The Incubus System

77 Chapter 75. Demon In Disguise

As the automatic glass door in front of me opened, my feet stepped out from an almost closed shop with a sour face.

"Thank you for waiting," I said, placing my new cap on my head.

Emma, who was standing, waiting in front of the shop turned around, facing me. As soon as she saw me, she laughed out loud. While I could only be silent with an unchanging expression. Of course, she laughed at me, right now I was still wearing my father's neat suit while that cap ... The cap was light blue with polka dots print. A pair of bear ears were on it, making me look like a fool. There wasn't any combination worse than this.

She tried to hold back the rest of her laughter.

"Is there no other choice?" she asked in a half teasing tone after she could make her voice.

"The other cap is pink with rabbit ears." My irritation was clear from the tone of my voice. I preferred wearing Emma's thief style mask instead of this kid's cap, sadly she didn't bring it. At the beginning, I was planning to go home before meeting with Emma to change my clothes and get my cap, but since she came before I could do that, I decided to buy it at a nearby shop. Unfortunately, the shops around us had closed, only this shop was still open.

"I think this cap is not bad either. The important thing is, it can cover your face so the demons can't recognize you," she said in difficulty since she was still holding her laughter. But a second later, she laughed again as she couldn't hold it in anymore. Even the sound of her laughter was still clear after she turned around and covered her mouth with her hand.

'Looks like I can make the demons laugh to death with this stupid cap,' I thought irritably. I wanted to take it off and hunt the demons without using any face cover. But if I did, Emma would be suspicious of me because it clearly showed I was too confident to kill all those demons as if I used to do it.

"Looks like I'll only get in your way tonight." If she kept laughing at me she would not be able to concentrate on hunting demons.

She tried to hold back her laughter once again and cleared her throat.

"Of course not. Besides, you look cuter with it," she tried to comfort me.

I sighed and forced myself to smile.

"Thank you," I said in an irritated tone. I knew the word 'cute' she meant wasn't really 'cute'.

"Shall we start it?" I asked.

"Right. Today we'll start our patrol around here."

"Yes, the headquarters assigned me to secure this area today," she replied as she pulled on the edge of her hood to cover her face even more.

I frowned again. Even though I only knew a little about the demon hunter rules or how they worked, for some reason, this sounded odd to me.

"Are you sure?" I made sure.

She turned to me.

"Are you doubting me?" she replied.

"You're acting weird today," I said straight to the point. She didn't answer me when I asked why she was so desperate to break into the VIP room and instead, she questioned my profession as well as what Pearl and Mia were doing in there. I also wondered why she broke the association's rules by wearing her demon hunter uniform to barge in. Also, I noticed that today she kept pulling her hood to cover half of her face, I was sure it would hinder her vision especially when fighting the demons later.

"I don't know what are you talking about." She turned around.

"Let's get started."

She was about to start walking but I caught her hand, broke her movement.

"You haven't answered my question earlier," I said.

"What question?" she asked without turning her gaze to me.

"Why did you suddenly barge into the VIP room?" I repeated my question.

"Because I'm worried about you," she replied without turning to me.

"Really?" From her attitude earlier, she was clearly worried about me but somehow I still felt something was strange about her today, especially since she kept pulling her hood, so I couldn't see her face clearly. It was obvious she was trying to cover something up from me.

She pulled her hand away, releasing it from me.

"It's getting late, if we don't start now the headquarters will scold me." After those words left her mouth, she resumed her steps.

I followed her from behind, my eyes on her. It was too obvious that she changed our conversation and avoided me so I couldn't ask her again.

'Observation.'

[Observation skill succeeded.]

[Name: Emma Lunaspark] [Age: 18]

[Level 7] [Race: Elf]

[HP: 113/183] [MP: 32/63]

[Skills: Holy Chain lv 3, Mana Strike lv 3]

[Emotion: Anxious, Untruthful]

[Love meter: 0/10]

[Condition: Normal]

[Weakness: Chest, Neck, Head, Ears]

[Talent: Elf's Blessing]

[Relationship: Single]

[Profession: Demon Hunter, College Student.]

My brows creased in confusion mixed with curiosity at her emotions. Anxious and untruthful. It was clear, she lied to me earlier, but about what?

Our feet stepped on the sidewalk, through the quiet streets, accompanied by the street lights. Most of the shops that lined up beside us were closed, while the rest were tidying up their shops, preparing to close. I walked following her, watching her and caught a lot of strange things from her. I remembered when we were on patrol yesterday she kept checking her Demon Compass but today she didn't check it at all. Other than that, we were just walking aimlessly and she was visibly restless.

I hastened my pace to catch up and walked beside her.

"Emma, did something happen?" I asked.

"Nothing," she replied without turning to me.

"Then why are you acting like you're covering something up from me?" Even though I knew she was clearly lying, but I couldn't say it directly. Besides, I didn't know what she lied about.

"What do you mean? I didn't cover anything from you," she replied, turning her head to the other side as if she was checking our surroundings. But I knew she was only pretending because she still hadn't pulled out her Demon Compass.

I just opened my mouth to ask again but she interrupted me.

"Damian, may I ask about yesterday's incident?"

"Sure," I noticed she changed our conversation again. Even though I still wanted to ask her but I was not sure what she was covering up, so I decided to answer her question as I was looking for a clue about what she was hiding from me.

She cleared her throat in anxiety before starting to speak.

"Did you see anyone fighting the demons there? Or maybe a winged hybrid beast?"

As I thought she asked me about this.

"No, I didn't see anyone there." I frowned in confusion.

"Besides, I never heard of any hybrid-beast with wings before." I didn't think she guessed that I was a hybrid-beast since there weren't any winged hybrid beasts. So, my status as a demon should be clear.

Her steps stopped as she turned towards me and I also stopped beside her.

"Then can you tell me what happened?" her seriousness was clear from her tone.

"I didn't see much. I did hear explosions and tried to locate the demons. But there was a large explosion near me and I passed out. After I woke up, the sound of the explosion was gone. Then I met you. "

"You really didn't see anyone there? Like a winged human or hybrid-beast or anything."

"No." After that word left my mouth, the stinking stench pierced my nose along with an announcement in a red box in front of me.

[!!! Warning !!! ]

[Another Demon detected!]

I looked around, trying to find the demon's location and saw a 7-year-old female elf in tattered clothes, her body covered in blood. She walked weakly towards us from across the street. Her long silver hair was messy, dirt and blood covered her face.

"Please ... help me ..." she begged.

[A demon has been found.]

I stayed in my position as my eyes paid attention to the child. Her status appeared above her head.

[Name: Foul Imp]

[Level 24]

[HP: 516/516]

[DP: 129/129]

'Foul Imp ...' My mind went back to this afternoon's incident when a Foul Imp vomited his disgusting liquid at me. I really wanted to kill her from a distance with my Demonic Spike but of course, I could not do it because Emma was here.

I just tilted my head slightly at Emma to whisper her that we were going to attack that Imp together. But she suddenly rushed forward towards the Imp. I was shocked by her careless movements. Even though the Imp was alone but that Imp's level was much higher than her, she should have known it from her Demon Compass.

My feet moved after her.

My eyes widened in shock as Emma knelt down and hugged the Imp to support her nearly falling body.

"What happened?" she asked in a worried voice.

"Sniff, sniff ... My mommy ... My mommy ... Please save my mommy ..." The Imp started crying as she hugged her. Her hands grabbed Emma's clothes tightly.

My steps stopped behind Emma, unable to believe that Emma not only didn't kill the Imp but also embraced her.

'What ?!' My gaze shifted to her wrist that wasn't covered by her sleeve now and realized that Emma wasn't wearing her Demon Compass.