"A date? Now?" Clentine mumbled, puzzled.
"Don’t you think now’s a bit of a bad ti to go out on a date?"
I just shrugged.
"Truth be told, I really don’t have any ideas. We could visit a few tombs and maybe, just maybe, find a few cool weapons we could use. Maybe even trigger so quests that would give us stats and whatnot... but I really doubt it."
After all, reaching such power before the main event of the ga was already impressive. Wanting any more was just stupid, and I knew it was practically impossible to get much stronger than this.
"You actually want to take out on a date?" she repeated.
"Yeah. I don’t think we’ve actually ever had a normal date before. Also, could I get the enchanting book? There’s sothing I want to learn before the demons descend," I replied.
At my words, she just grumbled.
"I guess we can go out on a date... Oh, and here."
She tossed the book over to , and once I caught it, I imdiately stored it inside my dinsional ring.
"But are you sure a date is really the best idea? What if we just go out and—"
I grabbed her hand, interrupting her. Then, I pulled her closer to , causing her to turn flustered.
"Stop overthinking things. Co on, let’s go."
Before she could answer, I teleported to a thin strand of my Black Lightning over at Lenice, the sa city where I had been living as Mikael.
It’s just that the mont I reappeared, a bit of blood dripped down my nose. My injuries were still there, and overusing my energy like this wasn’t making things any better for either.
Spotting my new injury, Clentine pouted and began healing again.
And once I was fine, I set her down and glanced out of the alleyway. Knowing that we couldn’t just step out as is, Clentine and I altered our appearances before finally leaving the alleyway.
Since she was basically still nursing , Clentine took the initiative. Wherever I wanted to take her, she just went the opposite way, and in the end, we ended up in front of so kind of lunch place.
"Lunch, really?" I asked.
Clentine harrumphed at , clearly not liking my attitude. Despite that, she grabbed my hand more fiercely and stepped inside the inn. It was cozy, and there weren’t that many people there, so she just sat us in the very corner of the inn and then whistled for the waitress to co over.
From then on, Clentine pretty much did everything. She ordered food for us, paid for us, and lastly, she even checked out my injuries one final ti. I honestly wanted this date to be more of a date where we did sothing special, since I had a few things in mind.
But clearly... that wouldn’t be possible.
After just a few minutes, the food arrived, and it was just a basic yet really tasty steak. Clentine enjoyed it a little more than I did, as it seed like she hadn’t eaten in ages.
She glanced up at while eating and said:
"Sorry if this isn’t as romantic as you imagined. I’m drained from the earlier fight."
I let out a chuckle.
"Don’t worry about it. This doesn’t have to be a romantic date. We’ll have plenty more tis for that. Instead, do you want to go get so clothes after this?"
Clentine paused for a few seconds, then nodded. When I saw that, I just smiled at her and began eating as well.
The food was really delicious, and judging by how she already knew the nu like it was the back of her hand, she wasn’t a first-ti custor.
Once we were done, we stepped out and imdiately headed to a clothing shop. Obviously, she wanted to pick and choose, but it seed like she forgot that we were pretty damn wealthy, so I went ahead and just bought all the clothes I could.
And lastly, we simply began roaming around the city, holding hands as we had nothing else planned. I wasn’t sure how I felt about this kind of date, but just being beside her was enough.
Though, for so reason, the more we walked around the city, the more I realized that there were fewer and fewer people.
Was today so kind of holiday?
Maybe it was? Well, just because Aldraazan went to shit, doesn’t an these people can’t celebrate sothing.
Though the people weren’t in their hos, nor were they in inns.
It was almost like they were simply disappearing.
Clentine seed to notice that too.
She paused for a few seconds and narrowed her eyes at the sky. As if sensing sothing, she suddenly turned the corner and led into an alleyway.
When she stopped, I spotted the puzzled and slightly fearful look on her face, causing my expression to harden.
"What’s wrong?"
"There’s so kind of energy circling around the city. I can’t feel what exactly it is... can you?"
I furrowed my brows and then used my Mystic Eyes, trying to find what she was talking about. However, I couldn’t sense anything off.
"The energy is gone?" Clentine mumbled, tightening her grip on my hand slightly.
Everything seed to quiet down for a mont.
But just then, her eyes widened.
And mine did too in the very next instant, as out of nowhere, a fierce amount of demonic energy suddenly burst outward from the very center of the city, covering the whole city instantly.
Just in ti, I covered Clentine and myself in a thin veil of energy, warding off all that Demonic Energy from reaching us.
Then the people who I thought had vanished reappeared in the sky. Even from the narrow alleyway, I could see them hovering in the sky, their necks broken and their limbs twisted at odd angles.
But most important of them all was the fact that their chests abruptly began to twist and open, revealing a black, goo-like portal leading to elsewhere.
Realizing the similarities, I felt like a pit had suddenly ford in my stomach.
...That elsewhere was none other than the demonic realm.
And all the people up above were just people who had been turned into half-demons who could open portals at will.
I acted imdiately.
I kicked off the ground, launching myself into the air. Once I was above the houses, I finally got a bigger picture of just what was happening, and it was even more brutal than it looked from the alley.
There were several halo-like rings consisting of people circling the entire city. But the Skyward Continent wasn’t the only one affected, as further beyond, I saw a nearby town have the exact sa halos above it. Even further, another city.
Focusing my Mystic Eyes more deeply, I even saw the coastal city of Elodrenia suffer the sa fate.
Everything and everyone was affected.
I knew what I had to do, so I raised my hand and tried to use my Telekinesis to kill every single one of these half-demons.
Yet the mont I snapped the neck of one person, a stinging sensation ran down my spine as for a mont, I felt like I had been paralyzed.
Only then did I feel a sharp prick in the lower end of my spine... almost like soone had stabbed with a thin needle.
And that very sa person soon jumped up from the alley, picked up, and after enveloping in her energy, abruptly pulled down to the edge of the city.
In that very sa instant, the bodies of every single human contorted as black goo spat outward, causing hordes of demons to spur out from within. The bodies of the humans were ripped to shreds, but as if they didn’t feel any pain, they kept the portals open, down to their very last breaths.
Barons, Viscounts... Earls and stronger demons that even Clentine and I would have trouble facing...
All of them had suddenly descended and began raising hell, killing every single remaining person in Lenice before I could even take a single breath or process what was happening.
I wanted to help, but I couldn’t. I was way too weak. Clentine was also drained.
So in the end, I was forced to watch it all unfold in front of .
...It was just like in the ga.
I felt my chest tighten even further and my breath quicken.
The demons were descending.
They were actually here.
It’s just that... back when the demon descent happened in the ga, the sky had turned red.
A very dark red that made it seem like it was the actual end of the world.
But it wasn’t red now.
Deep down, I knew that even though the demons had descended ahead of ti, with the eting still on the table... This wasn’t the complete descent.
It would only be complete once the main catalysts like myself and Kai played their role.
But complete or not...
The demons had descended.
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