Restraining Chains
After months of training, Little Fool, a Demon, had shown no signs of killing or hurting anyone. Like a well-behaved child, she respectfully followed Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue's example and called Li Yan "young master" every day.
Even Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue had completely let down their guard, treating Little Fool like a younger sister and carefully teaching her every aspect of a maid's duties.
But Li Yan, who knew the ingrained nature of this world's Demons, was always eighty percent guarded and twenty percent sincere toward Little Fool. Demons were forever beyond what humans could imagine. Even creatures like dogs could only truly be accepted and raised by humans after a long period of education and training, and hundreds of years of breeding.
"Pour the tea, Little Fool."
Li Yan gave the order calmly. During this time, he had been training Little Fool in every aspect of a maid's duties, raising her to become an all-around Demon maid.
The little Demon child blinked her big eyes and obediently poured the tea she was holding into Li Yan's cup. She obeyed Li Yan's words completely for no other reason than that he was stronger than her, and even more so because, without him, her life would be snuffed out in an instant.
"The tea tastes so-so. Give me a massage, Little Fool."
Li Yan closed his eyes indifferently, enjoying the leisure and comfort of a noble. As the first noble in history to have a Demon maid, he felt a deep sense of satisfaction.
The young Demon wore a maid outfit with white silk stockings and was rather pretty. She looked just like a young loli maid and was especially obedient and well-behaved. If Li Yan wanted, he could even raise her into someone like Feiji Bei with ease.
But unfortunately, while Li Yan in his previous life might have thought that way, the Li Yan of today was already a ruthless magic machine. He now had everything he could want and craved only the realm of magic.
He was ravenous for it, ravenous only for the realm of magic. He wanted to strip away the cloak concealing magic's knowledge, absorb its nourishment, give magic a thorough thrashing, and finally savor the pleasure of learning it.
"It's about time I went back. I wonder how Master and Junior Sister are doing now."
Li Yan lounged lazily in a soft recliner. Over the past few days, he had grown much more proficient in Space Magic, but the magic of Machine Life was always just short of success. He always felt that something was missing from bringing life into a machine. Should he set a program running, or stuff a truly intelligent life-form into it?
"Young master, the Earl needs to see you."
Xiao Xue leaned close to Li Yan's ear and whispered gently.
Li Yan, who had fallen asleep in a daze, rose from the recliner. He had overtaxed his brain thinking about the overly complicated magical principles behind Machine Life and had fallen asleep.
Once awake, he immediately glanced at Little Fool, who was still massaging him without complaint. She was working very earnestly, like a real maid. If one ignored the two little horns on her head, she might really have been no different from a human.
"Mm. Take Little Fool to eat, and reward her with a little happiness candy."
Li Yan rose from the recliner, stretched lazily, and walked out of the room. The reason he felt so at ease leaving Little Fool with Xiao Xue and Xiao Wu was that her chains had already been magically reinforced.
That was Serie's Binding Magic, replicated on the chains. The moment a restrained creature took any harmful action, the chains would immediately activate a paralyzing lightning restraint.