DEM Chapter 20: Fate [Eternal Fall into the Abyss]!

Forty-five minutes later.

“Damn, my arms are sore from all this grilling.”

Su Yuan rubbed his aching wrists, staring at the girl across from him, whose appetite seemed like a bottomless pit as she devoured grilled meat and various staples.

He wanted to take back all the buffet-eating tips he’d given her.

With a monster like her, she’d make back her money no matter what she ate. Wasn’t that cheating?

“Hey, hey, don’t eat the bones!”

Seeing Chen Nuoyi chomp through a bone-in pork chop, bones and all, Su Yuan hurriedly yanked the half-eaten chop from her mouth.

“What’s wrong? Bones are edible, aren’t they?”

Chewing a mouthful of bone fragments, Chen Nuoyi mumbled, “I looked it up online. Eating bones supplements calcium, and from my eating experience, bones are the most filling food.”

What kind of experience is that? Were you so poor after your family went bankrupt that you had to gnaw on bones?

Su Yuan was speechless. He really wanted to know how Chen Nuoyi survived right after her family’s fall.

But since cultivators wouldn’t get indigestion from eating bones, he let her be.

He picked up a freshly grilled piece of meat from the rack, dipped it in sauce, and popped it into his mouth, savoring the rich, fragrant flavor.

“Strange, why do I already feel full?”

Su Yuan patted his stomach. He hadn’t eaten much, less than usual.

The more he thought about it, the more cheated he felt. There was still over an hour left of dining time, and he was already full? If only he had another blue pill…

As he pondered, a waiter pushing a cart of dirty dishes passed by, loaded with used plates and a pile of food scraps.

A spark flashed in Su Yuan’s mind. If he could use the Demonic Technique · Spirit Finger to refine a blue pill from the cafeteria’s scraps, could he do the same with the buffet restaurant’s leftovers?

With that thought, Su Yuan quickly scanned the buffet’s layout. Drawing on his experience as a delivery worker, he pinpointed the back door’s location.

“I’m going to the bathroom. Keep grilling.”

Su Yuan said, then, avoiding the staff and cameras, slipped through the employee passage to the back door, where several full slop buckets awaited transport to the dumpster.

Here goes nothing!

With no one around, Su Yuan activated the Demonic Technique · Spirit Finger.

A swarm of light particles rose from the scraps, condensing into two deep yellow spirit pills in his hand. The pill’s description appeared on his system panel.

[Unnamed Yellow Pill: Upon consumption, greatly increases satiety, allowing the user to go up to a week without needing to eat. Side effect: instinctive aversion to greasy foods until the effect wears off.]

Su Yuan: “…”

What the heck? Why was this pill the exact opposite of what he wanted?

Wasn’t this basically a fasting pill?

Wait, hold on!

As Su Yuan mentally raged, he suddenly realized something.

The effects of the spirit pills created by the Demonic Technique · Spirit Finger varied based on the components of the extracted items.

So, this yellow pill increased satiety because the buffet’s scraps were loaded with filling ingredients?

“No wonder I got full so fast.”

Su Yuan’s face darkened.

The righteous path may rise, but the demonic path rises higher! He could snag huge discount coupons through various channels, but the restaurant had its own foolproof way to avoid losing money!

So, did the blue pill’s existence mean the cafeteria food really had something that made heads pointy?

Su Yuan sank into deep thought.

He only snapped out of it when a waiter pushing a cart arrived at the back door and called out to him.

Suppressing his swirling thoughts, Su Yuan claimed he’d gotten lost looking for the bathroom, then made a show of visiting the restroom before returning to the table.

Seeing the grill covered in charred, carbonized meat, Chen Nuoyi looked like a kid caught misbehaving, head lowered as she said, “I tried so hard to flip the meat, but I didn’t expect it to burn so fast.”

Su Yuan sighed and said, “Class Monitor, being a grill worker isn’t that easy. Let me handle it.”

After swapping out the grill, Su Yuan stopped worrying about breaking even and focused on grilling for Chen Nuoyi. They stayed until the full two hours were up, leaving under the restaurant owner’s dark, stormy glare.

Su Yuan felt no guilt whatsoever.

Without Chen Nuoyi’s monstrous appetite, the restaurant would’ve taught them a lesson today.

Stepping out of the restaurant, it was past three in the morning. There was just enough time to catch a quick nap before heading to school.

Since cultivators could function without sleep, Su Yuan decided to start squeezing this righteous saintess, by tutoring, that is.

Have you ever seen Taihua City at three a.m.?

Oh, right, it was a new day. He could check Chen Nuoyi’s refreshed fate, which might relate to his studies.

With that thought, Su Yuan activated the Demonic Technique · Fate Finger to view Chen Nuoyi’s fate for the day.

Then, he saw pitch-black words hovering above her head!

[Eternal Fall into the Abyss (Not Yet Fulfilled)]

???

Come on, bro.

Didn’t fate refresh daily? Why was it suddenly so heavy?

A complete fall in just one day? Isn’t that a bit too fast?

Who did this? Who?

Who could make a righteous saintess fall completely in a single day?

It couldn’t be me, right?!

Su Yuan desperately wanted to distance himself from Chen Nuoyi’s fate shift, but… was there another demon lord at Taihua High besides him?

Even if there was, wouldn’t her dragon king dad take them out before they got near her?

Which meant the demon lord about to get crushed by Chen Nuoyi’s dragon king dad was none other than Su Yuan!

Su Yuan shivered.

But at that moment, the system, with impeccable timing, let out a “ding-dong.”

[Peering into another’s fate, you’re shocked to discover the righteous saintess’s Saint’s Fall progress will skyrocket from 20% to 100% in a single day, with no turning back!]

Sorry, I’m not shocked, just terrified.

[What kind of wicked, depraved act will lead her to eternal ruin? Faced with this fateful abyss, the righteous saintess will instinctively resist, struggling to escape this hopeless fall. How will you guide her to this outcome?]

[Limited-Time Demon Lord Task Triggered]

[Task: First Follower (In Progress)]

[As a qualified demon lord, you should have countless loyal followers. Turn the fallen saintess into your first devoted follower!]

[Task Progress: Saint’s Fall (20%/100%)]

[Task Reward: Abyssal Bloodline]

[Task Time Limit: Within the Day]

Oh boy, this was big trouble.

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