Memory Lane.

"It's him. Lower you weapons.." Ryoko's command caused them all to stop their magic and to bow. 'I can see his status. It's actually him. It seems that he's resting now and I probably shouldn't disturb him. That nap..will quite literally rejuvenate him..'

She then put her hand out and the metal table became a luxurious bed. "This area is off limits to anyone but the human girl, Lars and obviously me. You're dismissed.." Some agreed and disappeared on the spot while others wanted to voice their opinion about the human girl part.

They didn't find it fair that someone of a lower species has more 'authority' than they did. "What? I said you're dismissed. Why are you still here..?" Releasing a bit of magic on them, it made them cower away by vanishing.

'Stupid idiots. They know who we have on our hands and yet, their getting jealous of a human child? How ignorant..' Her first conversation with Ichibe resurfaced in her mind. 'T-That was... Hmp! It was absolutely nothing! I just didn't like that my slaves were so intimate!'

She then casted a spell that made the torutue chamber a bed room. She put clothes on him which only consisted of a towel. 'You're the first human in eons to contract with a devil. That's a huge achievement.

I can't allow this information to get out though as the other races might try and attack us. Ichibe, when you awaken, I'll have things taken care of for you. I-Its the least I could do for you..'

Giving him one last look through the wooden door frame, she left. 'I'll probably send him there... Yeah, he'd be safe there. And while he's at it, he can become a better self.'

....

Ichibe was on a floating piece of stone in a black void. Around him were screens, each displaying a point in time of Ichibe's life, aka, a memory. 'Why am I here? What exactly is here? Memory lane? Thought it was a saying...' He then saw a screen that brought back depressing thoughts.

'Mom and dad's, death. Now that I remember, I couldn't really remember what happened. I think I suffered from loss of memory afterwards.' He touched the screen and now he was in a grey car.

In the passenger seat was a brown haired woman in her late twenties while a man with silver hair in his early thirties drove. "This is gonna be an amazing baseball game, Ichi!" His dad said with a cheery smile. While his mother was Japanese, his father was mixed with African American and White.

"Ichi dear, make sure to stay close to mommy, okay? You know you get lost easily.." She looked over the seat and patted his clothes off. "Yes.." He became embarrassed that his mom was doing that in front of his dad.

'Ah, I remember that I was jealous of dad. How he had a beauty like mom. He wasn't a 'bad guy', but she was too good for him. He was a dangerous gang leader back then, so I thought that by him marrying her, he was putting her in danger..'

Older Ichibe was sitting behind his mother's seat as his kid self sat directly in the middle. 'And this is where things go bad..' He looked out the window to his right and saw a huge truck coming in the distance.

'Nobody,..but myself saw it coming. I wonder why..' While he saw his kid self staring in a daze at the truck coming full speed at them, he saw his parents looking at something else. 'What the..?' He paused the memory, flew to the frontand stared at the radio.

What was on it was a glowing circle with runes around it. 'A magic circle? T-That's a magic circle?!' The memory resumed and the truck collided with the the right side of his car. He watched it all in slow motion.

What he saw was his parents disappearing, yet being replaced by two fake bodies which looked identical to his parents. The car flipped numerous times as even the puppets shed blood and screamed in horror.

'These aren't even my real parents? I cried and thought of suicide for fakes?!' Police soon came and the memory faded away. "Where did they go? What happened to them?! Are they still alive?! Mom..? Dad..?"

He replayed the memory over and over again. It wasn't until the 100th time where Haru had to step in and stop him. "Take is easy, Ichibe. That is indeed a magic circle.." She hugged him from behind, feeling his back moving up and down from heavy breathing.

"I can suspect that they were drawn to another world, much like what had happened to you.." Her words calmed him down a bit. "T-Then they could be safe. If they got powers like me then they could be safe..." He felt that they could probably have survived since his dad would do anything to protect his wife and self.

He stepped away from the screen and back onto his floating rocky island. "Haru, what are you doing here? I thought you were resting.." He picked a memory of himself sitting in a empty room with nothing but a tv.

"I was, but when I felt your anger and hatred, I came out. I'll always come out whenever you bear your hatred.." He and Haru watched as his 12 year old self pleasured himself.

'My days of being lonely. From going to school, getting beat up for being ugly and looking like a wanna be punk, to coming home and doing this..'

The memory changed to him being in school. He was still 12 at this time. He walked up to a girl with blood red hair. If you'd see her face and body type followed by her hair color, you could easily figure out that this was Mary.

"Leave me alone, you disgusting pig. I don't want your love letter..." She took it, ripped it to pieces then walked away while laughing. 'My 12 year old self cried himself home and to sleep for the next few weeks after this.

Barely making enough to live, being bullied yet avoided by everyone because of my looks, and a porn addiction.

I hated myself.'

Fast forward two years later, he had a huge glow up. No more snooty nose. No more bad smell. He was a regular looking high school student now who everyone still avoided.

'I...slowly got my life together after some sought out counseling. That lead me to a fitness program where I began exercising and Yeah, I became like that..'

He waved the memory away then looked at Haru. She had her eyes closed and would stammer at times. 'I'd be bored to death as well watching this cliche backstory that I have. Oh well..' He didn't want to be here and so, he wasn't there.

He was now in a wooden cabin with 3 naked women in aprons who were serving him food. These three women were Mary, Haru, and an older looking Ryoko.

'A life where I married these three and even had children. That seems nice..' That future however faded away and now, he awakened in a black luxurious room.

"I-Ichibe?! Ichibe!" To his right, there was the mature and angelic Mary. She was quick to grab him by the neck and pull him into a deep and warm hug.

'My middle school self would be lucky to breathe the same air as her. Now, I'm able to touch her whenever I want. Talk about development..'

The truth is, they both had secrets about each other. Like how Ichibe kept it a secret that he doesn't know her and how she does the same when she actually saw him from a far one day in highschool. "How are you, Mary?" She cried into his chest as he examined her figure.

Her red hair which was down to the middle of her back was now cut off to form shoulder lengths hair and bangs. "f-FinE~.." He put his head down and kissed the top of her head. 'How long have I've been asleep for? She wasn't this attached when I last saw her...'

[Soothing Skill obtained(2/10)]

'This power...it really is passive. And it shows more emotion than I do..' Mary continued to slob and cry over him for the rest of the day. It wasn't until night when she proposed something outrageous. It left him completely speechless.

"I...I...I want to go out with you.."

Yes, outrageous. Outrageously Good. 'I've been waiting to hear those words for 4 years. 4 f-ing years!' He grabbed her hands and nodded. "I'd love to.

It'll be the biggest honor I could ever receive.." While they smiled at each other, the Demon Loli was doing everything she could to control her bloodlust.

'D-Damn it! She got to him before I could..'

....