People have lost the ability to cope with open ended endings. There’s two ways to look at it.
1. The demon orchestrated the entire brutality to maximize the despair of MC and then manipulated him into a contract for his soul,
2. The villagers were also evil to the demon like they were to MC and the Demon will fulfill the MC wish of having someone love him.
It’s up to you! The the entire pointttt, it can’t be longer because the idea was shock value and vague to let the reader decide what they want to believe.
People have lost the ability to cope with open ended endings. There’s two ways to look at it.
1. The demon orchestrated the entire brutality to maximize the despair of MC and then manipulated him into a contract for his soul,
2. The villagers were also evil to the demon like they were to MC and the Demon will fulfill the MC wish of having someone love him.
It’s up to you! The the entire pointttt, it can’t be longer because the idea was shock value and vague to let the reader decide what they want to believe.