Flillian, I want to live.

"After all, this is the only reason why Aura was chosen by the Demon King as one of the Seven Collapse Sages, right?"

Gutel glanced at Aura, who had a smug look on his face, reached out and pinched Aura's soft cheek, who only had his head left.

"Fuck this guy...Minmin saved us..."

Aura, whose cheeks were pinched, expressed his dissatisfaction in an unclear accent.

"I know, Aura. You seem to be very honest these days, but you're actually secretly accumulating magic power, right?"

However, Philen's tone suddenly took a turn for the worse, and he used a cold voice to torture Aura, who thought he could turn the situation around by secretly developing and saving himself.

"Eh?"

Aura's expression suddenly froze.

"Curse-breaking magic."

After Gutel repaired his body, Philen immediately used the spell to break the curse developed by Fulilian for obedience magic on himself.

The obedience spell that Aura had cast upon himself was immediately removed from Philen's body.

"This this……"

Aura, who didn't expect that Philen had also learned about spell magic from Frillian, widened her eyes. She thought she might have a chance to improve her status, but a look of unwillingness suddenly appeared on her face.

"Do you understand? Aura, this is why I can safely leave you in Philen's care."

At this time, Guter bent down and showed a mocking smile in front of Aura.

"Even if you could control Fellen with obedience magic, she could immediately remove your magic. Moreover, if anything happened to Fellen, you would die instantly without the control of the obedience magic, leaving only your head."

Gutel shook his finger and analyzed for Aura, who was still harbouring illusions, why she could only become a beast of burden for Philen in the future.

"This, this isn't fair!"

Aura's facial features were squeezed together, and he let out a painful cry as if he was pouting.

slap~

Just as Guter was teasing Aura, Philen in front of her suddenly lost her balance and fell on Guter.

"Huh? Philen?"

Guter quickly reached out and supported Fearon's shoulders.

"My body... I'm still a little overwhelmed..."

Although the external injuries were repaired, with the obedience magic lifted, the weakness brought by the plague and curse made Philen, who had just been forced to fight under the obedience magic, no longer have the strength to stand.

"Wait a minute, is anyone there? It's so dark, so scary..."

On the other side, Aura, who was thrown aside because Philen had no strength, rolled to the side and got stuck face down in the gutter at the side of the square.

In any case, the crisis in the small town was temporarily resolved. As the rising sun slowly rose from the east, the citizens who had fallen into a coma due to the curse woke up full of energy.

"I'm back……"

Fulilian, who had picked all kinds of medicinal herbs in Haita's notes overnight, had thick dark circles under her eyes. She was carrying a basket full of medicinal herbs on her back, and in her arms was a giant mushroom that was picked from under the icicle cherry tree and was bigger than her face. She stumbled and pushed open the door of the hotel.

"Flillian? Ah..."

Having just woken up from the floor of the hotel lobby, the still dazed Xutark looked up and saw Fulilian whose eyelids were twitching. Before he could finish his words, Fulilian stuffed the big mushroom in her arms into Xutark's hands.

"Phelan... How's Philen?"

Fulilian leaned on the corner of the table with her hand and asked Hugh Tark weakly.

"Huh? I, I'm not sure. He should still be in his room, right?"

Hugh Tark looked at the large mushroom in his hand that emitted a strange smell with some fear, and answered stutteringly.

"Go to the kitchen and boil some water first... Use the biggest pot."

Fulilian took off the basket on her back, and a relieved expression suddenly appeared on her face. While giving instructions to Hugh Tark, she walked towards the stairs leading to Philen's room.

"Philenchi, I'm back... Guter, all we have to do now is boil and mix all the ingredients to make a special medicine for the plague..."

Fulilian pushed open the bedroom door and walked into Philen's room, muttering to herself.

"Ok?"

Fulilian blinked in surprise.

At this moment, Philen was lying peacefully on the big bed by the window. Although her cheeks were still red due to the fever, there was no trace of pain on her face.

And beside Philen's bed, Gutel, who was sitting in a chair, lowered his head and dozed off.

Although both of them were sleeping soundly, their hands were still tightly clasped together.

"You're imitating it quite well. It's clearly a demon..."

Fulilian scratched her head, a helpless expression on her face.

Chapter 143 Meeting is fate

Twenty-nine years after the death of the brave Sinmeier.

The Alte Forest in the northern countries.

"A long time ago, I dreamed of becoming an adventurer—everyone has had this dream as a child, right?"

In the dense forest beside the road to the magical city of Oissast, a young brown-haired monk was lowering his head, recounting his past in a nostalgic tone.

"Really? I don't remember ever having such extravagant fantasies, Mr. Monk."

However, the blind girl next to the monk asked back uncooperatively.

"Ah, that must be because you didn't have a close friend like that when you were a kid. Unlike me, who likes to be content with the status quo, he always took me on adventures."

Although his question did not resonate with the girl next to him, the young monk ignored the girl's doubts and continued speaking.

"Even though that guy acts like a gorilla without thinking and has plenty of energy, even though he's a gorilla, he's still a good gorilla who only cares about his friends."

"Really? Monk Master, your friend isn't human either?"

At this point, the girl next to him suddenly showed an inexplicable sense of agreement.

"No, I'm still human for now... gorilla is an adjective, probably."

The young monk, who was a little overwhelmed, blinked and added.

"What? It's so boring."

However, the girl suddenly looked lost.

"Ah, anyway, as I was growing up and about to forget my childhood dream, that guy suddenly appeared in front of me and asked if I wanted to become an adventurer with him."

The monk closed his eyes. Although this happened ten years ago, he still remembers the situation clearly to this day.

"Did you refuse?"

The atmosphere became so lively that the girl next to him finally became more cooperative.

"Well, I refused. Although I felt some regret at first, thanks to you, I finally figured it out."

The monk nodded, then looked at the girl who was hugging his chest tightly with both hands with a warm smile.

乛"What does this have to do with me, Master Monk?"

The girl tilted her head innocently and asked the monk in confusion.

"Because if you follow that kind of thoughtless gorilla, sooner or later you'll be dragged into a bottomless quagmire, unable to extricate yourself, just like we are now."

The monk named Zain lowered his head and looked at the black swamp below that had swallowed up most of his body.

Not long ago, he was lost in the forest and passed by this place. Almost without warning, a dark shadow suddenly rushed out from the bushes and bumped into him, and fell into the quagmire beside him together with him.

At first, Zain thought it was a wild boar or something like that, but when he lowered his head to check, he discovered that the culprit who had put him in jail was actually a dusty girl.

Originally, Zain still had a chance to escape from this quagmire, but because the girl hugged his body tightly, restricting his movements like a drowning man, Zain fell into this dilemma where he could only slowly wait for death to come.

"It's okay. Actually, I won't live long anyway. Even if I die here, at least I'll have someone to accompany me."

Compared to the frantic Zain, the girl named Mars seemed very calm. Although the mud still reached her neck, she still maintained an optimistic smile on her face and even comforted Zain in return.

"I don't know about you, but I'm not planning on dying here! Is there anyone here?"

Zain used his exposed hand to take out the holy book, which was essential for monks, from his clothes, and then he struggled to open the thick holy book with one hand.

"Three shots from the goddess."

Three golden beams of light shot out from the holy book in Zain's hand, passing through the lush canopy of the forest, and made three crisp explosions in the sky.

"Goddess, even though I smoke, drink, gamble, and like to perm my hair, you should know that I'm actually a pious and kind monk..."

Zain prayed loudly, hoping that the divine spell he had just cast could attract the attention of passersby nearby.

Perhaps the goddess really heard Zain’s prayer. After a while, accompanied by a commotion in the bushes nearby, a black-haired girl poked her head out.

"Ah, I found it, Mars, you actually ran here."

Guter looked at Mars, who was in Zain's arms and about to be swallowed by the swamp, and said with some fatigue.

"Excellent! Is this your companion, Miss Marrs?"

Seeing Guter crawling out of the bushes, Zain rubbed Mars's head, which was covered with a knitted hat, with his hands in ecstasy.

"So we are companions, Master Guter?"

After hearing Zain’s question, Mars turned his face towards Guter’s direction with a smile.

"You...you can't be..."

However, at the same time, Zain, who felt the presence of a sharp foreign object under the Marls knitted hat, showed a look of horror on his face.

"Oh? Did you find out?"

And Mars also asked Zain in an attitude of playing hard to get.

"Are you a demon?"

Zain pulled the knitted hat off Mars’ head. On top of her head, two sharp bone horns seemed to indicate her identity as a demon.

"Yes~ Not only me, but this Miss Gutel is also a true great demon~"

Mars actively acknowledged Zain's guess, and by the way, she also revealed Guter's identity.

"Eh?"

It was like being out of a tiger's den and into a wolf's mouth. Although Zain didn't have much experience fighting or getting along with the demons, when he was young, he and the gorilla warrior heard all kinds of stories about the demons from an old bishop who passed by and claimed to have traveled with the brave Xinmeier.

If the demons were as cruel and ruthless as the old man named Haita said, even if he didn't die in this swamp today, he would become the dinner of these two seemingly harmless demon girls.

"I'm going to be eaten..."

Zain lowered his head, tears sliding down his cheeks. At this moment, he regretted not checking the almanac before going out today.

"what are you talking about?"

However, Gutel was unusually calm at this moment. She crossed her arms, recalled the magic that "could pull people out of the bottomless swamp", and said in a disdainful tone.

"You won't eat my mother? Lord Haita said that the demons hate monks the most. If you are caught by the demons, it would be better to end your own life as soon as possible instead of being tortured to death by the demons..."

Zain asked Guter aggrievedly.

"You still know Haita?"

Gutel was surprised to hear Haita's name from this young monk whom he had never met before.

"Huh? Do you know Master Haita too?"

Seeing that Gutel seemed to be very familiar with Haita, Zain’s face became more puzzled. In his opinion, it was impossible for Mr. Haita to be in cahoots with the demons.

Chapter 144: My Body Has Already Been Pineapple

bang~

The magic that they had learned from Fulilian, which they thought would never come in handy, worked. The two people who were stuck in the quagmire were flung into the air and then fell to the ground in a somewhat awkward manner.

"Of course I know Haita... and..."

As Guter said this, he walked up to Mars, who was trying to escape halfway, and pulled her up by her collar.

"This kid isn't a demon, he's just suffering from a simple Chuunibyou."