Chapter 198: Hin (2/2)

“Then we’ll take our leave now.”

“Wait, I know you have no concrete plan at the moment. Even if you leave now, you’ll just end up wandering around aimlessly. If you wish to find the area where the devils used to live, I might just be able to give you some clues regarding that…”

“The area where the devils used to live? Didn’t you say that you had no idea?” I posed a question regarding that not too long ago. Back then, he told me that he had no idea and I wasn’t all too surprised by that answer. What did you expect from a shut-in elemental? After all, shut-ins with a 100 out of a 100 in geography were pretty rare.

Arca hesitated the moment I said that but he chose to fess up in the end: “I didn’t tell you then because I was afraid you would force me to speak…”

‘Fine, I’ll just have to chalk this up to a devil’s horrible reputation again.’

80 000 years ago, this entire region used to be the territory of a Devil King. As for what that king was called, that information was lost to time. One day, that Devil King simply vanished into thin air, and along with him, all his subordinates disappeared as well.

For some unknown reason, their territory ended up being shut behind a mysterious barrier and the devils who lived there simply disappeared without leaving much of a trace. However, that didn’t mean that all the clues were gone either.

The hint Arca gave us was to head east. As for what there was there, even he himself didn’t know the details. All he heard was that devils used to live there.

‘The east huh, I guess just knowing that is good enough for now. As for that disappearing Devil King and his subjects…thanks but no thanks…’

After all, I couldn’t even comprehend what kind of an existence a Devil King was.

Having said our farewells to Arca, we immediately set off without stopping. In order to avoid any accidental clashes, Arca even assigned us a few fire elementals to be our guide, at least up to the point where we completely left the boundaries of Flame’s End.

As expected, we ended up meeting several patrols of Fire Elementals. Their first reaction to us was naturally one of complete wariness and even hostility in some cases. Thankfully, Arca’s bit of conscientiousness and foresight saved us from any potential clashes. He had specifically instructed the fire elementals guiding us to vouch for us.

While I still wasn’t able to understand their language, the gaze they gave us after that round of explanation was noticeably friendlier though there was still a tinge of suspicion buried deep beneath it.

The moment we left the boundaries of Flame’s End, our guides bid us farewell and left immediately, seeing as the area was no longer part of the safe zone.

Because we still couldn’t communicate, I could only wave my hands at them as a form of goodbye.

“Mama, do you think those elementals will drop these cores if we kill them?” Still in the midst of playing with those pearls, Mo Na narrowed her eyes at the departing figures and added: “We can still make it if we chase them now…”

With regards to her devious suggestion of robbery, my only response to pick her up by the cuff of her neck and slap her not-so meaty bottom thrice. Brows furrowed sternly, I chided her: “Papa doesn’t like children who are naughty so you’d better not do bad things, got it?”

“But devils are supposed to do bad things.” Bottom spanked, she showed no sign of remorse and instead gave me a harrumph of dissatisfaction before turning her head away to ignore me. “Devils who do good deeds are the devils who are bad instead.”

‘Devils who do good deeds are the devils who are bad instead? That sounded so weird. Either way, this calls for another round of punishment.’

I lifted her face up with my finger and made her look me right in the eyes from that position. “I don’t care about the others but I definitely won’t allow you to do bad things. I want you to be a good girl instead.”

“A good devil is one who does what she wants.”

“That’s for other devils, not for Papa’s little baby.” For her to lean towards such deviant behavior was only to be expected of a devil. After all, devils weren’t able to even understand the concept behind the term good samaritan. However, I was different. Even though that episode in the human realm left me sullen, I still couldn’t deny the human nature within my soul. Because of that, I did not want Mo Na to be bad either. It was my wish for her to be kind-hearted or at the very least, not be a wicked devil.

Bad girls just weren’t adorable after all.

“Hmph, Mama isn’t adorable at all.”

“Papa just has to look cool, not adorable.” Seeing as our little chat wasn’t going to work out, I returned Mo Na back to her perch around my neck before addressing No.3 and Big 4: “We’ll find a place to rest first, after that we’ll head east…I wonder how long this journey of ours will last this time.”

“No matter how long it takes, we’ll do our best to protect Master.” The two of them pledged their loyalty once more, never once mentioning the two elemental cores.

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