Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 317

Chapter 317

The girl accepted the gift and placed it into her wooden Amber Ring.

“Clarence, how did you find me?”

That was what Beili was more curious about.

Hearing this, Clarence snapped back to his senses and took a sheet of paper, folded into a square, from his pocket.

Beili tilted her head. With a mix of perception and guesswork, she asked, “The Book of Truth?”

Clarence nodded.

“You used the Book of Truth to find my location?”

Beili was a little surprised.

After all, the Book of Truth only gave each person one chance to ask a question, and the boy had used it like this?

Clarence nodded somewhat shyly.

Although the Book of Truth had been spreading like wildfire through Holy Island Academy, by the time it reached Clarence’s hands, he realized he did not really have anything he wanted to ask.

Rather than know the answer in advance, he preferred to meet fate’s arrangements amid the unknown.

“You saved my father, Miss Bartholomew. I think using my one chance to ask a question to find you was worth it.”

Clarence gathered his courage and said, “Miss Bartholomew, I’d like to invite you to stay at the Wolf Family castle for a while… No, you can stay as long as you like.”

The boy tried his best to describe the Wolf Family castle, his family, the scenery of the Wolf Family territory, and all its merits and shortcomings.

Beili listened quietly. After thinking for a moment, she said, “Thank you for telling me all this, Clarence. I’ll accept your gift. As for the Wolf Family castle… I’ll visit next time.”

A flicker of disappointment passed through Clarence’s eyes, but the girl did not see it.

“Miss Bartholomew, did I say something wrong?” he asked.

Beili shook her head.

“No. It’s just that I have matters to attend to right now, and I can’t leave.”

There was one thing Cyril had said that was right-people who were not clever would easily run into misfortune if they got close to her.

“Not clever” was Cyril’s narrow way of putting it. Perhaps “innocent people who get close to her will easily run into misfortune” would have been more accurate.

In short, Beili refused Clarence. Afraid he would be dragged into trouble, she politely reminded the boy that it was time for him to leave, and that he should not come again in the future.

Seeing how firm she was, Clarence could only stand up.

“All right, Miss Bartholomew. Please take care of yourself.”

…

Only after Clarence left did Beili take the fist-sized square box out of the Amber Ring.

She sensed it and discovered it was a Spatial Artifact.

Oh, rather than a Spatial Artifact, it was more accurate to call it a piggy bank.

It was Clarence’s piggy bank.

Inside was probably all the pocket money the boy had saved from childhood until now, because it was an entire box filled to the brim with Magic Crystal.

Beili froze for a moment, then placed the little box back into the Amber Ring.

Clarence’s gift made her think of the Duke.

He was also a man who had surprised her.

On the first day after she left Constance Castle and moved into an ordinary bungalow in Butterfly Town, the Duke had actually come to see her.

That day, Beili was alone inside the house, tidying her few belongings, when she suddenly heard a faint sound from outside the window.

She tilted her head and sensed that the window had been gently pushed open a crack.

The Duke’s figure appeared behind the window.

He did not enter the room.

He did not ask where this unfamiliar soul of hers had come from, nor did he ask where their true daughter, Bartholomew, had gone. In a calm tone, he merely exchanged a few simple words with her.
It really was only two simple sentences.

One was him asking her, “Are you all right?”

The other was, “You… should not blame her.”

The rest of the time was silence.

After the long silence, Beili did not know when the Duke left, nor did she know what the Duke thought of her.

She only sensed that before leaving, the man silently slipped a bag of gold coins through the crack in the window. Inside the bag was also a note-buy more things, and if it is not enough, have someone send word to tell me.

Perhaps the Duke had done this because he had heard that after she left the castle wearing only a nightdress, she had had a Morpho Butterfly deliver the Ruby Spatial Bracelet back-

She had let the Morpho Butterfly carry it and place it on the table in the woman’s room.

Inside the bracelet, the dresses the woman had once bought for her, the gold coins she had given her, and anything missing had all been replenished one by one.

Even the ten Magic Crystals once given to her, the ones she had spent, had been made up to ten again.

All the other precious treasures had also been returned together, completely untouched.

So the Duke probably thought she was now penniless, almost the same as when she had been in Thorn Prison.

But in reality, it was exactly the opposite.

During the period when she collected Mana in the Far North, Beili had already gathered an extremely large number of Magic Crystals.

The most initial state of a Magic Crystal was the heart of a dark creature. After Beili absorbed the Mana, the Magic Crystal turned into the flowing, colorful form usually used for trade.

So even after taking away the portion belonging to the Constance Family, Beili still possessed a large number of Magic Crystals she could use, and they could also be exchanged for gold coins.

However, she had barely used them.

Because after leaving Constance Castle and moving into this ordinary bungalow, she had almost never gone out.

After all, Duchess Constance also had not left the castle.

-The Amber Ring.

Yes, because the Ruby Spatial Bracelet had already been returned, the Black Lamb could only suffer a little and temporarily stay together with her things. In truth, there was not much inside either. Aside from a few small items, everything else was Magic Crystals. Even the new dresses she had bought were placed in the wardrobe in the room.

While she was thinking aimlessly, Beili suddenly received a notification from the Morpho Butterflies-Duchess Constance had already left Constance Castle in a carriage and was heading toward the Teleportation Array.

Beili’s shoulders paused. In the blink of an eye, she Beast Transformed and had the Morpho Butterflies carry her after them.

She stopped on the roof of the carriage and followed along as the carriage bumped forward. When the carriage reached its destination and Duchess Constance stepped down, Beili landed on the feathered hat the woman was wearing.

She followed the woman’s footsteps all the way to a lavishly decorated private room.

The air was filled with a rich perfume fragrance, and someone in the corner was playing a cello, the music distant and deep.

Two people were waiting inside.

The moment they entered, Beili’s Mana perception instantly landed on the boy.

Sitting in the seat inside, the boy wore a black formal suit.

A familiar face, narrow fox eyes.

The instant she saw Ashera, Beili restrained all her aura. Her mind also pulled taut.

She knew Ashera would not let Duchess Constance go.

As Duchess Constance elegantly took her seat, the boy’s fox eyes lifted as well, looking toward the feathered hat on the woman’s head.

There, now the same color as the deep purple feather it rested on, was the outline of a butterfly.