“If you had been in my shoes, who would you have saved, Belphegor or Lilith?” Beel was looking at me seriously as he questioned me and I could feel the palms of my hands getting really sweaty. I was trying to think of a good answer but my head was going blank.
“...Your D.D.D. is ringing. You should get that.” Before I could say anything my D.D.D. started to ring and I felt such a relief go through me once I realized I didn’t have to answer Beel anymore. I quickly got my D.D.D. out my pocket and went to answer the call, not looking to see who was calling me.
“HEY! Yuki... where are you?! Something seriously bad is about to happen here! Get your butt down to the underground tomb now! Hurry! The dog is down here, and Lucifer’s about to kill him…!” Mammon's voice sounded really concerned and I could hear a lot of noise in the background of his call. I felt a new wave of worry come over me once I realized he was talking about Luke. Before I could say anything to him, Mammon hung up on me.
“The dog? Does he mean Luke? Come on, we’d better get to the underground tomb.” I tried not to flinch once I realized that Beel was closer to me than I realized. Before I could understand what was happening, Beel grabbed me and started to pull me toward the place that Mammon mentioned.
I was struggling not to fall and hurt my nose since Beel's legs were much longer than mine so he walked way faster than me. After a few minutes, we finally reached a place I never saw before. I couldn’t really check it out before noticing three people ahead of me and Beel. As we got closer I could see that the situation was pretty bad.
“Lucifer, come on! Calm down a little, would ya?! He’s just a lost dog, that’s all! There’s no need to go revealing your true form over this, now is there?!” Mammon was trying to calm down a very angry Lucifer who was in his demon form currently.
“R-R-Right, e-exactly! A-And if you th-think you’re gonna s-scare me looking all evil like that, y-you’re wrong! It w-w-won’t work! I-I’ll h-have you know that I r-report directly to Michael the Archangel, one of the g-greatest?” Luke was shaking but he was trying to look serious as he held onto an unknown book that Lucifer was looking at with dark eyes.
“Luke. That book you’ve got in your hand… Do you realize what that is?” Lucifer's voice was calm but I couldn’t help but shake and move a bit closer to Beel. I could just feel how pissed off he was and it was terrifying…
“Y-You mean this…? I found it a minute ago. The sculpture on the stone coffin there was holding it…” Luke looked confused as he looked at the book he was holding and Beel let out a small gasp once he could clearly see what Luke was holding. “I know that book…”
“FINALLY! Yuki, Beel, you’re here! IT TOOK YA LONG ENOUGH!” Mammon looked over to us and looked relieved to see us but Beel didn’t pay much attention to them as he continued to look at the book in Luke's arms.
“That’s a grimoire.” I felt my head tilt in confusion at what Beel just said but Mammon looked totally shocked to hear Beel say that out loud. Even Luke looked surprised about what he was currently holding as well. I couldn’t understand why it was a big deal.
“A grimoire...?” I look over to Beel that I was still standing super close to and gave him a questioning look, hoping he would tell me what the huge deal was with that book and why Lucifer was so mad because of it.
“Yes. It’s a book of magic known as a grimoire. Several of them exist. Actually, there’s one installed on your D.D.D. as well, Yuki. “Nightmare” is a grimoire. But Nightmare is nothing more than a trial version of sorts. It can temporarily borrow a demon’s power. The grimoire Luke is holding has the power to control a demon?to make him do anything, even if it’s in violation of a pact. Everything that we are rides on that book. We can never allow it to be stolen under any circumstances. I didn’t realize Lucifer was hiding it here in the underground tomb.” I couldn’t help but question why Lucifer didn’t try to do some magical spell to keep it hidden or something like that or make people unable to touch it unless something allowed them to. Maybe I am overthinking this….
“This is no time to be standing around lost in thought, Beel! Get with the program! Now listen up, dog! What I wanna know is how you ended up lost in a place like this! No one else but us has access to this place! So how’d you get here?!” Mammon looked over to a scared-looking Luke and questioned him. I tried not to flinch when Mammon asked Luke that and tried to hide my guilty-looking eyes.
“I-I don’t know! Y-Your guess is as good as mine! I tumbled out of the closet in Beelzebub’s room and found myself here! And then?” I really wanted to cover Luke's mouth since what he just said didn’t really help the situation at all. I am pretty sure Lucifer looks even more pissed off!
“Wait. Beelzebub’s room…? Did I hear that correctly? Did you just say the words BEELZEBUB’S ROOM?” Lucifer's cold eyes look directly at Beel and me. I could feel Beel tense up from under my hand that was currently holding onto his arm pretty tightly at the moment.
“Uh-oh, this is bad…!” Mammon's voice said that but I could only focus on the fact that Lucifer's anger was focused in our direction now. He wasn’t looking at me but I couldn’t help but want to run away when I saw those cold eyes of his.
“BEELZEBUB…!” The ground shakes under me when Lucifer slams down his foot. I would have fell if I wasn’t holding onto Beel at the moment.
‘This is bad. This is bad. This is bad. THIS IS BAD!’ I couldn’t help but see all the ways this could go wrong as I tried not to fall to the ground due to my shaky legs.
