Curse named human

Curse named human - Part 20 / 40

Songs to this chapter: 06 – Carnival of Lies (Hell's theme)

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Part 20

The Circus of Life

Melancholic, Toshiya sat invisible inside a coffee shop, in this crazy, never sleeping city. It was his task to find his protege Kaoru but no one told him how to do so. Like all things destined, it would happen when the time was right but right now all Toshiya felt was overwhelmed by the city life of the 21st century and lost because of its size. Everything was so enormous and at the same time so cramped.

From a big window, he observed the cars and people passing in the streets when suddenly something in the air changed. Like a dim flicker, the aura changed but too low for humans to realize. His mind was on high alert and the atmosphere on a single spot in the busy street blurred and in the middle of all this chaos, a figure formed and features became visible. People passed the figure unimpressed and untouched, obviously not able to see it. Toshiya froze on his seat when he saw the being, obviously supernatural, clad with a long, dark cape, starring straightly back at him. And although most of his head was covered, it was the creatures eyes which sent shivers down his spine. Ice blue eyes which seemed to bore the world's insanity within. Dark curled hair showed from underneath the hood which made it impossible to guess what kind of gender it had.

As if the insane stare was not enough, the creature started to smile when his and Toshiya's eyes met. The creature pulled one arm to the front of his chest and slightly bent his head. A voice entered Toshiya's head and he was shocked by the intimate contact.

^I am Mako and I'm looking forward to be working with you.^

An insane smile on that doll-like face again, the colorful painted lips, before the air started to shiver and he was gone. Sudden noises filled the air and people started screaming when at the same spot cars started to drive into each other and people started to run around in panic.

That was clearly a visit from hell and Toshiya knew immediately that his bored times on earth were over. He rushed out onto the street and saw that people actually got hurt inside the cars and then, for the first time he saw how some souls left their bodies and flew up into heaven. Awestruck by the new observation he was even more shocked when the long, dark caped appeared in heaven again and collected the souls. Can it be?!

And with a high pitched, insane laughter, Mako disappeared together with the lost souls. And the thought where they would be brought to made Toshiya sick.

He left the scene immediately, Mako's words circling in his head.... looking forward to be working with you... what did this creature know that he didn't? It collected human souls, a soul collector. What could it possibly mean?

When Toshiya turned into the next alleyway, he paused in reflex when he saw four dark creatures starring back at him. Random Demons which wandered earth as well and mostly not very keen of heavenly residents either. Not wanting any trouble, Toshiya started jogging into another alleyway, turning his head back to see if he was followed but fell back onto the street when he bumped into someone which should have been impossible in the first place.

Startled Toshiya looked up at the man who stood in front of him and his glare showed that he was not amused by the intimate contact.

"Look what we've got here." A deep, husky voice spoke up when he crossed his arms over his chest. His face unreadable, his attire perfect and pure business.