The girl slowly raised her head and looked at the ruined city. Her cherry eyes were filled with sadness and helplessness as she explained:

"This is... my ability."

After she focused her attention, pure white magic began to condense, turning into a white bubble that floated towards a shattered stone pillar, and then...

Boo

The bubble burst.

A magical scene happened. The scene before my eyes seemed as if time was going backwards. The gravel on the ground began to float and then stuck back to the stone pillars piece by piece.

In less than half a minute, the stone pillar and the damaged objects around it were restored to their original state.

"I can use magic to change the real world, but... the scope of change is very small, and there's not much I can do."

The Demon King clenched the staff in his hand, looking at the broken glass on the ground and his own reflection in it, his expression became very uneasy.

"You, could it be..."

Ye Shi seemed to have a premonition of something, and his pupils contracted violently.

"Yes." The Demon King nodded, and said with a tragic determination in his tone:

"I will use my own existence as the price to return time to the beginning."

That was her decision.

She subconsciously believed that it was her fault that things turned out this way.

As the "Demon King", she is really useless.

Unable to hurt others, unable to save his own people, unable to do anything at the critical moment, he can only watch his loved ones slowly die.

She is not suitable to be a "demon king".

Using her own "existence" to save innocent dead souls is the only thing she can do now.

At the same time, as long as he, the "Demon King", disappears, humans will lose the reason to attack the demon world. Perhaps from then on, the two races can get along in harmony.

This is the girl's purest wish.

"Boom!"

The rain stopped.

The girl raised her hands high, and a huge amount of magic power condensed at the front of the staff. The whole city seemed to be wrapped in translucent bubbles, and the raindrops stopped in mid-air.

"stop!"

Ye Shi wanted to stop the girl, but his body was recovering very slowly, and he couldn't get up even though his teeth were almost broken.

"You can't do that!"

She knew very well that she was the culprit.

If she hadn't appeared in the demon world, if she hadn't killed innocent people, if she hadn't forced the girl into a desperate situation...things wouldn't have developed to this point.

Another beautiful thing was destroyed by my own hands.

"This is all...my fault..."

Ye Shi clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his skin, and blood dripped through his fingers.

“It’s no one’s fault…”

The condensed light became more and more dazzling. The girl slowly lowered her head and looked at Ye Shi who wanted to stop her, with a faint smile on her lips:

"This is my own decision, but... it also reflects the opinions of my sister and the majority of the demons."

"What..."

Ye Shi was stunned.

Sadness and nostalgia were revealed in the girl's eyes. She gripped the staff tightly and increased her magic output. The rain gradually flowed back toward the sky.

"My sister... always says she wants to see the sea, but... here in the Demon Realm there's only a black, pungent ocean, not the blue sea described in the books. We all know that's the world outside the Demon Realm."

As the magic was released, the Demon King's figure became translucent, so fragile that it seemed as if it would disappear at any moment, but there was a glimmer of longing in his eyes:

"The world is vast. Besides the demon world, there's also the human world. We shouldn't be imprisoned here forever. We should try to do something to escape this cage that holds us captive and shake off our fate of being hostile to humans. So..."

She took a deep breath, mustered up the courage and said:

"I want to...try to trust humans."

It is inevitable that the two civilizations, humans and demons, will intersect again at some historical node sooner or later.

The real fear comes from the unknown.

Rather than letting the two races remain in a state of mutual misunderstanding and suspicion, she planned to be the first to let go of her attitude, light a torch in the dark forest, and set herself on fire.

As long as I, the Demon King, no longer exist, humans will no longer feel fear.

This is the girl's most innocent thought.

It's stupid, but... this is the only thing this "weak" demon king can do.

"Humans are not worthy of your trust..."

Ye Shi disagrees with this approach, as if he can already see the tragic ending of the story.

She knew very well that the girl's wish would never come true and that humans would never let the demons go.

As long as human beings exist, war will never disappear.

"So....can I try to trust you?"

The girl's childish voice penetrated Ye Shi's heart directly.

"Believe me?"

Ye Shi couldn't believe his ears. He looked up into the other person's eyes and felt the most sincere emotion.

"If I could start all over again, could you please... stop this war...?"

Under the influence of magic, time is flowing backwards little by little, raindrops are drifting back to the sky, broken buildings are beginning to reconstruct, and dead souls are beginning to revive.

In this reverse rain, the girl stood in the center of the vortex, quietly waiting for Ye Shi's reply.

"I...."

Ye Shi lowered his head, not daring to look directly into the other person's eyes.

"I can't do that."

The words stuck in my throat couldn't be uttered no matter what.

She alone could not stop the progress of humanity, nor could she prevent the demons from being destroyed.

After time goes back, I, who have lost my memory, might become an accomplice of mankind again.

but...

Looking at the girl's gradually fading petite figure, she really couldn't say a discouraging word to this little devil who was risking his own "existence" to stop the war.

perhaps..

This will be the only way for me, a "sinner", to atone for my sins.

"I see."

Ye Shi nodded, his red eyes revealing a complex determination, and he agreed to this promise that was destined to be impossible to fulfill.

She realized that she was about to go to...a real hell on earth.

"You...are not a bad person after all..."

In this countercurrent of time and space, the girl stood in the center of the storm, but there was no fear or retreat on her face. Instead, there was a gentle smile on her translucent figure.

She had never used such a powerful magic before, and she didn't know where she would be after time went back. Maybe she would be wiped out.

But she was not afraid at all.

Because she got a promise.

As a demon king, he received a promise from a human.

This shows that even if the hope is slim, it is still possible for humans and demons to live in peace.

The road ahead is very hazy, I can’t see anything clearly, and I don’t know what I will experience.

But she could feel...

The woman in front of him, even if her memory was reset, even if she couldn't remember anything, would do her best to fulfill this "promise".

"I hope... you can find your place in this world, and the meaning of life."

This was the girl's last words.

In an instant, the petite figure turned into countless fragments of light and dissipated.

The backflow of raindrops ended.

The translucent water droplets were affected by gravity and fell to the ground, splashing water.

The story goes back to the beginning.

“Drip, drip, drip—”

The sound of raindrops falling.

Ye Shi, who came to the Demon Realm for the "first time", stood on the street. Exiled by humans, she was like a stray dog ​​abandoned in the rain. There was no color in her eyes, and they were empty and lifeless.

She lost her memory.

However, deep down in my heart, I could vaguely feel that I had forgotten something important, but I couldn't remember it.

"despair"

Heavy footsteps echoed in the alley.

She walked deep into the alley in the rain like a zombie, trying to find a place where she could sleep peacefully.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Just when she was clearing her mind and preparing to embrace death...

"Drip, drip, drip"

An umbrella blocked the rain from her head and brought her a small shelter:

"Are you OK?"

A soft voice reached Ye Si's ears.

When she opened her eyes again, what appeared before her was...a pink-haired girl in school uniform.

Under the umbrella, the girl's cherry-colored eyes looked at him worriedly, pure and dazzling.

..

This is the beginning of the story.

Time goes back...

After the "Demon King" disappeared, she was wiped out of existence and was born into an ordinary family and became a student.

"By the way, I haven't asked your name yet!"

"13...Guan Yoshio."

"Ye Shi? My name is Mian Yui, and I'm a student at the Demon Academy."

I don't know if it was love at first sight or fate...

After the rain stopped, Ye Shi looked at the girl laughing under the clear sky and felt the desire to protect her.

Even though she didn't remember anything, she still wanted to stay by the girl's side and do what she could.

"Can you please stay with me?"

At the moment of parting, Ye Si took the initiative to step forward and try to keep the other person.

"I want to be by your side and protect your dreams."

This sentence comes from the heart.

We all know what happened after that.

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