Chapter 146: Fallen demon

-How foolish.-

The voice said and the voice resounded out in this place.

It echoed in and out, and Aimon was able to hear it clearly.

In fact, Aimon heard it too clear that Aimon popped his veins on his neck.

After all, he was just stopping himself from erupting in anger with this nonsense voice.

It was too much nonsensical, but Aimon couldn't just lash out in anger in this place.

If Aimon did something like that, he might end up wasting his chance to go back and live his life.

What's more, Desire would probably be affected by his childish decision.

Aimon certainly didn't want to have that as Lionel trusted him with his disciple's life.

Of course, Desire also trusted him with his life, and coming through with their trust was the most important duty for Aimon.

Well, Aimon was just that kind of person.

That was why Aimon calmed himself once more. He forced himself to calm down even though what was happening was just ridiculous.

Although it was possible for something like this to happen, Aimon didn't like it.

After all, it was as if the voice was not speaking to Aimon. In fact, it was as if the voice was just talking and not listening to Aimon's answers.

And it was because it was like talking to himself, the voice and Aimon weren't able to have a good conversation.

It was also why Aimon was so angry that he popped a vein. Of course, that was just before as he was calm now.

And it was then that Aimon whipped his head back in front of the lion.

His left eye was still looking here and there to find the speaker, but alas. He really couldn't find it.

However, despite that being the case, Aimon spoke.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Why don't you come out so that we could talk about this?"

"I'm running out of time, you see."

Aimon said as calmly as he could, and as meekly as he could. He wanted the voice to come out so that he would be able to understand things better.

However, the things that happened right after he said those words were totally unexpected.

And that was because...the mighty lion opened its mouth as wide as possible.

"GARARR!!" The mighty lion bellowed out a roar towards the pesky poor man.

After all, the voice already told Aimon to leave, but he just didn't go.

Aimon was truly pesky, but that was not all that happened.

The whole place, the Spiritual World, started to bend out of shape! The darkness that was dominating the air in this place suddenly distorted right in front of Aimon!

It twisted, and twisted, and twisted around right in front of Aimon's eyes.

Of course, as Aimon was someone like a ghost right now, he wasn't affected by what was happening.

However, this sure caused his confusion to rise to the highest level.

"What the hell?!" Aimon shouted out loud as he put his arms up to try and guard himself.

Guarding himself was an instinctual reaction, seeing that there was such a huge disaster happening right in front of him.

What was worse was that Aimon could see that the lion...didn't distort at all!

It was as if the lion was invulnerable to this distorting! And that means that Aimon was in danger if the lion were to try and kill him right now.

However, no matter how much twisting happened in this place, the lion didn't move at all.

He just growled and took a position ready to pounce, but he never did it.

But it was clear for Aimon that the lion wouldn't hesitate to kill him if Aimon forced himself.

'What do I do?!' Aimon thought and thought, but no answer came to his mind.

After all, this was the first time that something like this happened.

And the most reasonable answer one would arrive at in this situation is to run away.

Of course, that was what Aimon first thought of, too. But if Aimon ran away now, he would just end up doing it again.

After all, Aimon agreed and ended up wanting to do the Divine Sharpness of the Ghost Needles on Desire.

That was why Aimon was thinking of ways to solve this. However, it seems that he didn't have to think about that as the...twisting stopped all of a sudden.

The whole place...became 'hollow' after its twisting, but it was still dark.

However, the twisted and bent shape of Desire's Spiritual World could still be seen.

"This is just too much..." Aimon murmured as he breathed a sigh of relief.

However, that sigh of relief didn't last long as he put his guards up once more.

Crazy things kept happening, and Aimon didn't want another crazy thing to happen when he didn't have his guard up.

And right after that, he searched for the reason why the place suddenly twisted.

"Just who are you?! What did you do?!"

"Desire, you little brat! Is this your doing?!"

A person who has not started to tread the Way has no way to control his Spiritual World. And since Desire has not started to walk the path, he can't control his Spiritual World.

However, as Desire was the 'cause' of these crazy happenings, it was only natural that Desire was the one doing it.

Although it didn't make sense, that was the only thing Aimon could think of in this situation.

Of course, Aimon knew that what he thought was just nonsense.

That was why he kept looking at the place with a frown on his face.

And it was then that Aimon could finally hear the voice again.

No, it was a different type of voice.

"Hmmm, this smell...a demon?" That voice said as the sound of sniffing resounded out in this place.

Of course, Aimon tried to find who spoke those words, and he was able to find the person faster than expected.

Well, considering that the previous voice didn't show up at all, Aimon didn't expect that this voice's owner would show up.

And the place where the speaker was standing at...was right on top of the mighty lion.

No, he wasn't really standing on top of the mighty lion, but he was...sticking out from the lion's body.

He was sticking out from the lion's forehead, and it was only the upper body of the person that could be seen sticking out.

And his lower body...it was connected to the lion. It was crazy, but Aimon didn't care about that at all.

He just looked at the man who showed up all of a sudden with shaking eyes.

His whole body was shaking, and it was weird since he was a ghost. However, that just speaks volumes of how shaken he was.

Aimon was truly shaken to his core and all the other crazy things that happened to him seem so normal now.

After all, the man who had his lower body connected with the lion looked so similar to a friend.

The man...looked similar to...

"L-Lionel?" Aimon murmured as he closed his left eye, rubbed it with his left hand, and opened it again.

He then looked at the man again, but the same look was still there.

It was a face, and hair that was extremely similar to Lionel.

What's more, they even looked to be identical to each other! And Aimon couldn't be wrong about that as Aimon remembers it clearly.

The only difference would be that...the man's hair was just too dark. Although Lionel's hair was black, this man's hair was darker than black.

However, if you take that away, it was easy to recognize the similarity between the two!

That was why Aimon was shocked to see the man in here. After all, there's no way this man is Lionel himself!

And that was proven as the man continued speaking after sniffing out the place.

"No, it looks like you are just a fallen demon." The man said as he looked down on Aimon.

He didn't move his head, and he just moved his brown eyes to look at Aimon.

It was a condescending look! It was a look that Aimon would not have let pass in the First World, but well.

Aimon knew better than to fight with this man. After all, the lion was still stronger than Aimon no matter what happened.

It was then that the man asked Aimon something.

The man's voice was deep and hoarse that it wouldn't be weird to mistake it as the lion's voice.

"What did you come here for, fallen demon?"

"Have you not heard my warning?"

"It is not time yet."

"Pesky demons like you who try to get His attention...I have the right to wipe your existence."

The lion that the man was connected to finally moved from his spot as he took a step forward!

Right, the lion, with his huge body and the man, moved forward as it walked towards Aimon!

It didn't take long for the lion to reach Aimon, and he stopped right before him.

And it was then that the man spoke again.

"Answer my question, scum."

The man said as he looked down on Aimon, a man who could go toe to toe with a Conqueror!