The Demon's Bride

Chapter 532: Light in The Darkness-III

Esther who had been staring back at Beelzebub didn't know how long she had been staring at him. Her eyes continued to linger on the red pair of his eyes while she compare the pair of eyes to a jewel. Realizing she had stared more than necessary, she looked away. Her lips pursed as Beelzebub continue to hold on her fingers, as if waiting for her to reply.

Just as her locked lips parted, a breath couldn't escape as laughter echoed from behind them.

They both turned their heads and Esther could hear Beelzebub clicked his tongue on the sudden appearance of a demon. Its skin was awfully red. Its expression eerie as it smiled toward them. They were nothing like the high demons most people had seen without knowing they were demons due to their handsome facade after taking a human's skin. But the true demons are the lesser demons. They were horribly deformed. Their eyes were like slits and their disarrange teeth gleamed with droll.

"This is why I had wanted to find my own room, damnit," Beelzebub took a step forward, blasting current of blue fire to the demon who tried to escape but Beelzebub, knowing where they had escaped use is power to blast blue fire again.

He jumped down from the table he sat on and Esther was taken aback as he pulled her by her wrist, "Let's go. The lesser demons won't be able to do any damage to anyone of us. But the story is different now. I can feel someone using a taboo magic."

"The dark sorcerer," Esther's eyes emlarged immediately. "We need to go to Elise! It's an emergency!" She yelled in a hurry as something dawned to her.

Beelzebub narrowed his eyes while staring at Esther.

Back in Elise's room, she could hear the shattering sound of glass. She wouldn't step out of the room with the sound of glass breaking but then she heard screaming from people.

Elise's hand quickly lunge toward the door knob but before she could turn, she stopped.

Ian had told her to stay in her room. She couldn't go out now after she had just vomited blood. Elise contemplated to stay inside the room but to be in a confined place, hearing the screaming of people, yelling for help was absolutely a horrifying experience.

Elise couldn't stay inside her rom idly. The breaking point started when someone knocked on the door of her room. The knockings were haste. "H-Help! Anyone!"

Closing her eyes, Elise opened the door, she saw the maid whose shoulders was drenched with blood as tears streamed on her terrified face. She held to Elise's legs, "M-Milady help me, please!"

Ironically, seeing the face, Elise remembered it was one of the maids who had started gossips about her. Elise knew her because she had heard from Hallow about the content the woman discussed. But despite being the granddaughter of Satan, Elise didn't turn a blind eye to the people who begged for help, especially when they were count as the innocents here.

"Get to the room," Elise hurried the girl, "And don't leave there if you want to stay alive."

"W-What about you, milady?" The maid questioned.

"I will come back soon." Elise then left. She had learned from her shadows that she could create barrier after last time during her fight with her grandfather. She decided it was better if she secure the entire floor. Just as she took one step away from the door, Elise was met with the lesser demon. It was the same demon who she had seen during her time in Hell. On the demon's hand was a large wooden club that had been spiked with some thorny iron all over the head.

"Hehe, red girl. Found red girl," the lesser demon spoke in the demonic language that Elise could understand. But he had spoken in a way that was hard to follow.

They were searching for her!

Elise looked around the hallways. It was the third floor, the place where servants would rarely come but due to the emergency they had made an escape until to the highest floor. In meantime, they were standing not too far from the staircase and Elise could see that apart from the red puddle of blood that were almost everywhere enough to cover the entire path's floor with it. Heavy stench of blood reminded her of her deepest scar— the day where her family had died.

When the demon charged forward, Elise whispered, "Jett."

In instance, from underneath her feet where there was her the pool of her shadows, a sharp black icicles grew forward. The sharpest tip aimed straight to create a large cavity on the demon's chest.

"M..milady," Jett tried to adjust his voice as it had been a long time since he spoke. "You are not too well. But rest easy. We can help you. We can use our power. No trouble."

Elise felt assured with her shadows with her. "Do you know where is the enemies?"

"Five from here. Should we kill" Jett politely questioned and Elise answered with a nod. From there on they went to kill the closest range of demons wherever they could find. Elise had vacate most servants to the better place. To know that most of them died only because they had worked under her make her feel terrible but Elise was strong enough to push herself through the difficult time.

When she had killed enough, remembering Ian's instruction, Elise decided to go back. The last thing she wanted was to be a burden by getting herself wounded. When passing by the window, a cold chill run to her spine. Elise stopped running as she felt out of nowhere, the corridor turned dark. It wasn't the darkness of her fainting. It was the darkness of when all the flames on the candle was extinguished.

Turning her face, Elise looked over the window and there, she saw the sky had turned pitch black with a hue or purple. Only one single object glimmered on the dark sky and it was the moon.

But the moon wasn't silver-colored as usual. It was deep red, so deep and bright that it almost seemed like a living blood.

What was happening? It was still early in the afternoon and yet the sky had closed its curtain.

Elise wasn't able to move again as the next second, she flinched after a scream coming from a person near her place. The sound of the scream was so familiar that it turned Elise's eyes horrified when she could identify whose scream it had been.