Demon's Virtue

Chapter 42 - Tenaga Jin

Quickly, the Imp rushed through the groups of Demons in front of him toward the place that her remembered the book-store to be, and without hesitation, he tried to rip the door open the moment that he found the place.

But just do add onto his bad luck, the door was not opening at all, no matter what he did or how hard he pulled or pressed!

"Hehe...~! Look at that young one over there~!" The voice of a woman laughed behind him, "How dirty he is~! He must be from the slums, huh? Otherwise, who would choose such a rundown place out of all these beautiful, high-end stores~?" She asked, and when the Imp turned around, he saw a Demon that looked nearly identical to a human, with the exception that she had red skin, holding her finger to her lips with a pitiful expression on her face as she stared at the Imp.

"Ooh~! Such a nice glare, isn't it?" The female demon pointed out as she looked over at the heavily disproportionate man, with arms long enough to touch the ground while walking upright, next to her, before that man nodded his head.

"Of course, of course... But for a Demon from the slums, he has some pretty nice equipment, doesn't he?" The Demon asked and extended his long hand over toward the Imp, trying to grab the dagger that he was holding in his hand.

But of course, the Imp wouldn't have that. He figured that this might be as good a time as ever to try a little something out. While pulling the cloth around his hand away from his palm for a few moments, something that hurt the Imp by itself because his skin was practically completely burnt away at this point in time, the young demon stuffed some of the white-golden orbs inbetween two layers of the cloth. He couldn't touch them directly when they were active either, so he had to do it this way.

"Do you... Want this?" The Imp asked, and slowly held his dagger forward to the male Demon, who immediately nodded his head. "Ooh, of course, of course! Hmm, how much do I owe you? I can give you a coin or two, or I can spit in your face if you're into that?" The Demon asked, but the Imp quickly shook his head.

"Break the door open for me. Then I will give you the dagger." With a slight smile on his face that he could barely keep up while suppressing his anger, the Imp tried to hit off a deal. Every other Demon here was smiling brightly, so he figured he had to fit in at least somewhat.

Without hesitation, the male Demon formed a bright grin on his face and took a few steps closer to the door, before pushing his thin, long fingers inbetween some cracks in the door, just to simply crack it open by pulling it apart in the center.

"There you go. Now, a Deal is a deal, give me the dagger." With the same bright grin on his face since before, the Demon leaned forward, trying to grab the dagger with a smile, before the Imp nodded and quickly handed the dagger to him, but before the Demon left, the Imp extended his hand forward. This was something that he's seen a few times over the past few days, when two people finished up a deal, they shook their hands on it. The Imp was just playing with the hope that this Demon knew about that as well.

"Ah, of course, of course. If you find anything else you can give me for basically free, just let me know." The Demon replied, extending one of his long hands toward the Imp, who was more than just glad that this Demon fell for it. Because the moment that their hands touched, the Imp pushed his mana into the small Magic Stones on his palm, while using his other hand to press the Demon's further against them, trying to grasp it as tightly as he could.

Of course, the other Demon noticed this as well and wanted to pull his arm away immediately, but before he could react, the Imp already activated the card that he had up his sleeve, quite literally, causing the small blade connected to the ring on his finger through a string to appear.

And without hesitation, the Imp made the blade push itself into the Demon's arm, which was rather easy, because it just opened up like butter hit by a hot knife.

"Wh-What are you d-doing?" The Demon asked confused, feeling his arm start to burn up from the inside out, in a pain that it had never felt before.

Of course, the other Demons around them noticed that something was going on as well, but most of them just passed by with nothing but a glance. After all, they couldn't know that the Imp was using Holy Energy on this Demon.

"I changed my mind. Give me the dagger back." The young Imp told the Demon, who just grabbed the dagger tightly and shook his head without hesitation. Or rather, at least he tried to do that.

"It's mine! Sh-Shut it!" The male Demon exclaimed, while standing there as if frozen in place, something that the Imp didn't understand in the slightest. It was the same with the Lord of Wrath, he also couldn't move around when he was injured by Holy Energy, at least not until the damage fully recovered.

Maybe this was a way to beat them, then? "It's my Dagger. If you don't give it back, I will kill you. I was just planning on testing this out a little, but I won't hesitate to finish you off either." The Imp explained to the Demon in front of him, while the female Demon that was with him before seemed to have left as well, out of pure boredom, probably.

"Then just kill me! You know what happens when a Slum-Dweller kills one of us, don't you?" The Demon asked with a broad grin, completely sure that the Imp wouldn't even dare injure him, but he just sighed in the end and let go of the Demon's hand, before taking a step closer, making the blade of the 'Three of Swords' drag along his arm as he was doing so, slowly and painfully ripping it open while causing quiet sizzling and bubbling along the way.

And then, the Imp simply pulled the blade out and placed his hand onto the Demon's chest. The Magic Stones were hurting him quite a bit as well, so-

[Beginner Holy Energy Resistance Skill leveled up!]

[Beginner Holy Energy Resistance Skill hit Level 100 and became Apprentice Holy Energy Resistance Skill]

Just then, the strong pain simply disappeared. Same with all the constant pain that his skin was receiving through the bandages. As if they were just nothing but a lie before.

So, the Imp figured he should test the weakness of Demons out a little more, and grabbed one of the Magic Stones from underneath the cloth, before slowly pressing it, in its active state, against the Demon's bare skin after ripping its clothes open with the help of the blade.

Slowly, the Magic Stone was digging into the Demon's flesh, causing bubbles around it, before the Imp got a bit of an idea. Last time, his blood carried his mana around with it naturally when it touched his heart, so maybe something similar could happen in this situation? This 'Holy Energy' seemed to be something similar to mana, after all.

And so, the Imp tried to push the small white-golden orb deeper and deeper into the Demon's chest, while he himself was trying to understand what was going on.

"Y-You, what are you..?" He asked, just when the Imp started to feel a slight bit more resistance than before and had to start pushing a bit harder, while the Demon's arms seemed to be able to slowly move again.

"Hmm..." The Imp asked confused. He really wanted to find out if this was a good way to kill the Lords, but if this Demon started being this annoying, then it probably wouldn't work out. The Imp was lucky that he managed to trick him, but this male Demon was obviously far stronger than the Imp himself. There was no doubt about that in his mind.

Just when he was thinking that, however, the Magic Stone started to move deeper again while the Demon was starting to freak out even more. And then, finally, the Imp managed to reach what seemed to be the Demon's heart.

Exactly then, the Demon's pain was apparently far, far stronger than ever, while the Imp himself simply pulled his fingers away in response to the Demon in front of him convulsing and moving around so suddenly. This of course attracted a little bit more attention from the other Demons around as well, but there were a lot of weirdos around, so all that he got was a swift glance from anyone that even cared enough.

That was just perfect to the Imp. Especially because he was now able to properly look at the notifications telling him about the damage he has been doing to this Demon through all of this.

And then, before the Imp knew it, another notification appeared in front of him.

[Lethal damage done to Demonic Tenaga-Jin]

With a nod, the Imp looked forward at the figure of the Demon collapsing on the ground, while everyone was just staring at the corpse with disgusted expressions.

"Urgh, he one of those Gluttony Demons that just drink booze all day?" One Demon asked, simply staring down at the dead Tenaga-Jin. Others said similar things, but that first one already made the Imp understand that nobody cared at all at what just happened, and that they would just look past most of what he could and would do here.

So, without hesitation, the Imp just quickly pushed his fingers into the sizzling wound and pulled the Magic Stone back out. He didn't want to waste it, after all. The Imp knew that this was a more than just valuable experience in trying to kill the Demons, even if something bothered him. He didn't level up from killing this one. That's the first time that happened, though.

Either way, there was no time to think about useless stuff like that. He could mess around a little bit with that Tenaga-Jin because it would probably help him somehow defend himself against the Lords while he was trying to get the children back, but in the end, he still had no idea how to even approach them.. So of course, he was still headed into the book store which he now gained easy access to.