Demon Slayer: Rise of The First Werewolf-Chapter 31: Curse of a Loving Mother

They watched the family unpack and move things inside the house not knowing what dwells within.

The family of four had two kids, a teenage girl and a boy about 8 years old, Meggie knew immediately who the demon would target.

Demons couldn’t enter without invitation but children had weak mental walls, it was easier for demonic entities to get an invitation.

What counted as an invitation to demons was not the same as humans or even vampires.

Demons fed on negative emotions and when those emotions reach a certain level, they gain their invitation.

But that was not necessary here, the demon was already waiting for then inside. Meggie started the car.

Just as they drove off, the teenage girl turned and looked at their car then went inside the house. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

But she wasn’t the only one watching them, on a second floor window, a humanoid shadow stood there.

Adrian and Meggie drove back home, Adrian couldn’t stop thinking about that house and the demon.

Meggie saw through his thoughts and warned him.

" It’s not our business Adrian, you’re not to go there understood?" Adrain nodded but Meggie could tell he hadn’t let it go.

So she took out her phone and made a call, Adrain could hear her talking to somebody about this case.

" I’ve called the church, they check it out and handle the situation so you don’t have to bother with it now."

Adrian went to his room and closed the door, Meggie misunderstood, she thought he was being heroic but that not the case at all.

Adrian wanted to ask that demon some questions, as a demon it should know other demons.

If he could find out which demon took his sister, it would make his search much simpler and shorter.

However he didn’t tell her because he doubted she would understand, so he formulated his plan by himself.

However in her office, Meggie was also searching through a spell book for demonic related spells.

Demons were troublesome to deal with, even the organisation didn’t deal too much with them.

Demonic related cases are usually handled by the church. Unlike the organisation the church had a certain order.

They were a special case of Espara, they couldn’t use abilities like the others but they can learn spells.

Not witch spells since they couldn’t learn the witch language but they can use the oldest form of magic, occult magic.

Their occult magic depended on channeling the power of other sources, for the church it was the power of belief.

There were other occult mages who channel spirits and others channel artefacts but the power source is never them.

For a good reason, using yourself as a power source wouldn’t drain your esper but your life energy.

Your lifespan would drop and depending on how powerful the spell was, it could even kill you.

However occult magic was also the only way know to deal with demons, demons can’t die even if you destroy their bodies.

They would just go to hell and return, while occult magic can’t kill them it had multiple ways to deal with them.

It could banish them to hell making it impossible for them to return without being summoned back into the world.

Or it could bind the demons to something, an artefact, a living creature, anything. Doing so strips them of their power.

What made occult magic so strange was that anybody can use it as long as they can learn the spell.

However learning the spell was impossibly hard, even for witches. Occult magic used an old language.

One that was never meant to be uttered by the tongues of mortals, it also uses spell sigils which are hard to memorise.

Meggie knew the language and the spell sigils but they never stay in her mind as if they’re trying to escape her.

Without the spell book Infront of her she wouldn’t remember a single spell, that what made occult magic even more troubling.

Those not born with talent for it found it hard to remember any spell related to occult magic.

Of course most spells of occult magic had similar effects to witches spells but some like demon exorcism didn’t exist in witch magic.

Maggie searched through the spell book for some time until she found the spell she wanted.

This one was harder to use but it didn’t require you to know the name of the demon to work.

Meggie also had a person Vendetta with the demons, a demon had stolen her memories and apparently her power too.

She had no idea how powerful she was before but the fact that she hadn’t aged in over 20 years meant she must’ve a high level witch.

So she too had some business with demons but she wasn’t a compulsive child like Adrian.

She wanted the church to scout how powerful the demon is for her, of course there was the risk of them defeating the demon.

But she would rather have that than deal with a demon whose power she didn’t know. That was too risky.

If all options are out then she would summon a demon herself but without perfect mastery of occult magic that was even more dangerous.

Opening a gate between hell and the mortal world stood the risk of allowing a powerful demon to pass through.

If a demon duke or worse, one of the seven kings passed through, then the entire human world would come to an end.

The magic world beyond the veil might survive but even it would barely survive, that’s how dangerous demons are.

It wasn’t a risk she was willing to take, not when Adrian still lived in this world. Meggie found his love for him hard to explain.

Yes he was the child of her sworn sister, possibly real sister or descended but it was not like Adrain grew up around her.

Meggie was gone most of the time, she had barely seen Adrian a few times when he was a kid.

Yet when looking at him she felt like she was looking at her own child she had carried which brought another issue.

Adriana, she felt a wave of loss and sorrow when she thought about her, like a mother who lost her child.

’ Oh sweetie, did you cast a spell on me so I’ll love your kids like my own?’ Meggie couldn’t tell but she couldn’t feel any spell or curse on her.

But she wasn’t very versed in curses, a curse placed by a divination witch would be hard for her to detect.

She sighed, ’ That was very unnecessary.’