Is the master happy? That's good. I gently smiled at the thought.

But I was still a little curious about Heath Relia calling the master by her name.

"Heath Relia, why are you allowed to call the master by her name?"

"Because I like it. We've been calling each other by name since we were kids, except for formal occasions when I would call her Lord Demon. In private, and in front of you, I call her by her name."

Heath Relia turned her head and looked at me with a smile. Obviously her smile was the same as before, why would I have the illusion that she was showing sovereignty to me?

Just before I felt joyful due to the master’s happiness, but now the joy in my heart instantly dissipated, instead, a heavy depressing feeling stuck in my heart.

I do not know why I have this kind of wonderful feeling.

No, it's okay. Since Heath Relia grew up with the master, wouldn't it be better? I can ask something about the master's past, so that I'll do better if I know her better.

"What was the master like as a child? Was she always indifferent and cool?"

"Do you think Furtoril was indifferent and cool?"

Suddenly asked back by Heath Relia, her smile made me shiver a little. I lowered my head, and didn’t say anything all of a sudden.

"Have you ever tried to approach her?"

This was a second rhetorical question. I could not be so timid, though Heath Relia was the closest to the master.

"Yes, I have done it. I was asking you about her, wasn't I?"

"Got it, but have you asked her yourself?"

"I ... I asked in my mind, but she didn't even answer."

"How do you know she won't answer you if you don't try to ask? Can you ask in your heart the same thing as you ask out loud?"

Heath Relia's retort left me speechless. When I looked at her soft smiling face, I couldn't help but bow my head again.

For I had been afraid that if I asked, I would offend my master. At that time the master would be angry with me and put me in the dark room again.

But in retrospect, the master put me in the small dark room not because I offended her, but because I did not adjust my mindset. Before the master has given me a long time to adapt to kill people, however, I did not achieve her goal. So she punished me.

But even so ...

"I am the master's slave, with a lowly status. How can I have the qualification to go near the master?"

"You’ve always confined yourself in this status. Although Furtoril put the title of slave on you, her only purpose is to make you obey her. All you need to do is to follow her orders. You are more superior than others except her and me. So you don’t need to treat me with such respect."

In a trance, I remembered that this is what the master meant when she said that I am the more superior than anyone else.

Although the master is cruel, she will make me live a carefree life, and even occasionally show a smile to me, providing that I am obedient in front of her.

To put it another way, all the stability that I came to this world is given by the master. If I was reborn as a dog or another thing, or just happened to be picked up by a lecherous man, my situation may be worse.

And I'm also glad that the master is a woman and not a man. If it was a man, he certainly did something bad to me earlier...

In other words, the master can provide me with food, clothing, housing and transportation as long as I listen to her orders and win the battle for her.

If possible, I want to become the most trusted person of the master and do my best to repay her.

"Hmm."

I raised my head with determination.

Heath Relia also showed a satisfied smile.

"But, Heath Relia, why are you saying so much to me? When I ponder over your words later, the master will know what you've told me, right?"

"Even if she knows what I said to you, so what? I just enlightened you. Could she still reverse this process? I don't think she'd have a problem with it."

Heath Relia turned around with an extra hint of sentimentality in her smile.

"I just want to hope that there is a person who is willing to accompany her in the end. I hope that one accompanying her in the end is not a numb and emotionless killing weapon."

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing."

Heath Relia shook her head and walked over.

"Don't move."

She pressed her hand to the side of my head. Then a faint tingling sensation seeped into my mind as my vision was filled with a view. It was a first-person view. Purple hair was covering the corners of my eyes. Then I saw a red-haired girl in a light blue princess dress. Tiny white teeth were in her childish small mouth, her smile beaming at the sunlight, revealing her innocence.

It lasted only three seconds before Heath Relia took her hand away.

"This is what you want to know. This is what Furtoril was like as a child."

It was only three seconds, but that image was already fixed in my mind.

"As a child, she was even more gentle and talkative than I was. Her expressions were always so changing, and her words and actions were like those of the last demon king, elegant and kind."

Heath Relia's expression was tinged with a little wistfulness. Finally she just smiled helplessly.

"I don't want you to be just an emotionless cold machine that only follows orders. I want you to be an intimate and emotional person around her."

"..."

Heath Relia's words made me become a little confused. She didn't want me to become a cold machine that would only follow orders but my master asked me to follow her orders.

"I'll come back to talk to you again at my convenience. Bye."

Heath Relia reached out and touched my head before I froze and nodded.

I watched Heath Relia leave slowly.

I began to compare current adult master with young master over and over again in my mind. When the master was young in her childhood, she was so cute and cheerful, and she didn't look so rigid. But why does my current master look so cool and indifferent?

Is it because of the war more than 60 years ago?

When I think back to Heath Relia's words, it looks like she's going to entrust me with the master.

If it is a truth, does the master know it or should I ask the master clearly?

If Heath Relia really leaves the master one day, I will be the only one person who will be with the master. So that's why Heath Relia chose to tell me so much about the master. Maybe it is.

Maybe Heath Relia wants to propel me to know more about the master and get closer to her. She wants to reveal a different master to me.

Then I just need to pour all my emotions into my master. As long as I just care about my master's feelings, I can meet the expectations that Heath Relia and my master have for me.

For others, I may be a cold machine. But for my master, I want to be someone she trusts, not just a tool, as Heath Relia said. I want my master to see me as a person.

But it's easier said than done. What happens when I put into practice?

Everything was unknown, but I looked steadfastly at the wide Earl River.

My heart was fuller. It was true that I had to add more goals to my life to become motivated.

Then I go back to the master.

Now I also know that there is a certain range the master reads my mind. That's why my room is arranged to be so close to hers. Even if I speak in my heart in Chinese, the master will know what I think. This mind reading seems to just read the meaning, not the language. It is a very wonderful magic or a contract.

I stroked the snowflake-like mark out of my chest and became grateful for this contract.

If the master can read my mind, she must be able to read my feelings for her.

Then I adjusted my emotions. I took a deep breath and went in after getting permission. Then I knocked on the door of my master's room.

The master was sitting on a single sofa. I could only see her back when I first entered the door.

Numerous versions of the opening words flashed through my mind. But when I thought of what Heath Relia had said to me, curiosity overcame fear and I walked up to the master.

I gazed at the familiar cool face and the luminous jewel-like red pupils.

"Master, I ..."

I have prepared my words many times in private, but now I still behave so shyly.

Looking at indifferent expression of the master, I felt a little discouraged, but I still tried to say it.

"What am I for you, master?"

"What do you want me to think of you as?"

The master's cool face showed a faint smile and then she asked me.

Surely I need to say out before the master will answer me.

When I thought of Heath Relia's words, my heart began to thump faster.

I've been used to being reprimanded loudly and treated coldly by my master. Now I would be a little surprised because the master suddenly became gentle to me.

In addition to those days when my master punished me without mercy, my fear of my master was deeply imprinted in my heart. At the same time, I was grateful for the occasional tenderness that my master gave me. I began to try to do better in front of the master to gain her more tenderness.

This humble feeling makes me tremble in front of her. My reason tells me that it is not right, but my feelings just spurts out uncontrollably.

So I hope ...

"So I hope master can see me as a partner who can help you to victory. Or you can see me as a subordinate, or a maid. I don’t care about the status. I just hope that the master can look at me with the right attitude. I will not betray the master. "

The master closed her eyes after I finished, and fell into deep thought.

And I was slightly bent over waiting for my master's answer timidly.

"Heath Relia..."

It took a long time before the master opened her eyes and said these words, but she shouted Heath Relia. Then her face showed a warm smile that I had never seen before, as if the master had ignored me.

It should have been a beautiful smile, but it stung my heart hard because the master muttered Heath Relia's name.

"Fine. Do what you like, but just don't defy me and refuse my orders. I won't read your mind these days. I'll test you after a while. Don't let me down."

"Hmm."

For some reason, I was a little down and then I lowered my head.