Shade turned to look. On a bed stained with dark red blood lay Haila Osenfott's brother, a tiny, rat-tailed monster, asleep while clutching a skeleton dressed in a maid dress.
Shade's arrival did not wake it, but the moment Shade looked at it, its rat-like eyes snapped open.
Shade's first reaction was to cast a Silence Charm. He then stepped back, his body appearing at the bedroom door and avoiding the tiny monster's attack.
This man, who should have been twenty-nine years old, had become like this, showing that the demonic corruption affecting him was quite severe. Even though it had missed Shade with its first pounce, it could still cling to the walls like a lizard. After making strange sounds in its throat to threaten Shade, it crawled up the vertical wall to the ceiling, then pounced down at him again from overhead.
During that time, Shade took a small bottle from his suitcase and held the potion in his mouth. As the thing above him lunged, he directly sprayed out the liquid in his mouth.
"Ah~"
The scream nearly pierced Shade's eardrums. The little monster landed on the floor, smoke rising from its entire body as it desperately rolled and crawled about, trying to rub the liquid off its skin. But Shade gave it no such chance. A Holy Silver Imprisoning Halo flew out, binding its neck and limbs while the rat-tailed creature scrambled wildly about.
Water was poured over it, washing away the mixture coating the monster: forty percent Holy Water No. 3, fifty-nine percent Holy Light Potion, and one percent Weak Angel Potion.
Since this thing could practically be considered a lesser demon, Shade could not use the same method he had used against the rotten corpse if he wanted it to provide information.
Shade found