Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 156

Chapter 156

“If I say someone’s name, then what?”

As her voice fell, the boy seemed to immerse himself in the feeling of knowing beforehand. Cold black mist began to billow uncontrollably from his body.

Beili quickly interrupted his casting, asking rapidly, “Do you actually care?”

The billowing black mist seemed to freeze for a moment.

In the next second, the black mist and the chill vanished.

The sharp lines of his Silver Mask tilted slightly as he moved.

The boy seemed confused, and then he said with a trembling trail in his voice, “I… I shouldn’t care…”

As if she had guessed the answer, the girl’s lips curled slightly. “If you don’t care, why do you keep asking?”

“I… I don’t know,” he said, his tone sounding somewhat anxious and uncertain.

Looking at the beautiful sunset scenery outside the window, Beili sighed.

“Forget it. I don’t know who I’d want to come here with either. I was just speaking casually just now.”

Because she had rested well and her mood had improved, she didn’t want to continue this topic.

Beili stretched and said to the boy, “Let’s not dwell on this question. I’m going to go down for a walk and see if there’s anything to eat. Are you coming?”

“Of course…” a faint voice answered quickly.

…

After Beili went downstairs, she saw the coachman waiting on the first floor of the inn.

The coachman had learned from the inn staff that their eldest daughter had arrived at Rose Town this morning and checked into the Golden Rose Inn.

So, after receiving the letter, he had been waiting on the first floor.

“Your letter, eldest daughter.”

As soon as he saw Bartholomew, the coachman immediately went up to meet her and handed a golden envelope into her hand.

When he looked up again, the coachman saw the boy in the Black Robe and Silver Mask appearing behind the eldest daughter.

The Constance Family’s coachman had, at the very least, been to the suburban forest grounds of the Royal Hunt.

He could be considered well-traveled.

So, as soon as he saw the attire of the Black Robe and Silver Mask, he immediately recognized that the boy before him was the Second Prince of Sainthos.

“Second Prince.”

The coachman bowed respectfully to the boy.

However, the latter gave no reaction.

He merely tilted his head slightly.

His hollow golden eyes seemed to ‘look’ toward the location of the golden letter.

The golden letter was quickly tucked away into the girl’s Spatial Bracelet.

…

Evening in Rose Town.

Stepping out of the Golden Rose Inn, Fountain Square came into view.

The sculpture in the middle of Fountain Square was the image of a faceless girl. The girl’s head was bowed as she clutched the hem of her long dress, revealing layers upon layers of roses.

Petals drifted down, covering and submerging the girl’s ankles.

The water jets of the fountain overlapped one another, forming the shape of blooming flowers around the sculpture.

As if by deliberate arrangement, people in black tailcoats stood on the four sides of the fountain. Together, they played violins, performing one elegant melody after another.

This Fountain Square seemed to be the central location of Rose Town.

Shadows flickered as countless travelers gathered here.

After walking out of the Golden Rose Inn, the girl glanced at the bustling square. She reached out to grab the boy’s wrist and picked a less crowded spot to cut through the middle and head toward the opposite side.

The masked boy turned his face to the left and then to the right.

His hollow, spiritless golden eyes lightly swept over the couples.

“Their… their emotions are the… the same.”

The boy spoke softly of his discovery from behind her.

“What emotions?” Beili, walking in front, asked him.

“Happiness…”

After the boy finished speaking, he tilted his head and thought seriously for a few seconds, seemingly searching for a suitable word.

A moment later, he finally said, “But, it’s even… even more than happiness.”

Beili’s footsteps paused for a moment, and then she said, “What you’re trying to say… isn’t it the feeling of bliss?”
“Happiness…”

The youth repeated the word behind her.

It seemed entirely novel to him, and he worked to associate the word with the emotions he was witnessing.

Then, a faint hint of a smile touched his voice.

“S-so they are all… all happy… right?”

“I suppose so.”

Beili glanced at the couples surrounding them.

There were commoner couples, Half-beast couples, mixed commoner and Half-beast couples, and even a few pairs of elegantly dressed Noble couples.

They had gathered at Fountain Square, holding hands, lingering, chatting, laughing, and embracing. Some were even kissing with the fountain as their backdrop.

“I don’t know about their pasts or their futures, but at least for now, they are happy,” she said calmly.

…

Whether these people were happy or not was one thing, but if she didn’t get some delicious food into her stomach soon, she was going to be the first unhappy person here.

Beili led Ashera to the opposite side of Fountain Square.

After deliberating between several shops for a moment, she finally settled on a bakery. Their signature item was her favorite: garlic bread.

Following her request, the baker sliced the bread in half, spread it with salted cream, added meat floss and ham, and sprinkled it with a local specialty of Rose Town-powder made from dried and ground rose petals.

Finally, the baker pressed the two halves together, wrapped them in greaseproof paper, and handed the bread to her with a warm smile and a flurry of compliments.

Beili was already so hungry her stomach was sticking to her spine. Taking the bread, she tore open one end of the paper and lowered her head, eager for a bite.

Then she saw the youth beside her, tilting his head as he ‘watched’ her.

He seemed to be deep in thought.

Her movements paused. She instinctively spoke to pull him back from his reverie, asking, “It’s bread, filled with salted cream, meat floss, and ham. Do you… want to eat?”

The youth slowly shook his head.

Beili remembered what Ashera had said back in the cemetery on Holy Island-his diet consisted only of hearts and eyeballs.

He never ate human food.

However, Beili had a feeling that with his head tilted like that, this guy was definitely overthinking some strange question again.

After all, a Demon’s thought process was always peculiar, approaching things from the most bizarre angles.

To enjoy her bread in peace, she had to find a way to distract him.

The girl’s deep red eyes swept toward the candy shop next door.

Even though this guy claimed he didn’t eat anything besides hearts and eyeballs, he had eaten the candy she stuffed into his mouth back in the dungeon…

With that thought, her eyes brightened slightly. She turned and stepped into the shop.

The youth, of course, followed quietly behind her.

Her red eyes scanned the interior.

There, among the neatly arranged glass jars, Beili actually spotted some colorful hard candies shaped like butterflies.

Finding them charming, she bought a jar and pressed it into the youth’s hands.

“What is… this?”

The youth held the glass jar, tilting his head to sense it. He opened the lid and pulled out a butterfly-shaped hard candy wrapped in transparent film.

“Is this for… me?” he asked.

“Yes. It’s hard candy. It’s colorful and tastes very sweet,” she said.

As she spoke, Beili led Ashera out of the candy shop.

They found a random bench by the edge of Fountain Square and sat down.

Seeing that the youth was still dazed while clutching the candy, Beili took it from his hand. She twisted open the wrapper and held the candy up to his Silver Mask, testing the waters.

“Want to try it? See if you like the taste.”

If he liked it, he could eat his candy quietly and stop overthinking things.

…

By now, the sun had completely set.

The sky looked like an oil painting, transitioning from purple to deep blue.

The fluorite streetlamps had flickered on early, before night had fully descended.

In Rose Town, the streetlamps glowed with a soft, pale pink light.