The Dark Magi's Ascension

"We're what we always were in salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of kingdom and common vengeance writes the law."

—The Crucible, Arthur Miller.

「WHERE IS THAT BRAT DARIS?!」

We heard an angry yell from a middle-aged man.

I stopped looking at the mirror; I shifted my gaze to the window.

Mom was the first one to look out the window before.

Instantly her face darkened, and she slightly trembled, which I saw from the sides.

I looked out the window where all the people stood before the door of my house.

Judging from their expressions, they were pissed off!

Some of them were already in tears.

They were about to inquire about their children and blame me for their children's loss.

As they saw me.

"COME OUTSIDE MELINDA AND SATAN's BRAT!"

They said in unison.

They wanted a scapegoat on which to vent their loss.

They don't want to know about my health even when I barely survived that place.

As they saw me.

「COME OUT MELINDA AND SATAN'S BRAT!」

They said in unison.

They were with weapons and torches.

Behind them were beasts.

『How convenient for them to put the entire blame on my shoulders and call me possessed satan's child from… **** them.

Ii i

Sh, I'm not going to make it.

Satan's Child just because Daris was lured into the cave.』

I sighed.

I decided to face them.

I don't like being hiding in the bush.

Since they already labelled me as Satan's child, then so be it!

I can shut their **** mouths or their customs for now.

I can only repress myself in the meantime.

They can mock, harass, blame, or torture me temporarily, but when I get a chance, then I'll pay them back for what they did to me.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth — That's my philosophy.

It's their blindfolded belief and custom that made them like this.

I give a dialogue while acting naturally like I was to surrender to them.

「Uncles and aunties, I'm innocent in this. It's not me who led Ivan or Zein to the Forbidden Lost Woods the devil inside the cave lured us! But all of you must think: if the devil possessed me then I'd already harm my mother or Silvia when I saw them. Look at them, are they already here alive with me? Do you still think I'm possessed?」

I said in an innocent tone like a normal 7-year-old boy would.

They were already fuming with anger and disgust towards me

I knew that they were not going to stop.

"BRAT AND MELINDA COME DOWN!"

Yeah.

They want to frighten us.

I looked at Mom and Silvia. They were already horrified and anxious about me.

I gripped my hands hard.

I don't want to cause any trouble to my loved ones again.

But that doesn't mean I'd take shit from others.

I placed my arm on my mother's hand and Silvia's shoulders.

「Mom and Silvia. Let's go down. I want to see what they'll do to me!」

My mom suddenly stood before me while hugging me with an overprotectiveness.

「NO! MY SON, I WON'T LET YOU GO THERE THEY'LL HARM YOU! I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT THEY DO TO YOU?!」

She's always worried about me like her.

「Daris have you gone mad? You'd just barely survived Forbidden Lost Woods then throwing blame at you. It's unfair…」

I understand what she meant.

Yeah.

World is unfair.

But if the world is unfair then you have to be unfair to the world.

I gave a smile.

「Can't you see them, from their looks and manners. They already saw me as an possessed Satan's Child… you can't their views or of nobodies even its a whimsical belief, thats our deepen down nature. So its futile to change others' views. That's why I have to face them now or never…」

Both Silvia and Mom were shocked by my words.

They had a doubt whether if I'm still their original daris…

Fate has another plans for me.

I left away from my mom's embrace.

I embraced my wounds and already started to walk towards the door.

***

「BRAT! YOU FINALLY CAME! YOU WRETCH! WHY DID YOU TAKE MY CHILD IN THE FORBIDDEN LOST WOODS?!」

This is the first slander I heard from a weeping woman came before me and slapped my cheek with a enough force that caused me fall to side ground.

『It hurts you whore…』

The wounds in my body to pulsate more.

「STACEY! WHY DID YOU HIT THAT SATAN'S CHILD! DID YOU WANTED HIM TO POSSESS YOU BY TOUCHING HIM?!」

「Husband… *Sob* *Sob* It's all because playing with this Satan's child that our sons have to go to the Forbidden place.. I have the anger to beat him all over…」

The man behind the women stopped her before hitting me again.

「I know if we kept our son from playing with this Satan's Child then we would still see him alive…」

He responded at her emotional state.

「It's not just 1 child had been dead but entire 19 kids with 7-8 year old who been selected to awaken talent had perished all because of this ***** brat!」

Another parents snorted.

An elder brother Igil of Ivan came before.

「I always sympathized you because you didn't a father as growing up… but now it was the biggest mistake I did back then!」

He started to kick me.

As they kick was fall on me.

My mom took the kick by protect me.

「AAH~」

I heard a shriek from her mouth.

"I'm Sorry Auntie Melinda!"

I was pissed off.

「YOU BASTARD!」

I charged at him.

But he managed to dodge it.

He pushed me to the floor.

I fall hard to the ground.

The wounds opened up of all my body.

The pain gushed all around me.

I look at Igil with deadly glare.

『I don't care happens to me but if you hurt my mother… I'll see your corpse.』

All the looked at me disgust.

「STOP! HE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A POSSESSED SATAN'S CHILD! IF HAD BEEN THEN HE'D ALREADY KILL US WITH HIS MAGIC. HE'S WOUNDED AND STILL HAS CONSCIOUSNESS OF A CHILD. HE HAD ATTACKED IGIL BECAUSE HE UNINTENTIONALLY HIT HER.」

The Village Chief, the elderly man who was in late 60's came to the side.

If daris memories is stored in my mind clearly then I know him.

He's Ivan and Igil's father.

He is Irving Sain.

「But we don't know if he's pretending or not. Anyways, let's take him to jail where we'd giving a further punishment…」

Author's Note:

The novel gets real darker than before. Reading dark novels help me with it.

I hope, I can make the novel bit of gore.

This chapter marks the beginning vengeance of MC.