Knock knock!

"Lucifer?"

A sharp noise coming from outside of the music room bring Lucifer back to reality, His eyes widened as he realized he just wasted a good 10 minutes sitting; doing nothing but reminiscing the old memories.

"Lucifeeerrr?"  Repeated calls from behind the door making Lucifer stand up from his seat and fixing his robes while walking to the door. For his surprise, a familiar face appears in front of him with a big cheeky smile drawn on their face.

"Seulha? What is it?" Lucifer's calm but almost chilling cold voice pierced through, making the girl named Seulha almost bright red - flustered.

"Diavolo is here with Barbatos. They want to see you."

Lucifer sigh. "And why don't they come meet me inside instead of sending you?" He take a step forward when Seulha give him space to get out from the room, leaving the girl alone behind while she's holding the door to the music room open.

By then, she heard a very soft and calming melody - repeated slowly by the old design vinyl disc player inside the room. Seulha unable to resist the urge to step inside, bringing the door closed right behind her before closing in to the vinyl disc player.

Seulha's gaze landed on the vinyl record spinning around with certain consistency before she bring herself to sit on the sofa previously seated by Lucifer.

Warm, Seulha placed her hand a little bit under her thigh. This spot of the sofa is still warm. "I wonder how long he's been here." She whispered before closing her eyes, immersing herself to the soft melody to relax.

A sudden breeze hits Seulha on the face, making her flutter her eyes open due to feeling of changes and different environment. Upon sitting straight from her lazy posture, her view changed from the modernly exquisite design of the music room to a scenery of a green medium height grass field.

The grass tickles to her hand and legs bare from the shoes. She also realized that she's wearing a different outfit - a medium length velvet dress with a white blouse top.

"Idia?" Seulha called out suddenly without even knowing who's the person named 'Idia' lingering in her mind in the moment.

She then stand up, feeling a little calmer because of the beautiful and lovely sight. Though there's so many questions appeared in her head, she's so sure that the melody in the music room that lead her consciousness here.

Turning around, she was greeted with a big cherry blossom tree standing alone amids the green field. The contrast of it's existence is too vary to ignore which caused Seulha walking closer to the tree.

The falling cherry blossom petals beautify the small patch of ground around it. When she was about to reach for a petal to admire, a figure appears next to her; also extending their hand to catch the petals.

Seulha turn towards the figure standing taller next to her before frowning ever so lightly. The man's face is blurry, as if a mosaic was applied on it to hide his identity. From the way this man dressed up, Seulha concludes that he's not someone from her era yet the feeling of connection is there.

"Excuse me, Sir?" Seulha calls to the man yet no reply are given. She tried again for a few more times before deciding to tap on his hand, and her hand fly through the body. She quickly pull her hand away after a part of the man body seems invisible like a mist.

The man finally catches a petal in his hand. He looks like he's staring at it before walking a little further away from the tree. From there, Seulha saw another figure but this time it's a woman with her eyes blurred away.

The woman's mouth then moved as if saying something to the man in front of her. Seulha catch a glimpse of smile flash on her face before she turns away and disappear out of Seulha's vision.

"It seems...heartbreaking." Seulha talks to herself after seeing the man's hand turn into a hard clutch for a few seconds, opening to the drop of a cherry blossom petal scrunched into a small ball.

Suddenly Seulha catch the man's lips moving, uttering words that she didn't understand the meaning of it.

"-Izanami cries, in which to Izanagi replied; thus love is the most vicious."

The phrase is similar. From where did she hear that again?

—•〰️•—

"Diavolo, is something the matter?"

"Lucifer, remember the cursed record I gave you as presents last week?" Lucifer's eyes widened by the sudden grip on his shoulder from Diavolo.

"...then? I've listened to it. It's not cursed at all, but the melody is quite intriguing indeed." Lucifer push Diavolo's hand away from him while talking. His hand busy fixing his clothes all over again to look more presentable in front of the future king of Devildom.

"Of course you didn't notice it too." Sigh, Diavolo took a glance at Barbatos, ordering his butler to explain the rest of the details in a more orderly way. His mouth would just blabbering rubbish while explaining anyway.

"In advance I'm sorry for the inconveniences, but it appears that the records - the melody was once sang by a pair of powerful Japanese deity, Izanagi and Izanami. A strong enchanted magic was engraved under the beautiful melody, not a curse. It is told by the legends that whoever tune in to it will -"

Lucifer's eyes widened as Barbatos explained every details of origin of the records. That reminds him—

"Fuck."

Seeing Lucifer bolts back inside the mansion caught Diavolo and Barbatos off guard. That, including the curse word. Diovolo then relaxed his shoulder, "Didn't knew he can curse."

Inside the mansion, Lucifer fast tracks turns into a jog then a run. His steps echoes in the hallway, passing every room and figure of his brothers clueless because of him speeding to the music room.

"Hey Lucifer! No running in the hallway!"

Mammon's yelling from the back was ignored as the music room is finally in his sight. The closed door and reverberating melody inside was enough to convinced Lucifer that someone is inside, and that someone is none other than Seulha.

He barge in anxiously. As soon as he entered, he saw Seulha staring into the void while listening to the melody. Lucifer quickly enhance the magic barrier around his ears before stopping the record player and shaking Seulha's body altogether.

"Lucifer...?" Seulha's weak voice greet him. Lucifer stare into the girl's face to make sure she is okay.

But Seulha's eyes suddenly drop a tear.

"Is that beautiful woman, Lilith?" Seulha eyes meet Lucifer's, in which he avoid on purpose.

Both of Lucifer's knees fall to the floor, kneeling in front of Seulha. He reaches for her warm hand to lock with his, taking in a deep breath afterwards. "I...don't know."

"But you were also there-"

"You need rest." As fast as lightning, Lucifer cuts Seulha before she can continue. Lucifer bring his hand to cup her face and wipe away her tears.

"I'll escort you to your room, and you will take a long sleep. I explain it all later." Before Seulha can even protest for answer, Lucifer take her hand in his forcing her to stand up and follow along the way.

It feels vivid. Almost like a dream, but Seulha feels like she was really there witnessing everything that happened under that cherry blossom tree.

Again, her tears fall.

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