The Demon Saint is Missing, so I Ran to Another World

Alexa Cassandra David and Natasha Bellingsen (Vol. 13 Prologue)

Lady Natasha Bellingsen. According to official history about her, she was a demon from some place outside what was traditionally considered as the region of Cherflammen. It was not mentioned where was that place, nor was there any reference to her actual age. What her fellow demons knew about her was that, after the death of Cassandra David, Lady Natasha Bellingsen appeared and claimed sainthood over the demons.

And the Saint of the Flame, the Overseer, Lady Seirna Stephanie, made her tacit approval over Lady Natasha's authority by saying nothing.

Perhaps she knows the real identity of the new saint...

Well, this brought up a lot of new information for me. One was that, this place, Cherflammen, was not really 'alone'. Contrary to what I knew about this place so far, the land of demons still had a lot of unknown regions to discover outside the maps they had here.

Probably, this is like the 'Age of Discovery' back on Earth.

Second, and related to the first point, was that even the locals here knew that there were other people in this realm aside from them. Natasha Bellingsen—though she was my student, Alexa—was not really a 'demon' in terms of appearance. She had no horns, got a pair of wings on her back, and a black hair, which was not common in Chersea and the other realms.

The fact that everyone readily accepted Lady Natasha's explanation about her origins is proof that the demons are aware of people's existence from the fringes of Cherflammen.

"..."

I'd really like to go on a tour around these parts, not only here, but on Chersea, Cherwind and the others, as well.

In any case, after displaying her god-power—the ultimate proof of her sainthood, Lady Natasha Bellingsen was acclaimed as the very first Demon Saint. Alexa, though some books I read claimed that she's like a 'Saint', most demons look at her only the 'legendary hero', who did her duty as the demons' 'guide' to 'civilization'. Lady Natasha was 'officially' the Demon Saint, and she also took residence in the Saint's Tower, the former home of Alexa.

On a hindsight, it's the rational thing to do. It's her home, after all.

"..."

However, it's all behind me now. What's important is...

"What happened to you?" was all that I could ask of Alexa as of the moment. Honestly, I had no idea of how to talk to her. I was just overwhelmed by a lot of emotions; sadness, happiness, and even longing, mixed in my heart. I just couldn't believe that, after all this time, Alexa was still alive...watching and protecting me.

"Uh, where do I start, Sir G?" she chuckled. 'Sir G' was my old nickname in our classroom. "Haa...a lot of things happened to me after I was summoned."

"So as what I read," I smiled and gave her a head pat.

"You really are the Sir Greg!" Natasha, or rather, Alexa, laughed. "I bet you saw my library and read the books there!"

"Of course! I guess it took me several days or hours—"

"A week, to be exact," she revealed.

"What?" I couldn't believe what I just heard. "Are you saying that time here is dilated?"

Alexa nodded, "Sir, this is my place. Of course, I know what's going inside here. And I purposefully inflated the passage of time; after all, no one can read those books for so long."

I see. Well, I get her point. However, there was something else in my mind, "Even in that weird field at the lower floor?"

She nodded once again, "It's a real one, too. I made it with magic. It's the field where we first met before, Sir G, if you can still remember the first time Lady Madelaine summoned you?"