âSo her name is Aurora... Aurora means âDawn,â and a literal God gave this name to her. is there some hidden meaning behind this?â
âI have a bad feeling about this...â
Rio already knew that he wonât be able to find what Alverto and Aurora gained from this memory, as it was impossible to spy on the scene when that being was talking with the two of them in their sea of consciousness.
But he can still gather information from their conversation and changes in their physique.
Aurora was originally just an ordinary demonic werewolf, but she seemed to have achieved a complete evolution in terms of life hierarchy; her life level has improved.
Sheâs become stronger, and perhaps she has even inherited some kind of ancient knowledge during the process of bloodline evolution from miasmic corruption.
Originally, she couldnât even speak, as she didnât know any languages.
Even her fellow werewolves only cooperated completely based on instincts, just like ordinary animals in a forest.
But now she can speak fluently and can even use several types of magic without any problem, as if sheâs received a massive amount of knowledge and experience directly in her mind.
What was the most bizarre, though, was her overly kind personality.
Even in his dreams, Rio never considered that perhaps âkindâ demons can also exist, because just the thought of that was absurd.
Demons are synonymous with chaos and violence; they have no sympathy for even their own children, let alone others.
âMoreover, sheâs been heavily corrupted by miasma and has even come in contact with that being, yet she is still able to maintain her kind personality?â
âHow is this even possible?â
âItâs almost as if the side-effects of being heavily corrupted by miasma arenât even working on her...â
âThatâs weirdly familiar... that kind of situation is... is like me! I donât get affected by miasma mainly because of âtrue immunityâ and some other mysterious reason that I donât know about...â
True immunity does counter miasma and corruption, but it doesnât give a person the ability to use miasma like a demon.
Rio has also been confused about why he can use miasma so efficiently despite not being a demon himself, and he hasnât been able to find out the reason behind this phenomenon until now.
âNo... I can use miasma like mana... when she used miasma to make her magic work earlier, her miasma was indeed trying to corrupt her...â
As Rio has ascended to Rank-S, his sense of intuition has become extremely sharp, and he has a feeling that thereâs something more to it.
âThe corruption is being blocked by something... I feel that thereâs definitely something thatâs unique about her; a normal being wouldnât have such powerful resistance to miasmic corruption...â
While Rio was busy contemplating about various things in his mind, Aurora used a spoon and fed the soup to Alverto with a gentle smile on her face.
She even blew on the spoon to make sure that the soup wasnât too hot before feeding him carefully.
Seeing this scene, a complicated look appeared on Rioâs face.
âThis... This makes her seem like a virtuous wife whoâs taking care of her sick husband...â
Not only were the two of them alone in that small house, but it was also snowing outside.
Looking at it from another perspective, this scene looked quite similar to what those romance movies have.
âUgh... This is making me feel lonely, sigh... I miss my girlfriend...â
Thankfully Rio had no connections to this memory fragment, and the two in the house could not perceive his existence and thus didnât notice him spying on their private life.
âI feel like a third wheel in this situation...â
He was more like an observer to this already forgotten past; he canât influence anything in this memory and canât change whatâs already happened.
âI want to finish work fast and go home to cuddle my wife... my girlfriend I mean...â
Unaware of Rioâs suffering, Aurora slowly fed all of the soup to Alverto while talking about various things with a happy look on her face.
If someone doesnât know that sheâs a demon beforehand and looks at her right now, they might mistake her for a normal girl whoâs in love and is taking care of her beloved.
Her every action was elegant and gentle.
She used a towel to wipe Alvertoâs mouth after feeding him, then put the blanket over him before patting his head and leaving to do the dishes.
âJust marry him already! Sh*t! Why do I have to watch this! Ugh...â
Not only Rio, but Alverto himself was shocked to the core.
The look of shock was literally pasted on his face; his eyes were opened with a look of disbelief in them.
He just couldnât believe his eyes and couldnât fathom why Aurora was so kind and why she was behaving this way.
To a demon, this behavior was extremely bizarre, even eerie, in fact.
Alverto was so used to betrayals, violence, and cruelty that he felt uncomfortable all over when someone showed so much kindness to him.
No matter how many doubts he had, there was no way to find an answer for them immediately, so he could only stay still and accept Auroraâs kindness.
Due to the fatal injuries sustained while escaping and having come in contact with a powerful beingâs existence directly, he was in a very bad state.
Aurora received that beingâs favor and improved but didnât even show any signs of any kind of physical problems.
Alverto couldnât understand why she was fine even after coming in contact with such a powerful being when he himself was suffering severe backlash and was having so many hardships.
Even his injuries worsened and his soul nearly shattered from miasmic corruption and that beingâs pressure when he came in contact with it.
But Aurora was completely fine; in fact, the power that should have made her suffer even enhanced her physique, which is even more absurd.
Not even royal demons are so resistant to miasmic corruption that they can ignore such highly severe side effects.
Alverto knew that if Aurora had any bad intentions, she could have easily ended his life with her newly learned magic, as he couldnât even move to defend himself.
Thus, there was no point in resisting, so he just stopped thinking about this matter and didnât question Aurora anymore.
He just slept and tried to recover as fast as possible.
Time flew by, and a few months passed.
The time in the memory fragment accelerated and directly took Rio to the time period of several months later, so he didnât have to wait for several months himself.
During these few months, Alverto mostly ate, told Aurora stories about the demon continent and the outside, and slept to recover fast.
As a royal demon, who got immense knowledge from a higher being, he was able to awaken his hidden talents, and his recovery speed increased tremendously.
He was no longer that same talentless demon anymore; he no longer needed to run away from a duel like a coward to save his life.
With his current talents, he could become stronger and could fight while being proud of his strength.
âSo this is the time when he awakened his âSoul Resonanceâ legendary skill and improved his mastery over his spear art...â
âHis hidden talent, which is related to âTimeâ also seems to have awakened in this time frame...â
Watching Alvertoâs transformation from the very beginning, Rio figured out everything easily.
âLooking at it like this, it wonât be wrong to say that the moment Alverto came in contact with that being, his life completely changed and took a 180-degree turn for better...â
âPerhaps in the original, he died from his fatal injuries and never came in contact with that higher being; then there would have been no such demon prince in the world...â
âAurora is just as much bizarre as him; her existence is also very mysterious...â
Although Rio finally found out about Alvertoâs origins, he was still very confused about many things, and a lot of important questions still remained unanswered.
âNow that heâs recovered, what will he do? Will he leave to fight his siblings or stay with Aurora?â
âTheir situation right now seems extremely familiar to those family drama and soap opera scenarios...â
Aside from everything else, Rio noticed one more bizarre thing: the two of them didnât mention that being even once despite the fact that they both knew about it and had received great help from it.
Although time was accelerated and most of the repetitive things were completely skipped from this memory fragment, Rio was still able to grasp most of it.
Being an S ranker, his brain is extremely powerful, and itâs no big deal to understand everything in the memory fragment despite it being so fast and rushed.
Several months passed in the memory; Alverto recovered to full health, and the relationship between him and Aurora became more and more harmonious, but the two never even mentioned the existence of that being.
It was as if they were avoiding that topic on purpose; they refused to talk about it and only talked about various irrelevant things all the time.
Seeing this situation, a thought appeared in Rioâs mind.
âDonât tell me that any random mention of that beingâs name or existence will spell trouble and they donât want that so they are consciously avoiding it...â
Rio has read countless novels in his past life; he knows that there are some characters that are so powerful that if you just say their name out loud, then they immediately notice you.
âIf it is something like that, then I must not speak about that âbeingâ out loud and not mention it to anyone either to avoid trouble...â