Late one night, Ellis emerged from his study to see Nyx nestled asleep on the couch, his robes loosely covering him and his tail unconsciously hooked around a pillow.
Ellis stared at him for a few seconds, then turned and went back to his room.
He didn't have Nyx sent back to his room or wake him up.Instead, he acquiesced to the demon remaining in his world and continuing to leave more and more traces.
From an onlooker's perspective, Ellis' life had been completely taken over by Nyx.
At first, everyone just thought that the young mentor had been a bit lenient with his contracted demon, but slowly, they realized that things were far more outrageous than they thought.
First of all, Nyx was almost everywhere.Whether it was the tutor's lounge, the academy's dining hall, the research room, or even the trainees' classrooms, that demon could always be seen.
While Ellis stood at the podium lecturing on the intricacies of antiquity research, Nyx sat lazily by the window sill, resting his chin in one hand and whistling every now and then.
While the tutors gathered to discuss teaching issues, Nix directly took away the cup of tea in Ellis's hand, tasted a mouthful of it, and then commented with a raised eyebrow, "It tastes so boring."
There was even a time when the academy's regular meeting had the tutors sitting around a round table, only to find that on the window sill behind Ellis, there was a beautiful demon sitting there, with its slender tail wagging and a piece of pastry from nowhere in its mouth, looking as if it was a matter of course.
"... Is he Mentor Ellis' contracted demon?"The new mentor asked quietly.
"Right."
"How does he ... seem to have made this place his home?"
The old mentor sighed, "Haven't you realized?He's been living in Ellis' life for a long time now."
Secondly, the relationship between Nyx and Ellis was definitely not the usual 'summoner and demon'.
The trainees quickly realized that Nyx's attitude towards Ellis was completely different from how he treated other people.
Nix usually had a very poisonous mouth and liked to speak with barbs, mocking people without mercy.But when it came to Ellis, although he was still playful, he would always restrain himself without realizing it.
Nyx was a prankster and was always up to no good, but he would never pull a prank on Ellis.Once, when someone tried to provoke him into playing a joke on Ellis, he snorted, "You want me to tease Ellis?It's not like I want to get killed."
What's most surprising is that Nix even listens to Ellis.
Although on the surface, he always looked like he was hanging back and couldn't care less, as soon as Ellis frowned and faintly shouted his name, the odds were that Nyx would honestly shut up.
"It's a miracle."A cadet who had witnessed the scene exclaimed, "It's amazing that a demon would listen to a human obediently."
"It's not listening to humans," another cadet corrected, "It's listening to Ellis."
Finally, the most obvious thing of all - Ellis's life was littered with Nyx.The mentors had noticed this a long time ago.
One time, a mentor stumbled into Ellis's dorm room and froze as soon as he walked through the door.
There were several abyssal books mixed in on the shelves, and the hand-drawn ghostly drawings of some demon could still be seen on the edges of the pages.A box of strange Abyssal treats sat on the coffee table, looking nothing like something Ellis would buy.A black robe was thrown casually on the couch, with a few gold coins scattered beside it, looking like some demon's personal belongings.
"Ellis," this mentor hesitated for a moment and opened his mouth to ask, "do you live with Nyx ...?"
Ellis, who was organizing his papers, looked up at the words and replied calmly, "No."
Mentor pointed to the "demonic traces" in the room, "Then these?"
Ellis paused, his eyes lingering on the robe and the gold coins for a second, then faintly said, "He sometimes stays here."
What did "sometimes" mean?Is it during the day?At night?Is it every day?
The mentor didn't dare to ask too closely, he just watched Ellis walk towards the bookshelf and skillfully set those abyssal books right, as if he had already gotten used to their existence, to the presence of demons.