Chapter 136 (1/2)
Translator: Wawaa
Editor: WilsonWilson
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The dark sky was riding from afar, turning into a bluish color. After first dropping Eunice and Ximena off at the hotel, Lara took Valac and headed towards Acerus’ castle.
“Let’s go to the Imperial Palace.”
Even though it was still too early to meet the Crown Prince, as it was an urgent matter, the coachman agreed to Lara’s request and drove the carriage. Valac buried himself deep in the carriage chair and exhaled a long breath, saying that he could now return home. Then, suddenly, something heavy hung on the wall of the carriage.
Thud!
The carriage was tilted slightly to one side and got on track again. Startled, Lara and Valac got up from their seats and looked out the window. Outside the carriage, the coachman was loudly complaining to someone.
It was Demian. After jumping into the running carriage and hanging on the wall, he roughly offered a word of apology to the coachman.
“Sorry for surprising you.”
“Make some kind of sign or something!”
“I will do so next time.”
There was a hint of a smile in Demian’s voice. Lara feigned ignorance when Valac muttered ‘crazy guy.’ Then, she opened the door from the inside. Demian jumped into the carriage, he smelled of acrid smoke.
“Did you get hurt?”
Lara urgently asked when she realized there was a long cut on Demian’s forearm. When she rolled up his torn clothes, the blood had already stopped. Though his injury was not serious, she was not expecting him to actually get hurt. Lara lightly bit her lips and raised her head.
“I got hurt on purpose.”
“On purpose?”
“That way, the red-haired demon will be able to keep track of me.”
Demian smiled pleasantly.
“Did you win?”
Valac asked him this time. He knew he would be scolded if he intervened, but his curiosity could not hold him back from asking.
Demian generously answered Valac’s question.
“I almost won.”
“But?”
“I pretended to run away.”
Anxious, Valac kept asking.
“Why?”
Then, Demian wriggled his eyebrows and stared at him.
“Why should I tell you that?”
“I mean…”
“Demian, why did you do that?”
This time, Lara asked on Valac’s behalf, who was scared and was crouching down. She judged that Demian could overpower Paimon and her judgment was right.
“If I catch him now, there would be nothing to gain.”
“What does that mean?”
“You said that your God needs karma to give you this and that, but karma cannot be obtained from a human, but a demon.”
“So?”
“I plan to push him to his limits and make him use magic. After extracting all the karma allowed from him, I will catch him alive and give him to you.”
Demian said sweetly. Valac opened his mouth and Lara shut her mouth tightly.
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After running fast and arriving at the Crown Prince’s castle, Valac, Lara, and Demian shook Acerus up to wake him up from his sleep. They explained in detail what happened in the theater and had a long conversation about what to do in the future.
Demian was supposed to be at the border, so when he suddenly appeared in Dandelion, Acerus got very confused. But after Lara stated that they should devise the Eastern Union as the mastermind of this matter, he agreed and rushed to the Emperor.
“How dare they!”
The Emperor was furious, or more accurately, pretended to be. The Emperor sent his knights to the theater where the incident took place to investigate the incident while ordering them to detain every single person from the Eastern Union’s delegation.
Prince Nicholas protested that it was a misunderstanding, but no one in Dandelion believed him. After all, the red-haired slave who suddenly attacked the escort of the saintess was a Lafortian performer he brought, he also disappeared like smoke after the incident.
Even his associates from the Eastern Union who came to the Empire with him whispered behind his back and handed Prince Nicholas over to the Empire. Most of them were nobles from Sias and Mortan. They suggested it would be better to prove the innocence of the rest of the people and go back to the East.