The road began to slope downward, the trees thinning out as the formation marched toward the valley. Hajin kept his hands in his pockets, his boots crunching softly on the dry leaves.
'What are those two actually up to?' he stared at the back of the Knight Captain's helmet, his mind spinning.
The system had clearly flagged them as a high threat level, yet the knights had just let them go without a second thought. He couldn't understand it, because if those two were indeed demons, they should have been questioned more thoroughly.
He thought back to the demon girl standing in the clearing. The way she had smiled at him and waved felt strangely familiar, like a memory he couldn't quite grasp.
He was certain he had never met her, but the feeling of familiarity remained.
'Could it be because of the Goddess fragment?' he wondered, his hand brushing against the spirit ring on his finger.
