"Ra Hee,"

The crew was already at the coffee shop, waiting for her. When she got there, a tall -and visibly more handsome than before- guy wrapped his arms around her in a loose hug.

"Taewoon. It's been a while." He nodded and walked with her back to the table. Suzy was there with the old inheritor. Ra Hee smiled and bowed. He was someone she admired and respected.

"Master." The older man chuckled and told her to sit already and stop embarrassing him. Suzy rolled her eyes. The old man wasn't going easy on Ra Hee at all.

"Do you know why we are here, Ra Hee?" He was going straight to business. Suzy and Taewoon glanced at each other and bent their heads.

"To visit me?" The old inheritor raised an eyebrow. "Or not." She mumbled before glancing at Suzy. "Is it about the inheritor?"

"Did you find him?" She blinked. That was the questions, wasn’t it? She had to measure her words. She knew what she had to do.

"No." She didn't even twitch. She was lying as if it wasn't that serious. "I didn't feel anything and didn't see anything special." The old man nodded and sighed heavily.

Taewoon looked at Ra Hee and noticed the wrinkles on her forehead.

"Are you worried about something?" She didn't expect him to ask her that.

"I told Baekhyun that he is my legacy." The three persons turned to look at her quizzically.

"Why would you do that? He is not family nor your son." She nodded.

"But he has my sign on his forearm. He made a pact with the devil and I am in charge of it." The master blinked slowly and registered the words and tone she used.

"Did you place the Devil's sign or yours?" Suzy and Taewoon were surprised. She bit her lower lip and fidgeted.

"Mine." The inheritor laughed and asked for another coffee. He forced –yet in a very nice way, only using his eyes- Suzy and Taewoon to go buy cake. He wanted to tell her something. Alone.

"He is only a mere human but he is precious for other people." She nodded. He was right. "Other people mean his family and friends. People who are not you. What you do is dangerous and is getting his name through mud."

"Why? Just because I took him under my wing?" He scoffed.

"You enslaved him! And he doesn't even know it. His feelings may not affect you much but your emotions will make him go crazy. That's how the endless knot works. Endless connection to your master." He took care to emphasize the last word.

"I can bend some rules." The old man chuckled and noticed the two kids coming back.

"Bend but not break." Ra Hee nodded. She already knew and went through that.

"So, you really didn't find the inheritor?" Taewoon wanted to stay and talk to Ra Hee more. Therefore, Suzy had to take the gramps home. She wasn't happy at all. She was glaring at everything on the way to the car.

"Why? Did you?" Taewoon seemed anxious. "Did you?" Ra Hee repeated but this time, in a quiet voice. He was sweating.

"I have a hunch but I'm not sure. That's why I'd like if you could come and check it out." She tilted her head to the side.

"Now?" Taewoon shook his head.

"No. Next week, I have to take someone from the airport. He comes from Japan." Ra Hee froze.

"Who?"

"My younger brother, Zico." It was her turn to sweat over the matter. Taewoon was the elder brother in the family and was also the grandchild of the old inheritor. He had good reasons to be worried for his little brother.

It was Sunday morning and she was dead tired after she had the most serious and intense talk with Baekhyun. When her phone rang, she was ready to throw it away. She couldn't do that. She responded. It was Donghae.

"Good morning." It wasn't good for her. She mumbled something incoherent but the older man only chuckled. "I'm going to church today. Do you want to come?"

"Church?" She woke up instantly. She had a few ideas of what they could do after. A date was in need. "Sure."

"Great! Meet me in front of the store. It's not far from there." She agreed and hung up.

She hasn't been in a church in a long time. She knew exactly how to dress and how to act but it was still so weird. She met him in front of his store and they started to walk towards the church. Donghae seemed very content for some reason.

"I didn't think you would agree to come." She chuckled nervously.

"I haven't been to church ever since my mother forced me to enter one in Italy."

Even back then, she knew something was wrong because the priest was eyeing her.

"Well, is good we're going now, isn't it?" She nodded.

Of course, it was going to fail miserably.

Once she placed her foot on holy ground, she started to feel really uncomfortable. There wasn't any force making her sick or anything. She was just scared that there might be. Much like she used to say, the simple idea of being judged by God was intimidating.

She closed her eyes and concentrated on the image the church had for every human. It was a sacred place. Donghae walked forward, since he knew the priest. She remained alone and she could feel people stare at her suspiciously.

"Is that Donghae's new girlfriend?" She was embarrassed already. She wasn’t his girlfriend.

"Is she? She doesn't seem faithful. And doesn't seem to know where she is either. That dress is way too short." Firstly, the dress was reaching her knees so it was definitely not short. Secondly, they were judging her appearance because they didn't have any information on her.

"Is she from a good family? " The old ladies were really mean. She was already used to that treatment but she hated it. Her confidence was dropping considerably with each passing minute.

Ra Hee noticed Donghae walking out but he got stopped by an old lady with her daughter. Of course. Ra Hee was seriously feeling like the bad character in a stupid cliché drama.

The young commander was growing annoyed when she felt someone grab her hand. She looked quickly to the side but saw no one. However, she started to feel that soothing feeling again. She was getting so serene that it even scared her.

"Hey! Sorry it took so long. Let's go in." Donghae grabbed the same hand and pulled her in. It didn't feel the same.

"Are you alright?"

Ra Hee wasn't feeling anything. At first, she thought something would happen since she was a demon and already went to Hell a few times. No fire, no earthquake and nothing insignificant happened. Everything was fine except the angels. The pictures looked mean; like they were glaring at her or scoffing at her presence there. She swore she saw an angel change his expression. It was extremely weird.

A few minutes later she felt that energy coming around her again. Ra Hee looked over her shoulder and swore she saw Sunggyu's back. Her heart started to beat faster and she felt the anticipation. She wanted to see him.

"I'll come back before it starts. There's someone I know here." Donghae nodded. She got out of there and followed the demon. "A dead end?" She stopped in front of the confession box. She sighed in disappointment.

She wasn't paying attention to her surroundings so she didn't see the man walking out of the shadows. He covered and dragged her into the box.

"Don't yell. We don't want to be caught now, do we?" It was the same tall guy whom she had seen in front of the Dongahe’s store.

"I wasn't going to." The stranger knew that or else he wouldn't have uncovered .

“Who are you?” She was very calm for someone who just got abducted. Well, she didn’t exactly get abducted. The guy got them out of the confession box and started to walk in a nearby park.

“Not who you were expecting.” She stared at him blankly. Somehow, he was familiar. He was tall, had black halos that made him look like a panda yet he was still handsome.

“Be-“ He smirked. “How should I call you here?”

“Joonyoung. I like that name and this body, too.” She sighed and continued to watch her master walking like nothing bad was happening in the world. “It’s such a sunny day. Makes me all positive and happy,” He was sarcastic. A demon was never happy and positive.  “Don’t you think so too?”

“No.” Her response came quickly. Joonyoung batted his eyelids at her and smirked.

“Of course not. Here you are, with me, instead of looking for your little lover boy,” She narrowed her eyes at him and crossed her arms in front of her chest. “I know everything that happens in my orchard, Ra Hee. Do you think I didn’t know why Sunggyu left Mammon and came to me? He begged to work under me.” His smirk widened. “He begged.”

“You knew,” She was frazzled. “You knew he was obsessed with me and you sent him to me as my guardian?” He shrugged.

“It was obvious. His obsession with the commander only amplified after he saw you,” The demon prince chuckled darkly. “A young, little girl from a rich family. You were so pure, so perfectly easy to break. He did it.”

“And you let him,” She was annoyed. “You let him break me.”

“I did tell Xiumin to keep an eye on you but Sunggyu is sly and smart. When he saw Xiumin’s eyes soften at the sight of your face, he came to me and gave me all these bull reasons to change your guardian. And I did. I sent him.” She bit the inside of her cheek and felt a knot in her stomach. “But his obsession faded away once he started to know you; the human Ra Hee. He started to get you in big trouble but he was the one who got you out of it too. sunggyu got fond of you and your little, pathetic human life. He asked out.” Well, that was getting interesting.

“And what did you do?” He smiled and eyed her. He was a mischievous bastard.

“Nothing. I’m curious how this will turn out now. My hands are tied. You changed his sign. The endless knot is the sign of the commander, not Beelzebub’s. My knot is open while yours is not.” She frowned. “And you even signed that human boy. You want him to be your legacy? Ha!”

“Is this the reason you came all the way to Middle Earth? To annoy me?” He inspected her. Her eyes were changing from their original color to yellow. He was curious for how long exactly she could control herself.

“They’re coming,” Her expression dropped. She wasn’t annoyed anymore. She was changing emotions really fast. It was still hard for her to balance them. “That cult is coming here. You need to find the inheritor before they do.”

“What if I don’t?” Joonyoung raised an eyebrow and hardly kept the widening smirk off his face.

“I’m not stupid, Ra Hee. I know you already met him in Japan.” She froze. “You didn’t tell anyone. Good. Don’t tell anyone until you make him realize who he is.”

“If the story is correct, won’t he take Lucifer’s place as the Loved One if he dies?” Joonyoung’s smirk dropped. His face looked grim, dead, just like a demon’s.

“Lucifer doesn’t want the inheritor to live but he doesn’t want him dead either.” Ra Hee knew that. She kind of figured that out when she saw how much he wanted the inheritor to be found. Yet, Asmodeus didn’t seem too happy about it. They weren’t acting like their reign was hanging on that soul. “That’s why you have to protect him. Over the years, the commander and the inheritor got stuck together and eventually, married each other.”

“Just to protect each other?” He nodded. “But demons protected me and I’m sure there are demons protecting him, as well.” He nodded along.

“But what kind of demons?” Her eyes widened when she realized where he was going.

“Not Lucifer’s demons.” He applauded her ironically. She finally figured it out. “But that means you don’t want the inheritor to die because then Lucifer will kill him or send him somewhere and torture him forever,” Joonyoung chuckled. “You don’t want him to die!” She was getting really entangled in her own theories.

“We do want him dead but not in Hell. That’s why demons protected him from the Holy Brotherhood and Lucifer.” She was getting both excited and scared. She met the vanity demon before and he was scary without doing anything.

“So you keep him alive and when he dies, you let him go to Heaven where he gets protection forever.” He clicked his tongue and watched her. Her reactions were funny.

“Pretty much.” She shook her head and chuckled. “The prophecy is not about the people themselves as it is a way to keep low demons in their place and high demons content. A rebellion is not welcomed. Not even in Hell.”

“Why don’t you want me to have the same fate?” He leaned in and blinked. The yellow circle appeared in the middle of his eye, reflecting the same yellow circle in hers.

“I did. The commanders went to Heaven. All of them, except you.” She frowned. “You already killed, didn’t you? You already visited Hell more than once. You love it so why not get you as my right hand?” She moved her head and rubbed her neck. “Shouldn’t you go back to your friend?” Her eyes widened. She completely forgot of him. “You’ve been gone for-

“Two hours.” She bent her head and started to feel really bad. “You said you saw someone you knew and disappeared for two hours” She was feeling a lot of things but not apologetic. She found out some good information.

“I’m sorry. I got lost.” Donghae raised an eyebrow. She was a big girl and seemed like the kind of person who was independent.

“It’s alright. I’m just a little bit mad because you could have texted me or something but you didn’t.” She gulped and didn’t have the guts to look into his eyes. Moreover, she felt like she shouldn’t look into his eyes. She started to blink quickly and felt the same uncomfortable thing in her eye as before. “Are you alright?” He frowned when he saw her rub her eyes.

“I think something got into my eye,” She was tearing up.

“Let me take a look,” She tensed. He took a step forward and touched her arm. She pushed him away harshly.

“No! I mean, it’s ok. I can get it out myself.” Donghae rolled his eyes and pulled her hands away from her face. He grabbed her head and kept it in one place.

“Open your eyes,” She gulped and did the opposite. She felt a sudden breeze and an overwhelming energy engulf her.

“Open your eyes, Ra Hee. It’s fine.” She heard Sunggyu’s voice whispering into her ear. It had so much effect on her and her actions. She opened her eyes and saw Donghae’s worried look. In his eyes, she saw her reflection. She had nothing yellow or remotely demonish on her face.

Yet at the same time, she felt disappointed. She would have preffered Sunggyu's worried face instead of Donghae's. No matter how much she was encouraging herself to go with Donghae, she was stuck on Sunggyu.