"Doctor, can you tell where this is?"
"There's nothing here but sand. It's not like I can taste sand and know where it came from."
The blue-eyed middle-aged man shook his head on the roof, squinting into the distant desert:
"To track demons, I've been to many places, but never a desert region. Demons tend to appear where humans gather. In desolate areas like this, there are only sealed demons, and those sealed entities are the hardest to find."
"I've been in the Green Lake Region this whole time. There haven't been any demons there—actually, there was one."
He briefly described the glass bottle filled with multicolored smoke that had emerged from the river, along with the blue genie, during the previous "Seven-Day Trip story." The doctor immediately showed a look of realization:
"That one's fairly famous: the Sage Level Relic, Reward of Greed. Make a wish, have it fulfilled, then suffer bad luck yourself. Its trait is that simple. The demon sealed in the bottle and made part of the relic is called the Wish Demon - Zatanah. Just as humans can become relics, demons naturally can as well. And it only had the misfortune of becoming a relic after being sealed."
"Can you devour it?"
The wind and sand were fierce, so there was no need to worry about Luvia, who was scattering salt, overhearing their conversation.
"Of course not. What I can absorb is a demon's fundamental power, not the power of a relic. Whisper Element isn't so easy to handle. Once it became a relic, it could no longer be considered a pure ancient evil spirit Demon. To give a simple example: you can eat tomatoes, but if a tomato becomes a relic, you definitely can't eat it."
As they spoke, the grains of sand rolling