"We're going on a quest date! We're going on a quest date!" The girl that asked Diamond out the day before sang this as she frolicked through the forest with Diamond beside her. "Me and Daemonium are going on a date!"

Diamond didn't care much about her singsong and only focused his thoughts on bringing the prey to her predator. Or the victim to her assaulter. Or the soon-to-be-trapped to the trap-made-to-trap-the-soon-to-be-trapped. Whatever it is, you should get the picture by now. This date was just a ruse for Daemonium to get the girl to her eventual demise.

Of course, he has prepared for this day. He chose a quest that was filled with dangerous monsters to kill so that there wouldn't be any shock if she came back dead. He also prepared his fake tears and the way he would heroically carry her home to say the bad news, all while laughing and celebrating in his head. He was going for quite a long while without seeing Sanguisa though, so he was starting to worry about what might go wrong.

"By the way," the girl said. "I never introduced myself. I'm Calumnia! No need to introduce yourself, I already know who you are Diamond."

"Nice to meet you," Daemonium said. It was not nice to meet her. After all, he didn't really enjoy learning his victims' names before they get killed. He'd rather she stayed being referred to as the little girl throughout the entirety of this arc, but the will of the universe wouldn't allow it.

"What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?"

"Well," Daemonium didn't eat ice cream much. Ice cream was an easy food to make with ice magic running rampant so it was basically commoner food for this high-class citizen. "Vanilla I guess?"

"Cool! I like GTA! What's your favorite sport?"

"Um," Daemonium really wanted to know what GTA was supposed to stand for but the conversation moved too fast for him to ask. And what did she just ask about now? Was it sports? He wasn't much of a sports guy but there was a time someone gave him a card of someone who played 'football' or whatever it was called. "It's football."

"Really?" Calumnia looked at him with a confused face. "Never heard of it. What's it like?"

"Um..." Daemonium really had no idea what to say now.

"Also," Calumnia said in a voice that was starting to sound disappointed. "Can you help me get this off my foot?"

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On her right foot was a large beartrap with the spikes and edges serrated to be extra sharp as well as a large metal ball attached to it by a chain to prevent movement.

Surprisingly there was no blood.

"Well," Diamond said as he tried his best not to let his frustration show. "How did you end up like that?"

"There just seems to be a lot of them hidden in the grass," she replied. "I was able to rip a few others off but this one is stuck like glue. I'm amazed you didn't notice though. That's so incredible!"

Daemonium had no idea how incredible something like that was, but at least he was lucky.

Luck stat increased due to a special action!

LCK +25

The stat increase he got was incredible though.

"It's like you were able to sense them and avoided them all!" Calumnia squealed with stars invading her eyes. "It was such a weak attempt at trickery that someone like you didn't even have to care about it at all! I've never seen someone do that before!"

And technically she still hasn't.

"Well of course I didn't," Daemonium replied with a smug face but scared to death brain. "Who do you take me for?"

"That's probably also why none of the knives ever hit you!"

"Knives?"

Calumnia uncovered her back to reveal large knives sinking deeply into the flesh in her back. There were also two axes and a tomahawk latched into her back as well.

Luck stat increased due to a special action!

LCK +35

This level of luck was just getting absurd now. Where the hell did the bad luck go? Maybe he had so much good luck within the past few moments alone that the next week or so will be filled with bad luck. That wasn't the luck stat worked though, right? Daemonium wasn't sure anymore.

"Diamond?" Calumnia tapped the shoulder of a terrified and shivering Diamond. "Are you okay?"

"Just a bit cold," he replied in a hushed breath. "Just cold."

"Really? Maybe I should warm you up then."

"No, it's okay. I'll make it out alive... I think."

"Ha ha ha!" Calumnia laughed at that reply. "I never realized you had such a good sense of humor."

"Yeah," said a Diamond who looked like he had his life flash before his eyes. "Humor, oh how I miss you."

Meanwhile, Sanguisa could be found a fair distance away, currently just thinking about a few things like the meaning of life and how the hell Calumnia wasn't dead yet.

She had tried every single plan that she had written out before, and all of them were either completely ignored or treated as annoyances. At this point, Sanguisa was afraid that she wouldn't even be able to kill the girl with a gun at point-blank range. Sure she may be left at the edge of life because guns were incredibly powerful, but there would be enough time for Calumnia to react and destroy Sanguisa right away.

"This girl," she murmured. "Is dangerous."

Well, no shit Sherlock.