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Valeriana added.
    A form creased between her companion's brows. She looked at Valeriana with a pair of questioning eyes. “The temperature's still the same. There's no blast or whatsoever.”
    Her teeth chattered. “You've got to be kidding me. Even my hands and feet are frozen cold!”
    Seraphina reached for Valeriana's hands. Indeed, the girl's hands were freezing. “Perhaps you got too scared?”
    “That may be one reason.” She nodded.
    The air around them got genuinely heavier. It was different from all the other elements making up the Horror House, really. It was almost as though she could sense an ominous presence lingering around them.
    Seraphina's eyes narrowed. “So it finally decided to show itself?”
    The woman looked up at the ceiling, a swift figure of black swiftly making its way overhead. Its presence stood out despite the dim lighting. Valeriana, as well, caught sight of a pair of glimmering red eyes from where she stood.
    “Okay . . . is that it?” She asked.
    Seraphina didn't allow herself to be distracted, but answered, “Yes. Probably.”
    “That's not so scary.”
    The demon turned to her, its body made of nothing but black smoke. It coiled its body, flying effortlessly in the air. It seemed almost nonexistent by the way it moved and how it appeared, but it was there.
    It opened its jaws and shrieked at the two of them, the high-pitched sound bouncing off the walls.
    Valeriana cowered and hid herself further behind Seraphina.
    “It's some sort of miasma demon, no doubt by the crude scent.” The woman's nose flared as she took in the smell the creature carried with it. “Try not to inhale too much. It's poisonous.”
    “How are you going to—”
    Seraphina abruptly broke into a sprint, her sharp movements flashing in front of Valeriana's very eyes. With a quick jump, she used the wall as a stepping stone and flipped backwards skillfully, drawing her blade and swinging for the demon. Her sword made a whistling sound as it cut through the creature, causing it to burst into flames like what happened before with the Loupe Garou.
    With nothing but a mere bat of the eye, the demon was eliminated.
    “—kill it?” Valeriana finished, her voice trailing off. “I didn't even see how.” She muttered.
    “If one is near, the others are around.” Seraphina told herself, landing flawlessly on the floor. “Come on.”
    The woman ran ahead, leaving Valeriana behind to follow.
    The girl made no protests and ran after Seraphina. They encountered the singing girl from a while ago, her sudden appearance catching Valeriana by surprise. Although she didn't get a good look at the ghost, she was dressed in stained, white overalls with long, black hair that dripped wet, hanging like messy curtains in front of her face.
    The demon hunt had started.
     
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    Although it was confusing trying to figure out which was a real demon and which wasn't, Seraphina slowly got the hang of being able to distinguish between the two.
    The human girl felt like they were playing hide-and-seek.
    They would exterminate one demon, search for the next, and repeat their first action. It was a seemingly never-ending cycle.
    Fortunately, the two didn't encounter that many people while on the job—much.
    Seraphina was facing a lizard-like creature this time. It crawled on the walls with swift legs that it almost felt impossible to catch up with—at least for Valeriana. Anyhow, she was only tagging along. She never really did anything, though somehow the tiredness was nagging at her muscles.
    The lady knight was quickly taking out the demons one by one that Valeriana hardly had any time to react whenever they appeared. Seraphina landed a strike on the lizard with the pommel of her sword and it fell on the floor on its back. Seeing no other way to fight, the lizard stuck out its long tongue and attempted to throw off the weapon Seraphina held. It failed however, and even had its tongue cut off by one of the lady knight's quick