Even the Demon King is worrying about another world today.

It's not that the tea looked particularly delicious, but rather that the cow maid genuinely smelled of milk.

"Is Master thinking about something naughty?"

Kuro leaned closer. A pair of black cat ears came into Mikai's view.

Kuro tilted his head and said earnestly, "Master, would you like milk or cat milk?"

"puff……"

Hedis, who was standing to the side, spat out a mouthful of rice.

Crumbs of bread, bitten into small pieces, floated across the table like petals scattered by a fairy.

"I...I'm going to...water, water..."

Hedis, choking on his bread, turned red in the face and fumbled around on the table.

After touching a glass of ice-cold water, he picked it up without hesitation and poured it into his mouth.

He swallowed the cold water and finally managed to get the piece of bread stuck in his throat down.

When Hedis opened his eyes again, he saw a head of blond hair.

The person had very noticeable pointed ears and bright blue eyes.

"Are you alright?" The elf lady looked very worried. She picked up the cup and shook it. "Would you like another cup?"

Hedis blushed, stopped in her tracks, and shook her head: "No, thank you."

After a long while, Hedis suddenly turned around.

"You are... Yuri, right?"

Xi Lili blinked and smiled, saying, "Yes, it's me. We're all S-rank, and I don't have many friends at the academy. It seems the three of you get along quite well..."

Yuri tucked a strand of blonde hair behind her ear, looking somewhat shy: "I...I don't know if I can join you..."

Hedis nodded like a chick pecking at rice, then suddenly shook his head.

“No… joining is fine, Miss Yuri. But I’d like to ask a question…” Hedis looked at the glass of water, her throat dry with nervousness, “This water… what is it?”

He clearly remembered that Mikai had said that Yuri's heavy water was highly poisonous!

I'm not going to just die on the spot, am I?!

Yuri smiled, her eyes narrowing. "Hmm? It was generated by my magic. Is there a problem?"

Hedis froze, then looked at Mikaela with utter terror, sending out a distress signal to her.

Mikayi is still being harassed by Kuro.

"What kind of milk is it?! Master, you have to tell me clearly today!"

Kuro stood with her hands on her hips in front of Mikayi. Her height when she stood up was exactly the same as Mikayi's. The two stared at each other.

"No way...can you drink cat milk?...I've never heard of that..."

Mikayi's gaze flickered across Kuro's chest before quickly looking away.

"Besides, it seems like the cat doesn't have any milk..." Mikayi said, feeling a little guilty.

"You're talking nonsense!" Kuro was annoyed and grabbed Mikayi's shoulder, shaking him.

"Speak up, you stinky old man! You have to give me an answer!"

“Hey… um…” Hedis’s voice came out softly between the two of them.

“Excuse me for interrupting you two…” Hedis said with a somber expression, holding up the empty glass in his hand, “This is a matter of life and death…”

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(To avoid affecting everyone's reading experience, all character designs, illustrations, and character portraits will be listed at the end of Volume 1.)

109 Help! I drank heavy water.

The two men, who had been engaged in a heated debate, calmed down.

Mikayi placed one hand on Kuro's head. Kuro stretched out both arms to reach Mikayi, but his arms were too short to reach her.

With a flick of his wrist, he pressed the restless cat's head back into the chair.

After putting Kuro back in his place, Mikayi looked at Hedis with a puzzled expression.

"What's wrong? How can something as simple as eating a meal be a matter of life and death?"

Mikayi asked.

"I think I drank heavy water... I'm going to die..." Hedis's face showed pain as he clutched an empty cup in one hand and his chest in the other.

"I'm dying..." Hedis repeated painfully.

“…” Mikayi looked at the empty cup speechlessly.

He saw neither any trace of magic nor any magical elements in the silver metal cup.

Xi Lili smiled as she observed Hedis's expression. She covered her mouth with one hand and almost burst out laughing after seeing Hedis's series of actions.

She had assumed Mikayi would react the same way. But when Yuuri saw Mikayi's expression, her smile froze: "This student... you seem to have a very sensitive perception of magic."

It's rare to find a human who can immediately distinguish whether the water droplets remaining in a cup are magical or natural.

“Oh…” Mikayi smiled. “You know, I’m a wind elementalist, so my perception of magic is naturally much higher. Plus, well… I have a lot of experience and have seen many kinds of magic.”

In an instant, Mikayi organized the words in his mind, and the lie almost came out of his mouth.

“It seems that anyone who can be ranked S-class by this academy is no ordinary person.” Xi Lili smiled and bowed to Hedis. “Sorry, I teased you earlier. This glass of water is from the water station.”

Realizing he'd been tricked by a girl, Hedis froze, then quickly shook his head, "It's okay, it's okay... I was just too stupid..."

Yuri smiled sweetly and bowed to Mika and Kuro again: "If the three of you don't mind, may I join you...?"

Kuro twitched her ears and immediately turned to hug her master's arm. Having one more or one less person didn't matter, as long as they didn't compete with her for her master.

"You're quite popular with those men, so how come you don't have any friends?" Hedis pondered for a moment before finally asking the question.

Yu Lili sighed, "While I'm grateful for the boys' affection, they're not really compatible... Besides, with S-rank, the trials and tests will be more difficult, and we'll definitely need to help each other out a lot in the future. So, I think it's better for everyone to get to know each other now..."

This is not something you can decide on your own. Hedis looked at Mikaela, then at Kuro.

Mikayi shrugged: "It doesn't matter, as long as she can fit in, I have no objection."

Kuro shook his head and said truthfully, "As long as they don't try to take my master away from me, that's fine."

After receiving feedback from his two teammates, Hedis smiled and extended a hand to Yuri: "Welcome to the team, Miss Yuri."

Xi Lili stared at the hand for a moment, hesitated, then smiled and brought her face closer, touching Hedis's face.

Hedis's hand froze in mid-air, the lingering scent of the elven girl still clinging to his cheek.

That said... Elven etiquette involves touching faces to faces...

Hedis calmly withdrew his hand and touched his cheek.

Just as Yuri was hesitating whether to touch cheeks with Mikayi, a cough came from the other side.

"cough……"

The tea he had just drunk was suddenly forced back up by a sudden inhale, and the tea seeped into his trachea. Mikayi quickly used wind magic to drive the misplaced tea out.

Seriously... I mean, at this rate, we're going to choke to death in this other world sooner or later!

Him?! A demon king?! Choked to death?!

Putting all that aside! That sudden burst of magic... it felt so familiar!

Mikayi's expression was calm. He touched his mouth, where there was still a tea leaf at the corner of his lips.

"How can you two grown men take turns getting choked? One of you chokes on your rice, and the other chokes on your tea, is that alright?" Kuro mumbled, a spoon dangling from his mouth.

"Sigh..." Hedis couldn't stand it anymore. "The tea is indeed quite bitter. If you don't like tea, have the maid replace it with coffee or juice. Don't force yourself..."

Mikayi didn't answer him, but instead looked coldly in the direction of the classroom building.

Yuri also looked at it this way.

"..." Hedis looked left and right, but couldn't figure it out for a long time. He nudged Kuro, who was engrossed in eating, with his elbow. "What are they looking at? Is this some kind of inner resonance?"

Kuro still had sauce on her face, and she wiped it off. Hearing Hedis's words, she seemed to sense some kind of danger, so she shifted her position and squeezed herself next to Mikayi, their legs touching.

"Hmph! She doesn't! Only Master and I can have that kind of emotional connection!"

Mikayi frowned, looking into the distance with a worried expression.

This aura... it's definitely coming from Reni.

Moreover, he was certain that this wasn't just simple killing intent. Even the Phoenix had been summoned, and it was a Phoenix in a switched mode...

Are they okay...?

Mikayi's fingers gradually curled into a fist. If this continued, he would rush over to stop him.

Just as Mikayi hesitated whether to cast a freeze spell to get there, the phoenix's aura vanished.

It was taken back?

Mikayi was puzzled.

I don't know what Akman said that made Renee so angry, and then she was soothed just as suddenly.

110 Memories Sealed in the Dust

"I've turned off the lights, is that all?" Hedis finished making the bed and sat on the edge of it.

Mikayi was trapped like an ox

He didn't even bother to open his mouth to answer Hedis. He nodded in response.

Hedis was most skilled at controlling fire magic; with a flick of his finger, the magic lamps on the walls went out.

Mikayi lay flat on his back, wrapped in a thin, pale blue blanket. As soon as the light source disappeared, he was overcome with drowsiness almost immediately.

Mikayi was also helpless about her body's reaction.

Looks like I need to go back to Hell. I'll flip through my spellbook and see if there's any magic to dispel drowsiness...

While thinking about this, Mikayi almost fell asleep.

The bright moon hung high in the sky, and the rolling clouds sometimes swallowed it up and sometimes disappeared from view.