Flillian, I want to live.

She couldn't remember when she became so famous.

However, in this case, we must not let this guy go.

Gutel jumped up and rushed towards Mars, who was knocked to the ground by the attack just now.

Mars raised her hand and shot a magic attack at Gutel.

"You also know human magic..."

Gutel muttered, but this attack, as weak as that of an apprentice, was naturally easily blocked by her defensive magic.

Immediately afterwards, Gutel rushed to Mars, stretched out his hand, grabbed the other's neck, lifted her up like a chicken, and pressed her against the pillar of a house on the street with his backhand.

"cough--"

Mars coughed up a mouthful of blood. Her face, which was already very weak, turned extremely pale, and cold sweat from weakness flowed down her forehead.

"Who is the master you are talking about? Why does he know about me?"

However, Gutel had no intention of showing mercy to Mars. Instead, he bared his fangs and glared at Mars with fierce eyes.

"How heartless...Aren't we of the same race?"

Mars, whose throat was strangled, seemed to have difficulty breathing. She gasped for breath, but at the same time she grinned and teased in a cynical tone.

"You think I wouldn't dare kill you?"

Gutel didn't like Mars's attitude very much, and he increased the strength of his grip on her neck.

"Uh, um..."

As if she had exerted too much force, Mars' mouth began to foam, but she still took her last breath, raised her hand with all her strength, and pointed to the center of the square where the Chaos Flower was.

"what happened?"

Seeing that Mars, who was unable to speak, seemed to want to express something, Gutel turned his head and looked in the direction of her finger.

pat~

Gutel loosened his grip and threw the almost suffocated Mars to the ground.

"Ahem...it seems my guess was right. It's this human, right?"

Mars fell to the ground, supporting herself on the stone pillar beside her with her hands, breathing in the fresh air, and spoke to Gutel in a proud tone.

In the center of the chaos flower's tentacles, Philen was carried by a group of mice to a broad and smooth leaf.

"You guy..."

Unexpectedly, the other party secretly captured Philen as a hostage without his knowledge. Gutel's face became even gloomier.

"Her magic power is extraordinary. It's really enviable that she has such talent at such a young age."

Mars also saw through Philen's suppression of his own magic power. The surging magic power contained in that young body formed a sharp contrast with her own weak magic power.

"Let this kid go. I'll pretend I didn't see anything that happened in this city."

Guter quickly made a balance in his mind.

Is it to save the lives of everyone in the city or just Philen's life?

Of course, it was to save Philen.

Gutel will not be held hostage by those boring and incomprehensible moral principles of human beings. Although Philen herself may oppose her current approach, Gutel can't care so much now.

"Is this human so important to you, Lord Gutel?"

However, Mars seemed to be taking advantage of the situation. She dusted herself off, stood up with the help of a pillar, and turned her head to ask Gutel provocatively.

"This doesn't seem to have anything to do with you, does it?"

Gutel glanced at Mars and said coldly.

"I'm just a little curious... How did she captivate such a powerful demon like you..."

Mars turned around and looked towards the direction of Philen who was sleeping on the leaves of the Chaos Flower, with a hint of jealousy on her face.

Since she was born, Mars' world has been dark.

I heard from others that she was a child abandoned by her parents.

She was sent to an orphanage established by the church and grew up in difficult conditions. At a very young age, she was sent to a nobleman's home to work as a servant.

In the noble's house, Mars had to work constantly to get the meager food. Even so, because of her blindness, she was often punished by her master.

However, even though her master's whip hit her again and again, Mars just endured it silently and never showed any expression of pain.

It seemed that the goddess took away her light and her emotions at the same time. Many times, she just lived for the sake of living.

friend?

Mars naturally doesn't have that kind of thing, but she is born with an ability that ordinary people don't have.

She was good at communicating with animals, and when she was cleaning the kitchen alone, she would often talk to the mice that ran out of their holes to steal food.

Although to outsiders, this seems more like a madman talking to himself.

But Mars doesn't care what outsiders think.

Maybe life could have just gone on like this.

But one day, an unusual riot broke out in the city where Mars lived.

The room was engulfed in flames, and the sounds of people screaming and wailing were everywhere.

Is the world going to end?

Although Mars could not see what was happening in the city, she could sense that the magical aggregates representing human life were rapidly dissipating.

And that day, Mars also discovered a beautiful thing she had never seen before.

It was pure and powerful magic, more powerful than anyone she had ever seen before.

That magical power came from the demons that were destroying her city.

Mars's master took his family to hide in the cellar under the castle, but such a clumsy hiding place was obviously unable to escape the detection of the powerful demon. With the sound of the explosion, a big hole was blown out in the ceiling of the basement.

"Ah! I'll fight you!"

In order to maintain his last bit of dignity, Mars's master drew his sword and rushed towards the demon in front of him.

But it was obvious that he was easily pierced through the body by the flying sword created by the opponent's magic power, and was killed unwillingly.

The others hiding in the cellar also tried to escape, but were killed one by one by the demon like toys.

In the end, the only one left was Mars, who stayed there quietly, waiting for her death.

"Well, you're not going to run away?"

The demon whose hands were stained with the blood of the entire city's residents came to Mars. She tilted her head and looked at the girl in front of her with curiosity.

"It's so beautiful..."

Perhaps because she couldn't see, Mars was not afraid of the tragic scene around her. On the contrary, she clasped her hands together and a happy expression appeared on her face.

"Are you the demon they're talking about? This is the first time I've seen one..."

Mars said to the demon girl in front of her with some envy.

"Oh?"

It seemed that the demon girl was interested in Mars's special performance, so she did not kill her directly.

Chapter 140: Opposites Attract Each Other

"Not bad, huh? I modified your human shipyard a bit."

Mars was taken back to her home by the demons who destroyed her village.

"Boat?"

In the spacious room converted from a factory, a look of confusion appeared on Mars' face.

"Don't you know what a ship is?"

The demon girl named Solitaire turned around and looked at Mars curiously.

"I've heard people talk about it, but I've never seen it, nor have I ever sat on it."

Mars has lived in an inland town since she was a child, and the so-called ship is undoubtedly a vague concept to her.

"That's it..."

Solitaire raised her head, her two green eyes rolling in her eye sockets, as if she was thinking about something.

"Ah, be careful with the stairs~"

With her hands behind her back, Solitaire turned around and reminded Mars, who had just arrived here and seemed a little embarrassed.

"Ah, um."

Mars' face showed a flattered expression. She nodded, then groped for the handrail beside her, took a step skillfully, and followed Solitaire up the stairs leading to the room on the second floor of the shipyard.

"You're very skilled at walking up stairs?"

Seeing Mars following her up to the second floor with ease, Solitaire couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

"As long as you understand the structure of stairs, climbing them isn't a difficult task. In fact, even though blind people can't see, they can adapt and do a lot of things."

Mars said with a smile.

“Can we do it just by understanding it?”

Solitaire raised her eyebrows, looked up and looked at the two huge skeletal specimens that she had hung on the roof of the shipyard.

"Is there anything there, Master Sollitir?"

Mars also turned her head and looked at the roof with some confusion. However, although her innate magical perception allowed her to see the magic of living things, she could not detect the magic of dead bones.

“It’s a fish~”

With her hands behind her back, Solitaire thought of another visitor a hundred years ago. At that time, she used these two huge skeletal specimens to explain to him the relationship between humans and demons.

"fish?"

Mars repeated, seemingly understanding.

"You haven't even seen a fish, have you?"

Solitaire walked behind Mars, put her hand on her shoulder, and laughed in a mocking tone.

"I've seen it before, but isn't fish a food item? Is it hung from the rafters like preserved eggs?"

Mars answered with some confusion.

"That's just a small fish in the pond. In the ocean, there are fish that are much bigger than humans, even bigger than dragons."

Solitaire grabbed Mars's shoulders and pulled her up from the second-floor platform.

"Huh? What are you doing..."

Mars was a little overwhelmed when she found herself suddenly floating in the air.

"Come on, hold out your hand."

Solitaire directed Marsdao.

"Yes."

Mars obediently raised her arm and reached forward tentatively.

Her hand touched a huge spine.

This bone was larger than any bone Mars had ever encountered.

Then, Solitaire took Mars and asked her to follow the whale's spine from the head to the tail.

"Is this really a fish?"

Through the touch just now, Mars could probably imagine what a huge monster this skeleton must have been in its lifetime. With such a huge body, not to mention the soup pot she used to stew fish, even the moat in front of the castle could not hold this big fish.

If such a huge fish really exists, how vast is the water area where it lives?

"It's a fish... isn't it amazing?"

Solitaire brought Mars back to the platform. Not to mention the blind girl in front of them, almost every guest who came here would be surprised by the existence of such a huge fish.