Ashleen suddenly felt palpitations in her heart. She closed her eyes as she pressed her chest. Anik instantly felt abnormalities with her heart using anatomy, and the cause of the abnormalities was crystal clear.
“Demon is troubling you??”
“erm”
“But why”
It wants to come out
Let it come
No, he’ll create trouble, ba dumb, her ears started buzzing heavily as she felt her head too heavy to support.
Ba dump,
LET IT COME, I SAID!!
Ashleen shook her head and curled up on the mattress.
I promise I won’t let it cause trouble.
Ashleen is not a kid and she is well aware if he can handle him or not. But her consciousness started to fade as her grip over her chest loosened and she could do nothing except feel this horrible pain.
She fainted in a few seconds and woke up in another few seconds. But it was a demon who woke up. Anik quickly got down from the bed and held his sword hilt firmly.
“Hyo! She has learned to create trouble, don’t worry I can handle her well yet.”
“What do you want?”
“I know where the king and queen are.”
"..." “Why should I trust you”
“You have other options?”
“…Why would you help us?”
“It’s boring, these scenarios are too lame, I know a lot since I have lived this long.”
Ashleen can you hear me? Anik tried contacting her throughout their conversation but there was no response.
Her face looked too pale to ignore.
“You could have just said that, why are you troubling her?”
“I just wanted to say this, yet she was trying to stop me”
“Huh?”
Sigh* “We were having pretty good cooperation until Gayatri came. I mean she did let me come and go, without causing trouble and I had no problem with her meddling in my business. I wasn’t even going to do something weird, you humans…tsk tsk… always thinking wrong.”
“… So you mean no harm to us?”
“I mean no harm to Ashleen, you... it depends on how you behave yourself.” That’s it, exactly! How lame it was of him to think that demon can do anything to harm her. No matter how ruthless he was when it came to killings but as much as Anik remembers, this demon never once did anything to harm his hosts at all.
Instead, there was a sudden mention of his past by a young guy in the comic who used to be his host. According to him, even when that guy was looking for ways to eradicate the demons from his body, the demon still helped him save his life till the last moment.
“Then… then I’ll explain this to her, later we can discuss the queen and the king.” He said while putting his sword back on the scabbard, as a gesture that he trusts the demon.
“Haha, you senseless human, you’ll trust me soo easily?? I hate humans like you the most.”
Anik was too late to react as he found himself in the air being slowly crushed as the demon grinned.
“Y…you…”
“Yes, me what?” he loosed his hand a bit, which in turn reduced the air pressure he was using to crush him.
“Ashleen’s body won’t function normally anymore if I die.”
“Oho, blackmail?”
“No,…”
“I have no intention of killing you anyways, explain to her properly.” Ashleen eyes turned black as she fell back on the bed while Anik fell on the ground feeling pain all over his body.
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This is too unfair, she is on the bed and I am here. He thought while lifting himself. He got up on the bed and looked at Ashleen, if his new attribute was functioning right then her heart was functioning normally again. He sighed in relief and fell on his back, on the bed subconsciously.
“Haha, it’s hard, it’s hard.” He said and shook her with his left hand.
“Miss, I know you are awake”
“…”
“What is this pretend for?”
“Don’t you think it’s too smooth?”
“Huh?”
“I’ve heard your conversation with him, and he knows about the Queen… and is willing to help… isn’t it going too smoothly?”
“Are you anxious?”
“Yeah I guess”
“So you are thinking of giving up on this idea?”
“… how do you know?”
“Guessed.” Of course, I didn’t guess it. In the comic, after going through several hardships, when she was about to receive the elixir of immortality; she gave up on it just because it was ‘too smooth’.
“That was more of mind read”
“You want to give up?”
“…” “Umm… I’ll think about that,” I said in a low voice.
“It’s alright, anyways I’ll accompany you.”
Ashleen looked at him for a while and quickly diverted her gaze when she realized what she was doing.
“Oh… okay… I mean, of course, you have no other options…haha...ha,” I sneaked a look at him to see his reaction. It was too embarrassing to think about it now. ‘accompany you’ Sheesh I got butterflies.
Anik saw her reaction and smiled at her. She was trying to avoid eye contact awkwardly. Somewhere inside he wanted to force eye contact but instead, he got up from the bed.
“I don’t know where Gayatri went, I’ll tell her about our plan to rescue King and Queen.
“But I thought we gave up on that” I stood up quickly and looked at him. It’s not good, it is not good. The opportunity came to us itself, and it’s the demon trying to help us… it won’t end well. Easy things always have a bad outcome. No, I don’t think it is a good idea, and… maybe they are dead.
“Would you be at peace after giving this up? I won’t be able to forget about it at least.”
“…”
“Don’t worry, the demon won’t harm you”
“But you…”
“Will you let it harm me?”
Ashleen is well aware of how hard it is to conserve her consciousness from dissipation when a demon takes over, how can she possibly stop him?
“You can do that yaar* you just stopped him when you thought Gayatri was in danger”
“That…” how did I even do that???
“Ok ok take your time anyways I know what you’ll choose so better as well I start the preparations for it.
“…”
Anik went out and closed the door behind him.
She sat back down on the bed cross-legged. Should I go? He said he knows my answer already, that’s annoying. Know my answer? Even I can’t understand who he thinks he is to be so sure. Even if I had any leftover wish to go I’ll just refuse now.
Huh, knows the result.
That’s why I chose you.
“Who’s that?!”
It’s me, your tenant
“Mr demon?”
Mr? haha, yeah that’s me
“you chose me because of…” she raised an eyebrow. If someone saw her talking to herself at the moment they’d think she’s insane. Over that the demon’s voice was just in her head… this feels weird.
You don’t need to speak, I can listen to you well without that.
- countless thoughts ran across my mind in an instant, the darkest thoughts I’d ever want anyone to know.
I know a lot about humans, your thoughts are not even bad, what are embarrassed about?
Shut up, just shut up, another wave ran across her mind at his words.
Woah, this time these were interesting, just add a little spice to it.
Shit, I am done for.
Okay, that’s enough let me come to the point, the king and queen are both alive and in a single piece. You can save them. I have never told any other host of mine about this because it was never in this urgency.
Urgency?
They might die soon.
But why… how, and why now?
One of the incarnations that came this time is looking for me.
Okay?
Queen used to be my host, she doesn’t know where I am but given the stubbornness of this incarnation, he’ll kill her if he got no info
Is she so easy to kill?
She’s under a curse
That’s too much information, tell me about it in detail next time I am with Anik. He seems to have a better memory than mine.
Hey, wait!! You have been listening to me throughout this time???
Yeah, you are right.
… then you heard me talking and thinking badly about you?
Yes
Don’t you think you should spare me some privacy?
…
Hey! Answer me. And he was silent no more response at all.
…were you angry? I didn’t mean it… I mean you are a demon after all, I felt a little worried about people around me…
You wouldn’t be alive if I was offended, haha. The demon looked chill, but this girl reminded him of the Queen again and again. Queen was his 10th host body and she was the first one whose first reaction after finding out about the demon’s existence wasn’t to find a way to get rid of him. Ashleen was the same. Ashleen was worried but the Demon was still satisfied as she was comfortable with him. She's the second host he has ever had a conversation with. About people around her, he still won’t think twice before killing them if anyone poses a threat to her.
What is your name though?
Name? I forgot. Who cares about it anymore, after all, you can all still address me as the demon king.
…YOU ARE A DEMON KING???? I’d never think bad about you anymore.
….
Why do you want to save the queen?
…
You could have done that earlier then why suddenly now?
Because Gayatri is back
What does this have to do with Gayatri?
She’s the one who cursed the queen. And she is needed to remove the curse. She's not needed at all. The demon wants to save them now because he has finally found another human who is cooperative and herself wants to save the queen.
Huh!!
I thought you liked her
That’s the problem with you humans, I wanted to kill her.
Why did she do that?
The door opened and Anik and Gayatri were standing at the door.
Don’t tell them about what I told you
Hmm.
“So you have made your decision?”
“Yeah”
“Then we should discuss that now. About this place, I think we should hand it over to Akansha and her partner till we are back.”
“Will that be alright?”
“They won’t die.”
“Why are you so sure?”
“Everyone in your premonitions is too weak than their actual selves, you haven’t seen their actual potential.”
“Ohh” Ashleen had that in her mind for some time now but since Anik have mentioned it, she can rest assured.
“What did that demon tell you? Asked Gayatri.
“That thing can talk to me!?”
“I thought it could” Gayatri smiled and said, if it wasn’t for the demon telling her about Gayatri, she wouldn’t have been able to see the mysteriousness in her eyes.