Something was slowly pouring out of the shadows beneath Ivus.

It was a woman with her legs crossed, like a queen sitting on a throne.

This is also the form that Shadow Fiend has never shown to Ivus-

She has long, straight black hair that is as black as a shadow, and her hair is joined by strands of hair. The outside is pure pitch black, while the inside is a dark red like blood.

She didn't wear glasses on her face, but her turquoise cloudy pupils were more like a lone wolf than Bayard's.

Other than that, she looks exactly the same as Bayard. There is not even any difference in appearance and age.

The Shadow Demon sighed deeply when he appeared, not knowing what he was worried about.

She first turned around, carefully buttoned the open clothes on Ivus's chest one by one, and then stretched out her slender and powerful fingers to help Ivus straighten the neckline of the dress. It was only after her somewhat crumpled clothes in Bayard's arms that she had been in her arms were brought back to order before she hugged Ivus and looked back in an orderly manner.

She and No. 14 are both black-haired and blue-eyed, and their appearance is also somewhat similar, and at this moment the two are hugging each other like an older sister holding a younger sister.

The bats, scattered in the line of shadows, only made a rustling sound, but did not react.

It's like being stunned.

"What's wrong, Bayard?"

Shadow Fiend smiled sarcastically, "After seeing me, won't you be able to speak?" ”

She was holding her chin with her left hand around Ivus, and was fiddling with the side of her thumb for her earlobe. And at this moment, he put the index and middle fingers of his left hand into Ivus's mouth violently, and pulled out the tips of her tongue.

Ivus glanced at her.

For the sake of the shadow demon who seems to want to be handsome, he decided to give her this face.

- I'll talk about it when I get back.

As she moved, Shadow Fiend's right hand was raised carelessly.

The shadow thread that covered the entire room and ran through the bats suddenly sprouted countless needles of varying lengths.

The bats that had been pierced turned into clumps of blood without internal organs in an instant.

The blood coalesced into a clump like a gravityless liquid, floating upward.

They gathered in the middle and took on human form again. Only her glasses fell to the floor, but the carpet was soft enough to not break.

The web of shadows that had previously dissipated and regenerated - it had been running through the room repeatedly, but now it had become a cobweb of order, hanging the bayard in the air again.

Bayard wasn't powerless to tear through the webs.

It's just that the scene in front of her made her frown and her heart beat wildly-

The shock welled up in her heart and she didn't know what to say at this moment.

It was exactly what she had seen countless times from her nightmares.

- As if on both sides of the mirror, two people who are almost identical look at each other.

One sits on the bed, hugging the girl, with an arrogant expression...... The other was hung in the sky by a dark shadow cobweb, with a complicated expression.

"Huh."

Seeing that Bayard was still silent, Miss Shadow Demon sneered, "Didn't you think of this situation? I don't think so. If it were me, I would have thought about this possibility a long time ago...... I should have even dreamed about it in my dreams.

"How can you die with such a grudge and not become a demon? And if my soul becomes a demon, then what are you? ”

As she spoke, she pulled out the fingers that were playing with Ivus's tongue without a trace.

She pressed it against the side of Ivace's face and took a deep breath, casting that playful look at Bayard, who hung silently in the sky.

"Say something, Miss Bayard. Give a little reaction, don't act like a corpse...... Oh, sorry, you're just a corpse. Or am I doing something in front of you that I wanted to do but didn't do? ”

“…… Are you confessing the Lord? ”

Bayard finally spoke: "Such a weak master? ”

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

Because she avoided answering Shadow Fiend's questions. This already showed the confusion of her thinking. Of course, Ivance's performance may have played a role.

Shadow Fiend just laughed. First laughed, then laughed out loud.

For the first time, she laughed out loud in her own voice in front of Ivus—a rather sharp and aggressive laugh, and it sounded like a kind of condescending arrogance.

"yes."

The Shadow Fiend suddenly stopped laughing, and replied solemnly, "It's so weak." But none of them could make me more satisfied.

"My dear master, but when he was so weak that he could shatter at the touch, he let out a message to kill the people of the Celestial Division. It's not cruel words, but a plan with definite possibilities.

And in this case, she dared to ask for power from that Tenji. What does this mean? Because she didn't even see Naji as an old enemy - neither hateful nor wary, and even got along with each other as equals.

"Is that fearless through ignorance?"

The Shadow Fiend looked at Bayard and whispered, "Of course not. It is the ambition to move forward despite the danger, and the courage to seriously challenge an enemy that is impossible to defeat.

"—just like us, isn't it?"

By the time Shadow Fiend said this, the hostility in her words had already dissipated.

As the side that was robbed of her name and identity, she was able to let go of her hostility first.

It's certainly not gentleness and forgiveness – "bayard" has never been associated with words like that. Long before she was a human, she had learned how to usurp power by stepping on the corpses of others and suffering them.

Legend has it that man is the son of the Constant Self and the Serpent Father.

Therefore, human beings have the adaptability of the nine paths, but transcendence and love are the most universal and profound.

- Ambition and desire.

That's what drives the profit machine called Bayard. And it wasn't morality and law that bound her behavior—it was the pride of her heart.

The "Miss Bayard" in front of her is nothing more than a fabricated soul fabricated by the pillar god.

No matter what kind of hatred you still have in your heart, you don't have to throw yourself at her. It doesn't mean anything, it's just a false consolation.

Miss Bayard, who had been put down by the Shadow Fiend, rubbed her wrist, which was a little red from being hung up, and asked rhetorically:

“…… Don't you want to eat me? ”

The Shadow Fiend just looked at her sarcastically, not saying a word.

She hugged Ivus harder into her arms. Leaning forward to press the cold, plump body against Ivus, and resting his chin on her shoulder.

Even though Shadow Fiend felt as cold as snow on a winter night, Ivas didn't push her away.

She had come to understand what had happened in the past.

- The Shadow Demon is an amorphous amorphous demon, and its essence is nothing more than a cloud of smoke that never sees the light of day.

Any form it can change into eats the other party's harvest.

It's as if she had taken Miss Assassin's voice and body.

The Shadow Fiend will never be able to return to his past life, because he is dead. It's just a shadow deprived of everything, and it's useless to eat a corpse.

And since Shadow Fiend can now become Bayard, he makes the exact same sound as Bayard......

That means that the once newborn Shadow Demon has also succeeded in devouring Bayard, who is the son of the moon.

It is only when "the corpse is transformed into a child of the moon" that it is possible for the Shadow Fiend to become what he was in his previous life.

However, Shadow Fiend can also change back to his own form and make his own voice...... is also the same as Bayard, the son of the moon, who has memories of his past life. In this sense, she even gained the longevity and great strength of immortality.

However, she apparently did not preside over the "Bayard Group" in the mortal world like the Children of the Moon, but returned to the dream world, staying quietly and lonely in the shadow realm.

The Bayard group, which has now lost its commander, has long since disappeared into the dust of history.

- She doesn't bother to steal Bayard's name.

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

"What am I going to do when I kill you? What's the use? ”

The Shadow Fiend finally spoke, and his voice was cold and sober, "You're not the real Bayard. Me neither.

"Unlike you, demons don't dream anymore."

(End of chapter)