C16 Shadows of a Forsaken Pact (2)

There was no path back to humanity for him. He had lost on both fronts. The demon had executed a divine move in the strategic game of Go. No amount of self-consolation could change the fact that he was merely human before and that an evil entity had outsmarted him.

Now he understood what it meant to be human: to be made of mere flesh and blood—the weakest of all life forms