He looks at his watch, it's been more than 15 minutes of paused time and he needs to decide what he's going to do about the female demon, since Luan intervened in her escape, he needs to finish what he started, luckily he knows the Southern District well, but he doesn't intend to help her by taking her to the location she needs, he just says he'll help her hide from the guards:

“I'll just help you hide, the rest is up to you.”

He turns to Derick, and they both agree to help her hide, they look at the walls around the village, there are some houses built in this village with thatched roofs, others look more elaborate made of stone, they are not very high, they could hide there, But the demon points to the path ahead, as if she wants them to leave her there, so they run to the place she has pointed out, to a large wooden gate that looks like an abandoned stone house, but it has a large yard, it is strange that there is no one inside, time is still paused, Luan needs to hurry, the demon seems to know the house well and shows that there is a secret lock in one of the rooms that leads to an underground cellar in the house, it would be a good temporary hiding place for the demon, they take a brief look, it looks like a good hiding place, they then enter the underground cellar which leads to another exit, they come out at another location, they seem to be close to another military base, here they are looking at the location, there are some prison cages ahead, and again the demon points to one of the cages, Derick pulls Luan by the arm and says:

“You didn't say we'd only help her hide, why does it look like we're helping her free someone who seems to be trapped here?

The host seems to be interested in finding out what she was really trying to do now, because she has had a sudden change of behavior, as soon as Derick looks at Luan's eyes, he notices that her irises look normal, meaning that Luan is conscious again, he seems a little puzzled, Luan can control her consciousness with her host, without having to use the enchanted hypersonic whistle, this seems strange, but not very reliable.

Derick complains:

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“Now it makes sense, it had to be Mr. Curious...tsc, tsc”

Luan smiles, he's really curious to know what the demon was trying to do, but is it safe for him to just free someone, that he can't see from afar, he then goes closer to the cage, to end his curiosity, getting closer he notices that it's another demon, this one seems a little bigger, he thinks to himself:

(Is it all right to help a demon I don't know free another demon, without knowing who they really are? They're hugging, are they a couple? Okay, I'd better not get more involved than that).

The demon ends up unlocking the padlock on the cage, and freeing the other demon, apparently everything seems ok, but it's time for Luan to speed them up and leave, going back the same way to the basement with the then “couple”, 40 minutes have passed, time for Luan to hurry, he needs to unpause time, and they need to leave as soon as possible, as soon as time starts running again, he doesn't necessarily need to pause time again to open another portal, while the then couple goes back to the underground passage, Luan tells Derick that he's going to open the portal for them to leave, but suddenly they feel the ground start to shake, and they hear something approaching very, very fast, they start to run, when in doubt it's better to run, but they're still in the prison, there seem to be several paths, the strange thing is that there's no guard, in their case it's not such a hand, otherwise they'd be in a more complicated situation, they arrive at a dead end, Derick starts swearing at Luan:

“Hell, who told you to be curious and go where you don't belong!”

Did Luan really act on impulse? He himself was at a loss to understand why he wanted to help that female demon. Finally, it was time to act quickly. He opened the penultimate coordinate and made a sign with his hands to open a new portal. As soon as he started to open the portal, Luan noticed that right behind them there was a demon with wings, but this demon had four legs, Derick enters the portal, Luan is still standing in front of the portal, trying to analyze what this figure in front of him is, it looks like a medium-sized dog, the then dog demon looks at Luan, he starts to walk towards Luan, every time his paws move they cause the whole floor to start shaking, Luan decides to play with him saying:

“Come, come puppy.”

But to Luan's surprise, as he takes a step back to enter the portal, the demon dog quickly runs and jumps on him, passing through the portal next to Luan, causing him to fall backwards into his room and the demon dog on top of him and the portal closes, Luan's mask falls off, the demon dog then licks his face right after, and barks, his parents hear a noise of something falling and then a bark, Derick stares in surprise, he also takes off his mask and puts his hand to his head:

“That's all I need now... Luan, I'm going to kill you!”

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