Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 260

Chapter 260

The rain outside was still falling, as if trying to wash clean every last trace of the frog stench rotting in the gravel.

Inside the house.

Iron Chains wrapped around Ashera’s ankles, waist, arms, and neck, tightening more and more until they seemed ready to swallow him whole.

Yet that pale, gray-tinged face, as beautifully contoured as a sculpture, held a lazy, leisurely smile without the slightest hint of pain.

His voice was soft and gentle, but it carried an unmistakable threat.

Beili blinked her red eyes and looked at Ashera.

Right now, he looked as if he couldn’t break free from the Contract Chains. So this should be the perfect time to run.

If this were any other time and she ran, Ashera could catch up to her with ridiculous ease. But not now.

So was that what Ashera was worried about?

He was still so full of wariness.

Perhaps, deep down, he still didn’t believe her feelings for him could run very deep.

He probably also believed that the moment he let go, she would immediately vanish without even leaving a shadow behind.

Oh… though that was exactly what she would do.

This dream had consumed a huge amount of her Mana, so the people inside it were no different from real people. They could breathe, and they could judge the situation.

So it wasn’t just Ashera who couldn’t distinguish reality from the dream. When he killed an entire roomful of people, Beili had also spent a few seconds in shock, disbelief, and fear.

But she quickly came back to herself.

“Why would I?”

Beili smoothed away the horrified look on her face. When she raised her head again and looked at the black fissure beneath him and the Chains on his body, only worry remained in her eyes.

“It’s you… You don’t look very well.”

He really was not doing well.

His Mana was continuing to disappear. Little Butterfly’s Mana was rising. On top of that, he had killed so many people all at once.

So when the punishment of the Contract descended, even he could not break free immediately.

“Are you worried about me?”

Perhaps her words finally put Ashera at ease. The black blood vessels in his eyes receded, and his darkened fingertips returned to their original grayish pallor.

Ashera tilted his head slightly, looking at her with golden eyes, and a trace of gentleness entered his smile.

“Don’t worry. A Contract of this level will only bind me for a while. It won’t be long before it disappears.”

The pad of his finger lightly brushed her cheek.

When he lowered his hand, he flicked his fingertips and cleaned away the corpses in the room.

In the blink of an eye, the small flat-roofed house became empty, as though nothing had ever happened.

Because of his movement, the Chains rattled with a clattering sound and wound around him even tighter.

Ashera seemed unable to feel pain. He merely sighed and said,

“Now, come into my arms and wait with me for a while.”

Beili did as she was told, crawling over and nestling into the crook of his arm.

The Chains seemed to affect only Ashera. Leaning against him, Beili could not feel the presence of those arm-thick links at all.

Ashera drew his arms in and held her like he was holding a cat.

Though the plan was crude, it had indeed made Ashera stop.

“Looks like this rain won’t stop anytime soon…”

She hugged him and spoke in a small voice.

Ashera answered with a low hum, stroking her head, and the last trace of irritation in him vanished as well.

…

They waited from day until night.

The Chains on Ashera showed no sign of fading, just like the rain outside.

However, his gaze fell on the girl’s quiet, relaxed brows and eyes.

As long as he could hold her like this, he wasn’t in any hurry at all.

…

Year of Calamity-

[Dust as Lice, Swarms of Flies]

Ashera’s gaze went blank for a moment.
He seemed to have fallen asleep again.

Or perhaps he had only blinked.

At some point, the torrential rain had stopped.

He slowly opened his eyes and, by instinct, tightened his arms around the person in his embrace.

But his arms closed around empty air.

A flicker of panic flashed through the depths of his calm golden eyes. He sat up and swept his gaze around, but there was no sign of her.

No trace of her anywhere.

Wordless anxiety and panic tangled together, gathering in his heart into a boundless rage.

That pale, perfectly sculpted face twisted into something savage in an instant.

Ah… She had left again.

While he was asleep.

In a single breath, black veins crawled across his golden eyes, and a dense aura of darkness seeped from his entire body.

The silver-haired figure in the Black Robe slowly rose into the air, shrouded in thick black mist.

His fingertip slashed through the air.

Like a whip cracking outward, the black mist condensed in midair into an ink-splashed stroke.

It spread and carved viciously down toward the houses below.

Why?

Why did she always leave him?

With a thunderous boom, a flat stone house collapsed under the heavy blow of the black mist, sending dust billowing into the sky.

Then another.

Ashera lowered his cold golden eyes. With every movement of his fingertips, the black mist destroyed one building after another, razing everything in sight to the ground.

Just as he was on the verge of madness, a familiar blue-green light suddenly entered his vision.

The Morpho Butterflies, glowing blue-green, descended and transformed into a girl with gray hair, red eyes, and a black gauze dress.

Ashera’s movements abruptly froze. His golden gaze stared blankly at that figure for several seconds before he slowly descended from the air.

Meanwhile…

Beili had seen the commotion from far away. Carrying a wild rabbit she had just caught, she hurried back, stopping a short distance from him.

The once-neat houses had been reduced to ruins. Broken walls and rubble lay everywhere, and dust filled the air.

“Ashera, what are you doing?!”

With a look of utter shock at the scene before her, Beili widened her red eyes and shouted at him, “Didn’t you see the note I left you?”

Oh, well, actually Beili wasn’t sure whether she had left a note or not. Either way, she had to seize the upper hand first and get the accusation out.

Just now…

While Ashera was lost in thought waiting for the Contract Chains to disappear, she had quietly accelerated the dream’s time in her mind.

She skipped time straight ahead by several days.

So when Beili opened her eyes, she found herself holding a wild rabbit. Once she realized what had happened, she hurried back.

Who could have imagined that the moment she returned, she would find Ashera in the middle of blowing up houses like a madman?

On the other side…

Hearing her question, Ashera’s emotions gradually calmed.

“…I didn’t notice.”

As he spoke, his golden eyes shifted stiffly to the side, avoiding her gaze.

Seeing his deflated look, Beili secretly let out a breath of relief and said in a tone meant to smooth things over, “I just got tired of dry rations and went nearby to look for some fresh food. You didn’t have to blow up the houses, did you?”

“I thought you…”

Knowing he was in the wrong, Ashera’s voice paused. He did not finish the rest of the sentence. Instead, he asked, “Did I sleep for many days again?”

His tone was declarative, not questioning.

“Yes-”

Beili nodded solemnly.

“Many days. The rain lasted three days and stopped a long time ago, but before I went out, the Contract Chains on you were still there. They must have disappeared just now.”

Her explanation was completely serious.