Lilly continued to stare through the gloom "Hello," she said to the demon curious to whether or not he was awake. Sure enough the demon slowly opened its eyes it's golden irises shining inspite of the dark "What have you come for human?"

Lilly laughed "well it's nice to meet you too, in truth I was commissioned by the assassins guild to kill the slave trader keeping you here, when I noticed the floor was uneven I decided to investigate and sure enough it led me to you." the demon looked at her in interest "You're quite the unusual one aren't you?"

Lilly smiled "That's quite true, but anyway who are you and why are you down here?" the demon laughed self mockingly "I was betrayed by a family member and drugged unconcious until they managed to bond me in these anti-magic chains." Lilly nodded in understanding it was a common story in the underworld back home.

"But still," said Lilly "from a demons point of view, who's to blame for the war?" the demon looked at her puzzled "well it's obviously the demon king right? I mean he forced the soliders to fight for him to invade the humans." Lilly gave a nod of understanding "Ok just making sure?"

The demon looked at her confused "why?" "because," said Lilly exasperated "in cases like these it seems more likely the arrogant nobles of this country would start the war then blame it on the demons so I just wanted to be sure." the demon gave out a surprised laugh "It's true the human nobles are arrogant and irritating but unfortunately in this case they're right it was our side that started the war."

Lilly nodded carefully thinking things through in her head before she addressed the demon "and you, whose side are you on?" she asked, the demon paused for a minute considering "the side that ends with the least bloodshed." said the demon after a couple minutes consideration.

Lilly sighed "You're the same as me then, in truth the way to end a war with the least amount of bloodshed is to assassinate the opposing commander to lead to a takeover, however in these particular circumstances having the either side win isn't a good idea."

The demon nodded "its could be possible to set up an alliance between nations if the two kings were willing but that's highly unlikely and I'm not all that happy with the idea of either of the two kings surviving at the minute. Lilly nodded in agreement "What about the heirs, if the demon king even has one. Any chance of them consolidating?"

This gave the demon a pause for thought as he considered the idea "It could work, the princess of this continent is well known for being kind and gentle as well as only wanting what's best for her people, the problem is the demon kings heir." "Oh," said Lilly interested "What's wrong with him?" the demon sighed

"He's a complete and utter playboy with no sense for the politics and the scheming of upper nobility, it might be useless getting him on the throne, he'd probably just wreck the country afterwards, though to be fair not by choice." Lilly sighed "can we think of other ideas?"

The demon smiled slightly "I have a few but before that I don't suppose you could free me first?" Lilly burst into laughter upon realising they had been talking a good fithteen minutes and she still hadn't freed him "Sure but if you attack me I will kill you." the demon snickered "you could try."

Still grinning Lilly ran back upstairs ignoring the demons cries of protests and picked up the keys from earlier before returning back to the cellar. The demon saw her descending the stairs and let out a sigh of relief "Oy don't do that, I thought you'd left me to rot in this God forsaken cellar."

Lilly laughed "nope you're much to interesting to leave down here. And besides you may have information crucial to ending the war." the demon nodded "Ok now please free me already." rummaging through the keys till she found one that matched the composition of the cage, Lilly quickly entered the cage only to find multiple chains restricting him.

Sighing Lilly looked for the key to the padlock holding the chains together, however after ten minutes of searching Lilly gave up and pulled out her lockpicks. Finally after two more minutes the padlock clicked open and the chains fell to the floor, "Thanks for the assistance." said the demon in an amused voice "you're welcome," said Lilly "but let's continue this upstairs where I can see."

Without another word Lilly walked up the stairs and sat down in Johans office waiting to see the demons appear. As the demon appeared Lilly had to struggle to hide her facial expression, afterall the guy was gorgeous he was tall and had tanned skin with black hair to match his horns as well as golden eyes. Lilly let out an appreciative whistle "Wow," she said as the demon just laughed.

"Anyway, moving on my names Lilly assassin name Arachne, I'm fithteen, and you are?" the demon smiled happily "Navir, I'm seventeen one of the ex demon generals." Lilly looked at him in surprise "interesting it seems like you'll be useful. So Navir do you want to help me try and end a war?" Navir laughed again "Of course, I've got nothing better to do anyway."

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Sorry for the short chapter I'll make the next one longer as well as showing an updated version of Lilly's status as well as Navir's