"Mark must make a contract with me." He announced and Ignis spoke up for the first time.


    "You must be completely insane. This is not a simple matter. How could you purpose something like that? A contract must be at the person''s full will and he doesn''t remember you! How will you succeed that in a few days?" he asked him.


    "Will that let Mark live?" Allias asked, looking at Asmodeus.


    "Yes."


    "Then you must do it. No matter what." He announced.


    "No!" Ignis interrupted them again. "Have you any idea what you''re talking about here? You''re a king shouldn''t you be thinking about things like these with more reason?" The demon asked and Theseus stared at him with a threatening look.


    "I don''t think you have the right to judge the king. Sit quietly in the corner like you did before." The general said strictly.


    "We can sit in the corner but you seem so eager to meddle with demon problems don''t you? Do you know what will happen when they form a contract?" Arpaia asked him with a grin. She wasn''t as respectful or aware of the etiquette as Ignis was. Basically she didn''t give a damn about it and what she hated the most was being looked down on because she was a spirit. "Why don''t you tell them?" she told Asmodeus.


    "I think we should know a bit more about this whole thing before we jump in blindly. What if we get ourselves to even deeper trouble?" Ea said wanting to be the sound of reason. Allias sighed, falling back to his chair and moved his fingers through his thick hair, trying to do something about the upcoming headache that would strike soon. What was there to think? What could possibly be worse than Mark dying again but not from something so called simple but from literally rotting. Allias had been used to trouble by now.


    "Explain then" the king said, accepting that he had to be a bit more reasonable indeed.


    "Well the process is kind of the same as forming a contact with a demon spirit. I will become Mark''s familiar in a way and share my life force with him. The thing is that he has to be fully willing to do this. He can''t sign the contract any other way. It must be his own decision to do it." Asmodeus explained.


    "Say everything." Kage added and the demon prince looked at him aggressively.


    "Is there more?" Ares asked and Ignis took it upon himself to explain further.


    "Asmodeus is a demon king. He will cause a huge uproar in the demon world.  No one has ever done that before. He may even get punished or be cast out. That''s not the problem though, the thing is that their lives will be tied together. If Asmodeus dies, Mark will too and the other way around. It''s reckless to tie him to someone who has so many enemies, hates the demonic system and everyone hates him, Mark got murdered once because of you, then you murdered him, what will be next?" he asked.


    "Because of me?" He asked, unaware of that little but important information in mark''s story as he went to hell to free him. He didn''t know who had killed his lover but he had sworn that he would find them and kill them. At first he had believed that it was by accident. Killings happen every day in the demonic world. Mark must had been the victim of bandits or gotten into a fight with a demon, that was what he had thought but Ignis was openly implying that he was the cause of his murder.


    "This is not what''s important right now." Allias said. He didn''t need more matters surfacing, all he wanted was Mark to be safe and well, have a life. "So a contract with you, a higher demon means that you will be bound to him, you will have to be by his side and protect him forever. I bet some of your enemies will think of Mark as an easy target and try to kill him. Are you confident that you can keep him alive?" Allias asked. He was deadly serious at the moment. He was trying to put his worries aside, the dislike he had for Asmodeus too just to make sure that Mark would be fine. He couldn''t baby him forever; he couldn''t keep an eye out for him at all times. That was why he was asking Asmodeus this question, he needed to be sure that Mark would be in good hands, no matter what.


    "Mark is not weak!" Ignis exclaimed. "You believe that any human could survive for two years in the Demonic Capital? He was one of the most powerful exorcists out there, one of the few who could control more than one familiar. He doesn''t need Asmodeus to protect him, he has us." He told them and Allias turned to look at them.


    "I do not know you, I do not know the extent of your powers nor Mark''s at this point to me he is like an actual human." He stated coldly and the woman with wing scoffed, giving him a grin.


    "You claim he is your best friend but you don''t even remember him. How funny. Who helped you on your trip to the demon realm to control your powers. Wasn''t an exorcist? You had traveled from far away hoping to find him because you were scared of your own self. Am I right?" she asked him and Allias'' green eyes widened. His memories were fade of that time. The excruciating training, the pain, he had pushed everything on the back of his head and the exorcist who had helped him had faded in his memories. "Mark will be fine, you just have to form a contract with him and leave him alone. We will protect him." She stated and Asmodeus stood up, angry. He smacked his palm on the table making Kage flinched and looked at the two familiars.


    "I had decided on my own to leave Mark. But things are different now, he will need my help. Believe me I know how strong he is. He exorcised me in the blink of an eye. But he will need me, the contract needs for the master and the familiar to be together. Contracts with higher demons are a lot stricter. I won''t leave Mark. Not this time." He told them, they exchanged hateful glares but Allias honestly did not care. He shook his head and found Theseus, desperately asking with his eyes for his opinion. The general nodded, telling him he trusted him and the king exhaled relieved.


    "Asmodeus…" he said as he stood up. "You have three days to convince mark to form a contract with you. You three do not get in the way or I''ll crush you, Mark''s familiars or not, do not make me angry. If in three days you haven''t succeeded we will find another way, if one exists that is. Now excuse me, I have to sign some ball invitations." He said and looked at the three demons, warning them that if they did one wrong move they were done.