Chapter 250 - Late night visits, and not the fun kind (1/2)
(A.N. F.U.C.K.I.N.G FINALLY I AM BACK!!!!!!!!! Looks like finally fixed their shit so I can use the app and post again! That being said here's what I wrote while I was gone.)
Cattleya sighed as she closed and set down the book she had been reading alongside the others that went with it. It was something called a ”textbook”, and it detailed adept level magic formulas from this world called Earth. The woman called Le Fey gave several such books to her after she stopped refusing what they were trying to tell her.
It had taken months, but Cattleya had come to realize that there was simply no point in resisting the change that these people intended to bring to their world. The only options they had was to submit to their whims, or die. At first Cattleya thought this proved how tyrannical they were, but as she became more compliant during the rare times they came to refill her food stores they started granting her various things like books to ease her boredom, things that continued proving how wrong her original impression of them was. She learned that similarly to her own world, this place called Asora was home to various races that had warred with each other throughout history due to similar reasons for her own people's war, because of the will of God and the four beings they called Satan. Things changed once the God and these Satan died, and the people who called themselves Devils, Angels, and fallen angels were able to fight together for a lasting peace instead for their people. Once they had achieved peace, unprecedented advancements in technology and magic started taking place as the experts of each race started cooperating for the first time ever. She was starting to see the reasoning behind their seemingly extreme method of gaining her cooperation, if the demon race would refuse peace and insist on war they would simply be continuing the endless cycle of slaughter and stagnation, as such it would be better to simply remove such a factor since there was nothing positive about their continued existence. Though it was horrible way of thinking, Cattleya had already realized there was no point in criticizing their way of doing things since her people were the ones supporting endless and useless slaughter at the whims of something that didn't even care about them.
The other thing she had come to terms with was the truth behind her God, and the seemingly complete disregard he had for their lives. This had been difficult to accept at first, but she eventually started wondering if any of what they said was true since they were going so far to undo everything that God supposedly had done. This thought was strengthened when she found out that they were planning to leave their world soon, and weren't simply trying to uproot them then in order to rule them or something. After Cattleya started coming to terms with what she was being told, the treatment towards her became considerably better. Though she was still never allowed to leave her cell, when they did the monthly food deliveries new people would come with them, the little human girl called Le Fey, and a silver haired woman called Rossweisse. They had mostly asked her questions about magic, but were also curious about the demon race as well. Cattleya was at first suspicious that they wanted military information from her, but was surprised when instead they asked her questions about the daily lives of the demon race itself. After learning various things about the magic used in Tortus, they then gave her various texts about magic from their world that used magic circles and formulas. Though the idea of using magic circles wasn't anything new to her, Cattleya was stupefied to see Le Fey create a magic circle made of nothing but light in front of her and use magic through it, meanwhile the magic circles used in Tortus had to be prepared beforehand on weapons or scrolls in order to function in spells. Seeing the feats performed in the projections she was forced to watch, as well as what Le Fey and Rossweisse demonstrated to her, Cattleya immersed herself into her studying as she tried to learn as much about earths magic as possible. In all the only real complaints she had about her time imprisoned was that she would only get company once a month, and that it had been so long since she had seen her beloved, Mikhail.
”Working hard?” A voice suddenly called out, breaking Cattleya from her recollection as she jumped up. She turned in surprise to see the same person who defeated her so decidedly and who haunted her dreams if he turned against the demon race, Alex. There was also a woman with blue eyes and burnt silver hair standing behind him, her expression a cool mask. Cattleya turned all of her attention towards Alex and asked,
”What are you doing here?! You haven't come in the nearly two years since you threw me in here, though from what I was told it's only been a couple weeks from your point of view.” Alex smirked at her reaction and replied,
”You almost sound like a woman who I didn't call after a one night stand. I came to talk you you and see if you can be rational, and if so we can discuss the future of the demon race.” Cattleya's body tensed as she heard the expected words come from Alex, before she sighed and sat down on the couch once more. Alex helped himself to the couch across from her, while the silver haired woman sat beside him after he glanced at her. Though Cattleya was concerned about the identity of the new woman, she was more concerned about her people and demanded,
”So what is it you exactly want? I've come to realize there may be some truth to what you people say, but it's next to impossible that my people will be so cooperative as well.” Alex nodded at Cattleya's declaration and answered,
”I understand, which is why I wanted to have a person from the demon race speak for us as well. You've undergone the brainwashing and mass manipulation that is used on the mortal races of this world, and are now mostly free from its thinking, so I want you to act as the go between as we try to eliminate the drive for war.” There was a small intake of breath as Cattleya heard what Alex wanted from her, before she said,
”Before I agree to anything, I want proof that what you've said is true. Show me that we have been manipulated to go to war and I will full heartedly try and support you in the demon race territories.” Cattleya's devotion to her people was stronger than her faith, so if they had been sent to an endless slaughtered for no reason then she'd happily try and put a stop to it, but she'd need proof of it first. Alex nodded in understanding and simply turned towards the woman with silver hair next to him. Seeing Cattleya's confusion he explained,
”This is Noint, a former devoted servant of Ehito who used hypnosis to manipulate the factions of the world on his behalf.” Cattleya's mind blanked as she tried to process what Alex just told her, while Noint continued looking at her expressionlessly, before crying out,
”That can't be possible! I mean if what you've said is true then wouldn't she be under more control than the people of the world? How is it that she is now following you?!” Alex smiled at Cattleya response and explained what had happened earlier that night, from Noint being sent to manipulate the summoned Hero's to use against him, to him in turn using Noint to reveal the truth to the majority of the human world, as well as the battle that had taken place afterwards between the apostles and the Angels. When he got to the part where he used his slavery magic to remove Ehito's influence however, Cattleya sucked in her breath as Noint herself recounted the dream she had of Ehito abandoning her, then Alex's magic making her devoted to him before he released them from his control as well. After hearing everything Cattleya slumped back into the couch as disbelief filled her, before she hesitantly asked Noint,
”Even if his control over you is gone, don't you even feel the least bit loyal towards Ehito still? I mean you said he created you so, even if the mind control is gone, wouldn't you still want to follow him?” Noint looked as if she was contemplating Cattleya's words for a moment before saying,
”Even if I wanted to continue serving him, Ehito threw me away. To me this is simply the end, he won't take me back and is more than likely already preparing a replacement. Alex then told us about free will, a concept we believed never existed but he insisted it did. So, using our newfound free will, myself and the other apostles that were defeated decided to try and stay with Alex in order to experience it ourselves.” Cattleya was silent as she contemplated what Noint said, before Alex continued as he put something on the table,
”I'm thinking of sending you back to the demon race soon to begin the peace talks. This is a recording of my fight with Noint where she stated Ehito's intentions, and I'll arrange it so that you won't be traveling home alone. I'll also talk to Ravel about you getting to spend some time outside the next few days before leaving.”
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Alex sighed in mild relief as he exited Cattleya's room, glad that she accepted what he wanted so easily. It helped that after studying some of their version of magic, as well as being shown the recordings of the rating game tournament fights, she learned that resistance would simply lead to her people's demise. Though Alex didn't like the idea, he wouldn't hesitate to remove the demon race if they persisted in following Ehito's way of doing things, just like they did originally. As he was thinking of this he arrived at the next cell he needed to go to, and turned to face Noint who was still following him.
”You can go and find Gabriel now, I'll deal with this one alone.” Noint bowed slightly in response, and turned on her heel to leave as he instructed. Alex then took a deep breath before opening the door to the cell, only for a chair to suddenly crash into the wall next to it.
”What do you want?” Eri's venomous voice spat at him as Alex casually entered the room. He then used Regeneration magic on the chair she threw to fix it, before righting it and taking a seat for himself as if nothing was wrong. Alex then calmly said,
”I'm here to determine why to do with you.” Eri smirked at what he said and sneered back,
”What, can't you just kill me or something? Oh, did you perhaps fall for me? How disgusting!” Alex sighed at her jests and replied,
”I could snap your neck right here and now and not give a shit, but the problem I see in doing so is that you'd even welcome death if you can't get what you'd want, though you'd probably try and take as many people with you as possible. Besides the threat of killing doesn't really work on someone who nearly tried to kill herself before.” Though Eri was just sneering at Alex as he spoke, when he mentioned her previous intention of suicide she snapped back with a gleam of insanity in her eyes,