Astran waited for them to cause any troubles like what they always do
Even books of the history were filled with their mischief, the 7 cardinals with their out of this world ideas of having fun
And one of them, one of the cardinals was the culprit for locking him up for how many years
The whole demon world is the witness to their mischief
They are also the reason why the demon core was made- to control them
Elders made the core to control the notorious demons but they did not expect to also bow down to its power- it was originally made to unify the demon world
And they ended up being unified and tied with the core’s power… Whoever acquired that core can be the Lord of the whole demon race
“Oh… I can't believe this” a demon with a violet hair who is intently looking at Lina gasped in an exaggerated way “She’s here”
“We were only talking about her the moment ago! Look! She’s here!” tears flowed in the demon’s eyes and Lina can only blink
“What are you talking about? She’s clearly not the apprentice”
“NO! Look at her! Clearly, she’s my love!” the Three demon’s started bickering with each other
While they are busy with their own world, Lina studied them
One with violet hair, pink, blonde, brown…
“What are they? Power Rangers?”
The room instantly fell into silence
Astran look at her in disbelief ‘power rangers?’ he can’t believe that she dared compare them to power- whatever is it in this world! They are one of the 7 powerful cardinals!
He expected them to get angry but instead, they cried
In great confusion, the humans- with Astran, wondered why would the demons cry for anything
“MY LOVE!” then, suddenly the 5 Cardinals jumped to hug her- kiss her
Surprised by the sudden movement, Lina locked herself with her Ice “what’s your problem, people?!”
The violet one looked at her with teary eyes “My Love, you… don’t remember me?” her voice broke as she slam her hands on the solid ice
“Let me come to you… please!”
Astran's jaw gaped open and was thrilled to know what happened in their past life… why did these demons fond of Lina?
Looking at Alahim, he asked him “Hey, Can you also make me remember what happened in the past?”
The man just shook his head “You’re a demon, have could you ask the gods for a favor?”
Frozen in his position, Astran realized that he needed to beg the gods to feed up his curiosity- he can’t give them the satisfaction that they want so he disregard the thought
The cardinals still beg Lina for affection but they were rejected coldly
“Stop. What are you doing? Can you have the dignity of a cardinal just for once?”
Familiarized by the voice, Astran gulped before looking at the one who had just spoken “Ah! You’re already here… ha ha!” the awkwardness in his voice can not be hidden
The red-haired demon just look at him for a short time before taking it back to the other cardinals
“Who are you to say that? Don’t act like a f*cking leader now! After what you have done… you should rot in hell!”
One of the demon’s eyebrows rise as he heard what his co-demon said: “I’m a demon…where do you think I should be?”
Realizing what the red-haired said, the latter one just give up and focus her attention on Lina… again “Please, my love… you can’t be like this”
The girl wants to throw up ‘my love’
“Oh! It’s her diary! Look! I found her diary!”
The air changed its direction and in one second, all of their attention was on the journal
The idea of the journal is her diary irks her up. Even the red hair was there! Also curious about the notebook
She doesn’t know why but her cheeks got red seeing them smile while reading its contents ‘come on! I didn’t even finish reading the journal that I, created myself!’
Deciding to grab her possession, she freed herself from the ice cage she created
Her actions were halted when they suddenly burst out laughing
“What in the world!”
Seeing her curious expression, the demons were kind enough to flip the journal and show it to the owner
“You draw a crap”
Again, they burst out laughing before reading the journal again
Speechless, Lina can’t believe that they got ahead of where she was just reading and they almost got to the half!
Also wanting to feed his curiosity, Astran sneak in and fits himself into the crowd
Lina just watch them get along and jerk each other to whatever the contents in the journal they’ve been reading
They are still laughing and smiling at the first half of the journal… until the curve in their lips disappeared
The two demon women teared up despite having a mountain-like pride
Lina can’t help to join in and also read its contents
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I don’t know the time and date or even care about that useless thing… I’m begging you, if someone’s reading this please, get me out of here
Whom am I writing this to? I know that uncle already died… what’s the sense of this mission, then? Can I still get out of this hell?
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“What the f*ck?! I thought you were having a great time with us!”
Shock by the sudden move, Lina can’t read more of the lines- she was forced to look at the demon’s eyes… begging her to answer “We know that you’re forced to live there but… we are with you, isn’t that enough?” the hands that were holding her is releasing too much force
“I treasured the time we are together… but for you, it’s a hell?”
“Well, we can clearly call it hell because demons live there-”
“SHUT UP! No one is talking to you!”
“Wait! Wait! Wait! There’s more! Look!”
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I can’t live with these monsters anymore… they killed the major----
Lina gasped when the violet demon abruptly snatch the journal and thorn all the pages with rage saying that “I can’t accept this! No!”
Gasping, the demon looked at the fragile appearance of Lina “Aren’t we… friends?”
‘friends’
Wondering what happened that she even considered that they were friends, Lina look at the journal and felt that some part of her was also shredded into pieces
“I CAN'T ACCEPT THIS!”
Grabbing both of her hands, the demon enveloped them and filled her cold fingers with warmth “I… what we did that time is a mistake, WE KNOW THAT!”
Watching them get out of control because of the emotions that can’t be named, Lina now can say that demons also have their weaknesses
Clearing his throat, Astran look at each demon in the room “then? What will you? You made a mistake, will you apologize for it?” smirking, the demon was amused how the historical cardinals can be worked up like this
“A… Apologize?”
Chuckling, Astran look at them like he’s the most powerful and smart knowing the word ‘apology’
“You can’t? well… you a demon, it’s understandable that your pride can’t be bent for a simple apology”
The red-haired demon glared at him but Astran continued to scare them “you’re a demon… it’s also understandable that you killed the major just because of ‘entertainment’ ha!”
Alahim, who heard the demon’s declaration huffed his chest in anger- hearing that he died because they want an entertainment is infuriating
“Ah!” wanting to tease them more, Astran look at them “come to think of it… apology isn’t enough to compensate for their death!”
shaking his shoulder, Lina knows that this demon is enjoying his show right now “then what should you do?” Astran look at Lina, exaggerating his worried expression
“They killed your uncle but still want to befriend you!”
Studying everyone’s appearance, the girl wants to know why
Why are they staying still even if they know that Astran only wants to mess with them?
Why is the content of the journal too important for them?
Why would they want to befriend her?
Many questions were floating in her head and she only knows one solution for all of them…
She needs to remember it all
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A/n: I'll write a second book for this novel, I wish you will also support that one <3
The cardinals of 7 deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. The colors of their hair are just randomly picked... I can't think of any creative appearance for them, just their hair
Ps. the end is nead