The Incubus System-Novel

104 Chapter 102. Her Beloved Prince

I stood in an alley near the Cretunt bridge, the bridge where I was fighting earlier. Currently, I had deactivated my Demonic form and broke my Devil Space. But instead of turning to my human form, I was in my Incubus form now. My finger was busy swiping Ruby's cellphone screen. Previously, I managed to break the lock pattern by checking the traces on the screen. I knew this was inappropriate because I violated her privacy, but I did this to search for information about the Association since I guessed she was one of the Advanced Demon Hunters. Unfortunately, I didn't find any information from there.

A sigh of disappointment escaped my mouth. I opened the pictures folder, the only folder I hadn't checked, hoping I could find something there, like some photos inside the Demon Hunter's headquarters or something. Didn't women usually like to take selfies wherever they were? Even in unusual places like toilets.

'Huh?' I frowned in confusion when I opened her folder. All the photos in that folder were me!

'Is she suspect me?' I checked the photos one by one to find out since she started taking it. From the first photo, I got the conclusion that she started taking it after I helped her at the cafe and from other photos I found out that she followed me and Celia to the suit shop even to the supermarket.

'What the heck ?!'

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I cringed when I saw my photo with a slightly flushed face in embarrassment with the words 'You are mine' with a love mark on the bottom. From the view around me, it looks like she took this photo when Celia and I were chatting with Mia at the supermarket. As I remembered, my face did get red after Mia praised me for accepting her difference as Lamia. Apart from that from her last photos, I could guess she was the mysterious person who beat up Bern and Franz earlier. Since that photo was when Bern and Franz pulled my sweater from behind on the alley near the supermarket. My confused face was clearly visible there. Well, her cellphone was the newest model, that's why even though she took my photo from a distance, all the photos looked good and clear. And from the point of view, it looks like she took it behind a large trash bin.

My mind returned to her emotion status when I checked her at the cafe, curious and interested.

'Please don't tell me she's interested in me because of that.' It was a small problem, after all, I was sure she could handle that problem herself, it just she didn't want to do it in public because she was a demon hunter.

I sighed.

My eyes peeked at a security post not far from me. The post looked quite since all of its members were out to help the police to secure the bridge. My hand pulled the front of my fedora to cover my face before moving my feet there. There was only a security sitting behind the front desk, a CCTV at the corner of the ceiling behind him and a Demon Detector, a device used to detect demons. All security posts, government offices and police stations had this device since these were important places that would be used for shelter in a demon attack's case.

"Good afternoon, sir. How may I help you?" asked the security.

I lifted my head to look him in the eye, while still keeping my face from being caught on the CCTV. When our eyes met, I used my manipulation skill.

'Manipulation.'

A second later, his eyes looked empty.

[Manipulation skill succeeded.]

Then I pointed my hand at the CCTV and snapped my fingers.

'Hell Thunder.'

[Hell Thunder's power is limited to 20%.]

Thin dark lightning shot out of my fingertip and struck the CCTV.

[You have struck a CCTV for 18 damage.]

A small puff of smoke emitted from it proved that the device was broken.

I put Ruby's cellphone on the desk.

"I found this near the bridge. Please return it to the owner."

He nodded his head.

Then I took off my fedora, tucked it to make sure none of my hair stuck in it and put it on the desk.

"Also this fedora."

He responded to me with another nod.

"Forget my face and if the owners ask about me, tell them you forgot my face and I was too rushed to fill out the form." The lost and found form was a form that must be filled in if someone handed over an item to the police station or security post. So the items' owners could give thanks or if the item was a stolen item or crime evidence, the police could contact the person who found it for more information. That's why I had to use my manipulation skill and broke the CCTV.

After that, I turned around and walked out of the post towards the alley where I was hiding earlier. I planned to return to my human form and meet Diamond. Even though I made it seem like we were separated because of the crowd , I felt bad if I left her without saying anything.

A few seconds later an announcement appeared in front of me.

[The manipulation skill has been cancelled.]

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Ruby's PoV

'Curse that demon!' she thought irritably as she walked through the crowd in annoyance. Her wet uniform made her leave a trail of water droplets as she walked. This was the first time she had felt humiliated like this in her career as a demon hunter and the first time she had faced a demon who had wings like him. Although it seemed that that demon was still talkable compared to the others, his arrogance irritated her.

'One day I'm gonna rip his wings and make him beg me!' But to defeat him, she had to find a way to remove the strange influence pressing in her chest. She guessed it was due to too many demons gathered in one place or because of a great demon's presence like him.

She got into the association car and sat there indifferently even though her clothes were wet.

"Lend me your cellphone," she said to the chauffeur.

"For what?" said the chauffeur in confusion.

"I lost my phone, I want to check if someone found it." Although the headquarters always sent the information to her Demon Compass, she had something important in it.

The chauffeur gave her his cellphone and she called her own number. After the first ring, she started to feel calmer since it meant her cellphone didn't fall into the sea.

After several ringtones, a man's voice picked up her call.

"Good afternoon, sir. Do you know this cellphone owner?" She guessed that the man called her 'sir' because she saved the chauffeur number under the name 'Mr Coachman'.

"Hello. I'm the phone's owner. Thank you for picking up my phone. May I know where I can get my phone back?"

"Oh, I'm sorry for calling you 'sir'. You can pick it up at Cretunt bridge security post, miss."

"Thank you. I'll be there soon." She hung up on her call and returned the cellphone to the chauffeur.

"Take me to Cretunt bridge's security post."

"Okay."

Their car started moving and in just a few minutes she arrived at the post. She got out of the car and got into the post without changing her uniform. Swiftly, the security stood up from his seat when he saw her uniform.

"Good afternoon. How may I help you?" he asked.

"I want to get my cellphone back."

The security pulled the drawer under his desk to take her cellphone and gave it to her.

"Thank you." She took it, a happy smile appeared since her cellphone was 'safe'.

"May I know the person who found my cellphone? I want to thank him."

"Sorry, miss. That person was in a hurry so he just left the item and left."

Ruby pointed at the CCTV behind the security.

"How about checking the footage?" She really wanted to thank this person because her cellphone contained such an important treasure for her.

The security turned at the CCTV.

"Oh, that CCTV just broke. I just want to make a report for it."

She let out a disappointed sigh.

"All right. Please convey my thanks to him if you see him again."

"Okay."

Ruby turned and got back into the car.

"Take me to the headquarter."

"Yes, miss," replied the chauffeur.

As their car moved forward, Ruby checked her cellphone and opened her photo folder. Her finger stopped swiping after a photo of a man with a red face in embarrassment with the words 'You are mine' showed up. She smiled happily.

'Ahhh ... Ethan, you look so cute ~'

Although she just met him this morning, she was so interested in him to the point that she wanted to know everything about him. For her, conquering men was very easy. With her cute face and her side job as a maid cafe manager, she was a dream girl of all boys. An event like this morning was also a common thing for her. Troubled by a man who wanted to take her away, then another man appeared as the 'hero' who saved her. That scenario was familiar for her, but today's was different. First, the man who helped her not stepped up like a 'hero' but hid among the audience. Second ... She knew Ethan used a thunder spell to take down his opponent without hurting him. That was a rare skill for a human but he didn't get cocky about it. He even didn't tell his sister about this since Celia seemed clueless when he helped her this morning. That's why Ruby decided to keep her mouth shut and only mentioned about the pebble. During her life only one person that she knew had a thunder spell like this, it was the Demon Hunter's Chairwoman. Of course, their thunder spells' power was very different since Ethan's spell was too weak, but she was sure that if he trained it, it would get stronger. Third, instead of being over-friendly, Ethan was so casual that he didn't even try to get any attention. This kind of man made her even more curious and interested.

She swiped her finger to the last photo and her face turned sour. Two big men who tried to pick up a fight with 'her beloved prince' pulled his sweater tightly. She was sure those two idiots would ruin his sweater.

Her eyes shifted to a shopping bag filled with a sweater that she just bought around here, took it and hugged it as if it was Ethan.

'Please wait for me, my prince. I will make you mine. '