Chương 2: Chapter 2 First night

in the same night

In a nursery where 3 babies were sleeping under the sound of the rain, a young lady enters carrying Vincent, she places him in one of the empty cribs, and rocks him singing in a soft rhythm.

♪ "The Queen of hearts.. she made some tarts"...

Listening to the soft music, the baby soon fell asleep, or so it seemed superficially, soon Rose left the nursery going to her well-deserved rest, a lot had happened today and she still had a lot of work to do in the morning.

In a slightly dark and silent room, everything was calm and the babies slept in all innocence, little knowing that the gentle Rose had brought a "wolf in the sheep's clothing ".

...

5 minutes later

A baby who should have been sleeping opens his eyes shining brightly, to be fair he almost fell asleep actually with the sweet voice of the caretaker but he had things to investigate.

These eyes are amazing even in the dark I see everything clearly as if it were day

This was weird, one moment you are an "Independent" adult, the next you are bathed by a beautiful miss, having someone take care of your poop and pee makes me reflect on how much my parents did for me in my past life, man I miss them so much.

Some things went well, they took me in and it looks like I'm going to live here for a while, but that means I'll be stuck in this baby body for months without being able to do anything, well it shouldn't be any worse than the limbo I was in before.

This reminds me if things are as I'm imagining I must have a grimoire as an item, I wonder where it must be, nothing came but this pendant...

As if answering me the pendant glows slightly becoming a small book, in appearance ancient and reddish, its cover was soft as velvet, esoteric symbols were drawing everywhere, I managed to decipher what was written "Grimoire of Sinners" in a language I didn't know, but somehow I could read it perfectly.

I picked it up with my little arms, when approaching I felt as if there was a heart beating in the book, it seemed that it was alive, I also felt a strange feeling about the book, it seems familiar, but it is strange.

I couldn't help but get very excited, a book of demonic magic just for me, that would be very interesting, I opened it with some difficulty these tiny fingers, slowly leafing through it I could see that it was written with esoteric symbols and characters that I had never seen, I realized that I could only read the primary page, it was as if something blocked it, even looking gave me a slight headache, I only had access to 3 pages.

The first page is blank, but when I looked at it I quickly noticed letters forming,

[Welcome Hell bringer, pillar of all sin]

I was baffled staring at it, books with a conscience never end well, although I feel somehow connected to it, it's still a demonic book, maybe it's better to throw it away, this could be something like a Voldemort Horcrux.

That would be a disaster.

As if it could read my mind, the words in the book changed.

[Sinner, this one does not even pose a danger, in a way we are one, part of the pillar's soul and the essence of sin merge to create the book, in such a way that one cannot live without the other]

Sigh, looks like I got the Horcrux part right, 'book, oh it feels wrong to call it that, so we're in a kind of symbiosis, what else can you do but read my mind'

[ I have many functions the main one is to serve you, a kind of guide for your development as a demon, this includes racial evolution guide, learning magic, I am also connected to your mind and soul giving a defense against mind arts, more roles are unlocked with new evolutions]

So basically I have no privacy even in my mind that "wonder" sighed 'tell me about evolution and magic'.

[First I must explain a little about the Demons, they are ancient beings, they were originally created for a function, to bring balance controlling the chaos through judgment, punishment and destruction , they are the necessary evil. Contrary to the celestials who are responsible for Creation and Order. It is by exercising this function that they obtain the demonic essence through actions such as judging and punishing sinners, beings who disturb order by causing chaos. bringing justice through your judgment]

Wait, does this mean that demons are good? and everything I know about demons from my past life is wrong

[Not quite like that, at the beginning maybe, have you heard that saying "if you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back at you" over time the demons corrupted themselves, and embraced sins, pointless massacres, torture, corrupting and devouring souls, all kinds of evils acts, currently there are many factions in the demonic dimension, some seek to dominate, others get drunk on pleasures, there are still few who have not been corrupted and do their original work, but they are the joke in hell]

It seems to me that the demons are a complicated bunch, but let's get back to the focus on what the essence is and what it does

[ Demonic essence is a kind of energy, it is extracted from corrupt souls, ether or magic, committing sins generates corrupt energy, that you can converts into demonic essence, or you can extract this from souls or from the ether, it is very versatile, one of the main use is the demon skills and magic, it can also be used to perform miracles, magic contracts, it is mainly to evolve as a demon, reaching higher ranks in the demon path, during the process of rebirth, demon essence was used to create your new body, 3 demonic essence left]

magic and skills this will be fun, I want to know more about them.

[ Skills are given according to your demon alignment, demons of Wrath gain combat-related abilities, gluttony demons receive devour abilities, lust demons gain sexuality-related abilities… you have received some abilities go to the second page there everything is presented what you need in an easy way, in a character sheet template]

second and front I turned the page and came across a character page similar to games only written on the page of the book

[ - Name = Vincent Salvatore

- Age = 0

-Family = orphan

-Talents = high-demon talent

-Magic = natural demonic magic

- Items = Grimoire of sins

- Demonic essence - 3 ]

[

[- Lesser demon of Sloth-

- Demon alignment-

- Sloth = 60%, Gluttony= 40%, Wrath = 35%, Lust = 33%, Envy= 30%, Pride = 9%, Greed = 5%]

[ - spells and skills-

- Demon - can use demonic energy to generate miracles, the price in demonic essence varies according to the difficulty, there are some restrictions for high difficulty miracles like revive the dead, space and time magic.

- sin of laziness and dreams - you are affected by extreme laziness and your natural abilities and magic are focused on the field of illusions and dreams because you are too lazy to do anything real.

- Nightmare Time - invades and controls the dreams of others, causing nightmares, this skill has increased effect on sinners and can corrupt and break the victim's soul.

- Feast of dreams - you feed on people's dreams by generating demonic essence, effects are increased on sinners, can also devour souls corrupted by dreams, has a low chance to absorb skills, memories and knowledge of victims.

- Demonic form - transforms into true form gaining a boost in all attributes.

- Punisher - has a natural thirst to punish sinners and criminals taking incredible pleasure in such act no matter how brutal.]

These skills are interesting, there is a debuff that says that I will be affected by a lot of laziness, directly it will hinder me a lot, I think something aimed at offensive would be better maybe gluttony and Wrath, even lust would be more useful.

Sigh, I go back to the first page of the book, 'I want to know why I got the sin of laziness and not another more useful one, I didn't choose that' words quickly formed on the paper that was previously blank.

[The obtaining skills of sins, are according to the resonance with your soul, your biggest sin, you were probably too lazy in your past life, don't worry too much it's possible to obtain skills from other sins in the future]

that's good to know, I'll work with what I have, I'm too lazy to argue with this book.

[I suggest the pillar start accumulating demonic essence because it is fuel for basically everything, as you are not in a demonic dimension, you will have to manually obtain all essence]

As I read the new words I thought, 'Since it's like this, I shouldn't gain demonic essence just by doing nothing, it's not possible to live more lazily than a baby'.

[In fact, you would earn more would be very little, laziness is a passive sin you would not earn many points with these methods, and babies are hardworking they have to learn to communicate, to use their bodies, later on they must learn to walk and talking, life as a baby are very busy, in your case it would be passive laziness because for you it would be easy]

My reluctant mind agrees, 'more how am I supposed to do that, it's not like I have a way to sin, I imagine Ira, would be crying all night and pissing off all the caretakers, for envy I should steal another baby's teat , does suckling count as lust or is it gluttony'?

[You wouldn't gain many points like that because you're aligned with laziness the points gained from committing other sins are lowered, it wouldn't be very efficient, it's best to use your skills, choose the right targets, and use the last few demonic essences wisely]

I think that's it, I close the book and it turns back into a diamond pendant with my name written on it.

My demonic abilities, Nightmare Time allows me to violate others' dreams and control them by generating nightmares, it's Dream Feast which I can obtain essence from by devouring dreams or corrupted souls.

'Looks like I need to use my few remaining essences carefully.'

When activating the skill I feel like I have another sense, something like smell but I can't feel it with my nose it's a strange sensation, I feel 3 babies sleeping peacefully and I also feel other children and other staff.

Rose smelled like a nightmare, the matron had a neutral smell maybe neutral dreams, and that doctor Dr Bean seemed to have a very good dream, I remember meeting him earlier he gave me a strange feeling I don't know what, I finally decide my first victim.

My body entered a state of peaceful sleep, but something came out of my mouth like thick black smoke, slowly approaching me towards a baby who was sleeping peacefully, his dream smelled calm and tranquility. 'What do babies dream of?' I wondered as I moved within inches of him.

Despite being incredibly curious, he will not be my victim, walked through the doors, 'yes my body became incorporeal when using the skill', in the common room I see Matron Gina sleeping in a rocking chair, she seems to be sleeping well with a slight snore, his dream seemed bland like unseasoned food, it didn't catch my attention.

Arriving at the dormitory wings I see Miss Rose, her features were distressed and her breathing is unsteady, she smelled like a nightmare, I approach and enter her dreams.

Scenes began to form in front of me, as I walked into a backdrop of a countryside scene, it was raining heavily and the skies were gray and behind a ravine is a Rose who looked years younger maybe around 7 years old, her leg was injured from a bite, and a strange wolf was chasing her, the way he looked at her, the way he enjoyed the hunt as if he was having fun, it looked human, it's a dream, so anything is possible here.

I clearly felt something different, I was slowly feeding on her feelings of anxieties and fears, it was like the feeling of eating something tasty, very pleasurable, but I felt guilty feeding on her dreams, after all she helped me a lot. then I used my abilities to slowly modify her dreams into something happier, at the cost of the essence I obtained from her.

She was still the same age but now she's in a park surrounded by her friends, and they're playing children's games like tag, and hopscotch.

Coming out of his dreams, I follow my intended victim Mr. Bean, when I get very close I see his face that seemed to have the best dream of his life, he looked like one of those nice grandfather, others would certainly judge him as a good gentleman, but I could feel something in him in this form, I could feel it clearly, I saw that he was a sinner, a great one, his sin gave off a strong smell, it was not good, maybe something like rotten eggs, but this attracted me, when I entered his dreams I came across a horrible scene, something inside me awakened, I wanted to punish, I wanted to destroy this sinner.