Saintess? Not Anymore! I'd Rather be a Destroyer-Chapter 72 - 59: Zagan

Aurianna let out a deep sigh, her pen scraping across the parchment with a sense of tediousness. The room around her was stiflingly dull, filled with nothing but dry lectures and endless books. Even the act of drawing gory images failed to lift her spirits. "Hah, so fucking boring," she breathed out heavily.

"Princess, please mind your manners," came the reprimanding voice of Balsvo, her teacher. He straightened his glasses and stared at her with nervousness as he stopped writing on the board.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Aurianna sat up and rolled her eyes dismissively at him. Her thoughts wandered, ’I’d rather spend time fighting with Leila than be in this boring lecture,’ She thought as she looked at the pile of books beside her and frowned.

"I guess this is one bad trait of mine that kinda sticks with me. The despise to study."

"You’re growing quite attached to her," Eva’s voice resounded in Aurianna’s head, startling her.

’It’s hard not to, we did spend a long time in the Domain Prison together,’ Aurianna responded to Eva.

"The outcome is different from what I thought," Eva said quietly as a slight smile appeared on her lips.

"What do you mean?" Aurianna asked, ignoring Balsvo’s lecture entirely.

"Well you both have different personalities, so maybe like they always say, opposites attract," Eva giggled, her form materializing beside Aurianna.

"Well she’s quite easy to get along with," Aurianna muttered as an image of Leila’s memories flashed in her mind.

Leila appeared as a young girl and was in chains. She trembled in the dark cellars as tears flowed from her eyes. Leila closed her blue eyes and cried softly, "Master, please don’t leave me here."

"Aurianna, are you paying attention?" Balsvo’s voice shattered her daydream, and she jerked up. "What?!" She pursed her lips and frowned.

"Hah, princess, you need to focus on your studies!" Balsvo chided her with a serious expression that immediately turned to nervousness and frantic.

"Yeah, yeah my attention is here, so stop crying," Aurianna waved her hand dismissively and a chuckle escaped her lips at her teacher’s funny display of emotions.

"Hmm, sir Blasvo, if someone believes lies without hearing your part of the story what does this mean?" Aurianna asked, a dark grin spreading across her face. Balsvo gulped nervously.

He closed his eyes and pondered for a while before looking at Aurianna, "Hmm this is a tricky question," Balsvo stroked his beard thoughtfully, a troubled expression on his face before he stated, "But it means that they’re already looking for a way to be against you." he finally replied.

’I wonder why the princess would ask such a question?’ Balsvo wondered and immediately noticed the hurt expression on Aurianna’s face, "You should really avoid such people, princess." He advised as he nervously scratched his cheeks.

"Are you worried about me?" Aurianna asked with a cheeky grin and Balsvo blushed a bit embarrassed.

"I know you’re strong enough to handle yourself, princess!"

"I’m messing with you, so don’t worry," Aurianna said as she began to copy the notes on the board.

"I guess I don’t fully know the answer to every question," she mumbled to herself with a dark expression.

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The rest of the day passed in a haze of dull lectures and tedious study. As the sun began to set and the sky turned a deep orange, Aurianna retired to her room and jumped into her bed.

"You can come out now, Zagan nobody is here!" She yelled and looked around.

"Master??" A small male voice could be heard, and a black slime ball appeared from under her bed and climbed up to her bed.

The black slime immediately took the shape of a human with four ears, but its body still remained black. Its dark orange, beady eyes stared at Aurianna and hugged her.

"Awe, Zagan. Are you hungry? See what master has got for you..." Aurianna cooed as she patted Zagan’s sleek black slime body, her voice dripping with tenderness and affection,.

A white space appeared next to her and she placed her hand inside and removed an object from out and handed it to Zagan.

"A nice human hand," Aurianna said with an innocent smile her eyes shining with a wicked light as she threw it to Zagan. A grotesque offering that would make any sane person shudder. Zagan’s mouth immediately reformed into a massive monster’s mouth and devoured the hand in one bite. The sight of it was enough to make anyone’s blood run cold, but Aurianna stared at him unfazed.

"I’m glad you’re enjoying it," Aurianna beamed at Zagan, her hands on her face and she kicked her legs playfully.

Zagan, for his part, was a creature of few words, his blank stare betraying nothing of the thoughts that swirled inside his mind, Master smiled.’

"To think the black egg I took back then at Mavis’ place would grow this much," she muttered as she watched Zagan return to normal and blank at her innocently.

"Hah, I remember when he first hatched," Aurianna reminisced and thought of what happened two years ago.

The black egg in her inventory was immediately evicted, and she wondered why she couldn’t place it back in. Aurianna then decided to watch the egg the whole night as she read through the book she took about the black playtime. It was late in the night, the two full moons were high in the sky and the moonlight shone through her window wills and unto the black egg.

The black egg trembled violently and Aurianna immediately summoned her shotgun, ready for whatever was about to emerge from the egg. Five pointed black broke pierced out of the egg and out emerged a slime-like figure with two beady orange eyes that stared at Aurianna. Its body immediately turned huge and several teeth marks appeared around it, but Aurianna stared at it unfazed and smirked.

The monster launched at her and Aurianna shot it, severely injuring it and causing it to whimper.

"If you don’t try to eat me I won’t hurt you," Aurianna said with a smile, but the monster launched at her again. Seeing it ignoring what she said, gave the monster several beatings every single day until it finally submitted to her.

"He tried to attack me, but I gave him a good beating, and he became obedient," Aurianna said out loud and Zagan trembled a bit remembering the events of that fateful night. He quickly jumped off her bed and crawled back as he began whimpering.

"I’m not going to hit you, so come back," Aurianna laughed and Zagan brightened up. He immediately claimed back to her bed and laid by her side.

"To think that the book and egg I stole from Mavis’ experiment room, was her making an ultimate black playtime," Aurianna poked Zagan’s cheeks, and he looked at her with a confused expression.

"Yeah, it grew from being like a slime to a boy," Eva materialized from the void, her form taking shape as a shimmering mist before solidifying into her usual appearance. She sprung onto Aurianna’s Queen size bed, her short white hair cascading down her neck.

"I like how he can shape-shift you know," Aurianna grinned, her eyes lighting up with mischief, "Do you want more human flesh Zagan?"

"No Zagan wants real food. Like what master eats," he shook his head.

"Oh you’re lucky, I did save some food for you. In case you were still hungry," Aurianna placed both of her hands into the white space and removed a plate of roasted meat and some rice.

Zagan looked at the food with sparkly eyes and looked at Aurianna then at the food. He then took the entire plate and his mouth stretched wide, and he gulped the food and plate down easily.

"I feel keeping him is a burden," Eva grunted as she stared at Zagan.

"I don’t think so, though. Let’s say he’s more like a useful asset or tool. He may be useful one-day with his shapeshifting abilities, plus it’s extremely hard for others to detect his presence, even those secret knights who watch me from the shadows can’t detect him easily," Aurianna said, her voice filled with pride. Zagan nodded in agreement, his white star pupil glowing brightly..

"Zagan come here," Aurianna opened her arms and Zagan held her hands.

She looked up at Eva and asked, "Now then Eva, please tell me how to use my servant class skill."

"Just imagine giving him a mark, and it would work," Eva replied and Aurianna nodded, ’I didn’t really understand what she meant, but oh well.’

"I hereby declare you as my servant," Aurianna stated, and a dim white light surrounded Zagan and entered his eyes. When he opened his eyes, it revealed a white star in the middle of his pupil and he blinked at Aurianna and titled his head in confusion. Aurianna was a bit surprised by the skill and kept on examining him until her curiosity was fulfilled.

"Now then you’ll never be able to betray me no matter what. You belong to me only," she said to Zagan who looked at her thoughtfully.

"Hmm master Eva," Zagan spoke out, turning to Eva.

"Yes kid?" Eva replied.

"So I am now bound to master Aurianna forever like you?" He asked curiously with an innocent expression as he pointed at Aurianna.

Eva tilted her head and smiled, "I guess so. It’s quite a pity to be living with this narcissistic child and enduring her everyday."

"What did you say?!!" Aurianna growled at Eva, who mischievously giggled.

"I don’t believe it’s bad, actually I’m quite happy," Zagan smiled.

"Eva, to think you could teach a mindless monster English within two years. You’re quite impressive," Aurianna praised, and Eva snorted pridefully.

"I’m a genius after all!"

"As if, all you have is a big ego, you can’t even train me properly," Aurianna grumbled and Eva shot a warning glare which caused Aurianna to turn her head away nervously.

’I have restrictions too you know,’ Eva thought silently as she looked at Aurianna.

Zagan looked at Aurianna then at Eva who began floating in the air, "So no one can see master Eva apart from me and Master Aurianna?"

"Yep, you got special privileges, little monster," Eva gave a thumbs up. "You should quickly grow big and strong, so you can help me, one day, deal with this horrendous child." She cried and Aurianna summoned a blade into her hands, ready to slash at Eva.

"Princess, it’s time for your evening bath!" A group of maids announced from her first door to her room, which she heard loudly.

"Quickly go hide in the dungeons," Aurianna carried Zagan and placed him on the floor. He looked at Aurianna and Eva one last time before he jumped out of the window and scurried away, his body blending with the surroundings.

"It’s a pity I couldn’t keep him in the void space," Aurianna sighed and Eva nodded in agreement. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

"The void space would reject any external being that isn’t me," Eva said before she

too disappeared.

"I guess I’ll be seeing Leila this evening then."