NABC Side Story Chapter 141: Requiem (2)
Side Story Chapter 141: Requiem (2)
“What do we need to do first to hold a ?” Balrog asked.
“Let’s see.”
Oh Kang-Woo pulled out his smartphone and
“...?”
“Just a second.” Kang-Woo walked to the center of the rooftop and pointed his palm toward the ground. “Abyss Summoning.”
His palm split and black mucus flowed down to the ground. The sticky mucus squirmed like a living thing and began to take form.
[I-I am…]
It was a demon shrouded in darkness. He was no bigger than the average person but the evil energy that exuded from him was suffocating.
“S-Satan?”
Si-Hun’s eyes widened in panic. He knew Kang-Woo could summon Satan but didn’t know why he would summon him during a .
“Balrog.”
“Yes, my king.”
Kang-Woo and Balrog paid no mind to the confused Si-Hun and took action.
[Wh-What?] Satan stuttered as he looked back and forth at Kang-Woo and Balrog who were standing at his front and back.
Kang-Woo did not answer and instead said, “Well, then.” He closed his eyes and continued in a deep voice, “Let us begin the .”
He recalled the sequence of the rite he had memorized.
[3]
It was the procedure of lighting incense to call down the ancestor’s spirit. Fel and Firean were not his ancestors but there was no problem as long as they performed the ritual greeting to call down their spirits.
Kang-Woo brought the incense close to the candlelight, creating a stream of smoke. He stared at the smoke with shaking eyes. He could remember Satan looking down at him arrogantly with Fel’s neck in his grasp.
“A-Aaaahh.”
He could see the wretched memories of Fel’s body being split into tiny pieces and Firean’s screams echoed inside his head. They were no mere hallucinations— their spirits had been summoned.
“They’re… crying.”
Kang-Woo could feel it. At this very moment, Firean had risen from the tile and was screaming in agony; Kang-Woo could hear him loud and clear.
“Satan…”
[Wh-What is going on here? Why have you summoned me?] asked Satan, slightly in fear.
He had been traumatized by how he had become a Friend Shield or something like that when he was summoned the last time. He looked around to see if he would go through something similar this time as well but he couldn’t see anyone who seemed to be an enemy.
“Satan, Satan, Satan, Satan, Satan, SATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!”
[Wh-What?!]
“You… You can hear them too, can’t you?”
[...?]
“Fel’s screams!!! Firean’s bellows!!! Can you hear them?!”
[What bullshit are you spouting?]
“Bull…shit? Did you just say bullshit…? A-Arghh.”
Kang-Woo pulled on his hair. Intense rage filled his head.
“WR—”
If that was the case, he would have to use his mouth to let Satan hear.
“WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY—!!!”
Kang-Woo screamed exactly like how Fel and Firean were screaming. The vengeful spirits entered Kang-Woo’s body. He had become one with the two Halves.
Si-Hun muttered, “That’s not exactly what means…”
However, Kang-Woo couldn’t hear it.
“Grrrk, guh, urghhh!”
Kang-Woo foamed at the mouth with his eyes rolled back. He was not the only one acting strangely.
“Krrrk!! Arghhh!! Gah!!”
Balrog, standing behind Satan, was also foaming at the mouth with his eyes rolled back behind.
“WRYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!”
“KRRRRRRRRRRRRK!!!”
Kang-Woo and Balrog’s limbs trembled as they screeched monstrously. Kang-Woo stretched his arms forward and Balrog crouched to grab Kang-Woo’s hands, Satan between their arms. They then spun around Satan, who had collapsed to his knees.
“KERERERERERERERERERE!!”
They screeched as they titled their head back and stuck out their tongues.
[Huh…?]
It could no longer be called a . Satan was left wide-eyed as he witnessed something similar to people from ancient civilizations offering a sacrifice to a mad god.
[W-Wait!]
Satan trembled in fear as he looked up at Kang-Woo and Balrog screeching as they spun around him. He couldn’t understand why he had to go through something like this after being awakened from his slumber inside the Abyss.
“KERERERERERERERERERE!!”
“KRARARARARARARARARA!!!”
[Wh-Why are you doing this?!] Satan shouted as he looked up at the two demons spinning crazily around him and screaming monstrously. [Wh-What do you want from me?!!]
“WRYYYYYYYYYY!!!”
[STOP MAKING THOSE WEIRD NOISES!!! I ASKED YOU WHAT YOU WANT FROM ME!!!]
“GYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHH!!!”
[B-Balrog!!! Leaving that demented Demon King aside, you were never like this!!]
“KRARARARARARARARARA!!!”
[STOOOOOOOOOOP!!!]
Balrog did not answer and simply screeched like an alien. Kang-Woo and Balrog let go of each other’s hands and jumped repeatedly with their shaking arms raised high in the air.
The ground shook each time Balrog landed on it.
[WHY ARE YOU DOING THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS?!!]
His summoner and his subordinate were screaming and spinning around him crazily without a word of explanation as soon as he was summoned. Satan couldn’t understand this situation at all no matter how much he racked his brain.
“WRYYYYYYYYYYYY!!”
Kang-Woo paid no mind to Satan’s questions and continued the .
[Hey.]
He was now doing flips in the air as he spun around Satan.
[E-Excuse me?]
He then sprinted in a handstand.
[Kurgh… .]
Satan’s yellow eyes inside the shroud of darkness teared up. Fear welled up from inside his soul.
[Why…? You could at least tell me why you are doing this…]
Tears flowed down the cheek of the Prince of Wrath, the demon who used to be one of the seven princes of Hell who ruled the Ninth Hell.
1. It is the “spiritual body that represents the presence of the dead. It can be a photo portrait or a tablet with the ancestor’s name written on it. ☜
2. Gosa is a ceremony to help protect against misfortunes before opening a business, an event, and/or a festival. ☜
3. It means the manifestation of gods or spirits. ☜