Unrivaled Demon's Odyssey

Nero snapped, and the next second, his body was covered by his clothes.

"You are back," he said as he got up from the bed.

Emilia didn't pay any attention to Nero— her gaze was fixated on Sophia— who was just a random girl in Emilia's eyes because Sophia had changed her form to a different girl.

"What were you doing?" Emilia muttered.

"What?" Nero questioned— even though he had heard her the first time.

Emilia walked to the bed and lifted the blanket to see the girl was naked.

"I see," Emilia then looked at Nero with dead eyes and uttered, "What is the meaning of this?"

"Well, we had sex," Nero replied directly without any hesitation.

Emilia's face was full of rage after hearing that. "I paid for this room, and you are bringing a random human girl in the bed?!"

Even Nero was surprised by Emilia's sudden outburst. He had never expected that Emilia would react this way.

"This is Sophia," he answered.

Emilia once again looked at Sophia, then looked at the empty sofa.

"Sophi, change your form back to normal," Nero requested.

Sophia nodded and stood up as her body shined brightly and her form changed back to her angel form.

Emilia's face showed more dissatisfaction as he bit her lips, "Did you say she is just your friend? So why did you do 'it' with her?"

Nero looked at Emilia, and sighed deeply, then scratched the back of his head. "So it was what I thought it was."

Nero walked to Emilia and spoke, "Emilia, answer me honestly. Do you love me?"

Emilia didn't say anything and just glared at Nero. Her eyes teared up as she looked into Nero's eyes.

"Emilia," Nero moved his hands and placed them on Emilia's shoulders. "Listen to me. I may not give you love, but I will—"

Emilia slapped Nero's hands and yelled, "Don't touch me!"

Nero sighed and placed his hands on Emilia's shoulders again, "I know how you are feeling, but—"

Emilia pushed Nero and sobbed, "I said don't touch me!"

She then left the room and ran downstairs.

Nero glanced at Sophia and sighed deeply. "Tell me, Sophi. Tell me I did the right thing."

"I have seen you reject countless girls— but that was when you had fa—"

"Don't!" Nero shouted then said in a low voice, "Please, don't say her name in front of me."

"Fine~" Sophia cleared her throat. "I have seen you reject countless girls— but that was when you had 'her', but right now, you don't have anyone, nor you are committed to someone."

Sophia turned to Nero and stood in front of him, "I want to say you did the right thing, but I don't know your reason, so would you mind explaining that to me?"

"I am…" Nero desperately wanted to answer that but stopped.

Sophia cradled Nero's face and said, "Come on, I am your closest friend, right? You know you can trust me."

Nero averted his gaze and said with a distant smile on his face, "Do you remember Daria?"

"That witch who gave you all these curses?"

"Yeah, but that's not my point." Nero looked at his hand and formed a fist. "Some days prior to our first meeting, I met her in the forest."

"She was lost and asked me for the directions, so I helped her. She thanked me and asked what I wanted in return."

"I said, 'I want to be 'happy', and she laughed." Nero chuckled. "She laughed and laughed, then held my hand and looked me in the eyes."

Nero took a deep breath and sighed slowly, then continued. "She told me 'You are cursed, and your love would never be fulfilled'. At first, I didn't understand— even though I was just a kid at that time, I had memories of my previous life, so I had the vague idea of what she meant."

"Don't… tell… me," Sophia stuttered.

"Yeah, she was referring to my' love'. At first, I thought what happened in my past life was just my bad luck and a coincidence. It had nothing to do with my past life; this life is different— I thought."

Nero was betrayed and stabbed to death by his lover in his previous life, and in this life too, he was betrayed by his lover.

Sophia caressed Nero's face and hugged him. "Don't worry. We would never betray you."

"What's the meaning of this? I thought me getting reincarnated here was just a—"

Nero stopped when he heard loud voices from outside. There was a commotion going on outside, and everyone was yelling and shouting.

Nero shrugged Sophia to the side and walked to the window to check what was going on. He placed his hands on the window sill and looked outside.

Nero's eyes widened as he saw the townspeople gathered around the inn. Everyone was chattering and murmuring with each other. 'What's going on?'

Sophia walked to the window and questioned, "What's going on? Why are all these people gathered around here?"

"I don't know. Maybe something—" Nero caught a glimpse of some knights and Emilia.

Everyone was chattering with each other while two knights brought a cage and chained Emilia, then locked her in the cage.

Nero's eyes turned red in rage as the window sill in his grip broke.

"Look what we get by trusting an angel!" one of the men from the crowd yelled.

"We gave her refuge and looked after her because she was a half-human! But in the end, all angels are the same!"

"Yeah, she should just die!" another man said.

"Kill her!"

"Kill this bitch!"