Chapter 52

"Oh there you are, and here I was about to send one of these two to pick you up and drag you over!" Timothy had run a few minutes late and although he rushed over to meet Nora, and it seemed that she appreciated his effort, she still had an angry look on her face. "How many times do I need to explain to you that only us women can make you men wait around for us and not the other way around?"

"I'm so sorry it will not happen again. I was actually working on a blueprint in order to make you something as a sign of our friendship. But now I know that if I make you wait for me one more time this long, I should expect to be scolded until the day that I die. And if you somehow were to die before I do, you will haunt me in my dreams as a ghost." Timothy enjoyed teasing Nora but after giving his gentlemen type speech to her as an apology, he took no time delaying and planted a kiss onto her cheek before giving her a very close hug.

The guards were unsure what to do since they had to report everything that happened between the two of them back to Nora's father but Nora threatened them that if they do not leave out anything that would badly implicate Timothy, that she would make sure to do just the most cruel of things to them and their families. Therefore, the two guards just pretended that they saw nothing and only began escorting the two lovebirds into Willow City once they finished their little introduction. One of the guards daydreamed for a moment what it was like when she had met her now husband for the first time and she could only smile watching these teenagers embrace themselves.

It was an open campus secret, but many assumed that Timothy and Nora were a couple instead of just friends and since neither denied these claims when asked, it became a true campus secret. Nora was nice to those who were nice to her and chose to never give anyone too much trouble unless they deserved it, but who would be willing to spread this news outside of the campus since finding who originally had done this if things got out of hand would not be difficult for Nora since there were many willing to help with such matters in order to curry favor with her.

The two frequented similar places when they celebrated one of the other's achievements and the place they enjoyed attending together the most was a place called the Show Enterprise which was a stadium type building that held many different types of shows whether romantic plays, puppet shows, among other attractions. In his previous world, Timothy never experienced anything like it and Nora just enjoyed his company so it was decided that even if they started by going out to a fancy dining area, they would end the night by heading over to this place.

During the different shows, Nora would rent out an extremely private area where without her permission, even her guards would be unable to enter. Since the couple were unable to do anything publicly, it would always end up being here where they would do things like kissing and such. They were genuinely in love with each other which was yet another reason for Timothy to do everything that he could in order to one day take her hand in marriage. Nora was sixteen years old which was the normal marriage age in his previous world, so the difference in age between his life then and now compared to hers was a little less strange to him.

Of course, he never shared anything about his past life with even his master so it was out of the question to bring it up with Nora. However, during the time that they went official five months ago, many things concerning his past were slowly slipping away as if it was all just a really weird and realistic dream. Plus, the demon that tormented him seemed to not be able to locate him any longer since strange and random visits like even during his match that time in the tournament did not occur since then.

-Back On Timothy's Old World-

Sitting on a throne made by countless human bones sat the now Demon King who after sucking the life force out of enough humans was able to evolve just as Timothy had seen well over a year prior. The demon had its eyes closed but immediately opened them before letting out a large and hurtful growl which startled all of its advisors who were present and awaiting his orders.

"My liege, were you able to locate that hero and bring him over to our side? If not, that Demon God who had given us this opportunity will not be happy. Do not worry I will do everything that I can in order to take the fall for you. After all, you are far too important to our demon race to allow you to receive even the smallest of injuries from a punishment. If our armies were to see you in such a state, morale would fall terribly and some may rise up to dethrone you!"

Several of the advisors spoke up in support of their king, the one who was able to bridge their hellish world filled with hot flames and this world that was filled with humans and a massive amount of nature energy. Sure this demon that led them who just recently evolved was only taking orders from a Demon God, but when it came to the overall war between humans and demons, every win like this one allowed the demon race to continue to expand. There was no telling how many of them would be able to evolve themselves while several of the advisors were already able to!

"Silence! That human has found a way to repair his body and is growing at a very fast pace. I do not think it will be possible to bring him into our ranks and this time that I visited him, I was pushed back by the heavens themselves. It will take me about six months to recover from this internal wound I received but in the meantime, we are still in position to keep our growth going just as what was requested of us. Luckily, there is an endless amount of worlds between our position and his so even if he became a Deity level figure, it would still take thousands of years for him to reach here."

"By that time, if he does not arrive with a large army of powerful humans alongside him, we will simply chop him up into many pieces and use the matchless amount of energy he would have built up over so many years in order to power up our armies even more. For the next six months, you are all tasked to make sure that every last human who could defeat a soldier ranked demon in our armies is killed so once I am fully recovered, we can make yet another bridge and invade the next world of humans."

"The Demon God informed me that it sensed a world near us which is holding a large number of demons already and if we were to assist them, the humans they have been struggling against in a war for over one thousand years will finally come to a close. The only reason they have yet to make such headway, is because like the hero who pushed back on our own armies, there is a human hero who is pushing back against theirs. Make haste my advisors, for our time is coming!"