Father Marcellus took them to the church’s mezzanine after discovering that Felix was in fact… the reincarnation of the demon’s lover. When you are inside the church, from this location you can have a look onto the main interior space of the church, which is similar to a balcony. When they arrived at the mezzanine, there was a wooden table in the centre, surrounded by two large brown sofas and two arm chairs, which were alternately facing each other.
Father Marcellus motions for them to sit. Felix and Leo are sitting close to each other on the two-seater sofa on the left side of the table, while Liam is on the long sofa on the right. As for Father Marcellus, he is sitting on the armchair between them.
As they sat in silence, the three students were just waiting for the priest to say something, especially when Felix told him about his eye.
At that moment Father Marcellus looked at Felix, then averted his gaze, resting his right elbow on the armrest, raising his arm and leaning his head against it, thinking about how Felix's eye could possibly had turned into a rose over the past two years.
“Felix...” he said, shifting slowly in his seat, crossing his legs, and clasping his hands together. “Did you… possibly run into the demon who is lingering to you right now in the past?” he asked him.
Felix reflected on Father Marcellus's question and said "I'm not quite sure if we'd seen each other before, I would've recognized him somehow, and… also can't a demon change its form?"
When Father Marcellus hears Felix's response to his question, he slightly opens his lips and then close them just after a second, “Ha! This kid is way smarter than I thought, but this demon that he met is more special than he thinks." he thought to himself.
“But I had a dream before this rose figure appeared in my eyes.”
“And what is that dream that you dreamt about?” Father Marcellus asked in curiosity.
"I dreamed of a beautiful woman, who was standing in the garden full of blooming crimson and red roses. She heard a man calling out her name, she looked at him and smiled warmly and they kissed. When I blinked, right at the next moment it was pitch black, the woman that I saw before was in the same rose garden where I had seen her with the man she was with." said Felix clasping his hands. She was already covered in her own blood as she lay on the grass which turned red and the man from earlier holding her body and crying in agony while holding her hand. Then, when I blinked again, it's as if I'm in her body." he continued, turning to face the priest.
He shifted his gaze away from the priest and back to his hands, closing his eyes and sighing heavily. "I awoke sweaty and panting heavily after the dream. When I looked in the bathroom mirror to clean my face, I already had this rose-like figure in my left eye." He says this while touching his left eye.
Father Marcellus was about to speak, when they had overheard two people conversing something on their way heading to the mezzanine. So he tilted his head and averted his gaze.
“Ha? Why is it... that they come at the wrong time?” he pondered.
As the two people appeared, it was Professor Michael and Gabriel. Father Marcellus stands up at the right side so he can cover Felix. He looked over his shoulder, he smiled a bit when he saw the reaction of Felix, and he was very relaxed and had a serious face.
“Hmm! It will be a disaster if Marcellus sees the boy first, so let's have some fun first,” he thought to himself.
“Father Marcellus, that’s the demon that we’re talking about,” he looks at Liam pointing his index finger towards Marcellus. He just nods at him, then he sees Liam's expression change into fear and trembling.
He then looks toward Marcellus who is looking at Liam very dangerously and looked in his direction.
“Did he just called you Marcellus?” the demon said.
Father Marcellus covers his wicked smile with his hand. After a second he takes his hand away from his mouth and says, "Yes, he just called me Marcellus." He said this while smiling.
The demon’s right eye twitched and he made an annoying expression, meanwhile Gabriel cracks a laugh and the demon looks at him. Gabriel, putting his hand on his lips to keep his laugh from bursting out.
The demon approaches the priest and comes to a halt just a few feet away from him.
“And why the hell you’re using that name?”
“Why? Is there a law that I cannot use that name?”
“You son of a—“ the priest cut him off before he could finish what he was about to say.
“Moreover, this name has a good meaning, you know.” the priest smiled at him.
The demon became irritated and grabbed the collar of the priest's shirt, asking, "Why the hell are you using my damn name?"
The priest averted his gaze and shrug off his shoulder “Why? You too are using my name, aren’t you?” he asked “So were quits.” he looked back at the demon and smiled.
“You damn angel… It’s just a coincidence that the priest who gave me my new name is your damn freaking name.”
“Well, same as I am, it’s also a coincidence that the name for my identity here in the human realm is your name.” he lied.
“You…” While Marcellus and Michael were arguing, the children were perplexed by what was going on.
Meanwhile, Gabriel was laughing so hard in the situation that they were in right now, but when he saw the children, they were confused about what is happening, he walks towards them.
“Hello! My name is Gabriel, and you are?" he said with a smile. He looked at Liam first, then at Leo, and finally at Felix. When he looks at Felix, he says, "Oh, we meet again little on—" He stops mid-sentence as he notices Felix's eyes, and he puts his right hand in his mouth.
Marcellus and Michael, on the other hand, are still exchanging answers, but Marcellus gazes to his right and notices Gabriel has a shocked expression on his face, as he looked at the person right in front of him. He paused in his responses to Michael and drew him aside. He followed Gabriel's gaze, looking at the person he was looking at.
He saw Felix and was about to approach him when Leo stopped him by blocking his path.
“I won’t let you lay a single finger on my friend.” he declares.
Marcellus' eyes widened at what Leo said and he smiled amusingly, "You a mere child, talking back to a demon like me."
When Michael notices Marcellus emitting his aura, he summons his sword and points the edge of it at his neck.
“Marcellus, calm yourself!” he simply said to him.
He looked over his shoulder to meet Michael's gaze, then slowly returned his gaze to Leo and closed his eyes, taking a deep breath to calm himself. After Michael was certain that Marcellus was no longer agitated, he lowered his sword.
Marcellus returned his gaze to Leo and said, "I won't do anything to your friend..." looking to Gabriel, who still has a shocked expression on his face, and looking over his shoulder to look at Michael, "I can't do anything here because these two people in here are Angels. Adding to it, this Angel here, is Archangel Michael, the captain of the Angelic army, so I am nothing against him.”
He drew him aside and called Felix.
Felix looked at him and when Felix look at him his eyes widened, “His eye’s iris is red, and has a hazy rose figure on his eyes.”
“Oh, god!” he said.
“Marcellus, I want you to back away now,” Michael ordered him.
Marcellus's breathing is getting heavy and his eyes are getting teary, he could not form a sentence, just bringing his left hand in his mouth, his feelings right now are overwhelming... the only he can do is bringing his left hand in his mouth and the only words he comes out to his mouth is “My Rose!”
* * * *
After what just happened, Michael led Marcellus down at the aisle of the church while Gabriel was left with the children.
He explained to them why Marcellus react like that earlier towards Felix. He told them that Felix was the reincarnation of Marcellus' lover.
She was killed by Marcellus' fiancé, but on the contrary, she was killed by the devil. The devil wants Marcellus as the new demon of lust since the first demon of lust was cleansed to his curse when he finds peace and true love to a human that accepted him.
“Why the devil wants Professor Michael to be the new demon of lust?” Leo asks Gabriel.
“In his days, he was a young warrior who lived up to his name. He rose to become the Roman army's general at a young age, and when he goes to war, he has a lustful ways for sex. Anyway, when he was at war, every night two men and two women went to his tent and did things, and it was always different people he was with every night. As a result, when his fiancée discovered the truth, she broke up with him when he returned to war.” He explained to them.
“Then how did he met his lover?” Felix asks him.
“I saw my lover in the rose fields, and three days later, after my fiancé ended our relationship, I met my lover personally.” Felix turned his head to the right and saw Marcellus and Michael approaching them.
“I'll tell you everything about her and myself if that's what you want to know,” they came to a halt in front of them. Marcellus said to Felix. “But for now you need to come with me to my house, we will get some of your belongings from your apartment and then we will go to my house.”
“Why would I go with you?”
Marcellus got annoyed at what the boy responded to him, Michael notices this and taps his shoulder, “Felix, the only one who can protect you right now is Marcellus. So do as he said for now.”
“Why can’t you just protect me?”
“Felix, we can't get involved in what Marcellus is doing; all we can do is guide and monitor him.” Michael merely explains.
Felix has a worried and hateful expression on his face, and when Marcellus notices this, he sighs heavily and scratches the back of his head, thinking, “This is insane!"
“Haaaa... fine!” he sighs heavily “I will not force you to come with me, but at the very least, I would like to give you something that can protect you when I am not around,” Marcellus said.
When Marcellus told Felix what he had just said, Michael and Gabriel, both looked at him, surprised, and said “Don't you dare to tell—"
“Well it can’t be helped…” he shrugs “…non vult me esse cum eo quod feci ei. Mihi necesse est cum eo reconciliare.” [He does not want me to be with him because of what I did to him. I need to reconcile to him.] He speaks in his native language.
The two archangels were taken aback by what the demon said to them.
“Michael, I believe something is wrong with Marcellus,” he said with a chilling expression.
“Yeah, I think so too Gabriel.”
Marcellus become irritated when he heard what the two archangels said, he yelled at them and said that he was completely in his right mind. The three creatures then began bickering with each other, while the three children in front of them have puzzled expressions on their faces.
“Ahem! Please forgive me for asking, but who is the real Marcellus and Michael?” Liam informed them. “I'm still confused; please accept my apologies.”
Michael and Marcellus stare at them, a puzzled expression on their faces. Gabriel, on the other hand, bursts out laughing.
“Hahaha! Even the children are confused by your names hahaha I thought the only people who were confused by your names were the priests,” said Gabriel.
The demon and the archangel both looked at him and said, "Shut up!"
Michael and Marcellus began bickering once more. Gabriel, on the other hand, walked over to the armchair where Michael had been seated earlier when he and Marcellus arrived and sat.
“Well, my apologies for the two of them...” he pointed the two creatures at his back that arguing to each other “...their names might be confusing but as to who Michael and Marcellus is, the blond guy is Michael and his identity as a human is Marcellus, well let's say he requested that name because he heard that Marcellus who is the black haired guy has the name Michael as a human which the church gave him as an identity of himself, so, yeah, they like to mess with each other.” he explained, smiling.
“So, Father Marcellus' real name is Michael, and Professor Michael's real name is Marcellus?” Leo asks.
“You are correct, Leo.”
After he replied that, Gabriel became aware that the children were staring at him and had the following thought: “Ah! My apologies for not introducing myself; my name is Gabriel, and as you are all aware, we three are not human. If you're thinking of me and Michael as the Lord's archangels right now. We are, indeed, the Archangels, as per what Marcellus said.” he warm smile and said “It's a pleasure to meet you, little ones.”
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