"...Let Me Leave."

“So you are saying he keeps demons close to him and is a demon himself too?”

She downed the tea in one gulp, before refilling it with cold tea from the pot. This time, she didn’t try to warm it with her aura, instead, she wished to cremate a body.

Her Aunt’s, specifically.

She was laying on her office sofa with her legs open shrewdly while the blueprint of the Palaces floated in the air above her. She read through it like this, swinging her stocking clad legs in the air.

Laylin gritted her teeth, praying for patience.

It was a relief that her office was so high up for someone to snoop around and servants were already reprimanded by her and sent on odd jobs.

“Half demon, I suspect! He’s probably a half-demon and would you please behave like a respectable member of society!”

Her aunt removed her reading glasses, rubbing her eyes as if kneading dough before pinching the bridge of her nose as she struggled to sit up in the dress.

“What do you know of demons, Lassie? How much of t