Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 305

Chapter 305

Beili took the Black Bone Scythe from her Spatial Bracelet and gave it an order in her heart:

Absorb all the Mana in the wastewater.

This time, the Black Bone Scythe was very obedient. It did not throw another little temper. Before absorbing the Mana, it even floated around the boy once.

It did not seem especially affectionate.

Beili sensed that the Black Bone Scythe found the aura inside the boy’s body familiar, but also somewhat puzzling.

Perhaps it was puzzled as to why only the young Ashera was there.

On the other side, while the Black Bone Scythe absorbed the Mana, Ashera merely followed quietly beside her, silent and wordless.

Seeing her order the Black Bone Scythe to absorb Mana, he did not stop her. He only stood there silently, as if whatever she did, he would quietly stay with her.

As though the matter of her deceiving him had been forgotten.

If only his eyes were not so cold, and if only he could be a little warmer when he spoke.

A while later, the Black Bone Scythe finished absorbing all the wastewater placed inside the mine.

After being drained clean, the wastewater had even turned as clear and transparent as clean water.

Beili took the Black Bone Scythe pendant, held it in her hand, and ordered it to feed Mana back to her. Only then did she slowly walk out of the mine.

A batch of this wastewater would be delivered once a week, but Beili knew very well that she probably did not have that much time to wait.

A flicker of light entered her vision.

Beili lifted her red eyes and saw Ashera holding a communication orb.

The communication orb was flashing, its light somewhat dazzling in the darkness.

Clearly, someone was trying to reach him through the communication orb.

No, they were trying to reach Lance.

The only people who would use a communication orb to look for Lance were his family.

It should be Lance’s father, His Majesty the King of Tilisha, Beili guessed.

Seeing her come out, the boy holding the communication orb turned back to glance at her, then suddenly asked,

“Do you still need these things?”

Beili froze slightly. Following his gaze toward the neatly arranged buckets, she finally realized he meant the wastewater from Magic Crystal Refining.

“Of course-”

Beili answered quickly, though with a little hesitation.

“If you have any.”

Then the boy connected the flashing communication orb.

A magical screen as thin as a cicada’s wing sprang out from the communication orb, like a light wisp of smoke slowly unfurling.

In the next second, Beili saw a middle-aged man on the magical screen. He looked somewhat similar to Lance and still appeared fairly young.

The man wore incomparably ornate Tilisha clothing. Like Lance, his hair was a vivid red, bright as flame.

“Lance-”

“You finally answered. I thought you were never going to answer a communication again in this lifetime.”

“Hurry and tell me what happened. And how did you make your sister Renee cry?”

“She contacted me and cried terribly, but she refused to say what had happened.”

“I think the key must be with you, Lance. You promised you would take good care of Renee.”

The moment the communication orb connected, the person on the other end fired off several questions in rapid succession, his voice carrying reproach.

Beili fell silent at once.

The boy, however, remained perfectly composed. He did not answer a single question. He simply said, briefly and directly,

“Now you have seen it, so do as I asked.”

The person on the other side of the magical screen fell quiet. Beili looked up and realized Ashera had ended the communication.

The thin magical screen rolled itself up and shrank back into the communication orb like smoke.

Oh…

For a moment, Beili did not know what to say.

Still, she was certain that Lance would not be this cold when getting along with his own father.

The young-form Ashera was very good at acting.

Beili remembered that.

But now, it seemed he did not want to act anymore.

He did not even have the patience to pretend to stutter.

“Now…”

Beili lightly uttered the two words, wondering whether she should return to Constance Castle.

The fact that Ashera would help her gather Mana surprised her a little.

But she did not believe for a second that the king of Tilisha would do as Ashera demanded. Yet the boy took up her unfinished thought and said,

“He said those things are polluted waste and cannot enter Sainthos territory.”

-Oh, of course. No kingdom would want another kingdom’s garbage dumped into its own land.

The boy continued,

“So he gave a location.”

The boy tapped open the communication orb. Beili saw that a small town on the border between Tilisha and Sainthos had been circled.

“He said he will send the things here.”

Beili memorized the town’s name and location. At the same time, she thought to herself-

The king of Tilisha might set a trap there and capture ‘Lance.’

“Are we going?” the boy asked her.

“If their target is you…” Beili said hesitantly.

“It doesn’t matter.”

The boy said softly,

“If they do not bring the things, then they will become what you need.”

Why was Ashera helping her collect Mana?

Beili paused, then nodded.

Although she did not know the reason, there was nothing bad about gathering Mana.

The two of them continued riding in the carriage, leaving Butterfly Valley and traveling overnight toward Tilisha.

…

During the time the two of them were away, something happened at Holy Island Academy.

Among the students, a sheet of paper called the Book of Truth began to circulate.

Oh, it was on the rooftop of the circular tower of the library building.

It was pasted to a stone brick.

And there was not only one sheet.

When someone peeled the paper off the stone brick and took it away, by the next day, an identical, slightly yellowed sheet of paper would appear on that same brick again.

Through that piece of paper, any question could be answered.

But each person had only one chance.