No longer human, can I make my dream come true?
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<NORMAL POV>
"Let me ask you something first," Yohan said while moving his chess pieces to get rid of Sona's pieces.
"Please"Same for Sona, she immediately moved her pieces without thinking first while answering Yohan's words.
"Okay. I'm sure last night I lost consciousness due to the hard impact that I experienced. And I'm pretty sure that the wound I received was quite serious. Then how come, this morning I was in my apartment in good condition?" Asked him, making the atmosphere momentarily silent. after that Yohan moved his bishop pieces to check
In a few moments, there was silence in the room including the other student council members who were present there.
"Huuh~...alright, let me answer your question but first let me explain a few things" She replied while blocking the attack from bishop Yohan's piece.
"I know that this sounds preposterous. But I'll be honest with you. We're Devils," said Sona, who immediately shocked Yohan, his thoughts stopped and felt empty.
"Huh?" Yohan's surprise could be seen in his frozen expression. Seeing he didn't believe just what Sona said stood up for a moment and spread her devil wings.
And that didn't make any difference to Yohan's expressions he was even more shocked that they were real.
'Wait, she said fallen angel before?' His thought. He realized something from the previous dialogue where she said Deten-Shi which is interpreted in a different language is a Fallen Angel.
"It seems I disturbed your concentration," Sona said sitting back and after moving her pieces, because Yohan was careless because the amount of incoming information disturbed his concentration which created an opportunity for She to make an accurate move.
Yohan realized that he had lost his focus while playing, and now he had to turn things around.
"Okay, I can believe what you said. And what have you done to me that night? I dare say this because you claim to be the Devil and the Devil that I know is an evil creature that always tempts people to sin," said Yohan. with his serene expression.
He moved his Rook Piece to block Queen Sona's move.
For Sona, he didn't overreact to being accused like that but it was different from someone behind his back.
"Hey! I've been holding it. This kid is so arrogant!" Said Saji, a new member of the student council. He is a calm man and likes watering flowers in the backyard, according to Yohan's view. Sona in front of him.
"Saji...calm down, that person is just bluffing. It's normal for them to be suspicious of us" Tsubaki said restraining Saji from acting recklessly.
"Sorry for bothering you. I will discipline him again" Sona even apologized for the inconvenience given to her members.
"No problem, I understand. He is a new member" said Yohan.
Now the one dominating the game is Sona, but Yohan is enough to give her a fierce resistance so that her movement stops at several points.
"Of course, if it's our ancestors. Several centuries ago a great war occurred as the Bible tells. Angels, Fallen Angels, and Devils waged war until the four demon lords who ruled the underworld back then died in the war. And our story starts from there. .where several years passed after the war ended each leader of the three factions agreed to a ceasefire and experience peace for a while. but some rifts occurred in our race. at that time there was the civil war, which divided the two different factions. the satanic faction Lamas who want to continue the war and those who like to toy with humans with various temptations to commit sins and the Anti-Satan Faction who want to focus on survival because our numbers were few in that era. If the big war continues then our race will become extinct. the years of war continued until finally the victory was won by the Anti-Satan Faction which did genocide against the Old Satan Faction. currently, the four vacant seats of the demon king were occupied by the Ace of the Anti-Satan Faction which changed some new rules. it was those rules that changed the habits of the races a lot and the development of the races towards something new. and now our races are similar like humans with some points, our nature cannot be changed" Sona explained. she answered all of Yohan's questions at once.
"And... since the goal of the devil race now is to supplement the population that was reduced a lot during the great war. also because it's really hard for us to produce offspring... even though we're similar to humans now but it's clear that we're different in every way... then the solution to the problem that's still not solved it. we created an artifact that could be turning other races into devils by reincarnating them." Sona gave a signal to all the members to open their devil wings.
"All my members used to be human, but thanks to the artifact, I reincarnated them into Devils. Also as a way to save your life last night," Sona's last words and guilty expression made Yohan realize something.
"Wait…you mean… me too!?" Yohan was so shocked that his mind went blank for a moment.
"Sorry!... I usually don't recklessly reincarnate someone, only this time your situation is dire. It would be too late to take him to the hospital then." Sona lowered her head, apologizing for reincarnating his without permission.
Yohan's feelings right now were mixed. he wanted to be angry but the words didn't come out of his mouth.
"Haah~...that's unexpected," said Yohan, lifting his head to the sky and staring at the ceiling of the room.
Sona could see that there was a sense of disappointment coming out of his words, making her guilt even bigger.
'Now... can I make my dream come true? and keep the promise that I have made? one of the volunteers who came to help the orphanage where he was from his hometown.
'Don't look at the cover but what's in it, you know what I mean?. that is you shouldn't judge someone based on their appearance, race, or what they did in the past but judge them based on their current actions.' He advised Yohan at that time still 12 years old.
Remembering that, Yohan calmed down and resumed his game of chess which had stopped when Sona explained at length about her reasons.
That made Sona, who was gloomy earlier, slowly widen her eyes and looked at Yohan, who was showing his usual expression again.
"The game isn't over yet, and how long have you been daydreaming like that? now is your turn" Yohan said, which immediately moved Sona's spirits back up.
When she instantly focused back on the game.
"Can we make a bet... who has to comply with the winning request?" Yohan suddenly made a challenge to her.
"Hee...I agree. Don't take back your words," said Sona, who just agreed and was confident that she could, indeed, from Yohan, who had defeated several chess champions from various countries, including his own.
And won against all of them when Yohan was still 14 years old.