[ There's a little bit of ease, thanks to the alcohol, but also the strange, twisting understanding of 'I saw this coming', or... 'Devil Hunters die young'. He'd always been aware that his life would be a short one, that the more he used his contracts the less time he would have, but the Future Devil had almost... Rubbed it in his face. A handful of years, and then nothing.

Ripped away, right when he had finally found something like happiness. How mortifying.

All of this is messed up, but isn't that what the Future Devil wanted to begin with?

Aki sighs. ]

I haven't decided anything yet. The only option I have is to live here. I wonder if LILITH will stop my death, or allow me to go when it's time.

[ Two years... He takes another drink, expression sour. ]

I don't know what their plan is.