One day later.
The tower where the castle imprisons its prisoners.
This half month’s experience has made Marina feel that she could write a travelogue. Not all human beings could get the treatment of being kidnapped by demons twice in a row.
During these twenty-four hours, Marina didn’t feel any difficulty, because the piano sound coming from the castle made her completely immersed in it.
All of a sudden, Marina heard footsteps of someone approaching her. She went to the edge of the cell and saw a figure that shouldn’t be present in this place, Belle.
What happened next was just like what was written in the story. The kind-hearted Belle in order to save her loved one resolutely decided to stay in this castle instead of her loved one.
The old Marina couldn’t resist the power of Zenas and was dragged out of the castle by Zenas in a brutal manner, and then was thrown into the garden outside the castle
The gate of the castle was closed, and Marina fell on the snow enveloped with grief and despair.
“Madame Marina! Madame Marina!”
At the moment of despair, Marina heard her servant’s voice.
Her servant quickly led the old horse across the thorny garden and hurried towards her.
“You… unexpectedly haven’t left yet.” Marina looked at her incredulously. This servant was hired by her with money. There was no sentiment of master and servant relation between them.
As a merchant, Marina knew that there was no relationship more fragile than the one based on money, and yet the servant risked the danger of being killed by the demon and hid in this dangerous land.
“Honesty is the most basic principle. This is not the point. Ms. Marina get on this horse and leave here. It will take you back to the village, and then find Mr. Gaston, maybe he can save the miss.” said the servant.
“Gaston… right, I can ask Mr.Gaston for help ” Marina recalled that she knew a great magician that could move freely in the Demon world. She promptly turned her horse, her sharp movement was not like that of an old woman.
“Then, what about you?”
It was the only horse Marina brought from the village.
“Don’t worry about me, I have found a hiding place near here.” said the servant.
Marina didn’t shirk. She was a person who knew to prioritize. After leaving a word of care, she kicked the horse, and then the horse strode towards the outside of the castle.
The servant watched Marina disappear into the forest, then took off his ‘transformation ring’.
“Really have the talent to be able to say the word honesty with a serious face.”
Ciri came out of the forest from the other side of the garden and looked at Joshua standing in the snow. As the director behind the scene, Joshua really did everything by himself, planning, scripting, shooting, and also personally played many cameos.
However, the role of the servant did not belong to the category of cameo.
“Why won’t I? I am a demon.”
Joshua walked quickly towards the castle.
This retort from Joshua left Ciri completely speechless. If it wasn’t for Joshua’s deliberate reminder, Ciri would have forgotten that Joshua was a demon prince.
The scenery of the hall was not as gloomy as outside of the castle. Ino arrived at the castle yesterday afternoon and since then Joshua has been working overtime to shoot “Beauty and the Beast.”
Now according to the script Joshua was going to shoot the most touching scene in the whole story, this was the scene that would make countless girls scream, the scene where Belle and the beast dance in the hall of the castle.
When Joshua entered the hall, Ino was dancing in the center of the room holding Zenas’ hand.
At the moment, the succubus had put on a gorgeous princess dress.
With the addition of her unique charm, she was destined to be the focus of everyone from the moment she appears. Any male or even female eyes would be attracted to her.
Three minutes later.
The music gradually came to an end, Ino and Zenas also slowly stopped their dance steps.
The moment when they stopped, the two demons looked at Ciri, who was standing at the edge of the dance floor, instead of Joshua.
Speaking of it, even Joshua couldn’t believe that this poor female magician that only chews bark every day and occasionally would get lucky to eat one or two meals of rabbit meat, changed to be the Ino and Zenas dance teacher.
“Qualified, although I don’t want to admit, you guys learn fast.”
This kind of ballroom dance was not difficult, as long as the rhythm was mastered anyone could easily learn. Although it was called Noble’s dance, in Ciri’s eyes it was just two people circling together and no other meaning.
“Then it’s finished for the time being. Zenas, Ino, you guys take rest, read the script, and then get prepared for the next scene.”
Joshua held the source crystal stone handed over by the banshee. This one scene consumed a total of seven source crystal stones and was recorded with different camera shots. Joshua at once took all the seven crystals given by the banshee, his hands were overflowing the light of white magic, and according to his memory, edited these video clips one by one and merged into one source crystal stone.
Joshua wrote number seventy-two on the surface of the crystal with inscription and stored it in the suitcase.
“Don’t you know a simple ballroom dance?”
Ciri suddenly moved closed to Joshua and asked.
“If I knew, I wouldn’t have asked you to be the teacher.”
After Joshua and the female magician got acquainted, she did not take Joshua’s demon prince status seriously. If she hadn’t worn the ‘collar’ on her neck given by Joshua, Ciri probably would have continued to fight with Joshua holding her small staff.
“Well, if you want to go to human society in the future, this will definitely be of use. Do you wish to learn it?”
Ciri finally found an opportunity to raise her head and blow off steam. Before, when communicating with Joshua, Ciri always felt the thing called “IQ suppression”. Joshua’s words would always touch the blind spot of Ciri’s knowledge, this time Ciri finally found something Joshua doesn’t know.
“…”
Joshua looked at Ciri and suddenly remembered the husky he raised on earth…It was wrong to compare a girl with a husky, but Joshua doesn’t know why he got this feeling.
“Then I request you, Misi Ciri.”
Ciri didn’t expect Joshua would really choose to seek her advice.
“Good… I… will teach you.”
Ciri admitted that a moment ago she was impulsive. In fact, rather than the naive attempt to show off Joshua, Ciri was more affected by the performance of Zenas and Ino.
Even if Ciri was a bystander and knew that Zenas and Ino were acting, she still got immersed in the beautiful scenery of the “Beauty and the beast”… Any girl who saw the scene would get influenced.
That’s why she became impulsive, but there was no medicine for regret. Joshua had already extended his hand to her and Ciri could only put a bold face and held Joshua’s hand.
“Hands…. On my waist.” Ciri’s body stiffened for a moment, but she finally said it.
Joshua followed Ciri’s instruction and placed his hand gently on Ciri’s waist, while Ciri placed her hand on Joshua’s shoulder.
The music began to play at the right time, and Ciri led Joshua to the dance floor to start another performance of “Beauty and the beast” dance.
Indeed it was another performance, but Ciri doesn’t know if her fate would be as good as Belle’s…
Should be good right? Ciri looked secretly at Joshua, but they didn’t even take a few steps, Ciri’s beautiful dream was completely broken, Joshua.
“You stepped on my foot!”
The reality was not as perfect as in the movie. Joshua, a new ballroom dancer, mercilessly destroyed the romantic scene constructed in Ciri’s heart.
“Sorry…” Joshua’s apology didn’t have any effect at all.
“You stepped on it again. Are you doing it intentionally!”
“Can you be a little lenient on the newcomer?”
Although Joshua said it, his mind was on different things. When Joshua held Ciri’s hand, Joshua discovered there were a lot of scars on Ciri’s hand, and even on her arms. Even though Ciri concealed it, Joshua could still see scars that were different from her fair skin.
These were not the hands a girl should have.
