Side Story 1 - Small talk

(unknown female voice) “This girl is interesting. It’s clear that she defies the laws of this world without her own understanding. I have to find out who managed to mess with us before something serious happens to our world. I pity her poor soul. Eros, you and Gaia will watch her.”

A small voice spoke from nothingness while looking at a certain red demon. A small sigh can be heard, followed by an answer.

(Eros) “You can count on us. Care to tell why can’t we just help her?”

(unknown female voice) “None of us have enough knowledge nor power to access the higher world she came from. She’s just a mortal anyways. Also, Fate almost got crazy when she appeared. Don’t ever intervene or things will get worse.”

(Eros) “Poor child. I’m not making any promises but I’ll try my best.”

The voices turn silent and the world continues to flow.

Side Story 2 - The Hero’s Oath

In a certain hall that belongs to The Holy Empire a crowd gathers. II. Lupiet sitting on his golden throne surrounded by female slaves motions with his hand to an old man. The old mage murmures a silent prayer before turning towards the other mages in the room.

(Head mage)”Let us begin the summoning”

As the mages began to chant standing in a circle formation, huge pillars of light emerge in the middle. After a long hour of continuous trying and changing many dead mages in the pattern a tight pillar of blue light descends from the sky. Many mages seeing that let out their last breath and collapse dead.

The head mage orders the disposal of the corpses while looking at the unconscious youth in the middle. He does not want to see the fury of the emperor so he forcefully awakens him with magic.

When the person opens his eyes he panics a little but after seeing his surroundings, his mouth curves into a smile.

(Head mage) “Hero of Amaterasu. Will you help our Empire with your life, destroying the demons and our enemies, following our will?” The seemingly young boy who was summoned moments ago feels absolute joy hearing his dream come true. Not even thinking for a second, he immediately answered yes, hoping to be a real Hero in another world.

(Hero) “I swear upon my life”

Suddenly white chains surrounded the boy, wrapping his heart and mind. His body emits a faint light as a sweet woman’s voice whispers to his ears, almost crying. “I’m so sorry”

The light slowly fades.

(Head mage) “Thus the Hero binding finished. You will head to Astreal Academy to learn magic and fighting, after four years you come home to destroy the demons and our enemies. I note that violating your orders will result death by the grace of Amaterasu. That’s all.”

(Hero) “What do you mean” The "hero" asked confused.

(Head mage) “You will follow the emperor’s orders, if not you will lose your life by your oath. Dismissed.”

Side story 3 - Astreal Academy state

The headmaster is quite in trouble. Strange magic phenomenons are happening through the whole continent while no one knows anything about them, the academy is threatened because there aren’t enough spots for the whole continent's noble children and there is zero talent in half of the students already. If not for the beast kingdom’s support and the few teachers loyalty the academy would be already destroyed.

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Fluffly happiness

A few days later. I promise. It’s not like I broke my legs and wings, and to add on top of that got dragged away by a magical beast.

Seriously.

Oh, well. She’s cute and nice, I like her. When I got mushed on the ground like some flea I had some problems with moving. The thing that caused this disappeared under a black mist before I could see it. A large, appalling monster smelled my blood. It tried to eat me but my punch made it rethink. We talked a little in it’s cave. It turned out that ‘it’ is a ‘she’ and has a family to be fed. I didn’t kill her. I’m so nice right? It’s not like my reasoning was that a huge silver wolf-cat like thing with golden adornments in her fur was so cute that I wanted to tame it. Who do you think I am?

Back to the topic, some *khm* time passed. My head cleaned out a bit, which is good considering I killed someone I “favored”, once tortured and raped. Hmm.. Maybe he enjoyed the rape part, I did not consider this. I have no idea how can I have such thoughts so easily.

Currently I’m healing my heart by caressing and hugging the little cat things. The mother, Lupus, is staring at me like I’m some sort of animal. Strange right? By the way, I call her Fabula because it’s more feminine. You get it right? Hehe. [Note: Lupus in fabula]

The little ones are so adorable and small, they are licking my face all over. Their sizes are about my forearms’ length. Their fur is not only fluffy, they are comfortable and huggable. Have I told you how adorable they are?

Ah.. That stare. She stares a freaking hole in my head, probably knowing that she has no chance fighting me anyway. If I were a mother... [...] That’s a landmine there girl.

(Fabula) “When will you leave?” She’s also cute. Her voice has some strength and motherly fear making it both intimidating and submissive.

“Don’t be such a worrywart, you know you taste bad-*cough* I mean I would never hurt something so adorable and fluffy. Be a little more perky Fabula-chan!”

(Fabula) “Who is ‘Fabulachan’?! I know it probably means something stupid, also, could you stop acting like a retard? It’s annoying. And leave!”

“Máris, Don Fabula.”

(Fabula) “What does that even mean? I don’t understand any of it” I get bored and change the subject.

“Hey, Fabula. Will you introduce me to your husband?” It seems I pulled a funny pin, her face got so scary I decide to stop playing around. “Sorry~ sorry~, it seems I went to far. Forget it. You are funny to tease but it would be a shame to lose our ‘friendship’.”

(Fabula) “What the hell, you knock me out, move in my home, play with my children all this against my will and you dare to call me friend?”

“Aren’t this what very close friends do?” I joke. “I think I’ll leave tomorrow”

(Fabula) ” Great.” She says while giving a long sigh.

“Can i-” I try to ask something but she cuts me off quickly.

(Fabula) “NO, YOU CAN’T TAKE ANY OF THEM WITH YOU.”

So this is how I spend my day. Playing with the little ones, teaching them how to hunt (also teaching/training myself during that) and collecting interesting plants. I have to make money from something later on, don’t I? It’s easy to imitate others for me, even if the quality is worse. I can do almost anything on a barely ok level. In my head I already learned how to use a basic alchemy set. They are child’s play compared to the one’s at the magic shop place. No promises in reality though.

I should mention that I’m getting used to my new demonic senses. I had a hard time sleeping until now but now it’s getting better. I don’t need my eyes to see and able to concentrate on more than one thing. Literally. This demon body is awesome. Except the fact that I’m still a whore demon. Well, I’ll get used to it but it’s not like I’ll die without sex.

Tomorrow I'll leave. I wasted so much time again but gained experience controlling my body and mind. Why am I in a hurry? I have no idea, I just feel that it’ll be a problem if I’m not quick enough. Still can’t get used to these strange instincts, it feels like I’m manipulated. The only reason I follow them is because they're useful and never lies.

After I get my fill of fluffy happiness I sleep for a night sharing my bodyheat(hug) with the smaller ones.

The next day I depart, while listening to a lot of weak crying noises. Wait, what did you expect? Sorry to disappoint you, nothing unusual happened. There wasn’t any angry monster pursuing me. See? There isn’t any little cute animal in my hands.

Of course after settling our differences I left empty handed. I mean the only thing in my hand is my other hand ripped off. It's nothing serious for the current me.

It hurts like bitch that’s for sure. It’s a shame demonic body does not have better pain tolerance. Considering, pain is still an important factor in life.

I noticed something strange. I don’t remember being tortured in my past, yet I know this is nothing compared to what real pain is. My body knows. The little demon me had a harsh life but it's strange that she was not killed on the spot and not tortured. How could they even let her live in this "holy"-shit empire? This is the worst place for demons. Even though all my memories are real, what I know for sure, they are hardly believable. Something must have happened that caused merging those souls.

There is the fact that the two souls are dead. They were dead already when I was "born" but I can’t consider it a bad thing since without them there wouldn’t be me. Even if some evil did that, they gave me life. How should I settle with this?