The demon finally fell in Belle's arms, covered in wounds. Belle pced her slender hands on the demon's strong shoulders as tears kept flowing from her eyes.

  The demohe st of its strength to raise his sharp cws aly wiped the tears off the er of Belle's eyes before he closed his own ahe world forever. Belle colpsed on his chest and cried her eyes out.

  The camera pulled away at that moment and tio climb until the whole castle was within frame. A ray of sunlight appeared at the distant mountains and shone over the castle, then the movie ended.

  "Cut! And done!"

  Joshua climbed off the cliff by the side of the castle as the director. In that se, Zenarth, who pyed the demon, had used the st bit of his strength to throw "Gaston" down the cliff.

  Joshua even purposely took a close-up shot of him falling down the cliff.

  When the dead demon heard Joshua's "Cut!", he opened his eyes and immediately got up to get rid of the bloodstains on his body.

  The blood was plimentarily provided by the Duke of Bohe blood flowing within the Sin Demon was after all very different from a human's.

  Ynor wiped the tears from the er of his eyes too and patted the dust off his skirt before he looked at Joshua.

  "gratutions on your perfepletion of filming the world's first-ever movie."

  Joshua held his hand out as the twelve banshees handed over the recorded images to him in sequehat was the final part of "Beauty and the Demon", and all that was left was for Joshua to edit the footage and put in the opening as well as ending credits. They and the Demon" would be properly pleted.

  "Yhness, what other orders do you have?"

  Zenarth had no way of realizing what a great thing he had aplished. He only performed acc to Joshua's orders.

  "Nothing at the moment. Zenarth, go back to the castle and hide. Take care not to be seen by the humans," Joshua said.

  "As you and."

  The Sin Demouro the castle, and only Joshua and Ynor were left now.

  Ynor did not seem to feel any joy for the movie's pletion. His hands fidgeted around his skirt as if he had something on his mind that he did not dare tell Joshua.

  "Ynor, e with me."

  Joshua could tell what the succubus was thinking, and did not do much aside from giving him an order as he walked toward the other side of the castle.

  Ynor anxiously followed Joshua... He had a lot of flig thoughts in his mind, and it was not until the end that Ynor realized Joshua had brought him to the castle gate.

  As Joshua pushed the gate open, the vilgers outside saw their Belle standing there safe and sound, and all of them cheered.

  "Belle... are you okay?" Melina looked excitedly at Belle who was standing beside "Gaston". She wao step forward to embrace her.

  However, Ynor took a fearful step back because he was no longer Belle, the human girl who was beloved by the vilgers with an adopted mother who cared for her.

  The beautiful story had just ended, and now he was Ynor, a lowly succubus... The only reason Ynor survived iters of the Demonic Realm was that he knew his pce. He knew what beloo him and what did not.

  Yet, Joshua held his hand aly pushed him back.

  "Mdm. Jant must have been very worried about you. Go on."

  "But, Yhness... I-I'm not—" Ynor was about to spell out her thoughts before Joshua interrupted her.

  "It is true that you are not Belle. You are Ynor, so you tell her your real name. You , of course, keep your identity secret."

  "She will never accept it..."

  Ynor shook his head, his body trembling slightly.

  Joshua knew how fatal Melina's love for Ynor was. The succubus had been living iters of the Demonic Realm for so long and had suffered so much. Perhaps Melina was the first person illing to care for him.

  "You think Mdm. Jant would hate you for such a trivial matter?" Joshua asked.

  Joshua's words stunned Ynor a little, but it seemed to have infused some strength into Ynor's waveri. He started to walk toward Melina, and finally, amidst the cheering of the vilgers, Ynor and Melina hugged.

  The moment Melina hugged him, Ynor's ingled as tears once again flowed out from the er of his eyes. The tears this time were obviously not the same fake tears he had shed earlier during the filming.

  Joshua looked at the se ahat this erhaps Ynor's true happy ending.

  "What a farce."

  Ciri stood among the vilgers who had stormed the castle to "rescue Belle". She watched them cheer at their victory and could not help but spit venom.

  "This is a happy ending for them, no? The demon was a wicked person who kidnapped Belle, and they saved her from the jaws of the vilin. Justice has prevailed over evil, and perhaps this story will be passed on within the small vilge."

  Joshua stood o Ciri as Gaston while he expined.

  Ciri did not say anything. She resent throughout the filming process. Only she khe truth of how ridiculous their cheers were.

  "Everyone! Listen to me! The beast has cursed the castle upon his death. Everyone who steps into the castle will forever be cursed by vengeful spirits."

  Joshua did not tio banter with Ciri and started to persuade the vilgers to leave.

  While the Duke of Bones had agreed to allow the lowly humans to "pass through" her castle for a bit, if the humans dared to stay in her castle once filming ed up, or if they stole anything, the Duke of Bones would not be merciful.

  In fact, if Joshua had not dissuaded them, the vilgers would already have pns to take the items in the castle for themselves.

  Taking the evil dragon's treasure after defeating the evil dragon was a universal truth in this human world.

  sidering the fact that the vilgers had dutifully pyed their roles as extras, Joshua could not simply feed them to the undead after they pleted their roles.

  After defeating the beast, Gaston became the figure of absolute authority amongst the vilgers, and the moment they heard his warning, the haunting really started ihe castle.

  Driven by the most primitive of fears, they had no choice but to escape the castle.

  "Gaston..." Melina seemingly inteo thank Joshua. He had after all rescued her adopted daughter.

  "Call me Joshua. Gaston is... just a pseudonym. Mdm. Jant, please leave this pce first. I will catch up with you in a while."

  As Joshua said that, a terrifying wail rang across the castle, and the surrounding sky instantly became gloomy. That made Melina realize that the dangers within the castle were far from beaten.

  "I uand, Joshua."

  Melina nodded as she pulled Ynor away from the castle alongside the rest of the vilgers.

  "Now, the only thio do is post-produ work." Joshua took out the inium crystal and looked at it.

  It was the first inium crystal that bore the fruit of Earth's culture.

  Weebkun