Sebastian was clearly taken aback and instinctively asked him,
"Aren’t you... a ghost?"
"You’re the ghost! I..."
The young boy didn’t finish his sentence because Scarlett Jennings chimed in,
"He’s a demon."
And an underage one at that.
Sebastian and his agent were both dumbfounded.
Thanks to "Inspiration," it was their first time seeing a ghost.
Now they had not only seen a ghost but also... a demon??
Violet Allen, on the other hand, was much more composed. She leaned in, sensing carefully,
"Indeed, a demon."
But probably because he’s underage, his demonic energy was somewhat faint.
It took a while for Sebastian to react,
"Wait... if you’re a demon, then that kid I used to play with, Chumian, is also..."
A demon??
The boy named Chumian, noticing Sebastian’s stunned expression, glared at him intently,
"So what if I’m a demon, you look down on me?"
Though he tried to act fierce, Sebastian could see a fleeting sadness in his eyes.
Sebastian quickly adjusted his expression, saying,
"No! I’m just a bit surprised. I really considered you a good friend back then. When you suddenly moved away, I even wanted to go look for you..."
Chumian, hearing this, looked somewhat relieved and muttered,
"I only moved because you kept asking why I wasn’t growing taller!"
A demon’s humanoid form only changes with their growth stages.
Often, they maintain a fixed age in human form.
Like him now, being still a minor among demons, he stays in a twelve-year-old’s form until adulthood.
This is why he suddenly moved away with his family and cut off contact.
Scarlett, seeing the two talking, had to shake the boy’s hand to remind him,
"I think you guys might want to continue this conversation indoors."
With this reminder, they realized they were outside the villa and quickly went inside Sebastian’s villa.
Since being exposed, Chumian didn’t run. He had been avoiding an encounter, fearing his appearance would seem off to Sebastian since his demonic power was weak and he couldn’t change forms.
But he never imagined that Sebastian would mistake him for a ghost!
Chumian felt his demonhood was insulted.
Sebastian felt awkward seeing his childhood friend still in a youthful form.
After all, his friend seemed unchanged, whereas he had become someone accustomed to hiding his emotions as an adult.
Even now, seeing his friend’s grumpy face, he subconsciously used a tone he would with his younger cousin,
"It was my misunderstanding, but why did you suddenly come back to find me?"
"It’s not because you got marked by some wandering ghost! I came back reluctantly because you used to share snacks with me when we were kids.
If I hadn’t been watching over you these past few days, you’d have been snatched away by those ghosts at night!"
But the fact was, as a young demon with weak power, dealing with one or two wandering souls was fine, but he had no way to handle the Big Ghost targeting Sebastian.
Demons usually don’t meddle in human-ghost affairs. Chumian even tried contacting the Mystic Regulation Office for help, but no one responded...
Scarlett, having just caught him, had vaguely guessed,
"You’re the underage Monkey Demon who sought help from the Mystic Regulation Office to exorcise ghosts?"
Little Monkey Demon, Chumian, looked at her,
"You know me?"
Scarlett: ...
She didn’t know him, but she knew about this task.
The one who gave her this task was still in her little black room yesterday.
"Tell us everything you know."
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