43 The Demons Aim and A Devils Deal (1/2)

The demon maintained his gleeful expression as his body continued to stay seated, like he had no problem relaxing in his current situation.

”And, what makes you say that...”

”Although I call it lying, it was more like you were bending the truth or you were purposely hiding some facts.”

”Oh...you don't say...”

All of a sudden, he noticed the room started to look distorted and the atmosphere started to change completely, the music playing in the air stopped and was replaced by the sound of a slow beating heart, filling the room and deafening his ear making him believe he was hearing his own heartbeat instead.

From what Stigma can guess, the room's temperature is based on the little demon's emotion, he turned his head to see the demon still smiling at him not caring about the changes and grabbed a large piece of bone on the table.

”Care to elaborate...*CRACK!*”

The demon remained his wide smile and started chomping down a bone, like a dog.

'His jaw strength is incredible, he bit the bone in half! He must be waiting for a clear answer.'

Stigma had seen some animals tear down some raw meat with their jaw strength, but he never saw a video of an animal chomping down a bone in just one bite.

”Don't worry I won't hurt you, if you take back what you said...”

He wasn't afraid of the demon, if he wanted to he could have hurted him from the start, so he felt no fear. And if what he said was true, he cannot lie to him, but he can still distort the truth.

”What if I can prove it...” After hearing those words, the demons started to rub his chin with his free hand and smiled.

”OK, if you can manage to convince me even once, but let's raise the stakes to make it interesting, alright. Hmmm I do remember you ignoring your cultivation so how about this.”

The demon took another bite and completely swallowed the bone and grabbed another one.

”If you win, I will help you in Cultivation using my method is that fair to you.”

The demon was correct, Stigma had been ignoring his cultivation training for two reasons; one, he still needed to adjust to his new physical strength and get use to it which took most of his focus. The other was due to not having enough time to practice, since he was busy experimenting on what cultivation method should work for him, since he had to much to investigate he started to stray from his goal.

Hearing such a tempting offer made him realize a gamble had to be made.

”...And what if I lose then?”

”Easy! You let me eat your soul of course!”

'...So that's your aim huh, so the entire scene was a ploy.' He only felt like the conversation was strange, but he wasn't sure on which part.

Seeing the nervous Stigma only made the Demon excited as he took another bone.

”There's nothing to worry about. As long as you can prove it, right.”

The demon remained confident as he spoke, he was enjoying the little moment as if both of them were playing a game, so he didn't care if he got exposed and played it off as if he was still in the advantage.

He felt he was being insulted just by seeing the smile, but he ignored it since the entire room reverted back to normal.

”Well, what is your assumption on how I was lying?”

The demon was not amused but continued to show his smiling face.

”...When you told me I was talented, you started comparing me from others, correct...”

”That's right...”

”But the thing is, you got me thinking, who were you comparing me too...”

Stigma or Cheng Xuan had been observing other from a distance and compared their talents, if what the Demon said was true, then deep inside he always wanted to be better than other to draw them close to him and be friend. But he was too afraid to stand out.

”Why of course the people who surrounded you, ignored and humiliated you for all your life. The ones who saw you as scum or a waste...but in fact, they were jealous of you and wanted to feel better about themselves...so they started belittling you and made your life a living hell.”

True, it had happened when he was younger, he was normally the target of bullying from others when he did nothing wrong and it started to get worse over the years when he kept quiet.

After being taken advantage of and being called a retard finally got on his nerves, so he got back at them, and started causing 'accidents' to not just them but to those around them including their family, causing them to be physically injured or end up in the hospital in a stretcher.

He was a careful person as to make sure no trace of him was seen and made it look like coincidence, but after a few years of peace, he didn't do any form ploy and had gotten rusty on his evidence removing.

And cleary the demon knows about it, but that wasn't what he was after.

”You also said, you were controlling me halfway, so a thought came to me. Why stop in the end and return the body. You could have controlled my body the moment I first relapsed and killed Kirin when it was still asleep or worse, yet I can still feel emotions of fear, anger and joy when I need to.”

Lifting his own glass, the attendant behind him poured in an orange beverage and gave his break down. As the Demon continued to bite on another piece.

”My guess is this, your claim is half truth and false.”

He turned his head, to see the demon still smiling, shaking his head from side to side, looking like a child eating a lollipop as he waited for Stigma's answer.

”The answer is this, you can't control me completely. You can only influence me for a short period, each time I went into battle you are suppressing my emotions to calm my nerves, the reason however is still unknown, but I am quite sure it was your way of saying 'I'm here'”

*CRACK!**CRACK!**CRACK!*

From his side he can hear the sound of a bone being eaten under someone's powerful jaws. Unlike in the anime where the character was eating the piece as a piece of candy. He heard the sound of continuous bones being broken, like the ones you would hear in movies, causing his spine to shudder from his powerful jaw strength.