Outside of the Nursery

Many demon maids are stationed around us for today, hence the difficulty of escaping through them.

"The next one will be a sturdy ice shield. 3, 2, 1!" The students competing quickly made a magic circle in their hands, summoning different kinds of shield.

"Alright, let me see what you made." He looked at the student who made an extremely hard, pure ice shield. "Let me see the durability." He summoned flames hot enough to melt the ice. "Fail." He then looked at my seatmate and tried to burn his shield, but the ice didn't melt. "Pass."

"Alright, for the last ones, you know who you are. Just come here so we start already." I walked to the front with Shanon.

She grinned. "Huhu, to think that you'll be my opponent! You better be ready to face your loss!" I sighed and got into position.

"This is the last of today. Make a long-lasting, sturdy cup made of fire." I immediately formed the magic circle needed and finished after Shanon. He checked Shanon's cup first and sprayed it with water but it didn't go out. Next, he checked mine and sprayed it with water as well, surprised that we both made the same, exact cup. "Alright, you both passed. Everyone, I will check the progress of those who failed tomorrow. Class dismissed." He quickly walked away, refusing to be with us longer.

"Hey Shanon, you said you have a plan to go outside today. What are you doing?" I whispered to her, annoyed to see her surprised face.

"Oh right! Uh, sorry for forgetting. Anyways, we should go to the public bathroom. A senior actually found out this escape route and sold it to people before he got kicked out." She summoned a small map where the entrance is the bathroom. "He said that the window there leads to the back of the cafeteria, and that this place is unguarded." We slowly walked our way towards the said bathroom.

Things are becoming convenient now. "Anyway, I just wanna ask, why do you want to go outside?"

"Well, unlike the Inner Demon World where we have to spend the rest of eternity, there is only a week left before we get kicked out, that's why I wanna know what's out there." We arrived right after she answered.

"It looks like we're here." We opened the bathroom door, seeing many demons also making their way to the window.

"Move quickly!"

"Before we get caught!" I closed the door behind me and approached them.

"Just go already! Why are you so slow?" They pushed each other around, eager to get out quickly.

"Faster, people are gathering down here!" I stared in disappointment as I counted them all. Right now, there are fourteen people here, including me and Shanon.

I waited until it's my turn to climb the window. When I finally saw the other side, many demons were running towards the exit.

"Hey, let's go now!" I let Shanon drag me to the exit.

I observed the surroundings as soon as we got there. It was full of crimson trees as well as black trees, white trees, and even trees that looked like they belonged to the Human Realm.

"If I had known that it was just a big forest, I wouldn't have come here in the first place." Shanon complained and whined while we walked.

"Shut up and just look at the surroundings. It wouldn't just be a big forest like what you're talking about." There are signs of inhabitants away from the nursery everywhere, like numerous trails of footprints and feathers scattered around.

"Yeah, right." Silence reigned between us until I found a big building ahead of our path.

"Look at that!" I pointed at the building up ahead.

"Oh, that looks like a church or something." We proceeded with caution, seeing many of the teachers in the nursery in this place.

"What are they doing? Why are they here?" I saw our teacher kneeling in front of a statue that looked like a naked man with wings. Worshipping some kind of god like in games?

"Hey, I think we should come back for now. This looks dangerous." I noticed her shaking voice so I turned around immediately and saw a dead body right in front of her. I rushed to her position and checked that the body belonged to the guy who escaped with us earlier.

"Don't worry about him. He will be revived later. As for what happened, I think we should investigate before going back." The dead body slowly regenerated, and the guy was awake again.

"You two, since you are here anyways, you should come back with me before that thing sees you." I turned to the guy on the ground, seeing as he desperately clung to my foot.

"Tell us what happened first." I kicked his hand away and crossed my arms.

"Why are you doing this? I'm just trying to be nice and save you two from that!"

"Trying to be nice? I don't know what happened to you, but I know that you're trying to make us your meat shields." A loud thud was heard across the land. "Is that the thing that you're talking about? Looks like it's approaching us."

"How are you so calm? That thing is too big for you to fight, we really should go back!"

"Yeah, we need to go! That thing might kill us!" Shanon added, tugging at my arm and trying to drag me away.

"Then you two should go, it's what you wanted anyways." I looked up and saw a gigantic creature that looks like a dinosaur, but with two devil horns and a creepy human-like face, dripping with black ooze that will haunt people's nightmares.

"No, he's here! Run!" I immediately summoned a steel sword and pointed it towards the demon dinosaur.

"What are you doing? Let's go or we'll get caught!" I ignored their warnings and ran towards the creature, attempting to slice it's skin.

"This skin is really hard!" The creature took notice of my attack and attempted to bite me, but I was quick enough to kick my body away and land to the ground, making it bite itself instead.

"Looks like this creature is dumb." I tried to summon all kinds of elemental attacks at once, but it never pierced the skin. "Uh oh, what do I do?" Although I regret trying to fight this monster out of curiosity, my pride won't let me give up, just like the times I competed in online championships. I need to finish what I started.

The creature took notice of me and tried to bite me, but I kept dodging and trying to find a way to defeat this thing. I checked the area where he bit himself. "Looks like you really are dumb." I smirked hardly and summoned a string made of steel, coated with demonic magic.

"It's time to take a bite of your own medicine!" I leaped to the air and wrapped the string around it's neck. It tried to resist, but it's neck soon bled when I pulled the string further. Not long after, it's neck was cut off of it's body, falling to the ground and making a loud thud.

"Woah, can't believe I got scared of something this easy to kill." The two got out of their hiding spots, glancing at the creature before congratulating me.

"Why are you still here?" Fotsteps suddenly echoed behind me.

"No, the real question is that, why are you even here?" The three of us turned around, seeing our teacher right behind us. "Well, do you have any explanation?"