Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 131

Chapter 131

Beili struggled internally for a moment.

Unable to resist his incredibly patient and approachable demeanor, she could only lean her body forward, extending her neck toward Doctor Cassius’s hand.

Doctor Cassius smiled softly and gently untied the black silk scarf wrapped around her neck.

Then, his temperatureless palm covered the area of the young girl’s neck covered in red marks with gentlemanly decorum.

She didn’t hear him chant any healing magic incantations.

Beili felt only a slight chill, and then, from the corner of her crimson eyes, she saw a burst of emerald-green light glowing from her neck.

After just a moment, he moved his hand away.

“There, Miss Bartholomew, you no longer need to wear a silk scarf because of those ‘mosquito bites,'” Doctor Cassius said warmly.

Beili gave a small “mm” in response, nodding while trying her best to appear composed.

…

Meanwhile.

The Constance Family carriage had traveled from the Imperial City’s Teleportation Array to a certain surrounding town.

It then passed through that town’s Teleportation Array once more before finally arriving at a small town.

Beili looked out from the openwork carriage window.

There were no grand or magnificent buildings, no bustling crowds, and no dazzling array of shops.

Old houses were scattered about, and the streets were somewhat narrow; the carriage they were riding in took up most of the road as it drove through.

It lacked the prosperity and noise of the Imperial City, and it didn’t have the stunning, unique snowy scenery of Valnie Town.

It was just an ordinary little town.

But it still piqued Beili’s curiosity.

Her deep red eyes looked out the window as she asked, “What place is this?”

“It has no name, Miss Bartholomew.”

Doctor Cassius smiled slightly and replied, “But outsiders like to call it Nameless Town, so gradually, the people of this town have come to call it Nameless Town as well.”

As Doctor Cassius introduced the town, a soft light flickered in his emerald pupils.

Beili grew more curious. She tilted her head slightly, her gaze still fixed outside the carriage, and asked in confusion, “It has no name… is it because His Majesty the King didn’t name it?”

Doctor Cassius shook his head gently, sighing in a tender tone, “Long before His Majesty took the throne, this town was already known as Nameless Town.”

Beili spoke again, “So, Doctor Cassius, is this the ‘good place’ you said would suit me?”

“Don’t be in a hurry, Miss Bartholomew. You’ll know when the time comes,” Doctor Cassius said.

Beili could only nod.

After all, this town seemed to be populated by commoners who couldn’t use magic; even Half-beasts were few and far between on the streets.

Therefore, the cemetery here likely wouldn’t have much Death Mana.

However, she couldn’t bring herself to be so blunt with Doctor Cassius, so she could only treat it as-having absorbed Mana in the Imperial City’s cemetery in the morning, and coming to a simple town in the afternoon to relax.

Thinking this way, Beili raised her hand to touch the scythe pendant on her neck and began to issue a command, letting the Mana within the Black Bone Scythe flow into her.

The children on the street had been laughing and playing.

Upon seeing a luxurious carriage appear in the town, they stopped playing. Their gazes followed it curiously, and they even chased after the carriage.

Until the carriage stopped in front of a dilapidated Tower.

They watched as the coachman stepped down, set up the steps, and opened the carriage door.

The first to descend was a tall, handsome man with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Afterward, the second person appeared: a girl with grey hair and red eyes, wearing a magnificent black and blue gauze dress, her jewelry sparkling in the sunlight.

As that exquisite, cold, and elegant face turned toward them, the children instantly scattered and ran away.
“Why are they running?”

Beili stared at the children scattering like startled birds and asked with a look of confusion, “Do I look that scary?”

“It is because you are too beautiful, Miss Bartholomew,” Doctor Cassius answered her in a soft tone. “So beautiful that they can tell your Noble status at a single glance. As commoners, they know to avoid you instinctively.”

As he spoke, Doctor Cassius bent his elbow again and raised it gentlemanly, gesturing for Bartholomew to take his arm.

Beili reached out and hooked her arm through his.

The two walked toward the old, dilapidated Tower.

An old man sat in front of the Tower.

Before they approached, the old man had been sitting in a rocking chair by the door, squinting as he basked in the sun.

Only when two shadows fell over him did the old man open his eyes.

He squinted his clouded eyes, trying to identify them for a long time before he spoke in a trembling, aged voice. “Doctor Cassius, it has been a long time…”

“When you made me the Tower Keeper, I was as young as you are now… Now I am so old I can barely walk, yet you haven’t changed at all…”

Sounding somewhere between a cry and a laugh, the old man spoke with a whimpering tone.

Beili stood beside them, listening without moving, her red eyes unsure whether she should even blink.

Was this something she was supposed to hear?

After all, by saying that, the old man had just spectacularly blown the Male Lead No. 2’s cover as an immortal vampire… Beili thought silently.

Doctor Cassius’s face still bore a gentle smile.

He reached out his left hand and, as if comforting a child, lightly patted the old man’s white-haired head. “You have guarded this Tower well, Hodgson.”

A glimmer of tears flickered in the old man’s murky yellow eyes as he murmured, “This Tower has witnessed too much. It is right behind me, as you can see, Doctor Cassius.”

The old man stood up, raising his cane to point at the crumbling Tower.

“Without gold coins for repairs, even if these old bones of mine can still keep watch, this Tower might collapse in another year or two.”

…

Doctor Cassius glanced at her, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

From those emerald pupils, as quiet as a lake, Beili saw a hint of embarrassment and difficulty, as well as-the fact that he wanted to borrow money from her.

Without hesitation, Beili immediately took a bag of gold coins from her Spatial Bracelet and placed it in the old man’s hand.

Looking at the heavy bag of gold in his hand, the old man’s eyes widened in surprise, his lips trembling as he struggled to find words.

Having never left Nameless Town in his entire life, he had never possessed so many gold coins at once.

Seeing the bag of gold, Cassius raised his hand and cleared his throat softly, covering his lips with his knuckles.

Hearing this, Beili turned to look at him, once again seeing a hint of embarrassment and difficulty in those emerald eyes, as well as-the feeling that she had given too much money.

Beili shrugged at him, her lips curling into a carefree smile.

She considered it a fee for his hard work-for accompanying her to absorb Mana in the cemetery this morning and then bringing her to this simple town to relax in the afternoon.

…

With the bag of gold coins cradled in his arms, the old man’s spirits seemed to lift significantly. He leaned on his cane, preparing to lead the way for them, but Doctor Cassius stopped him.

“There is no need, Hodgson.”

He patted the old man’s head again, his voice tender. “We will go in by ourselves.”

A gentle breeze blew past, causing the flowers and grass around the Tower to sway slightly.

The Tower stood lonely on the edge of the town.

The bricks and stones of the outer walls had weathered and peeled away, revealing the decaying, moth-eaten wooden beams within.

Moss crawled over the walls near the ground. Dried by the sun, it looked like thin, dark-green scabs over the building’s wounds.