Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 327

Chapter 327

They had bought almost everything they needed.

Beili truly couldn’t think of anything else they were missing.

What amazed her even more was Ashera’s Spatial Artifact. It could hold an astonishing amount of stuff.

And she had never even seen it.

She had no idea what Ashera’s Spatial Artifact looked like. Whenever he stored something, he simply tossed it behind him, and whenever he needed something, he reached behind his back and pulled it out.

“There’s nothing else. You can come back now.”

After thinking it over, Beili nodded with certainty.

“But before you come back, remember to catch a few dark creatures. I haven’t absorbed any Mana today…”

When she raised her crimson eyes, however, she saw the silver-haired, golden-eyed man on the screen staring at something off to the side with a thoughtful expression.

“All right.”

Before she could ask what had caught his attention, the gossamer-thin image projected by the black orb vanished.

Ashera had ended the call.

Beili thought for a moment, then reopened the Magic Book and resumed studying it.

The firewood in the hearth continued to crackle.

By the time Beili successfully layered a defensive barrier over herself, the door opened, and a cloud of black mist swept inside with a flurry of snowflakes.

The door shut again.

The black mist settled on the floor and transformed into a man as strikingly handsome as a sculpture.

His golden gaze fell upon her.

He strode over.

The recliner creaked as it rocked.

When Ashera lay down in it, their positions switched.

He gathered Beili into his arms as though cradling a cat.

With a sweep of his pale fingers, a low dining table appeared beside them.

He took out a bottle of still-warm milk, a sandwich, and a cream dessert.

At long last, Beili could eat.

Sitting on top of him, she pulled the tray closer and began her meal.

“The next time you go out-”

Suddenly remembering something, Beili swallowed the food in her mouth and turned to Ashera.

“Could you take my old Communication Orb with you? I want to call Mrs. Constance.”

“You call her, and I’ll call you. That way, I can talk to her through your black orb. It’s the best of both worlds.”

As expected of her.

After all, she hadn’t even had time to request leave before disappearing from Holy Island Academy for two days.

Time didn’t exist in this place, but judging by her biological clock, about two days should have passed.

If the Academy couldn’t find her, they would tell Mrs. Constance that she had gone missing.

The woman would worry.

“I just need to let her know I’m safe,” Beili added.

“All right.”

Ashera seemed to be in an unusually good mood today. He agreed without hesitation.

The corners of Beili’s lips curved slightly. She scooped up a spoonful of strawberry cream from the dessert with her little silver spoon and put it into her mouth.

Then she turned and kissed him.

…

Warm lips carrying the sweet fragrance of cream pressed against his.

Ashera’s Adam’s apple bobbed softly, and a deep, shadowy gleam rose in his golden eyes.

Beili had initially been leaning over his chest as she kissed him, but then he sat up, wrapped both arms around her, and lowered his head. Just like that, Ashera took control.

He held her close as he kissed her.

At the same time, a tremendous amount of Mana flowed into her.

One, two, three…

Beili counted silently as the cream gradually melted between their lips and tongues.

When she reached ten, the flow of Mana finally stopped.

Her back sank against the recliner. Beili stared at those faintly amused golden eyes, then at the face slowly moving downward.

Wait.

“I-I only kissed you. I didn’t mean this…”

Her ears instantly turned the color of the evening sky. She reached out, only to catch hold of his curved Black Goat Horns, their edges lined with sharp, hooked barbs.

A black ribbon coiled around her wrists, binding them together before raising and securing them to the top of the recliner.

Ashera didn’t wait.

Ashera wasn’t listening to her at all.

…

After bathing, Beili used Mana to dry the moisture from her hair and climbed under the covers.

Only then did she finally understand what Ashera had been looking at after finishing their shopping in Valniesnow Town.

As they slept, his body was burning hot.

“Did you buy medicine?”

She placed a hand against the man’s neck. Yes, he felt like a hot-water bottle.

Ashera didn’t answer.

He wrapped an arm around her waist and back, pulling her into his embrace.

With a low chuckle, he said,

“So you won’t hide from me in your sleep.”

…

“Ashera-”

They still hadn’t used everything up, but the moment Beili woke the next day, she began urging Ashera to go back to Town.

“What else are we missing?”

Ashera tilted his head slightly, one brow lifting.

“A wall clock-”

Beili named the first thing that came to mind, then took out her old Communication Orb.

“Please take this with you, esteemed Mr. Ashera. Once you reach Town, we’ll follow the plan we made yesterday.”

The esteemed Mr. Ashera did not refuse her request.

His lips curved as he gave a quiet hum of acknowledgment and reached out to take it.
Beili rose onto her tiptoes, braced both hands against his broad chest, and leaned in to kiss his chin.

He was far too tall, and he was hovering some distance above the floor. Even stretching as high as she could on her toes, Beili could only reach his chin.

Ashera lowered his gaze to her. Amusement appeared at the corners of his eyes and lips as he returned her kiss with an icy one of his own.

Right on her forehead.

Then thick black mist surged from beneath his feet, engulfing his entire body and transforming him into a cloud of darkness.

The door opened, letting snowflakes drift into the room.

The black mist flew outside.

Beili fried some bacon and diced mushrooms, then warmed two slices of bread. She sandwiched the bacon and mushrooms between the slices, drizzled them with white sauce, and took her meal to the recliner, where she ate while reading a Magic Book.

Halfway through her meal, the black orb began to flash.

Beili closed the Magic Book and pressed the orb’s touch control.

A screen as thin as a cicada’s wing unfurled.

Another Communication Orb immediately appeared on the screen, along with the image it had projected.

Madam Constance was on the other side.

“Luoluo!”

The moment the connection went through, she launched into a lecture.

“Why are you eating in bed again? That’s no way for a Noble young lady to behave. You’ll get crumbs everywhere. Just look at your collar…”

It really was a bad habit.

But no one had disciplined her when she was young in her original world, so she had unconsciously carried the habit over with her.

Fortunately, magic could solve plenty of problems in this world.

Beili lifted a fingertip, and Morpho Butterflies fluttered lightly past her. Every crumb and stain vanished.

“This isn’t a bed. It’s a recliner…” Beili protested under her breath.

“Whether it’s a bed or a recliner isn’t the point!”

Madam Constance resumed her nagging from the screen.

After listening for a while, Beili began to find something odd.

Madam Constance did not seem the least bit curious about where she was.

“Mother, hasn’t Holy Island Academy told you about me?” Beili interrupted, puzzled.

“Holy Island Academy? No one from Holy Island Academy has contacted me, Luoluo. Why? Did you get into trouble on Holy Island?”

Now Madam Constance sounded confused as well.

“I didn’t get into trouble.” Beili shook her head. “I simply went away for a trip, so I’m not at Holy Island Academy right now. If the Academy sends you any letters saying I’ve gone missing, there’s no need to worry, Mother.”

Surprise appeared on Madam Constance’s face.

“A trip? Who did you go with? Where are you? How long will you be gone? If you’ll be away for a long time, can you come home and see me first?”

The questions came one after another without pause.

Beili was about to answer when Madam Constance abruptly changed the subject on her own.

“Have fun, Luoluo. You don’t need to worry about me.”

“As reluctant as I am to let you go, one day you’ll leave me and live a life of your own.”

“Oh, but my schedule has been completely packed lately. Even if you came home, you might not get to see me.”

In the end, Madam Constance was the one who suggested ending the call. The other Noble ladies had arrived, and she needed to entertain them.

Beili nodded. The orb on the screen went dark, and the image shifted until only the silver-haired, golden-eyed man remained, watching her.

She couldn’t quite describe how she felt.

Happy, yet puzzled at the same time.

She was happy because the matter weighing on her mind had finally been settled. She no longer had to worry that Madam Constance would be heartbroken when she couldn’t find her.

What puzzled her was that she had already missed three days of classes, yet no one at Holy Island Academy seemed to have noticed.

Was it because the number of students had increased, making the Academy more lax with its management?

“Can I come back now?” the silver-haired, golden-eyed man asked from the screen.

“Oh, of course.”

Pulled from her thoughts, Beili nodded.

As for a clock… Forget it. There was no distinction between day and night here anyway.

She would simply go with the flow, eating when she was hungry and sleeping when she was tired.

…

Beili adapted remarkably quickly to her secluded life in the Far North.

It was practically the life of her dreams.

Everything was provided for her. She barely had to lift a finger, and she did not even need to worry about her Mana.

A certain someone would kill a dark creature for her and feed it directly into her body.

Although the process was not exactly innocent.

But Ashera had already gone this far for her. She could hardly keep resisting, so she simply went with the flow and accepted everything he fed her.

She was like a butterfly being kept inside a tiny igloo. She might not be able to leave, but her life was exceedingly comfortable.

And she was never lonely.

There was a very clingy sheep around.

…

The days passed one after another.

Then, one day…

Beili opened her eyes and awoke to find the room pitch-black. The pure white landscape beyond the floor-to-ceiling window had suddenly turned dark.

For a moment, Beili thought her eyes had been covered again.

With a flick of her fingertip, a blue-green glow instantly drove away the darkness.
Beyond the window, where the light could not reach, everything was still pitch-black.

It took Beili two seconds to realize that the Far North had passed from polar day into polar night.

She threw back the covers and had just swung her legs over the edge of the bed when a pale hand wrapped around her waist and pulled her back.

Her back settled against the man’s chest, which still carried the warmth of sleep.

Beili turned in his arms and tilted her face up at him.

“Ashera, polar night has begun outside. Do you know what polar night is?”

As she asked, she explained, “It means the sun won’t rise. We won’t see daylight again for another six months.”

Whether he had listened or not, Ashera merely stroked her head.

“Go back to sleep for a while,” he said.

“Why?” She was already wide awake.

“Because I want to hold you.”

…

He was so clingy.

Whether he was in his Youth Form or his adult form, Ashera became extremely clingy whenever they had time alone together.

Beili couldn’t help reminding him, “Weren’t you holding me the entire time I was asleep?”

That only made Ashera tighten his embrace.

One arm locked around her waist, while the other pressed against her back, leaving her entire body flush against his.

He didn’t loosen his hold until Beili was nearly suffocating.

His perfectly sculpted face lifted from the crook of her neck.

“It wasn’t enough.”

He caressed her cheek and sighed before asking softly, “If I feed you a hundred dark creatures today, will you be able to accept me?”

His husky voice held a note of contemplation, as well as a hint of yearning.

He had put it so bluntly that Beili understood him instantly.

She hated that she understood him instantly.

At the same time, though, the thought of a hundred dark creatures made her mouth water.

After hesitating for a moment, she pretended not to understand the second half of his question. “Absorb a hundred dark creatures? Oh… Why don’t you let me try? There shouldn’t be a daily limit on how many dark creatures I can absorb…”

In the blue-green glow, she saw the corners of Ashera’s eyes curve slightly.

“What I meant was…”

Smiling, he leaned toward her ear to explain, but Beili swiftly clapped a hand over his mouth.

Of course she knew what he meant.

Back in Tilisha, she had overheard Ashera’s two forms discussing this very matter.

Ashera’s Black-Horned Form was too close to his true Demon body. If they did it while he was in that form, she might die.

That was why he always held himself back.

Even when turbulent desire spilled from his eyes and consumed his entire expression.

“Let’s put in some lights, Ashera.”

Beili hurriedly changed the subject. Still in his arms, she pointed toward the floor-to-ceiling window.

“Put a streetlamp outside the window so I can see the snow.”

Ashera raised a hand and swept his fingertip through the air. A warm yellow Fluorite Lamp instantly appeared outside the window.

Naturally, the room needed lights as well.

At Beili’s request, Ashera used magic to shatter the Fluorite Lamp into countless fragments, shape them into stars, and affix them to the ceiling.

They were pretty, but impractical.

For actual illumination, they still needed an intact Fluorite Lamp.

Once he was finished, Ashera gently stroked the spot over her stomach.

“What would you like to eat today?”

His eyes smiled as he said thoughtfully, “After you’ve eaten, I’ll find a hundred dark creatures and we can try it.”

“Then I want flatbread, mallow soup, and camel milk,” Beili said deliberately.

The silver-haired, golden-eyed man nodded with an enigmatic smile.

“Really?”

Seeing how quickly he nodded, Beili had no choice but to remind him, “Mallow soup and camel milk might… only be available in Tilisha.”

Ashera merely nodded again with the same enigmatic smile.

“If you want them, I’ll go out and bring them back.”

Before leaving, he held her close and kissed her tenderly.

“And a hundred dark creatures.”

He still remembered that part.

“We’ll try a hundred first. If that doesn’t work, then a thousand…”

Was he planning to wipe out every dark creature in the Far North?

Beili opened her mouth to say something, but she was too embarrassed by where this conversation was heading.

In the end, she could only nod haphazardly.

A cold fingertip brushed the tip of her ear, and black mist swirled around the handsome, silver-haired, golden-eyed man.

The door opened, letting a flurry of snow blow into the room.

By the time Beili raised her red eyes, Ashera was already gone.

…

He would probably be gone for a long time this time.

Beili made do with some bread from her storage pouch for one meal, then two, then three…

Ashera still hadn’t returned.