VIP Chapter 217: Why is there no Adventurer in the Tenth Demon City?
The clear moonlight shone in from outside the window.
Will lay on the sofa in the liaison officer’s office on the second floor of the Adventurer’s Guild, breathing in the slightly dusty air.
When he first entered, the entire floor was covered in dust.
The Adventurer’s Guild here…
Could it be that the Guild Master is the only one here?
In such a desolate small town, due to the lack of developed transportation and tourism. After Lucifer invited him and Shuna out of the dungeon, they couldn’t even find a hotel on the street.
If they really wanted to stay here, they could only stay at the Adventurer’s Guild – the guild’s sofas were prepared for such situations.
Shuna said she had already been staying here for several days, and there were sofas on both sides, so she could make do with sleeping on them.
“The sofa isn’t big enough, otherwise we could consider sleeping together.”
“It’s a little warmer than now, right? After all, it’s an autumn evening.”
“Oh right, the Guild Master won’t come to work until noon, so he won’t find out if we slip out before then.”
Anyway, that’s what Shuna told him at the time.
“As expected… I can’t sleep…”
After trying various insomnia-curing methods that Will liked to use, such as simulating a pendulum clock in front of his eyes, counting numbers in his mind, and maintaining a steady breathing rhythm, he still chose to open his eyes and gaze at the blurry wooden ceiling.
What Lucifer had told him kept replaying in his mind.
Although that child might have just said the information as if she was about to “eat a massive piece of gossip.”
But in Will’s mind, every word was replaying, focusing on Treya’s current situation.
“It’s so concerning, I wonder what Treya has encountered.”
He quietly muttered to himself and sat up, not wanting to wake Shuna on the sofa on the other side.
But…
Turning his head, Will found that Shuna was not lying on the sofa on the side. The old blanket she had brought was empty, with no one underneath.
“Mmm…”
Will reached out and felt around on the dark table, finding his glasses.
He put on his glasses and raised his head.
Accompanied by the gentle autumn night breeze blowing past his ears, her long black hair spread out in the thin, veil-like moonlight.
She was wearing stockings on only one leg, and leaned against the wall with her body half-bent.
Shuna…
She was standing by the window?
“You can’t sleep either?”
He walked over to Shuna and noticed she seemed to be holding a bottle of beer, but looking at it in the moonlight, the bottle was full, and it seemed like it hadn’t been touched at all.
“Oh? You’re drinking behind my back here?”
“Don’t mention it. I found it in the cabinet, and it tasted like it had expired, so I just brought it here to make it look like something.”
Will looked at Shuna in the moonlight.
She did look a bit like a melancholy big sister out for a drink on a sleepless night.
Will had always felt that Shuna was the type of person who wouldn’t get sad.
“What’s wrong? Am I looking particularly good tonight? You’ve been staring at me?”
Upon seeing Will, the melancholy on her face flickered away, replaced by a playful smile.
“Speaking of which… you really didn’t treat her as a ‘person’ today.”
A hint of a smile seemed to be layered beneath her voice.
“Who?”
“Lucifer. When you said that, I was quite startled.”
“Mmm… the part about wanting her heart?”
“That’s right.”
Shuna said, shaking her beer bottle. The full bottle naturally made no sound.
“She always says she’s the Empress of the dungeon herself. Isn’t that much more distinguished than being a person?”
Speaking of which, Will had been contemplating it as well.
Lucifer’s reaction seemed quite extreme, and she kept describing him as a scumbag who was good at manipulating emotions – why was that? Although, it seemed he was indeed good at it now.
“Mmm… Don’t you feel it? Saying that in that situation carried an inherent perverted vibe.”
“What’s wrong? In normal circumstances, isn’t it suggested to start with the Emperor’s heart when clearing a dungeon? Honestly, haven’t you touched or even stabbed a few emperors’ hearts? Besides, didn’t she bring up the heart first…”
Mid-sentence, Will paused.
“Think about it again. Touching a seven or eight-year-old girl’s chest and then seriously saying you want her heart…”
This was bad.
It was indeed not right.
At that moment, he really didn’t see Lucifer as a “person.” After all, the demons in the Tenth Demon City seemed to be small in stature.
But on closer inspection, apart from having some demonic characteristics…
Lucifer was completely human-shaped!
There was no problem considering her an excellent beast-human girl!
Why did he act so naturally?
Perhaps…
Because…
When she said those words, she truly resembled an empress guarding her dungeon, looking at the desolate scene within, wanting to change it but being powerless?
As the Empress of a dungeon with no visitors, she had done almost everything she could to attract adventurers, but with little success.
Perhaps…
For an empress who single-handedly supported a dungeon, it would be a good thing not to be treated as a child.
Fortunately, besides Shuna, there was no one else. Otherwise, if this matter got out, the Hysterm Family’s door would be constantly kicked down by unknown individuals
