Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 148

Chapter 148

“The roads of Rose Town are lined with flower arches guided by roses. The walls of the houses are covered in climbing rose vines, and roses adorn every window and eave.”

“The town’s paths are like a romantic floral carpet… Oh, even the air there smells of roses.”

Listening to Madam Constance’s descriptions and praises of Rose Town from inside the carriage, the coachman looked at the desolate town before his eyes.

A greyish mist drifted through the alleys. The streets were empty, save for a few figures walking as slowly as ghosts. No one spoke.

The coachman silently cracked his whip.

…

With Madam Constance’s introduction as a contrast, Blood Curse Town did indeed look a bit more terrifying.

However, ever since Beili arrived at this town via the Teleportation Array, she had faintly sensed a dense aura of Mana emanating from the place.

Moreover, the Mana here felt like neither Death Mana nor sinful Mana; it was a new type of Mana distinct from those two.

In any case, it was also a type of Mana she could absorb.

“I’ve said so much that I almost forgot one thing, Luoluo.”

Madam Constance let out a startled cry.

Following that, Beili heard the sound of someone rummaging through drawers coming from the Communication Orb.

“What is it?” Beili asked.

After a rustle of paper, Madam Constance spoke again, her tone carrying a hint of mischief.

“There’s a letter for you, Luoluo!”

“The sender’s column says Lance Fitzgerald. Hmm… isn’t that Prince Lance of the Tilisha Kingdom?”

Through the Communication Orb, Madam Constance let out an obvious giggle.

Then, she sighed with emotion.

“In this age where we can use a Communication Sphere to stay in touch, you two actually chose to write letters… Young people really know how to be romantic.”

“Because before I left Holy Island Academy,” Beili explained with a helpless tone, “I didn’t have a Communication Orb.”

“Do you need Mother to open the letter now and read it to you?”

“No need.”

“Luoluo, you refused so quickly. Are you worried that Prince Lance wrote some sappy love words in the letter?”

“No.”

“My Luoluo has yet another candidate for a husband. Let Mother count: Prince Lance, Prince Cyril, oh-I almost forgot, there’s also the little wolf of the Clarence family! Mother still remembers that little cutie’s expression…”

“Mother…” Beili said, exasperated.

“Alright, alright-I’ll stop teasing you. How about I have someone deliver the letter to you at Rose Town?”

In the Communication Orb, Madam Constance finally stopped poking fun at her, though her voice still carried a clear smile.

“By the way, Luoluo, which inn do you plan to stay at? You just arrived, right? I recommend the Golden Rose Inn in Rose Town. The roses planted in that shop are golden.”

“Yes, I was planning to stay there,” Beili replied immediately, making a mental note of the inn’s name.

…

After the carriage arrived at Blood Curse Town.

Following a circuitous route along the town’s main road, the coachman picked out the largest inn in the entire town.

Even though it was the largest inn in town…

The decaying wooden structure, the sign creaking and swaying precariously in the wind, and the faint, dim light inside the first-floor entrance all made it look quite…

Unsuitable for tourists.

Especially for a Noble eldest daughter like the one from the Constance Family.

Following Miss Bartholomew’s request, the coachman booked the largest and cleanest room in the inn.

One room didn’t mean the coachman had to sleep in the carriage tonight. Instead, after Miss Bartholomew gave him enough gold coins, she said:

“You may leave. Go to Rose Town, find the Golden Rose Inn, and stay there for the night. Tomorrow, Mother will send someone there with a letter; pick it up for me.”
…

After booking the rooms, the coachman followed the inn clerk to the third floor, where he was shown a reasonably spacious room.

The coachman stepped inside to inspect everything.

He tossed the moldy blankets and pillows back to the clerk, then retrieved a fresh set from the carriage’s storage compartment and returned to the room to make the bed.

While the coachman was meticulously laying out the bedding, the clerk stood in the doorway. With a waxen face, bulging eyes, and sparse, sharp teeth, the clerk stared at him with a vacant, idiotic expression.

…

Meanwhile, on the other side of town.

A dull-witted passerby was staring at her with a similarly vacant expression.

Secretions slowly leaked from the gaps between his sparse, sharp teeth.

Beili crossed her arms and looked at him expressionlessly.

A massive Black Bone Scythe hovered before her, currently absorbing Mana from a graveyard.

Ten minutes ago, the carriage had stopped at the inn.

After Beili arranged for the coachman to book their rooms, she turned and instantly performed a Beast Transformation into a butterfly, soaring into the sky above the small town.

Looking down from above, she soon found a graveyard on the edge of town. It had no headstones, only countless withered branches stuck into the ground.

She flapped her wings and descended, reverting to her human form the moment she touched the ground.

She unfastened the scythe pendant from her necklace. It grew massive in her hand before floating in front of her, beginning to rapidly absorb the Mana from this graveyard.

Perhaps he had just appeared, or perhaps he had been there all along.

Regardless, Beili instinctively turned her head and spotted a town resident on a nearby path. She wasn’t sure when he had arrived; he just stood there silently, looking dazed and staring straight at her.

The atmosphere grew exceptionally eerie because of this passerby’s presence.

“Is there something you need?”

Beili watched with utter speechless annoyance as the secretions continued to drip from the gaps in his sparse, sharp teeth onto the ground. She spoke with a cold tone.

But the passerby did not answer.

“Did I step on your relative’s grave?” Beili asked again.

The passerby still didn’t answer.

His vacant expression didn’t change at all.

He simply stared at her, unblinking.

“…”

Beili pursed her lips. She had no choice but to keep a wary eye on him, while simultaneously summoning two Morpho Butterflies to guard against this strange man.

A moment later, the Mana in this graveyard had been completely drained.

Beili raised her hand and issued a command, intending to recall the scythe to her necklace and store the newly collected Mana within her body.

But this time, the Black Bone Scythe unexpectedly ignored her command. Instead, it floated toward a nearby house with tightly shut doors and windows to continue absorbing Mana.

Beili frowned slightly.

Perhaps her Mana consumption had been so severe after opening the Dream Domain that even her weapon, the Black Bone Scythe, had become somewhat disobedient.

However, on second thought, it wasn’t a big deal if it didn’t follow her instructions perfectly while absorbing Mana.

If the Black Bone Scythe could automatically seek out locations rich in Mana and absorb them the moment she let go whenever they arrived in a new town, that would be a plus.

Returning only after draining an entire area would actually be a good thing for Beili-it was convenient and saved effort.

So, when the Black Bone Scythe finished absorbing Mana from around the house and floated back to her, she was in no hurry to turn it back into a pendant. Instead, she let it hover behind her.

If it detected Mana, the Black Bone Scythe would take the initiative to absorb it.

Hmm… like a starving dog actively foraging for food?

What a strange metaphor.

…

Beili prepared to head back, only to see the eerie-looking passerby still standing by the road, staring at her fixedly.

His expression remained vacant.

In his wide-open eyes, the eyeballs protruded much further than a normal person’s, as if they were about to burst out of their sockets.