Lucifer

"Nnn..." I opened my groggy eyes slowly, feeling weak all over as if I had lost all my strength and became weak again.

'Ah...I guess I am dead now so this must be the after life?'

But then I realised that something was wrong after seeing the sight in front of me after I sat up. A worn out and old place...with nothing but a small old bed, a wooden table and some utensils for making food. Just this much stuff still made it look cramped.

I looked around me to find out where I was in but suddenly, a head-splitting pain made me clutch my head tightly. I gritted my teeth as I felt like my head was spinning but the pain kept me from feeling faint, keeping me awake the whole time. Then a series of unknown and unfamiliar pictures and scenes flashed through my eyes where people and events I didn't know were shown so clearly as if it was happening right in front of me.

It felt like hours had passed because of the pain but it had only been a few minutes after the pain subsided and went away completely like it never happened before.

I took deep breaths and panted, droplets of sweat covered my forehead.

I covered my face with my hands that were very small from my own, making me feel strange all over.

"This isn't real, right?" I murmured to myself but then heard an unfamiliar and sweet voice coming out instead. I sighed and sat still for a while as I summarised what happened.

'So it seems that I have really died in that assassination but somehow I possessed the body of this young girl that was cross dressing as a boy to survive alone. Was it called 'reincarnation'?'

The girl was called Lucifer. She had no last name because she was abandoned by her family for having dark red eyes that seemed bloodthirsty with one look. She was only 8 years old when they abandoned her. Actually, Lucifer couldn't open her eyes until she turned 8 years old nor could her parents open it as if it was glued so they only thought she was born with a deformity so they pitied her but after they found out that she had such scary red eyes, they immediately abandoned her in the slums, calling her a devil incarnate.

Lucifer suffered very much after that but she was a smart girl. She learnt to survive by herself by looking at what others did in the slums. Stealing, threatening and even killing. Yes, she killed to survive.

Who would think of killing as a bad thing if they could only survive through that? On top of it, she was just a kid and a kid was like a blank paper that could be filled with any colours. So the red stain from the blood coloured her blank paper for the sake of survival.

She survived through different means but then she suddenly got ill. Maybe it was because of the malnutrition and the unclean environment or the rain from the other day that made her catch a cold and die because of the lack of warmth. She died at the age of 14 without even a bit of knowledge about her identity, living a life worse than a dog.

I, for the first time felt pity for someone. This girl really suffered very much. But maybe that was the punishment for her previous life. And as for why I can say it so confidently, it was because I also obtained the memories of her past life that she herself couldn't get before.

Her memories...as the devil king.

Her parents weren't wrong, she was indeed a devil incarnate. But they only said that because of her red eyes, not that they really knew her identity or else she would be dead by now.

From her memories, I got to know that this world was a completely different place where a strange supernatural power that was borrowed from the nature in the form of 'elements' existed and was known as 'magic'.

This world had different continents and countries like my previous world had too but the countries were ruled by a sole person that was known as 'King' and were called kingdoms instead. He ruled over all the lives of the citizens and subjects in the kingdom and could decide their future with just one word.

And I hated that. Although my previous world was a dog eat dog world where only the strong could live freely, we still had some rights over our life if you were strong enough. But in this world, whether you were someone strong or not, you were subjected under the King just because he was known as the ruler.

"Absurd." I cursed in a low voice. ' Like hell I would ever be below someone else. Tomioka Shizuki was never someone that bowed or kneeled down to others in her life. I would never forget my own ideals and let go of my pride and rights as a person just because the world has such rules. Rules are meant to be broken and I will do just that.'

The kingdom that I was currently in was known as Zoan kingdom. Though the place that I was in was a slum in the city of rain that was at the south of the capital, Lucifer didn't know much about the events that took place around the kingdom because she was already busy trying hard to survive.

"Hmm..so that means I have to get the information about this world by myself since it is so limited."

But a devil king huh...that sounds fun to me.

I smirked a bit coldly.

"Then I will be the devil king that rules the whole world! No one shall be above me!"