The Mist and the Lightning. Part 19

“What?” Nik laughed again.

“You tore its pages into pieces to roll the joint. I’veseen you do it. Books are not for you!”

“Ahaha!”

“You use your power as you please, and where you can’t, you trade your pretty face and use your ass.”

“Vitor! Leave my ass alone,” Nik leaned over the table, and, holding out his hand, returned the bottle to himself, “do you want to beat me with words? They bled you, and my ass is fine! That’s it! You are silent!”

Kors swallowed, but quickly regained his composure.

“I was fucked up so badly just because I was not as familiar with it as you!”

“Aha! Get five! You’re an excellent student!” Nik drained his glass and set it down with a loud crack on the table.

“I want to study!” Kors shouted.

“You are studying!”

“Yes, I hear and see things that ordinary people, including true blacks, don’t see or hear, but this is not enough for me! Move me to the next class! There are those who are sitting in the same class, repeaters, like Arel, and there are those who take an external exam. I need more knowledge! I want to use it to get more features.”

“What a restless daddy!”

“What’s bad about it? I am the Demon, I am the chosen one! And in this world I was not humiliated, but elected from birth to the highest, because I was worthy of it. Now I want more! Teach me witchcraft! I’m tired of just listening to thoughts and seeing lives, I want to change them and influence destinies. I want to not just listen, but to be an accomplice, a creator and an architect!”

“Like Leonardo?”

“I’m not interested in Leonardo anymore!”

“How do you want to influence fate?”

“Just like the higher ones do! Like Demons! I influenced the fate of people in this world, executed and pardoned.”

“Oh!”

“Okay, okay, let’s say I influenced the fate with the permission of the higher ones. And I want to influence the fate of other beings from other worlds! Influence the fates of lower order Demons. So far, at least.”

“This world is just a small box, and the fact that you in it, as it seemed to you, commanded and decided fate, is presumptuous nonsense. In fact, you are a fool and don’t see or hear anything!”

“I want to have my own world, where I will be the master! I’m ready to learn and take on tasks. In our world, for good service, you are given a title, land, and slaves. I want to be given a title, land, and slaves in the Demon World!”

‘You are insane!”

“No, I just want development and don’t set restrictions for this. I can develop and reach any peaks that I want, and there is no limit to them!”

“When you rise high, it hurts to fall.”

“Do you know it? Punished Demon. You fell from heaven, broke your wings. You sit here now and don’t understand what to do with the human body and mind of my son. Are you warning me against this? Like an old woman who warns the young against bold dreams and deeds. I literally hear a rattling old voice: “Where are you going? Life has beaten me, and life will beat you! Forget it all. The world is arranged the way ittreated me!” But this is not an axiom! I want to dare, try myself, make mistakes, let it be! Get up and fly again! Act to the best of my ability! Which one of us is old, you or me? Sounds like you’re talking like an old man drunk with failures! And I want to hold on! I want to be like Lis!”

“What do you want?! There are laws and regulations.”

“And it’s you who are telling me this? You who break all the rules?”

“I don’t break the rules! And if you don’t understand this, then there’s nothing to talk about with you,” Nik threw the empty bottle away.

“Your own pride is on the rise! We are mice, right?”

“Exactly! You are my mice!”

“I’m not a mouse anymore! Not a mouse! You understand! I’m tired of drinking and getting drunk, dulling my consciousness, I want to create something important, meaningful, weighty! To change worlds!”

“What about fucking?” Nik got up from the table and walked over to the bed and sat down on it. Arel immediately followed him and lay down beside him. “Do you like to fuck?”

“I do,” Kors agreed.

“Then come here, mouse!”

“I’m not a mouse! I’m the ring finger, and it’s special, doctors take blood from it!”

“Oooh!” Arel drawled. “Shut him up already, Nik. I can’t listen to this nonsense.”

“Shut up, you stupid handsome prince!” Kors flared up.

“You call me a stupid prince, but it’s you who are a fool!” Arel abruptly sat up on the bed and also raised his voice. “You measure the Demon world with the concepts of our world. Power, positions, awards, lands and slaves. You can’t imagine anything else! This is the ceiling of your dreams! All this is not important and has no value! And Nik has a lot of images and makes missions in several worlds at the same time, you won’t understand it! You want to be the main mouse not only in the world of mice, but also in the world of mouse gods! Mouse in a paper crown!”