How?
....How could this happened?
This should have not happened!
If this didn't happened....
Then I wouldn't had to fled to the Gray Garden!
The favor....
It was an innocent favor...
A favor with Celestia...
A favor that....
In exchange for...
......A second change.
............A second change in life.
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I would have to sacrifice my memories.
At least....
That's what they thought.
I lied.
I deceive them.
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...I deceived Celestia.
I knew the risk...
Yet, I took it.
I took the risk.
Why was I so stupid!
Why was I so naive!
Why did I think that they won't found out!
Why did I think that they won't know that...
....I still have my memories.
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I'm sorry...
I'm so sorry, Xiao....
I have to....
I have to do it...
I have to pretend.
....But it seems that... it wasn't to convincing.
Not convincing enough.
Not convincing enough for them.
I was a fool...
A huge fool...
.....Why did I do it?
.........Why did I....
.....Made the favor?
I was the one who proposed the favor in the first place.
Maybe because....
At the time, I thought that...
I need to go back.
I still have many things to do.
....I can't leave yet....
I CAN'T!!
I CAN'T LEAVE THEM YET!!
....I.... I....
I have a promise that I need to keep.
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"Gaaahh! Quit it with that stuff! I'm still kicking it!" Kcalb stated with a glare that's aimed towards the God floating beside him.
"Sure you are, old man~" [M/N] teased making the Devil's glare hardened.
"I'm not old!!"
"In fact, you're older than me, [M/N]!" Kcalb protested, stating a fact that both of them know.
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"I still find it strange that you always called me an old man, yet you're older than me."
Because teasing you is fun. I enjoyed it.
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The wind blows softly making the leaves and grass rustle.
As the sun sets, two figures are sitting on top of the grass field while watching the sunset.
"Hey... [M/N].." The Devil suddenly spoke, breaking the silence between them.
"Hm?" Tilting his head, he faced the Devil with a confused expression.
"..Do you think... it's possible.. for us to... live a domestic live..? Where there's no killing.. no bloodshed.. no monsters.. no curses.... just the two of us... enjoying life to it's fullest." Kcalb asked with in melancholy.
"You mean like-living happily ever after? Like in those children stories? Of course! Well maybe the monsters and curses will still be there, but still! We could do that!" [M/N] stated with a cheerful tone as if he's trying to convinced the Devil and himself.
Or...
An unspoken promise.
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"Looking back at it.."
"It was such a childish wish..."
"This world is cruel.. every cruel..."
"...It could never happen."
.....It could...
I mean... just look at the world, we ruled...
In there, in the Gray Garden.
Demons and Angels are living together in peace and harmony.
If it works in our world....
Why won't it work with the others?
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"[M/N], wake up! It's noon already!" Kcalb protest as he tried to woke he God up.
"Hmm... Just let me sleep more..." [M/N] mumbled.
"But we have to move if you want to get the ingredients needed for whatever you were planning to make." The Devil stated.
"I think I'm happier napping than when I'm moving around..."
"[M/N]!!"
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"You're a God, do you even need sleep?"
"Despite the fact you can float, you're somehow tired enough to sleep for a whole day or two..."
"..I could never understand you..."
Of course you won't...
We Devils and Gods... are creatures who can't fundamentally understand each other.
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"Eh? Weren't you all pouty when I trounced you in cards earlier?" [M/N] teased with a huge grin on his face, while the Devil only look at the God with an nonchalant expression.
"....."
"Oh I get it, it's because I made your favorite, isn't it?" The God snapped his fingers in realization as his grin turns bigger.
"....."
"Hah! I knew it!" [M/N] shouted with glee as his statement was indeed correct.
"Just shut up, [M/N]!" Kcalb shouted back with a flustered face.
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"It was delicious..."
"Very delicious."
"I missed it, now.."
Glad to know you liked it.
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"....Eti..." Kcalb sudden calledd out.
"Eh? Eti? What happened to [M/N]?" The God asked as the sudden nickname came out of nowhere from the Devil.
"Eti, it means arrival." He explained.
"I didn't know you're so educated." [M/N] teased.
"It's a nickname... for you."
"For me? Why?"
"Because... ever since I meet you-or you could say 'your arrival to my life.' Everything just became more easier for me..." Kcalb continued to explained.
"Aww, I guess you could say... I'm the light to your dark tunnel!" [M/N] added a joke to the Devil's serious statement, resulting in Kcalb to blush.
"....."
"You're blushing~" [M/N] pointed out with a grin.
"I'm not!" He tried to deny it.
"Sure~ sure~"
"Alright then, from now on you can call me Eti. I like the nickname!" The God stated with a warm smile in his face.
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"It's true though..."
"Everything just got..."
"A lot more easier."
"A lot more beautiful."
"A lot more... brighter."
"When you first entered my life..."
"But..."
"Now that you're not here with me..."
"It's..."
"A lot more lonelier."
"A lot more colder."
"A lot more... darker."
I'm sorry...
I'm sorry that I left you...
I know how hard it is for you...
.....Because it reminded you off the time that I sealed you away for a very. Very. Long. Time.
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"Eti... can you promise me something?" The Devil said in a tone that could be mistaken for a whisper.
"Sure!"
"Promise me that... you'll stay by my side.. please?" Kcalb plead.
He doesn't want to be alone again...
Just like all those years ago...
It was... so lonely... for him...
Lonely. Cold. Dark.
"What kind of promise is that? Of course I'll stay by your side! You don't even have to say it!" [M/N] stated with his usual cheery voice.
"...Thank you." He mumbled softly before smiling in the end.
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"Liar..."
"You liar."
"You're such a liar."
"LiarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarliarLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIARLIAR."
"YOU LIED!"
"YOU LIED TO ME!"
"YOU SAID YOU'LL STAY BY MY SIDE!!"
I'm sorry...
I'm so sorry...
I know what's it like for you.
You just don't want to experienced it again.
You just don't want to experienced the loneliness again.
The loneliness, the darkness, the coldness.
.....That's why you made that promise...
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And that's why I accept that promise.
I don't want you to experience it again.
....Because I experienced it before.
I know that feeling more than anyone else.
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He stopped in his tracks as his eyes landed on the a figure that has its back facing him. A figure, he recognized. He could tell that tears had start building up in his eyes as his vision had suddenly turned blurry. Running towards the figure, he immediately engulfed the other in a hug. Hugging their back, the Devil buried his face into the other's shoulder as tears run down his face, he hug them tighter, as if they could disappeared right through his fingers any moment.
"I-It's you.... y-you're finally back...."
The God stiffens up by the other's words and how badly affected he was by his disappearance from their world. Turning their head to the side, [M/N] look at the crying Devil with sympathy as tears of his own starts running down his face, sympathizing with Kcalb's feeling of loneliness. The feeling that the God felt for so so long... swirling in endless darkness... loneliness... coldness... [M/N] knows this pain more than anyone else...
Putting on a smile he respond with the most broken yet warm voice.
"I'm home."
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I'm sorry. Kcalb...
....But I can't grant your wish....
The wish of... 'living a domestic live.. where there's no killing.. no bloodshed.. no monsters.. no curses.... just the two of us... enjoying life to it's fullest.'
I can't grant it...
Because....
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...I now owe Celestia a favor.
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