Lucifer still had his head buried deeply in the blood pool for ten hours now and those hours were the worst in all his existence as he suffered excruciating pain. All through, he simply had one thought in mind and that was reuniting with his Khalan. He knew what he did would break her if she ever got to know about it and there was nothing he could say to get her to believe that it was not totally his fault.
Either ways, he was only happy it was all over now and he could finally go to see her and give Hal a break from babysitting.
He got out of the blood pool and immediately, there came demon maids with towels rushing to dry him up and clean his meticulously built body. After they were done, another set with the job description of dressing him up came rushing as well.
They brought him clean apparels, dressing him up nicely and even helping him get his boots on. This was the only life they have known in all their existence in demon realm which was also seen as the underworld, serving the demon lord. The underworld nickname was given to the demon territory because of how dark and cold everything there was, notwithstanding that it was just eastern Cullen at the end of the day.
Lucifer has since forever being the lord of the demon realm and so far, he has done a real good job in the course of keeping his people safe. He never let external or his personal problems or conflicts affect his people and their well-being and he was always more than ready to sacrifice even his own happiness and personal desires just to keep the demon race out of trouble and ensure their safety and survival. A very good example was his sacrifice of the love he had for Sheba in the past.
He knew at that time, if he had confessed to Sheba, what Moist did to Aliadam the spirit lord would be no different with what Sheba would have done to him and his race. He knew showing his love to her would make him vulnerable to her and her attacks leaving his race exposed to threats and mishaps so he rather let go of the love he had for her just to keep his people safe and rather treated her as an enemy. However, he deeply regretted making Sheba see him as an enemy back then but the truth still remains that even though he were to turn back time, he still would not do anything differently.
He loved his people so much, just as much as he loved Sheba and that was the main reason he was going to make this second opportunity work out well for them. He was not going to let her go this time, even if it was going to cost the future of his entire race. He already made that sacrifice in their honor once and he was not going to do that again.
This time, he was going to put his own happiness first, he was going to fulfill his selfish desires and not let go of the love of his life for the second time again.
He was still drowned deep in the ocean of his thoughts till suddenly, one of the maids spoke to him.
"My lord" she pointed him to a chair set opposite a very classical mirror, urging him to sit down while she held a hair brush at hand.
"Please take a seat my lord" she spoke lightly, "your hair needs a good brush" she smiled lightly.
The demon lord was always so kind to them all and they never felt scared to speak their minds to him or show simple gestures just like the smile she currently had on.
Lucifer nodded lightly and took the seat like she offered and she began brushing his hair immediately.
She trimmed off loose ends while she brushed and tried everything within her power to make his lustrous hair look extra beautiful. After she was done, other maids helped wipe off the hair mess he had all over his shoulders, making him look very clean and some others applied strong scented oils on his skin, making him smell very good and powerful at the same time.
"We will take our leaving now my lord" the head maid among them said politely and the rest of them bowed down to his grace and as soon as he nodded, they began leaving, one after the other till he was finally alone. Without thinking twice, he immediately teleported to the mansion were Khalan was. He was too eager to see her and he could not wait any longer.
He got to the mansion and in the same second, he knew something was wrong. Without hesitation, he immediately made his way to Khalan's room hoping to find her safe and sound and he did. That meant Hal really valued his existence of course. He smiled to himself.
'As he should' he sighed. He wanted to immediately reveal himself to Khalan but thought to first find out what the problem was first and be sure she was truly safe before showing himself to her.
He began to search for Hal immediately, trying to sense him with the bond they shared as master and servant, belonging to the same race then found him in another room, on the ground floor of the same mansion with Khalan. But he was not alone, he was with a human girl.
'Strange' Lucifer thought, he stood by the door calming watching him meticulously while he carefully laid the girl on the bed, calling her name frantically with his face full of worry.
"Who is that?" The sound of Lucifer's voice was rather calmer than excepted. He had all right to lash out on Hal right now because he failed in the one assignment he gave to him 'protecting Khalan'. He rather left her unguarded only to bring in a totally stranger to his most secured fortress.
A place he was comfortable leaving Khalan in even with out him being present to guard her, that was how much he trusted the mansion's security but now, Hal had comprised it by bringing this strange human girl but he was calm about the whole situation and that was what scared Hal.
His voice frightened him even though he spoke calmly but what scared him the most was if or whether Khalan was safe.
It was then that it dawned on him, how much of a bad decision he made that morning…