Occultic;Nine Volume 1 by Chiyomaru Shikura & pako & Adam Lensenmayer & Alicia Ashby

Author:Chiyomaru Shikura & pako & Adam Lensenmayer & Alicia Ashby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2016-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

site 13: Aria Kurenaino

Wednesday, February 17th

I suddenly felt a presence and froze, my hand above the tablet. I’d been looking into aromatic oils with a mild hypnotic effect.

I took a glance around the shop. After the sun set, the shop was filled with more darkness than the single tiny light could illuminate. It was a small shop, but it was crammed with items I used in my black magic, so there were many parts of it I couldn’t see from where I was sitting.

I felt a presence. A presence that projected a deep sensation of evil. But despite the presence’s intensity, I couldn’t tell if it was behind me, or perhaps in a corner of the shop. It felt strangely uncomfortable.

“Are you there?” I spoke to no one in particular, and the bulb hanging from the ceiling shook a little. It was a freezing-cold night already, but it felt like my body temperature had dropped even lower.

I ignored the cold and continued. “You haven’t been around much, so I had thought that perhaps you might be busy.”

The first response was...

〈Heheh...〉

It was an awful breath, like a snort. I could feel it on the back of my neck, and I shivered.

But there was no one behind me. There wasn’t room for anyone to stand. All that was behind me was a shelf, and my dolls.

〈I’ve had many new customers lately.〉 The next thing I heard was a man’s low voice, like a whisper.

No, it only felt to me like a man’s voice. Perhaps it wasn’t.

“It’s good to have a lot of customers.”

〈It’s a lousy economy. When you’re poor, you don’t have any free time, you know?〉 He was joking, but it was all I could do to hide my nervousness. I could feel sweat building up under my armpits.

That “voice” was not at all easy to hear.

It was muffled, somehow.

But it felt like it went right through your ears and directly into your brain.

There was no way to tell where it was coming from.

And it made you feel very uneasy.

I never could get used to it.

When you listened to the voice, you gradually started to lose your senses of direction and distance.

I yanked a doll off the shelf behind me to try and hide my nervousness. I ended up grabbing Coven. Its goofy-looking, five-eyed face was staring up at me. I held it gently against my stomach.

The thing I was speaking to didn’t show itself. But I knew what it was. It was a creature of darkness, feared by man since ancient times, and sometimes worshiped by those who would rebel against God.

It was a devil.

“Why does a devil need money?” This devil had said that it was poor. In that case, it was quite a worldly devil. Of course, that was appropriate enough for a devil.

〈Hmph. Why ask that now? Did you forget about our contract?〉

Of course, I hadn’t forgotten. Two years ago, the person I loved had died. I’d been left all alone. Just as I’d given in to despair, and was about to step in front of a train, I’d heard this voice in my head.

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