ACIEL'S DIARY : INDIGO
SHEET 1.9: THE SHADOW EATER

With the Master in front of me, Ebi beside me, the three of us looked in the direction where a black blob stood. Slowly but surely, the moonlight covered in clouds began to illuminate the forest once again.

That beautiful light illuminated the figure of a sinister black blob in front of us.

With a huge body three meters tall, wearing a cracked human skull mask on his face, holding a black axe in his hand.

But the most striking, which is a few lumps in the shape of a human face on his stomach that squirms as if screaming.

It was an evil Spirit, the Spirits also used to refer to them as demons. The Spirit, who often gives misfortune to man, gives suffering to whoever he seeks, with life as his final payment.

A spirit with a bad personality, and right now he is in front of us.

"God ... Human boy ... Let me eat it ... Give me his leg ... I'll make it soup ... Give me his head ... I'll make it a snack ... Give *********** to me ... I'll make it medicine. Give ... Give ... Give her!!"

The black spirit shot towards us, preparing its axe to attack. The movement is very fast.

"Based on a lowly creature, did you just say you were going to make my prey a soup to satiate your stomach? Know your place, the human in front of you is my food!!"

The master positioned himself in front of me, opened his mouth that was filled with sharp fangs and let out a greenish-black flame from there, directing it straight at the skull Spirit.

"Based on a disgusting creature, I may not have realized at all that you've been around me all along. Just thinking about it makes me vomit, this is indeed not very strong but it is enough to punish a lowly demon like you!!"

On the other hand, Ebi took out a golden ball of light on her nine tails and shot it at the skull Spirit.

The attacks of the two struck the skull Spirit together, causing it to crash, crash into a tree behind it and roll around in pain on the surface of the grass.

With his body emitting smoke, the Skull set its sights on Master and Ebi, then shouted with a sticky sound that sounded disgusting.

"sick! It hurts! The heat! Bidithy! It hurts! Goddamnit!! How dare you bother me?! Give that human boy to me!! In exchange I will forgive you!! Quickly give him!! Give it!! Give it!! Give it!! Give him to me!! Cat and fucking fox!! Quickly give that human to me!!"

The skull spirit shot once again towards us at an unchanging speed. Seeing that, the Master snorted in annoyance.

"Bas stupid, you want to repeat it again? What happened to the attack?"

"You are the fool, stupid cat!! How could I possibly use the same pattern, right?! I have decided!! I'll finish you both off and eat the boy after!!"

At the end of his sentence, the voice of the spirit skull was split and as soon as I noticed it, his body was cut into pieces.

No, he split!!

His body was split into five smaller parts, having more or less the same size as my body. Each of them grew the same skull mask, with an axe in their right hand.

The spirit spread out in five different directions, trying to surround us and jump at the same time, with the three of us at the center. Tighten the handle on the black axe in his hand and—

"Then haven't I asked you this before? what happened to the attack? Don't make me repeat it!!"

The master raised his head upwards, then the entire green-colored line on his fur emitted an extremely bright and powerful beam. Made the five skull Spirits that jumped towards us burn with its light, but—

"Urrghh—!!"

"Master, stop!! Your light also hurt Ebi!!"

The Ebi that was near us also caught fire, though not as severe as the Spirit Skull. The master stopped his light and snorted with a more annoyed face.

"Hmphh!! I did it on purpose, stupid!! Besides, why are you protecting that little fox? Just let him burn with this lowly demon. Didn't he intend to eat your body?"

I took a mediating distance, blocking the Master who directed the black flames towards Ebi who was still cowering in pain.

"No, you're wrong. He has a reason for that!! I'll explain the situation later so for now don't give an attack that will hurt Ebi as well."

"Give up, as long as I can eat your body at the end, I don't really care about any of it. But for now, look over there. Since you're in the way, I failed to eliminate everything."

I looked at the direction that Master was pointing, there was a small skull Spirit whose body was emitting dense smoke. He looked at us with his body shaking violently and ran away towards the bushes.

I inhaled a quiet breath, but it seemed to be making Master even more annoyed.

"Why are you acting like everything's over? He will definitely come back again, after all, your face and body scent he remembers. How many times, he'll keep coming to kill you until he's completely obliterated."

"Eh? Did ya? Then what am I supposed to do? Wouldn't it be bad if he came when I was near the family that supported me? They're all gonna be involved."

The master turned back into his little cat form and lay down on the grass, curling his body and licking his belly.

Huh uh? Ah, he's sulking? Is it possible that this great Tiger who is a High Spirit is sulking at me? He was really angry that I blocked him earlier?

No. gabe...

Is it possible, she felt jealous because I saved Ebi earlier?

"Aciel, I don't know what you're thinking right now but it must be something disrespectful about me. I'll make sure to throw yourself at the well filled with starving Devils if you do it a third time."

Again, Master read my mind. Well, anyway I have to get this over with and get back home. It's entering curfew now.

I walked over to Ebi who was down in pain, touching one of her heads. His eyes look at me.

"Ebi, are you okay?"

"Do I look okay in your eyes? That damn tiger, he really doesn't know how to hold back in front of an old man like me. My strength has still not returned completely, this makes my current self only equivalent to an Intermediate-ranked Spirit, and that stupid Tiger attack really hurts me."

"It does look sick, wait a minute. I'm gonna do something."

I lifted the bag, opened it and took out a pen. Taking out its sharp part and thrusting it into my palm, a small stream of blood immediately came out from there.

Shit, it feels a little sore.

Ebi who saw me do all that gave a look of doubt.

"What are you doing?"

"I remember what you said before. If it's not wrong, you're saying that eating my body will bring back all the Spiritual Energy you have quickly, right? That's why I think my blood has the same effect, even though it won't be as big as when you eat my whole body."

I brought the palm that held a little blood in the middle, towards one of Ebi's mouths. He sniffed my blood and looked at me with an unconvinced look.

"Are you serious about this?"

I thought what was he trying to say but that was it? It makes me a little snigger.

"If I'm not serious, how could I possibly hole my palm, right? Quickly drink. I'll ask you for help in exchange for this blood afterwards so don't think you have a debt of gratitude."

Hearing that, Ebi snorted softly with a corner on her nine slightly raised mouth.

"Then I'll take it, boca—No, what's your name?"

"Ah? Uh. I'm Aciel. Aciel Luciel, you can call me Aciel."

"Aciel Luciel ... That's how it looks, I understand. What a good name."

"Thank you."

Ebi stuck out her tongue, draining all my blood that settled on my palm with a single grab and swallowed it all.

The wound on my palm healed immediately, followed by a golden light that began to surround Ebi's body. The rays on his body were getting brighter and brighter, like the light of the sun.

"Tch, too glare."

I couldn't see it but from his voice, it was clear who clicked his tongue just now.

"Aciel, heaven has truly blessed you with an enormous Spiritual Energy. What kind of destiny do you carry with all those gifts? I'm looking forward to it. With just a little blood, you recovered almost half of my strength, this is an incredible thing."

"Is that so? I'm glad to hear it."

The golden light enveloped his body, then the size of Ebi's body grew and reached a stage where it almost rivaled the size of the two Masters.

After a while, the light that enveloped him split into tiny particles and spread out, displaying a very different form of his.

"Well, then what kind of help do you want from me?"

Ah, not only her appearance, even her voice had also changed.