Stray

The church was collapsing at an accelerated speed. The sound of stone cracking was extremely harsh. The ground fell more and more rapidly, and as stone chips and dust continued to leak from the ceiling of the underground hall, Ulysses’ skeletal stone carving began to gradually collapse. The hideous cracks crawled to the stone and brick floor and the scene was as dark as the end of the world.

The superior demon who had just descended to the surface was crying. It wasn’t out of stinginess or grief. It was more like an instinctive reaction after losing all hope in an instant. The woman’s black skirt was scattered on the ground and the several faces on her head were gone, leaving only an elegant and beautiful face behind. That should be what the Bishop of the Abyss should look like when she was still a human.

But it was now only Hagen Ingram’s body in name.

At the moment the contract was completed, the demon’s flesh will overtake the brain of the dependent and completely crush the original brain. The Bishop of the Abyss a few minutes ago was indeed no longer alive. She had disappeared quietly, with her answer.

“…She figured out the ‘truth of the existence of the Demon King’?” Nemo ignored the collapsing building. He stiffly loosened the preacher’s collar and walked towards the superior demon who was paralyzed on the ground. “Tell me.”

“I don’t know!” the beautiful superior demon cried, crawling into the distance without any direction. If the previous Hagen Ingram had a fox-like temperament, the current demon was more like a frightened rabbit. Though the body was the same, she looked flustered and neurotic, as if she would collapse at any moment. “I only have the knowledge and memory of that human. It’s impossible to know what her specific thoughts were!”

“I understand, but is there no sign at all?” Nemo tried hard to suppress the trembling in his voice. He didn’t like the other party’s reaction of fear. She looked so scared, as if he would chew her into pieces in the next second. “Impossible.”

“She only said, ‘The law has not been broken’,” the superior demon sobbed, shrinking like she was about to freeze to death. “At that moment, she thought she had gotten a satisfactory enough answer, and the contract would naturally be completed. It’s really not me—”

Nemo shook subconsciously.