salt || jikook

one

every sin combined into one, that's what i am...

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the devil doesn't work alone. no, the devil works in the form of people, temptations, demons.

demons, the devil's little pawns. the devil wouldn't personally get his hands dirty... of course not. demons are sent to do the heavy lifting, while the kingdom of evil rises under the devil's rule.

some demons have different purposes. the devil sends some to posses, maybe some are sent to test humanity. their main purpose is to make humanity sin using the nine circles of hell. all the while, they're working against the light.

yeah, the light. the spawn of gods, whatever or whoever those gods may be. children of the light, that's how hell mocks the heavenly angels.

demons were the pure embodiment of sin, while the angels were the shells of perfection.

demons were born from the selfishness and anger, they're sprites of the devil, while angels were born by breaths of perfection at the hands of a holy council.

you could only take it for so long. being called imperfect, being called dirty, or scum of the earth. surely, the line was drawn, while a war of tensions became a problem between these two sides.

but how much could they take? was the question that even sin themselves have thought of.

"this pairing system won't work," jimin said as he flopped himself onto the couch. his piercing blood red eyes staring deep into the another pair of the same coloring.

"yeah, well i'd love to be anywhere but here but madam devil wouldn't allow that," yoongi said, flopping onto another couch.

"how do you know the devil is a madam?" jimin mocked.

"i'm assuming, the devil takes on many forms," yoongi replied with a wink.

"my god you're stupid, many forms as a man, the devil is... a man... and i hope to god he kicks your ass," jimin groaned.

"oh so you're praying to god now? you're gonna get consumed by hell's fire for that one," yoongi said, laughing as he did.

jimin rubbed his temples in frustration.

"that wasn't even funny, what the hell are you laughing at?"

jimin was right. how dare yoongi even consider to mock the burning flames of hell? you have not known true pain until you were forced by the devil to take a swan dive into the renowned hell waters.

"don't use hell's name in vain," yoongi said, cracking open a can of cold beer.

"didn't even bother to get me one, good to know i mean a lot to you," jimin sighed, getting himself up to get his own beer. he was feeling the utter betrayal of the demon who sat across from him.

"but you don't, that's the thing," the other replied, sipping the alcoholic beverage.

"i see that," jimin said, reaching into the fridge to pull out a cold can. he returned to his spot on the couch, and looking out the sliding glass doors to the apartment.

"we've grown close you know," yoongi admitted through a sip of his beer.

"really? cause the way i see it, i want to kill you a little more every day," jimin replied.

"you don't mean that."

"on god, i mean it."

about this pairing system... it was implemented by the devil to keep his demons safe, more importantly to keep jimin safe. every day the forces of the light grow stronger, more of these angels are created by the holy council. they are roaming the streets, undetected by people or the demons themselves, the same way the makeshift devils are.

anyway, these angels guard the streets, trying to keep the 'sinfulness' of the demons out or at least contained. they were created to find these demons and destroy them.

meanwhile the demons do just the opposite. they fight against the angels. they were created as sinful war machines. that's where the skill of demon's are always higher than an angels. angels typically rely on weapons and tools, while demons only needed brute strength.

"i wonder who namjoon got paired with," jimin said with a laugh.

"probably jackson, they're so similar, i feel like that's what the devil based this on, similarities," yoongi said. jimin nodded sarcastically.

"you see that could be right, except for the fact that i have nothing in common with you."

"we were both paired together by the devil," yoongi said, raising his beer can.

"you've got to be kidding me," jimin said, falling into some stupor that yoongi's words have put him in.

but demons lived basically like normal humans. they could eat, drink, and sleep like most. they could physically feel and mentally feel. the only huge difference between humans and demons is that demons just... have been to hell and back.