Chapter 523: One Enemy-II

Elise looked at vallac whose face appeared like no other handsome demons she had seen but upon the punch that he earned, he fell on the ground and the side of his face revealed a group of feather growing from his wrist over to his finger which was similar to the feathers of birds. 

"I-I really don't know what you are coming here for!" Vallac yelled in response and when he noticed Ian's frown tightened he gulped, "Sir."

"You mean you don't know me, is that it?" Ian questioned, pulling his black glove to his hand for his finger to fit in. "Then why did you run? There must be something from your guilty conscience that had you to pull your tail between your leg and run upon noticing me."

"I-I really don't understand what you are talking of... if I may be honest, sir, I am a demon who often does many felony. To keep tabs on what I did is difficult," Vallac explained in haste. "And I know you sir, the third generation of Diablo. If you come to my house, I don't think anyone wouldn't run away from their house."

"You are well known here," Elise remarked. Despite staying in Hell for two times, Ian's name seemed to be very famous.

"I tend to excise eyesores around me starting my first day hour. I remember the first one I took down was the demon who work under Satan, one of the thirteen demons, I made my name from there," Ian explained and as he noticed Vallac was trying to run away, he pushed his legs over the demon's leg. "Back to business, do you know this letter? You were the one who had wrote it didn't you?"

Ian threw aside the envelope toward Vallac. The demon who feared to die like all other and most mortals, try to take the envelope that slipped and fell to the floor. He took the letter, narrowing his eyes as he read the handwriting. He nervously looked up at Ian.

Ian's jaw tick at the demon's wishy washy attitude. "Do you remember it, I asked."

"Y-Yes!" Vallac noticed the anger and he cleared his throat, "This is the letter that I was paid to write. I remember it because the person who had requested me to work on the letter was someone important."

"Who is this someone important?" Elise was the one to ask. Seeing the Demon's' hesitation, she added, "Was it an archangel?" She remembered how when Lucifer had sniffed the letter he left a remark saying that the letter held both scent of Demon and Angel. She needed to know who the angel was. Her question was confirmed by how Vallac shuddered. He looked at her as if she could read his mind. "How did you meet and who was it?"

"The angel came to Hell," answered Vallac who knew it was better to answer if he didn't want his soul to disappear forever to the oblivion. 

"Angel can come to Hell?" Elise frowned at this. She knew how demons can't enter Heaven and the same should be implemented.

"We are tend to be relax with rules such as letting angels to enter Hell, m-milady," Vallac added the politeness on his words, "But if they are found by other demons, the killings wouldn't be lax."

Ian kicked the demon's hand, "Who was it? Out with the name."

Vallac seemed to be prolonging time and both Ian and Elise noticed this from him. When Ian glared, Vallac quickly said, "G-Gabriel! It is Archangel Gabriel!" 

Gabriel again?

"Angel Gabriel asked you to pose as Emmett toward Lady Lucy White, while claiming to be following the instructions from Lucifer, is that correct?" Elise asked for confirmation and she could feel the spiking anger that send series of shudders to her body from Ian who stood beside her.

Vallac also shuddered at the demonic energy that blazed, "I did nothin other than writing this letter!"

"Only one?" Ian narrowed his eyes and stepped on the demon's neck. "I told you not to fucking lie to me," Ian's words dropped ice cold.

The skin of Vallac turned paler and paler as he cannot catch a single breath. His body flung to help and Elise watched Ian looked at the demon with the intention to kill but when Vallac nearly died, Ian lessened the pressure from his feet. 

Gaining another available choice to be truthful, Vallac who almost saw the gate of death yelled, "I wrote four of them, four letters! Only four, I swear! I didn't write it as I wish. I only followed Gabriel's order. He reiterated what I needed to write and gain the trust of the woman named Lucy. He didn't tell me everything and as he had offered me a payment, I didn't question his intention either. Its a policy for my job to do what is asked without poking my nose."

"Lady Lucy is not stupid," Elise knew this because she had seen the woman. She was strong, beautiful, and smart. She was strong enough to give her life for her son. She won't be fooled by a simple letter. "How do you convince you are someone sent by Lucifer?"

Prioritizing his life, Vallac didn't care what was meant to be secret and spilled what the two demons need to know. "First, Lucifer was punished. He didn't have much followed to him other than Malphas but Malphas is a demon who only serve him. It is easy to manipulate the woman because she didn't know much about Lucifer and those who follow them and Gabriel sent some object that became the last evidence to convince her. After the second letter she completely trusted me...I mean Gabriel!"

"What was the object?" This time it was Ian who interrogated the demon. 

"Lucifer's white feather," answered Vallac. "We demons never had the chance to ever see the Duke's wings when he was a demon but it is known that he kept some of them. I guessed that Gabriel had them because he was once in Heaven with the Duke before he got back here! I-I only know later that Lady Lucy was the sister of Lucifer. I thought she was a human! Had I know, I wouldn't have dare-"

"You wouldn't dare to even use my uncle's name to take her only last line of hope," Ian completed the word with his jaw set.

"Lady Lucy must have known it by the smell," Elise, who had been hearing the discussion, spoke, "Although Lady Lucy doesn't bear the ability of angel or demon, I noticed she was able to detect ghosts and wasn't surprised by them. Maybe it was only a little but she also shared the senses of either angel or demon."

Vallac saw how Ian contemplated whether to kill now that he had received his answer. Ian could remember the pleading his mother had made for a simple and measly one demon. 

Vallac hurried, "I stopped once I realized who Lady Lucy was and didn't write anymore letters. Since then Gabriel didn't appear again."

Elise thought about having the man spell out the description of how Gabriel looked but what was the use? The time Gabriel had came to meet Lady Lucy and during the forest loop, he had a different appearance.

"What are we going to do?" Elise questioned. Their lead were too scattered but all spiraled back to Gabriel. "We have to find Gabriel."

Ian went to silence in a thought, "Lucifer might know that but I am suspecting him of something currently. Elise can you stay here for a while? Just five minutes. I swear I will come back whenever you call my name."

Elise placed her hand on his back, "Go. I will be alright."

Ian nodded and at once he zapped away only to came back the next second. "I haven't forgot you," said Ian to Vallac. Holding to the lower ranked demon, he teleportated from the house in one instance. 

Elise looked behind the veranda, seeing the dead bodies of possibly humans that didn't sit well with her. She decided to leave toward the lower floor. Making her way across the darkness, only her red hair glowed when it was hit by the orange oil laps on the corridor. Elise had only put one step to descend the staircase when she saw someone had passed by the lower part of the staircase that caught her sight.

There was still someone else?