She Belongs To The Devil

Bennett leaned back on his chair and then heaved a deep sigh. He glanced at Ariel who was now doodling on her feet.

And then he murmured, "I give up… for today. Argh! I cannot make her concentrate for more than 15 minutes. How am I supposed to make her sit and listen to me for another 45 minutes?"

Ariel kept on drawing carrots on her feet. It looked more like a worm than a carrot.

After drawing around five carrots on both her feet, she glanced at Bennett so that she could show her masterpiece to her teacher. Discover exclusive content at m,v l'e|m-p y r

However, he had fallen sound asleep on his chair.

At first, she thought of waking her teacher up. But then she smiled very mischievously. She gently put down the brush. And then got up as silently as she could.

She glanced towards the door. The door wasn't properly locked. Her smile widened even further.

Ariel then tiptoed towards the door. She peeked out of the creak to check if Osanna was outside. She would normally stay guard because Ariel was a champion at sneaking out of the room.

However, to her luck, Osanna had gone to bring some food to Ariel and Bennett.

Ariel slipped through the creak of the door and tiptoed for a little while. And when she was sure that Bennett could no longer hear her footsteps, she ran at the top of her speed.

There were a few guards patrolling outside her room. She hid behind pillars and when they were gone, she ran down the stairs as lightly as she could.

There were also some guards at the main door of the quarter. However, she was never caught while running away from the quarter because she never used the main door.

There was a small window inside the bathhouse that the servants and maids of the quarter used. Ariel ran inside that bathhouse, climbed on the boxes that were kept below that window, and then jumped out of it.

And another reason why she was never caught by the guards was because she ran super fast. Ariel crouched a little as if she was a mouse and then ran at the speed of lightning.

When she sneaked out, she had thought that she would go to her mother's workroom and play with her for some time. She really wanted to hug her and then play with her hair and help her with reading her reports.

However, a squad of soldiers was patrolling right in front of the court gate. And in an instant, she took another path so that they wouldn't catch her and then take her back to her room to repeat those boring numbers.

After she ran for a while, she reached an intersection. She stopped and then fisted on her waist. "I really wanted to see my mom. But what should I do now? Where do I go?"

She looked around her in order to choose which path she wanted to take. She looked at one of the paths and then smiled.

"I know. Let's go and say 'hi' to Joy." Ariel shook her hips in excitement and then ran towards the quarter used by Mystic Coven.

While running, she excitedly thought, "I'm going to scare everyone there. And then I will make everyone laugh. It is going to be amaaazing."

When she reached near the quarter, she didn't try to slow down her pace at all. She knew that the witches could tell that she was coming without even seeing her coming. She didn't know the concept of aura so she had always believed that they could tell by smelling her.

So she thought that she was just going to get to them before they could smell her.

"Where could they be?" she perked up her ears and then tried to find Joy's voice.

Her eyes sparkled when she heard her cousin. "Yes! There she is!" Ariel excitedly thought and then headed towards the garden which the coven used as a training spot for Joy.

Joy was being trained by Sybil at the moment. Sybil was teaching Joy to throw objects larger than her while accurately aiming at the target.

When Ariel ran towards the garden, Joy was lifting a huge tree stump in the air without touching it and was ready to swing it at the target much further ahead of her. Sybil was standing behind Joy to observe how she would do.

Sybil, of course, sensed Ariel running towards them. She looked towards the quarter. However, she couldn't quite pinpoint where that toddler was. But she could tell that Ariel was coming towards them and wasn't going to stop.

Sybil looked back at Joy who was now screaming before throwing that stump forward.

Sybil held out her hand to try and stop Joy from throwing that huge tree stump. She didn't want it to accidentally hit Ariel.

However, she was already too late.

Joy threw that stump towards that target at the top speed and with great force.

And it so happened that Ariel was running in the line of that target. By the size of that stump and the speed at which it was coming, her whole body could be squished to a pulp.

"Uh-oh!" Ariel skidded her feet in order to stop herself from directly running into that huge stump and smashing her head.

Joy could finally see her cousin. She was stunned to see that Ariel was about to get hit by the very thing that she threw.

"Ariel! Get away from there!" Joy shouted at the top of her lungs. She was so panicking that she couldn't even think of trying to do something to stop that tree.

Ariel slowed down a bit. But she couldn't divert away from the direct line of that tree stump in time. That huge thing was already getting too close to her.

So instead, she screamed and closed her eyes.

And while screaming at the top of her lungs, she happened to stomp on the ground real hard.

Right then, something unexpected happened.