Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 261

Chapter 261

She had the Morpho Butterflies accelerate time until the Chains disappeared, and while they were at it, drain Ashera’s Mana down to almost nothing.

-She didn’t dare erase all of his Mana. She left him a little, but with the way he’d been destroying things just now, he probably…

Meanwhile.

His golden eyes lowered quietly.

Ashera looked down at his own hand.

He could clearly feel that the Mana inside him was nearly exhausted.

But it didn’t matter, as long as his Little Butterfly hadn’t run off.

“Come here.”

He lifted his eyes and spoke, his deep, heavy voice sounding gentle.

“With you like this? How would I dare go over there?”

Beili hugged the wild rabbit in her arms and snapped back in annoyance.

Then, as if sensing an opportunity, the rabbit bit her arm through the thin gauze.

Beili cried out in pain.

Watching the wild rabbit hop rapidly away, she narrowed her red eyes and raised her hand in a huff.

Swarms of Morpho Butterflies appeared.

They swiftly lit a fire, plucked the fur, and skinned it.

In just a few seconds, the wild rabbit had been set over the flames to roast.

“Does it hurt?”

Ashera appeared behind her and gently took her hand.

Before Beili could speak, the pad of his finger had already brushed softly over her injury.

“Actually, I…”

Beili wanted to remind him that the Butterfly Bloodline would make wounds on her body heal very quickly, so there was no need to heal her.

But she had only managed a few words before Ashera smoothed over the bleeding wound.

At the same time, the Morpho Butterflies told her that Ashera’s Mana had been depleted.

The last thread of his Mana had been used to heal her wound.

Beili’s red eyes flickered faintly, and a complicated feeling slid through her heart.

“It’s all right. It just means it’s your turn to protect me now, Little Butterfly.”

The broad hand holding hers grew thin as his words fell.

His entire hand shrank by a full size.

Hearing him, Beili lifted her eyes and saw that the man with Black Goat Horns on his head had already turned into the appearance of a youth.

“What about him? Where did he go?”

Beili suddenly grew a little nervous.

At her words, the youth’s eyelashes trembled softly.

“You don’t… want to see me?”

He asked it like that, and as soon as the question left his mouth, his eyes had already reddened.

“It’s not that I don’t want to see you. Of course not. Of course I want to see you.”

After shaking her head and saying that, Beili hesitated, but still asked,

“But… he’s still here, right?”

She was afraid that once the youth came out, the one with Black Goat Horns on his head would break away from the dream and wake up in reality.

It was a bit of a wild thought, but what if such a possibility existed?

That would be far too terrifying.

After all, before this, she had always thought Ashera was one soul controlling two forms.

But now it seemed that wasn’t the case.

It was as if two personalities lived inside his body.

The Demon personality seemed to be parasitizing the youth’s body, lying dormant until each of the three things had been taken back one by one. Only then did it begin to seize the initiative in terms of form.

At the same time…

“He’s here.”

The youth’s golden eyes lowered along with his lashes, and his faint voice was clearly tinged with hurt.

Hearing this, Beili secretly let out a breath of relief.

But she also grew conflicted.

Her original intention had been to exhaust Ashera’s Mana so that he would remain in Tilisha.

But after his Mana was depleted, Ashera had simply retreated back into his body and pushed the Youth Form out…

It wasn’t that the Youth Form was bad. The Youth Form was very good.

She just didn’t know whether, after the Dream Cage formed, it would be effective on both forms.

Beili frowned slightly and discussed the matter with the Morpho Butterflies in her heart.

They suggested that, before the Dream Cage formed, it would be best to find a way to make Ashera’s Adult Form come out.

Oh. Yes. That would be best.

Then her gaze landed on that pale, gloomy face, where a misty sheen of tears had gathered and was now falling from his reddened eyes.
Truthfully, this form of Ashera was a handful too.

Beili put an end to the discussion.

“Didn’t I just say it? I wanted to see you. There is no doubt about that.”

Beili spoke with absolute certainty, trying to soothe the tearful boy in front of her.

“Then why won’t you h-hug me, or kiss me…”

The weeping youth sounded terribly aggrieved.

“And you kissed… kissed him first…”

By the end, a hint of gloom had crept into his broken voice.

“All right, I’ll kiss you now.”

Beili reached out and brushed aside the boy’s slightly messy short hair, then leaned in and kissed his parted lips, swallowing the words he had yet to finish.

…

After Ashera changed back into his Youth Form, there were still plenty of advantages.

Basically, whatever she said went. Wherever she said they were going, they went. Everything was according to her wishes.

If she said they were not going to Nauze, then they were not going to Nauze. If she said they were returning to the imperial city, then they would return to the imperial city…

Uh. Maybe they would hold off on returning to the imperial city after all.

Because while she was gnawing on a piece of roasted rabbit meat sizzling with oil, before they had even left the Town, they ran into a group that had fled from the imperial city.

When the older leader of the group heard they were headed for Tilisha Imperial City, he waved his hands again and again.

“The situation in the imperial city is absolutely dreadful right now! There are more lice and flies than grains of sand. The people in the palace repaired the imperial city’s Teleportation Array, and now they’ve all run out to hide elsewhere.”

The leader looked at them with a face weathered by hardship and shook his head helplessly as he advised,

“If you want to return to the imperial city, you’d better wait a while before going back.”

“Who knows? Maybe things will improve after some time. Maybe…”

Listening to the leader, Beili hesitantly turned her red eyes toward the others in the group.

Without exception-

Every bit of exposed skin was covered in dense little red bumps from lice bites.

Some were even worse off, their faces swollen beyond recognition. It was simply too miserable to look at.

Beili glanced back at the delicate-skinned boy behind her.

Forget it. Better not let him suffer through that.

She thought silently to herself.

Seeing that the leader seemed easy to talk to, Beili asked,

“Then where are you planning to go?”

As soon as she finished speaking, Beili saw the man’s gaze fall behind her, toward the Town that had already been reduced to ruins.

“We originally planned to come here and see if it was suitable… Clearly, it isn’t.”

The leader sounded both helpless and incredulous.

“I have no idea what happened here, but it’s even more tragic than the imperial city. Oh, it looks as if it was destroyed by giant boulders falling from the sky.”

Beili: …

Beili let out two awkward, dry laughs, then turned her red eyes once more to the boy beside her, who was quietly lowering his gaze and holding her hand as if nothing had happened.

The Town had been destroyed, so the refugee group rested on the spot and discussed a new destination.

The more crowded a Town was, the more lice and flies there would be, so they could only look for a remote Town with fewer people.

The older leader returned to the group and discussed things with the others for a while.

A little later, when the leader came back, Beili heard an unfamiliar place name from him.

It was indeed remote enough.

Beili had carefully looked over Tilisha’s map many times before.

And while hiding from Ashera, she had been to quite a few places.

Yet now, hearing this place name, she had no impression of it at all.

“Because everyone in the imperial city has run out, if the two of you travel on your own, the road won’t be safe. You’ll easily run into people with bad intentions.”

The leader gave her a kind smile and invited her to join the group.

Beili looked over the dozen or so people in the group. There were men and women, old and young. After thinking it over, she nodded and agreed.

The current Ashera no longer had Mana. Surely he would not accidentally kill all these people again.

In any case, she did not plan to return to Tilisha Imperial City for the time being.

Traveling with a group meant the journey would not be too boring, at least.