It's time.

"He scared me!! Your uncle, I mean," Ignis said while walking alongside Lucifer back to his "new" room. Lucifer just walked beside him, not giving a single reaction.

Ignis pouted and stood in front of him. Lucifer's skirt fluttered as he bumped into Ignis.

"You weren't really listening, were you?" Ignis asked looking down at Lucifer.

"Ah, my apologies. I was just lost in thought," Lucifer said, suddenly jolting back to reality.

"You have been like this since we talked to your uncle," Ignis remarked as he continued on to move after Lucifer. "What is this 'housework' he said was due that you are so lost in though?"

"Nothing that concerns you," Lucifer said turning around the corner.

"There you go, drawing lines again," Ignis said, frowning. "I bet you wouldn't even care if I dropped dead here."

Lucifer stopped. He turned around and looked Ignis right in the eyes. He did not say a single word, just stared into his eyes.

Ignis flustered and yelled, " Or would you, perhaps?!"

Ignis felt both excited and scared to hear Lucia's answer. He looked at those blood-red eyes that seemed to stare into his soul.

"What would you think if your beloved librarian died?" Lucifer asked.

Being preceptive is very useful in life. It gives you reign over conversations and situations as you get twice the info as any natural person. You can manipulate the end results of anything with that additional information.

But there is also a major downfall to knowing what others feel. You know a situation's unfavorable and hurtful results without even asking.

Lucifer and Ignis, both of them were very perceptive. It was his monstrous instinct for Ignis. While Lucifer derived his perfect perception from his genius mind.

Lucifer knew already what that question in that situation would result in. Especially the way he asked it.

Ignis felt it through his instinct, Lucifer actually meant to kill her if this didn't work out. That was how Lucifer asked the question. With the intent to kill clear in his voice.

Ignis' face crumpled into a twisted and horrified expression.

Lucifer turned around without watching anything more. As it was exactly how he had predicted. What was there to see? He already knew what it would be like. Why did he still ask it? A hope, that this time the result might be different from his perception.

It wasn't.

"I'll be away for a day," Lucifer said, standing in front of Ignis' new room's door. "Ask my uncle or the maids if you need anything."

As Lucifer was going to leave, Ignis held the end of his sleeve and looked at him with sad melancholy eyes.

"Where are you going?" Ignis asked.

'Ah, he's afraid I'm going to kill her,' Lucifer didn't even need his perception to figure it out.

"Nowhere that concerns you," Lucifer said. But what made him wither in heartache was the look of relief on Ignis' face.

'Do you not care where else I go as long as it doesn't harm your beloved girl?' Lucifer clenched his teeth and turned around.

He walked so fast as if he was running away. Ignis was trying to say something more but Lucifer was too infuriated to listen to him.

As he changed his clothes to something other than a girl's, he picked up his artifact sword. He had made it himself for this very day.

He walked out to his garden where Agnito Ilea's house, The Eye of Truth was placed. Lucifer held the doorknob of the front door and opened it.

In front of him was Ava, standing near the fireplace, with a newborn child in her arms.

She looked at him and smiled.

"So you were real, after all," Ava giggled. "Soon you said. Six months isn't anywhere near 'soon' I'd say."

"It's time Ava," Lucifer said, holding out the artifact sword to her.

Ava kissed her baby and laid him on the bed. She walked to Lucifer who was holding out the sword to her. She held the sword and swung it around.

"It's a fine piece," Ava remarked.

"That piece of meat over there made this," Lucifer said pointing to the baby.

"Haha, I see you stay the same as ever," Ava said looking down at Lucifer's small figure standing in front of her. She held out her hand and patted Lucifer's head. "Well done, growing up, Lucifer."

And then she walked out of the door into the snowy garden.

Lucifer followed her with flushed cheeks.

Evelyn stared at the bookshelf. Then at the floor. Then again at the bookshelf.

Calling her lethargic was being nice. She was straight-up procrastinating.

The odd sense of something missing was eating away at her. She was working her wits out to figure out but there was no result. It was already the third day.

She looked at the book she was reading.

"And the prince fell for the poor girl and blah blah blah," Evelyn mumbled out some words from the book. "They are all the same romcoms. There's nothing original in all these books."

She stared at the page for some time.

"Wait. Original?" She mumbled.

As sudden realizations struck her, she stood up in shock.

"Wait, it can't be," She muttered in a stupor. "How could I even miss it?!"

She pulled out her diary from the drawer in her desk. In that diary, she had written all she could remember from the original story.

As she flipped through the pages, her face was horrified as suspicion transformed into conviction.

As it was in the original novel, Ignis was the one to find out that the king had no power over the border dungeons. And that they were going to break because of natural decay that year.

But that was five years in the future according to the novel's timeline. As Ignis was kidnapped when he went as an envoy five years from now.

But the books were telling that this was the year when the dungeons should break.

That meant that someone or something was holding the dungeon's break back in the original novel for five years. If it was the king or even anybody else, that meant someone had the power to control the border dungeons.

Evelyn trembled at this realization.

What if it was actually the king of Behmuth who had that power? Even if it wasn't the king, it was too dangerous that someone had the power to control those dungeons.

That was because, in the original novel, those border dungeons had a very dangerous monster in them. The one who wiped out both Behmuth and Alkezar's armies up to halves.

There was a greater demon in those dungeons.

Evelyn darted out of the library as she hurriedly left for the Shuzar estate. She needed to tell them. About the dungeons and the greater demon. Or there would be something very horrifying happening.