The Demon’s Bride

Beelzebub's observation was right on the mark when Esther concluded the garden was divided into halves the possible other halves must hold some kind of secrets which the woman wants to hide.

Taking the chance, Esther decided it was much quicker to solve the actual problem before finding out more how to enter this secret the woman had.

"Nothing seems to be a portal or something," hummed Esther in a thought. "But there is no lamp or lever which we could use to tear down the illusion such in a way if we are trying to find out how to enter a secret room in a building. 

Beelzebub was near her, seemingly staring at all his surrounding while keeping a close ears to her words. 

"Maybe we should use a magic to tear down the illusion?" She was good with magic albeit her weakness is that she has too little magical power inside her. "I can try."

Beelzebub nodded, giving her a chance to try and solve the problem while he looked around and his eyes suddenly stopped at the only thing which wasn't reflected in the garden.

Esther winced, a sudden yelp escaped from her lips which caused Beelzebub to be alerted, "You're alright?"

Esther nodded at once but quickly narrowed her eyes again, immersed in how the magic flows in the house, "I can't do it. There's a source that should be the core of this house, the one that flows magic to the mansion."

Beelzebub smiled. His hands around her waist swiftly wrapped to hold it tightly, "And I think I have found the answer to this puzzle."

"You do?"

"It's quite easy now that I have seen it," Beelzebub replied at Esther's bright eyes that widened in sparkle. "Out of all the things inside this garden, don't you notice there is only one single place that wasn't mirrored? The only place that is alone, single, without another side of reflection."

Esther narrowed her eyes and she looked forward where the gazebo was located, "It's the gazebo."

"Correct," Beelzebub and her made their way to the gazebo. After some further guessing, Beelzebub pushed the stone under the marble chair located in the middle of the gazebo. 

At the same time he had pushed the stone, he could hear the crisp sound of click and Esther watched from the side how the Gazebo's structure begin to swift.

Beelzebub stepped out to watch how the other half of the gazebo moved to other side, growing larger in size.

But what had changed wasn't only the gazebo. Esther looked around her only to notice how the garden begin to change in appearance. When the gazebo stopped changing its structure, the garden was completed.

This time it wasn't a half of a garden reflected to create one but a large spread of a beautiful garden.

While Esther marveled at how the mansion worked, Beelzebub who had finished looking at the garden of his surrounding, narrowed quickly his eyes.

"To think everything was simply a trick," Esther heard Beelzebub spoke. She looked at his handsome face before moving to look at behind him, finding the illustrious mansion had changed its structure and appearance. 

The white washed wall turned duly gray, the way the mansion expand was larger to the sides compared to before where it is larger on the front on bottom.

Beelzebub stared at her shocked expressions, "I suspect what is inside had changed as well."

"We should go inside," Esther, who had made her mind answered. Beelzebub accompanied her back to the mansion in which she was quickly greeted by the same maid who had helped her earlier. 

This time however, the same maid walked toward her. While one maid had a short hair, the other one had a longer hair she had tied to not intervene her. Their face was similar but not a carbon copy of each other.

"Is there anything wrong, sir and Madame, dear guests?" The maid questioned after seeing how on edge Esther was.

"We want to see around the inner building now, the weather outside is too cold," said Beelzebub, he placed his hands over Esther's shoulders and showed the maid a smile which the maid returned at once.

"Of course, take your time."

When they left, Esther was still marveled and shocked by the trick that the demoness had used, "It was all but a mirror all this time? The maids we saw, it was the reflection of the long-haired maid from earlier."

"And the inside of the house change as well," Beelzebub entered across the hallway with his confident steps filling the entire room.

"You know where we should be going to now?" Esther asked as she can see how Beelzebub seemed to know where he should be going.

"Easy, darling. We should find a place we hadn't seen before we break that sneaky trick she had used," Beelzebub stated.

Esther thought it was easier said than done and she was correct. There were too many rooms inside the mansion that they could suspect to be one of the room to answer their confusion. 

To make it worse, the doors of the room was carved in the same way, making them all looked similar. 

Esther if she was alone would trust that she would have gone mad by now, confused on which room that had just appeared. Beelzebub, with his excellent memories saved her time by stopping in front of a doubled door room.

"This room," Beelzebub pointed the other room behind the one he had pointed his finger at, "and that other one should be the dining room."

"When we had our dinner, we didn't see the other door opposite to the room," Esther summarized her memories.

"If my choice is correct, this should be the room that appeared now," Beelzebub stated. Esther would have pushed the door knob and opened the door if not for him who had kicked the door opened. His kick had been light but the impact caused it to fall down, breaking on the ground. 

Esther looked at the broken door which Beelzebub then stepped at and shake her head helplessly. She quickly tear her gaze from the door soon when she heard Beel spoke again,

"Look at that, well, well, well," Beelzebub hummed seeing forward.

Esther, confused looked up for her blue eyes to widen beyond its size. She saw what it was, finding there were coffins laid together inside the room, almost stacked on top the other.

Coffin was rare in Hell as they would often burn the dead bodies, demons believe it was the only way to put the person free from the living world. Esther, being the demon who stayed in mortal world for long, didn't find this strange to see coffins, but she was shocked to see the amounts of coffin it is.

"Sure in Hell there are no rules about killing or murder but this is… this is more than what a normal demon would ever do in their life," she said, frowning. 

"Some times it isn't hunger to humans flesh but also their pride as demons that enjoy cruelty, Esther. But you are correct, this amount is too much for a single demoness. Unless—"

"Unless?"

Beelzebub didn't complete but show her a smile. He saw the only coffin that was placed in the middle of the room as if someone was working on it. Esther saw and followed him, watching him pushing the lid of the house before saying, "And I say that didn't surprise me to see these coffin but I am surprised to see my dear acquaintance here."

Esther wondered what he meant, making her focus to the inside of the coffin, she gasped when seeing Leviathan's face on the body of the person in the coffin.

"What is this?"

"Her secret," Beelzebub answered in ease.