Chapter 5

“Ladies and gentlemen, devils and magical creatures of all ages. Welcome to the 218th King of Hell Summit! Brought to you by Asmodeus Corp and DTV, remember, there’s some things money can’t buy, unless you use Asmodeus Corp. I am your host for this auspicious event, Sabrina Sitri!”

We were at the venue for the start of the summit. Seir had told me that for the last few centuries this event had become sensationalised and going by the cute and charismatic female MC with short mousy brown hair and skimpy outfit, I think I understood what he meant.

We were currently surrounded by who I could imagine where the households that were competing in the summit. It seems that the high profile people didn’t bother showing up to the opening ceremony, I couldn’t spot Mei-Lien but I did manage to pick out that Pu Yi guy, luckily he was focused on the presentation and didn’t look my way.

“First we will have a few words from the current King of Hell, unfortunately his majesty wasn’t able to attend in person. I for one am disappointed, I was hoping to catch his eye with my bewitching beauty! But we will have to just make do with a one way video link, boohoo!”

We all looked up at the giant Asmodeus branded television and a few seconds later a man appeared on the screen. He had medium length slicked back silver hair and golden wolf like eyes, despite this he was smiling and came across as a mild mannered middle aged man. The second he appeared on the screen, Seir’s bloodlust shot up for a second, only a small number of people in the hall noticed, this included Pu Yi, who looked in our direction and was shocked when he spotted me. I placed my hand on Seir’s shoulder to calm him down and he grinned and nodded. Pu Yi returned to facing the opposite direction and the man on the screen began speaking.

“As your King, I am honoured to announce the start of another King of Hell Summit! This is the second one that has taken place during my reign, you guys must really want me gone huh?”

“Hahahahahaha, we love you your majesty!”

“You’re the best ruler hell has ever had!”

They were eating out of the palm of his hands. The masses that were able to bag seats for the opening ceremony were all cheering and getting behind every word that came out of his mouth.

“I would like to wish all households participating in the summit the very best of luck and I am sure that whoever comes out on top will become a great ruler! However, if I can speak as a father for one moment, I really do hope that it’s my son that wins hahahahaha!”

“Woooohooooo, we love the Bael house.”

“The Bael House is the only house worthy of holding the seat of King!”

“Despite not being able to see you, I can feel your sentiments and they warm my heart! Well then, Sitri-san, I will no longer take up anymore time, I’ll leave the rest in your capable hands and will be following this summit closely. However, to anyone who wishes to challenge me at the end, please know that I won’t be holding back, even if it’s you son hahahahahaha!”

“Ahhhhh mooooaaah! I already told you to call me Sabrina your majesty! Smart words from our benevolent ruler nonetheless. I for one am rooting for the first prince’s household, but that is mostly because he is the hottest young bachelor in all of Hell at the moment and I wish to catch his attention.”

The atmosphere in here was starting to make me feel nauseous. Just when I was about to tell Seir that I needed some air, Sitri announced the draw for the first round matches and I decided to see who our first opponent was going to be before leaving.

“We will now proceed with the pairings for the first matches! A total of 20 household have entered this time. Although a record low, there are still a few budding elites looking to stamp their authority in the upper echelons of hell! Houses to look out for are the Great Paimon House, The First Prince’s Bael House, The Bael Branch Family of Belith and the new kids on the block, the House of Astaroth! Each team leader was given a number at random upon registration and said numbers have since been uploaded into our mainframe computer, which will randomly match up the entrants. Without further ado, we will now randomly generate the match ups for round one, my heart can’t stop racing!”

This was it, the screen was now shuffling through everyone’s names at high speed. It was slowing down as time went on and finally it displayed all the pair ups for the first round. I started scanning the giant display for Seir’s name and then heard Seir laughing, in fact, he was laughing pretty hysterically. When I finally found Seir’s name, I also scoffed at this outcome.

“There you have it ladies and gentleman! First round match ups are now confirmed, let’s have a closer look at the results. Ohhh it looks like the first prince will be taking on the the noble house of Decarabia, this will be an interesting bout as said house rules over the land of Costa Rica and the regions of hell that go with it. This will be a good opportunity for the Bael house to reclaim territory that is not too far off it’s US base of operations! And it seems the Great Paimon Household will be featured pretty early on too. It’s going up against...The Seir Household? No idea who that is folks, must be a new player, looks like the good Earl is going to have a nice little warm up! Remember everyone, the summit will be broadcast throughout Hell and the world on DTV and we will have all the behind the scenes and expert analysis to go along with it. This has been Sabrina Sitri coming at you from the Asmodeus Arena and the opening ceremony of the 218th King of Hell Summit.”

She finally shut up. She reminded me a little of Miyabi with how she was able to irritate me just by talking.

It must have been fate for us to be going up against Paimon so early on. Pu Yi gave me a look of contempt and left the arena.

Seir clapped me on the shoulder and we made our way back to the villa. Our match was going to take place the day after tomorrow, nobody said a word on the way back but I felt a feeling of determination being emitted from each of us.