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“Ehehe, Marazada was right; there was an interesting human hanging around.” The demon floated in the air, ignoring gravity; the wings on their back were only moving to exaggerate their body motions and not to support their flight.

Syrus ignored their comment and asked one simple question: “Are you going to fly down? My neck can handle it, but damn is it annoying.”

“Ehehe.” The demon spun in the air. “Much better than annoying ones.” She did obey and flew down a few metres in front of Anlesa, but still floated in the air.

In this position, it was much easier to see who they were facing.

On a base level, she appeared humanoid. The amber and purple skin seemed to pulse with energy as the demon smiled in excitement. Its hair also floated around unbothered by her motions.

The demon’s figure was also quite well endowed in the front and back, but she also had very visible muscles lining her body, along with a strong six-pack. The demon was covered in what Anlesa could only assume was clothes. It was hard to exactly tell; they were definitely clothes in the traditional sense that they covered the body. Starting from a little above the waist to the knees for pants. Her upper body was covered, which stretched along her arms up to her elbows. There was a gap between the halves, leaving its midriff visible. The confusing part was the clothes looked like hard rock, but it was folding and stretching easily.

[I don’t know much about demons, but I do now understand what my colleague used to say about attractive demons.] (Syrus)

[You serious…] Luna didn’t know whether to be shocked or disgusted. Who in their right mind would be attracted to a demon?

[That’s… a demon… It looks nothing like the other one!] Eva was shocked for completely different reasons.

The three had very different reactions.

[I mean, yeah, but it is a demon.] (Syrus)

Eva’s rambling ranting intensified. [What are the types? Are there subspecies? Wait, no, how can anyone even classify her as even being in the same grouping as the snake-insect creature thing?!] Eva had many questions and concerns about the biology of demons.

Syrus had no answers for Eva, so instead she asked one herself. [Do you think the patterns of the rock… clothes? Was it intentional, or just a byproduct of the material?]

The rock-like patterns did look cool in the eye of Syrus. It also appeared tough but also stretchable, which would work great for armour.

[That–!] Eva paused for a second. [I don’t know. Why do you ask?]

[Because it will speak a lot for either this demon or their culture.] (Syrus)

[Is that… really relevant right now?] (Eva)

[Not really? But it could be useful in the future. The only thing I’ve heard about culture-wise is that they like fighting, but I’ve never seen them fight a human before.] (Syrus)

Syrus’ worry had been completely extinguished by this point. The demon’s attitude appeared to be on the more playful side–which could cause issues on its own, but not to the point that Syrus was worried about accidentally dying–and Syrus was confident that she was stronger than the demon. Outside of the barely counting scuffle, she had with the snake demon, she had never fought one before, but she considered herself good enough at judging creature strength to assume they would be fine.

Syrus responded to the demon, "Thanks, I guess?

The demon spun, turning upside down in the air. “Looking for you silly took a few days, but I knew you would be around.”

“You were looking for a few days?” Said Syrus. That would’ve meant she would’ve been looking for them pretty much their whole trip back and their current stay in the city before returning to the forest.

“Yep.”

“Didn’t you have better things to do?”

“It was only a few days.” Said a demon.

[And yep… I don’t understand how demons think.] (Syrus)

Spending a few days seemingly casually looking around a large open area for one person just because they were said to be ‘interesting’, didn’t make sense to Anlesa.

[Ask, who are these ‘annoying ones’.] Said Luna as she thought back on the demon’s dialogue.

[You can speak now. No one is around.] (Syrus)

[I’d rather not at the moment.] (Luna)

Syrus internally sighed and asked the demon. “So, you had to keep dealing with annoying people, huh?”

The demon spun the right way up. “Yep, the annoying ones kept causing a storm and made all the maddies run off.” The demon said, very annoyed. “Argh, it pushed back the next mash pit for another cycle!”

“No idea what that means, but I get it. Were you able to kick them off your turf?”

The demon let out a long sigh. “No, we weren’t. They evaded our patrol once we started looking; who knows, they might be gone now, but they were like Ertealsualuses, vanishing away into the distance.”

[Maddies?] (Eva)

[I think mutated monsters would be a good guess.] (Syrus)

[That is concerning if a bunch ran off.] (Luna)

[I guess that makes sense why that original demon was outside their territory.] (Syrus)

[Why don’t demons leave their home territory often?] (Eva)

[I don’t know Eva. Luna, anything else you want to know?] (Syrus)

[No further follow-up. I am confident in my assumption of who these annoying ones are.] (Luna)

With Luna’s question complete, there was only one thing left to do. “Anyway, what did you want to do?” Asked Syrus.

“Me?” The demon grinned.

“Not going to lie, not sure how or why I am considered interesting.”

“Ehehehe, well, your attitude is amazing, refreshing. Marazada was also right, you look a little skinny, but you contain a lot of strength and know how to use it. Untr–Humans are mostly boring, either scared or weak and bloodthirsty.”

“Well, you don’t travel much.”

The demon paused, then laughed. “Haha, that’s true. Most places are pretty boring though; nothing that gets the blood pumping.”

Syrus asked, “So, have you got what you came for?” This back-and-forth was fun and all, but Syrus knew she needed to wrap it up before anything got out of hand. While she was happy to spend more time away from the city with Luna, she knew she needed to get back.

The demon licked her lips and smiled. “Yes, but now I am wanting more.” She flew further off the ground. “But I know my manners; come to the demon home; we always have a party on.”