The Queen Of The Demon World
68. Nina, Spirit of Time

“Good day or good night, how are you humans?” asked a girl with a sweet smile, her golden eye color seemed to squint with two colorful wings.

“Who are you?”

“Include, my name is Nina. I was sent here by Mr. William and Mr. Mur.” Nina smiled sweetly with her childish attitude.

“Nina?”

“True once!” Nina touched her chest with her head slightly bowed and eyes closed. “I am the time spirit of the forest of the spirits.” He opened his eyes and looked at Ethelyne. “I was sent to heal Brother Ethelyne.”

“Then you can cure it right!” said Aelene spirit.

Nina touched her chin with a plain face. “Hem, not to cure anyway. Since the demon seed was still embedded within him, he was unable to stabilize his magic unless he used it in conjunction with dark magic. But ...” Nina stepped towards Ethelyne.

“But what?”

Nina raised both her hands towards Ethelyne with a serious look. “He will always feel the pain of using two magic at once, let alone the opposite magic. Even Mika alone cannot do the same.” He closed his eyes, a magic circle made of light appeared between Nina and Ethelyne's hands. “Between the afterlife and the mortal, between life and death. Me, the spirit of time. Nina, ask the goddess Hemera. Please help Nina, save Lady Ethelyne Virgian Blisterzz.”

A red and gold colored aura was seen covering Ethelyne's entire body, suddenly. The auras seemed to merge and enter Ethelyne's body.

“What's being-”

“Are you that guy?”

Everyone who was in the room turned their heads towards Eadric who let out a voice after remaining silent.

“Sweet man, I don't understand what you're saying. Who do you mean?”

“What are you ... The spirit that helped me while in the cave?”

Nina blinked with a plain look on her face, she smiled sweetly. “Ah, you're the man that the dark spirit Ivy spoke of huh? Too bad, but I'm not helping you. Even though I am a Spirit of time, I do not have too much holy power to turn a human's time around.”

“Then, who helped me then?” eadric murmur.

“Maybe it's Miss Ivy, Miss is also a time spirit like me. But our strength is very different, Miss can heal any creature that does not have holy power, she can easily reverse the time of one's death or hasten it. Miss is really very great, but of course.” Nina glanced at Ethelyne. “The power used to summon high-level dark spirits is enormous, if the one doing is an ordinary demon lord. It was possible that he could die because while using spirit summoning magic, soul energy could also be used when the magic energy was depleted.” He poked Ethelyne's cheek which felt very soft. “But, of course it was just a piece of cake for a Demon Queen.”

“So yes, so what helped me back then was the spirit of darkness.”

“Isn't that so cool, he can even summon high-level spirits. I didn't expect the Demon Queen to be so strong and powerful,” Zachary said in amazement.

“All of you, I want to ask you something.” Nina glanced at them with a smile, but it was different from the way she looked at those who were full of anxiety. “Do you all know .. that, for the demon nation. The one who is chosen as the King of darkness is, the demon who is cursed.”

“Why? Why is Mama always being okay in front of Luna? Don't you remember, Luna can see everything! Luna saw everything Mama did out there!” Luna shouted while crying a mouthful.

“Luna, you misunderstood. Mama never kept any secrets on Luna.”

“Mama lied! Mama kept everything from Luna, why didn't Mama tell Luna? That, if Luna gets out of this place. Mama will leave Luna forever, why .. why did Mama do this for Luna? If Mama leaves, Luna also does not want to stay in the world ... Luna would rather stay here forever than lose Mama.”

Ethelyne hugged Luna warmly. “No, you've been waiting for this for years. Mama doesn't want to take away your future just for the life of Mama.”

“Luna better be cooped up here forever than to lose Mama, Luna doesn't want Mama to leave Luna.”

“You can't be like this, baby.” Ethelyne took off her embrace and wiped away Luna's tears. “If Luna is like this, Mama will also feel it all.”

“Then why did Mama never understand Luna's feelings?? Mama always lied to Luna! Luna always knew what Mama was going to do, Luna just wanted to wait for Mama to tell Luna herself. But it seemed, Luna was expecting too much. Until anytime, Mama won't tell me right.”

“Out!!”

~~~♥~~~

Ethelyne opened her eyes, she woke up holding her head that felt dizzy. ‘Did Luna really hate me?’

“Good morning, Lady Ethelyne.”

Ethelyne turned to the origin of the voice, she looked at Nina with a frown. “What are you doing here?”

“Good once.” Nina puffed her cheeks. “If it wasn't for me, Lady would have already been controlled by the demon soul. You should thank me!”

“Ya, yes. Whatever, why are you here? I did not do spirit summoning, there is no way you can break through the demon realm so easily.”

“Khem, you are absolutely right. Mr. Murry lent me a little of his holy power, that way. I was able to break through the underworld easily, but due to his holy power it only lasted for a short while. So I can't be here long.”

“So yeah? Then, why are you here?”

Nina smiled. “I'm here to bring Lady back to the top world.”

“Can't!” ethelyne said firmly.

“Eh, why? Do you not want to be healed? You can die if you stay with the demon soul for too long, Lady. You have to remember, holy and demonic forces are very different. What if your body explodes due to the instability of holy magic!”

“I know all the consequences.” Ethelyne turned her gaze towards the window.

“But--”

“I've thought everything through carefully, and I decided to let the demon soul that took over this body when I left later.”

Nina looked down with her hands clenched. “Lady, do you know the consequences of defying Mr. Murry's orders.”

“I don't care.” Ethelyne stood up and looked at Nina flatly. “If you're gonna take me away again, then I'm gonna fight. Not with dark power, but with holy power mine.” He walked towards Nina and whispered. “Remember one thing, if I destroy the sacred seed within me. Then this soul of mine will be destroyed along with my holy power, and when that human returns to the middle world. Then they would all die from the plague, no one would believe in the presence of the Legendary Dragon anymore. And Murry's power will weaken, then. With a demon soul, I will destroy it without remaining.”