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Chapter 110 Your mother is gone

Inside the house, which had almost been reduced to ruins.

The demon possessing Sarah leaned against the wall, looking utterly defeated.

Gino, expressionless, pointed to Zatanna beside him: "She asks, you answer."

The demon nodded expressionlessly: "I won't refuse."

Although it serves that supreme being, the price of betrayal will be dire.

But it's like having two bad options in front of you; you just need to choose the one that isn't the worst.

Will you be torn to shreds by the mad angels in heaven, or will you betray your boss and suffer endless torment in hell?

He chose the latter.

"I've noticed the demons have been very active lately. What are you plotting?"

Zatanna stroked her chin, staring intently at the demon, and pulled a crystal ball from her pocket: "You'd better not lie; this magic crystal can measure lies."

The demon remained silent, but as Gino slowly pulled out the cross, it closed its eyes and said with difficulty, "Yes, it was Lord Mammon who ordered us to invade the human world and attract the attention of exorcists."

"Apart from these, I know nothing else."

The demon wore a fawning smile: "I'm just a nobody in Hell, and that's all Lord Mammon told me."

Who is Mammon?

Gino looked at Zatanna. He didn't believe in God and was too lazy to learn about the figures between hell and heaven.

Zatanna's expression was not as relaxed as Gino's. She hesitated before saying, "Mammon is one of Lucifer's many sons."

"Lucifer? The first fallen one?" Gino recalled some religious books in his mind.

Legend has it that after God created mankind, Lucifer, dissatisfied with God's favoritism towards mankind, led a group of angels to wage war against God.

The result was obvious: Old Deng slapped Lucifer out of Heaven and created a dimension called "Hell" below the human world, exiling Lucifer there.

However, just looking at these stories gave Gino a strange feeling; he felt that God was using Lucifer to accomplish some scheme, and Lucifer...

Gino felt that the other party might know, or they might not.

But none of this concerned him much. Gino knew the purpose of his trip: to find a powerful figure in the magic field and acquire their talent.

If you can't fleece God, then perhaps Lucifer will.

This former son of the morning star, the first ray of light in the world, is also a good choice.

Gino snapped out of his daze. At that moment, Zatanna was also deep in thought, trying to figure out what Mammon wanted to do, but she had no clue.

The known information is too little to support the logical reasoning.

For a time, the situation reached a stalemate.

"If we can't deduce the result, we might as well put it aside for now."

Gino ruffled the girl's long hair, and Zatanna snapped out of her reverie, nodding in agreement.

"You're right, I don't want to think about it anymore, or my hair will fall out again."

She sighed and reached out to rub her hair.

Aside from the fundamental issue of finding her missing father, Zatanna generally adopts a "take it or leave it" attitude towards other issues.

Having stopped thinking about Mammon, Zatanna felt much more relaxed. The girl tilted her head, focusing her gaze on Sarah, who was possessed by a demon, and asked, "What do we do with this guy?"

Gino glanced indifferently at Sarah, his eyes calm: "Let's do it."

The girl smiled slightly, then clasped her hands together and manipulated a hand seal.

Holy chants echoed through the corridor.

Yes, from the very beginning, Gino had no intention of letting this man-eating demon go.

Although he felt he wasn't a good person, it was ridiculous to talk about integrity and morality in front of a demon, not to mention the risk that this demon might run back to hell to complain.

Well, to use the words of my ancestors from my past lives, a dead demon is a good demon.

May He have mercy on you and forgive your sins.

"I forgive you, and I will let you return to heaven!"

Hearing the holy voice in her ears and seeing the gates of heaven gradually appearing in her eyes, the demon lurking within Sarah opened its mouth and let out a sharp wail: "You demons!"

It knew it had been deceived.

Damn humans! They have no integrity and no martial ethics!

"Buzz~"

In the unseen latitudes,

The divine light of heaven, visible only to demons, slowly descended and enveloped them.

At the very last moment when the light enveloped everything.

The demon gritted its teeth and stared intently at Gino one last time, but the only response it received was a raised middle finger.

The demon swore, on its hundreds of years of demonic life, that it had never seen such a vicious, cunning, despicable, and shameless human being.

Gino smiled and wagged his middle finger: "Have a safe journey. When you get to heaven, don't forget to say hello to God for me, and also pass on a message: when Lionel dies, please make sure he goes to hell."

"Splash!"

The body bound by ropes twitched continuously, and a cold atmosphere enveloped the dilapidated hut. As the demons retreated, the pale face regained some color.

The chilly atmosphere dissipated.

Sarah slowly opened her eyes.

Her vision was blurry. In the familiar hallway of her home, she rubbed her eyes, feeling as if she had a terrible nightmare in which she did many horrific things: she devoured her father's remains and controlled her mother under her whispers.

My vision gradually cleared as I rubbed my eye sockets.

Sarah saw it.

The warm corridor of my memory seemed to have been shattered as if by a giant god, and the house was in a mess.

A strange man and woman were standing in front of him, and the woman was looking at him with pity.

Zatanna hesitated, unsure of how to explain what had happened to the girl.

Since her father disappeared, Zatanna has disliked experiencing things like separation and death.

"We are exorcists," Gino said. Well, strictly speaking, physical exorcism, which uses fists and force to subdue demons, also counts as exorcism.

"Oh, right, there's one more thing I need to tell you."

"Your mother is gone." Gino shrugged and told Zatanna the truth.

"Gino!?"

Zatanna glared at the boy, and Gino shrugged: "Lies can't cover up the truth; a short pain is worse than a long one."

Upon hearing the news, the girl's face stiffened. The news was like a heavy hammer blow to her heart, leaving her mind blank and bewildered.

She didn't know what she should do.

The air was filled with a faint smell of sulfur mixed with the smell of burnt ash, which, together with the girl's lifeless eyes, created a poignant scene.

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault!"

She snapped out of her daze and screamed in despair, "If I hadn't broken into that monastery, none of this would have happened!"

Zatanna glared at Gino, and the boy pointed outside. The sounds of police sirens and fire trucks filled the air. He said, "We have to go."

(End of this chapter)