Joshua used half an hour to write a simple English alphabet program that could type out "Hello World". That proved his theht.

  Joshua tapped the pale light before him, and that reminded him of the first time he had used a puter. It was when puters were booted using DOS ands.

  Just as Joshua entered "1" in the program he had created, the pale runes quickly turned into a series of letters that said, "Hello World".

  It was a true greeting to the birth of a new world.

  If that was the case, Joshua was fident that he could create a simple operating system with the runes in just a few months' time.

  Using his brain as the host, CPU, hard disk, and RAM, while his eyes served as the monitor with his hands in pce of the mouse and keyboard...

  He could do it!

  Embedding a puter in a human brain aing programs repce the human brain for putation processes could take turies oh. Yet, Joshua realized that it was within rea this world of magic.

  However, Joshua's current knowledge was not enough to realize it, and his uanding of the runes was still too shallow.

  While Joshua's knowledge allowed the ruo appear before him, Joshua had only been a mage for barely half a day.

  Even so, it was not a problem for Joshua to use his newfound magical powers to fuse the footage within the inium crystals. He could record various footages in the crystals before he transferred everything into a single crystal.

  Although that method was a bit more troublesome, sidering that it was an era without electrical light bulbs, the prince's iion was already mauries ahead of its time.

  "Ciri, I suggest that you do not stray too far away. That thing on your neck will automatically detonate if it is more thay meters away from me."

  After he pleted his resear the runes, Joshua picked up his pen and paper as he prepared to tinue writing the script for "Beauty and the Demon".

  Before that, Joshua felt the o remind the little mage not to run around someone's room.

  " I... I was not..."

  Ciri pulled her hand away from the doorknob and looked at the demon who was fag the desk.

  After Joshua had learhe god of order's runes, he simply sat at the table and began to study them ily, totally ign her in the process.

  That gave Ciri the illusion that she could use the opportunity to escape.

  So, Ciri used a pretty long time to sneak her way to the door, but before she could eve, Joshua's words made her return to her inal position in resignation.

  Ciri did not want to die by having her head blown off. No... If the crystal on her neck did go off, her death would be even worse than having her head lobbed off.

  For that reason, Ciri simply stood there food ten minutes without any new instrus from Joshua.

  As she got bored, Ciri peered at Joshua's back, and finally, her curiosity got the better of her. She took a few steps forward and ended up o Joshua's desk.

  A human's fear of demons usually revolved around their menag appearance, but once Ciri had calmed down, she noticed that Joshua's appearance was no different than a normal human's.

  That slightly eased Ciri's ay about staying in that pce. Her attention was then drawn to the script that Joshua was writing.

  When the plot developed to the point where Belle was imprisoned by the demon to save her father, Ciri found herself in a simir situation to the heroine, except for the fact that she had been abducted.

  Ciri could already imagihe kind of horrible deeds that would be inflicted upon Belle by the demon, the same way she could imagine her own fate.

  Yet, what happened was totally beyond her expectations as the story ged from the moment the demon saved Belle from a pack of dire wolves. From Belle's first dinner with the demon to their very own ball in the castle, no matter the se, Joshua's writing was enough to evoke a romantiging in every woman.

  "This is just a story, right?"

  Ciri tio look at the script, and her curiosity trumped her fear again as she asked Joshua directly.

  "Of course. There is still a big differeween fi ay. For instance, Belle, the heroine is in much better shape than you, Ciri."

  Joshua clearly knew what the little mage was thinking. Her current experience bore a close resembo Belle's iory.

  If Joshua had not realized that she might pass out the moment she saw a demon like Zenarth, Joshua would have sidered casting her for the role.

  Ciri immediately uood what Joshua was referring to as she covered her chest and took a few steps back. Her face was beet red. Before she could e up with the words to snap back at him, a kno the door made Ciri swallow everything she wao say.

  "Find a pce to hide."

  Joshua poi the only bookshelf in his room where someone could hide in—barely.

  Many demons in the Demonic Realm were prejudiced against humans. It was fine if it was his own servant, but the person outside the door was not Joshua's servant.

  When it came to the matter of her survival, Ciri obediently hid behind the bookshelf.

  Joshua then made his way to the door and ope.

  "I do not recall perf a experiments that are worthy of your supervision, Sister."

  Standing at the door rincess Cecily Annerude.

  pared with his eldest brother who lived at the frontier all year round, Joshua's sister, Cecily was the sentinel of the Royal Capital. She mahe w and order iy.

  In the prince's memories, this Princess Royal's personality was so uptight that she did not seem like a demon. She took up the role of the se the age of fifteen and had been handling cases rge and small with brutal efficy. She was the very model of a praiseworthy police officer.

  "I sensed human magical aura from your room."

  Cecily's hair and eyes were a different shade of crimson from Joshua's, and they had the hue of fmes. Under her gaze, any person who tried to lie to her would shudder from within.

  It was a wordless pressure.

  "I was carrying out some experiments using human magibsp;

  Runes formed out of a faint white glopeared on Joshua's hand. They sted for barely a sed or two before they disappeared as the runes were eaten away by Joshua's chaotic gray magic. He then turo Cecily.

  "But that isn't the reason for your visit, right?"