Demon in the shadow

"My Queen, shouldn't we investigate what that Demon is doing? She even took Hinata with her" Louis said, looking at Luminous.

Luminous just took a few sips from her tea and looked at Louis and Roy"Sometimes I really think that you are stupid besides being one of the strongest here." Luminous answered simply.

"But what if..."

"Not what if... haaa seriously do you guys know anything about demons? We can be considered lucky that she did nothing over those many years" Luminous stated, interrupting Roy.

"Still it could be that she is summoning another demon from her lineage! What, when he is as strong as Rex? We won't stand a chance." Roy said.

"It is your own fault that you guys can't beat Rex in sparring and you are forgetting that she is a Primordial Demon. I have no chance against her at all. She doesn't need the help of other demons to kill me." Luminous said.

Roy and Louis went silent remembering who exactly Sophie was. Despite acting friendly and as a subordinate of Luminous she still was the Primordial of Lust.

"And I can verify that she indeed is the Primordial in bed ... ehm I mean Lust yeah!" Luminous said with a loving smile and a slight blush on her face.

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"So what exactly are we doing Sophie-sama?" Hinata asked me while walking behind me

"Luminous-sama told me that there was a small Kingdom that refused Luminism and that they are working together with Demons, so we are going to go there and collect some corpses." I said, smiling.

"So you are going to kill all of them ?" Hinata asked surprised, "Wouldn't it be enough to kill the demons and the ones that summoned them?"

"Hmm.." I thought about what Hinata said. She was quite right about that it would be enough to kill those demons for his body... but I am thirsting for some blood.

"How about we kill all of those nobles that know of that and the Royalty as well as the demons." I said.

"That's okay I guess." Hinata answered shortly.

As we then afterwards entered the Kingdom and walked through the streets I saw something interesting: a mission for adventurers given by the royalty of this Kingdom.

'Has it something to do with his appearance? This is gonna be more entertaining than I thought' I thought smiling.

Then Hinata and I proceeded while dressed up like Adventurers, well not really just a cape was enough to hide our identity. As we then entered the throne room and stayed low key among all those disgusting humans they suddenly made a clear path for one person.

Everyone began to whisper with each other and then an interesting person entered. I could feel the spirit of Ifrit in her... quite a feat for a human to control Ifrit.

"Sensei, no way" Hinata mumbled to herself and I could feel that she got emotionally unstable.

'Hooo... so Hinata knows this human huh? Fufufu this day is getting more and more exciting' I thought smiling and then looked at Hinata "Remember why we are here Hinata" I said in a somewhat serious tone

"Yes... I am sorry Sophie-sama, it's just.."

"She is your old Sensei right? That one you met at Ingrassia? Don't worry with me here, she won't die even against him." I said.

"Wait.. against him? Do you know that Demon ?" Hinata asked surprised and before I could answer the Minister of this Kingdom entered.

"Adventurers! I bring unfortunate news. Our champions, the two Silver Wings, have passed on." The minister said.

"What?"

"Those two?"

"Are you serious?!"

The Adventurers in the room instantly spoke up in sadness, fear and curiosity. What a bunch of idiots.

"It appears that their bodies were devoured with no trace left behind. The request given to you is to defeat the resurrected demon. In a century old text we found that the champion Orthos has once successfully sealed away the demon but we don't know how he achieved such a feat. So we want to rely on your strength, Adventurers." The Minister said.

"There is not enough information about the enemy!"

"Are you telling us today?"

"No way we can deal with a demon.."

"The Silver Wings were acknowledged Heroes, famous enough to receive titles! How do we stand a chance against the one who killed them?!"

They were all going crazy... well I can understand it, after all we are talking about Noir here... by the way he sure got better in hiding his presence but still just standing here in midst of the adventurers. He got quite bold huh?

The adventurers all got silent as this Shizue, I guess that was her name, stretched out her hand to ask a question.

"Hoo.. you must be the renowned Hero Shizue Izawa! I'll gladly answer any questions from you" The Minister said.

"If the Silver Wings failed then it must be a superior spirit.. maybe an Archdemon," Shizue said.

'Hoho not bad woman, not bad but still entirely wrong' I thought, amused.

"mhm" the minister responded with a slight nod.

"Then my Question would be... is the demon named?" Shizue asked and the room got even more silent if not the mood made a 180 turn. I can understand it after all Monsters are getting a lot stronger when they are named if not evolve.

"No, there are no accounts indicating that the demon had been named" the minister answered... Seriously, how long will this charade proceed?

And then... finally he decided to make a move.

"Kehehe... kehaha... kehahah"

"What, who is he... I couldn't even feel his presence at all until now!" Hinata said shocked and her hand was already on her rapier

"Stop it Hinata... he is someone you can't kill, even when he has such a weak body." I said and could see how she was struggling.

"But..sensei?"

"As I said she won't die as long as I am here... so just watch and learn something." I said.

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"Kehehehe..." The Demon continued laughing like a mad man until he then finally began to speak.

"By looking up to all of us here.. you were hoping to build up a kind of cooperating mood, right?" The Demon said.

'Unbelievable... he is strong' I saw Shizue with a troubled face under her white mask.

"W-what are you saying?" The Minister said surprised slowly walking back.

"Ah.. don't worry, it's just that it seems that the request is finished a lot easier and earlier than I thought kufufu" the demon made a short pause. "Captain of the knight was it, right? You said if anyone here would dare do something funny they would be seen as demon and cut down... well I don't have any desire to listen to you nor play along in this charade..."

"Charade?" The knight captain who was guarding the exit asked, outraged.

"Yes... it was you who summoned the lesser demon just now fufufu" the demon answered.

"Are you trying to mock me?" the knight captain said, taking up his longsword, not knowing that he was facing a demon.

"No no fufufu... actually it saves me quite some time so I'm all in for it. The request was to defeat a summoned demon but she didn't say '' I couldn't kill only that demon" the demon said with a wide smile on his face.

At that moment Shizue stepped in front of the knight captain "Do you intend to slaughter everyone in this room to find the demon?"

Hinata seeing this would have liked to shout at her to stop what she was doing but Sophie stopped her immediately

"Correct," the demon said.

"My name is Shizue.. what is yours?" Her [hero haki] slowly started to activate itself as she was talking

"Hmm.. you can call me Kuro, that's what my old friends are calling me" Noir said as his [demon haki] as well activated.

For the Humans in this room they just sensed how it suddenly got windy in this place but for someone like Sophie it was different. The room was filled with magicules dark and white, hero against demon and dominating against fearsome haki's.

"I can't tolerate what you are doing here" Shizue said in a calm voice

"Is that so? You shall be the first I kill then," Noir said as he threw his fire magic towards the woman. On contact it exploded, but Shizue was still standing without a scratch.

"Fire is useless against me," Shizue said as she took out her sword.

"Fufufu... I see a superior spirit? Hooo, I see, I see Ifrit... to think that a human can handle him." Noir said interested and his eyes fell upon the mask "Well guess I should play a little with you then."

And as such the battle between Shizue and Noir began and metallic sounds were heard as Noir's sharp hand weapon met Shizue's sword.

"Sophie-sama , please let me help sensei!" Hinata said watching the fight

I sighed "You are like a little child! You heard it yourself he said he'll play with her he won't kill her there is something more interesting about her as to killing her." I said with a disgusted look on my face.

"By any chance did you feel that on your own?" Hinata asked surprised seeing her face

"Yes, it's an old habit of his" Sophie answered

"Then is he ...?"

"Enough Hinata."

The fight continued and everyone was looking at it with wide eyes, because it was at such a speed that they could barely keep up with what was happening. The room slowly heated up because of Shizue's fire magic.

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"Guess I have to wait a little longer... come on Hinata we are leaving, there is nothing that we need here, at least for now fufu." I said, and started to walk to the entrance

"But what about Sensei? I can't..."

Seriously, this crybaby is getting on my nerves. "If you won't listen I'll kill that woman myself." I said while my eyes turned red.

Hinata instantly froze and kept quiet as we walked to the entrance. I used [Charm] on them so that they would let us leave. We could have teleported but it would be too obvious and just on a side note... how weak are those humans? The best they could be is C or B- rank according to that silly rank system.

To be more clear they would even lose against a lesser demon, maybe make a bit of a fight in a group but anything stronger than a lesser demon could just kill them with their breath... pfft no need for such lowly beings in my [Charm World].

'Die' Is the only thing I thought while collecting their souls with a smile on my face. Afterwards I looked at Hinata and sighed once again... I should have come alone. "That guy has never killed anyone when he put the word play in his mouth, so do not worry about your sensei." I felt a little bad for her.

Anyways afterwards we teleported to a more isolated place and I started to release my aura a bit not only to calm down Hinata but to attract him.

And a few minutes later "Kufufufu... I heard that you were summoned to the overworld colorless" Noir said as he appeared in front of me.

"It's that demon!" Hinata said and instantly got her rapier in her hands.

"Kufufu, your human toy has quite the killing intent," Noir said looking at Hinata next to me.

"Enough! Hinata, calm down. As for you Noir, stop referring to me as colorless, my name is Sophie and that girl isn't exactly my toy" I said simply.

"Is that so? Interesting indeed... that you allowed someone to name you fufu." Noir said

"Interesting that you only have one arm... let me guess you played around with that mask of hers." I said looking straight at him.

"Sophie, you are making me sad..." Noir said and made a sad face.

I sighed "I seriously hate your personality... it was just for a short time that I was part of your black lineage and that was so many years ago and.."

"Wait his black lineage? Don't tell me he is ..." Hinata suddenly began to tremble.

"Kufufu seems like your toy, there's got some brains at least." Noir said.

'Ugh seriously I should just send him back to hell personally with the shame of not completing his request' I thought as anger was filling my body.

Noir's face changed instantly and he stopped saying useless things "You are right I was indeed interested in that mask... it has some time abilities on it truly a masterpiece anyways.." he said .

"Anyways, you still have a task to fulfill? I know that and I want you to give me the bodies and souls" I said, glancing at him.

"Hooo? I see... why not do it yourself and I just tag along?" Noir asked, smiling.

"Ugh you never change do you? Not even doing me a small favor" I said, shaking my head.

"I guess sparing your life would count as a greater favor?" He said smiling and the mood around us changed immediately as he then added, "Anyways just tag along... this will be fun kufufufu"