1 The Beginning

Demons.

Some says that they're real but I decided not to believe them.

"I've heard they found a dead body on that building again!"

"It's obviously a Demon's work, it ate the person's soul."

I could always hear our neighbors talking about Demons who are said to be soul's eater, whenever there's something bad happen or someone died, they'd always blame Demons for it but I didn't bother to take interest on their nonsense talks.

"Onii chan, do demons really exist?"

The gum popped and that felt so weird. I rubbed my hands together before I glanced at her. "Lil sis, don't believe on what you hear."

"So demons aren't real?" with her eyes that's full of curiosity, she asked.

I pat her head and nodded. "Of course, they're just lying. They just want to scare people so don't believe them."

Demons or Devils are just creatures that people created to scare kids. They talk about it often when in fact, they don't know what it is. In reality, the thing that matters the most is your life so don't bother to believe someone who's not going to help you to live your life to the fullest. This is what I believed so far...

Not until..

"Shi Matsui!"

I placed the box accordingly before I faced her.

As usual, her looks was scaring the shit out of me but I have no choice but to face her since she's the manager of this market and I work here. And for the first time in my life, this is the first ever job I got that worked out for two days! because err.. I'm not really that lucky in life so I always ended up jobless at the end of the day.

"Take those boxes at the back of the market! Now!"

'She's really the worst manager I've ever had!' I thought.

Well, I need this job so I need to work my ass off.

Even though the boxes are too many that I could feel like my arms are already trembling because of tiredness, I still need to to this.

Shi Matsui won't give up.

I was about to enter the hallway that would lead me to the back of the market when someone grabbed my shoulder.

"Sheesh, you shocked me! What do you need?"

The boy smiled awkwardly, "Be careful.."

I took a deep sigh, "What's this all about?"

He crossed his arms over his chest that made him looked like he's cold. "There's a demon at the end of that hallway, be careful.." then, he immediately left.

I just shrugged my shoulders. Is that a prank? Or Even here, those nonsense rumors were spreading? Geez, demon my ass. They're all idiot for believing such thing that doesn't even exist.

While walking, the hallway becomes colder than before, it feels like when I reached the end, I would be transfer to a cold country or what. There's no air conditioner so I'm wondering, how is it possible to be cold in here? It's summer so how?

"Is this really normal?" I asked my self.

Aside from the cold temperature, this feeling.. it's like I'm walking in a hallway with no end! I can't even see the backdoor!

What the hell is happening?!

I turned around to run back to the market but all I could see is darkness.

Endless darkness.

"Finally.. a human!"

That day, I saw something appeared in front of my eyes.

Something that I never expect to see.

Something I thought would never exist.

And before I could even react.. I just found my self bleeding..

because of the demon's fangs.