Within a desolate, destroyed garden, Lillian overlooks the cliffside of the castle’s once lush garden. She takes in the air looking over the landscape of her country. The very country that would soon become embroiled in the chaos of war.

She gazed down upon her blue hand. She then whipped her tail around to simply pet it. She looked at curiously and let out a sigh shortly after, as though exhausted with the events of the day.

“Here you are.”

Lillian glanced back briefly, seeing the Demon King. “We already signed the contract, What do you want now?” Lillian asked.

“Heh… For the so-called Saintess, you're still offly calm about all this…” The Demon King approaches Lillian. Standing next to her he looked upon the same afternoon landscape she was.

LIllian glared. “Isn’t that supposed to be a secret?”

“I’ll mention it only this once…” The Demon King corrected. “Since we have to keep your origins under wrap, that also means cutting ties with that supposed sister of yours…”

“Kalika and I aren’t blood related… Besides after what she did to me… I want to see her pay!” The demon King noticed Lillians, bawled fist. “You have no idea how happy I am that she can’t die. Nothing else matters to me.”

“Not even your once beloved country”

Lillian paused for a moment. “This country of mine… Turned its back on me…The monastery, my people, even my own family... as much as I don’t like change, I don’t mind seeing it destroyed.”

The Demon King chuckled to himself glancing back at Lillian. “Oho.You’ve truly embraced your new role.”

Lillian rolled her eyes. “Everything can be rebuilt with time and as long as I have Kalika, That’s the only thing I care about. But for some of these terms… Are you sure you want me to be the ruling queen?.”

“It’s more convenient that way for both of us…… You keep your sister to yourself and I get a troublesome tradition out the way. There’s many women of my kind that would jump at the chance to seize power. Just like what your dear sister tried to do.”

“Very true…” Lillian after hearing the Demon King began to depart.

“By the way, do you have any preferred flowers?”

“Anything pink.” Lillian waved the Demon King off not wanting to stop.

The Demon King, now alone, looked over the destroyed garden, gathering some of the ashes left behind.

“” a red demon jokes.

The Demon King looked back up at the only exit, He clearly recognized the demon. “”

“”

“” The Demon King said.

“”

The Demon King noticed The smile from the demon. “” Not wanting to waste further time the Demon King also took his leave into the hall. The red Demon followed along, carrying a scarily similar visage to the Demon King. The only underlying difference being their horns, hair and eyes.

“” The Demon King continued. “”

“”

The Demon King chuckled to himself. “”

Suddenly a winged demon entered through one of the hall windows with an urgent message. “”

“Hmm?”

The red demon laughed.

“” The Demon King noted.

“”

“” THe demon King looked back at the winged demon. “”

Everyone around became shocked and confused by his statement. “”

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Outside the capital's tall stone wall several brigades of armed soldiers attempt to break down the gate as others use ladders to climb the tall wall’s in vain. It was a battle of Demons holding back the human advance.

“DON’T LET UP MEN!! WE WILL SLAUGHTER THESE DEMONS AND AVENGE OUR LORD!!!” The human general yelled.

Soldiers cheered, ready to keep up the fight with their national pride on the line.

“” A red Demon Woman said.

“” Another red demon with long white hair said.

Unknown to either of them, LIlilan had already made it to the scene, flying in and landing at the top of the gate.

The woman noticed her first. “”

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The other demon watching narrowed his eyes looking at her “”

The demon King interrupted them. “

The General cheering on his men finally noticed LIllian’s presence. Getting an air of familiarity from her.

Lillian looking down at them sighed to herself. “How many times do I have to prove myself…?” She lifted her hand

A shadow slowly built up above the army all of the soldiers noticed and looked above themselves. To the utter shock a huge mass of land was being manifest above them!!

Some of the soldiers began to freak out, seeing that the massive earth continued to build and build, encompassing almost half the army. The demons below retreated back to the walls where it was safe, and as they did, some of the soldier's abandoned their posts.

The general could only watch as the men ran off.

“So I just have to attack them once, Right……? That should do it…” now satisfied with her work, Lillian sent the ginormous piece of earth, hurdling into the attacking human forces.

The earth and ground outside the walls, cracked and broken open. The bones and lives of the men driven by their faith, crushed. By the time the attack finished the land outside was devastated.

Lillina turned to the demon King, unamused. “”

He affirmed allowing her to leave. She wasted no time leaving the rest of the everyone else, leaving to places unknown.

The Demon King placed his hands on the shoulders of his two generals, still shocked by the display of power.“”’

Elsewhere at the capital’s east wall are two blue demons with their red stained dagger’s ready, one with white hair, the other with black. They both looked into the sky at Lillian as she flew away. “” The black haired said.

“” The other said.

A huge ready demon joined them, watching as Lillian finally made it to the castle. “” The huge demon walked towards the disaster, ready to get to work. The other two demons followed close behind, making some bets.

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Back within the castle halls, the Demon, Rakon had watched as Lillian ventured back into the castle. She wasted little time as she entered the dungeon. Rakon gave a curious glance seeing this, before taking up a smirk.

He turned away to venture off elsewhere. “”

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Down below in the Dungeon, LIllian finally made it to Kalika. “Sorry to keep you waiting.” Lillian smiled. “Now what shall we do today?”

Kalika could only look on in fear as she huddled herself in the corner of her cell. Her hands trembled, understanding the pain she would soon feel.

“P-please. D-don’t!” she squeaked.

LIllian grabbed Kalika by the mouth and made her excitement known to her. “Let's see… If I can rip your heart out.” Lillian said.

Kalika could only cry out in pain, as her wishes of being saved fell on deaf ears. This routine of being tortured continued for days. Weeks. Months. Until the first five years went by in an instant. Although it was hard for Kalika to tell since a year felt like a century. With all the torment and punishment Lillian has been putting her through, everything seemed to go on forever.

Kalika sat leaning against the cell wall sitting on a small stack of the dirty hay gathered. her body hasn't seemed to have moved much throughout the years as her body was starting to look much more fragile. Her face looked more deteriorated, and her hair was unkempt and much shorter than it was before. Kalika could only stare into space waiting for the next event to unfold.

Kalika can hear heavy footsteps. A demon guard approached her cell with a tray of food and water. The tray simply had a loaf of bread, a piece of undercooked meat and a cup of water. The guard simply placed it by the front of the cell door taking his leave. Kalika simply gave a glare at the Demon Guard as it left.

"Is that guard new or something? Doesn't it know who I am?" Kalika thought to herself. Kalika had deep disdain for demons. She could barely stand the sight of them.

Kalika got on her knees and hands, practically crawling over to the tray of food. The floor was cold to the touch and grainy. She pulled the tray to herself and retreated back to her makeshift bed of dirty hay.

Kalika took the loaf of the bread, finally biting into it. And as much as she didn't want to eat the meat, she had to bear with it. Kalika placed the piece of meat between two of the ripped off pieces of her bread to make the meal a little more palatable. She refrained from drinking the water until the very end of the meal.

Kalika then noticed a little bit of blood on her arm as she finished eating her meal. Kalika paid little mind to it however, simply wiping it from her arm and continued to her favorite part which was the water.

To Kalika the water was the only good part of the meal that she could enjoy even if it looked a little diluted. She finished drinking half of the water; she saved the other half right next to her to guard it. This was a habit Kalika made when living in the dungeon since she could only afford one meal and a simple drink during a given day.

Throughout the five years Kalika spent in the dungeon throughout the poor living conditions and painful retributions, Kalika's hatred towards demon race were the only thing to keep her sane. Her hatred of the guards, of the Demon King and even her sister that's a demon. she hated them with all her heart. Even being her sister's personal trophy was something Kalika hated.

Kalika sighed looking at the prison ceiling. She then looked into the corridor filled with endless darkness.

The longing for freedom arose once more. Kalika looked at her poorly kept legs. She already struggled crawling, but to stand felt like it would take much more effort. Kalika had to remind herself of the pointless nature to hope. She had no strength, no plan and no friends. She only had herself and this gloomy dirty prison.

She leaned herself back into her favorite cozy spot, soon becoming lost in thought. Slowly she started leaning herself in the corner of the cell listening to deafening silence for any abnormalities like a rat or drops of water. It was the only way Kalika knew how to spend her own time when there was nothing much else to do.

She couldn't even move her body around much even if she wanted to. Since every time after Lillian played with her, her entire body would feel absolutely exhausted. Kalika's body suddenly started to tense up as she felt the presence of someone familiar.

"Huh? Why is she here?" Kalika looked over to the cell bars.

The pattering of feet starts to become audible. It's coming closer and closer. Kalika could tell there was another person too. as expected, Lillian finally showed up.

Lillian was dressed down with a black long sleeve shirt along with a red full body corset that tight held her bosom paired with an open skirt. She's also wearing leg stockings that were complemented by some short heels. This is the first that Kalika is seeing Lillian like this. It looked casual and new.

"What's with the dress?" Kalika was a little curious.

"Oh, you like it. It was made personally." Lillian twirled a little showing a little of her demon tail through what seems to be a custom-made hole.

Kalika could tell Lillian was in a very good mood today since this is the bubbliest, she's been in a while. Kalika turned her attention to what seems to be a little human girl hiding behind Lillian's back. The girl had black hair and pink eyes and she looked no older than 12 and was dressed in a maid's outfit.

It was strange for Kalika to see a human girl, especially one with pink eyes. Kalika gave a glance at Lillian before looking away. "So... What do you want?" Kalika didn't seem to be in the mood for conversing.

"I'm here to give you a present…. Since you've been such a good girl lately."

Kalika started to hug her legs. "Is that so... well... I don't want it. so, you can take it back..." Kalika didn't seem interested as she kept looking away from Lillian.

"Are you sure? I picked her out just for you," Lillian said.

Kalika looked back a little surprised.

"Her name is Rhonda. She'll be your personal maid."

The little maid looked very shy, but just gave a simple smile. Trying to save face it was obvious that the girl was very nervous. She then tugged at Lillian's skirt, Lillian bent down and brought her ear up front. the girl wasted little time whispering something in her ear. Lillian gave a simple nod to her. The girl immediately went back to being shy after looking at Lillian's answer.

"Why is she giving me a maid...?" Kalika Dumbfounded by Lillian's sudden gesture of kindness.