Bonds of souls

Dongfang Qingcang's Decision

"First, you have to promise that you will accept my condition. You will even have to take a spiritual oath."

They are surprised that A-Ji had made her decision and after looking at each other, they agree because they trusted her.

Then, all the humans make seals with their hands and when they finish, a golden symbol appears on the palm facing up at the same time that the second princess makes seals that are a little different from them, with her right hand shining in a silver tone and that After placing the palm towards the hands, the light turns golden and disappears.

That technique could only be used freely and spontaneously, without any internal or external influence.

As she had no spiritual powers as she was a metal demon, Si Yu concentrated her demonic power and caused a formation to appear beneath her, which then moved to her glowing hand, with A-Ji holding her hand when it extended, causing the glow to cease.

"This is how we demons make promises. It's a similar version of what you did."

"I noticed that it reminds me a little of how the master-slave contract is done, according to what I read in books."

"Yes. There are similarities."

The second princess takes a deep breath and then says, "You will follow my instructions and you will never tell, write or draw to anyone what we are going to do because the memories will be sealed when I wish to seal them and if something goes wrong, the your memories will be sealed immediately. Only I can free these memories."

Everyone is shocked, with A-Ji speaking in an apologetic tone as she is overcome with shame, "I apologize. But, I cannot allow you to be punished because of me. I am filled with regret and pain for what happened to Chang Yi. I don't want to have it in relation to you either. So, if something goes wrong, I will be the only one to bear the consequences because you will lie without even knowing that you are lying and any technique or potion to force you to tell the truth, will make them say they didn't know anything because that will be the truth for you."

As they digested her words, realizing that their best friend lived up to her strategic ability because she prevented them from ending up being punished if something went wrong or they were discovered, Si-Yu spots something and discreetly draws the group's attention to a distant point where they were.

The only one who didn't notice the demon's movement and tried to be discreet so as not to attract the princess's attention was A-Ji as she found herself crestfallen due to the shame of what she did to her friends because despite having done it for their safety, she didn't change the fact that he cursed them.

After all, it could be seen that way and this depressed her even more, making the young woman regret that she had not died in her suicide attempts in the past and when death presented itself to her, as it recently did in the ship's cabin.

Why didn't she allow herself to drown? Why did she fight so hard for her life? Why didn't she embrace death when she presented it to her? After all, hasn't she looked for it so many times in her life? Why didn't she take advantage of this opportunity? These questions relentlessly permeated her mind as she lashed her heart at the figure of her cruel personal executioner as she sank into self-loathing. The memory of what the jiaoren was suffering only distressed her even more and amplified her grief, as did the regret and indescribable pain that permeated her.

In the distance, they watched Yin Song with his usual cruel countenance as they were surprised to see that he was in a bad mood. His clothes were dyed with blood at the hems while he showed cuts and bruises, in addition to his black clothes, once impeccable, having several cuts. There was also a particularly nasty wound on his face.