Devil's contract

The brief feeling of elation did not last very long.

“Oh hey, it’s the sexy one. Asmo something?”, Sylphid pointed out.

Indeed. Accompanying Cassandra was none other then the Devil of lust.

Asmodeus.

“What do ya want?”, Fisti asked with trepidation in her voice. “And why are ya with the slaver?”

Asmodeus responded with a soft chuckle. “Please, cute one, there is no need for such aprehension. I am here on business from my master.”

“Your...master?”

“Ojou”, Cassandra explained. “While you lots were busy running around I did the actual important shit. Speaking of shit. Where’s the cunt?”

Sylphid grabbed into her sportsbra and took the blood soul out.

“Seriously?”, Cassandra clicked her tongue. “Fucking cunt didn’t deserve such an easy way out. Should have at least **** her to dead, Daddy.”

Asmodeus meanwhile showed an immediate fascination towards the Blood Soul. “So this is...Oh my...how splendid!”

“Mind explaining what this is all about?”, I asked Cassandra.

She and Asmodeus exchanged a look. Eventually, the later began speaking.

“To begin with, I like to clarify the situation.” The devil spoke with a cool, clinical voice, which I really wasn’t expecting out of her. “You are aware that your contract is still active, even with Femto’s passing, right?”

I gave a nod.

“Excellent. Then allow me to, on behalf of the entire Devil realm, sincerely apologize to you, Mr. Beta.”

“Apologize?” I had no idea what this was about.

The Devil nodded. “Do you have perchance your copy of the contract available?”

I didn’t. But Maria was quick to pull the document out.

“I like you to pay close attention to Page 3, section VI. In particular this line.”

VI Miscellaneous. This Agreement may not be assigned without the written consent of the other party. Contractor’s services are personal in nature and may not be assigned or delegated to any other devil. This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between the parties and supersedes any prior oral or written understandings with respect to the Services. This Agreement may only be amended by an agreement signed in writing by all of the parties hereto. Upon execution this Agreement will be valid and binding obligation of each party and enforceable in accordance with its terms.

“Yeah?”, Fisti raised an eyebrow. “Sounds like some lawyer lingo mumbo jumbo gibberish to me.”

“On the contrary”, Asmodeus continued. “This passage states that no other devil then Femto is allowed to take part in this contract. That is not a line that is usually part of our contracts. For obvious reasons.”

“H-Hold on”, I needed a minute to wrap my head around what this means. “You are telling me this contract…”

“is now invalid”, Cassandra completed my thought process. “Me and the maid noticed as much when we set it up.”

I stared at the contract and Femto’s signature, for a brief moment even unable to respond to this information.“But why would Femto...”

“Hmph”, Hebi-san sniffed. “It was most certainly because that selfish devil wanted that foolish Mari Beta’s soul all for herself.”

Asmodeus continued. “Once again, on behalf of the entire Devil Realm I apologize. Now, would it be alright if we simply dismiss the payment clause?”

“...dismiss it?”

“In essence it means that the contract is hereby concluded”, Asmodeus clarified with a smile.

“Hold on! W-what about Lady Sylphid?”, Fisti interrupted. “Will she get her strength back now?”

“Unfortunately, that passed away with Femto”, Asmodeus explained while eyeing Sylphid. “A tremendous shame, really. I quite enjoyed our little tryst.”

“Oh don’t worry, electro devil! I’m still dtf, even in my current state!”

I see. That more or less settled it. Or almost. “Is there a chance to bring Femto back?”

Asmodeus smiled sympathetically but shook her head. “Femto’s soul has already returned to the cycle of rebirth. Not even we devils can interfere with the law of the gods to such a degree. If it provides you any solace, as all souls she too will eventually be reborn. In her case as a Kalar, as is customary when Devil’s pass away.”

...

I shook my head. “Sorry, but I can’t accept that. I want this contract to continue.”

This predictably caused all the girls to freak out.

“Foolish Mari Beta! Has your senses taken leave from your wits? Valkyrie hold that fool down so that we may hypnotize him into being non foolish!”

Just in case, I closed my eyes.

Cassandra rolled hers instead. “While Daddy is pretty fucking stupid (orgasms), the actual reason is even worse. Daddy is terrified of us dying with him when he croaks.”

“Is that true?”, asked Valkyrie.

“Yeah”, I admitted weakly. “Cassandra, Beatrice, Sanakia and Hebi-san. All of them have safety orders on. None of you deserve to life the rest of your life in constant fear of my dead.”

It was the only right thing to do.

“So, Asmodeus. Can you substitute for Femto? I’m alright with that. Just as long as this...”

“Are you a moron? What the hell is wrong with you?”

That was...Beatrice. She stood there at the door of her bedroom.

Looking very pissed.

“You defective, destitute dimwit! You there, Valkyrie! Punch him! Punch him into the face right now and smack some sense into that moron’s frontal cortex!”

Well, Hebi-san tried the same thing so I should be...

PUNCH!

That was thankfully not Valkyrie but Sanakia.

“My apologies, my Lord! But I will not let this drivel further sully your lips! Such selfishness is utterly beneath you!”

She looked extremely angry and ferocious, only slightly diminished by the fact that she was stark naked. I groaned and rubbed my chin. “S-selfish?”

“It is quite selfish”, Hebi-san agreed with a nod. “You put your own feelings above anything else. Completely ignoring how we feel about the matter. We will have to punish you severely for such indulgency.”

“If Femto died because of something idiotic like this I will never forgive you!”, Beatrice screamed. “You might as well give your soul up right now, because every day from now on will be hell for you!”

“A-and Lady Sylphid didn’t lose her powers, so ya can go around pissing away yer soul, ya idjit!”

Aiju, still eating, nodded. “Don’t get it, but agree with angry girls. Mari, don’t be selfish or else...”

“Yeah”, Sylphid scratched her head.”I mean, I know I don’t have these safety orders on, so it’s kinda not my place to say it, but Handsome, what the fuck?”

“As someone that is in your debt”, Valkyrie added. “I am unable to allow myself to let you do this. Should you persist on this path I will have to stop you by ****.” She glared at me, clearly serious.

I...was at a complete loss at what to say. Was I really just selfish here? No, this can’t be it right? I’m doing this for the girls!

Then Cassandra chuckled. Oh right, there is at least one person here that definitely agrees with my reasoning.

“I really hate to destroy this beautiful emotional display of heroic self sacrifice but...please stop underestimating me like this, Daddy.”

Sanakia, Fisti and most worryingly Valkyrie still looked ready to punch me again so I had to be very careful here. “And what do you mean by that?”

The huntress smirked. “I expected that Daddy would freak out about this particular part, so I had a little talk with Ojou. She is willing to pull some strings and have the safety orders removed from all of us.”

I could only look at Cassandra with my mouth open.

“Just like that?”, Fisti asked.

“Obviously not. She wants something for this”, Cassandra pointed at Sylphid.

“We approve”, Hebi-san nodded quickly.

“I’m not handing over…”

Cassandra groaned. “Yeah, yeah, you’re a riot. I’m talking about the fucking cunt!”

Oh.

“Specifically her Blood Soul.” Asmodeus smiled. “That is the second reason for my presence. To take payment on my masters behalf.”

“A Blood soul for this?” Hebi-san sniffed. “Foolish slaver, your negotiations skills are as poor as your sense of dress. You should have demanded to lift this curse entirely!”

“Yeah, fuck you too”, Cassandra snarled. “I already bargained her down. Initially, the bitch wanted Cia...”

“Oh no! No way, nu ah!”, Sylphid grabbed Cia and pulled her close. “This little cutie belongs to me! There’s no way I’m giving him up!”

Well, no surprises there.

...wait a minute. Him?

“Me Mari’s mate, not gonna change”, agreed Aiju. “Gonna stay like this.”

“Naturally! I will serve my Lord until my dying day!”

“Guess we’re in agreement then.” Cassandra shrugged. “And you know, deep down I think Daddy enjoys this whole obedience fetish thing. He’s never going to admit it of course.”

Fisti rolled her eyes. “I always knew yer a pervert.”

I wisely decided to not comment.

“This is also in your best interest”, Asmodeus informed me. “Should you keep this blood soul you would no doubt be hounded by monsters and Dark Lords alike. This is not an affront the Demon King can let pass without retaliation.”

I didn’t even consider that. And it’s not like I want to keep this creepy thing as memento anyways. I suppose Ojou-sama will have more options to keep this secure then myself.

I took one more look through the girls. And yes, it seems there was no arguing that this was the proper path forward. Not sure, handing over an immortal, extremely powerful being to a crime boss is particularly proper, but...

Very well.

“Give me that!” Beatrice snatched the contract out of my hand and looked it over very carefully. “Yes, this is indeed utterly invalid”, she stated after a bit. “Although it upsets me very much. I intended to ruin this contract myself...how dare that Femto do it for me...” She started to shake and Sanakia gently hugged her.

And so I handed the Blood soul to Asmodeus.

The devil looked at it briefly, nodded and smiled.

Then she swallowed it.

WHAT THE FUCK!

“This wasn’t part of the deal, you lunatic!”, I shouted.

For the first few seconds nothing happened, then Asmodeus started to shudder and gasp.

“T-this is preposterous”, Sanakia gulped, readying her sword. “A Devil swallowing a Blood Soul is unheard of!”

“Let’s just hope the devil actually has what it takes.”, Cassandra clicked her tongue. “Cunt won’t take that lying down.”

“Oh you think?”, I screamed. “Mind informing me about something like that beforehand next time?”

“Then you wouldn’t have agreed.”

I’m surrounded by psychopaths!

“But this looks fun!”, Lucky laughed giddily. “A Devil Dark Lord never existed! I wonder what she ends up looking like? Yay!”

Then Asmodeus eyes started to glow blue and an uncharacteristic smirk formed itself on the devils lips.

Valkyrie narrowed her eyes and took a battle stance. “Everyone, get behind me.”

Shit, I don’t even have any weapons! What the hell are we going to do?

“What are you waiting for?”, Beatrice groaned. “She still has to obey you. Tell her to not fight back.”

Oh, right!

I almost stumbled over my words but eventually managed to get the order out.

“Good job, boy”, Asmodeus(?) stated. “You ended up giving me two power ups in one day.”

Don’t tell me the spell’s no longer working!

Minerva chuckled, enjoying my apparent panic. “The brat’s right. Can’t fight back. Even now I’m feeling my self fading. Well done, boy. You truly beaten me.”

“We all did”, I responded back.

Minerva scoffed at that, Then she glanced towards Cassandra. “Cass...You will carry my marks until the day you die. I will always be a part of you. Just like Don is.”

“Geez, how swell. Now do my a favor and die for real already, cunt.”, Cassandra spat.

Minerva chuckled once more, then her eyes rolled back into her head and the devil let out a shrill shriek, followed by a violent electric discharge. Luckily Valkyrie managed to protect us from the worst of it.

“Look my Lord, the Devil appears to be calming down”, Sanakia gestured towards Asmodeus.

Indeed, she slowly stabilized her breathing.

“My”, the devil of lust at last chuckled. “I had many an intense intercourse but nonetheless this was quite something.”

“Asmodeus?”, I asked cautiously. “Are you back?”

She smiled. “Yes, it is over. I have fully absorbed her.”

Hopefully this is not yet another bait and switch by Minerva.

“It’s fine”; Beatrice assured. “Otherwise her body would have transformed. This was simply a regular soul absorption.”

I don’t think we should use the words regular and soul absorption. “What the hell were you thinking? If I didn’t order Minerva she would have taken you over!”

“But you did order her”, Asmodeus replied with a giggle. “It was a calculated risk. A regular soul absorption requires consent. This loophole was the only way around it.”

And if devils like one thing it’s loopholes.

But it really didn’t appear that Asmodeus had changed in the slightest. Same big boobed devil as always. I exhaled. That was way more stressful then it needed to be.

“Fucking cunt just had to have the last word.”, Cassandra spat. “Looking forward to pissing on her grave.”

“Aww, I was hoping she became a devil”, Sylphid pouted. “I didn’t even get to fuck Erva once!”

“Hmm...how about the next best thing, little martial artist?”, Asmodeus licked her lips and shuddered. “This power, it is absolutely overwhelming. I will need to drown someone in it lest I burst!”

“Uhhh!”, Sylphid grinned. “Drowning sounds nice!”

I wonder if the right monster survived. Minerva had to at least obey me.

“So...well then...what happens now?”, Sanakia asked uncertainly.

That was a good question. Getting you into some clothes sounds like a good start.

But before I could get to that, the elevator moved once more.

Great, who is it this time?

Out stepped a very ornery looking Ben. For someone that died today he looked way too energetic. “Heeeey, you! You! You know! What do you think your doing!”

Ben furiously waltzed towards me and came way to close for comfort. It was a bit scary. “W-what do you mean?”

“You can’t just disappear like that! We still haven’t had your victory ceremony! Do you want us to sue your ass for contract violation! Because that’s how you get your ass sued for contract violation!”

“V-victory ceremony? We are still doing this?”

“Duh. You are lucky the chairman had to hold a very long speech, doing damage control for what you pulled today. But even so, we are cutting it close! Let’s go, go, go!”

Without me being able to protest, Ben shoved me in the elevator.