Chapter 321: Shadow Demon's Pride

In the shadows spreading beneath Aiwass, something was slowly emerging from within.

The woman was sitting with her legs crossed, looking as majestic as a queen on a throne.

This is also the form that Shadow Demon has never shown to Aiwass -

She had long, straight hair that was as black as a shadow, with each strand of hair connected into one. The outside was pure black, while the inside was a dark red like blood.

She was not wearing glasses, but her cloudy green pupils made her look more like a lone wolf than Bayard.

Other than that, she looked exactly like Bayard, even their apparent ages were the same.

After the Shadow Demon appeared, he sighed deeply, and no one knew what he was worried about.

She first turned around and carefully buttoned up Aiwass's open clothes one by one, then stretched out her slender but strong fingers to help Aiwass straighten the collar of her clothes. After her clothes, which had been slightly wrinkled in Bayard's arms, were straightened out, she hugged Aiwass and turned around methodically.

She and No. 14 both have black hair and blue eyes, and their looks are somewhat similar. At this moment, the two of them are hugging each other like an older sister hugging her younger sister.

The bats scattered along the lines of shadow just made rustling sounds but did not respond in any way.

It was like being stunned.

"What's wrong, Bayard?"

The Shadow Demon smiled sarcastically: "After seeing me, you won't speak anymore?"

Her left hand, which was holding Aiwass's chin, was fiddling with her earlobe with the side of her thumb. Now, as if to show off, she roughly placed her left index and middle fingers into Aiwass's mouth, pulling out the tip of her tongue.

And Aiwass glanced at her.

Since Shadow Fiend seemed to want to show off, I decided to give her this face.

——Let’s talk about it when we get back.

As she moved, Shadow Demon's right hand also raised casually.

The shadow line that covered the entire room and passed through the bat suddenly grew into countless needles of varying lengths.

The pierced bats instantly turned into balls of blood without internal organs.

The blood gathered into clumps like liquid in a weightless state and floated upwards.

They gathered in the center and transformed into human form again. Only her glasses fell to the ground, but because the carpet was soft enough, they were not broken.

The shadow web that had been there before instantly dissipated and regenerated. Originally, it had repeatedly penetrated the room, but now it had turned into a rather orderly spider web, hanging Bayard in the air again.

Bayard was not powerless to tear apart the shackles of this spider web.

But the scene before her made her frown and her heart beat wildly——

The shock that surged from the bottom of her heart made her not know what to say at this moment.

This was exactly the scene she had seen countless times in her nightmares.

——It was as if two almost identical people were looking at each other on opposite sides of a mirror.

One was sitting on the bed, holding the girl, with an arrogant look... The other was hanging in the sky by a dark shadow spider web, with a complicated expression.

"Oh."

Seeing Bayard remain silent, Miss Shadow Demon sneered, "Haven't you thought of this situation? I don't think so. If it were me, I would have thought of this possibility a long time ago... I might even have dreamed about it.

"How could I not become a demon if I died with such hatred? And if my soul becomes a demon, then what are you?"

As she spoke, she pulled out the finger that was playing with Aiwas' tongue without leaving a trace.

She leaned against Aiwas's face and took a deep breath, then cast a playful look at Bayard, who was hanging in the sky in silence.

"Say something, Miss Bayard. Show some reaction, don't be like a corpse... Oh, sorry, you are a corpse. Or should I do something in front of you that you wanted to do but didn't do before?"

"...Have you acknowledged your master?"

Bayard finally spoke: "Such a weak master?"

Her first sentence seemed aggressive, but it revealed an inexplicable paleness.

Because she evaded Shadow Fiend's questioning, this revealed her confusion. Of course, Aiwass's performance might have played a role as well.

The Shadow Demon just laughed. First a sneer, then a loud laugh.

It was the first time she laughed in her natural voice in front of Aiwass - a rather sharp and aggressive laugh that sounded condescending and arrogant.

"yes."

The Shadow Demon suddenly stopped laughing and responded seriously: "That's how weak I am. But no one can make me more satisfied.

"My dear master, when he was so weak that he could break at the slightest touch, he threatened to kill Tiansi. It wasn't a harsh word, but a plan that had a real possibility of happening.

"And yet, under such circumstances, she still dared to ask that Celestial Master for power. What does this mean? Because she didn't even consider that Celestial Master as her enemy—she didn't hate him, nor was she wary of him. She even treated him as an equal.

“Is that fearlessness due to ignorance?”

The Shadow Demon looked at Bayard and whispered, "Of course not. That's the ambition to move forward despite knowing the danger, the courage to seriously challenge an unbeatable enemy.

"—just like us, isn't it?"

When Shadow Demon said this, the hostility in her words had disappeared.

As the one whose name and identity were taken away, she was the first to let go of her hostility.

This certainly wasn't tenderness or forgiveness—"Bayard" had never been associated with such words. Even before she was human, she had learned how to usurp power by stepping on the corpses and suffering of others.

Legend has it that humans are the sons of Hengwo and the snake father.

Therefore, humans possess adaptability to all nine paths, but transcendence and love are the most universal and profound.

——Ambition and desire.

That was the driving force behind the profit machine called "Bayard." And what constrained her actions wasn't morality or the law—but pride.

The "Miss Bayard" before him was nothing more than a fictitious soul fabricated by the Pillar God.

No matter what hatred he still harbored in his heart, he didn't need to direct it towards her. It was meaningless and only a false comfort.

Miss Bayard, who was put down by the Shadow Demon, rubbed her wrist, which was slightly red from being hung up, and asked:

"...Don't you want to eat me?"

The Shadow Demon just looked at her sarcastically without saying a word.

She hugged Aiwass tighter, leaning forward to press her cool, plump body against Aiwass's, resting her chin on her shoulder.

Although the Shadow Demon's touch was as cold as snow on a winter night, Aiwass did not push her away.

She has gradually understood what happened in the past.

——The Shadow Fiend is an amorphous, sexless demon. Its true form is just a ball of smoke that never sees the sunlight.

Any form it can change into is the result of eating the opponent's harvest.

Just like she took away the voice and body of the assassin lady Chloe.

The Shadow Demon can never change back to his previous life because he is already dead. He is just a shadow that has been stripped of everything, and eating the corpse is useless.

And now that Shadow Demon can transform into Bayard and make the same voice as Bayard...

That means that the newly born Shadow Demon also successfully devoured Bayard, the Son of the Moon.

Only when the "corpse is transformed into the Son of the Moon" can the Shadow Fiend turn into his previous life's appearance.

However, although the Shadow Demon can also transform back into his own appearance and make his own voice... and like Bayard, the Son of the Moon, he also has memories of his past life. In this sense, he even gained immortality and great power.

However, she obviously no longer presided over the "Bayard Group" in the mortal world like the Son of the Moon, but returned to the dream world, staying quietly and alone in the shadow realm.

Now that the Bayard Group has lost its commander, it has long since disappeared into the dust of history.

——She did not bother to steal Bayard's name.

Even if that was me once, it has nothing to do with me now.

"Why would I kill you? What good would it do?"

The Shadow Demon finally spoke, his voice cold and clear: "You are not the real Bayard. And neither am I.

"Unlike you, demons no longer dream."

(End of this chapter)