Chapter 264: I’ll Listen to Little Mo

Hearing that Philina would have to be brought before Liya in order to lift the curse, Morphis hesitated.

Honestly, she did not feel Liya was lying.

On the contrary, she believed Liya still retained a portion of a Heavenly Oracle Envoy’s rationality.

Perhaps she had only been partially infected by dark mana and had not completely fallen.

Morphis comforted herself this way.

Before agreeing to Liya, a sense of guilt climbed up her spine and left her feeling as if she had stepped into an ice cellar.

This was clearly gambling with Philina’s safety.

She even began suggesting to herself that Liya was harmless.

Indeed, once a desire one wished to realize appeared in the heart, one would continuously argue that oneself was correct—just like how she currently believed Liya was “harmless.” For a time she would become more reckless than anyone else.

She had not even gone to find Gabriella to ask the divine lady whether there was any method that could help her.

She should not have been so decisive.

After all, Lady Liya had said that Lady Gabriella and Lady Olivia would not punish Philina. They had methods, did they not?

Morphis raised her head and looked into Liya’s serious eyes, then quickly shook her head.

“I don’t know whether you’re deceiving me. I cannot gamble with Philina’s safety. If you have no method, then forget it.”

“Is that so? I truly have no malicious intent.”

“You can think it over. After all, those coins in your hand can punish me at any time, can’t they?” Liya gave a bitter smile.

“Simona has never harmed me before. I still don’t really want to experience the feeling of having my body drained dry.”

Morphis shook her head and turned to leave the basement.

For a moment she felt extremely conflicted.

The reason she had not gone to Gabriella to resolve this matter was precisely because she herself had no confidence in lifting the curse, was it not?

Seeking help from the enemy like a stray dog—how hopeless.

Morphis mocked herself in her heart.

At present everyone had left the mansion. Only Morphis and Philina remained to “watch the house.”

Work was completed quickly.

The invisible protective barrier outside the mansion and the magical weapons guarding the estate were even ten times more numerous than those protecting the Holy King Palace.

Therefore this place was safer than any corner of the human nations.

Liya could not harm her.

Morphis did not hide her horns or demonic pupils.

She reached up and touched the horn. The part connected to her scalp and the nerves of her skull made her feel a little itchy, and for some inexplicable reason also a little comfortable.

This horn was probably several times harder than mithril, like two antennas that conducted mana.

The dark mana inside Morphis’s body was not particularly large.

Under her extremely strong mana control, she could even keep it sealed inside the Prayer Codex that had fused with her.

As long as she did not open the contaminated pages, she would not suffer large-scale erosion from the dark mana.

“Little Mo~ Where are you going?”

Just as Morphis had walked a short distance out of the basement, she ran straight into Philina.

Philina also had demonic horns, but unlike Morphis she already had a tail growing behind her, swinging left and right as it poked out from the diamond-shaped cutout of her maid uniform.

“I… I’m fine…” Morphis lowered her head.

“Why does Little Mo feel so strange today, always avoiding me? Do you have some secret you’re hiding from me?”

“Philina, is the work finished?” Morphis said with a red face, forcing herself to remain calm.

“Of course I don’t have any secrets from you, dummy.”

“Naturally. Today’s work was fairly light. Lady Olivia’s method is really quite good. If we can return to the residential palace, I’ll definitely tell those little sisters how to use magic to clean.”

Morphis looked at Philina with an incredulous expression.

“The residential palace?! That’s where the Demon King lives, isn’t it? It’s too dangerous. Philina, are you joking?”

“Hehe~”

Philina stretched. When she spread her arms the tail also stretched backward, unfolding naturally, and because she was in a good mood it curled upward slightly.

Morphis stared fixedly at her tail.

Since no one else was present, there was no need for them to hide their physical characteristics the way they did at night.

Philina seemed to have completely adapted to and was even enjoying the feeling of becoming a demon.

A faint black pattern could be seen on her face and forehead.

Philina walked up and gently touched Morphis’s horn, then giggled.

“Philina, there’s something I want to tell you.”

After hesitating for a while, Morphis finally spoke. She truly could not bear the sight of Philina being eroded by a demon any longer.

“Go ahead. I’m listening~”

“Just now I went to see Liya. I asked her about some things.”

While Morphis was still hesitating, Philina’s tail had already hooked around her lower leg. The tail lightly rubbed against her skin through the stockings, feeling a little itchy.

“What exactly does Little Mo want to say to me?”

Morphis’s face turned red. In the end the words in her mouth were forced back down.

“Your… tail… how does it feel?”

In her incoherence Morphis asked a question she herself found a little funny.

At this Philina only gave Little Mo a teasing look.

Morphis covered her face.

“That’s not what I meant! Ah, I… I only wanted to say, does the tail affect you…”

“It doesn’t affect me at all. Having a tail makes everything very convenient.”

“Guh…”

Morphis nodded, yet still could not understand what “convenient” meant.

Could a coffee cup be picked up with a tail? Or keys?

She still remembered that a tail did not have that many functions. When going in and out it could not even turn corners.

Moreover, having a tail was actually quite comfortable. Morphis did not know that yet, but it should be coming soon.

“Completely transformed, huh~”

Philina walked up in front of her, took her hand, and gently pulled her into an embrace.

“That’s fine too. But if this continues, won’t Little Mo completely transform as well~”

Morphis’s face instantly turned red. She said nervously, “I don’t want to become a demon at all. I… I have a method.”

Morphis’s voice hesitated. She tightly gripped Philina’s hand and suddenly blurted out the matter she had been hesitating over.

“Lady Liya should be able to help us. She said you can go to her to purify your body. She has more experience than us. She should know what to do.”

“Wuu~?!”

“Don’t look at me with that expression… Miss Liya won’t escape. Miss Simona instructed me that as long as I don’t open the door of the iron bars, there will be no problem.”

Morphis’s body trembled slightly as she said these words.

Philina clearly liked the tail very much.

If it was truly as Liya said and Gabriella would not punish them for becoming demons, then was that really fair to Philina?

Last time Philina had even said that demonization was not a problem. She did not particularly dislike it, right?

When Morphis’s thoughts ended, Philina said,

“All right. I’ll listen to Little Mo. Let’s try it.”