"Demons..."
Kiana's lovely brows furrowed slightly as she looked at the disgusting creature before her.
Unlike the demon she had seen last time, which merely had demonic wings and otherwise looked no different from a human, this one was completely different.
It had a human upper body and disheveled hair, but where its eyes should have been were fifteen or sixteen compound eyes of varying sizes. Its lower body no longer had human legs, but something like a crab... no, more like a scorpion, with bony appendages covered in sharp bristles.
Encountering such a monster in the dead of night in a secluded place, an ordinary person... might be scared half to death, right? Compared to these monsters, Honkai Beasts might actually... seem rather cute?
"So it's a Stray Devil..."
At that moment, Gabriel's voice sounded beside Kiana's ear. Gabriel had turned invisible, and perhaps because the difference in strength was too great, the demon before them had not noticed her at all.
"A Stray Devil?"
Hearing that, Kiana recalled the relevant information. Demons that had left their groups were known as Stray Devils.
Most of them had signed servant contracts with High-Class Devils, then became masterless after killing or betraying their masters.
Throughout that process, emotions such as rage, desire, and hatred gradually robbed them of their sanity and caused them to become demonic. They were known as both rogue demons and Stray Devils.
Stray Devils were generally quite twisted, and the monster before her was no exception. One look was enough to tell that something was wrong with it...
And its scent was utterly nauseating to Kiana.
That stench should only belong to such twisted Stray Devils. If all demons smelled like that, then Rias Gremory's image in Kiana's mind would surely collapse!
While Kiana was observing the