you are ours ... forever ..."
Sey hesitantly looks at the paper. The lines are in a strange, tangled script ... some language he doesn't understand.
"I can't even read this .. How do I know you're not fooling me?"
The cat dissolves in smoke, making room again for the little girl with the lollipop.
"I may be almost omnipotent in this room, but I too have to obey the laws ... Everything I promise you in exchange for your soul, I have to keep ... those are the rules ..."
Sey is still skeptical. On the other hand, if he's already dead, what does he have to lose? Nevertheless...
The girl turns back into the cat, giggling.
"What is it? Are you insecure, meow? If you sign the contract, not only will you return to earth, you will also be able to hold your own against your enemies with ease ... that's what you do." want? If you make the pact, I can promise you that you will see your girl again ... meow ... "
After some hesitation, he takes the gold pen and looks at it thoughtfully.
"What about ink? You can't sign anything with a pen alone ..."
The cat giggles in amusement.
"We don't use ink ... meow.""Let me guess, you have to seal the pact in blood ... that's pretty unimaginative, you know ..."
"Oh, no no no! Meow. We gave up on blood centuries ago. It was too easy to cheat, you know. Some just used someone else's blood ... gave us real problems, meow ... That's why we changed that ... today you sign with your soul ... "
Sey stares at her in confusion. The cat meanwhile licks its front paws with relish.
"A-but how-"
"It's very simple, meow. You just have to sign, the pen will do the rest. So what now? Do it, I don't have all day, meow."
"I thought time means nothing here?"
"Hihi, you are right ... meow. I just wanted to see if you were paying attention. Now sign the pact ..."
Sey takes another deep breath and finally puts the tip of the pen on the contract. When he draws the first line, a fine, shiny line appears on the paper, which glitters like a liquid. The moment he has completed the last letter and loosens the pen from the surface of the paper, the white space around him disappears and instead he feels himself falling at breakneck speed into the darkness below. In the next moment he feels the hard, wet ground under his back and frantically tears his eyes open, only to close them immediately with a scream. He feels as if glowing needles have been stuck into his pupils. Panting, he remains for a few seconds with his eyes closed until the pain has subsided a little. He can hear a faint crackling next to him, otherwise no sound can be heard ... Sey feels his heartbeat accelerate a little. He listens as if spellbound in the silence, but no sound suggests that there is someone else nearby. There are no more screams to be heard and the gunshots have also stopped. He squints cautiously into the night. The blurry image in front of his eyes seems to have a slight red cast. The road around him is completely deserted and the only movement comes from the small flames that flicker here and there. He gets up to look for Selena, but after a few meters he loses his balance and ends up in a dirty puddle. As the surface of the water gradually calms down, he can see two indistinct, glowing spots in it. He takes another closer look and sees his own distorted reflection. His eyes glow an unnatural red.
"Damn what -..."
A light shadow jumping past him makes him whirl around. It's a white cat.
"Hey wait!"
The cat creeps down the street in silence, slaloming around weapons and pieces of wood. Sey stumbles after her, panting."Hey! I thought you obeyed the rules! You said I would see her again! Please stop and answer me, you damn beast!"
He tries to reach for the cat, but she cleverly evades his hands and hisses at him with big ears before disappearing under a half-collapsed house. When Sey looks desperately after her, his gaze falls on two bodies lying on the floor right next to the cat's hiding place. After he discovers the blond girl's face smeared with blood, he doesn't need to come any closer to know what happened ... The glowing eyes of the cat flash out of the dark gap under the house ...[/i]

Suki stares silently into the darkness at her feet. The silence in the damp basement is only broken by the occasional drop somewhere at the other end of the room.
"What happened then?"
"The damn cat set me up ... They were dead ... everyone. I don't know what happened there, but I haven't found anyone ..."
Sey pauses for a long time, during which Suki the monotonous drip in the background suddenly sounds incredibly loud.
"... After that I met Jack for the first time. It was he who brought me to the headquarters, where I started the basic training a short time later ... if I had known beforehand what this damn contract meant to be, I would have thought about the whole thing again ... Tsst ... it is now too late for that ... But the more I learned about Cerberus and everything related to it, the more I thought it would be in the end it could have been worth it ... I didn't think it was over ... I thought I could put everything right again. That's why I made the second big mistake in my life after just a few years ... "
Suki opens her mouth to say something when a loud squeak suddenly interrupts her. The heavy door of her cell is pushed open slowly and she blinks uncertainly into the bright light that shines towards her. Three men step into the room and point their black guns at them ...