Annan didn't know whether the fellow had drawn the target around his arrow or simply made a lucky guess, but he had guessed right.
"You're from Free City?"
"That's right. I follow the Legion Commander's orders."
Annan felt a little less awkward. "Which Legion Commander?"
"Uh, Lord Femi."
Annan's gaze turned cold. "Evelyn runs Free City's intelligence department. Who are you?"
The Bard immediately panicked.
"Let me explain, Annan." The Four-Handed Bee Demon approached from behind.
"You damned devil! This was all your scheme?! I knew you rotten-arsed devils loved these filthy tricks!"
"Could you let me tell you who I am before you start cursing..." The Four-Handed Bee Demon switched to another voice, sounding faintly exasperated.
At the familiar woman's voice, Annan's eyes widened. "Beludona?!"
"Shh..."
The Four-Handed Bee Demon—or rather, Beludona—gestured for Annan to keep quiet. She sent away the subordinate dressed as a Bard and sat down.
"Weren't you in the Abyss? How did you get to the Main Plane? Is this your real body?" Annan kept asking questions while feeling Beludona all over.
Beludona slapped his wandering hands away and murmured, "Some things happened..."
"Tell me! I love long stories. The longer, the better—tens of thousands of words would be perfect!"
Beludona gave him an odd look.
She wasn't a Bard. She couldn't keep stretching a story that only needed a few sentences just to make money. So she gave him a brief account of her time in the Abyss.
Beludona had been stationed at a devil fortress behind the battlefield, gathering information on Six-Armed Snake Demons for Annan. She had identified one serving as a front-line commander.
Using the Family's influence, the devils had gravely wounded the Six-Armed Snake Demon in an assassination attempt and nearly brought her back. Beludona hadn't wanted to waste the