The Demon's Bride

The faces on those bodies were perfect, they were so similar to the faces of people whom Esther had seen before. The details was so intricate that even the small wounds and scars of that person would be at the same spot of the bodies on the coffins.

Esther was in shock. She couldn't understand why and how the woman could create the similar bodies of the people she knows.

A shadow moved behind them and Beelzebub knowing who it was spoke, "Seems like you had purposely let us enter here, what do you want?"

"I thought you would believe me if I show you my deepest secret," said the woman. "I have been tasked to do jobs such as this, to create faces of people, to make a double out of them. These 'doubles' are simply dolls that I can command to do. However, they are not able to follow complex orders."

"You succeeded? If you do, you wouldn't be here and there would be more of your dolls all over Hell," Esther stated, narrowing her eyes in suspicions.

"Well, that only means I have not succeeded. Don't look at me like that, I have to stress you on one thing. I haven't lied to you two, not at all since you enter this mansion," said the woman to them.

Beelzebub who caught this pulled his eyebrows together, "Is there someone who ordered you to do this?"

"Not ordered," The woman waved her hand, "I only work on those who had form a contract to me."

"That fucker, my uncle," Beelzebub's voice went lower, the fierceness from his uncontrollable anger could be heard from his words, "You are saying that someone put you up into making a doll out of him?"

Esther reminded of how the people had seen Beelzebub's uncle. If that wasn't a lie and if his uncle was truly dead, it was assumable that the man was simply a doll which the demoness had created.

She looked at the demoness who calmly nodded her head. Her face and figure was the same exactly as her reflection on the mirror had showed.

Beelzebub's anger caused him to take a step forward to attack the demoness, Esther noticing something was off, hold Beelzebub's arm and stopped him before he could do whatever the worse thing he could do.

Esther was worried they would end up on a wall again, without no answer. She can't decide yet whether the demoness was their enemy or ally. One thing she knows is that they could still elicit answer from her and it was what Esther did.

"Why and who?" Esther directed the question to the demoness.

She didn't answer.

Was there a creed in her contract that she couldn't tell the name of other person in the contract?

Esther was about to take a step forward when her dress was caught on the sharp corner of a single coffin on her right side. She had moved without knowing this, causing her to tug her skirt, and at the same time, the coffin lid, opening wide the coffin on her right side.

Beelzebub was the first to notice the person inside the coffin while Esther had a more belated reaction as she only look on her right side when she felt the chilling anger radiating from Beelzebub.

"Beel?" Esther asked, looking at him before following his gaze to look inside the coffin.

There was a woman inside the coffin. Like all the other bodies inside the coffin, her eyes were closed and she appeared as though she was asleep. Esther noticed the only difference from the woman and the other bodies inside the coffins were that she didn't know whose face the body used. She wasn't like all those dolls who had renowned high demon faces on them.

Although she doesn't know who the woman was, she could tell it was the opposite to Beelzebub. His red eyes quickly took a sharp turn. Anger boiled his face and the nerves on his hand twitched as if it was ready to snap a person's neck near him.

"Welyn," said Beelzebub. He could see the confusion on Esther's face and explained, "She was my friend. The human who saved me from harm when my uncle wanted to kill me."

Esther's eyes widened. "A human?"

"No one should know anything about Welyn other than me and that fucker who I have killed," said Beelzebub before glaring deadly at the demoness. "Who. Is. It?" He gritted his teeth as he demanded for answer.

"I don't think I should explain it to you again, do I?" The demoness questioned Beelzebub instead. Esther looked at his eyes, finding that although he still demand for an answer, he appeared as if he knew who was behind all this.

"Where is that person?" Was Beelzebub's next question. f𝙧𝒆𝚎𝑤e𝚋𝓷o𝘷𝗲l.c𝐨m

The demoness unfolded her hand and pointed her finger to the floor above them. Beelzebub without further word rushed outside off the room and Esther followed him from behind when the demoness took hold of her hand and stopped her.

"Once you step out off this floor, I won't be your ally anymore," the demoness warned her and took a step forward, whispering a few words before releasing her hand.

Esther's face appeared surprised by what the demoness had said. She left the room while still looking at the demoness who stood silently inside the room. Before she could reach to the end of the hallways, Esther could sense the demoness had left the place from thin air.

"Can you tell me who Welyn is?" Esther asked him as they rushed out off the hallways that seemed to be more complex as they hurried to find the staircase that could lead them to the upper floor.

Beelzebub looked into her eyes before looking forward again and spill out the naive story of his friendship with a woman who had lost all hope.

Esther learned how big of an existent Welyn was to Beelzebub. It wasn't an existent similar to a lover or a mother, Beelzebub had seen her as a close friend and her sacrifice had greatly impacted him like how his parents had died.

He told her his deep resentment against his uncle and Esther understood that resentment well as she once had the same grudge against her own father.

It now explained why Beelzebub was anger when he saw Welyn's face had been placed into the doll's body.

"Do you know who planned for this all?"?Esther asked him.

Beelzebub didn't purse his lips but his eyes went bleak as he replied to her, "Considering how this person knows not only about me and Welyn, I do have a faint guess on who this person could be."

In time, they had found a staircase, Beelzebub wasn't able to finish his words as they rush upstairs, greeted by a wide open space and a man who sat on a single chair in the room.

The man appeared much older than Beelzebub but his eyes were red as him, proving him to be a demon. His gray hairs explained of his old age and when he looked at Beel, Esther could feel the anger and hatred.

"I knew it," Beelzebub said to him, "I never expected to see you here, however. You must be he, Welyn mentioned you once to be her father."

The elder demon in front of them narrowed his eyes sharply and his jaw clenched at the mention of his daughter.

"And you must be him. That bastard who had killed my daughter!"

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i think I mixed beel's name a bit by Dominic sorry ><