Though I have feathered wings like an angel, though I have a beautiful halo like an angel, and though I don’t have demon horns or a demon tail, I really am a demon!!
As Azeroth painted his wings white and picked the black-red thorns and stars off his halo, he thought miserably to himself.
Azeroth, one of the eight Highlords of Hell, a terrifying demon who commands slaughter and eternal sleep.
Recently, due to a little mistake, he fell asleep during a meeting of the Highlords and ended up saddled with an infiltration mission no one else would accept. Now he’s doing a splendid job of avoiding reality.
The mission: infiltrate the angel realm and kill the angel children foretold to destroy the demon realm in the future.
Azeroth: .
Leaving aside how difficult it is for a demon to infiltrate the angel realm, killing angels on their own turf... isn’t that a bit too provocative? If he’s discovered, won’t it really spark a war between the two realms?
Wouldn’t that be the real reason the demon realm gets destroyed?!
But Azeroth is the kind of mad demon who’ll do anything if you dare him. He painted his wings, broke off the thorns, changed his appearance, and charged straight in.
After successfully infiltrating the strongest academy in the angel realm, where most of the children on the list were gathered, and becoming a teacher, Azeroth suddenly discovered that the children weren’t the only ones he had to kill. There were also several adult angels on the list!
What a way to screw over a demon!!
Gritting his teeth, Azeroth decided to return the favor. If you show me no mercy, I’ll show you none: he would protect these angel children! If they really were a threat, he’d kill them himself. If not... then no one else could lay a hand on them!
And so the most evil demon pulled one child after another out of the mire. He helped the fallen take flight again and freed the imprisoned. He shielded the solitary from hidden attacks and wiped away the tears of the sorrowful, pouring out all the sincere love he had to give.
He said, “Lift your heads. You’re the best.”
He said, “Being special in the special class doesn’t mean being ostracized and rejected. It means being exceptionally gifted and one of a kind.”
He gently guided his students out of the darkness, set white birds free in the blue sky, and watched over them in silence, never expecting anyone to look back at him.
But...
Behind Hell’s triple gates, the fallen angel who called himself a demon wrapped himself in black feathers like a cocoon. The dark halo, entwined with falling stars and thorns, gradually sank and shattered.
And just then, someone gently knocked on the door. Someone, many people, reached out and embraced the cocoon of black feathers.
They said:
“Don’t be afraid, Teacher. We’re here.”
Reading guide:
1. Azeroth calls himself a demon. Any demon in Hell who refuses to acknowledge him as one gets beaten into submission. Yeah.
2. No CP. At its heart, this is a story about teachers and students saving each other and choosing each other.
3. A fictional setting, extremely fictional, with MAXIMUM original worldbuilding! (So there’s no need to check the lore, because it’s all made up, haha.)
4. January 21, 2025: the blurb has been screenshotted.
5. Didn’t expect that. To be added.
Theme: Saving others is also a way of saving yourself.
