Harumi's door somehow opened for Clyde and he glided inside, the demoness hot on his tail . He feared the worse but pushed on, shutting out his thoughts . He thoughts that showed him a vision of a woman that didn't deserve to die .

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When he opened the bedroom door, he saw her sitting at the corner of her bed knees to her chest, face down . Her blinds were shut in a way that darkened the room to almost nighttime darkness . Her phone rested face up, unlocked . He gestured at Alice to inspect it then scooped Harumi in an embrace, which she melted into, eyes pouring tears .

"I don't know what to do," she said softly . "I feel so helpless . "

"It will be alright," Clyde said, meaning it . He tried to push away an old, buried memory, but it peeked a little . A true friend, bogged down by bullying and pressures at work . Something he could've stopped if he'd seen the signs . If only he knew to look for them, but his friend acted as if everything was okay . He almost let it happen again…

He made a silent vow that no matter what, he wouldn't let Harumi harm herself . He cursed Mortem, putting him in this world, in this situation .

"Clyde," Alice said then revealed what the young man considered a developing horror story . A conversation between Harumi and someone she named s.h.i.+thead .

s.h.i.+thead: I know about the power you possess . Give yourself to me .

This was ignored until a day later .

s.h.i.+thead: Give yourself to me, Harumi . Or your sister will become my plaything . You better reply to me, cutie pie .

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Harumi: Who are you? What do you want . I'm forwarding this to the police .

s.h.i.+thead: the police won't help you, baby . And if you so much as think about contacting them, who I own anyway, I'll f.u.c.k your sister up .

Beneath that was a picture of a woman who looked similar to Harumi but with more mature features .

s.h.i.+thead: do you understand me, foolish girl . I can portal to your sister at any time and r ape her into oblivion . She's single, too . No one to help her while she screams and takes my s.e.m.e.n . So don't f.u.c.k with me . If you don't want anything to happen to her, you better listen .

Beneath that message was a picture of her sister in the shower .

Harumi: what do you want . I'm only a first-year college student . I have nothing .

s.h.i.+thead: You will come to the single house on Second Street . If you so much as even think about bringing a cop, I'll blow your sister up like a balloon and slit her throat . Be there by nine tonight .

The last picture was of Harumi's sister smiling at a framed picture of the sisters, younger, with their parents .

"I see," Clyde said . The air around him s.h.i.+mmered twice . "I see . " He nodded to himself . "Guess where tonight's patrol will be, Harumi . "

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She looked at the young man but didn't object . No, she hugged him, crying softly .

"Naturally I will be joining," Alice said . Harumi hugged her too, thanking her . The poor girl was trapped in a corner by someone who could instantly jump to her sister . A hostage . Clyde wanted to spit in disgust .

Clyde called and told everyone about the situation, even Clare, who was more than happy to join in . She exclaimed how she hated sc.u.mbags more than anything .

Even while on his date, Toru sent out his father's bodyguards to scope the area from afar . Only a single old car was in the driveway, but no additional signs of life .

Kitome was fired up . In fact, she suggested burning the house down, but Clyde barked some logical sense into her .

"Don't be an idiot," Clyde said . "We need proof that he's there . We also don't want to risk burning down an entire neighborhood . Besides, look at that text again . Does that sound like a normal human to you?"

Kitome sighed .

"Party p.o.o.per . "

"May as well get that long transformation out of the way," Seth said . He said under his breath, "and go naked for like five seconds . " Kitome punched him in the gut . Seth wheezed a laugh .

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"I'm kidding . I'm kidding . "

"Freaking pervert," Kitome said then marched off to the side to transform .

They were all at the meeting spot, awaiting Clyde's word . A cool night breeze ma.s.saged him as if trying to extinguish his fury but failed . That sick s.h.i.+thead b.a.s.t.a.r.d had true nerves .

Threatening Harumi and her only family, especially after what she's been through . Looking at that framed picture but only thinking of sick and twisted things to do to the sisters .

"Let's go . Chika, stealth on Harumi's right at the timing I told you," Clyde said . "Everyone else, walk at the staggered paces I explained . We need him to see that she's alone . Kitome and Clare, our snipers . Stay at Toru's suggested range and take the shots at either my signal, Alice's signal, or Harumi's signal . Do not fire otherwise . I want to get a good a.n.a.lysis of this f.u.c.kface . " Harumi squeezed Clyde's hand . "We're ignoring all demon sp.a.w.n . "

Everyone nodded then at Clyde's return nod, they moved out .

Demon lord's estate… .

Matazus's eyes snapped open . He looked around and breathed a sigh of relief to see that he only nodded off in the breakroom . No one would dare bother their hardworking commander unless he or she had a death wish . Rage engulfed the Middle Eye . That b.i.t.c.h succubus had him strapped to a torture device in the nightmare . She bent him over, preparing to insert something giant and spiky . Matazus just barely managed to force himself awake . This was it . He warned her and now he'd fill her with true regret . What kind of a crazy person was she to constantly poke at the bear?

He looked at himself in the mirror, rubbing off sweat from his forehead . He was a demon who looked like a human in his middle years, with a short beard and drooping mustaches . His purple eyes almost s.h.i.+ned . Dark hair met red skin . He had two vampire-like fangs to accompany his otherwise normal teeth . A hardened, war-fought face stared back at him with weariness . A man like him letting a succubus disturb him? A general among the demon lord's army! He was Matazus, fierce Middle Eye of Demon lord Hades . He clawed his way up to the top . His men respected him, wanted to be him . And here he was, losing sleep over an inferior being .

"Guards," he said . Two of them marched in as if he yelled for them . His voice could reach any of his men and they'd be there . "Arrest that wh.o.r.e, Tear . And you may do whatever you want to her . And…put her in chains . Take a mage with you to negate her magic . We can't have the b.i.t.c.h escaping into the dream world . Hurry now! I haven't slept well in days . "

The guards nodded, raised their right fists to their chests in a hard salute, then marched off .

"You will regret the day you've messed with me, succubus," he said . "After you're done, I'll invite that Ash brat over . Have him hunt down Alice and get the Life mate process started . Then he can r ape her right on the streets . "

"Really now," a feminine voice said from behind the general . Matazus spun, pale . Tear grinned .

"Men," she said . "Matazus, you have no idea who I am . So, allow me to show you, worm . "

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