Chapter 3

What Do You Know About Me?

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Alastor quietly sip his black coffee as he listened in the conversations of the demons in front of him, it is quite interesting for him. And also.. very informational. If she was working with the royal family of hell, what was she doing on that night few years ago?

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The Radio Demon made his way casually towards the place of an Overlord in hell, trying to show the whole world of hell of what he's capable of and spread his madness around. As he stood in front of the door, he could hear conversation from inside but it was a bit hushed and lowered. This place is the last overlord that he'd want to kill before taking a bit of a break from it, his smile widened as he grips his microphone cane on his right hand.

The doors slammed open as the multiple demons inside of the room snapped their heads towards him, it was as if they were having a meeting.

"Why hello there, my dear fellows." He greets as his psychopathic smile grew bigger. It was all in an instant as he killed all of them but only one demon remained, her back is turned to him as she looks at the corpses of the demons in front of her. She didn't look fazed as she didn't move but the second Alastor steps forward in silence the girl turns around instantly as she jumps high into the sky and land her feet gracefully a few feet away with a big sharp scythe held in her hands as it points towards the demon. He was quite surprised that she was able to sense his presence.

Her long black hair is tied to a messy bun as her locks of hair covered half of her view of vision, her rich red piercing eyes glowed in the dark of the night.

"Why hello there, my dear. How are you?" He asks as he steps closer,

"Don't move." The girl sneered out as she swings her scythe down as it cuts the air and sending a blow right in front of the radio demon's feet — it was so powerful it cut through the concrete and all the way down to who knows where. "What do you want?"

She asks, not lowering down her guard.

"Absolutely nothing! I came here only to finish some unintended business." He smiles as he glared at the dead corpse of the overload and many other demons behind him. The girl followed his gaze but kept her attention on him.

"I don't want to even know why you killed him." She says as she sigh, suddenly lowering her guard as she sets her scythe down on her side. It made the demon narrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "I'm not complaining, I wanted him dead anyways. Thanks." She suddenly thanked him as she tucks her locks behind her ear, careful not to hit her hand on her horns that rested on her temples and came outwards to the top of her head and curled to the bottom.

She blinks as Alastor just noticed, her right eyes is flowing black liquid and down her cheeks and staining her dress which she paid no mind.

"May I ask why you're here?" He asks as he tilted his head, the girl held her hip with her left hand as the right held her scythe.

"I was just helping that idiotic overlord with his business, having to kill demons and making deals with them and such and yet he treated me like utter garbage. Its enough that—" She suddenly stops and sighs, "He's dead now and that's all it matters. I'll be going now." She says as she let's go of her scythe which it disappears in a puff of red smoke so did her horns. The girl pulled on her sleeve as she wipes the black substance off her right cheek.

Almost like casually she walks out of the place but before she could, Alastor calls out to her.

"Dear," he starts, the girl turns to him with raised eyebrows. "What's your name?" He asks, his lips still curled upwards in his smile. She thought for a second,

"Kana, they call me — Miss Karma." She suddenly grins after she spoke the last word and without saying anything else, she disappeared into the night of the west side pentagram city.

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Now that he knows she works with the royal family, why would she work with the overlords? Maybe Lucifer was working with overlords too? For once in his years of being a demon in hell, doesn't know someone in hell. She wasn't even someone new to begin with. He was snapped back into reality as the door of the kitchen opens revealing Sin running out and choking Angel from behind the couch,

"Take my cookies, I'll end you!" She playfully shouts, instead of laughing or another reaction. Angel had a smirk on his face as he moaned,

"Ugh, harder mommy!~" Sin deadpanned and so did everyone in the room. You can see a blush of red spreading on Sin's face as she lets go and smacks Angel upside the head which she laughs after, followed by everyone else expect for Alastor of course. Sin walks around the couch and sits back down beside Angel as they continue to chatter.

A few hours passed as everyone had went to do their work, Charlie and Vaggie stayed in the backroom as Alastor is by the reception counter, Niffty is around the hotel cleaning, Husk is of course behind the bar and Melody is in the office, counting things. The long haired female sighs as she rubs her eyes from looking at so many numbers,

"Why did I agree counting numbers instead.." she grunts as she fixes a small glasses on top her nose and continue doing her work. The girl glances at the time to see it's around 2PM, maybe taking a little break wouldn't hurt. It is her time to rest anyways.

Melody gets up from the chair and stretches her stiff limbs as she walks to the couch in the other side of the room and sits down, pouring a cup of hot tea and sipping it a bit before stretching for the last time, taking off the glasses as she sets it down by the table and lie herself down on the couch she always takes a nap on. Being around people makes her tired even if she isn't doing anything, she doesn't know how to explain it but;

Whenever she's around people, their energy just makes her tired and eventually takes naps at certain times. The girl takes off her hair tie and let it be around her wrists as she close her eyes and drifts to sleep.

"What time is it?" Vaggie asks as she closes a file and set it down on her lap. Charlie looks at the clock outside the backroom,

"Its 2:02PM. Oh, Melody would be napping by now." Charlie says as she smiles, "She works too hard sometimes." Vaggie smiles softly,

"Can't be helped, right? She doesn't like having people help her, no matter how much she needs it." Vaggie rests her head on her arm on the table.

"I at least want to do something for her! She deserves so much." Charlie jumps up as she pouts, Vaggie chuckles.

"You can try but we all know she's not going to accept any help." Vaggie states facts as Charlie pokes her cheek with her index finger as she thinks.

"How about we do something for her, like.. give her presents?" Charlie suggests, Vaggie stands up and crosses her arms.

"You know she'd accept anything from you, what does she even like anyways?" Vaggie asks, Charlie presses her lips together as she pouts.

"Ugh, I don't know.. I'll think about it. I'm going to work at the counter. See you later, Vaggie." Charlie smiles and waves.

"See you later too, hun." Vaggie smiles and went back to looking at the files in her lap. Charlie walks out of the backroom and up to Alastor who is reading a book to pass the time. The male looks up as his eyes pierce through the girl,

"Good afternoon, Charlie." He greets, Charlie kinda jumped a bit due to not being used around the radio demon himself.

"Good afternoon, Alastor.." she greets back as she fidgets,

"What can I do for you, dear?" He asks, his voice is a bit low as if he was amused by how uncomfortable the girl is.

"Well, um- I thought I could take over and have you take a break for a little while." Charlie says as she glances to the side and back to the demon.

"Oh no, no. It's fine I can take it just fine." Alastor says as he declines her offer of help, Charlie wasn't going to back down so she shook her hands.

"Oh, please. I'm sure you're bored as fuck just sitting there, so I'm giving you the chance to have a bit fun while I take your place for a little while." She smiles awkwardly, the demon thought for a second before closing his book and shrugging.

"If you say so, charming demon belle." He sets his hands behind his back as he walks out from behind the counter and Charlie going in. Before Alastor walks away, he turns to the girl, "Oh, by any chance is there any more books around here that I could read?" He asks, twirling his hand around as he spoke. Charlie hummed and thought,

"Oh, yes. There's shelves of books in the office. Feel free to read anything." Charlie smiles her charming cheerful grin. Alastor nods and thank the girl as he makes his way to the office, he grabs the doorknob and pushes the door open. The room is a bit warmer than it was in the lobby which is a bit cold, the lights in the room aren't opened but the one by the table where papers and files are scattered are turned on as the light shines down on the papers.

He walks in as he closes the door behind him, immediately noticing someone sleeping peacefully on the couch, he walks closer to see Melody. Her breathing is soft, her hair is long and even a few locks fell from the couch and touched the floor due to how long her hair is.

How does someone even maintain such long hair? He stayed quiet as he walks away to the shelves to see books about everything in hell. One book caught his eye as he pulls it out, instead of a book for reading it's an album. The cover is thick and the book is big in its size, the title could barely be seen due to old age and it fading away. But he could make the words 'Photo Album'. He opens it as he sees numerous pictures of the royal family of hell,

Fancy pictures and family pictures, but one caught his eye. A picture of Lilith, the queen of hell, Lucifer, the king of hell and in the middle stood someone he knew. A girl with black hair tied onto a messy bun, her horns sticking out of her temples as she held a serious, almost blank face. Lilith had her hands on the girl's shoulders, the girl had her hands in front of her politely. Alastor's eyes scans the date of the photo to see it's in 1930.

The radio demon squints his eyes, he knew that Melody died on the year of 1929 when the stock market had crashed on the year of the Great Depression. Being accused of being a demon due to her unusual features but when they did some research on her dead body, it was shown she was human. Her parents were jailed after the false accusations. How did he knew all of this? He was a radio host, announcing missing people, death reports and even ghost stories. Her story was honestly sad and.. pathetic.

He was snapped back to reality when a huge explosion came from in front of the hotel, Melody jolted awake up the couch with the most pissed off face. He watch as she gets up angrily and slams the door of the office open, oh someone's going to get their ass beaten. He puts the album back in its place as he follows her outside, everyone also followed to see what it was. Of course who else it could be other than that snake, why is he so naïve?

"You think I was done?! I have come back for revenge!" He shouts from the machine. Charlie pulls Vaggie and the others a few feet back,

"Stay a few feet back, you might get hurt." She says as she seems a bit worried, Melody who's right in front of Sir Pentious glared up at him. Her long hair blows in the air, before Pentious could do anything else. Melody opens her fingers as her scythe appears, she spins it in her hands as she brings it down to the ground — a big hole appears as dead demons comes crawling out and gripping on the machine.

Sir Pentious and his egg bois tries to shoot them away with guns but it didn't budge as more and more climb the machine. Even demons that could fly, flies around them and start to rip off parts of the machine, Melody holds up her scythe with both of her hands as she positions her legs as she starts running in inhuman speed and swings her scythe — instantly cutting the whole thing in the middle as it explodes and gets pulled into the hole.

Melody walks up to the hole as she glares down, a dead demon who is very bloody appears beside the girl. They seem like the citizens of hell who had been wiped out by the angels from the extermination day, he bows down to Melody as he suddenly picks up her hand and kisses her gloved knuckles which she ignored.

"Miss Karma, you're the best." He spoke as he suddenly disappeared in thin air and the hole closes itself. Sir Pentious is on the other side due to being blown away by the explosion, she walks up to him and pulls him closer using her scythe as she sneered in his face,

"Come here again, I'll make you into a fucking sushi." She says as she backs away and watch him scatter away with his remaining minions. Red smoke makes her scythe disappear as she walks back to the hotel, obviously in a bad mood.

"Melody, are you okay?" Charlie asks, scared. Melody glared at her on accident which made her jump but her eyes softened as she nods.

"I'm fine, Char. Sorry about that." Melody says as she wipes black substance that came out from her eyes.

"Holy shit that was cool." Sin blurts out, Melody looks at her but stayed quiet. The long haired gift huffs as she walks past everyone and into the hotel, immediately walking into the kitchen instead. Niffty who's nearby looks at the girl with a worried expression, the shorter demon looks at everyone in confusion.

"What the fuck was that?" Husk asks, seems like he never left the bar.

"Someone had upset the maiden." Alastor reply with a bit of amusement in his tone. Husk was quiet for a second as he rolls his eyes and continue to chug down his booze. Charlie was about to check on Melody but the door of the kitchen opens up to reveal the girl, a glass cup in her hand and sipping it using a straw. She looked a bit calmed down,

"Sorry about that." Melody says as she smiles slightly. Charlie fidgets with her hands and shakes her head,

"No it's fine. We know that you need your rest." Charlie reassures.

"Why are you so pissed off anyways?" Angel asks, as if asking for a death wish. Melody only stare at him as she sips her strawberry vanilla milkshake. Instead of answering, the girl sigh as she walks back into the office. Vaggie turns to Angel as she glares, "What? I was just asking." He shrugs.

"If she ever have the need to kill someone to make her calm, I'd throw you in as a sacrifice." Vaggie says as she scoffs and walks away into the backroom. Sin presses her lips together,

"Should I talk to her?" She suggests, Angel laughs and shook his head.

"Not a good idea. She'll fuckin' eat you alive." He says as he rolls his eyes.

"Then, I'll talk to her." Alastor smiles as he walks towards the door of the office, Sin looks at Angel as the two looks at each other and the male only shrugged his shoulders. The radio demon knocks on the door to make sure that the girl welcomed anyone into the room, a clear 'come in' could be heard as he opens the door and looks at her who is sitting legs crossed on the couch. She glances up at the demon as he enters and closes the door,

"Oh, it's you." She blurts out as she continue to sip on her drink. He laughs,

"Yes, indeedy! Were you hoping it to be someone else, dear?" He asks as he walks closer. The girl stayed quiet,

"Not really. Nobody bothers me when I'm like this." She says as she pulls all of her long hair and over her shoulder as she combs it with her long fingers. She gestured to the couch as Alastor sits down.

"Why is that?" He tilt his head, Melody avoids his eye contact as she shrugs.

"People think I would be kill them if they tried to, all I need was time to be alone that's all." She says as she looks at the cold glass in her hand.

"Perhaps, you should smile more! You're never fully dressed without one!" He says as his radio voice filled the room. Melody looks at him as she rests her head on her hand and her elbow on her thigh, her body slouched forward. It was silent for a second before Melody slowly looks away, her voice suddenly singing.

"Come on little lady, give us a smile. No, I got nothing to smile about." Those words slips out of her lips as he sits straight back up. "I don't remember the last time I was able to really smile." She says as she shrugs her shoulders.

"Well, what makes you smile?" He asks, eyeing her back since that's all that he could see from his view. There was silence again,

"Her." Was what she let out, Alastor hum in question. "Someone from when I was alive, I doubt I'll ever be able to see her again. She'll never end up here." She says as she sets down her glass of cup on the table.

"What does that mean?" He asks again, trying to somehow let her open up and trust him. But she stayed quiet as she shook her head, his smile almost dropped a bit.

"I-It's nothing." She manage to croak out as she stands up and picks up her hair tie, walking over to the table and tying her hair. "I'm going out to find some sinners that'd give a shot of trying to rehabilitate. Want to join?" She asks, finally turning to him but her usual blank face had crawled back up to her expression. The radio demon stood up as he nods,

"Of course!" He beamed. The girl nods as she cleans up the papers and puts it back in a file and sets it aside. The girl walks towards the door as he follows close behind.

"Charlie, I'm going out. I'll be back in a few hours." She says as Charlie pops her head from the backroom.

"Okay!" She reply with a smile on her face. Angel smirks,

"Wow, what did you two do in there? Ya goin' out on a date now?" He teases, the girl only fixes her dress as she takes her lace Victorian umbrella from Charlie from the backroom and walks to the door, completely ignoring his comment. Alastor chuckles at his failed attempt, Sin burst out laughing. "Oh, fuck you two." He cuss out. Melody opens the door as Alastor followed, she opens up her umbrella as hovers it over her head.

She waited until Alastor closed the door of the hotel and ready to walk until she did so herself. The radio demon follow her from close behind,

'How can I use you for advantage..' The taller demon thought to himself as he stares at the shorter demon in front of him even though he could only see her umbrella covering almost all of her.