“The both of you deserve capital punishment, you guys should just die!” I screamed as I stood up from the floor with tears still rushing down my cheeks.

My aunt stood up from the floor and grabbed a knife from the center table in the middle of the living room.

“If killing myself is going to make you happy, I am going to do it,” she said in a cold tone. Before I knew what was happening, my aunt stabbed herself on the neck, blood started pumping out of her neck and filled the entire floor, a few seconds she fell flat on the floor.

Mordecai flew over to where I was standing and stood next to me.

“Why did she do that to herself?!” I yelled as I stared at my aunt’s lifeless body on the floor with my eyes wide open and my mouth hanging loosely.

“You were very clear, you told her to die,” Mordecai said.

“Wait do you mean the red arrow can compel people to do that?” I inquired as I turned and looked at Mordecai.

He started explaining to me that once the arrow makes anyone fall deeply in love with me, it can compel them to do anything, including killing themselves, especially if the person has done something that merits death.

My uncle ambled over to my aunt’s dead body on the floor and started crying over her body.

“Trevor, help me, call the ambulance,” My uncle said in rumbling tone.

“It’s too late to call the ambulance, she is dead already,” Mordecai said in cold tone.

“Look a demon is here to get her soul and take her to hell,” he added. I watched as a demon that has the same features as Mordecai came from beneath the ground and took my aunt’s soul and went back into the ground.

“So, just like that my aunty is gone?” I asked as I collapsed on the floor and sat down. Seeing my aunt’s body on the floor covered in a pool of her own bloods really shook me. Although I didn’t like her that much, I never wanted her to die. This is all too much for me to handle. I can’t believe I just witnessed a supernatural being came up from the ground and took her soul.

I raised my finger and pinched my hand trying to snap myself out of this dream. Oh my gosh this is all a reality; this is not a dream.

“Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!” I screamed in pain as my voice echoed throughout the room.

“Calm down Trevor, get a grip of yourself,” Mordecai said as he flew closer to me and tapped me on the shoulder.

“My mother said that we live to find happiness, but after death, happiness is out of reach, she was right. I rather go out and find happiness than try to kill myself.”

“The truth is anyone can find happiness regardless of their past. To prove it, I came to make you happy even though I know your history,” Mordecai said with his eyes fixed on me as he flapped his wings.

“I get it, I want to be happy,” I replied after hearing what he said.

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Three days later,

It was nighttime, I was sitting down on the floor in a hotel room, I got from shooting the receptionist lady with a red arrow, Mordecai was sitting on the floor next to me.

The room was dark, the light from the moon lit up the room.

“Come on Trevor, it has been three days, you haven’t used your wings or arrows since all that time, not since you shot the front desk lady downstairs,” Mordecai was sounding worried.

But ever since my aunt died because I shot her with an arrow, I haven’t been able to live with myself, I have been feeling miserable and I can’t even go to work.

“Trevor, Trevor,” Mordecai called out as he placed one hand on my shoulder. I quickly raised my head and snapped out of my thoughts and back to reality

“Are you still worried about your aunt killing herself?”

“Yes,” I mumbled.

“You don’t have to worry, your uncle thinks your aunt went crazy and killed herself,” But I was the main reason she killed herself, even though she was a bad person, I never wanted her to die.

I dipped my hand into my pocket and took out a couple of pennies and threw them on the floor.

“This money is all I have left for now; I am using the arrow’s power to stay in this place. Now look, you said the wings would allow me to steal anything and that the arrow would allow me to control minds is that accurate?”

“Yes,” Mordecai mumbled.

“Okay, but you see, things that are acquired through theft and deception won’t make me happy and if they did, that would make me a bad person,” I stated as I stood up from the ground.

I ambled over to the window that was at the edge of the room and gazed outside the window.

I don’t think Mordecai would understand any of these things I am saying, he is a demon afterall.

“You see Mordecai, I am fine with more ordinary happiness,”

“Can you define ordinary happiness?”

“Yeah, having somewhere to sleep, something to eat, going to work and then one day falling in love with someone and raising a family with them. The kind of happiness I had before I lost my family.” I explained in a soft tone as I gazed at the night sky.

“Okay, I understand, bottom line, my goal is to make you happy and also become the next devil king of hell,” Mordecai said standing behind me

“Look, I am going to need a ton of money, I can’t keep living in a place like this forever,”

“Oh, then why don’t you just kill your uncle and take all his money away from him? All the money he has comes from the ones he stole from your parents after killing them,”

“What!? I don’t want to kill him! Don’t talk about killing someone like it is nothing!” I yelled as I turned around and looked at him.

“Hear me out Trevor, there is an easier way to kill him, you can just use the purple arrow that I gave you, it is inside the demon horns I gave you,”

“Purple arrow?” I mumbled as I raised my right hand and tried to bring out the purple arrow.

I opened my hand wide and imagine bringing out a purple arrow, suddenly a purple arrow popped out of my hand.

“You see,” he said. Mordecai started explaining to me that shooting someone with the purple arrow is quick and can kill anyone instantly and that the death is painless.

A purple arrow that kills someone instantly? I can’t say that I am surprised that a demon has something like this.

“Only special demons have arrows like this, arrows of peaceful death. People that are almost dead are giving a painless exist and Lord Lucifer carries purple arrows as well,” he explained.

“Lord Lucifer?” I cooed as I raised an eyebrow. I was confused.

“Oh, I forgot, I haven’t told you about that yet,”

“Here is the deal, there are currently 20 devil candidates here on earth and each of them have a personal demon, each of the candidates have been giving wings and arrows just like you and one of them will be chosen to become the new devil king and take over Lord Lucifer’s throne. You are going to run into some of the candidates in the near future, it is inevitable.” Mordecai explained with his gaze fixated on me.