'I want to make sure she lives a comfortable life.' The main reason for this must be due to his lingering regret from the seventh life. Even though he had wealth, it was mainly supplied from the girl's parents since he worked for them. He did have his own separate means of income, but he tried to avoid doing much work as a witch doctor. Since most of those jobs would have involved female clients and he didn't want her to be uncomfortable.
Perhaps it was fate that their wedding ceremony ended in a disaster. If they actually got married then, he would have had to rely on her for money and that wouldn't have felt right.
"Since we will be working together. I'd like to ask. Terashima, what kind of abilities do you have?"
Yuhi turned to Sumire who gave him an approving nod.
"Just fire?"
He summoned wind from his other hand and made the red flame change into a black one.nove(lb)1n
"Ah, that's why the boss is concerned. You have a healing flame, and a destructive flame."
"Yeah."
"-and Sumire has her flames, and the blood ability." Toh paused. "There is something else right, beautiful?"
"I think I have what Lucifer has. Darkness."
Toh frowned. "What the Lord has beautiful isn't just darkness but the touch of death."
Yuhi's eyes widened, alarmed hearing those words.
"He can switch between the two, his normal darkness won't do much other than give you an infection. But when he uses the other darkness, the touch of death, he can kill with a single touch."
"I suppose that explains why he wears that cloak, and those gloves. It also explained when we were walking around during the festival he was trying to take isolated paths."
"Tell me now, you were so vague about it before, but I already suspected it. Tell me."
Sumire slowly nodded her head. "The hitting started in the fourth life. He was slowly transforming into the beast, and occasionally during his transformations I would get caught in the crossfire."
Before he could get angry, he heard a loud thud sound and noticed that Mashima had punched the edge of the table.
"That bastard, that fucking bastard. What happened to all his grand talk about keeping you safe?" Toh exclaimed.
"Toh, it's not his fault. He was-"
Toh shakes his head. "You can't tell me that it was nothing. Even if you ignore the physical pain, wounds of the heart cannot vanish. Do you not realize Sumire? You dislike being touched. I'm sure there is another reason, but the Lord certainly contributed to it."
At those words Sumire who was struggling to maintain a neutral expression burst into tears. "I know, I know what he did was awful. But he was in so much pain and I don't think it helped that I married another."
Yuhi had to speak up then. "You married another?"
Then Sumire explains how Lucifer had a brother, how that brother was also interested in her. How that brother raped her on her wedding day and continued to do so.
"It went on for at least two years. During that time Lex was very busy with work, so I don't think he realized how we hadn't been spending much time together intimately. Eventually I told him, but by that time the damage was done. I couldn't stay in the spirit realm even after Lennon was punished. So Lex decided for both of us to move to the human realm, we lived a good life there until a witch expressed their interest in Lex, things went downhill from there."
"What about this brother?" Toh trailed off. "If you mentioned him after that topic, is he-"
Sumire nodded. "I married him in the fifth life, but I was engaged to him in the fourth."
Yuhi truly didn't know what to say. How could she marry that piece of trash? 'I know Sumire has a kind heart, but she herself has said on many occasions that she isn't a saint. It's hard to believe that she would forgive someone who did something bad to her-' Yuhi paused in mid-thought. Actually, it's not hard to believe considering how she treats Nagawa after everything that has happened.
Still, there must be circumstances he doesn't know about.