Chi-Woo couldn’t believe his ears. He quickly looked at Ru Hiana. Her eyes, which had been blank just a few seconds ago, were now looking directly at him. Even though her pupils still looked hazy, it was slightly trembling, as if she had recognized him.

“Ms. Ru Hiana?”

Then Ru Hiana’s eyes glanced over Chi-Woo’s shoulder. “Keuk!” Her eyes opened wide, and she suddenly went into a seizure. “Ack! Aggggggh!” As if her trauma had been revived, she bowed her head and frantically crawled into a corner.

Chi-Woo turned around by reflex, and his expression hardened. The female demonic creature that he saw earlier was leaning against the fence while smiling at him. Since he had been so focused on Ru Hiana, he had failed to sense her presence.

“Yeah, I thought it was a little strange.” The female demonic creature opened her mouth with a cheery expression. “You used to go into a convulsion when merely smelling the drug, but you didn’t react at all this time even though I put it right under your nose.”

“…”

“After I saw that the human girl had died, I became suspicious of you, so I purposely went out and came back…and as expected, you really regained your senses, didn’t you?”

Chi-Woo looked at the female demonic creature, who spoke to him in a mocking tone, and got to his feet. He held the World’s Milestone as if he was going to crush it. Since he was caught, he might as well use this opportunity to beat this demonic creature to the verge of death and extract information from her.

“Are you going to kill me?” The female demonic creature chuckled. “Will that be okay? We made a deal, remember?”

Chi-Woo had been drawing his exorcism mana in lieu of a response but stopped when he heard what she said at the end. ‘A deal? What...