"Shino" repeated Akiyatsu, thinking about this for a moment. "People call you that?"

"Cute" said Amanoshi, still playing with his red flame.

"Don't interrupt me. Can't you see that he's scared?" Akiyatsu scolded him.

"Don't treat me like a child, I'm nineteen" said Shino, standing up.

"So you are still underage in Sacra, right?" Akiyatsu smiled a little. "I'm Kazeharu Akiyatsu and this is Hinijito Amanoshi. You probably won't believe us or you'll think that it's only a nightmare, but we are demons."

"Yeah, and I'm son of the Akuma, of course" mumbled Shino.

"It's funny, because your teasing is actually true" sighed Amanoshi, putting down his flame.

"At least that's what your name implies" Akiyatsu explained.

Shino stared at him as if Akiyatsu had just told him that the Earth is flat and triangular.

"You're kidding me, right?" Shino said every word very slowly. "Or I'm just dreaming. It's just a dream. Just a dream."

"I'm afraid it's not, Jigokuno-kun" said Amanoshi. "You grew up in Sacra, the human's world, so it's too strange for you that such creatures like demons exists. You probably even don't know about Hellmoon, right? I see that you at least heard about Akuma, who is your father, but he can't know about you. And you can make this black flame exactly because you're his son. If you were regular demon's son, it would be red just like mine."

"Amanoshi, I think that you're talking too fast" said Akiyatsu. "Shino seems confused."

"I'm not on these pissy boys' level of IQ, I can understand, what are you talking about" said Shino. "But I'm still waiting to wake up."

"Shino" started Akiyatsu. "Demons differ from humans in that they can create a red flame by volition, have wings and need more warmth than them. That is why fire does nothing to us. Have you ever burned, Shino?"

"No" replied Shinohara after a long moment. "Never. But I broke an arm once. And it was a little strange, because it healed after three days."

"So the legend is true" said Amanoshi. "Akuma's children really have the regenerative capacity."

"Children?" Shino was confused.

"You know, every child, about whom Akuma knew, vanished without a trace" explained Akiyatsu, lowering his voice with each word. "But you are safe, because you are in the human world. Well, until humans won't hurt you."

"If I am... half-demon, why I don't have wings, about which you talked?" asked Shino.

"They grow when we kill somebody" explained Akiyatsu. "Do you remember these two men, who wanted to kidnap you, when you were a kid?"

"We killed them and that's why we can fly" said Amanoshi, streching lazily.