Understand humans!

Aura opened her eyes wide in disbelief, her purple pupils were filled with fear, she had a premonition that the backlash of obedience magic was coming again.

This time it's not an order to "not harm humans."

It’s about understanding humans.

Why? Didn't this command, [Understanding Humans], only take effect at the moment when Fulilian gave it to herself?

What is the trigger mechanism for [Understand Humans]? It is different from other commands. There are no specific conditions. Why is it triggered? Why now? Why here?

Wait—what is this feeling in my heart? !

Aura raised his head blindly, knelt on the ground and looked up at the elf corpse temple high above, his eyes empty.

For some reason, a strange feeling flashed through her heart.

Aura lowered his head and covered his chest, breathing hard, his eyes wide open, and his purple pupils trembled violently.

It's obviously not painful, why does it feel so uncomfortable?

Isn't the punishment of [Understanding Humanity] painful... What is this feeling? Why is it more painful than pain... Even breathing has become difficult, I want to die...

“No, no, no, I absolutely cannot die! I must live on, I must live!! I can endure any severe pain! I don’t want to die! Absolutely not!!”

Aura screamed at the top of his lungs.

Suddenly, a tear fell from Aura, startling her.

Aura clearly hadn't intended to cry. Demons shed their tears on their own initiative and never lost control. After all, tears were just tools for demons.

But...what is this now?

“Is this a tear?”

Aura wiped her face in disbelief, tears streaming down her face for some reason. It felt wet and salty.

“Why does it taste different from before?”

"Why am I crying now..."

"I do not understand……"

Chapter 57 Please Let Me Go, Fulilian

At dawn, dew stained the leaves, and the sun shone through the thin mist, dispersing it.

When Fulilian woke up, she saw this peaceful scene.

This is the edge of a cliff. Below the cliff is a flat grassland, and on the other side is an endless forest. It should be Aura who led me out.

Neither the demons nor humans would extend the battle line to such a long extent. She was finally safe.

"Aura?"

The first thing Fulilian did after waking up was to look for the figure of a purple-haired demon. At first glance, she did not see Aura beside her.

She stood up and noticed the sparse bloodstains on the ground, as well as long crawling marks that extended from the depths of the forest and along the edge of the cliff in one direction.

Fulilian's heart trembled. Following the blood trail, she didn't walk far before she found the person she was looking for.

The purple-haired demon who descended from the sky to save her when she was on the verge of death was lying quietly on his back under a big tree. The blood on his body had all become scars, and her purple and white tight dress was now only red and purple.

Aura leaned against the tree trunk with a peaceful expression, his head tilted to one side, his eyes closed. If it weren't for his lungs still rising and falling slightly, Fulillian would have thought that Aura was dead.

"Aura! Your horn?"

Fulilian knelt in front of Aura with a worried look on her face. She reached out to touch the half-broken left horn on Aura's head, but she was afraid of hurting Aura, so she retracted her hand.

But then, Frillian discovered that the broken horn on Aura's head was the least injured part of his body.

"Who did these penetrating wounds on your body?" Fulilian's voice trembled. She searched for pools of blood spreading from Aura's body one by one. Each one was shocking. Such serious injuries were only treated roughly. If it happened to an elf or a human, the person would have died long ago.

Fortunately, Aura is a demon with a strong body and strong vitality, so he was able to survive.

But it's a pity that she is a demon and has to endure this unimaginable and continuous pain without being able to die.

Aula heard the noise and slowly opened her eyes, and found that it was Fulilian in front of her. Aula's first reaction was not to reminisce about the past, but to look at her coldly and indifferently.

"Your leg? How on earth did you bring me here with such an injury?" Fulilian's gaze finally fell on Aura's thigh, and tears were about to fall.

There was a horizontal cut on the thigh. Looking around the whole leg, the bleeding had stopped, but the broken muscles were visible to the naked eye. There was no way I could support walking.

Could it be... that Aura climbed out of the forest carrying her on his back?

Why? Why did such a cruel thing happen?

"Wait a moment, Aura, I will heal you right away. You became like this just to save me. I won't let you die! I will never let you die!!!" Fulilian's nerves were tense. Her hands were shaking as she was about to touch Aura's thigh wound and use healing magic.

But when his hand was stretched out in the air, it was slapped away by Aura.

"Aura?" Fulilian looked up at Aura with a puzzled look, but Aura only responded with a cold look.

"Don't get me wrong, Flillian. I'm not here to save you. That spell works like this. If you die, I will die too."

"What are you talking about? What kind of surgery? Aura, please stop talking. I'll treat you first. Don't move. It might hurt a little—"

"Stop pretending, Furlian!! Can't you see the magic contract on us?!" Aura interrupted Furlian, dragged his wounded body back a distance, and put some distance between himself and Furlian.

Aura opened his eyes wide and stared at Fulilian with disgust, like a stray animal curled up in a corner, unable to resist but hostile to any human approaching.

"Aura... why... why do you talk to me like that? We... aren't we friends? We are friends!! There is no such thing as a contract, I don't even know about it!!" Fulillian's voice began to tremble, and she choked at first, but soon she affirmed her tone.

"Haha, you must have figured it out a long time ago. Yes, I actually had such delusional thoughts. You've only been learning magic for a short time and you definitely won't be able to figure out how to obey magic rituals. But you are Furlian after all, the one who can even analyze demon curses that transcend systems. You should have known it the second time we met - I can't resist your orders." Aura sneered, looking at Furlian with cold hostility.

She didn't want to pretend she didn't know anymore - she was playing house with Fulilian, hoping for a chance to play the friendship between the elves and the good demons. How long would Aura have to endure this kind of compromise? How many more ridiculous orders from Fulilian would she have to endure?

"I...I...I I..." Fulilian was speechless. She wanted to deny it, but Aura's miserable and resolute eyes made Fulilian understand that this was not something that could be covered up by lying.

"I do know..." Fulilian nodded, but she quickly added:

"Although I have known the effect of the contract for a long time, I don't know where this contract came from, and I don't want to delve into it. I just want to maintain my relationship with you! Aura, I have never thought of using this contract to force you to do anything - right! You saw it! I have never given you excessive orders! Not before! And never in the future!!"

"Flillian," Aura's eyes were miserable and unwilling. She lowered her head, her long purple hair covering her body and hiding her pale face.

"What do you take me for?"

"A doll? A slave? A useful tool that can be summoned and dismissed at will?"

"No, it's a friend! It's a teacher! It was you, Aura, who taught me magic, and you became my first friend of the same age! Aura, aren't you a good demon? I will never treat a good demon as an enemy or a tool! We will always be--" Fulillian wanted to swear something, but was interrupted by Aura.

"Don't lie to yourself, Fulilian! Do you think there are really good demons in the world?" Aura shouted, with only mockery in her eyes.

"Don't think that the demons have humanity."

"But you..."

"I'm just pretending to survive. You should know that demons can do anything to survive. Fulilian, am I pretending to be pretty? In the past twenty years of playing house games with you, am I not perfect in my image as a good demon?"

"Aura, you...!"

"What are you trying to order me to do with the contract? Fulilian!!!"

Fulilian was already very upset and angry at Aura's words. She was about to say something but was interrupted by Aura in a louder voice.

"...I don't want to order you to do anything." Fulilian lowered her eyes, not daring to meet Aura's angry eyes.

"You didn't try to order me to do anything, haha..." Aura laughed miserably, and climbed up the tree trunk a little higher with his hands, so that his eyes were parallel to the squatting Fulilian.

She confessed in a miserable tone:

"Your first order was not to harm humans. Did you think about my identity as a demon when you gave the order? Demons are born enemies of humans and elves. Even if I don't harm humans, will they believe that I won't harm them? Even if they believe it, will they not harm me? Fulilian, do you know what a cruel order this is? You pulled out the claws and teeth of a snow wolf, put the wolf in the sheepfold, and let the wolf survive in the horns of sheep and the cold winter of snow. Fulilian, you are a naturally cruel elf——"

“I didn’t think so much at the time…”

"Your second order is to understand humans. To make two different species understand each other, do you understand how ridiculous your order is? Can you imagine when a person's consciousness is trapped in the body of a cockroach, and finds himself gnawing on his own limbs, gnawing on garbage, and laying eggs in his body, how terrifying it is for a cockroach that thinks it is a human being to do such things that were once commonplace? Fulilian, are you born an arrogant elf——"

“I am not…

"Your third order was to teach you magic with all my heart. At that time, I would teach you everything I knew about demon magic and human magic as long as you asked me. In the end, you studied demon magic in depth and became the first elf in the world to practice demon magic. But the knowledge I spent my whole life studying, the treasure I was proud of! I was the support of the Seven Collapse Sages, but you took it away with just a thought. Those are mine! My things! The meaning of half of my life! You took it away so cheaply. Fulilian, you are really a naturally greedy elf-"

"I……"

"Your fourth order is to make me learn to laugh. You know very well that demons don't need to laugh. That's just imitating humans. We don't express joy through laughter. You want me to learn something useless and incomprehensible, just so that I can better show my joy in a way that you can understand. Fulilian, you are such a tyrannical elf——"

"........."

Fulilian could no longer say anything. Faced with Aura's four heart-piercing accusations, Fulilian was speechless.

"I don't want to understand humans, I don't want to teach you magic, I don't want to imitate humans' smiles... Fulilian, don't you understand? Kindness is not my nature, killing and evil are... I was born to be a demon like this, the desire for killing is deep in my bones, and the desire for human suffering and despair is engraved in my soul. It's only because of your order that I can't kill humans, and I can't kill you!"

Aura shouted this at the top of her lungs, and then, as if she had run out of strength, her body went limp, and her eyes were calm and expectant as she waited for Fulillian's final judgment on her.

Aula pleaded, but there was no begging in his eyes.

"Flillian, I'm tired, please, let me go."

"Aura!!!"

Flillian was devastated.

Why did she have to face such a cruel thing? Why did Aura choose to break that window paper now? Why now, when the elf country was destroyed and she was homeless? ?

Please, Aura...at least now, at this moment, don't treat me like this!

Please, even if you are a demon, you will imitate me, right? Imitate the you of the past, the human-like Aura, even if it means deceiving me, don’t use this face to reveal the truth, don’t… don’t let me kill… my… last relative…

"Come and kill me, Fulilian! You should have done this when you met me!"

Aura grinned with his teeth bared, staring fiercely into Fulilian's eyes. Although his body was in pieces, Aura's eyes never softened. He was completely different from the Aura who begged for mercy in the past.

Aura wanted to escape, but her legs were broken and she could only crawl. Aura tried to crawl away from Fulilian, but she didn't get far before she fainted. When she woke up, Fulilian had caught up with her.

Fulilian, you won't let me go no matter what?

Aura never wanted to experience that strange pain, the curse of [Understanding Humanity] again. That creepy feeling that made the demons shudder was more painful than pain and more terrifying than death.

Yes, the demons are a race that will never give up life under any circumstances. Every time she suffered severe pain, Aura would cry, quarrel, and beg for mercy, but she never thought about dying. This is the nature of the demons. Aura from the demons will never ask for death, but Aura from the human race would rather die.

Aura looked at Fulillian's struggling expression, and the hand that Fulillian finally raised and placed on her forehead. The magic power began to fluctuate, and Aura felt relieved and liberated.

Aura smiled.

Yes, that's right, Fleuryen, you should have told me to commit suicide the first time we met.

If you did that, the elves in the land of elves, your relatives, and those elves would not believe that there are good demons in the world, nor would they be slaughtered without any resistance when the demons attacked.

If I have made you believe that there are good demons in this world, then let this only good demon disappear.

"Flillian, do it—" Aura closed her eyes and waited.

"Aura, you are free."

But what Aura finally heard was this whisper.

brake--

All the laws issued in Aura's soul disappeared.

The commands to "understand humans", "do not harm humans", and "learn to laugh" were all cancelled in an instant.

Aura opened his eyes and looked at Fulilian in disbelief. Then, Aura turned around and ran away without hesitation.

She limped and used levitation magic to reduce her weight, sometimes using her hands, rolling and crawling as she ran quickly into the distance, and soon disappeared from the end of her sight.

It's like... it's like a bird that has finally been released from a cage. The moment the door opens, it flies away to an unknown distance and never looks back.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!"

Only Fulilian was left there, kneeling on the ground helplessly and crying loudly.

It feels like I have lost the most important thing in my life, feeling desperate and helpless.

Chapter 58: Losing Another Favorite Disciple

Where do you want to escape to?

Why choose this direction?

What else is waiting in this direction?

——Aura knew nothing.