Ezra goes to his room, closely followed by guards with giant guns that should be imposible to lift by any normal person.

"This is your momentary residence, enjoy your stay." A guards speaks in monotone.

The gunmen leave. Not looking back, Ezra opens the room door with great excitement, at first sight he is emmediately greeted by clothes on his luxuriously made bed close to a window that catches Ezra's eye.

The window leads to the outside with some flowers that look awfully artificial with glass surrounding them from all sides like a greenhouse.

'What pointless waste of resources." Ezra chuckles and shortly after puts on his white and blue attire and lays in his soft bed looking up at the ceiling.

Three distinct knocks can be heard from behind a door and a muffled voice after it.

"Dinner is ready sir Ezra!" A female voice says.

Ezra jumps off his bed and rushes to the door and down the stairs where he enters a room on his left.

The room has a table in its center with a sink and a woman washing the dishes along with a man preparing the table.

"Good, you came! Now you can help with the praparation." The man says while handing him plates and forks to place on the table.

Ezra sighs sorrowfully but has no choice but to oblige, after he is done however, the maids go to call for dinner while he starts exploring the palace.

He sees a stairway leading down to a dark room, upon entering the room he gasps in shock when witnessing dozens of manna capsules lined up against the walls.

They give off a faint glow that can't be seen from outside.

'This much manna, it's overwhelming my senses. There is only one explanation for all of this.' He thinks.

"What are you doing here? Ezra, was it?" Yuta repremands him.

"Oh, hello Yuta! I was exploring until i saw this room and i entered out of curiousity!" Ezra says nervously.

"Next time, maybe you should control your curiousity." He unsheathes a sword, jumping off the stairs while swinging it at Ezra.

"Hold on! Wait!" Yuta pays no mind to his worthless pleads and instead slashes him across the torso diagonally.

After what seemed to be a single moment for Ezra, he finds himself waking up on a bed with a giant scar across his torso.

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"What happened?"

"We don't know! Yuta was carrying you in his arms to us! Thankfully the cut was shallow so it was easy to heal." A worried woman says.

"What spell did you use?"

"There was no need to use a spell, the cut was shallow after all, it's not like your arm was severed or anything." She says jokingly, "we don't know why this happened, Yuta has never attacked a person before. This will surely ruin his reputation."

"Ruin his reputation?"

"Yes, a rumor was sirculating around Yuta being a demon. Now, obviously, everybody closely working with Yuta can tell he is human but it's still nearly imposible to stop a significant rumor like that."

Ezra, even after being discharged, still thinks about the rumor the healer mentioned and while walking through the diamond colored corridor he thinks that it might not be "just a rumor".

He walks while holding his chin as if he is thinking until he is stopped by Grandmaster Gray.

"I would like to sincerely apologize for my sons behaviour today, i have scolded him severely."

"No need, i don't mind too much." Ezra chuckles.

"No, he could have killed you. To apologize for that i have given you his sword." He bends down on one knee taking the sheathed sword with both hands and giving it to him, Ezra gladly accepts.

"Uhh... Thank you, Grandmaster. I will cherish this present."

A few minutes later he finds himself in his room sitting on the side of his bed reading a book titled "The Functions Of Miasma".

"Miasma works in the same way manna does, in a sense, miasma could be seen as an opposite, but equal. Miasma seems to have different colors which indicate the strength of the miasma and the regeration speed of the demon in question, the colors can be Black, blue and red with red being the weakest and black the strongest. If a manna projectile hits miasma, miasma dissapears and the same can be said about manna." Ezra recites

He continues:

"Chapter 38: how to kill a demon.

Demons are very durable, especially noble demons but they can all be killed the same way: decapitation and stabbing the heart.

Pure demons can regenerate their heads, noble demons can regenerate them in seconds so it's best to have multiple people to finish the job, when it comes to half demons it gets easier, half demons cannot regenerate their heads and they lose all movement in their body if they get decapitated which makes it easier to kill them, they can also deconstruct half their body with miasma."

Ezra goes on and starts to read the next chapter until he is met with a knock on his room door.

He closes the book and puts it in his drawer next to his bed.

"Come in!" He shouts and a girl in full royal clothing comes in.

"Hi, i don't believe we've met so i just want to introduce myself, my name is Ana. I was out in the forest so i didn't know you were here."

"No issue, i am Ezra. Nice to meet you." He softly smiles at her.

She blushes at him, looks to the side and sees a giant book on the table.

"Wow, you read this whole book?" She asks.

"Yeah, it's wonderful what boredom can do to a person." He laughs softly.

"Are you studying manna? I'm quite the expert, i can teach you!"

"Really? That would be Awesome! Let's do it first thing in the morning!"

She nods and runs out of the room without saying a word.

Ezra then procedes to look out of the window and upon seeing black turns around and goes to sleep.

'Now i'll finally kill Yuta.' He thinks.

TO BE CONTINUED...