(Lilulana’s POV)

After five days, I have arrived at the Forbidden Land. It was a bit hard to get here, but that doesn’t matter. Now that I got here, I can find that powerful one that was looking at me. I can’t be sure of it, but he may know my father.

I must try it. The only reason for me to think that he may know my father is something that my mother said to me once: “Power attracts power, that’s why the powerful one meet each other.”

And I have all the reasons to believe that her words are true. I saw this myself, the world itself working to make the strong ones to meet, making them even stronger. That’s why I came here, be it to meet my end or to find my answers.

Immediately, I begin to move in the direction that I think that the powerful one is. But I instantly stop when I feel someone looking at me. This sensation, it’s him. I stop, and look back at him. Although I can’t see him, I can at least send a message this way.

Using magic, I send a telepathic message.

“Can we meet?”

After a short silence, I hear a male voice speaking:

(Akatsuki): “Don’t move.”

(Akatsuki’s POV)

I wake up when I feel a familiar presence entering the Forbidden Lands. Going out of my cave, I activate my Eternal Mangkeyõ and look at this presence. It’s the demon loli. As soon as she feels my gaze, she stops running and looks at me. This time, I don’t feel hostility.

Now that she’s close enough, I can read her hearth. Fear, doubt, anxiety, hope. Many feelings are mixed inside her. Feeling this, I chose to not be aggressive with her. Suddenly, I hear a voice in my head.

“Can we meet?”

… Alright. I’m also a bit curious why she came here even with me sending bloodlust to her. How can I answer her? Let’s just manipulate the sound of my voice. Manipulating the sound, I make my voice travel until her.

(Akatsuki): “Don’t move.”

I’ll use Kamui on her, to make things easier. And no, I can’t use Kamui to teleport outside the island. That barrier blocks me even in doing that. Staring at her, I activate my Kamui, dragging her inside my Kamui dimension. She doesn’t resist.

Then, I look at the ground, right in front of me and use my Kamui again, making her fall on her butt. Looking around confused, her gaze focus on me. Then, her face is covered by surprise.

(Lilulana’s POV)

I gazed at the strong one. He’s… exactly like a human. Long, spiky hair, pale white skin, dressed in a white shirt and black pants, barefooted. He’s extremely handsome. He looks at me with a serious face, and starts speaking.

(Akatsuki): “So, here you are.”

I immediately keen on the ground and bow, with my head touching the ground.

(Lilulana): “it’s a pleasure to meet you, Great One!”

(Akatsuki): “… Drop the formalities. Also, stop with this of great One. My name is Akatsuki.”

(Lilulana): “! Y-yes…”

I look up to him, to see him looking at me with his blood red eyes. This pattern… I fought two users of these eyes, but I couldn’t win, their eyes were too powerful. Those both had each one red eye, but this one has both eyes blood red with a strange pattern. As I look at him, his eyes begin to spin, changing to eyes that are almost the same colors as mine.

(Akatsuki): “So, what’s your name?”

(Lilulana): “Yes, it’s Lilulana Vaermin.”

(Akatsuki): “So, why you came here?”

(Lilulana): “I would like to make some questions, if possible.”

(Akatsuki): “Alright. But what I gain for the information?”

Alright, I don’t know what I can give to him, but I’ll try my best!

(Lilulana): “My body?”

(Akatsuki): “I don’t want it. Wait, are you a spiritual energy user?”

Eh? He knows spirit arts?

(Lilulana): Master Akatsuki, you know spirit arts?”

(Akatsuki): “What are spirit arts?”

(Akatsuki’s POV)

(Lilulana): “Eh? You don’t know spirit arts?”

(Akatsuki): “No idea.”

(Lilulana): “I see…”

I sit on the ground cross-legged. Looking at her, I speak.

(Akatsuki): “Anyway, ask first.”

(Lilulana): “Ah, yes. I would like to ask if you could help me to find someone.”

(Akatsuki): “Alright. Who do you want to find?”

(Lilulana): “My father.”

Hoh~, interesting.

(Akatsuki): “Who’s your father?”

(Lilulana): “I don’t know. I came here in hope that Master Akatsuki may know him somehow.”

(Akatsuki): “Well, I doubt it. I don’t really know someone with your facial features, or someone with similar spirit.”

(Lilulana): “I-I see…”

(Akatsuki): “Well, anyway, if you don’t know absolutely nothing about your father, I can help you to find some things about him.”

(Lilulana): “How?!”

Oh, it seems that I got her attention! I have nothing against helping someone, so I’ll do my best here. I move my hand, calling her closer. Hesitating, she approaches. When she’s close enough, I grab her arm and pull her close, making her yelp.

(Akatsuki): “Your horns aren’t like the demon’s horns. Your tail as well, although the only type of demon which have tails are succubus, yours isn’t like theirs. Also, you smell differently.”

(Lilulana): “S-smell?”

(Akatsuki): “Although I better at sensing rather than tracking, my nose is still good enough. Your smell… resemble me of a dragon.”

(Lilulana): “Dragon?!”

(Akatsuki): “Is it that surprising?”

(Lilulana): “W-well, my mother was a vampire, and we live pretty far away from the dragon continent…”

(Akatsuki): “So what? The smell that I feel from you certainly is from a dragon, but I also feel the smell of other things.”

(Lilulana): “Like what?”

(Akatsuki): “A snake… I can feel the smell of a serpent coming from you. Also, this smell… where did I felt it before?”

(Lilulana): “What do you mean?”

I can’t tell her… not for now. Well, I can tell her, but with her actual strength, she won’t be able to do anything.

(Akatsuki): “I mean that you won’t be able to find your father.”

(Lilulana’s POV)

(Lilulana): “Eh?”

I froze. It was too much to assimilate at the same time. Dragon, serpent. Also, that unknow smell. He knows something, I’m sure of it. I want to burst, I’m extremely angry right now, but I must control myself.

(Lilulana): “What do you mean with that?”

(Akatsuki): “In your actual level of strength, you won’t be able to do anything.”

(Lilulana): “What you aren’t telling me?”

(Akatsuki): “Something that you shouldn’t know until you get stronger.”

… Until I get stronger… I am strong, you know. What do I do… my spirit arts certainly can improve, but my sprit has reached its limit.

(Akatsuki): “I can make you stronger.”

(Lilulana): “You… can?”

(Akatsuki): “Yeah, as well you can make me stronger.”

(Lilulana): “… Sorry for being rude, but aren’t you strong enough?”

(Akatsuki): “No. Not for my objective. Also, this place… isn’t welcoming at all. If I go deeper in the way I am right now, I will undoubtedly die. Even you, if face ay monsters from this are that we are right now, you will die.”

I swallowed my saliva loudly.

(Akatsuki): “That’s why I want to propose this. Teach me these spirit arts, and I will make your spirit much more stronger and I will also be your sparring partner, bringing you to your limits every time.”

This… it’s true that fighting until your limits make you stronger, and it’s hard for me to fight like that. Also, I sympathize with him about wanting to earn the spirit arts. It’s a win-win situation. I also got some information about my father, and have a general idea from where to search.

(Lilulana): “Alright, I will teach you.”

He smiled gently.

(Akatsuki): “Alright. We will move to another place, where it will be safe for you.”

He stands, and stretches his hand to me, helping me to get up. Still holding my hand, he says.

(Akatsuki): “Don’t move.”

His eyes then change to red and spin, going to that pattern again. Then, the same space technique that he used to bring me here starts on his eye, dragging us both inside the hole.