"Be Mine!"
Looking into her eyes that seemed to be dangerously close to mine, I couldn't help but be more than a little shocked! I'm talking {WINDOWS EX HAS FAILED} level of surprise, I was completely frozen for a few seconds before my brain rebooted
Not what I was expecting!
I don't mean the whole familiar thing though, that was pretty understandable, I already knew about the existence of familiars due to my artificially given knowledge.
Familiars where Beasts that had become bound to a cultivator either from birth or through a contract, these contracts came in two forms:
Slave contracts were exactly as it sounded with the beast or cultivator being completely subservient to the other and had no choice but to obey their orders or they would experience a pain that was known to drive even rank 5 cultivators to vegetative states
The other kind of contract was much rarer and used mainly in instances of a treaty or in the case of both individuals needing each other to survive… sounds familiar (kekeke got you again) in this case the two would design a contract between them and it was so deeply binding that an infringement could result in both of their deaths, a contract of equals
However, the idea of being a familiar for such a babe wasn't what was freaking me out! The level of obsession in her eyes was a little…
You'd think she needed me for her grand plan or something!
Yandere anyone?... just kidding!... Right?
Returning to the conversation at hand I looked at her "What kind of contract" I hissed tilting my head, I had thankfully spent the last two hours while she was hunting and healing talking to myself as to stop the constant slurring of my words
[A.N Thank GOD!]
Once again surprised registered in her eyes seeing me calm down and fold my blades back behind me, and not kill her for subjecting such a thing
Hey! I was only going to cut her in half! My blades do not care about gender! I am an indiscriminate killer!
"Obviously an equal's contract!" she seemed rather joyous as her surprise faded, seemingly at the idea of entering a contract with the ever great me! "I help you out of here and then we fight side by side until we've conquered the entire sect and killed any who try to harm us, we could be complete allies since we can't betray each other!" as she talked her voice got louder and I could practically taste her immense hunger for power and slight desperation
I could tell she was telling the truth; nobody could fake that level of obsession or hunger "why do you wish to conquer your own sect?" even if I had a pretty rough guess, I still wanted to be sure
She went quiet for nearly an entire minute before she released a level of killer intent so strong that the air around her seemed to turn sharp and bloody, even if it was practically adorable when compared to the pressure of the Demon Beasts, I had encountered it was still impressive
"They hurt me and left my skin marred! Nobody may touch me let alone damage my beauty!" she whispered with a dangerous level of wrath and pride
Wow, very self-obsessed! But hey what do you expect! She a demonic cultivator that kills without a thought, nobody's perfect! She's not even taking it into consideration that she may have only been conspired against by just one person instead of her entire sect!
Well… when you consider it she seems rather perfect for a partner
She may be vain and probably more than a little evil but by the looks of it she's just your every day demonic cultivator, at least if she's spoilt, she's not acting like that to me so what do I care. Besides if I work with a demonic cultivator, I'm bound to end up against a pure one, maybe even this worlds protagonist!... if that's a thing
Such a thing would make me the happiest bug in the world! Aside from maybe getting an actual girlfriend
"Sigh what would your terms be?" I responded to her little confession trying to act disinterested hoping that it would get me a good bargain, my mother used to do this trick when she talked to the mailman
After calming down she made her way to my bed and sitting on it she put her hand under her chin and began to look thought fully "well the first condition of course would be that I have to lead you out of the death lands, right?"
"And not into any form of captivity" I added with a nod of the head
"well, I cant control what they may try to do to you once we are through but I will protect you and your freedom to the best of my ability and to not let you get caught on purpose" she answered, finding her answer fair I nodded again
"Past that we will be bound together by contract and as such will have to support each other, while neither of us will be in control of the other"
*nod*
"I will help you in your little crusade in finding and murdering any and all responsible for your assassination attempts but I will not place that as priority over our lives"
*nod*
"How long do you want this contract to bind us together?" I asked her, curling upon the bed next to her getting comfortable preparing to go to sleep, I hadn't in a few days, so I was tired
"Forever of course!"
That woke me up fast!
"Forever!?" I sputtered, apparently, she ignored my shock as she gave a warped smile
"of course" she hummed "as my familiar you would pose as a pet of sorts until you reach at least Class 5 to not cause suspicion while being my closest ally! And seeing as you are MY ally, you belong to ME" not sure about that logic personally
"So, you belong to me as well?" I said in a joking tone.
"yep" she chirped "it's the best way to become friends!"
What the actual fu…