Bab 216: Demons Vs Demon

"WHAT?!"

Zerci was many things, but deaf wasn't one of them. She was perfectly sound in hearing—in fact, one could say better than most.

However, the statement she had just heard was so absurd that she needed Red to repeat the words to her.

"I said there is another Elf around him and—"

"No one cares about the other Elf. It's probably another runaway or something. I'm referring to the three demons you talked about. Why would there be three demons around him?"

Red bobbed his head a little awkwardly. He shrugged, indicating that he lacked the information she needed. He was just as clueless as his leader, after all.

"What's the meaning of this? Any chance the demons could be from us? But what would that mean? Do the higher ups think I can't do my job right?" Zerci surmised that if these demons were indeed on her side, then that officially threw all the accomplishments she had attained thus far, out the window.