Understand humans!

"Aura, do you have any idea?"

"I have no idea……"

"to be honest."

Aura took a deep breath, his eyes firm, and he was ready to die:

"It was all Zanze's fault! It had nothing to do with me!"

She pointed at the stunned Zanze with clear eyes. Just from her sincere expression, it was impossible to tell that Aura was lying.

"Uh?!"

Zanze was dazed when two pairs of eyes fell on him. He quickly picked up the book on the ground, flipped through several pages, found the blackened words, and scratched his head in thought.

no impression.

But the demons were insidious and cunning, and Aura was the worst among them. There was no reason to give up such a good thing to her.

Could it be that... I really remembered it wrongly, and I fell asleep while marking the book, and forgot it after marking it? ?

ha? ! !

The one who was even more shocked than Zanze was Aura. She had thought that her shoddy lie would be exposed on the spot. Unexpectedly, after Zanze flipped through several magic books with crossed out, he became confused and began to doubt his memory.

Could it be that because Zan Ze was sleepy and insisted on going to work a few days ago, he even confused what he actually did? !

Chance! ! !

"These were all painted black by Zanze while he was dozing off. I saw it with my own eyes!" Aura swore.

I'm sorry, Zanze, if your hands were cut off, I would use you as a slave!

Even if I only have a pair of legs left, I am willing to give you the right to serve me and will never despise you!

If things really develop to the worst, I will eat you who I raised like a bug with tears in my eyes and turn you into a part of my body. Oh my god, I, Aura, actually have such deep feelings for a human. There should be no demon who can imitate humans better than me, Aura!

Aula pondered in his heart, but his face showed no emotion.

Celia walked up to Zanze and touched his pink hair with one hand. Zanze raised his head blankly, and stared at Celia with innocent watery eyes between his hair.

Celia grinned and said:

"Well done, Zanze!"

"What you marked shows me a feasible route to popularize magic to all mankind. If I verify it later and there are no accidents, your name will be recorded in the history of human magic."

"It's just that the ink pen you used to mark the words was too dark. Didn't I tell you to change this habit? But you did a good job this time, so don't worry about this small mistake."

"Forehead???"

Zanze tilted his head.

But she had changed this habit a month ago. Last time, when Celie told her that it was too troublesome to use restoration magic on the blackened parts and asked her to use paint that would not cover the writing, Zanze took it to heart and put it into practice.

Did I push myself too hard these days, working in a half-asleep and half-awake state, and fall back into bad habits?

Zanze didn't think too much about it, the surprise in his heart was more important than anything else.

This news from Lady Celia was incredibly good news for any human magician, enough to make magicians, who were known for their rationality, fall into ecstasy.

It's not because of personal honor, but because humans finally have the qualifications to compete with the demons. The era when everyone can become a magician is coming!

“Aa ...

Zanze did not dare to make any offensive move towards Lady Celiai. In her excitement, she hugged the person closest to her except Celiai. Her small body burst out with amazing strength, and she actually lifted the demon, who was a head taller than her, off the ground and spun him around.

After several circles and landing, she let go of Aura.

Looking at Aula's expression, there seemed to be something unusual.

"Aura, are you unhappy?" Zanze asked with his head tilted.

"I am so happy..."

Aura grinned, but couldn't laugh.

Her eyes were filled with dark, empty holes.

Lord Demon, Aura has done something unforgivable to the demons. Even death cannot make up for the sins he has committed...Forgive me, Lord Demon. Aura can only forget all this in order to survive.

Can't stay here any longer.

Otherwise, there is no telling what future knowledge Celia will gain.

Aula lowered her head, her purple hair covering her eyes.

She wants to escape from here secretly.

Chapter 8 You have a bad temper!

The plan to escape from Celia went more easily than Aura had imagined.

She just got out of bed quietly on a dark and windy night without disturbing Zanze, and pulled out the bag that had been prepared long ago from under the bed.

Go out quietly.

As most of the human magicians in the town had fallen asleep, she easily avoided all human sight and left the town alone.

Then we ran all the way down the mountain road.

Aula finally breathed a sigh of relief until he looked back and could no longer see the towering ancient tree on the top of the mountain. Even the mountain shrank into something that could be covered by a thumb in his eyes.

She thought she would be discovered by Celia, so she escaped with the expectation of being severely punished or even killed.

But the result is——

"Didn't Celie leave even the magic of supervision and warning on me?"

I'm really looked down upon.

I don't know if it's because she saw the traces of magic on her body and knew that she couldn't cause any harm to humans subjectively, or maybe Celie didn't care about her as much as she said, and just treated her as an insignificant observation object?

"How can this be?"

Aura chuckled.

"I am a great demon, one of the Seven Collapse Sages. Celia made a mistake and let me go, which means letting the tiger go back to the mountain, adding a great hidden danger to the future of humans and elves."

"At this moment, Celia should be sitting on her throne with regret, not even in the mood to read a book, repeating my name Aura over and over again, falling into endless loss and regret."

"Ha ha--"

Aura shook her head, imagining the scene, and felt happy.

As for whether she had ever felt regret and loss in her heart, she felt so disappointed about the friendship she had built with Zanze during the past month, and the sudden departure of Zanze without saying goodbye, that she burst into tears...

"How can this be."

Aula turned around and left without any reluctance, choosing a direction at random.

Demons are emotionless creatures. They may be able to feel emotions such as sadness, discomfort, excitement, etc. like humans, but this will not form feelings towards a specific thing or person in their minds.

Love, longing, reluctance... Such advanced and complex emotions are something that the demons can never understand.

According to Aura's understanding of human emotions through long-term observation at this moment -

Zanze must have developed a dependent feeling towards her, otherwise, why would he take the initiative to interfere in her life every day? Is it really because he can't stand her sloppy appearance?

of course not!

This inexplicable altruistic behavior can never be explained by the research results on the demons' desires for humans!

The only possibility is that it is a special human emotion, and that Zanze is relying on himself!

"If she leaves Aura, that poor human girl will be so sad that she will find it hard to survive!"

Aura squeezed out a few crocodile tears.

All along, it was the great Lady Aura who provided Zanze with the right to serve her. Although on the surface it seemed that she was relying on Zanze, in fact, it was Zanze who was relying on her!

Aura is confident——

Anyone who cannot survive without someone else can only be a stupid human being.

-

On February 19, 24th year of the Imperial Era, the weather was cloudy and Aura fainted after accidentally eating poisonous mushrooms in the forest.

-

On February 20th, it was raining. An unknown white-haired elf who was out picking fruits found a purple-haired demon who had fainted on the roadside. He tried to drag her back home but failed. Finally, he could only try his best to drag her under a tree, undress her wet clothes, light a fire beside her, and wait for the purple-haired demon to wake up.

-

"Huh? What's this warm feeling?"

Aula shrank his body and curled up in the blanket, feeling the fire gradually growing stronger in front of him. Finally, he opened his eyes slowly and with difficulty.

“Fire, fire, fire!!!”

Seeing the flames so close, Aura's eyes suddenly widened. The distance was so close that she could even smell the burning smell of protein from the burnt ends of some of her hair.

"Ahhhhh!!" She stepped back in a hurry, not even bothering to care about the blanket falling off her body.

"You're awake." Hearing a familiar voice, Aura looked up and saw the face she hated the most in her memory.

"Flillian..." Aura leaned forward and wrapped the blanket that had fallen off earlier around herself, covering the exposed white skin. In this way, she finally felt a little safe.

Of course, this was not enough to ease her tense nerves at the moment.

Aura stared at Fulilian, who had just tried to pull her into the fire, with hostility in her eyes.

"I saved you. You seemed to have eaten something poisonous. Your face turned black and you fainted on the side of the road. You were soaked. If I hadn't taken care of you, you would have died."

"Then why are you pushing me into the fire?"

"Your body was so cold, I thought you were dead."

"Can't you listen to your heartbeat?"

“…I can’t hear you.”

Aura's gaze followed Fulilian's line of sight down to a part of her body that was more plump than Fulilian's.

Aura raised his head, squinted his eyes, and grinned with a mocking expression.

Fulilian still had no expression on her face, but her tone was much colder.

"I really shouldn't have saved you."

"I didn't ask you to do this."

"No one in the demon tribe is a good person."

"None of the elves grow big."

Aula stood up slowly, holding her chest with one hand, and carefully wrapped the blanket around her to prevent exposure.

It's not that she has a sense of shame. For the demons, wearing clothes is the result of imitating human evolution, just to get closer to humans and let them down. The demons don't feel embarrassed when their bodies are exposed.

However, Aula still needs the sense of security that clothes bring.

Especially in front of this elf who had "killed" her once, although a little bit of clothing could not block any attack magic, it could block the magician's scrutiny and make Aura feel a little more relaxed.

"Where are my clothes?"

"It's been roasted by the fire."

"So where are my clothes?"

"I was very cold, and the new firewood I found was wet."

"What do you mean?"

"Burn."

"Why don't you just burn me too!"

"I'm doing it, you woke up."

"?!!!"

Damn it, you deserve to die, Flillian!!!