Now that Ryan had defeated the Principality rank demons.
He decided to heal the demon girl.
Even though he used Recovery, he wasn't sure if that skill would work on a demon.
The demon girl slowly opened her eyes.
As she curiously brought her face closer to the person in front of her.
"Human?"
Her eyes widened in surprise.
She scrambled to the side, putting her guard up in front of Ryan.
"I'm not going to hurt you, can't you see I saved you?"
The blue-haired mage girl hid behind Ryan.
"Be careful..."
"Save me? Why would a human help a demon?"
She took a step forward.
She looked at him with defiant eyes, as if warning him she was ready to fight.
'Just as I thought, she won't listen to me.'
Ryan held his hand out toward her.
"Don't try to fight us, it would be useless. We just want to talk."
"Talk? Sure..."
Turning her back to them, she leaped, ready to escape.
'You're not leaving.'
"I order you to stop, come to me, bow and revere me as your master..."
The demon girl who had jumped to escape fell on her butt on the ground.
"What... what is this feeling, I can't move..."
The girl began to walk on her knees across the ground.
Toward Ryan.
"What are you doing to me, you miserable human...?" she said warily.
"Wow, how sadistic, she's actually obeying him!"
'What do you mean sadistic?!'
The demon girl was already under Ryan's control.
Looking at him with a mix of uncertainty and fear.
"What kind of control skill is this? Who are you, really?"
"I told you I just wanted to talk and you tried to escape."
The demon girl was now on her knees in front of Ryan; she grabbed his leg and started kissing the fabric of his pants.
'What is she trying to do? I didn't specify anything sexual.'
Ryan placed his hand on the demon girl's forehead and pushed her away.
She took Ryan's hand; looking at him with a confused expression, her face red from humiliation.
She gripped Ryan's hand tightly and began kissing the back of it, then the palm.
Then she ran her tongue over Ryan's fingers and started licking them intensely.
The mage girl stepped closer.
"I just can't believe you're forcing her to do that... I'm not sure who the demon is here anymore."
"You better shut up!"
Ryan looked back at the demon upon feeling the new sensation; she had now slipped two of his fingers into her mouth and began sucking on them.
'It's already been a day since I separated from Helen and Mirian. I'll use this demon girl as a compass to get back. I wonder if they're looking for me.'
"Please... just... leave me alone. I promise I won't try to run away and I will listen to you."
The demon was on her knees; the debt payment hadn't finished yet, so when she spoke, her voice sounded strange since she still had Ryan's fingers in her mouth.
"Hmm... good thing you understood quickly. I can do this whenever I want, so you better not try anything."
She nodded.
[Debt collection applied]
[Debt bonus: +50 points]
[Debt bonus: +45,000 XP]
'Right on time.'
The girl let go of Ryan's hand. She had regained her mobility, but she stayed motionless, perhaps out of shame. So Ryan pulled his fingers out of the demon girl's mouth.
He wiped them on his pants.
The girl, still on her knees, looked up at Ryan.
Then she sat on the ground, looking down with her ears flushed red.
"...I know that if you're here it must be to rescue the kidnapped boy, isn't it?"
"Hmm? A boy?" Ryan asked.
"Is that not it? Then why are you in the Demon King's territory?"
The little mage stepped up, intervening.
"Tell me what you mean. Those giant demons kidnapped a human? For what purpose?"
"I thought you came for that. Seeing you, just a little girl, I thought this man had saved you. So you're a party?"
"Ha ha, sure, sure, we're a party!"
"A party with this brat? I don't even know her name."
"Hey!"
The demon girl stood up; even so, it was true, despite being together for a whole day, Ryan didn't even know the blue-haired mage's name.
In fact, right now the three of them present were complete strangers.
So after talking, the demon girl asked them to follow her; it would be faster if they saw what she was talking about with their own eyes.
As they walked, the demon girl introduced herself and told them her name.
Beatrice. A Principality rank demon who was searching for her missing little brother.
Ryan and the mage girl also introduced themselves.
"So you're Karol and Ryan... I should have thanked you for saving me, but this isn't very common. I didn't know how to react, I've never dealt with a human..."
She took a brief pause.
"But you must be pretty strong if you're protecting this little girl, and you don't look hurt at all."
"I'm not a little girl!"
"Eh? Of course you are," Beatrice replied.
"No, she isn't," Ryan replied, throwing his hands up in annoyance.
"I don't understand what you mean..."
Karol approached the demon and grabbed her hand.
Almost immediately her body returned to its normal size by absorbing some of the demon girl's mana.
"See?"
"What is this... You guys are a very unusual party..."
After walking a bit further, they entered a mostly destroyed house, but it had a basement.
Upon entering, there was a little demon boy and a little human boy.
Both of them at least 10 years old.
"Sister!" the little demon cried out with tears in his eyes and jumped to hug her.
"Don't cry, I told you I'd come back."
"Who are these people, sister?"
Karol stepped forward and went straight to the human boy; after checking him over, she noticed he didn't have any injuries.
"Now, will you tell us what's going on?"
"That's my intention, that's why I brought you here. A few days ago... my little brother was kidnapped. I followed the trail I had and found a demon from the giant clan... This area is very far from the demon cities, which is why it's almost a ghost town."
Ryan intervened.
"I get it, it's easy to hide around here. So did they kidnap this boy too?"
"Wait a minute!"
Karol walked over to them.
"Those demons are from Demon King Rigal's territory. Why would they be here?"
"That's true. Demon King Rigal and his majesty, Demon King Rohan, are at war with each other. But this place has a secret tunnel that connects to Ehres Valley. That passage connects to where the sealed dungeon was."
"Underground?" Ryan asked.
"Yes, that's why the demons got in so easily back then, because they didn't have a barrier like they do now."
"How strange... I've been to that place many times and I haven't seen that tunnel."
"That's natural, it's underground, it isn't that easy. But don't get distracted. The point is, after interrogating those demons, one of them said that Demon King Rigal had a deal with a human noble. Unfortunately, he didn't know the name, so I don't know anything else about it."
The demon girl approached the little human.
"I don't know the reason, but that noble wanted to hand this little boy over to Demon King Rigal. Ever since I saved him, he hasn't said a single word."
"A noble...? What scum!" Ryan grumbled.