Chapter 2 Metamorphosis

Intro

The night sky is slowly becoming darker and darker as we followed this woman to her house.

"We're here." The woman said. "Please follow me quietly."

Infront of us is a luxurious house that looks like it's never cleaned for many days. It's basically an abandoned luxurious house.

The house is emitting a creepy aura like that of a haunted house.

The door made a creepy creek sound as she opened the door.

I slightly peek at her face.

Her reddened cheeks and eyes with her unkept hair usually made her look like a psycho but now all I notice is a sad mother who just wanted her son back.

Is she okay?

"..."

"Sorry, I just need something to hold." Panora said as she grabbed my shoulder.

"This way." The woman turned left and opened another door.

"Gah!" Panora screamed in fright.

"Hey."

I lightly let her notice how disrespectful she was behaving but any normal person would be terrified upon seeing a man who looks like a zombie across the room for the first time.

He just sat on his bed tied to a rope.

"S-sorry, I'm just not used to scary stuff like this." She said.

"It's okay I understand. I get that reaction from everyone except him." The woman said looking at me.

"You seemed pretty well compared to seconds ago." I said.

"I believe in you." The woman said.

I hope so.

"What's his name? Yours too." I asked.

"His name is Aestes Alata. I'm Ada Alata." Ada said.

An AA family. Not quite what you'd expect.

"Can I call you Alata?" I asked.

She nodded in response.

"Well then, Alata. I'd like you to leave with Panora for a bit? There's something I'd like to try and I can't do it with people looking." I requested.

"Thank you for helping us." She said and left. Panora followed.

After they left and close the door, I walked up to the tied subject and stood beside his bed.

"Hey, Aestes. Can you hear me?"

He didn't answered and sat there silently keeping a stone faced.

"If your not answering me then..." I raised my right hand towards him. " As expected." I muttered as he grabbed my hand a few centimetres before it made contact with his head.

"Don't touch me, you imbecile. Gawr!"

A strange voice came from the boy's mouth. If I were to describe it then it's basically a deep forceful and a slow tone like that of a demons.

An empty shell that reacts to external force only when provoke,huh.

"You look terrible. How sad." I said looking at his deformed figure and pulled away my hand. "Sleep." I muttered and he fell asleep.

"Now let's see..." I muttered and observed his body closely.

I turn my eye on his head.

Hair looks normal but facial structure looked deformed with his eyeball peaking out. His eyes has dark bags , his mouth is also completely inhumane.

He's too calm to be a possessed but...

Looking at him closely I can see why people thought this was a possession but seeing the condition this is likely a demon pact-curse.

His body is too weak to be a possession and his face looks too different from his picture standing on the cupboard considering the picture was painted accurately.

The house doesn't appear to be haunted either. His mother wasn't harmed despite him being suspected to be possessed. Even with all this, I can conclude that he's being cursed by someone.

What did he do to get caught up in this?

Looking at his conditions, the mainly effected area is his mental stage.

The curse was aimed to deformed his figure and corrupt his mental health, His mental condition was malfunctioning as the brain chained reaction with the soul was being interfered with by a curse energy sending false information sealing his consciousness and soul apart and he is being force to express these false information because the curse replace the role of the soul which is the main perception in motion and response of human beings. This explained his strange behaviour but it appears that his consciousness isn't completely gone.

He's fighting against the curse but as a result he became an empty shell that reacts when provoke by an external force.

For one to inflict such curse means they must've sold their soul to a Demon.

In my current condition, I don't possessed the ability to remove a sacrifice-curse directly but there's still a way I can save him.

"Now where should I start?"

As I finished my observation I walked out of the room to see them waiting for me to walk out with good news.