Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here 3/3

"Oh my, you found me so quickly."

Pink petals swirled together, and the white-haired Great Sage in a hood, holding a wand, stepped out from within. Grinning, she sidled up to the table and familiarly reached for the plate of pastries.

However, with a crisp smack, Melly clutched the back of her reddened hand. Still unwilling to give up, she slipped over like a loach to sit beside Samael, draping her slender arm intimately around the back of his neck as she grinned and tried to ingratiate herself.

"We're partners. We've eaten and lived together for so many days; we've already built up such deep feelings. What's yours is mine, so don't be so stingy."

"Partners? You seemed pretty happy hiding in the back and watching the show."

Samael smacked away Melly's other hand as it reached for the pastries again, snorting coldly.

This Great Sage had received word of their arrival the moment they entered the city. Yet she had lazily hidden in the shadows, munching sunflower seeds as she eagerly watched them play mind games with Aurora.

"Wasn't that because, as your partner, I trusted in your strength? After all, in Britain, apart from that King of Knights stationed in the north, who could possibly hurt you? Right?"

Without even blinking, Melly excused herself. Her utterly unrepentant tone carried even more scummy energy than that old fraud Merlin.

Then, before Samael could lash out, the Great Sage's eyes darted about. She quietly leaned closer and asked with immense curiosity.

"By the way, why does Aurora seem so afraid of you? Logically speaking, given a fairy's nature, she shouldn't obey someone else so easily.

What exactly did you do to her before? Tell me secretly, okay?"

So after all that, the only reason you stopped slacking off and came