Julika was sitting alone in the dark room, gazing at the crystal ball that illuminated just a fraction of the darkness. She was observing it with full attention. She then looked bored and tapped on the crystal ball, and the light from it was gone. She then decided to take another crystal ball and make it light up. It glowed a green emerald color, which was quite beautiful in the darkness. She then spent some time looking at the ball. But then a thought came into her mind. It was something she hadn't done in ages, but it was much more raw than watching thousands of stories at the same time. She then snapped her fingers, and it clicked loudly in the darkness before the whole room was lit up by a huge glowing sun floating in the room. The light revealed multiple shelves that contained crystal balls. The demon was deeply asleep, and snoring cutely. Julika then summoned the sleeping demon next to her, and he looked heavily asleep. Julika then nudged it slightly and made the demon wake up from his deep slumber. He looked tiredly at her as though he was wondering why she couldn't just leave him alone for one hour. Julika then pushed him off his huge bed with ease. He then rolled around for a moment and stopped rolling after he hit the shelves and making dozens of crystals plummet to the ground and made them shatter into hundreds of pieces loudly. Julika then looked annoyed and snapped her fingers, and the pieces scattered all across the floor. Then the pieces formed their original form silently and floated back to where they belonged.
The demon then walked on two legs and looked at Julika tensely as though he was blaming her for all of the crystal breaking. Julika then snapped her fingers, and a wheel came out of nowhere and landed next to her.
"Do you know what this means, Asmon?" Julika said maliciously.
"What does it mean, master?"
"It means that this is the time that you will bring somebody to me! This wheel is going to decide who's going to be brought by you to me!" She said excitedly.
"Master, but didn't you say that you'd stopped that because you were once faced with something similar to what you're going to do to them?"
Julika sighed heavily and closed her eyes, and her face twitched slightly.
"I know, Asmon, I do hate doing that, but I also enjoy doing that because by doing that, it's quite an amusing distraction for me when compared to observing thousands of stories at the same time, because most of the stories are quite boring and I had to add things to make them more interesting. But I also hate doing this because I don't want people suffering like the way I did before becoming an immortal being. But my boredom is a much stronger poison than what I'm going to do to them. Finite, when compared to the infinite, is nothing. Now, let's stop talking, and I'm going to spin this wheel to select somebody unlucky."
"Fine, then," said Asmon casually.
Julika then snapped her fingers, and the wheel spun itself hundreds of times per second. The wheel then lost its speed gradually. The arrow on the wheel then stopped at a name, and Julika stood up from her chair and walked closer to see whose name was chosen.
"Mitch Hiker, our lucky candidate," said Julika maliciously.
"Where is she?"
"She's probably at her house, and don't worry about whether you'll find her or not, because I'll just create a portal for you to be able to get her."
Julika then pulled out her wand and gave it a small flick before a huge blue portal appeared from thin air, floating silently in the room. The portal had nothing to look for on the other side as it was completely pitch black, which made it quite hard to know whether you had reached the right destination or not. Then the demon walked into the portal and appeared in the living room of the Hiker's house. The two sisters didn't notice the demon's huge presence in the room as they were playing a card game with their backs turned. The demon looked for the younger one intuitively. He saw that she was on the right side of the couch and laid a card on the table. Then the demon cleared his throat loudly, and the two sisters froze. They slowly turned around and both let out a blood-curdling scream. Erika then grabbed a pillow and threw it at the fat demon. The pillow bounced off his belly and hit Erika's head softly.
"What the hell is that thing doing here?" Mitch cried with her eyes full of terror.
"The question is, how the hell did it get into our house?" Erika cried as she ran away and raced to the kitchen. Mitch was then left alone, whimpering. The demon then approached her and took her arms. She tried to fight it off, but struggled. She then kicked at the demon, and the belly just jiggled without causing any damage to it. She then screamed for help and wore a horrified face, with her eyes dilating in fear. The demon then put her on his shoulder like a potato sack. She was banging on his back as hard as she could, but didn't receive a single reaction from him. Erika ran at the demon with a knife in her hand and then tried to push it into the demon. The knife broke into hundreds of pieces and scattered everywhere on the ground. She was horrified by what had just happened and then banged on the demon's belly, but it only bounced, and the force of it pushed her off onto the ground. The demon then walked into the portal with the screaming child, and then he walked through it and arrived in Julika's room, where she was counting grains of rice on her table. She then looked up at the demon as the screaming of the young lady attracted her attention.
"You can put her down on the chair, Asmon," she said flatly.
The demon then put the woman on the chair and tied her to it with a rope, and she was squirming in every direction and trying to make herself free from the rope around her body. She looked helpless and defenseless in all senses. She then noticed Julika's presence in the room and gazed at her while still squirming.
"Who are you? Where am I? Is this a kidnapping? What do you want? Please, just let me go!" She cried loudly.
"Don't be afraid, my child. You are physically safe, and no physical harm will be done to you. I promise that. I just need you to calm down and stop being rebellious so that we can discuss things I wish to discuss."
"Let me out of this chair first, and we'll see!" Yelled Mitch.
"Asmo, let her out of the chair carefully," demanded Julika.
Asmon then moved with grace and carefully removed the rope that tied her body to the chair, and she stopped squirming and breathed heavily, looking at both of them. She then exhaled as she closed her eyes in silence. She then stood up from her chair and looked around at the magnificent red and gold room. She then touched the chair and felt how soft it was. She then looked at the fat demon as his belly rose and descended rhythmically. She then looked at Julika and calmly said.
"What do you want?"
"I just want to talk to you, my dear child. We have all the time in the world here, and we can discuss with each other endlessly until the End comes."
"My first question: what the hell is that thing?" She said as she pointed her finger at the big fat demon.
"That's just Asmon, my pet and servant. He's a demon," Julika said casually.
"Wait, I thought that he was just a guy in a costume, he is a demon?"
"Yes, my dear child, I can confirm to you that he is a demon. Let me just repeat what I just said, 'He is a demon. A demon, as in the creature that comes from Hell.' Now I just confirmed something."
When Julika said what she had just said about Asmon being a demon, Mitch felt as though the world had shifted. Maybe the world had changed, and so had the perception of reality of the demon. She felt as though there was no way that she could deny that the demon wasn't a demon. Which was odd, but quite reassuring as it cleared any doubt about the identity of the demon. The world felt like a whole new, different place, as though the old world in which she knew was altered.
"What just happened?" She asked curiously.
"I just created a new truth, which was now written in the law of the world. There are now no infinite illusions that can deny the fact that Asmon's a demon. Now let's talk about something else."
"Who are you?" Mitch asked.
"I am Julika Burton, the witch of pact!"
"Wait.... aren't you the person who made my brother cook even though he doesn't know how to cook. You're the food critic my brother's been talking about your arrival at the restaurant he's working at. I have a question now: why did you make my brother cook?"
"It's because I wanted to make sure about something. Do you know where your brother is?"
"Well, he said that he'll be staying in your hotel to work here as an apprentice to learn how to cook, which was weird of him because he doesn't strike me as the kind of person who wants to learn how to cook."
"Yes, because the truth was actually that he went into another world with his boyfriend in search of a flower to cure his unhappiness."
"What? Where is he?"
"He's in Nokart, where there are dangerous places in which he will venture to find the flower that shall cure his unhappiness. But don't worry, I can confirm that your brother won't die; he'll just get a heavy injury at most."
"Why did you send my brother away on a dangerous quest? Are you out of your mind?"
"It's because he's one of my thousands of distractions for me, you know? He's just worth as much as any distraction I have. You see, I'm an immortal being who has spent thousands of years of a boring life, unlike you humans, who can create the illusion of worth, purpose, and meaning in anything you can find. You are given the ability to decide what's right and wrong and what's true or false. Which is something I, too, have, but I don't believe in it. I create the illusion that my beliefs are neither wrong and neither right. Not true or false. Only that it will be right or wrong when I want it to be, and true or false when I want it to be. Which is something I quite hate and love at the same time, as it gave me this sense of uniqueness and superiority above you humans. As though my truths are truer than humans' truth, and my right is a higher righteousness than humans' right. Also that my false is stronger than humans' false and my wrong is more powerful than humans' wrongs. Which is something I've been living with for thousands of years. That's how I perceived myself and the world. That I am better than humans as I'm their author and their creator."
"Wait, are you the one who created us?"
"Yes, my dear child. I'm your creator and the one who gave you the ability to create illusions that mean nothing compared to mine. Because, as the author of a creation, I am the one who can control what's true and what's not in humans. But as a person with an open spirit, I decided to leave to you what's right and wrong, what's true and false, what's the truth and illusion. I love it when you create illusions of what's right and wrong and what's true and false, just so that I can destroy them and watch it destroy humans at the same time." Julika then let out an evil cackle, and she continued cackling loudly for an entire minute, which made Mitch feel extremely uncomfortable. She then stopped cackling and posed herself in an intimidating pose. She then looked at Mitch.
"Where's my brother? Is he safe at least?"
"Yeah, don't worry, he's safe, for now..." said Asmon.
"That's not very comforting!" Yelled Mitch. "And I wanna see my sister! She's probably back at home calling the police and everything!"
"No need to worry about your sister, Mitch. Because she's no use to me anymore." Julika said darkly.
"What do you mean by that?!"
"Because, in case you didn't know, Erika Hiker is one of my thousands of identities across thousands of worlds. I created her because I wanted to experience the love between an older brother and a younger sister. So, after she turned eighteen, I no longer needed to experience it. So I'll remove her from existence. Anything you want to tell her before she's gone?"
"What?! What do you mean that Erika's a part of you? She's Erika and nobody else!"
"Like I said, she is one of my identities across thousands of worlds, and now there's no use for me to experience what she's experiencing. Now, do you have anything to say to her before she's gone? Let me confirm something: Erika is one of my identities. She's of no use to me now! What can you say about that?"
The world had shifted again, and it felt like a whole new world; the old world was now abandoned and left to rot somewhere. There was now no denying that her sister was one of Julika's identities. She wanted to deny and counter it, but she couldn't muster even a little effort to do so. She couldn't say anything as her eardrums pressed against her skull, her heart pounding hard in her chest as she could feel the force traveling everywhere in her body. She then thought of the chance Julika gave her. If this was their last goodbye, then she had better think of something worth their last goodbye. She then thought about all of the things she wanted to apologize to her but hadn't gotten the chance to, all the things she wanted to show and tell her, every moment they spent time together was worth everything in the world. Julika was waiting for Mitch while walking in circles in the room patiently.
"Yes, I want to say something," said Mitch confidently, even though she was sweating.
"Fine, then I'll summon her," said Julika as she pulled out her wand and gave it a flicker, and then Erika appeared in the room. She looked confused and then noticed the people in the room, and then she screamed as she saw the demon. She then backed away and pressed against the wall, breathing heavily. She then saw Mitch and was relieved.
"Where the hell are we?!" She yelled.
"Don't worry, Erika. I'll tell you the truth," said Julika as she approached Erika and put one of her hands on Erika's shoulder. Erika looked confused and stared at Julika as though expecting her to stop. Then, a jet of electricity was sent throughout her entire body. Her pupils then ballooned, and they were wide open. She looked as though she was something so beautiful to the point that it made her lose her mind. Then the pupils returned to their original size, and she came back to what she used to look like. She then looked at Mitch, and their eyes met. Both of them then ran at each other and wrapped their arms around each other and sobbed loudly with tears streaming down from their closed eyes. Erika then wrapped her arms even tightly around them.
"Erika, I want to say something to you. You were the best older sister I could have asked for!" Sobbed Mitch loudly. "You gave me so many wonderful memories, and I'm grateful for them!"
"You, too, sis, you were the best younger sister I could have asked for! I'm happy for all the time we've spent together as sisters!"
Julika then felt somewhat empty inside and was annoyed by it as the moment reminded her of something she hadn't received in years. She then snapped her fingers loudly, and Erika slowly vanished. Mitch still held her tightly as she was slowly disintegrating from existence. The two sisters sobbed loudly as the elder sister slowly departed from reality. In the last few seconds of Erika's existence, he face only remained, and she smiled contentedly and closed her eyes. She looked truly peaceful in her last moment in the world. Mitch found herself wrapping her arms tightly around herself. She then closed her eyes and sobbed. She then opened her eyes, and Erika was nowhere to be seen. She then looked at Julika and fell onto her knees.
"Why?! Why did you kill her?! Why did you have to do this to me?! How could you?! She was my sister! My only sister! You're a cruel person for doing that! I won't forgive you! I will never forgive you! No matter how powerful you are, I will never forgive you!"
Mitch then fell on the ground and sobbed loudly. She then rolled around in the room as her tears streamed down her face and wet the clean and majestic floor. Julika didn't say and just looked at Asmon. Asmon knew what to do. He then slowly and carefully scooped up the crying girl in his arms and treated her like something fragile, as she was sobbing loudly. Asmon walked as he walked on his huge feet silently to his bed on the floor. He then carefully let the girl down on the bed, and she was still sobbing hard. The demon then put a small blanket on her. He tucked her nicely into the blanket. She then stopped sobbing and dove into a deep sleep. Asmon then grinned warmly as he walked on all fours and carefully nested himself on the bed without waking up the little girl. Both of them were then sleeping peacefully with their eyes closed, with each other under the blanket. Julika then walked to the shelves and took one crystal ball. She then turned off the light in the room, leaving it in complete darkness. Julika then ignited a small candle in the room and laid it on the table. The crystal ball was then put on the table. Julika then rubbed the crystal ball multiple times before it became a small moon. She then looked intensely at the ball, and she was looking for an interesting set of stories to watch at the same time. She then found thousands of stories that were happening at the same time and spent all of her attention on them.
Hitch and Noah just returned from the restaurant. They then settled themselves comfortably on the bed, and Hitch nestled his head on Noah's shoulder and felt a certain warmth travel inside of him. He could feel the heartbeat pounding from Noah's chest traveled to his heart. They felt somewhat connected to each other as their heartbeat pounded in sync. They then didn't say anything and just avoided each other's gaze. They wanted it to last like this a little longer than they had anticipated. Noah then scratched his head and made his hair move. Hitch then just looked at Noah's thighs and admired how thick and sexy they looked. Hitch then exhaled heavily. They both then removed their mask and returned to their original state. They both continued to avoid each other's gaze. Noah then thought of something hilarious to do when they both had nothing to say to each other. Noah then decided to tickle Hitch's sides. Hitch, who was caught off guard, then giggled uncontrollably and squirmed around in the bed. Noah then smiled warmly as he enjoyed Hitch's sweet laughter and how he smiled in a way that shines brightly when they love each other. Noah then continued tickling Hitch, and Hitch continued to shift his position dozens of times in five seconds and giggled loudly. Noah then stopped attacking Hitch and let the poor guy breathe. Hitch then caught all of the air he needed and looked at Noah. Noah then caught his gaze. Noah then lowered himself to kiss Hitch softly on the lips. Hitch could feel the flavor of strawberry and vanilla explode in his mouth with a hint of sunflower oil. Hitch then growled hungrily into Noah's mouth. Noah then growled hungrily back into Hitch's mouth, and they both savored the growl. The growl tasted like something primal that came from thousands of years, as though they could feel their old instinct coming back to them. They then had their foreheads pressed against each other and were breathing heavily. They then smiled warmly at each other and cupped each other's faces. They both admired how beautiful they each looked in their own way. Noah then kissed Hitch softly on his forehead and left the bed. Noah then got up from the bed and looked at Noah, who seemed to have lost his way.
"Where do you want to go, babe?" Hitch asked as he was concerned about Noah.
"Well, I wanna know where the bathroom is? But it doesn't look like they got any here!"
"Maybe it's somewhere hidden, like you need to pull a book from one of the shelves and it will reveal a hidden door somewhere!"
"Yeah, let's try that!" Noah then walked to the shelves and began pulling out every book from the shelves. He then spent over a quarter of an hour pulling out books. He then finished pulling out every book, but no hidden place seemed to be appearing.
"Well, it doesn't look like there's going to be any place appearing soon!"
"Do you need to pee or shit?"
"I need to shit, like right now, or I'm going to soil myself. I feel like this is going to be a big one!" Noah's stomach then growled, and he looked in pain, holding his stomach.
"You can go outside and shit somewhere and nobody will see you!" Suggested Hitch.
"Yeah, but then where would I get toilet paper to wipe my ass?"
"You can use pages of one of these books as a replacement for toilet paper! Now go, I don't wanna smack your ass if you soiled yourself!"
"Right, Hitchy, don't worry, I'm gonna come back in ten minutes or more."
Noah then took a huge book with him, and he opened the door and went outside. Hitch then worried that Noah might get caught by the people of this village. But the village was so small and he doubted that anybody would be up at a time as late as this. Hitch then waited for ten minutes or more as Noah entered the room. He looked relieved, and he then jumped on the bed and made the legs creak slightly.
"Whew! I feel much lighter after dumping that shit behind a bush next to the place!"
"Did you find something to wash your hands with?" Hitch asked dangerously.
"Yeah, I found a small valve with a bar of soap next to the place and used it to wash my hands. Don't worry about getting shit on your hands anymore!"
"Yeah, I'm glad you did that because I'm the kind of guy who's borderline germophobic. But then I don't mind at all kissing you, even with the fact that we share billions of bacteria at the same time as we kiss," murmured Hitch.
"Yeah, I don't mind that at all," murmured Noah as they leaned in toward each other and kissed each other softly and savoured the taste of vanilla, strawberry, and a little bit of sunflower oil. They then removed from the kiss and had their forehead pressed against each other. Then they both breathed heavily and smiled at each other. They then stopped having their foreheads pressed against each other. They then avoided each other's gaze and went to hug each other with their eyes closed. They could feel the warmth from the hug radiating throughout their entire body. They felt safe and united, like they were meant to be. They both slowly drifted off to sleep with the lamps turned on. They didn't mind anything at all, as what mattered the most was each other, and that's all they wished for. The world felt so small yet so big.
Mitch then woke up suddenly from her sleep. She looked around and found herself on a bed, under a blanket. She then wondered if the whole thing she had witnessed earlier was just a dream when she was sleeping deeply. She felt warm and safe, but something was off. She looked around and noticed that she wasn't in the same room as where she was before. The room was much bigger, and it looked colorful with thousands of decorations manifested in the room, with each of them being a unique huge or color. Mitch then slowly got out of bed. She then looked for an exit and found a huge door with a huge doorknob that was glued to the door. She then used the doorknob to open the huge door for it to be open wide ajar. The door led to somewhere that was much smaller than the previous room. The room was even more colorful, which was quite impressive considering how colorful the previous room already was. Then, she felt somewhat lukewarm, which was fitting with how much the room seemed to bring joy and comfort to whoever existed in the room. She then entered the room and closed the door behind her. She then observed the room's ceiling and noticed hundreds of chandeliers floating with no strings or anything attached to them. She knew that they must have been magical chandelierers for them to float so casually like that. She heard hundreds of birds chirping in the room, which made her feel relaxed and comforted. The melody of the chirps was powerful enough to lull a person to sleep. But Hitch then slapped her face to be able to be wide awake. She then noticed a huge door with a small doorknob that would fit perfectly with her little hands. She then walked toward the door and grabbed the doorknob, feeling how soft and warm it was. She wanted to keep her hands on the doorknob forever, but then she realized that she must get out of here and find her way home. She then pushed the door open. To her amazement, she was completely bewildered by how beautiful the place looked. It was a garden with thousands of different flowers that were each unique in their way. The grass was tall and green. The green represented how soft and calming they were. She then took a step in the tall grass that reached the height of he waist. She felt as though she was the most protected person in the world right now. She then used her hands to reach down for the grass and felt how soft they were. They were gentler than a baby's palm and softer than a baby's cheek. They felt wonderful to be in. She then continued to walk in them and admired how wonderful they were. She then noticed something the the tall grass, lying on its back. It resembled a small, black mountain that rose and fell rhythmically. She then approached the object curiously, taking each step carefully. She then noticed the head of the demon Asmon with his spiraling white horns, with his canine face, with a huge, black, potato-sized nose. He was sleeping peacefully, and a purple butterfly landed on his nose. He didn't look bothered by the butterfly at all. He looked even more peaceful when the butterfly landed on his nose. She then decided to do something that many people would have considered crazy, but she decided to do it anyway. She then walked around the demon. She then slowly claimed the demon's huge, round belly. It was quite easy and she just had to hold on to the demon's fur and climb before reaching on top of it. She then lay on her back and watched the partly cloudy sky with some sunlight, which was nice. The demon's belly felt soft and warm with his fur. She then looked at him, breathing through his nose. He looked really cute and not at all intimidating for a demon. She felt how soft the huge belly was, as though she was sleeping on a premium quality bed that only billionaires would have access to. She felt as though she was held by the arms of angels for the belly to be this soft. The belly was now the most precious thing in the world for her. She then poked at the belly and watched it bounce back and jiggled. It was quite an amusing sight to witness. She wondered how fat the demon could have gotten to be able to obtain that belly. She then slid down the belly like a slide and landed on her feet softly in the grass. She then looked at the sleeping demon and watched how his belly fell and rose rhythmically. The demon then shifted slightly in his sleep to the left and made the butterfly, which was previously on his nose, leave his nose and fly away. The demon then squinted and moved to the right, and his belly was now touching the grass as he was sleeping sideways. She found the demon really cute and adoring. She then decided to walk up to it and placed her hand on the belly and felt the warmth from it travel throughout her entire body. She then thought to herself that he wasn't the typical demon people would have expected when they heard the word demon. The demon breathed heavily, and sparks of flame escaped his nose, which made Mitch jump in surprise and fall on the ground as the grass softened the blow. She then stood up and wondered where she was. Because this place doesn't seem like anywhere Julika would have. The place was too colorful and beautiful compared to the style of place Julika liked. The place was also very calm, with nobody and nothing but flowers and butterflies manifesting in the huge garden. She then turned around and saw that the demon stood up and stretched his arms and legs while yawning loudly. He then scratched his back with his bear-like paws, which were huge and had short claws on them. He then turned around and looked surprised, as though he wasn't expecting her to be here.
"Hi," he squeaked, "I didn't expect you to be here so early, because you were still sleeping deeply in my bed, you know?"
"Where are we?" Mitch asked curiously.
"Oh! Well.... we're in the garden of Holly!"
"What's the garden of Holly?"
"The garden of Holly is a place that exists in another dimension created by me. The garden of Holly is a dream place that perceives the previous worlds as nothing but mere dreams. The garden of Holly is a place that I created in my head!"
"This place seemed wonderful!" Said Mitch was amazed by its beauty.
"You think so?" He asked as his cheek became red.
"Yeah, I'm dead serious, this place is wonderful, and it made me feel as though I'm in a dream!"
Asmon then turned his head away with his cheeks redder than before and chuckled softly, and rubbed his head.
"Thank you, because I've spent over thousands of years constructing it for it to be able to be perfect."
"Really? This is really a beautiful place that you've created, Asmon. I wish that I could live here forever!"
"Thank you for the compliment," squeaked Asmon as he rubbed his head, and his cheeks were redder than a beet.
"I have a question, Asmon. What happened earlier with my sister was a dream?"
Asmon then looked grimly at her and shook his head. Mitch then gasped and sobbed while falling on her knees, and sobbed even harder when the grass completely hid her from Asmon's view. Asmon then looked worried for Mitch, and he approached her with gentleness, and then scooped the crying girl in his arms.
"Shh, you don't have to cry anymore," murmured Asmon.
"Why? My sister is forever gone from existence, and now I'm the only one to be safe, while my brother was sent to another world full of dangers! How can't I not cry?"
"If you knew Julika like I had, you would be crying that she spared you from many horrible fates. Trust me, Julika can get nastier than anyone you've known. Just the fact that she let you come to my dimension already showed her kindness, which is very kind of her."
"Yeah! But my beloved sister is forever gone! How can I live all alone when my entire life I've been surrounded by my siblings? I just don't know how to live anymore!" She sobbed loudly.
Asmon then carried her in his arms and walked slowly to somewhere only he knew. He was walking for about half an hour before he arrived at a field that had a huge cabin that was outstanding in the giant fields full of flowers and flying butterflies. Asmon slowly descended the hills with grace and gentleness that was quite impressive for his size. He finally arrived at the huge cabin with the huge door and pulled the doorknob, and it opened wide and led to a room with dozens of furniture and lamps that were turned off at the time. The cabin brought some sense of peace and tranquility to both of them. They both felt like this was where they belonged the most, even though they both had their places to call home. That must have been the special charm placed in the cabin that made them feel like that. Other than feeling homely, it also felt cozy and made them want to sleep in the place right away. Asmon then walked to the couch and put the crying girl on it gently. The girl continued sobbing hard and wiped the tears streaming down her face with her cloth. Asmon then walked to the kitchen with many cooking instruments present in it. He then took a cattle and poured the liquid contained inside into a cup. The hot stream rose from the cup and vanished when it reached a height of a few feet. Asmon then took the small cup with his huge hands, which was quite impressive since he was able to hold a cup that was human-sized with his huge hands. Asmon then laid the cup on the small table just in front of the couch. Mitch continued sobbing hard. Asmon then looked worried for the girl, and he took the small cup and placed it in Mitch's hands as she was sobbing.
"Drink this and you'll feel better," said Asmon softly.
Mitch then looked at the color of the liquid in the cup and noticed that it was a chocolate brown and slightly orange. She decided to trust him and took the cup to her lips and drank the lukewarm liquid, which traveled down her throat comfortably and made her muscles feel more relaxed. She then finished drinking the special tea. She felt somewhat less sad, but still sad nevertheless. She could feel her tears felt five times heavier as though each drop contained five times more emotion than they did before. After a few minutes, she stopped crying, and the sadness faded away slowly after she stopped crying. She then felt like sleeping and made herself comfortable on the big couch, and slowly drifted off to sleep. Asmon smiled warmly and took the empty cup from the table and brought it to the kitchen sink, and washed it with a bar of soap and a sponge.
The little girl was moving in her sleep, and yet she was still deeply asleep with no sign of intending to wake up. She then suddenly woke from a dream in which she fell off a cliff and died. She then looked around and saw through the window that outside was already dark with no sign of the moon. She then felt that the couch was hard when compared to the demon's belly. She then looked in front of her and saw empty plates with a knife, spoon, and fork. She then heard sounds of something sizzling coming from somewhere that she couldn't see. She then stepped off the couch to investigate the sizzling sound. She just realized how huge the cabin was. It was made out of giant wood the size of her body and had shades of browns where she could say that they were as beautiful as one another. The size was like a huge manor that she once visited on a trip from school. She then walked around and observed all of the luxurious furniture that was present in the room. They were huge and big enough to contain the demon's entire body. She then followed the sizzling sound and looked from a corner and found a huge door with a doorknob that was just a few inches above her head. She then stood on her tiptoes and reached for the doorknob before opening the door wide open, and was met with the demon, who had an enormous kitchen and was cooking in a pan with something that smelled like sizzling tomatoes. The demon wore a pink apron and was minding his business, and didn't notice the little girl eyeing him. Mitch then decided to go back to the small couch and wait for the demon. She then jumped on the couch and made herself comfortable on it, though it was nowhere near as comfortable as when she was on the demon's huge belly. She then looked at the ceiling that had multiple giant chandeliers on it with huge candles lit, which glowed a sunny orange light. The demon then arrived at her with many dishes in his arms as he put them down on the table. The dishes all looked delicious, and she wanted to try every one of them.
"I knew you were vegetarian, so I've prepared all of the dishes to be vegetarian so that you can eat," said Asmon.
"Thank you, Asmon," thanked Mitch.
Asmon's cheek then turned red, and he turned his back and scratched his head.
There were many dishes on the table that Mitch could recognize. There were pumpkin soup, sizzled tomatoes, curly fries and potato wedges, fried algae, lentil soup with carrot, and vegetarian steaks that were made from beans and lentils. She then grabbed her fork and took two sizzled tomatoes and some fries with potato wedges. She then took the bowl of pumpkin soup next to her and dropped the spoon in it. She then cut the sizzled tomatoes into two pieces each and placed one small piece into her mouth and savored the sweet and sour taste of tomato with a slight burn to it, which gave it a nice kick. Surprisingly, the tomatoes weren't too hot and were perfectly warm and nice. She then took the curly fries and ate them. She could taste the strong seasoning on the fries. They were crunchy and soft at the same time, which was a nice contrast. They were also warm at the right temperature. She then ate the potato wedges and could sense from her mouth that they were full of wonderful seasoning and perfectly balanced between sweet and salty. They were extremely soft, and the outside had a special crunch to it. She then finished her meal and went on to attack the rest of the meal. She was full after she had eaten an entire bowl of sweet pumpkin soup. She then let out a rich burp, which startled Asmon, but he didn't mind at all about it.
"Are you finished?" Asmon asked curiously as he looked at the unfinished dishes.
"Yeah, I'm full, you can eat them if you want to," Mitch said casually.
"Really? Thank you," said Asmon as he pulled a chair and sat on it.
He then ate like a pig that hadn't eaten anything in weeks, and his face was covered with food and everything that he had eaten. Some food spilled to the floor, but the demin doesn't seem to mind that at all. Then he licked his face, which was covered in food crumbs and juice, until they were completely gone. He then stretched his arms and legs and removed his apron, and put it on a table, and then he walked to the bed, which was next to him, and then he jumped on the bed and made himself comfortable in the bed in his position that looked like that of a cat. He then drifted off to sleep peacefully as Mitch watched him go to sleep. Then Mitch made herself comfortable on the couch and looked through the window, and saw nothing but the pitch black sky, which covered everything in the area. Mitch then thought about Hitch and wondered how he must be doing in a time like this, and wondered if he's truly safe with his boyfriend. But his boyfriend was Noah, a seven-foot-tall guy with muscles that could protect Hitch from anything. She wondered how they could learn the news that Erika is forever dead. When she thought of Erika, she cried and sobbed silently. Tears streamed down her face, and she wiped them with her shirt.
Hitch was combing his head in front of a mirror while Noah was doing fifty squats and fifty push-ups in the room. Hitch finished combing his hair and then turned around to see Noah squatting and couldn't resist himself but walked close to Noah and gave that masterpiece of a butt a good smack. Noah then chuckled and turned his head and grinned; he was impressed by Hitch's boldness. Then Hitch walked to the joined bed and jumped on it, which had made the bed creak just slightly without both of them noticing it. Hitch then took a book off the bed he had left and opened it and read the first chapter while Noah's still exercising his body. Noah then stopped exercising and he jumped on the bed and made it creak loudly, but they didn't mind at all.
"I have a question, Noah," Hitch began the conversation.
"Yeah, what is it, babe?"
"What do you like about me?"
"Well, we just have to start with that beautiful slim face and body of yours... they're just too attractive~. And let's not forget your calm personality, which I can fill with my energetic personality, you know? And you're kind of the silent guy that I like when you do stuff and don't talk too much, because when someone talks too much when they're doing something important, it kinds of remind me of my parents. And you're just really cute for your age, considering that you're twenty years old. And you're fun to kiss with, you know how to respond and where to touch, squeeze, and caress. And what about you? What do you like about me?"
"The thing I like most about you is probably your energetic personality because it kind of shines a light in my eyes and heart. But we're gonna forget that perfect body of yours, you're so damn thick and big that it melts my heart every time I touch or kiss you. Kissing with you is really tasty, and it makes my heart pound and my gut squirm, and it fills a hole inside of me that eats me inside. I also like your smell and how you always react to him when I do something intimate with you. Overall, I rate you a ten out of ten!"
"Well, babe, I gotta say that I rate you the same," murmured Noah.
They then closed the gap between their faces and met in a slow and soft kiss that tasted like vanilla, strawberry, and a little bit of sunflower oil. The kiss was slow and full of passion; it made Hitch's heart feel relaxed and warm. They both then let go of the kiss and chuckled softly, and caught each other's gaze. Noah then crawled behind Hitch and wrapped his arms around Hitch tightly and kissed him on the neck multiple times, and Hitch giggled when Noah did that.
"You're the sun that shines in my life, Hitchy, and you're the waves that exist in my shore. You're the one who has made me the happiest person in the world right now. You're never going to bore me, ever. I want you to be mine and me to be yours as we speak and kiss. You're truly a wonderful person to be with, Hithcy, thank you for being born," murmured Noah lovingly in Hitch's ear.
Hitch's heart felt much fuller than before, and it felt like it was going to explode with confetti and fireworks everywhere. His heart and inside, and never felt this full before, as though his existence was finally noticed by something worthy of his love. Then he felt for once, finally full with no emptiness whatsoever. He then could feel his heart pounding heavily in his chest and felt as though a primal beast inside of him roared and was dancing happily.
"Are you so sure that you're worthy of his love, Hitchy?" A voice sneered inside of Hitch's head. It was a familiar voice, like as if it were his own voice used by somebody who isn't him.
"My, my, you are this down bad for somebody whose love isn't worthy of you! You really think you love him! No! It's not love if that's what you're doing right now; it's lust! Something that can only be proven by two bodies in bed! That's what you've been doing with that guy since you began having a relationship with him. You don't crave his love! You craved for his body! A body that fits your twisted and high standards fantasies! You're a disgusting creature that makes your parents ashamed of you! You're parents would have wanted you to have a genuine love for somebody, not lust with a guy that has a good ass!"
"No! You're wrong! Noah really loves me! Because then why else would he risk everything when he decided to come with me to Nokart?"
"Well, that could be explained by many theories! Maybe he just wants to come with you, expecting that there, you would have sex with him! Or maybe he uses you to get to that flower so that he can use it for himself! Or maybe he's just really dumb, because nobody would risk everything for a guy they just knew for three days!"
"No! That can't be! Noah truly loves me and wants to help fill the void inside of me! He cares so much that he would risk everything for me! Don't you think that's a sign of unconditional love?"
"Really? That's what you think, isn't it? You don't know what's truly behind the skull of his! Maybe there's even a darker reason for that! Maybe he wants to kill you here, and nobody would find out about it!"
"Noah would never harm me! When I asked him to stop calling me little guy because it hurts me, he stopped. He would never hurt me!"
"That's what you think, isn't it? You just knew him for a few days, and his background wasn't even clear! How can you trust him? Nobody in their right mind would trust a guy they just knew for a few days! Maybe because you just want to have sex with him so much that you're willing to do anything to be able to obtain that chance!"
"You're wrong! I haven't thought about even having sex with him in the slightest! I know that you're not my inner voice because then it would have known that I didn't think about having sex with him in the slightest! Who are you?! Tell me!"
"Well, it seemed like I got caught. No need to hide anymore, then! I am Frederick! I am the one who can speak in your head at any time I want! Listen to me, if you truly love Noah! Then leave him, as you're just nothing but a mere burden to him. Prove to me that you truly love him!"
His head then felt empty again, and there was only his thought now inside of him. He then looked at Noah, who was smiling warmly at him, not knowing what Hitch had just encountered. Hitch then hugged Noah tightly around his waist and continued to hang on. Noah then hugged Hitch back, and they both felt closer and safer with each other.
"I love you, big guy. I love you with all my heart, and I'll never doubt your love for me or mine for you!" Yelled Hitch.
"Don't worry, I too won't doubt anything about us because all of this feels real to me, babe," murmured Noah before they looked at each other warmly and kissed each other softly on the lips. They then continued hugging each other tightly, intending to never let go of one another. They both then fall asleep as the world felt much smaller to them, with the only center of it being one another.
Mitch was walking behind the demon as he was walking in the endless fields, collecting flowers and grass.
"Say, Asmon, how big is your garden?" Mitch asked curiously.
"Well," he squeaked, "my garden is infinite in size, big enough to contain infinite space-time continuum in it."
"That's huge!" Cried Mitch, impressed.
"Yeah, but it's not as big as Julika's domain because hers is bigger than all of the infinite infinities that exist in mathematics. Because some infinities are bigger than other infinities. Not only that, he plane exists higher than the plane of existence that transcends the concept of dimensionality."
"How can you guys do all of that impressive size when building a realm?"
"Well, since we're immortal beings, we can use an endless amount of energy to construct a plane of existence whenever we want! It's much easier said than done, because constructing a plane can take up to thousands of years and maybe more if you can't go fast enough."
"Then this place is endless in size?"
"Yeah, you can go anywhere and it'll always be a new place! That's the magic of infinity when we're immortal beings!"
"Then you will never die?"
"Yes, that's what it means to be immortal. We can never die and could never lose our souls. But the similarity between immortal beings and mortal beings is that we would eventually face the End."
"What's the End? Isn't it just death to mortal beings?"
"Well, the difference between death and the End is that when death came for a mortal being, it erased its existence, but doesn't erase its trace that it once existed, and they are witnesses to prove that reality exists."
"What are witnesses?"
"A witness or witnesses are consciousness that exist in reality and prove that they exist by sensing stimuli that the world provides. Which means that there's something in the world, and even though withnesses die every day, there would still be other withnesses to prove reality's existence. And when there are no witnesses, reality can't prove itself by just existing. It needs consciousness to sense its stimuli and information to prove its existence. And though it does exist in a sense, there is no way to prove it exists, and therefore renders it non-existent. But the End is when everything in existence and non-existence is erased and left with nothing, no withnesses, no reality, no non-reality, and just nothing. The End left everything unable to prove whether it exists or not, as there is nobody and not even time would exist. The past, present, and future are all gone and left with a timeless void where it can't prove itself in any way. Which is now quite contradictory when thinking about it," said Asmon.
"This is quite a complex concept," said Mitch as she followed him and looked at the cloudy and dark sky.
"Yeah, but we just don't know when the End is. Because Eisern Jergh Fry hadn't announced anything about it."
"Who is Eisern Jergh Fry?" Mitch asked curiously.
"Eisern Jergh Fry is the highest god to exist in the world. The one who had always existed and will always exist. They exist higher than anymore world and any plane. They have powers beyond the concept of comprehension. They are the ones who are going to announce when the End is coming. Come to think of it, it probably wasn't their first time ending reality, because they've stated that they've always existed and will forever exist. I truly wonder what they're going to do after they've ended the world? Probably creating a new one, like how most people would most likely do."
"Aren't you afraid that the End is coming?"
"Well, they said that the End might come at any time and might never come, depending on their mood. So I've got nothing to worry about, unlike you," said Asmon casually.
"I'm not worried about death because it's something natural," said Mitch defensively. "Not only that, with death, my life has some sense and meaning to it, giving it a taste that each person experiences uniquely."
"Well, do you need meaning and a purpose in life to live?" Asmon asked casually.
"Well, some people do," said Mitch, "and some people don't. It just depends on their worldview and their self-view, and many other matters that are important to add to the context. Like me, for example, who's just been living her life causally, and I think I quite enjoy my daily life. I always thought that the meaning of life was through love, happiness, and many other emotions, as they're filtered through them. Some people who don't think that life has a meaning just gave it a meaning because if they think it's meaningless, but then that's the point they just gave to life. I think it's quite contradictory," said Mitch.
"Here's what I think, I think that everybody deserves to right to title their life with whatever they want. Meaning, purpose, and etcetera. People each have their own views and beliefs that they possessed which had developed throughout their entire life. They deserved the right to title their life as whatever they want or just don't title their life at all."
"Yeah, I think you're probably right," said Mitch.
Asmon then looked alert as though there was something that had beached in the garden. He then walked on all fours and pressed his ear to the ground, and closed his eyes. He then left the ground and turned to look at Mitch. He then looked around carefully, waiting for even the slightest movement in the dense grass field. The demon sniffed on the ground like a bloodhound tasked to find an extremely rare mushroom. His nose was twitching, and he then followed the trail on all fours. He then saw a trace behind him of crushed grass, which looked as if a car had run over it. Mitch decided to follow the demon closely behind as he continued to follow the trail. The demon then stood up from his sniffing session and looked around.
"Smells like a human but not totally human," he said grimly as he eyed every inch of thick, dense grass as though a human could be hiding in there. He then approached a small pond that was just existing on its own. The demon looked into the pond and saw himself reflected in it beautifully. The demon then grabbed a pebble near the pond and threw it in the pond, which broke the reflection, and the water suddenly turned into a thousand pieces of broken glass and shattered the moment the pebble hit it. Then there was nothing other than thousands of broken glass in the pond now. Which wasted the magnificent pond, as it looked beautiful before and was now nothing but trash. The demon then looked dangerously at everything around them and growled a deep, angry, primal growl which sent a chill down Mitch's spine as though she had returned to the prehistoric era and she was hearing a growl from a dangerous, huge apex predator. Then there was a laughter which broke the ominous air that the growl had produced. The laughter was joyful and full of mischief as it rang somewhere in the dense grass. The demon then pounced on where the laughter came from and seemed like he caught something. He then stood up and showed Mitch what he caught. It was a tall and slim boy in a black uniform wearing a cape. He doesn't look bothered by the fact that he had just been caught by a huge demon that could maul him, or even skin him. He looked rather amused by the fact that he was caught so easily. It was almost as if he wanted to be caught, because why else would he have laughed so loudly to indicate to the huge predator where he was? The person was then dropped on the ground, and he landed softly on the dense, thick grass. He then wiped his pants and stood still in a strong posture. He had a black mask covering his face, which acted like a real face as he showed emotions in real time, as though the mask followed his real face.
"How did you get in here? Nobody is allowed to come here unless I say so!" Asmon yelled angrily.
"Well, I got permission from your master to come in here, lowly servant!" He said casually.
"What?! My master would have never let you come here!" Asmon cried angrily.
"Well, then how do you explain the fact that I'm in here?" He asked deviously.
Then the demon looked thoughtful for a moment, and then he looked at the person who was smiling widely. The demon then looked unsure of himself, but decided that what he was saying was probably true.
"Who are you?" Mitch asked rudely.
"Me? Well.... let's just say that I am somebody created by Julika in order to entertain her in of of the stories she had created. Can you guess who I am?"
"No! I don't even know what kind of stories Julika has!"
"Well, my name is Frederick, or just call me whatever you want because my name doesn't matter that much!"
"Which story do you entertain Julika?" Asmon asked dangerously.
"Well, I entertain her in the story of this gay couple who went on a search for some random flower. She said that if I entertain her in that story, she will grant one of my wishes!"
"That sounds like the story about my brother," said Mitch.
"It probably is, little girl, but as long as I do my job, I can have whatever I want. Now, I have to leave to people, but it was quite fun meeting you here!"
The masked person then spun in a circle and vanished from thin air without the slightest trace that proved he once existed. The demon then looked at Mitch and walked up to her.
"If you were me, you would know that this is bad news for your brother," whispered Asmon.
"Why is he bad news? He seemed fun!"
"Because Julika would probably make him do horrible things to entertain her, you don't know how twisted she is and what she would make that guy do! Let's just hope that your brother doesn't get bother much by that guy."