetime in Hell, managed to touch on a stack of money. He slowly approached Judy while staring at the cash she was holding and about to hand it to him, and Freezy gave him some space while staring at him with quite the happy but a bit stranged out from his reaction, knowing that he never managed to get his hands on an amount like that before. " Is that... h-... what? How is that possible? ", Pesky spoke, taking the cash from Judy's hands and holding it, looking at the stack of money before looking back at Judy. She just turned her eyes to the side as she was quite nervous, responding " It's... a long story. ", leaving for Freezy to finally take the chance to speak during this conversation while getting closer to his younger brother. " So... will you help us out?... Knowing you have that cash? ", he asked, positioning his hand on Pesky's back. Pesky looked back at the money before looking back at Freezy, not sure if the money they got was fake or from an illegal form of cash-earning, but he didn't care, he straight up nodded to Freezy while smiling, saying " Yes, I am! ", leaving Freezy relieved and happy to know that somebody else was on his side, turning back to Judy. He smiled a bit more, before grabbing the makeup utensils and saying " Alright! Salon'ing time now! ", before turning his face to Pesky and saying " You take care of the outfit. ". The disaster of this annoying makeover section was about to happen. Pesky dashed to Judy and started to take away the main clothing pieces like pants and shirt, switching for the bodysuit with a dark sleeveless jacket on, which some pants and tall shoes. " This is kinda weird for you to have, Freezy. ", he commented about that muscle bodysuit Freezy purchased months ago. " N-No need to comment about that, Pesky! ", he responded before getting over the bed while holding a wig cap on his hands, getting behind Judy and saying " Okay, this might hut a little. ", before putting the wig cap on her head and straight up pulling it on an attempt to firmly adjust it on her head, literally pulling her back and making her end up falling on her back on the bed, with her head on Freezy's torso. " OW! WHAT THE HELL? ", she complained, before Freezy started tuckling her hair inside the wig cap. Meanwhile, Pesky was tieing the tall shoes on her legs and trying to get some few thread pieces off the pants, before going to help Freezy with the makeup. It was quite quick but painful to witness, as if some sort of mmachine tried to replicate the expectations from a robot in a science-fiction movie. " Hey! Let me help you! ", Pesky said as he grabbed the other makeup utensils, and started to apply a red makeup onto Judy's face. She would start to constantly cough over the powder getting on her face, while Freezy applied a black hair wig on Judy's head, starting to brush it with a comb to make it somehow messy but stylish. Pesky seemed like some sort of child drawing on a white paper with crayons, as he literally started to draw a stubble beard with what seemed to be an eyeliner, which upon Freezy noticing that, he wasn't even a single bit happy. His smile faded, quickly grabbing the eyeliner from Pesky's hand while he was on his knees in the bed, saying " D-Dude, what the hell are you doing?! Her face isn't a paper to draw, you... " before looking at Judy's face and noticing the drawn stubble beard, which seemed quite believable on first notice, without having to touch her face. Judy who was still coughing from all the makeup powder that was being applied onto her, finally stopped coughing and looked back at Freezy and Pesky, having a bit of difficult from speaking as the makeup powder from previously was still annoying her a lot, " W-Wait-- what's going on? ", leaving for both to appreciate more of the work they both did to Judy, to hide her human identity from future possible attacks. " I... Just take a look at the mirror yourself. ", Freezy said, pointing at the mirror that was next to the closet where he got most of the outfit pieces, before getting off the bed and walking over to it. Judy did the same, getting off the bed and walking over to the mirror Freezy was pointing to, standing in front of it while Freezy stood by her side. She was quite impressed by the imps's work at hiding her identity, even tho she wasn't really happy about having to pretend to be a male during this time, turning around and seeing how much it changed her by just wearing some different items and a fake muscle bodysuit, responding to this great work with " Wow, I... never thought this would change me so much. ", while Pesky was leaving the bed and going next to Judy, looking at her by the mirror. " Okay, so... there's some few flaws. ", Freezy said as he walked over to the window of the bedroom, " We still need to change some few things about...- about that identity.-- Firstly, we need to get you some other items like fake horns, fake tail... and secondly... ", making gestures with his hands, " ...we need something that will change your voice when wore. ". " But...- you have those, right? I'd imagine.-- ", Pesky asked, immediately getting his answer from Freezy, " No, but... we can try finding some things like that.-- I know the exact place, just one small issue... ", making this a bit more dramatic as he said about the small problem they now encountered during this situation. While Judy stood there nervous about this issue, Pesky nervously asked " What... issue? ". " Well... we will have to find a way to leave this place in a way our father doesn't realize us, because... he would question about where would be the true Judy I brought here. ", Freezy finished responding about this certain problem, leaving both Judy and Pesky quite nervous about it. " But how we will do it? ", Judy asked, raising her arms a bit, as well as Pesky who asked as well, " Yeah, how we will do it? ". Freezy didn't have much idea of what to do as well, so he would take a look around to think about a quick idea where they would be able to escape, and after a few seconds, he looked at the window and thought about a great idea. " Here, take this. ", Freezy spoke before taking his phone from his pocket and throwing it to Pesky, " You call for a Heller while I go down the window. I-If I manage to, I'll slide on the walls and get down safely, and you guys can jump so I can try... to carry. ", he says as he leaves both people, the imp and disguised human in the room, jumping from the window and using his shoes to glide and slowly fall on the wall, to safely get down the house and stay by the front of it. Pesky, who was going to do the same, thought to himself, " But what about the human? Freezy is quite short and a bit skinny tho. ", before jumping from the window and trying to do the same as Freezy, but failing and falling. Fortunately, as he did manage to not scream and Freezy was right at the bottom, the imp managed to pick his younger brother, leaving him to keep track of the supposed driver who was coming the way of their house to pick them up, and travel to a certain place surrounded by shops. Judy was quite afraid of doing the same thing they did, after all, she wasn't that much experienced with parkour and was just an average human. She walked to the window and stared down at the two imps at the bottom in front of the house, quite afraid of jumping and ending up hurting herself. Freezy who looked at her tried to speak in a way that Judy could hear, but his father won't, " Go on! Jump! ", making some certain gesture with his hands to sign to the human to jump to him. She just looked away in nervousness and asked in this same voice volume, " D-Don't you think I'm heavy to your body? ", but the imp couldn't hear properly, so he just signed her to jump to him. Judy, who didn't want to call Daemonium's attention by raising her voice a bit more, just took a deep breath and tried to glide on the wall to fall safely and to make them manage to sneak out. Getting over the window and tried to position her shoes on the wall, she lets her hand go from the window and try gliding, but fails miserably. She falls from the first floor of the house, falling directly to Freezy. Fortunately, Judy did fall safely in a way that she wasn't hurt, however, Freezy was slightly crushed by Judy, squeaking upon her falling onto him. The human immediately got off the imp and looked back at him, as well as Pesky who looked a bit worried about his brother laying there with his pupils dilated, as if he suffered some sort of damage. " A-Are you okay? ", Judy whispered. Freez just slowly stood up, as his pupils slowly shrank, and he answered " L-Let's... ugh-- let's just go. ". Pesky who got the Freezy's answer to Judy's question, looked back at the phone and saw where the car was coming from, so he signalized to both of his other partners Judy and Freezy to follow him, where the three would follow a certain direction on the sidewalk until they found the car who would bring them to the shop center they were looking for. After finding the car, after one minute, they managed to get inside the car safe and sound, leaving for the driver to start driving the car away.

Part 2 coming soon!

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