A deal with a bratty demon

When Eric opened his eyes again, he found himself in an unfamiliar environment. To be fair it looked like the island, the palace or rather the capital was on. The same dark sky and surrounding and earthy ground. Many houses strayed around, with a normal looking village spread around him.

Well, where was Eric? What happened to him? Eric could guess in an instant, Nol teleported him to another island in the Demon World. Wait... fuck! Was Nol really trying to kill him? Nol should fucking know well that because of the curse without Del's permission, Eric would be reduced to flying shit scattered through the air if he even stepped one foot out of the capital!

Fuck. Big fuck. Eric shivered. Nol really wanted to kill him since he couldn't know Del gave him permission to cruise around the Demon World. What damn luck Eric had and foresight to be asking Del for permission or else... Eric didn't even want to fathom what life after death looked like.

So, great. What was Eric supposed to do now? Wait for Del to come save him? Why did Eric always think about Del when he needed help? Because maybe despite his perverted outbursts most of the time, Del didn't want to harm Eric?

Eric shook his head. For now, he should find a hiding place, after all, Eric couldn't forget what Del said. Eric was human and the demons could instantly find it out and go feast on him. At this thought Eric involuntarily shivered. He could barely move when SWOOSH-

A bright light appeared and the grim reaper personally came to pick Eric up.

"Nol?" Eric perplexed asked as if he didn't know Nol wanted to murder Eric.

Since Eric couldn't escape Nol anyways, curse demons and their powers, Eric had to try to appeal to Nol using his good acting hoping to change Nol's mind.

However, Nol didn't immediately answer and only looked at Eric with a complicated look. Was Nol trying to think about how to kill Eric? Since his plan failed, Eric was still alive contrary to the corpse Nol hoped he would find. Eric had no idea why Nol hated him so much!

"Teacher," oh damn please stop calling me by that!

Don't use such a soft tone to hide your murderous aura! Eric was scared shitless. If he could press out his shit then he'd do it immediately just to make a point, ok?

Nol stood approximately 1 metre away from Eric but it seemed like, for whatever goddamn reason, Nol thought it wasn't enough and closed in on Eric. And Eric's heart? Was about to stop!

"Teacher," Nol used his sweet and gentle voice again, "Didn't you hear what I've told you? Yet why-"

Now Nol stood face to face with Eric and pressed his nose on Eric's, "Why do you keep insisting on playing this goody shoe when I already know what you're really like? Do you think your cheesy talk and proclamation from the Ferris wheel actually worked on me?"

The truth was Nol was still bitter about Eric running away like that after almost being able to convince Nol, while Eric cursed Nol for making his nightmare real.

Once any of them said it out loud then Eric couldn't keep deluding himself anymore! Everything that happened in the amusement park was as real as catfishing caught on camera! Unbelievably real and fake!

Eric took a deep breath and kept pretending to be clueless to what Nol was hinting on and spoke, "I really meant what I said. I want to help and-"

"Shut up!" ungently Nol pushed Eric away. Nol was torn but seeing Eric keep insisting on pretending to be so holy pushed Nol over the edge.

"Fine," Nol gave Eric an evil smile that froze the blood in Eric's body, although it actually looked bratty while in Eric's eyes it just looked terrifying. Eric kept deluding himself.

Nol stepped back and pushed his bangs briefly out of his face, "Teacher, how about this? If you manage to catch me within two hours, I'll bring you home and even become the type of obedient student you want-"

Oh no, Eric could feel doom looming over him. 2 hours? Fuck, Eric was tired as hell after such an exhausting day!

And find you? How the fuck am I gonna find you? I'll become fodder in less than a second if someone spots me! You really want me dead you dip-

"But if you don't then you'll become my slave and use whatever you can to make me a successful author," Nol smiled condescendingly at Eric.

You little shit! Eric cursed. This brat was really trying to test Eric's patience but the devastating truth was that Eric was a meek human while Nol was the superior demon able to make Eric do to his bidding if Eric valued his life enough.

However, this was also good news because Nol needed Eric which meant Nol wasn't trying to kill him! Eric was vital and crucial to Nol! Eric wouldn't die a gruesome death! So in these two hours, Nol must be confident that nothing would happen to Eric or else if he failed to find Nol and die, how could he become Nol's slave?

It was impossible, right? Hearing and realising that the odds weren't bad, Eric was relieved. The worst thing was serving Nol for a while and quickly making him famous and sending him off to the human world before Eric was finally free of him.

Eric could live with this and the conditions. This was fine. As long as no death and pain was involved it was fine. Eric's arrogance was already the lowest level any human could reach since coming here, so he didn't have to worry about upholding his pride anymore.

"Ok," Eric nodded yet Nol was stunned. So easily?

"But," Eric continued, "If I happen to win, I don't want you to pretend to be obedient, but I want you to make an effort to get along with me."

"Tsk," Nol hated Eric's pretentious nature, still upholding this holy teacher aura? Nol was sure to shatter this facade of Eric and bring out his true colour.

"Whatever," Nol spoke briefly, "The time starts now. Two hours, in this place."

WOOSH and gone was Nol, leaving Eric all alone. It was dark and only now did Eric realise that no demons were out here. Weren't demons night creatures? How could it be that they were all sleeping peacefully in their warm beds? Hey, hey, something was wrong here!