4 A Zealous Fan In My Soul

My golden eye started to glow like the sun as golden rays burst forth along with a powerful and loud bellow.

"You gem bastard, how dare you even think your puny existence is able to contend with me! You think you are worthy of devouring me!? You're not even fit to carry my shoes!" My body started to regain control and I begin to fight the gem's control. To my surprise I was actually winning, well whether it was actually me that's doing it or not is not important at lease I can get my body back.

"What the hell! Why are you here!? You damned smug bastard! Damn it, who the hell is this guy for you to be here!?" the gem screamed with obvious signs of panic.

"HAHA! Whatever the reason is that's none of your business. Wait, actually that is your business, hahaha... considering it's because i'm here in this body that you are dying. Well, time to go back to business then as far as I can see i'm giving you two choices, one, submit to this body and be my dog for eternity, or I can just eat you here. Think carefully now, even if devouring is your forte I can still do it because this is my domain! Just imagine the very own prince of devouring of the abyss is dead devoured someone else, oh! I can only imagine the reaction of the others" said the other voice in my head slowly, I just chose to just sit by and listen to it since I feel no malicious intent from it.

"Damn It! No way i'm-..." before the gem could even finish the other voice started to use a bit more power to suppress the gem completely just enough for it to barely stay alive.

"Alright! Alright! I give! I give!" this causes the gem to panic and finally give up and become my, no it's, wait actually how many things is actually inside me? Am I really that popular?

"OK, now, offer me half of your soul and tell me your true name!" said the other voice full of power.

"Fine, here you go." as if the gem split into but really didn't half piece of the gem flew out and entered into my body. The gem lost some of it's luster, the continued "I am the prince of gluttony of the sixth layer of the abyss, Belphegor!"

I feel that now I control belphegor's fate and destiny, now he can't lie to me and betray me as I know everything about him from his past, his current thoughts, and even his hidden secrets, which I took a peek and regretted immediately for I almost threw up. 'Well considering he's the prince of gluttony I guess some of this makes sense, but still.... a combo of both THAT and THAT is not something I want to know. Damn, screw cat, curiosity almost killed even me."

"So.... who're you? And is belphy here mine or yours?" clearing my thoughts I asked the truly important question.

"Fool! We are one and the same! We will be together forever! HEHEHEHE..." said the other voice almost fanatically, somehow I feel something quite off from it's tone. "So like it or not we are stuck together. It's not like I want to be stuck with you or something. As for who I am this is not the time for you to know. If that time ever come I will tell you myself." It said. 'But, why did it sound like it's acting to be mysterious like a kid.' I thought and nodded.

"OK belphy, as me and Ni-... Ni-... Nicholas has come to an agreement you are now our property, you better be a good kid or i'll beat you up! Now because i'm as generous as the heavens itself i'll allow you to attach yourself to our left arm. Now, Ni-... you, put belphy's gem in place of your crown's gem just replace them." the other voice said anxiously. 'Why does it take so much to say my name, I get it if your excited having an underling, but that's just too much.' I said confused in my mind.'

I followed it's instruction and removed the gem in next to the middle of my crown and replaced it with my belphy's gem.

BOOM!

An explosion of energy was heard as my left hand started to glow with dark light with a bit of golden light inside, I feel something weird like a tentacle growing in my palm, but when I look it was not a tentacle it was a tongue! My hand has a mouth now, full of sharp fangs and a tongue.

"Alright! With this you should be able to escape from here, this place was created to suppress us, but with the addition of belphy here we should be able to accumulate enough exp and escape. I'm going back to sleep, alright! I won't wake up until I really need to." The other voice said sounding tired and sleepy.

"OK then, don't worry just relax and rest. Thanks a lot friend!" I said back at it.

"It's-... it's not like I want to help you or anything... i-just-wanted-to-protect-myself-you-know-so-don't-get-the--wrong-idea-or-anything!! IDIOT!" it spoke so fast with every sentence growing faster and faster before it's finally gone. 'Huh, I wonder what's wrong with it.'

Back in the dungeon the fog of darkness slowly dissipated. 'I wonder why they didn't do anything before?' I thought to myself. "Duh... the time in my realm of darkness is different from here, you may feel it was a long time, but in reality you were gone for about 10 seconds. Well you're pretty lucky since they seem to be too cautious to take the opportunity." belphy suddenly cut my train of thoughts.

"OK belphy what do I need to do?" I asked.

"Easy, your left hand is know able to use my ability of devouring. Just try to feel their emotions and devour them, just open your palm and aim it at them." He explained.

I followed his instructions and opened my palm to them. A gust of dark invisible energy is slowly sucked and devoured by me second mouth. 'Hmm.. let's just say that it's belphy's mouth.' I thought to myself.

As the dark energy was being sucked I feel my wounds slowly to recover bit by bit, as I feel my fatigue slowly vanishing. On the contrary the enemy party seemed a bit pale and started to stretch their body a bit as if in discomfort.

'Damn, what a broken ability.' I thought.

"This is nothing! Now, control the emotions you just gathered and filter them to select madness and anger especially the monk's and threw them towards the ranger." said belphy while laughing mischievously.

I did what he told me to do, as I gathered the negative emotion in my palm I threw it at the unsuspecting ranger. Caught off guard by the long ranged attack which was probably not in the guide she read, the ranger was hit directly by it. She fell to her knees with her hand clutching her chest as if her heart was in pain. The monk and tank was startled before dashing to the ranger to help her shouting "Big sister!"

Tears fell down her eyes as the ranger cried and screamed at the top of her lungs before throwing her bow and took out a dagger and charged at me screaming in madness.

'Hmm... it seems using other people's negative emotions and transmitting it into another would make them have a mental breakdown, what a great ability! But, considering it's overpowered effect it probably has a few weaknesses, like if the targets mental fortitude is strong they could probably block it.' As I was deep in thought the ranger already left her two slow front-line fighters and was less than ten meters in front of me, ready to stab me with her dagger.

I dodged her weak stab by spinning around to her side while I grabbed her chin and spun her head while spinning instantly breaking her neck killing her.

"NOOOO!!!!" The monk and tank screamed loudly. They too lost their mind and charged at me with their weapons in tow like madmen, the tank felt that he was too slow from his friends' killer so he threw his giant tower shield and ran full speed towards me.

"Now, aim my mouth at them again and i'll cast some magic." Belphy said calmly.

I raised my left hand and opened my palm. A series of chanting with a language I don't understand was heard, but somehow I feel strangely familiar to it. As a fog of darkness spew out from belphy's mouth as he continued his chanting. The dark fog started to condense on my left arm as I feel it fortified.

"Now your left arm is twice as strong and is as hard as metal. That should be enough for you to win." Belphy said.