Random VIII

Asuka looked at the sky, the weather was nice and no clouds were in sight. Not too much further away, she could clearly feel the presence of very powerful demons. Why was it that Hinjys were always fighting? Not that she was really fond of devils but not the whole bunch of them had any interest in humans, couldn't the ones who were harmless be left in peace? She heard a scream and went into the direction unconsciously. This time, the Hinjy was after a mother demoness and her baby, it was much more than what she was ready to accept.

- Okay, now it's time to leave guy. I'm in no mood to let this slaughter be.
- Aren't we Hinjy here to protect the world of human from them?
- Don't we have many ways to do so?
- I am going to kill them step aside or you are going to be on the red list!
- I don't care about the red list… she's going to live… step down, don't make me repeat myself.

The other Hinjy draw his sword and went straight at her. Sighting, she summoned hers and knocked him unconscious. She looked at the demoness and opened a door to the kingdom of Starlight. It was a neutral dimension where both devils and regular demons were accepted… but this time a demon came out of the portal…

- I did open the portal to let someone trough but it wasn't kind of this sense I was imagining things…
- Sorry, I had to use this opportunity since I was on a bind… What a human was opening a portal to the kingdom of Starlight wishing to do?
- I was about to send this demoness and her child by this portal.
- Why?
- Because here there are people who will hunt them to death just for the fun or because they are demons. I can't protect them all so I was about to send her somewhere safe.
- What is your name demoness?
- My name is Sally.
- Well Sally, do you have any skills you will live with when you get in our kingdom?
- I can be a tailor… or learn anything that can make a living.
- Then you shall go to this place… here is a manna map, you know how to use it?
- Yes, I can read maps very well….
- Show this manna-pass to the guards and tell them that Kira Moonlight gave you the order to check in for an official status and job.
- I will do so… thanks you, Hinjy for saving our lives. And thanks you Kira Moonlight for giving us a new chance.
- Don't mention it. So little human, I finally get why our kingdom grew wildly like this. Do you know that the increasing rate of population is making a real fuss over there?
- Do you thinks it's better to let them be hunt down and killed like this? They are your own specie; shouldn't you be the ones doing something?
- Trough I did came here for finding why our population was so wildly increasing, I also came to check about the Hinjy that are likely the very source of the problem.
- Don't say this like this. I am a Hinjy too after all.
- Must I guess that you are not all agreeing this?
- There is something called a red list, any name on this list will be hunted down for associating with the demons… it is a crime in this stupid self proclaimed guild.

Kira looked at her, she didn't show that much sign of anxiety or didn't seemed to have any problems with being hunted by her own kind. Humans were very adaptable as he heard but this one felt like a bit too much. He decided to see to which extent she could be useful to him.

- Can I ask you to tell me more about the Hinjy?
- There isn't much to say. Just like demons are born with powers, Hinjy are born with a set of abilities. The most powerful I know have like me a set of five abilities. But his are much more useful than mine. When you are born a Hinjy, the Hinjys guild self-proclaims you as a member. Should you do something against its laws, you're dead meat.
- And with what you just do, didn't you check in for that red list?
- Of course but I don't care. It is not like they can make me do something I don't want since one of my abilities is Summoning.
- What can you summon?
- Anything I made a contract with. Up to now, there is only the Door of Twilight. This is how I opened the gate for your world.
- What are your others abilities?
- Speed, fusion and flight as well as healing.
- And you don't find those abilities useful?
- If I was someone who used to run away all the time, maybe they would be useful yes. But it's so unlike my style.
- I think we should open an office of the Third World's affair.
- What's like? It sounds like a ministry of the foreign affairs.
- This is kind of like it. It's an antenna of the ministry of extra-world's affairs.
- And what do you want them to do here?
- Find out stray demons and take them to our kingdom, like you do but with all the necessary for them to find jobs and survive there.
- Saying it's my fault your country has unemployment or such?
- Not really, we already took care of this mess… but it would be better if we were to take care of their entry more accurately because you may send spy up there.
- Well anyway having guards and knights around would be a better thing than a single already hunted down human.
- Won't you need a human cover for this?
- Would you by any chance have an idea?

It wasn't like she thought that she could be really endangered by another Hinjy but Asuka suddenly felt like having some people who were really her allies around her. This guy looked like having some authority in his world so she decided that she could use that to make a deal with him that would ensure her safety.

- Let's make a deal.
- A deal?
- I will give you my idea and help you with any knowledge I can, while in return someone of your world make a contract with me so I will survive this nicely.
- Can you make more than one contract?
- Yes, I can.
- Then the matter is settled. I and my knights will be your bodyguards.
- Once made, it's a lifetime contract you're aware of it?
- Not that I want to unpleasant you or make you angry but to put it bluntly a mere hundred years is like a blink of the eyes to us. Our childhood is ten time longer than a human life.
- This is blunt but it's also a truth I must accept… this little demon was surely a lot older than me… well, can you follow me?
- I do have all my time. Where are you taking me? I can teleport you to be there faster.
- Well, what does it takes for you to teleport us there?
- Just get the image of the place and take my hand.

Not far from the beach where she used to play after school, there was a desert island that the government was trying to make into some resort. Since they couldn't do it because the ground was too frail, maybe they would agreed to sell it to a group of priest… the only thing was that they would need to be officially recognized as priests and so get some citizenship… But if they were able to take the identity of dead people before their death was confirmed, it wouldn't be too much problem for them to do so…

Kira thought that the young girl was very smart. Of course, by establishing a church or priesthood, they would be able to spread and the desert island brought by their order would be a good place to start with. More than this, every single temple would be a branch of the new established bureau… It wasn't unwise to keep her on close range of the project and him since he could use her in more than one way.

He made the contract with her and summoned his knights ordering them to make the contract with her too. They were very surprised but they wouldn't dare go against their lord so they did it. Kira asked to Aya, one of them, to organize the four of them so she would be guarded every single second. As the knights asked about him, Asuka killed him before their own eyes… They were about to kill her but Kira revived right away and they looked at him with surprise.

- While under the contract, he can't die even if disintegrated. It is absolutely impossible to kill a demon that made a contract with me. But, in exchange, should I die from a mana attack or from a demon-killer sword, or by any magical object, and then all my vassals would die along with me.
- If a random human kills you with a human sword or object, we won't die?
- No, but you will suffer for at least two humans years…
- You scared me, said Kira; I really thought I was done for…
- What kind of person would kill someone who just signed the pact? Really.
- I am not really used to humans, neither are my knights. We don't visit this world too much to say the truth.
- Just like I don't know much about your kingdom…
- So why do you felt it was safe to send the demons here?
- Because the Gate can't lie me. And when I asked her to open herself on the safest kingdom for the refugee, she opened straight away in your kingdom.
- Well, our kingdom does have fights and sometimes commoners aren't too much well treated by the nobles.
- But don't you do your best to stop this and make it a clean country?
- That is of course. And so does the Queen and King along with the others princes.
- Then, this is going to be a good country under your close watch… Hey look at what I'm speaking about. I don't know, it's just a feeling anyway… Shouldn't you be getting in motion your plan?
- It is already in motion. At the exact times we are speaking about, our strongest men in the voluntary army of extra-world units are taking identities and getting together the money needed to have this island. Meanwhile we have already taken contact with the Japanese government…
- Be cautious about the Guild… move before they get the chance to put you trough problems.
- We're asking for independence recognition.
- If you're able to get this much, you should be safe from the guild's political influence but not from the hunt they will put you guys through… and oh well, beware of not denouncing them in public… because the government would hunt any Hinjy to forcefully enroll them into the army so they would become powerful enough to boss around the others country.
- Not like we would let them know. We have a massive mind eraser ready, should they even get near the truth, and we would erase the memory of both Hinjy and demons from this entire world's mind.
- Demons are very careful and large-scale thinking, aren't they?
- Yes they are… because we also need humans to survive… the souls of the humans are what make the manna of the five worlds.
- There are only five worlds?
- Two of them are very special but yes there are five of them. The world of Chaos, the world of creation, the Kingdom of Starlight, the Kingdom of Hell and the Human world. Demons live on the two kingdoms, the will of Creation reside in the world of creation and the world of Chaos host the will of chaos.
- Sounds like those two wills are very important.
- They are the foundation of every other world. It needed their power to destroy the kingdom of heaven. The devils did their very best and got a glimpse of the powers of those two worlds to destroy it.

She remained silent a few seconds to thinks about what they were saying. If heaven and hell were two kingdom then what about the belief of the humans, were they only foolish dreams? And even more if one of them was now missing, how about the Christian or the others monotheist religions, weren't they following a religion that were now obsolete?

- So humans are fools to thinks they will go to heaven when they die?
- Don't worry too much… Since there is the Kingdom of Starlight for the moment receiving the souls who should be heading to the heaven Kingdom… We are studying for a way to recreate the kingdom of heaven.
- Do you need manna of the worlds?
- Yes, but it's easier said than done.
- We can already cast the spell to enclose the necessary manna but we can't open breach to those worlds neither we have good enough priest to get the ritual for the creation done properly.
- If it's a way to open a breach, I only need to tell the gate to open and let me see these worlds. If no one cross the gate, she won't mind, I'm almost sure of it.
- That is something I should discuss with the priesthood once we cleared the first stage here.
- Indeed…
- I need to go home you know. My parents will get anxious if I don't come back. After all, they don't know I am a Hinjy… Like the rest of the world, they are totally ignorant of the truth.
- I will take you near you home, Lady Aon. Said Aya. I shall be the first to guard you.
- Thanks you…