The Demon And The Angel | Brypu Cult AU

Chapter 2

Inpu's POV

Having my new Gem in my home always made me more nervous about bringing people to my home with me.

I never knew why, but something about him caused me to worry.

The guards always told me nothing went on during the day, and a few would always ask who I was talking about, but I could always tell something was up since whenever I got back, I would be greeted by guards.

It was like they had to determine if I was in a bad mood for something, but I could never figure out what.

Whenever I left, I usually had meetings with other demons which caused me to keep Bryan locked up, I never wanted to do it, but I wasn't going to lose the most loyal sacrifice I've been given.

I was coming home from another one of my meetings when the jackals that usually wait outside had seemed to be happier than usual which made me suspicious.

Granted, I was home earlier than usual, so it could have been they were happy with the surprise.

I continued inside and started to walk over to my room to see how my Gem was doing, but the guards seemed to be trying to stop me for some reason.

After a bit of questioning them, I noticed a scent in the room that started to help me piece things together.

The guards continued to try and get me to go into another room, but I continued into the room the smell was coming from, and once I looked on the couch, I saw why everything was strange.

Bryan was just asleep on the couch, clearly not paying any mind to the outside world, but either way, he was clearly breaking the strict rules I gave him to follow.

I looked around the room and saw most of the guards starting to panic, and I began to piece things together.

All I did was pick up Bryan and give the guards a look of anger before I walked out of the room.

Once I got into my room, Bryan began to wake up and it was clear he wasn't awake enough to fully process anything, so I figured I could ask him questions since he'd likely give honest answers.

"So, why did you sneak out of the room?"

"Because a demon doesn't let me leave otherwise, so when he's gone I wander around the house since I can't leave"

"But didn't you get told to stay in his room?"

"Yeah, but I think its dumb that I can't leave one room"

Bryan yawned again before it was clear he was more awake.

He could tell I was the one in front of him, and in his eyes, I could tell he knew he messed up.

I raised my hand slightly so I could stand up while I thought about what to say, but the second I moved my hand, I watched him start to go into a position to protect himself.

"What did that cult do to you?"

"Huh?"

"I went to get up and you acted like I was going to beat you up for walking around the house, while I have my own thoughts on it that I will be bringing up later, I never planned on hitting you, so what the fuck did they do?"

He began to move backwards on the bed, so knowing I'd have to wait, I grabbed an extra blanket and just wrapped it around him.

All I did was sit next to him while he was trying to get comfortable.

After about half an hour of no talking, I started to give up and thought it would be better for me to just get dinner and come back, but as I was about to get up, I felt my sleeve being slightly pulled.

"They used to beat us if we left the dungeon without permission, meaning if I left for normal school and didn't tell anyone, I'd either be starved for the next few days or I'd wish that were my punishment"

"How old were you when that started?"

"They started doing it when I started going to school, meaning if they didn't want me at school, I never went, but it got much harder when I got older"

"This is going to sound a bit weird, but take off your shirt, I want to check something"

He listened to my request and did as I said, and once he took off his shirt, I was a bit shocked at what I saw.

I never had the maids give him a lot since he never really wanted to eat a lot, but once I saw how scrawny he actually was, I was regretting my decision.

The entire time I was looking, I could see in his eyes that he was uncomfortable, so once I checked what I wanted, I grabbed one of my larger hoodies from when I go to the human realm, and put it on him.

Once I finished putting it on him, I started to write down a few things that I felt needed to be changed, and the entire time I could tell Bryan was watching me.

"Starting tomorrow, you are being put on a different diet, there is no way in hell I'm going to keep you that small, plus I've given you enough that would make you smaller, I'm not allowing that"

"I don't have a large appetite, what you give me is good enough"

"I'll give you two choices then, either you eat whatever is given to you or I put in a feeding tube to help you gain weight, consider yourself lucky I'm doing this, had I found out sooner, you would no doubt have a feeding tube in"

"Either way, I don't care, a week before I was given to you, I beat up about seven or eight men larger than me who were trying to keep me from leaving a gas station store alone, I can handle myself"

"If that were the full case, why were you in that damn cult?"

"...I-I don't want to tell you"

"Then why tell me everything else you have, I'm trying to keep you alive while you seem like you just want me to let you die, I'm not letting that happen, this one thing won't do any harm to you, so why won't you tell me"

"Because why would I tell you I've lived like this since I was a baby, what would cause that to be important"

"Simple, now I know how long I will keep your new diet so I know you aren't too small"

"...If you know that information for now, does that mean I'm out of trouble for now...?"

"Oh, not at all, you just won't be punished for a while since I have other things I need to deal with now" 

I saw him look away from me, he didn't know what I had planned, and I really didn't have a plan yet, so I figured I'd give him till the end of the month to try and fix his mistake.

Once I got him to be a bit more comfortable, I went back downstairs to start putting in a few new orders before I began to follow my normal schedule.