After separating from Silug and Kevin, glancing at the ring on my finger I softly said.
"Alright, Angelica you can come out now"
-Fwa!
Following my voice, black smoke rose from my left finger and Angelica's figure slowly materialized before me. Opening her eyes, Angelica glanced at me and softly said.
"I'm ready"
Smiling, out of nowhere, I threw an orb-like object in her direction.
"Here"
-Plack!
"Huh? What's this?"
Catching the orb with her hand, Angelica tilted her head in confusion as she observed the black orb in her hand.
"It's your core"
Noticing Angelica's confusion, I smiled.
"..."
Taking a couple of seconds to process the object in her hand, opening her eyes wide and looking at me, Angelica's voice raised a few pitches.
"Ah?"
Seeing Angelica's reaction, raising my brow, I teased.
"What? You don't want it? If you don't want it I'll gladly take it back"
"No, no, no, I'll take it"
Shaking her head, Angelica quickly placed the orb in her chest.
-Shua!
Shortly after, as if made out of water, the orb directly melted into Angelica's body.
-Fwua!
As the core melted into her body, a terrifying red hue enshrouded her body giving her regal and majestic presence.
After a couple of seconds, slowly opening her eyes and turning her attention back to me, with a skeptical look on her face Angelica asked.
"...why are you giving it to me?"
Thoughtfully placing my hand on my chin, I shortly replied.
"Mhh, let's just say that I'm trusting you"
Taken aback by my answer, Angelica didn't know how to answer.
Being a demon and coming from a place where everyone would screw you over at the simplest mistake, the word 'trust' was not something Angelica was very familiar with.
There was no such thing as trust amongst demons and so Angelica was naturally unaware of how it felt to be trusted by someone.
...yet that all changed today.
For the first time in her life, someone had said that they trusted her. Moreover, it was the same human that had enslaved her and made her work for him for five years.
...it was weird and made Angelica feel odd.
Although she wasn't sure how she was feeling right now, deep down, just a little part of her felt grateful.
Turning her head away from me, Angelica softly muttered.
"...I see"
Seeing her reaction, unaware of what she was thinking, I kept a simple smile on my face.
Everything was a lie.
Of course, that wasn't the truth.
she didn't need to
orb
the orb was located and I
the mana contract it didn't matter if I gave her the core back or not, lest she completed the five-year deal
to her back when we signed the
The reason was simple.
for a moment like
her and making her feel important, but in reality, I was merely
on the hearts and minds
if I wanted her to wholeheartedly
case
adding some flowery words, I made her
I sounded manipulative and perhaps borderline psychopathic, I didn't really care.
wanted her to fully become my piece,
hero. Sometimes, for the sake of the
being a saint if it only led to
world wanted a hero, they had
me, I'm sorry,
someone had to get their hands dirty for the sake
-Baaam!
thoughts, out of nowhere a
coming from, squinting my
seems like the aftershock of the battle is reaching all the way
guess Angelica revealing herself once again has caused
the aftershock of the attack reached all of
...that was good though.
towards the fight, it would in turn allow for Angelica and I to have an easier time when
glancing at
"We should go"
"Yes"
glancing at Angelica,
"Angelica walk before me"
Angelica to walk before
much move around
and internally, it was safe to assume that no one would particularly pay
was a demon was enough to somewhat move around the castle without
a demon helped somewhat, that didn't mean we were just brazenly moving around the
No.
needed to be careful when moving around. If someone stopped us and questioned us, without a doubt
-Gulp!
took
be
ones of the orc that I had met at the
change my skin pigmentation, it didn't really
specifically the mask I was wearing, I tried my best to distort my features to look more like that of an
a couple of seconds of molding, glancing at
be enough, do
me,
"...not really"
even a little
you look from
enough
getting caught. I wasn't actually planning on fully copying an
from far, it was good enough. Glancing
"Alright, let's go"
Irritated, Angelica responded.
"Don't rush me human"
you don't really care about reaching the viscount
"Viscount rank?"
place we're going to has the item
as her eyes lit up, Angelica
"Let's go"
Angelica's reaction, I shook my head as a smile appeared on
"What a child"
...
the castle was rather simple, there were four floors with
the treasury was
third floor, but honestly, there was nothing important there as only the first and fourth floor were important as
were on the first floor of the castle and our goal
our
"Let's go"
"Mhm"
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