1 Summoning
"Hey, hey let's do what this paper says." Akira requested to his friends.
"Do you really believe in all that nonsense? You should go for a doctor if you are still insisting on doing this." Haru said.
"From where did he even get something like this?" Ryo asked.
"Ah, he told me that he found it near the river when he was playing baseball. Since he always does the fielding at the corner, the ball never comes to him and he slacks off here and there." Haru answered while smiling.
"You don't have to shape it like that. I always do the fielding because that damn Kozakura always snatches my side of play. I mean, can you even complain to him if he is standing with that big body in front of you?" Akira sighed.
"You should confront him or else you won't get a chance to show your worth." Ryo said chuckling.
"I don't want to hear that from you. Don't you remember, how he jumped at you just because you talked to Kiyoko during the class." Akira remarked.
"Yeah, I remember. Kozakura beat him until he became a fried lump of meat." Haru said and they both started laughing.
"It's not like I did something wrong. He is just too crazy for her, even if she doesn't give a Sh*t about that. I mean who would like an ugly fat ass like him." Ryo started shouting his complains.
"You can't be any more accurate about that." Haru said while laughing.
"Rig-" Akira's eyes suddenly froze and he stopped speaking. Haru also noticed and turned his gestures.
"Right? I mean how the hell can he bear himself when he sees his face in the mirror." Ryo continued.
"It is too rude of you, Ryo." Akira said.
"Yeah, Kozakura is our classmate and a true friend. You can't judge anyone by his looks but the inner soul also matters." Haru said sympathizing with Kozakura.
"What happened to both of you suddenly?" Ryo asked confused.
"Nothing happened. We are always like this, aren't we Akira?" Haru spoke with a scared face.
"Yeah, it's not like something will suddenly change our behavior." Akira said while indicating Ryo with his eyes.
"Uh, don't tell me..." Ryo finally understood the grave danger he was in when he slowly turned his face. As he looked back, he got a déjà vu of the time when he was getting squashed by a big fat body. The person standing behind him was Kozakura.
Presently, Ryo was feeling like a goat that had been left alone in a room with a lion. All his senses were saying just one thing. You fucked up.
"Y-Yō, Kozakura. He...he, h-how rare of you to join us today." Ryo was completely under a short-term syndrome where one's mind go blank and the body takes control. In short terms, peak of dumbness.
Kozakura looked at him with fierce eyes that were clearly expressing his vexatious mood.
"By the way, did you hear everything that I said right now?" Ryo was looking for a tiny bit of luck left inside his storage that can save him, but he found nothing. Kozakura's stares gave Ryo his answer.
"I am doomed, right?" Ryo looked back and asked from his friends. Both of them began whistling and started walking backwards without heeding the surroundings. Ryo got his answer as he confronted the disaster in front of him.
"Try to keep it as painless as possible." Ryo said to Kozakura as he accepted his fate. You will always be remembered. Ryo heard voices of his friends who had reached far away from the danger and were saluting him for his great sacrifice.
*
"He is jinxed." Haru said.
"At least we gave him a salute for his courage, because he brought that on himself." Akira said.
"Yeah. Well, I guess we should return back to our houses quickly." Haru suggested.
"Hmm, we won't be able to do anything if he suddenly comes for us, and become a mincemeat like Ryo." Akira said and came close to Haru.
Haru was confused as he saw Akira doing something with his bag.
"Okay, then. See you soon." Akira bid his farewell as he started running away.
"What did you do?" Haru shouted as he saw Akira running.
"Just gave you some responsibility. Do whatever you want with that, since I can't figure out what that paper is?" Akira shouted and turned away to a different direction.
Haru took out the page from his bag and sighed.
"Damn Akira and his obsession with occult things." Haru said and looked at the page. He then, folded the page and kept it back in his bag again.
"I will give it back to him tomorrow." He spoke.
"As if a real devil can come out of it." He talked in air and walked to his way back home.
*
"Looks like no one is home." Haru said as he unlocked his doors and entered his house.
He removed his shoes and socks from his feet and quickly ran to his room through the stairs. He locked the room and changed into his casual wear.
He opened his bag and took out the page from it.
"Ah, I am completely hopeless." Haru said as he opened the page and put it on his study table.
"What does it say?" Haru thought in his mind as he read the note.
DEVIL'S NOTE
Follow all the steps carefully and diligently if you want to summon a demon of your accord.
1) Put few drops of your blood on the circle given below. Caution: It is for the contract between the devil and you, so do it precisely.
2) Recite these lines: 'I call thy devil, come thy serve me. Thy question's answer is'
3) Swear to do something that you fear the most. Caution: You only get three chances, so speak carefully.
"What the hell did he not understand here? Everything's written clearly. So, at last, he was just messing with me." Haru said with an irritated mood.
Although, he already knew that this isn't going to work or something like this couldn't happen, he was still curious.
"Well, it can't hurt to try once. It's not like I am losing anything." Haru shut down his logical side so that he can satiate his curiosity.
"Hmm, it's asking for blood. Okay then, let me get it for you, my future demon." Haru unlocked his door and went downstairs.
After about half an hour, Haru returned with a test tube filled with red blood.
"I had to buy this test tube from the shop for storing the blood. So, show me something worth it." Haru wasn't hoping for anything because he was having fun in doing all these preposterous things.
Haru removed the cork from the tube and tried to pour the drops of blood as accurate as he could. When he completely covered the circle, the circle started glowing and some dark violet-black lights started coming through it.
"Whoa, it seems so real. Now, next is reciting that spell" Haru quickly looked at the lines, read the words, and started enchanting it.
"I call thy devil, come thy serve me. Thy question's answer is..."
"Hmm, so I get three chances, right? Then let's try the possibilities." Haru thought.
"I can't do things that look too dangerous, so I have to choose carefully. Hmm, let's try this." Haru thought of something.
"I will put some crushed earthworms in the food that mom will make tomorrow. Dad will eat that breakfast together with Mom, same with me and my sister's lunchboxes that we will share it with everyone."
Boring. Haru suddenly heard a faint voice in his head that clearly expressed that Haru's idea was not exciting and that he should think of something else.
"Well, I am a middle school student so you can't expect me to do something really dangerous right? So, take that in account." Haru said.
"Then for next one, I will leak the nude dancing video of my homeroom teacher and principal that I found while I was working on the administrator's system."
Both are male, not interested. This idea was also rejected.
"I didn't want to use this one, but I guess I don't have a choice." Haru gulped and started speaking firmly.
"I will push a pencil inside Kozakura's ass in front of the whole school and then kick him between his legs." Haru said while thinking, "I really over exaggerated it."
Suddenly, the circle stopped glowing and the page burned into ashes.
"Ugh, nothing happened. Not that I was expecting it." Haru started walking towards the door with a sulking face.
"Hey kid. Are you the one who summoned me?"
A heavy and deep voice called out Haru. As Haru heard it, he froze due to fear. Although he was scared to look back, he still slowly turned to see the owner of the voice.
"..."
When he turned back, there was nothing. Haru was confused and scared at the same time.
"Did the devil really come? Is he invisible? What will happen to me?" Haru started having a conversation with himself while trying to find the source of the voice.
"Where are you looking? I am down here." The voice spoke.
As soon as Haru heard the voice, he became alarmed and slowly looked down.
"..."
"The hell are you staring at, flunky?"
"No, it's just that your body doesn't suit your voice, if I say so myself." Haru said as he looked at the small baby sitting in front of him looking at him.
