BLACK MOON - Black Magic War Beginning with Jailbreak - [Full story illustration available]

Episode 209: Black Ribbons and Stuffed Animals [Illustrated]

It makes a horrible demon current, but for some reason Stella's body tremor had stopped. Strangely, Stella's tears had stopped when she said she was going to take the orb away from me now. Will you say you're not scared anymore?

"Halfas? You, you're Harry! If Harry's with you, I'm not afraid of anything!

"Harry? We're trying to take your soul, aren't we? Aren't you scared?

Halfas is just confused. Stella identifies the stuffed animal she always spent time with and the demon Halfas in front of her. Besides, it seems Stella used to call her "Harry” about the stuffed animal.

"I'm not scared! You know, I had a dear friend in my dream. Of course I knew it was a stuffed animal, but in my dreams, my friend was alive! He also gave me his name. Hal, you said something about me, so you're Harry! I said!

………

Stella has a very cute, energetic smile on her face.

In her dreams, Stella was meeting a stuffed animal who lived in her life. Strangely enough, Stella found out in her dreams the name of the demon she was not supposed to know. The world of dreams is inhabited by strange powers that even the devil cannot understand. Dreams are places where various memories are organized and linked. Perhaps there are coincidences in it that connect you to memories you don't know.

Harry couldn't take Stella's soul this day. There are no demons with defenseless people in front of them but who do not take their souls. A demon who wants an orb by even making a contract with a human wasted his chances of getting it unconditionally. I'm not sure what emotions were swirling in Harry, but I'm pretty sure this is an unlikely situation.

Without doing any harm, Harry returned Stella to her original world. Harry was all the way up in the sky during that time, looking vain.

Then a few months went by. Stella, who regained her routine, was with that stuffed animal, as usual. As always, we go everywhere together. Stella had a passion for stuffed animals.

One day like that. Once again, Stella was summoned into deep darkness. Harry called her. Stella, who knew Harry was lurking in the dark, looked around at Kyolo Kyolo and his surroundings.

"Ah! Harry!

Stella, who found herself looking like a giant Harry, happened to smile. It's been awhile since then, but there's no more fear for her in this place. This is an important place for Stella. Because it's a place where you can really talk to your precious Harry.

"Long time no see, Stella."

"What are you talking about? We're always together, aren't we?

"... I don't want to make Stella feel bad, but yummy isn't in that stuffed animal"

"Huh? Really?

Stella believed Harry was in the stuffed animal, but the facts are different. That stuffed animal is just a summoning tool to attract humans, and not a demon lurks in it.

"Oh...... but come on, I want to spend some time with Stella"

"Yeah, we'll always be together!

"So why don't you sign a deal with me?

"Contract?"

The reason Harry didn't take his soul that day was in Stella's kindness.

For the devil, man is only a bowl with a treat. But not in Harry's case. Harry, who touched on his unfathomable tenderness, craved more warm time with Stella than cheating on humans and taking their souls. Harry had the kindness of the devils.

"In order for demons to be able to move in the human world, we need a contract with humans. But the contract comes with a price. The price is that Stella will always be there for you. Say no if you don't want to."

"Then I'll give you a contract! I don't hate being with you all the time."

"True or ⁉ Come on, I want to go inside that stuffed animal and spend all my time with Stella!

"Of course! If Harry walks into a stuffed animal, this is how you can talk all the time! I'll always be with you!

"Thanks Stella!

Here, an odd contractual relationship was about to be formed. Ordinary demons demand from humans essential things such as blood, flesh and soul as a price.

But what Harry wanted was to rely on stuffed animals to spend time with Stella. That may be the essential price of “time," but for Stella it's not as hard as saying it is.

"By the way, what's a contract after all?

"A contract is really what humans do to borrow magic from demons. So formally, yummy has to lend Stella some magic. Stella, do you have any magic you'd like to use?

"Magic ⁉ That's lovely! What kind of magic can you use?

Another thing that comes to be essential in contracting. It's a magical loan. Whatever the circumstances, we need to be able to use black magic (Grimoire) without a small number of humans.

By choosing Black Magic (Grimoire) from among what Harry had, a contract was signed between Stella and Harry.

This allowed Harry, who got a vessel called a stuffed animal, to move around freely in the world of Oz.

With that day at the border, Harry began to spend time with Stella. Until now, Stella has only spoken unilaterally to unspoken stuffed animals. I could only have had a conversation on my fantasy, but not now. Even if Stella doesn't work her imagination, Harry returns the word.

For Stella and Harry, the new life had become a lot more fun than before. Harry's life, in particular, had changed dramatically. The view on that side is morning, noon and evening, and what you see is the darkness on one side. Nothing irritating. Besides, I have no involvement with other demons. Harry has always lived alone in the dark.

Meet Stella, Harry found out about the dazzling and warm light. Forgetting that he was even a demon, Harry enjoyed his days with Stella. Inspired by Stella, Harry became more and more kind in character.

But the smiling sight never lasted forever.

One day, several years after Harry first started his life as a stuffed animal. Fate has changed dramatically.

The Wallace family had come to travel to neighboring Sertrian kingdom and eastern capital Bres River. Stella, of course, is with Harry.

Coincidence or inevitability, the Wallace family was visiting the exact same inn where Lili stayed on this day. The family stayed in a room where Lili stayed again. It's like a princess room, that one with a luxurious interior.

"Wow! Look, Harry!

Smiling, Stella's face looked just like Lili's when she saw the room. Stella and Lili are very similar, even if the blood is not connected.

Stella and Harry were playing with each other throwing pillows, as Lili, Ashley and Harry had done that night. Playing scattered and exhausted, Stella fell into a deep sleep.

And the next morning I picked you up. She slept so deeply that Stella almost stayed asleep and left the inn behind. Yawning many times, her hands pulled from her parents, and Lili stayed on the boat back home. I guess I was very sleepy. Immediately after boarding the ship, Lili fell back into deep sleep.

If you look closely, next to Stella sleeping in one of the ship's rooms, there was no sign of Harry.

Harry's appearance was in one of the rooms in that inn. It falls out of bed and is caught between the bed and the wall. I think I can get out of there somehow, but for some reason, Harry doesn't make it faint. Harry couldn't get out of there, he couldn't move.

Harry, a gentle demon, hadn't eaten an orb in a long time before he met Stella. It also proves that that stuffed animal was dusted and placed in a corner of a barely maintained storage unit.

I guess the first time I called Stella in was because I couldn't stand hunger. Harry didn't eat a soul he didn't want to eat right away.

The devil is an eternal being, but the orb is what stabilizes the existence of the devil. Harry, who hadn't taken in the orb for a long time, fell asleep in deep sleep. Harry has been asleep for decades, just as Stella is now asleep hanging from the “Sleep Curse”.

"I've been asleep all my life. But I woke up recently. I was inspired by the black magic (Grimoire) of one woman who stayed with that Lili, and she was able to move again!

"Hee ~! You really were the devil!

"That's where you still suspected it!

Ashley does not possess Nighty Black Magic (Grimoire) that follows people's memories. It was a coincidence that Lili and Harry made the roundabout.

"So Stella always wore the ribbon, so she took it back!

"I know you know Lili's mother, so give me that ribbon back."

"I don't like it! This is a direct return to Stella!

Harry still doesn't try to return the ribbon. If this ribbon doesn't come back, Lili won't come back.

"You... that ribbon was given to Lili by a person named Stella. Besides, I don't think it's worth it to go see Stella now, do you?

"What does that mean?"

"Stella won't wake up much longer, hanging on to the Sleep Curse. It's not easy to wake up just because you're inspired by black magic."

"What ⁉ That's such a lie! By and large, who did that?

Naturally, Harry doesn't know the current Stella. As soon as I heard about the "curse of sleep," Harry was disturbed. Like Harry a while back, Stella is asleep all the time.

"I'm not lying! Maris the Knights and he put Stella to sleep."

"What's that?"

"Ron, I don't like Osama with his eyelids on."

"I'll definitely find him like that and make him giddy!

Knowing the presence of Teng himself, who hung Stella on the curse, Harry moved his little body wide enough to express his anger with all his might.

For Lili and Harry, Maris is a hater. If Maris hadn't put a curse on it, it wouldn't be a development like Harry stealing Lili's ribbon in the first place.

"So now, that ribbon is the best thing Lili has! So give it back!"

"I don't like it!

"Why? ⁉"

No matter how many times I ask, Harry doesn't try to let go of the ribbon. To stubborn Harry, Bell was disgusted. There should be no reason why Harry won't return the ribbon to Lili when Stella says she won't wake up.

"This ribbon is given directly to Stella's daughter!

"I get it. That's fine, but definitely give it to me, right?

"I know!

Thus, Harry, the devil trapped in a stuffed animal, was to act with Bell.