CH 41.2

There was a brief but apparent silence right before his response. Julia could only lower her eyelids helplessly in return.

“Be nice to Mister Kimaris as well. If you don’t, I’ll be very sad. Both of you are really important to me.”

“It’s not like that…!”

“Don’t worry, Julia. It was just a brief glance anyway.”

Kimaris cut off Legion’s stammering excuses as he carefully grabbed a hold of her hand. He cautiously kissed the back of her thin, white hand before raising his gaze once again.

“And if you have any inconveniences in the future, please tell me instead. I am now entrusted with escorting Julia after all.”

“My escort?”

“I heard roughly about the story from Barbatos. Revenna is now asleep.”

Julia quietly nodded her head. It was only recently did she discover that Revenna was the oldest of the demons around. Revenna herself had even said that she stopped counting right after she was over three thousand years old.

Revenna was still young and attractive on the outside, but her magical power consumption had not been the same as before. Therefore, she had to go to sleep periodically like this. In fact, she also comforted Julia when she was very surprised.

‘Isn’t this a very natural thing to do anyway?’; she laughed like that.

Julia eventually returned from her brief thoughts. Kimaris was still looking upwards at her while lowering his body.

“She can’t be by your side for now, so I must have been chosen instead. It’s all thanks to Julia that I was released anyway.”

“No, you hurt yourself trying to help me. I’m so sorry.”

“Did you hear about that?”

Kimaris’s pupils narrowed momentarily. With just that short question, Julia knew what he was actually asking about.

He was trying to see if she remembered exactly what happened since she had been intoxicated all along.

However, the only thing that she could recall, albeit vaguely, was until Berith’s death. Besides, Barbatos did not mention directly what had truly transpired within the bedroom. As a matter of fact, Julia was only reading his thoughts.

“That’s all I heard. Mister Barbatos didn’t tell me the details…”

As she shook her head, Kimaris appeared to be subtly relaxed after a brief silence.

“It is my duty as a faithful servant to protect you. So, please don’t mind about it.”

“I’m really sorry though.”

“Julia.”

It was then did Kimaris, who finally lifted his body, stretch out his hand towards Julia. Legion, who had been silent all this while, immediately slammed Kimaris’s hand away. Then, he glared at him with such a hostile pair of eyes.

“You’re such a good talker. An escort is a good thing to say, but in the end, you’re just a watchman. It would be difficult if the important key were to escape.”

“Legion, what’s wrong with you?”

“That demon just kissed you on the back of your hand! You don’t mind that?”

“It’s just a greeting anyway. This is the Demon Realm, so it may not really fit the human way of thinking?”

All of the demons seemed to be very fond of skinship. Agares and Lerazier always looked like they wanted to eat her when they saw her, but since they couldn’t, they became eager to lick(?) her instead. Then, Bael and Revenna usually hugged her from time to time, so it was a needless thing to say as well. Even Barbatos would sometimes touch her cheek while she was sleeping like he was poking a mochi.

Kimaris nodded his head as he agreed with Julia’s choice of words.

“It really is just a greeting, so don’t bother Julia with everything.”

“You don’t even notice your own eyes, do you? Why did you stare at me so intently when I entered the bedroom then!”

“That……”

Legion words soon ended in a trail of air. His gaze suddenly turned towards the window. Kimaris’s shoulders also stiffened as he looked up at the Demon God’s tower through the huge window.

Waves of magical power were pulsating violently from the crystal ball that was right at the top of the tower. Julia thought that there was nothing different, but she soon realized that she was utterly mistaken.

The purple magic began to expand its range like it was swallowing the surrounding sky whole.

“Julia, get away!”

“Watch out!”

A blue flash lingered in Legion’s grip before a huge greatsword soon appeared. At the same time, Kimaris hurriedly pulled her close.

Bael’s heart itself, the Demon Castle, was trembling like mad. She could feel that the demons were already disappearing from the nest one by one as it started with the weakest one while letting out a final scream. The shadow of death was already looming over the Demon King’s territory.

Legion raised his sword as he aimed towards the tower with a warlike spirit and Kimaris, who had his back turned from the tower, was exuding his magic while trapping Julia in his arms. However, she still looked up at the glowing magic stone over Kimaris’s shoulder. As she became fascinated by the brilliant colors, she instinctively felt the urge to come into contact with the light.

Kimaris instantly blocked her as she tried to approach it unknowingly. Perhaps he could sense a small scuffle behind his back, Legion exclaimed urgently.

“Julia, it’s dangerous—so stay away!”

“I should have had it back with me.”

“Damn it—everyone, put your heads down!”

The rapidly flickering waves from the magic stone were declaring the fact that its limit had been imminent. The moment Legion tried to offset the shock by exploding a large amount of mana, Julia suddenly regained her senses and opened the system at once. She then activated her skill without even thinking about it at all.

[▷Resistance Transition Lv.1

Expands the range of the resistance magic for a certain period of time. Consumes 50% of one’s remaining HP. SP 30]