Chapter 55: A chilling discovery
After the group parted ways, everyone went home. Audrey returned to the Hall Family's villa through the Vanishing Cabinet, while Edward returned to Tingen.
As soon as he entered the bedroom, Lilith, who had been curled up on his pillow, lazily got up. Lowering her head and sticking up her bottom, she stretched at length. "Meow? ('□`川)"
Then she padded over and rubbed against Edward's trouser leg.
Edward rubbed her little head. "You, honestly. If you'd stayed at Hogwarts, at least you'd have all sorts of cats, birds, and people to play with. Following me means you often have to stay home alone. It's not that I don't want to take you along. It's because... this world is too dangerous."
Lilith rubbed against his hand and yawned, then flopped down with a plop and curled into a furry little caterpillar. Soon, she was asleep again.
"It's time to give Lilith a Potion."
"But should I really choose the Demoness Pathway? I remember it being more dangerous for women... hmm, females, to take the Demoness Pathway."
As a female-oriented pathway, the Demoness Pathway should, in theory, have given women an advantage-until that damned gender-bender Cheek became the Primordial Demoness. Perhaps out of a twisted sense of humor, perhaps out of a desire for revenge, under Her influence, all women who chose the Demoness Pathway were more prone to losing control and going mad.
Still, the middle and low Sequences seemed relatively safer. Edward only hoped to give Lilith a few more ways to stay alive in this world.
He held his chin and thought for a while. "Hmm? Come to think of it, would the Apothecary formula I just got work? I already have both the formula and the ingredients. And a vampire girl... sounds pretty