I know that I had fallen asleep thanks to Chime-sensei. I knew that I was dreaming for long time now. But, somehow I can't escape from this dreamland. I decided to let it flow for now. The dream I had since then was like watching movies.

There was once I watch a scene of carnage of a demon which trying to devour everything to satisfy his endless hunger and bottomless stomach. There was also once I saw a mighty king who rules over half of the world with his leadership alone. Another dream was also showing the struggle of a person who always envying others and became the person called curse king. The next dream after another gave me chills from seeing the cycle of birth, growth, and death over and over.

Beside the lives of monsters lives, I also saw dream of saviors of humankinds and his bittersweet adventures. There also dream about lives of a wise king who can revive his homeland from uniting the scattered citizen. The dreams were so alluring like beauty of the light of the humanity.

But, beside the beauty, the humanities contained darkness such as Hatred, Envy, Greed, Arrogance, Lust, Rivalry, Injustice, and other ugly sides of humanity. This kind of dream kind of reminded me to the way Sebas looked at my human companions and the Pope's action toward me. At that time, I somehow felt the darkness dwelling inside my body was growing, giving an impulse to punish those arrogant humans.

When I was about to lose myself, I heard a nostalgic song inside the dream. Inside the pitch black world, I heard a kind and warm voice echoed. I somehow calmed down. The woman's feminine voice was echoing in the world and at the same time gave me peace.

'Kazuma'

I widened my eyes when I heard a nostalgic name was being called. I opened my eyes and saw a woman was praying in front of a grave. Behind her, an old man was holding an umbrella for her. I know this woman well.

"Kaoru-san"

I called her name. Akabane Kaoru was her name. She was my only childhood friend as well as my cousin who always supported me all the time. I bet she was very shocked when she heard about my death. The scene became distant all sudden.

A new scene appeared before me. A man was sitting on the throne while watching a beautiful scene in front of him, a very large city with tall wall around it. The city looked ordinary at single glance but I then realized something. This place was very peaceful and there were various races were lived together in diversity. Everyone was smiling together under the same sky.

'What do you think about this world, young one?'

The man asked. I gasped when I heard him. He was looking at me with kind eyes. So far, none inside the dream was able to see me at all. I tried to open my mouth when I suddenly heard a child's voice behind me.

'This is just an illusion isn't it?'

He said. I turned around and saw a youth with blonde hair and red eyes looked into the distance.

'That's right. This peace occurred because I, the greatest evil, decided to bear the darkness of my people by myself and buried it under the tree of life.'

He said.

I looked at the man with disbelieve.

'This peace is the proof of my arrogance in bending the people's fate. That's why this fake harmony won't stay for long and the chaos will spread soon.'

He said.

At that time, the scene changed. The view was shown from the top of an overgrown tree. The beautiful city I had seen previously was completely changed. The green lush of the plantation changed into red color of flames and the white walls of the walls was painted by blood. The laugh of the citizen which was filled with kind smiles now turned into the laugh of a maniac and screams.

It was madness. Children were laughing as they stabbed some adult with knives. Many youth were laughing as they raped a crying underage girl. Women were acting like prostitute in almost the corners of the city. There were cattle which was eating the flesh of humans.

'This is really madness.'

The youth said as he watched the scene. I looked at him. He was growing a pair of devil wings and sheep horn.

'Superbia, you're too optimistic to try controlling the humans' nature.'

He said. It was then when I realized that he was carrying a skull in his hand.

'Acedia-sama, are you going to end this madness?'

A devil asked as it descended.

'Yeah, I'll end this false peace and nightmare right away.'

He said. He touched the tree he was sitting on and the carnage suddenly changed. The madness of the people turned into silence in instant. The people stopped moving and started fall down one by one. The buildings crumbled down naturally and the giant tree he was sitting on was losing its support and began falling down as the formerly green leaves turned black and rained the whole place at the same time. Even the devil flying beside him also fell down lifeless.

'Finally it becomes quiet. I wonder how long I will be able to sleep now.'

He said in carefree manner.

"What do you think, hey my successor?"

I gasped when I heard a voice behind me. I turned around and saw the youth standing behind me.

"You can see me?"

I asked him.

"This is my no- this is our world after all."

He said.

"Our world?"

I titled my head.

"Wake up, O great demon king of laziness, slumber, and death."

He said. Many new people appeared from the empty air. They had various stature and face.

"Welcome, my friend. To the world of the dream, nightmare, and death. To the our final piece of art, [World End Paradise] which nobody had able to summon. "

He said. I took a step back.

"I ain't like any of you!! I am a hero!!"

I said.

"You're just running away. You're just like us, Acedia. We're the demon lords which will bring out the most destruction to the world."

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