In the entrance hall of the Wisteria Manor, Tibaut was spread out, lying on the floor. He smelled like he had just finished a workout and that wasn't entirely wrong. He finished helping Vanessa with Ezekiel's sword over an hour ago but he wasn't here because this was a great place to rest. He had his head pointed toward the door and would occasionally glance at it.

("Ah, I haven't cleaned the mansion haven't I? Eh, that can wait until tomorrow.")

He then got up and walked towards the door. Incidentally, Vanessa happened to be walking by. Upon seeing her he immediately changed direction and walked to the stairs.

"Oh, I see."

Tibuat turned towards her with a look of confusion. He walked towards her now and decided to question.

"You hinting at something? I just felt like breezing the stink off but I changed my mind, so I was going to shower instead."

Vanessa wore a blank expression and replied "uh-huh".

"Now I don't know what ideas you think I'm having but as you can see you're clearly wrong."

"ok"

"And what's this about 'I see'? I just turned around, what's there to see in the first place?"

Vanessa gave a sigh and shrugged her shoulders.

"Alrig-"

Before Tibaut could continue on his tirade, Vanessa put her finger to his lips.

"Jeez, you're like a puppy waiting for his owner to come home."

Tibaut looked insulted but she continued "You don't have to hide it, it's normal to worry about someone if they're gonna do something dangerous."

Tibaut's expression lightened.

"I mean I'm not too concerned since it's her we're talking about but… it's been a while since they left, hasn't it?"

"You took nearly a day to come back from your little stint with that useless bastard."

"(I was out for that long?) Ugh, I guess I'm not one to talk then. But does she usually take this long with her quests and stuff?" He responded.

Stolen novel; please report.

"Hmm, I'd give it an hour or two before I'd start worrying. Wanna go outside and wait for her?"

"No, I was probably worrying ov-"

Vanessa then dragged his shirt.

"The least we can do is greet her when she comes back, even Elizabeth can get tired."

Tibaut looked at her in shock

("Who is this angel and why did she replace Vanessa of all people?")

Vanessa noticed the look on his face and then walked into him and gave him a hug which caused certain parts of her to become very noticeable.

"Unless you want to do something else?"

Tibaut quickly pushed her off (before his little adventurer got any ideas) and gave her a flustered response.

"Ah, yeah, outside that sounds good, I'll go ahead of you." Vanessa hadn't done any proper teasing for a while so that caught him completely off guard.

Vanessa chuckled to herself as she noticed him trying his best to hide the front of his pants from her as he quickly walked towards the entrance. She followed him with a smile on her face. She then smelt herself and winced.

"Maybe we should take a bath before Elizabeth comes home."

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She stared down the demon in front of her for the last five minutes. Yet he made no attempt to throw the coin.

("Is he messing with me!?")

His facial expression had not changed for the past few minutes. He looked her dead in the eyes. Then she noticed a change.

The veins on his forehead were bulging. She was unsure of what this meant and jumped back to be safe. His gaze didn't change. He was still staring at where Elizabeth formerly was.

She was unsure what this meant and slowly walked up to him. He didn't react. Her anxiety grew greater and greater as she approached him yet he did nothing. She felt like she was going to stop breathing as she approached him.

Finally, she was now close enough that it would be considered intruding on his personal space.

Yet nothing. She felt insane. She looked to Lily in the back as if to confirm she wasn't the only one seeing this and Lily nodded as if to confirm what she was seeing. Why she didn't slice his head off now, she had no idea but the first thing she did to him was touch his skin.

It felt as though his muscles were tense. She touched another part. It felt the same. Finally, he showed a sign of movement. It was a cough. More accurately coughs. He fell to his knees coughing until he started coughing up his own dark and uniquely viscous blood.

The amount of blood that came out was easily more than he shed in the fight. It felt almost insulting to Elizabeth. He then grabbed his chest and fell to the ground. He looked as though he was struggling to breathe.

He tried his best to stand but kept falling back down. There was now a pool of his blood below his head and half his face had been dyed by it. He started flapping his wings but that just made him look like a struggling bird. Elizabeth slowly flipped him stomach side up with her leg and Saito attempted to grab her. This grab however seemed almost geriatric compared to what he was doing earlier.

At this point, two other adventurers holding a wounded third between them approached along with Lily. Lily decided to ask the obvious question.

"What happened to him?"

Elizabeth tried to come up with a few hypotheses in her head but ended up with nothing. Eventually, the movement of his chest eventually stopped. She brought her head down to his chest and listened. His heart had stopped. His eyes started to slowly close and he reached to the sky.