"Hector?! Where are you, huh?!" This voice sounded so loud. Coming from behind the walls of this hallway.
"Shit! Xafier seems to be looking for me, Ameri." Hector said while banging his fist against the wall.
"It's all right, Hector. You come back! I'm going to the Human World alone. Haven't I been hunting alone all this time, um?" Ameri said. She smiled sweetly at Hector, making his eyes narrow. And that, added to Ameri's beauty, Hector thought.
"Okay, then I'm sorry, Ameri! I can't accompany you like usual."
After saying that, Hector turned around and left Ameri alone in the hall.
Ameri watched his friend leave, until Hector's back, which was already in the form of a young man, disappeared around the corner at the end of the hall.
Ameri took another step. She walked down this secret passage that was so lonely. Ah, Ameri remembers when an intruder came here a few months ago. And the intruder turned out to be with his Master Miryu.
After Raizel and Alsiel left, Ameri never saw the warmth and laughter here. The two princes simply disappeared, as if they had never been born in this Castle.
Raizel had been to this castle once in a while. However, maybe only once a month. Sometimes never.
Ameri remembers how he used to be a weak ordinary demon. Little Ameri was found in a state of chaos in the forest of the Twining Clan's dominion. At that time, Ameri will fall prey to the wild monsters that guard the forest. Before the figure of a young man helped him. He is the figure of Alsiel, who became a savior for Ameri.
Ameri did not know the identity of the young man who saved her. Before Alsiel took Ameri to the castle and hired Ameri as a maid.
However, that incident was long gone. Since Alsiel was punished for conspiring with the enemy, Alsiel was expelled from this castle. And Ameri doesn't know anymore about Alsiel's whereabouts.
If Ameri still wants to live, she must not mention Alsiel's name again, in this Demon Queen's castle of the Twining Clan. Although curious about his savior, Ameri couldn't do much. Her life was only to devote herself to the Demon Queen alone.
***
Apparently, human life did not go as smoothly as Ameri wanted. Like now, Ameri must remain silent when other students bullied her because Ameri has become very popular.
"Hey you!" Three students blocked Ameri's steps.
"Yeah, what's wrong, Sister?" asked Ameri with an innocent face.
"Follow us now!" A schoolgirl with shoulder-length hair, dragged Ameri's hand roughly, to the back of the school.
Ameri, who didn't want her identity to be known, finally obeyed the orders of the three students who were not from her class.
The three of them pressed Ameri's shoulders against the wall. Ameri groaned in pain as her back hit the wall, very hard. She had to act to look like a weak teenager. That way, maybe she will find a helper, who in the future she will make the man of her dreams.
"You're looking for attention, aren't you?" The girl whose hair was tied in one side ponytail spoke. She glared at Ameri.
Ameri did not answer. She now even lowered his face, looking so scared.
"Don't be cowardly! You think you're pretty, huh? Underclassmen don't know themselves!" The girl with shoulder-length hair answered.
"You ugly! Flat chest!" The girl, who had her back hair, also chimed in.
They are children from class 11-F. Since Ameri's arrival yesterday, all the other classes have always been complaining about Ameri's beauty, and that has angered her seniors, who are usually popular, now their popularity seems to be fading due to Ameri's arrival.
Ameri covered her mouth to hide her current smirk. After that, she looked at the three upperclassmen with teary eyes, as if he wanted to cry.
"Why are you mean to me? What did I do wrong to you?" Ameri whispered in a voice she was trying to soften.
***
"Let's eat together, let's go!" Vin shows his lunch to Gil.
"You don't usually bring food from home, Vin?" said Gil, surprised. The reason is, Vin has never brought lunch so far.
"Yeah, from now on I'm told to carry my lunch with Papa. So I don't make weird snacks, he said. Actually, I know that's the only reason Papa doesn't want to give me pocket money." Vin grumbled in annoyance at the attitude of papa, daddy and his father who had become increasingly cruel lately.
"If I eat with you, you'll eat less, Vin?" Gil asked. He noticed the provisions that Vin brought. Looks so good.
"Yes, who would want to give this to you, Gil?"
"Just earlier, he said he wanted to invite him to eat together? So what did he mean?"
"Eating together means, you eat in the canteen first and then we eat together behind the school, I see! Under the banyan tree, it must be fun."
"Yeah ... I thought you wanted to share your lunch with me, Vin." Gil said. There was a clear look of disappointment on his face.