My Wives are Beautiful Demons-Chapter 262: What could have happened here?

Vergil's phone vibrated in his hand, and he answered without even looking to see who it was.

"Hello."

What came next almost burst his eardrums.

"HEY, YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!"

Vergil held the phone away from his ear, blinking a few times. The voice tore through the silence like a demonic blade. Katharina, Ada and Roxanne even jumped back a little. The scream had been so loud that it had sounded like it was on speakerphone.

"She's nervous." Katharina commented with a half-smile, crossing her arms.

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"That's an understatement." Ada muttered, while Roxanne just watched, curious.

Vergil sighed, already knowing exactly who this was.

"All right, all right, I know I left you out, but, to be fair, I was very-"

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" Zuri interrupted with a fierce growl. "We've been attacked, and there's some very wrong shit going on in the forest! Now stop fucking around and get your ass over here, YOU INSENSITIVE MASTER!"

The temperature in the room changed.

The air became heavy.

Vergil froze.

Katharina felt an icy shiver run up her spine. She had never seen him like this before. Vergil rarely showed anger - in fact, he always seemed incredibly relaxed, almost debauched - but now...

He didn't say anything. He just let out a sigh

But that was no ordinary sigh.

It was thick. Hot. An unearthly vapor came from his lips, distorting the air around him as if space were writhing.

Katharina took a step back without realizing it.

Ada and Roxanne also went on alert. A chill spread through the room, but it wasn't a natural chill. It was the cold that preceded a storm. The kind of cold that heralded imminent disaster.

Katharina's eyes widened. That... That was the power of her bloodline. The power of House Agares.

Vergil... He was manifesting it.

And the worst thing?

She had only seen it happen once in her life.

That day, Sapphire Agares, her mother, was sitting on her throne when she received the news that some fool had tried to attack her. Katharina never forgot what she saw. The same sigh charged with power, the same hot mist distorting the air, the same sepulchral silence before absolute destruction.

Now Vergil was doing exactly the same thing.

He ran his hand over his face slowly, trying to contain something inside him.

"Zuri..." His voice came out low and icy, a tone that didn't suit his usual manner. "Tell me who attacked you and Selene."

On the other end of the line, Zuri felt a shiver run down her spine.

She opened her mouth to reply, but something in Vergil's voice made her hesitate for a second. It wasn't a request. It wasn't a question.

It was a sentence.

She took a deep breath before answering. "They were deformed beings... something corrupted. I don't know what they were, but they were infesting the forest. I captured one of them. There's something wrong with all this, Master. This wasn't a random attack."

The silence that followed was worse than any outburst of anger.

Katharina, Ada and Roxanne watched Vergil closely. Steam continued to pour out of his mouth, and the ground beneath him began to crack slightly.

Then he took another deep breath.

"I'm coming." Vergil hung up the phone.

Katharina felt her throat go dry.

"... Vergil." She called out hesitantly.

He turned his head to face her.

She saw him.

She saw his eyes.

That wasn't the expression of the playful, relaxed, debauched Vergil. It wasn't the man who always seemed in control of the situation with a cynical smile.

It was something deeper. It was pure predatory instinct. It was the same look his mother had had that day.

"Katharina." He called out, his voice low and firm.

She straightened her posture. "What?"

"You're coming with me." Vergil ordered, his gaze fixed on Katharina.

She blinked in surprise, but before she could answer -

"Why is she the only one going?" Roxanne shouted, crossing her arms with an indignant expression.

Ada wasn't far behind either, stomping her foot on the floor. "I want to go too!"

Vergil let out a sigh, ignoring the complaints as he began to channel a portal. The surrounding shadows distorted, swirling slowly like a hungry whirlpool.

"Only Katharina." He reaffirmed, his voice firm but unhurried. "Zuri can spot corruption easily."

He then turned to Ada, his penetrating gaze making her shut up at the same moment.

"His swordsmanship hasn't yet reached a peak like Raphaeline's, and his blood manipulation is similar to mine. The problem is that corrupted blood is no longer blood." He explained patiently. "Unfortunately, if something happens and I'm not around, you won't be able to protect yourself."

Ada gave a cute little pout and turned her face away, clearly annoyed.

Vergil laughed softly and leaned over, brushing his lips against her forehead affectionately. "No pouting. My wife has to be safe."

Then he turned to Roxanne.

"The same goes for you." He continued, crossing his arms. "You're a wind mage, your versatility is excellent, but it also means that you could end up spreading corruption unintentionally. And that would be a problem."

Roxanne opened her mouth to protest, but was interrupted when Vergil laid a hand on her head and lightly pulled her into a tender kiss on top.

"Train harder." He advised with a slight but firm smile.

"Wait a minute!" Ada insisted, her frustration evident. "Why can Katharina go and we can't?"

Vergil looked at Katharina for a brief moment before smiling, a sharp, confident glint in his eyes.

"Burning Fire." He explained, his tone soft but definitive. "It extinguishes mana. Corruption is still made up of mana and negative energy. It can easily protect itself just by incinerating everything around it."

Katharina smiled, crossing her arms with a victorious look at the other two.

Vergil wasted no time and pulled her lightly to him, placing a gentle kiss on her head as well.

"Okay?" He asked, his voice soft but laden with authority.

Ada and Roxanne snorted at the same time, but didn't insist any further.

The portal was ready.

Vergil took Katharina's hand and, without looking back, stepped through the crack.

As soon as Vergil and Katharina stepped through the portal, the surrounding landscape changed instantly. The forest air was humid and charged with magical energy, but something was wrong with it. The smell of nature was mixed with something denser... rotten.

But before he could delve deeper, his vision was filled by a slender, imposing figure.

Vergil froze.

In front of him, Zuri stood in her new Lamia form. Her half-snake body shone with an exotic hue of black and gold scales, glistening in the dim moonlight. Its skin was pale and silky, contrasting with the menacing glint of its slightly exposed fangs. Curved horns framed its wild, seductive face, and its long, powerful tail moved slowly behind it, as if it were assessing its new master.

'What a big chest. Vergil felt his heart skip a single beat. "...Fuck." He muttered without thinking.

Zuri frowned. "What?" She growled, her tail lashing the ground. "You don't like it?! I knew that shape was fucking weird! I knew it was fucking ugly!"

"What?" Vergil blinked, confused. "No, no! It's the other way around, Zuri! I just... didn't expect you to look so beautiful."

Zuri froze.

Silence hung for a second before she pulled back slightly, her tail curling instinctively around herself. Her previously stern face began to blush, a reddish tinge rising to the tips of her ears.

Katharina sighed heavily, crossing her arms.

'I should have stayed with those two...' She thought, looking at Vergil and Zuri. The idiot was clearly delighted, and the lamia, as much as she tried to hide it, was a mess of shame and wounded pride.

Before Katharina could say anything, a rustle from the shadows caught her attention.

Selene emerged from the trees with her imposing posture and sharp gaze. Her black cloak fluttered slightly, and behind her, forest spirits floated silently, carrying something.

A body.

Vergil immediately pulled himself together, his gaze narrowing.

The corpse - if it could still be called that - was unrecognizable. The skin twisted in grotesque patterns, as if something had tried to take possession of it from the inside. The energy around her was wrong, dense, impregnated with something beyond ordinary corruption.

Katharina felt her throat go dry.

Selene gave Vergil a serious look. "We have a problem."

Vergil knelt beside the corpse, narrowing his eyes as he ran his fingers over the creature's distorted skin. The texture was wrong, as if the flesh was coming apart and putting itself back together at the same time. But what really bothered him was the energy.

It was dark, dense, but not in an ordinary way. It wasn't mana, it wasn't demonic energy, it wasn't even a corrupted spiritual force. It was... something different. Something that shouldn't exist.

He frowned and looked at Selene.

"What the fuck is that?" He asked, keeping his voice steady but on the lookout for any sign of that energy reacting.

Selene crossed her arms, her countenance as gloomy as the surrounding forest.

"I don't know." Vergil blinked.

"You have no idea?" He insisted, feeling discomfort growing inside him.

"No." She replied dryly. "I've seen every kind of corruption, curse and nefarious energy since I was thrown into the underworld. That... that's nothing I recognize." She said and pondered... She was thinking about something... something that Vergil didn't understand at first, but remained firm in his analysis.

"I thought that was a Spectre attack..." Vergil clenched his fists. Something completely unknown, and on top of that, strong enough to invade Selene's forest and corrupt a being like that.

This wasn't just a problem he was expecting... it was something completely new...

"It came from the Forest, right?" Vergil asked.

"Yes, I've already searched the area but... who knows how these creatures got here?" Selene replied.

"Well, I'll go look." Vergil spoke as he released his aura everywhere...

"I told you-" 'I found it,' Vergil interrupted Selene.

"Let's see." He spoke and walked off with Katharina following quickly...