53. You, how did you end up here!?
In the ruins of an abandoned factory, Emilia, covered in scars, was curled up under a huge piece of rubble. At this moment, she had lost her earlier spirit, and her limbs and wings were filled with burns and lacerations from magical attacks. Emilia wrapped her wings around herself, trying to hide in the rubble, hoping to evade pursuit.
“Damn it… If only I could use the Blessing Spell…”
The pain constantly coursing through her body made Emilia shudder slightly. If she were the type of angel who could use the Blessing Spell, this level of external injuries would recover with just a little light. But unfortunately, unable to use angelic magic, she could only rely on her relatively good physique to wait for her wounds to heal.
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
The heavy footsteps of the Corpse Takers were still roaming nearby, and the stench of decay had not dissipated.
They were still close…
Emilia shrank back again, the half-collapsed wall and scattered tiles above almost completely obscured her figure. She also tried her best to conceal her presence, but even so, it was only a matter of time before she was discovered by the Corpse Takers.
Now all she could do was pray that those disgusting, massive bodies made of corpses wouldn’t find her just yet; at least they should wait until her strength was restored a bit, right?
“Hey… I wonder how Evelyn is doing right now… Judging by the time, she should be going to sleep soon, right?”
For some reason, in this life-and-death crisis, the first figure that flashed in Emilia’s mind was that little demon who got angry this morning and left her alone at home because of her teasing.
It seemed that over time, even she had unknowingly… changed her view of Evelyn…
At first, she approached Evelyn purely for revenge; after all, that night when she spanked her, it truly made her look foolish…
However, during their subsequent interactions, Emilia discovered that this demon named Evelyn was not as terrible as she had imagined. She wasn’t as brutal and heartless as other demons. She would feel anger for the death of an ordinary person she didn’t know well, and she would unhesitatingly take action for unrelated justice; she studied in a human school like an ordinary girl and helped the weak among humans uphold justice… To be honest, Emilia felt that she didn’t resemble a demon.
She was so innocent, kind, and cute that Emilia even had the thought: in some ways, she resembled an angel more than herself.
When did her view of her change?
Maybe when she overlapped Evelyn’s figure with “his”, or perhaps while watching her cute sleeping face that night, or maybe during one of those mornings when she routinely teased her… In summary, at some moment Emilia didn’t even realize, her feelings for Evelyn quietly transformed.
But sadly, it was only in this life-threatening moment that she finally faced her own feelings.
“I’m still too late… If only I had realized earlier… like this morning? Hehe, if I hadn’t teased her like usual this morning but seriously confessed to her, what kind of cute expression would she make?”
“I feel oddly expectant and curious…”
“But unfortunately, such an opportunity… It probably will never come again…”
Emilia sighed bitterly and closed her eyes. She could feel the footsteps of the Corpse Takers gradually drawing closer; perhaps in the next second she would be discovered, and she could no longer run…
The pain in her body had numbed her senses; she could hardly feel her limbs anymore. Right now, she was a real lamb waiting to be slaughtered, and when that disgusting butcher in a black robe found her, it would be her death.
“Hahahaha! Found you, little mouse! So you were hiding here!!!”
The rubble above was suddenly lifted, and the black-robed man’s disgusting voice reached Emilia’s ears. She slightly squinted in annoyance, not wanting to see the repulsive face of the black-robed man close at hand. Instead, she fixed her gaze on the bright round moon above.
The moonlight in Worry-Free City was always beautiful. Tonight’s moon was very round and bright, the gorgeous and inviting moonlight looked as reassuring as it did that night.
Emilia would not give that bastard a chance to insult her.
With the last bit of magic power she had left, she conjured a golden dagger, but because the black-robed man was alarmed by Emilia’s consecutive counterattacks that night, he was wary and kept his distance from her, giving Emilia the chance to end it herself.
“The noble angel will not yield to a filthy bug like you; she would rather die.”
As she spoke, Emilia gently pressed the dagger against her neck. Having the experience from her previous life, she did not feel fear towards the impending death; all she had was endless unwillingness.
At the same time, she was not unwilling about not being able to defeat this guy in front of her; that had lost its meaning to her now. What she was unwilling about was… not being able to see that cute Devil Miss one last time.
“How regretful…”
Emilia lightly sighed, and just as she was about to cut her frail throat with the dagger in her hand, her gray eyes looking at the moon suddenly brightened, even the movement in her hand slowed down for a moment.
Was it… an illusion?
How could she… be here?
“What are you looking at? What the hell!?”
The black-robed man noticed the surprise in Emilia’s eyes. He casually looked up, and what met his gaze was a very familiar black shoe sole…
With a “bang,” the black-robed man was kicked far away! At the same time, countless magic circles glowing with pale purple light lit up beneath the surrounding Corpse Takers, and thick, eerie black tentacles suddenly emerged from the magic circles, binding all the Corpse Takers tightly.
“Ha—finally caught up!”
Evelyn landed gracefully in front of Emilia, one hand holding her beloved shotgun while the other reached out to the fallen, exhausted Emilia, who appeared rather dazed.
“You, how did you end up here?”
“Dummy angel! Don’t you dare think about suicide when things go wrong! Look, I’ve come to save you, haven’t I?”
The purple-haired Demon Girl smiled and extended her hand to the angel lying on the ground, just like the time not long ago when the scheming Angel Miss reached out to her in a rather awkward state.
However, this time, the roles of the rescuer and the rescued had quietly switched…
