Although I was cast out at ten,
I was still, in some sense, a native Gaian.

As such, I understood Gaian common sense reasonably well, including how they viewed demons.

To Gaians, Manifestors were ticking time bombs on the verge of exploding,
and demons were bombs that had already gone off—an unstoppable inferno that mercilessly massacred humans.
They were mindless embodiments of violence.

And honestly, that wasn’t far from the truth.

History bore witness to it.
Every time demons appeared, the pages of history were soaked in blood.

Even the most recent demons, though varying in …