Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 309

Chapter 309

She heard herself sigh. Only then did she say thoughtfully,

“Then the place of your transaction is here.”

As the words fell, Beili’s gaze lowered with them.

She saw a pair of bare feet hovering in the air, not touching the snow.

As if they could not feel the cold of the Far North at all.

The beautifully lined calves were like flawless white jade, finely carved and polished smooth.

She saw several silver-gray feathers drift lightly down into the snow. They fell beneath the three former kings and instantly turned into a large circular stone platform.

Complicated runes were carved across the stone platform.

…

Beili’s dream abruptly ended just after the stone platform appeared, and she suddenly woke up.

After sleeping and having such a strange dream, that dream could almost be called that person’s memory.

When she woke, she found that everything around her was pitch-black, without the slightest source of light, as if she were inside an endless abyss of darkness.

Beili subconsciously thought she was still inside Ashera’s “big coffin” carriage.

She instinctively raised her hand, wanting to summon Morpho Butterflies for light, only to discover in terror that she could not use Mana at all.

It seemed that some powerful and mysterious thing had completely restricted her Mana.

There was also a heavy sensation around her wrists, as if she were bound by iron chains, accompanied by the clattering sound of iron locks.

Not only her hands, but her feet as well were shackled by equally heavy chains.

“You’re awake.”

The boy’s voice sounded beside her, carrying a trace of fatigue and hoarseness that was difficult to hide.

Hearing the familiar voice, Beili’s suspended heart settled slightly.

“Ashera, have we been captured? It’s so dark… I can’t see anything.”

She forced herself to calm down and spoke cautiously in a low voice.

“From today onward, you no longer need eyes, Little Butterfly,” the boy said slowly.

Beili froze, unable to understand the meaning of Ashera’s words for a moment.

Then she heard the boy say again,

“I don’t like it when you look at me and think of other people at the same time.”

Perhaps because she did not understand, or perhaps because she could hardly believe it.

“Did you dig out my eyes?”

Beili asked in a trembling voice.

But she felt no pain. None at all.

“I ate your eyes.”

As if trying to frighten her, Ashera answered her slowly in that voice.

Slap-

The moment his words fell, Beili had already raised her hand and, amid the clattering of chains, slapped him hard with all her strength.

She did not know where she had hit him, but in any case, she had hit him.

The boy merely let out a soft sigh.

“Why?”

Beili demanded, her voice trembling a little. It was not because she was afraid, but because she was struggling to restrain the surging anger.

Because she could feel anger devouring her reason, and the darkness was doing the same.

“There is no why.”

The other party spoke without emotion.

“Why!”

She raised her voice by several degrees, and it scattered across the empty snowfield.

“Because I hate you.”

At last, emotion colored the boy’s voice, making it somewhat hoarse.

When Beili heard him say this, she suddenly calmed down.

After a pause, she asked,

“I know you hate me… Why now?”

The boy was silent for a few seconds before saying softly,

“Because before this, I thought I loved you. But later, I realized that compared to loving you, I still hate you a little more.”

“You want revenge on me. But why only start now?”

Beili clung to this question.

Why had he still helped her gather Mana?

The boy fell silent.

Beili felt someone raise a hand and gently wipe her face, wiping away the tears sliding down her cheeks.

Was she crying?

They must be tears of anger.

“In the dream, you once asked me what I wanted. At the time, I wasn’t certain-”

The boy spoke to himself.

“Because you were right beside me, the me back then said: I hope you love me, and only me.”

“Later, after you left me, I realized that love alone is useless. You would still leave me.”
The boy went on telling her:

“So the moment I saw you again, I knew what I wanted.”

“I want to turn this place into Hell, so you won’t have to go to Hell with him.”

He bent slightly and leaned in close to her ear, his tone sincere and earnest.

“Little Butterfly, when the time comes, there will only be you and me here. No one will ever be able to disturb us again.”

Beili felt something gently brush over her brows and eyelids.

“As for your eyes, it doesn’t matter even if you don’t have them. You only need to listen to my voice. I’ll become your eyes.”

With every word he spoke, Beili’s heart sank inch by inch.

She was thinking when the boy suddenly asked,

“Do you want to run away?”

The instant his words fell, her face was seized and lifted.

His neatly trimmed fingernails dug deep into her skin.

“Have you forgotten where this is?”

“Even if you escape this place, where could you possibly go?”

The boy released her and reminded her calmly,

“Outside is an endless snowfield. It took us a very long time to get here. Without a carriage, without eyes, it’s impossible to walk out. You know that.”

Yes.

Beili knew.

“That’s why you brought me to the Far North. To trap me here.”

She summarized it coolly.

Her tone was flat, declarative, with a hint of accusation.

The boy did not take up that topic. Instead, his voice suddenly softened, carrying the smile curving at the corners of his lips.

“Little Butterfly, will you wait here obediently for me?”

“Wait? Where are you going?”

Unease suddenly surged in Beili’s heart, and she hurriedly asked him.

“Out for a while. It won’t be long.”

As the curve of his lips flattened, the smile in his voice faded as well. The boy sighed and said,

“There are too many people in your heart. I have to go out and kill them all.”

“You…”

At his words, Beili’s mind went completely blank.

She instantly raised her arms and lunged forward, trying to hold the boy back and stop him from leaving.

But she caught nothing.

The instant she missed, Beili fell into utter panic.

Her heart began to pound heavily, thump, thump, as if a time bomb had been buried inside her and was about to explode.

“You are not allowed to leave-”

She shouted.

The boy did not answer her again.

The air was silent.

Even her breathing grew rapid. The freezing air, edged with cold, was sucked into her lungs, and when she breathed it out, it was scalding hot.

Wrapped in panic and fury.

Beili forced herself to calm down.

She thought.

Then she suddenly remembered the other Mana Pool inside her body.

Though it was very small, if it was not restricted, if she could release it to sense her surroundings…

The moment the thought surfaced in her mind, she did it.

Unexpectedly, the Mana from the other Mana Pool was not restrained.

She quickly sensed the area around her and discovered that she was sitting on a circular stone platform.

There was no snow on the platform.

Snowflakes drifted down in flurries and landed on her, but the moment they fell onto the stone platform, they vanished.

Beili carefully sensed the patterns on the platform and found them inexplicably familiar.

Because they were exactly the same as the ones in her dream.

…

She could not use Mana, not even Beast Transformation.

Her hands and feet were also bound by heavy Chains.

Perhaps the stone platform beneath her feet was restricting her Mana, Beili thought.

She had to leave the platform.

To leave the platform, she first had to undo the Chains on her hands and feet.

Her original Mana had been restricted. Only that small new Mana Pool could be used.

And it was only a tiny amount.

Morpho Butterflies consumed a great deal of Mana. Beili knew that very well.

If she used the small Mana Pool to summon Morpho Butterflies, they would probably vanish in less than two seconds.

Beili thought of the basic Magic Book volumes she had studied on the road, carefully recalling the incantations inside for unlocking Chains.

Then she tried them again and again.

By the time her lips were nearly rubbed raw, there came a clattering sound of iron Chains. The iron Chains binding her limbs finally fell onto the stone platform.