Over the next two days, the weather outside gradually improved.
At this rate, the food supplies in Li Ang’s home could barely hold out, but they would have to endure some hunger.
He looked out the window at the calming blizzard and let out a slight sigh of relief.
Thankfully, tomorrow should be safe enough to go outside.
“Human, stop spacing out! So, what happened next? Did that human and the demon girl end up together?”
Liyasi’s noisy voice pulled his thoughts back.
Li Ang replied softly, “No. In the end, there was a great war between humans and demons. They met on the battlefield, and the boy, who had become a knight, personally killed that demon girl…”
“What?!”
Liyasi immediately jumped up, indignant.
“As expected, humans are all cunning! They say they’ll be together through life and death, through all their reincarnations, but in the end, he still killed her! If it were me, I wouldn’t fall for a human!”
“That demon girl was an idiot too!”
Li Ang found her flustered expression somewhat amusing.
These past few days, since Liyasi had been stuck in the room, he had spontaneously decided to tell her a few stories.
Most of them were tales of love, hatred, and passion he had read in his past life, only slightly adapted to fit this world better.
It turned out that whether human or demon girls, they were all hard to resist such stories.
“The story’s not finished yet.”
Li Ang looked at the angry little succubus in front of him and added, “After killing the one he loved most, the boy held his beloved in his arms and allowed the demon attacks to fall upon him. He fulfilled his promise.”
“Through life and death, through all their reincarnations.”
Hearing this, Liyasi, who had been all ruffled, froze for a moment, then her eyes suddenly reddened. “This story isn’t good at all!”
She said this and curled back up on the bed.
Li Ang quietly looked at the girl’s back and said softly, “Actually, if there hadn’t been war, maybe they wouldn’t have come to this. Liyasi, war is cruel, isn’t it?”
The little cat-like succubus lay on the bed, facing away from Li Ang, and muttered a reluctant “Mm.”
Seeing her like this, Li Ang smiled helplessly.
He extinguished the lamp.
These days, to save energy, they had all been going to bed early.
He lay down on the bedding he had prepared on the floor beside her and softly said to the girl, “Good night.”
It had become a habit of his in these days, though the tsundere little cat succubus never responded.
In the dim room, only the flickering stove fire emitted a faint light.
Liyasi quietly turned over and, borrowing the faint light, glanced down at the somewhat thin boy.
Her dark red eyes flickered before she whispered very softly, “Good night.”
***
The next day, Li Ang woke up very early.
He first glanced at the sleeping little succubus, then looked out the window.
The sudden blizzard had completely subsided, and many people were already clearing the snow from the streets.
Li Ang took a few silver coins from the bookshelf and put them in his pocket.
He planned to go out today to see if he could buy some food, and maybe some ingredients for making potions.
He hadn’t been idle these days and had finished reading all the booklets left by his grandfather, but he still lacked materials for experiments.
He quietly stepped outside and walked onto the street, pondering whether to buy something for Liyasi.
After all, as a demon now, it wasn’t easy for her to go outside, and staying in the room all day would surely be boring.
What he didn’t know was that shortly after he left, the little succubus on the bed opened her eyes, quietly slipped out the door, and sneaked away.
At this moment, Li Ang was haggling with a rice vendor.
Food prices had almost doubled after the blizzard.
He spent a painful silver coin buying about a month’s worth of food and some materials before preparing to head home.
No more porridge every day.
Thinking this, Li Ang walked happily home.
He even saw someone selling preserved candied fruits by the roadside and used the leftover money to buy a few pieces.
He secretly tried one—it was very sweet.
The little cat succubus would probably like it.
He carefully put the remaining pieces away; those few candied fruits had cost him half a silver coin!
Approaching the shops, Li Ang noticed the surrounding noise suddenly grew louder.
A crowd was shouting and running in some direction.
Curious, he saw Aunt Karasa with a worried expression coming out, so he asked her.
“What’s going on, Aunt Karasa?”
“It’s you, Li Ang.”
Aunt Karasa looked very anxious.
“You should go home quickly. It’s not safe in the city right now; some demons have sneaked in!”
Li Ang was stunned, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.
“How could demons be in the city?”
“I don’t know.”
Aunt Karasa shook her head, then gritted her teeth, “That damned demon stole a lot of our food. The buns I just made today…”
Food was precious at a time like this.
Li Ang had no time to comfort Aunt Karasa and hurried into the shop.
He went to the back room and pushed the door open.
Looking at the empty room, his heart sank, but he still shouted hopefully into the emptiness, “Liyasi?”
No answer.
Li Ang took a deep breath to calm his mind.
It was now almost certain that the demon Aunt Karasa mentioned was Liyasi.
No matter what, she absolutely couldn’t be caught.
Thinking this, Li Ang put down his things and rushed out of the shop, reassuring Aunt Karasa, “Don’t worry, Aunt Karasa. I’ll get your buns back.”
Saying that, he followed the crowd not far away.
“Demons! There’s a demon here!”
“A little brat! Catch it! How dare it steal my stuff!”
“No mercy! Kill it if you can! It’s just a demon brat anyway!”
The insults rang in his ears, but Li Ang grew more and more frantic.
It had taken him so long to rescue the little succubus.
He glanced at the congested crowd ahead and, after a moment’s thought, decisively slipped out to a nearby alley.
The pursuers had grown numerous, and the scene was gradually chaotic.
After turning a corner, many people lost track of the target.
Li Ang immediately shouted in the alley, “She’s here!”
Then, without looking back, he ran in the opposite direction.
Just as he expected, a huge crowd surged after him.
After circling around a few times with them, Li Ang secretly slipped away and returned to the corner he had passed earlier.
The place was quiet and empty now.
Li Ang looked at the scattered, frantic footprints on the ground and followed them to a dead end, where they vanished into a snow-covered haystack.
He silently moved the hay aside.
Before his eyes was a wary girl, her disheveled dark red hair tangled in the straw, her face a little grimy.
At the instant her hiding place was discovered, her body tensed up.
But when she noticed it was Li Ang, she immediately relaxed.
Carefully protecting the bulging clothes on her front, she crawled out of the haystack, then quickly pulled Li Ang to the corner.
“What are you doing here?”
Liyasi asked with some confusion.
“Why did you run out? And cause such a commotion?”
Li Ang stared at the little succubus’s face, somewhat angry.
“I told you I wouldn’t let you starve.”
Liyasi cautiously lifted the bulging part of her clothes to reveal various kinds of food inside, showing them off as if presenting a treasure, her tone carrying a hint of proud praise-seeking.
“See? This will last us many days. From now on, you won’t have to go hungry…”
Li Ang stared blankly at the little succubus in front of him.
Her dark red eyes sparkled brightly, reflecting his face.
For some reason, the anger in his heart vanished completely at that moment.
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