Chapter 403 Flexible Means

Sareth’s consciousness gradually awakened, and he slowly opened his eyes.

The first thing he saw was a table with messy books on it opposite him. A ray of sunlight shone in through the window and landed on the table, allowing Sareth to see the most eye-catching thing: the clock!

April 25th, 7:12 a.m…

After staring at the clock for a while, Sareth returned to his senses. He immediately felt the restraint on his body and struggled desperately.

With his strength, it should have been easy for him to break free from the ropes, but he did not expect the ropes to be so strange. The more he struggled, the tighter they became.

“Don’t waste your energy. There are spells specially used to imprison demons on it!”

A voice came from the garage. Nico walked in with a yawn and put on her gla.s.ses. After combing her messy hair, she ignored Sareth’s gaze and walked to the garage door to pull up the shutter.

When the sunlight shone in, Sareth could not help but turn his head away. As for Nico, she was bathing in the sunlight and stretching. “Ah, the weather is really good!”

“Who are you? Why am I here?” Sareth stared at the strange woman. “Where’s that bad guy in red? Did he tie me up?”

Nico walked back, pulled a chair in front of Sareth, and sat backwards on it. With her hands on the backrest, she looked at Sareth. “Little friend, you have so many questions. But I can understand. When I was your age, I was also full of curiosity about the world.”

As she spoke, she took out a cigarette and flicked it into her mouth. After lighting it with a lighter, she took a deep breath and exhaled a mouthful of smoke contentedly.

Her movements attracted Sareth, and he watched without blinking. But when Nico breathed out the smoke, he felt that it was choking, so he could not help but ask, “What are you doing?”

“Smoking. Don’t you know?” Nico took another puff. “Or have you never seen anyone smoke?”

Sareth shook his head. He really had never seen it before.

Although everyone felt that Sareth might have come from a world that they did not know during the discussion last night, he did not even know about smoking, making Nico feel that her judgment was right. Her eyes darted around, and she asked Sareth, “Do you want to try?”

Although Sareth was wary of Nico, he was a child after all, and he was really curious. After hearing her question, he nodded.

Nico immediately took out another cigarette, lit it, and wanted to stuff it into Sareth’s mouth.

But at this moment, a hand suddenly stretched over from the side, grabbed the cigarette in Nico’s hand, squeezed it into a ball, and threw it to the ground.

“Teaching a kid to smoke? Nico, are you serious?!” The person who appeared was Nero. He looked at Nico with a headache, feeling that this big sister was really high-maintenance.

Nico shrugged and did not answer.

Sareth, who was tied to a chair, instantly narrowed his eyes when he saw Nero. He struggled and roared, “b.a.s.t.a.r.d, it’s really you guys! Why did you tie me up?! Let go of me!”

Nero stood in front of Sareth and looked down at him. “It’s not impossible to let you go, but this is under the premise that you promise not to act recklessly. Do you agree?”

Sareth hesitated for a moment before finally nodding.

So Nero walked behind him and untied his hands. But after untying them, Nero still looked at him vigilantly, afraid that he would suddenly escape.

There was nothing they could do about it. Although Sareth’s origin was unknown, and he seemed to have some ulterior motive, he was still a nine-year-old child after all. It was not good for Dante, Nero, and the other adults to treat him like this. It was impossible for them to tie him up forever, right? That was child abuse.

Fortunately, Sareth kept his word. After being released, he did not resist. He only rubbed his aching wrists and turned to look around. He asked Nero, “Where’s that man in red clothes with white hair?”

“Hey, brat, the first thing you do when you wake up is to find me? I’m really honored!” Dante’s voice came, and he quickly appeared in front of Sareth. He held a plate with fried eggs and ham on it in his hand, and the food exuded an alluring aroma.

While joking, Dante placed the plate on the table in front of Sareth. “Hungry? This is your breakfast…”

Sareth looked at the food on the plate. They were things he had never seen before. Although they smelled delicious, he controlled his urge to eat and stared at Dante. “You… I saw you transform. Are you also a half-demon?”

“Yes, just like you, I’m a half-demon!” Dante was frank. He sat down opposite him and placed his feet on the table. Then he pointed at Nero, who was crossing his arms. “And not only me. He’s also a half-demon!”

Nero rolled his eyes. He hesitated for a moment before showing Sareth his demon right arm.

“So, you don’t have to worry too much, Sareth!” Dante spread his hands and tried to speak in a relaxed tone. “We’re actually the same kind.”

Sareth finally understood what the familiar feeling he had when he first saw Dante was, so he could not help but say, “You’re also Children of Taboo. Have demons and humans… ever hunted you down?”

Regarding his ident.i.ty as a Child of Taboo, the memory of that high-rank demon choking him was still fresh in his mind. He knew that many demons hated Children of Taboo like him to the bone, so he was curious about whether these two of his kind had encountered the same thing as him.

However, this term that Sareth said made Dante and Nero look at each other. “Children of Taboo?”

When Dante was young, demons had indeed hunted him down, but that was a tragedy caused by demons taking revenge on his father. After that, he often suffered attacks from demons, but he always felt that it was related to his father.

But after hearing this term, Dante realized that his understanding might have been wrong, so he could not help but ask, “Children of Taboo? What does this mean?”

Sareth was taken aback. “Don’t you know?”

Dante and Nero both shook their heads.

Sareth looked down at the food on the table. He could not help but grab it and take a bite. He found it delicious, so he could not worry so much and began to eat it. As he ate, he explained, “Foster Father once told me that demons and humans are very different creatures, so it’s difficult for them to have offspring. But by chance, there’s a tiny chance that offspring will appear. But such half-demon offsprings are not permitted by demons. On the one hand, demons will covet the talent of half-demons, and on the other hand, they want to kill half-demons to maintain the purity of demon bloodlines, so they call demon-human hybrids Children of Taboo…”

Dante and Nero looked at each other. To be honest, they had been fighting demons all these years. Although the demons they encountered were furious at them, they had long been accustomed to it. They felt that the demons’ anger might have something to do with them hunting demons, but they had never thought that there was such a deep reason.

“Sareth, according to you, are you also being hunted down by demons?” Dante asked.

“I don’t know…” Sareth raised his head in puzzlement and thought for a while. It seemed that except for the time when he encountered those high-rank demons and had his ident.i.ty exposed, his foster father had protected him well, so he had not been hunted down by demons…

Looking at Sareth’s blank expression, Dante felt a headache. To be honest, although Sareth was the same as them, it was still difficult for children of his age to communicate because adults might not be able to keep up with his thinking

At this moment, Nico, who was beside Sareth, suddenly asked, “Is it delicious? Would you like some more? Kyrie’s cooking is pretty good!”

Sareth quickly nodded. It was the first time he had eaten cooked human food, so he naturally found it delicious.

Nico smiled as she took the plate from Sareth and went to the kitchen. When she pa.s.sed by Nero, she gave him a meaningful glance. This was the decision that they had reached after discussing last night. Because Dante and the others had attacked Sareth, Sareth was hostile to them. But for a child like Sareth, blindly using force was easy to arouse his rebellious att.i.tude, and the gains would not make up for the losses. So Nico believed that if she used some gentle methods and tried her best to get along with Sareth as a friend, there might be unexpected gains. At least, this child looked like he was inexperienced, and it should be easier to get information from him…

This was why, early in the morning, the first person to appear was the woman, Nico, and then Dante and Nero appeared as the same kind. Now, with the help of Kyrie’s superb culinary skills, it was easy to lower many of Sareth’s psychological defenses.

After receiving the hint from Nico’s eyes, Nero scratched his head and said to Sareth, “After you finish eating, go take a shower. You smell of gunpowder and blood.”

Dante nodded. “That’s right, brat. Since you have nowhere to go now, stay here first.”

Upon hearing the way Dante addressed him, Sareth could not help but become angry. “How many times have I told you not to call me brat?!”

“Hahaha!” Dante laughed loudly. He reached out to rub Sareth’s hair and walked out of the garage without looking back.