Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 304

Chapter 304

Night after nightfall was quiet.

Since returning to Holy Island Academy, Beili had never felt that night could become so still.

From beneath the quilt on the bed came a young girl’s soft call.

“Ashera…”

In the bedroom, a figure lay quietly on the recliner in the dim corner.

Ashera would not sleep. Beili was certain of that.

Perhaps he was silently watching her from the darkness.

Only, she could not tell whether that gaze was gentle or cold.

She lay on the bed with the Black Lamb pillow still in her arms.

Yes, she was still holding Ashera’s true body after his Beast Transformation.

After washing up, she had opened the wardrobe, used the Morpho Butterflies to dispel the concealment magic, and carried the Black Lamb hidden inside onto the bed.

The young man had seen the entire process too.

Beili was absolutely not deliberately putting on a show for him to win his pity.

It was simply that only this way could she fall asleep.

“Mm.”

In the darkness, the young man answered her.

“I’m leaving Holy Island tomorrow. Do you want to come with me?” Beili asked softly.

“Mm.”

The young man’s reply was brief.

The room sank into silence again.

The conversation should have ended there, but after a short quiet pause, Beili could not help calling him again.

“Ashera.”

“Mm.” The young man still answered her.

Beili thought for a moment, then asked, “Is the recliner cold?”

“No.”

“Do you want to come sleep on the bed?”

“No.”

This time, the young man refused very quickly.

Beili knew Ashera would reject her.

Perhaps she only wanted to find something to talk about with him, to smooth over the strange emotions in her heart.

What did it feel like to know Ashera had escaped from their Dream Cage?

At first, it was shock. After the shock came panic.

And accompanying that panic was a calm so cold it was as though she had no emotions, no heartbeat at all.

Only when the night grew deep and all those emotions receded did a tiny bit of joy remain.

It did not take up much space, but it lingered for a very long time.

“Then I’m going to sleep,” she said.

“Mm.”

Beili hesitated for a moment, then asked, “Ashera, will you say good night to me?”

There was a brief silence.

Then, in the dark of night, someone said softly, “Good night, Little Butterfly.”

The corners of Beili’s lips lifted into a faint smile. Then she closed her eyes and quickly fell asleep.

The island night sky glittered with stars. Starlight and moonlight blended together, lowering over the girl’s drowsiness as one.

A dreamless night.

She woke the next morning.

The familiar sound of waves. The cries of seagulls.

The first thing Beili did after opening her eyes was look toward the recliner in the corner.

The young man was still there.

He lay on his side on the recliner. He probably had not slept all night.

A blanket loosely covered half his body.

His long, narrow fox eyes were lowered slightly, his pitch-black pupils quietly watching her.

Who knew what he was thinking?

In the depths of his eyes was a damp, hazy morning mist, shrouding them thickly.

No matter what, it would not disperse.

…

Beili did not have many belongings.

After packing casually, they left the dormitory.

According to plan, Holy Island Academy was no longer suitable for her to stay in.

Holy Island Academy was like a starter village in a game, where all the children were penned in and protected, and the resources were all suited for beginners.

The Mana she could absorb here was also extremely limited.

So she had to leave this place and go outside.

And in a short time, she had to search for a large amount of Mana to fight against…

Before leaving the dormitory, Beili lifted her red eyes and glanced next door.

Renee was not in her room. The door was still half-open, just as it had been last night. Clearly, the girl had not returned all night.

But Beili could barely protect herself now, and truly had no spare attention to go looking for her.

Besides, the Holy Church Academy at Holy Island Academy had plenty of Mages from Tilisha. Presumably, they would handle Renee’s matter properly.

All Beili could do was mention it to the Nun at the Holy Church Academy when she went there to request sick leave.

“How long will you be taking?”

The Nun at the Holy Church Academy asked her with a gentle expression.

Beili thought for a moment, then answered:
“One month, please.”

“Oh… one month. Miss Bartholomew, Prince Lance, it seems your conditions are rather serious. Would you like to visit the infirmary?”

The Nun from the Holy Church Academy asked in a polite, gentle voice, though there was a hint of distance in her tone.

Beili declined politely.

Now that Holy Island Academy had opened up more enrollment slots, the number of students had increased all at once.

Perhaps many students had been using illness as an excuse to run home.

Because of that, the Nun at the Holy Church Academy approved leave requests very readily. Before long, she had signed both of their leave slips.

Once they had the slips in hand, the two left the Holy Church Academy and headed toward the Teleportation Array.

They happened to pass by the Library Tower.

Beili lifted her red eyes and saw that the collapsed Tower had been repaired overnight. It even looked newer than before, as if nothing had ever happened.

The moment she left Holy Island Academy, Madam Constance immediately contacted her through the Communication Orb.

Beili was not surprised at all.

After all, since she had requested such a long sick leave from the Holy Church Academy, they would definitely notify her family.

“Luoluo, the Academy said you were sick? Has your old condition worsened?”

The woman’s worried voice rang out from the Communication Orb.

Because she was anxious, her voice had grown sharp.

Right after that, she urged Beili to hurry and find Doctor Cassius for a checkup.

Part of the reason Doctor Cassius had taken on the position of Magic Mentor for healing magic at Holy Island Academy was because of Madam Constance.

Madam Constance had been the one to commission him-to look after Bartholomew, whose mind had seemed somewhat dazed after returning from Tilisha.

“Although Doctor Cassius is a Magic Mentor at Holy Island Academy, he also receives a second salary from Mother, so you don’t need to be polite with him,” Madam Constance said seriously.

“That’s not it, Mother.”

Beili patiently explained to her, “I’m much better now. I don’t drift out of it anymore…”

Beili had finally faced the physical and psychological problems she had been having some time ago.

If she had to explain it in detail, it was probably something close to a state of dissociation.

After waking from the dream, Beili had thought she had simply slept too long, dreamed too long, and exhausted all her Mana at once.

That was why she had been in a daze.

But in truth, her consciousness, perception, and memories had all fled the environment she had been in at the time.

It was as if her emotions had fallen to their lowest point, and her body had automatically activated a special defense mechanism.

That was why she had felt as if she were still dreaming, as if everything were unreal.

When she said that, she clearly felt the boy walking beside her turn his gaze onto her.

For a long, long while.

…

After listening to Bartholomew’s explanation, Madam Constance said nothing more.

Madam Constance did not care at all whether Bartholomew studied at Holy Island Academy.

Even if she did not attend Holy Island Academy, once she returned to Butterfly Valley, Madam Constance could still hire the best Mage in Sainthos to teach her one-on-one.

And the two of them would be able to see each other every day… Oh. Looking at it that way, not going to Holy Island Academy was even better.

Because the decision had been made on short notice, the Constance Family did not have time to arrange a carriage.

So after Beili and Ashera took the Teleportation Array to Transfer Island, there was no carriage waiting to pick them up.

They could only walk until they found Sainthos’s Teleportation Array and left from there.

After teleporting to the imperial city of Sainthos, they first bought a carriage in the city, then headed straight for Butterfly Valley.

Beili did not return to the castle. Instead, she went directly to the abandoned mine Madam Constance had mentioned through the Communication Orb.

By the time they arrived, it was already night. The sky was as dark as ink, and the pitch-black mine looked sinister and terrifying.

Only a single Fluorite Lamp had been set up at the entrance, giving off a faint, cold glow.

Beili walked inside and saw rows of buckets neatly arranged within.

This was the newest batch of discarded buckets from the Imperial City Magic Bank. They were filled with wastewater produced during the refinement of Magic Crystal.

To them, this was nothing more than useless wastewater, but to Beili, it was an invaluable source of Mana.

Its concentration was extraordinary.

It was like the forbidden fruit she had seen in the Nauze Kingdom.

Like freshly grown forbidden fruit had been squeezed into juice, then poured in until it filled an entire bucket to the brim.