Aiden walked away from the halls and vanished from sight before reappearing in his Pocket Domain.

The size of his Pocket Domain had grown so large now, that it could fit an entirely new planet within its bounds.

There was an outer space, with what looked like different stars scattered at various points across the expanse.

And the ground platform where he stood seemed to float in an endless void.

The demon lady stood near the edge of the platform with her body tense as she stared down into the darkness below.

"I have no idea where you'll drop to or how far you'll fall if you attempt to jump from there,"

Aiden said while watching her.

She pulled back almost frantically and turned toward him with a growl forming on her face as she bared her clawed teeth.

"You!" she called out again, while snarling.

Then without hesitation she pounced forward and lunged at him with her claws extended.

Aiden stopped time around her mid-leap and she froze in place before his tail lashed out and sent her flying backward across the platform.

She hit the ground hard and rolled several times before pushing herself up again.

She lunged at him once more and again he stopped time around her before his tail whipped forward and struck her away.

This repeated several more times until finally she stayed down on one knee with her breathing heavy and her body trembling from exhaustion.

Aiden stood in place with an emotionless expression on his face as he watched her struggle to stand back up.

"I was told you were waiting on me," Aiden began. "Why?"

She huffed and puffed while glaring at him through strands of dark hair that had fallen across her face. "I want to kill you," she said in a growling tone.

"You barely know me," Aiden replied.

She laughed bitterly and shook her head. "Oh but I do know you well enough," she said. "And after I kill you I'll go find and kill that bitchy human who gave birth to me. Ingrid was it?"

Aiden's eyes narrowed slightly at how specific that statement was and he wondered how she even knew about Ingrid in the first place. "How do you know anything about Ingrid?" he asked.

"I always knew from the moment I was born," she said while pushing herself fully upright. "Ingrid always wanted to kill me but when she couldn't, she had you take me away to the blue-haired woman and her people who cut me up every day."

Her voice grew sharper. "And for that I will never forgive any of them. I will see that I get my revenge on all of them."

Aiden sighed heavily.

When Thamoryn spoke of the demon lady's intelligence she definitely wasn't bluffing.

It seemed her brain had developed faster than her body did even at such an infant level and in fact it had already matured enough to fully understand everything that had happened in Alaric's house that day.

He knew this abnormality had to do with the fact that she was part demon, but he also knew that demons didn't possess such intelligence that quickly.

But probably this girl being the combination of two species, human and demon, was something entirely new.

Additionally the magic power he was feeling from the demon lady was pretty high for a regular demon and if he had to guess she was probably at least Archdemon level.

Which made sense why she was able to fight Thamoryn.

Almost like Demon Lords, it was hard to measure the strength of Archdemons.

They were still less powerful than a Demon Lord though much stronger than Barons whose demon magic strength was comparable to S-rank mages.

Aiden chose not to give it any real thought because in the end it made no difference, he was still going to kill this half demon anyway.

He stretched his hand toward her and a white light of destruction began forming in his palm.

The demon went down on all fours and bared her teeth out like a beast about to face the attack head-on.

Then the words of Thamoryn rang in his head; when she said that this demon could have killed them if she wanted but didn't.

He hesitated for a moment before lowering his hand slightly.

"Why didn't you kill even at least Thamoryn?" he asked. " You definitely knew her well enough and had reasons to kill her so why didn't you?"

She said nothing in reply and kept growling ferociously while staring at him.

Aiden stared back for a bit longer then dropped his hand entirely and stopped the white beam formation before shaking his head and sighing.

A demon being in her position would have already killed off Thamoryn and Oberon at the first chance they got but this one didn't.

And now he wasn't sure it was fair to just take her life that way.

"Well you're going to be here a while till I can figure out what to do with you," he said.

"I won't be anyone's prisoner," she yelled out in defiance. "Not anymore."

Then she lunged herself away from the platform they stood on and dove into the blank space so that she could fall off.

If this was going to be her end then so be it.

Aiden sighed and rolled his eyes before whispering quietly, "Stop."

Time froze once more and the demon lady became suspended mid-air with her body still angled downward as if falling.

He walked toward her calmly and grabbed her by the leg mid-air, before pulling her back until she was floating above solid ground again.

Once she was out of the fall range, he made an avatar materialize to his side then turned toward it. "Hold her here," he said.

The avatar nodded at Aiden before stretching his hand out toward the demon whose time was still frozen and used the Space Lock skill.

This was a skill from the Space Authority that locked space within an area of choice and created an invisible barrier that couldn't be crossed.

Additionally, after the system completed its amalgamation process, Aiden's avatars could now wield other authorities, beyond just the Replication Authority.

When time resumed, the demon woman snapped back to awareness and tried to leap away, but she crashed into an invisible barrier that stopped her instantly.

She tried another angle but got the same result.

She yelled and screamed loudly, but because space was locked around her, no sound escaped beyond the barrier.

Aiden the original looked at her with some pity in his eyes before sighing heavily and then disappearing out of the Pocket Domain entirely.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

——

Aiden's reappearance happened to be infront of the guild, just as the late afternoon sun began slipping down.

Although most of the guild members were outside helping with the rebuilding of collapsed walls and burnt districts, the few who were inside still turned their eyes toward him.

Some openly and some more subtly, because his current form had become something that drew attention whether he wanted it or not.

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