Getting reborn: I will make a harem this time.-Chapter 56: Ruin of ancient demon

I shook my head again. Now that she was fine, I should move now.

I got up, intending to go towards the ruin when I saw some movements from her.

She was waking up.

Her face twitched a bit, seemingly to feel a bit a pain.

The impact wasn’t without any damages it seems.

She slowly opened her eyes and looked around her.

She seemed out of it for an instance, but immediately became alert when she felt a presence beside her.

She jumped away, taking a attacking stance, but her emotions shifted when she got the picture of the man in front of her.

Looking at me, her first words were, "You are that demon."

There she goes again. But i do not wish to dwell on it longer.

"What are you doing here? Where is the liz... your father?" I asked her.

But instead of answering me, she turned her head away and puffed out her cheeks.

"Why should I tell you? I am not obliged to answer you."

Huh? Is this brat being for real?

She is holding the grudge of me not telling her my name against me?

But does she think I am going to care about her?

"Fine then. There roam many monsters at night here. Feel free to serve yourself as dinner to them."

"Hmph, I am not scared of them. I will just burn them up." She said with a haughty tone.

"Is that so?"

She is considered a genius in dragon race, but her strength is nowhere near enough to be so arrogant yet.

"Seems you have never been to an actual battle yet. Well, looking at your age, it is natural. Till now, your father must have gone with you when he sent you for training right? The only monsters you have faced till now were low ranking ones. You think you can fight a high ranking monster on your own?"

I put more weight on my voice and used a bit of my aura to scare her more. Even though arrogant, she is still a child. It will be easy to scare her.

This should suffice now. She wasn’t saying anything, must be afraid now.

"Just leave from here. Go to your father. A kid like you shouldn’t roam around alone at night."

"B-but, you are also a child." She said, her voice shaky.

"Yeah, i am. But I can fight high ranking monsters on my own. Do not compare yourself with me. Get going now."

Saying that, I walked away from there.

I am sensing a strange mana coming from near me.

It must be coming from that ruin as it seems more potent.

Usually, ruins are places that hold ancient inheritances. Powerful people from past, who wishes to continue their lineage or path makes a ruin to pass down their inheritance.

At first I used to wonder what is even the point in the ruins, but now that the path of ascension has been opened, I have realised what they are actually for. freeweɓnøvel.com

Those people who have ascended already and have choosen their path or a law, pass down their knowledge to future generations, to keep that path ongoing.

But not all of them are just for that purpose. If some wished to pass down their knowledge, some probably wishes to do something more, for example taking over the consciousness of someone that they pass their knowledge on.

Well, I haven’t witnessed things like that myself, but that is a probable thing, right?

Another thing is that, ruins are always filled with monsters.

They get attracted from the mana that comes out from it.

But now I feel that they are actually attracted to the law that is hidden inside the ruin. They must have subconsciously realised the importance of it, if they can have it, then they might reach a new level of power.

I cannot think of any more reason as to why monsters always go near the ruins.

(All of his knowledge is from reading too much novels in his past life.)

As i moved further away, I couldn’t help but frown more and more.

Why is she following me?

"Why are you following me?" I asked.

"I am not following you, you are walking in front of me."

"What? You father has gone towards this direction?"

"No, he is somewhere else."

"Then where are you heading to? Did you not listen when I said to go back to your father?"

I stopped and turned around while saying that.

Looking down at her little stature, I asked with a domineering tone.

My voice was cold and even if she is a child, it makes it annoying when they do not listen.

Seeing my cold eyes, she trembled a bit. But still mustered up her courage to speak again,

"I-i will complain about you to father."

"Oh, will you now? And how will you do that?"

She couldn’t say anything.

"If I am guessing right, you have actually ran away or sneaked out without telling your father. That’s why he still hasn’t come to find you. And in such a place where there are not anyone present, what do you think can happen to you?"

She looked even more scared now.

Scaring a child? Is it a good thing?

Well, I need to get rid of her first, so let’s just scare her away.

My voice turned even deeper and cold. She timidly stood there, her feet’s locked in their place to even move an inch now.

"Even if I kill you now and throw you to hungry monsters, nobody will be able to figure it out who killed you. If you do not want me to do that to you, you better speak up now." I finished.

This should be more than enough for her now.

I felt good(bullying a child).

Feeling content(bullying a child) i looked at her again to see how much i was able to discipline her.

But what i got in return wasn’t what I expected. She was on the verge of crying.

She was sacred, her face almost teary, if I say even a word now, she will probably cry.

What have I become?

The demon king from past... now I am a child predator. Fuck, that sounded wrong, child educator will be good.

Yeah I am a child educator.

Now that she has become like this, I cannot be soft on her.

"If you answer me honestly, I will let you go safely. Are you going to speak or not? Nodd your head if you will." I asked, with a firm tone.

She immediately nodded her head in agreement.

Good, i am a good child educator.

"Good. I will ask you few questions, answer them well, and i will let you go. First, what are you doing here?"

She did not speak for a while, but after a bit, her timid voice began to break out.

"I-i wanted to come here."

"Come where?"

"I saw this place in my dream. Someone was telling me to come here."

Huh? What kind of lame trope is this? Is this some fantasy story?

If she is talking about this place, then she must mean that ruin, right?

But isn’t that supposed to be for me only? What is that she needs from there.

"Do you remember who was the one that told you to go there?"

"I do not know him, but he was a big dragon, even bigger than father."

"Dragon?"

Is there something more inside the ruin? If it was a dragon bigger than that lizard then it must mean that that dragon is more powerful than him.

So there are chances of there being another inheritance for her.

"Does your father know about you being here?"

She dropped her head, giving me my answer without saying a word.

He doesn’t know.

"Last question, how do you know I am a demon?"

She hesitated to speak for a while. Even thoughi know the answer but I want to know how much she knows about herself or if that lizard knows about her condition or not.

"I know it because I can sense it. I can sense that you are a demon."

"And how?"

"Because... because I have a black heart. I was aware of it from my birth. When I looked through our ancient texts, I realised that it was something called demonic heart. Father told me to never talk about this with anyone."

So he knew, huh.

"Anything more?"

"He told me that if outside world knew about it, then they will try to do everything possible to kill me. That’s why he never let me go out at all. He kept me away from everyone in fear of them finding out about me. It was because, this heart belonged to the demonic dragon. It is said that that demonic dragon destroyed hundreds of planets in the supremacy war, he even killed the dragons, his own race. Later he was captured and was sealed inside the ruin of an ancient demon."

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