High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2685 - 906: The Female Demon’s Choice

Nikita returned to Buji Island after Awakening of Insects.At that time, more than half a year had passed since the Black Prison incident, and most of the school’s attention had shifted back to campus—such as balancing the relationship between the Alliance and the First University, coordinating interests between different factions within the school, and planning the establishment of new academies.

Naturally, the school’s focus on small demons like her had weakened considerably.

Thus, she had the opportunity to return to Buji Island again.

Of course, this matter, Nikita was not voluntary.

There’s a concept in economics called ’negative externality’, which refers to the phenomenon where someone’s actions affect others, causing them to incur additional costs without receiving corresponding benefits or compensation—in a certain sense, the Ancient One advancement of the Sea Demon King is a negative externality event for the sea demons of the four seas.

The four big sea monsters neither acquired a single Xuanhuang Fruit in the Black Prison incident nor did they benefit from the Sea Demon King’s advancement, ’When one is successful, all benefit.’ On the contrary, because they attacked the Black Prison, they received special attention from the Alliance in the following period, chased by more than one hunting team, quite embarrassed.

And ever since the Sea Demon King advanced, it disappeared without a trace, seemingly forgetting it had a group of subordinates drifting on the sea.

To find the missing ’big leg’, several big sea monsters sought help from anyone they could, dispatching their subordinates everywhere to search for places where the Sea Demon King might appear, from Sahara to Polar Icefield, from Baikal Lake to Moon Sea, from Dreamland to the new World, and of course, including the place closest to truth in Wizard World, the First University.

Because of her multiple successful ’intrusions’ into the First University, Nikita was very gloriously handed this task by the four big sea monsters.

She did want to refuse.

But the Mist Captain’s smile was too terrifying, scaring the little female demon from uttering words of refusal.

So, she returned to her alma mater once again.

Similar to previous experiences.

This time returning to school, Nikita still went through Thomas’ route—these things, once there’s a first time, there’s a second, third time, there’s no such thing as ’just this once.’

But contrary to the expectations of the four big sea monsters, the female demon who sneaked back to Buji Island did not venture into the First University archives or any other hidden places to seek traces of the Sea Demon King.

She just asked Thomas to find her a safe place, quietly lay low, hoping to hide for a decade or so, waiting for the four big sea monsters to start fighting for power because without the Sea Demon King’s suppression, then find an opportunity to slip away.

Thomas gave her two options.

Either find a piece of empty land somewhere in the Silent Forest, dig a hole, bury herself and pretend to be a real or fake dead person, perhaps having a chance to avoid the school’s annual Spring, Autumn, and Winter hunting seasons’ rotation sweep.

Or become an experimental subject of Crow.

"The professor’s experiment has made significant breakthroughs, there are already successful cases, trust me, it won’t be long before you can break free from the shackles of demons and become a true wizard again."

These words were said by Thomas when he was giving her choices.

At that time, the warlock’s emotions were unusually excited, eyes filled with a glitter of hope—a color Nikita was very familiar with, she had seen similar scenes countless times in the mirror, but every result was disappointing.

This time would be no exception, she told herself in her heart.

Just as Ulrich mentor had once told her in the Land of Desolation, ’Once you’ve tasted blood, you’ll forever revolve in Endless Hell,’ drowning is a result, a result without a future.

She would never be able to return to her former self and become the witch in Thomas’ heart again.

Yet still.

She joyfully accepted the warlock’s invitation, entered the Crow’s laboratory, and stayed for over a month.

During this period, Thomas was in a rush, extremely busy, with few opportunities to meet with her, only every time they met, Nikita could observe that the glow in his eyes dimmed a little bit each time.

This didn’t come as a surprise to her.

But for some reason, she still felt a bit sad.

This bit of sadness became especially intense when she learned why Thomas became a Crow.

"Tell me, what brings you here so late today?"

Nikita tried hard to gather her spirits, breaking the suffocating heaviness in the room, "...You’re not the kind of person who would break the rules casually."

When mentioning the words ’break the rules casually,’ she seemed to accidentally bit the tip of her tongue, making the latter half of the sentence somewhat unclear.

Thomas’ gaze fell on her scarlet eyes.

"Time is running out."

He looked at her yet didn’t look at her, his gaze unfocused, seeming scattered, murmuring in a very low voice, "The professor’s time is running out, my time is running out, so your time is running out too...So, you might need to take some risks."

Regarding the mysterious professor Thomas mentioned, Nikita had always only heard the name but never seen the person. But she also knew, to be able to organize such a large-scale illegal laboratory in a place like the First University, it certainly wouldn’t be an ordinary professor. Therefore, she was very careful never to touch this sensitive topic.

So, when Thomas said ’time is running out’, she couldn’t offer any valuable suggestions.

"Now every day I’m alive counts as taking a risk."

The female demon cradled a large snake under the table in her arms and smiled at the warlock, "...Taking a few more or fewer risks doesn’t make any difference. What do you need me to do?"

Thomas lowered his eyelids, his hand extending from his robe sleeve, clutching a small glass vial, inside of which was a small pea-sized mass of bright red substance, floating in the air, seemingly squirming like a living thing.

Nikita instantly recognized it as a mass of flesh.

She unconsciously licked her lips.

"This is a piece of flesh taken from the successful experimental subject I mentioned to you before."

Thomas stared at the glass vial in his hand, lowering his voice, speaking quickly and explaining, "Later I will separate some tissue from it and transplant it into you... then transplant the spirit seed into you. You can understand this process as a vaccine. The professor believes that the flesh of that successful experimental subject can help other experimental subjects get through the initial and most difficult rejection period. As long as the spirit seed can form a new balance with your body, it can continuously draw the demon aura within you and transform it into wizard magic power..."

"Sounds like a myth." The female demon couldn’t help but laugh.

"It’s not a myth, but a legend." Thomas very seriously corrected the female demon’s wording, "A new legend about to be born."

Nikita didn’t intend to get entangled in this detail with him, she pointed at the flesh in the glass vial, changing the subject, and asked with great interest, "Then why only transplant part of it to me? I feel like even all of this might not be enough for me..."

"It’s enough, a bit is enough for a medicinal primer."

Thomas shook his head, paused, then added, "As for the rest, I promised that child that I would use it to sign him up for a certain project at the school, which requires using his flesh."