The Demon Whispers (Prologue)
The Demon Whispers (Prologue)
The birth of a half-breed brings great calamity upon a village.
The woman who gave birth would be burned alive, and the villagers who had lived alongside her would have a hard time escaping disaster.
Usually, the entire village would be wiped out.
The Church did not acknowledge unions between demons and humans. No, it utterly abhorred them. It even considered them one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
There was one village that defied that taboo. It was Taharan, a small village in the south.
A peasant woman had given birth to a half-breed.
Half-human, half-demon.
The villagers looked on in horror as they surrounded the pitch-black baby.
“That’s a demon’s child! Burn it to death at once!”
“That’s right! Who knows what harm it could bring to our village!”
Shouts and curses filled the grain storehouse.
The baby, who had been listening quietly, slightly furrowed its brow.
“L-Look at that expression! H-How could that possibly be a human child?!”
“At once…!”
The baby paid no heed to their hostility.
It simply swept its gaze over the room.
The distinctive red glow of a demon’s eyes left long trails like heat haze.
The baby’s seemingly relaxed behavior made the villagers swallow nervously.
The once-noisy room had fallen silent.
An uneasy silence hung in the air until the baby opened its mouth.
“Are you done making a fuss?”
The voice was chillingly cold.
The villagers could not shake their unease. Those words were far too clear to be a newborn’s first. Startled, they all stepped back.
The baby added.
“If you are, then I propose a deal.”
A deal with a demon promised a tangible reward. It was clearly different from blindly praying to God.
“My continued life is the price. You will guarantee it.”
The baby had to survive. It did not know how it had ended up possessing someone in this damned world, but it needed to stay alive if it was to have a choice, whether that meant uncovering the secret or escaping.
“Will you accept?”
Johan Kim had become the half-demon in a novel. Rather than panic, they intended to deal with the immediate crisis first.