Summer Nights
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An inexperienced young reverend is called in to take care of a demon infestation, but it turns out the demon in question has a much... cozier domestic relationship with his host than first expected.
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- Part 1 of Summer Nights
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When the local florist insists on learning the art of tea leaf reading from Filia, the future looks distinctly annoying.
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- Part 2 of Summer Nights
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A conversation about first kisses leads Filia to an unpleasant discovery and a rather intimate confrontation with Xellos.
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- Part 3 of Summer Nights
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Much to her disgust, Filia discovers a romance novel whose main couple weirdly resembles her and a certain demon.
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- Part 4 of Summer Nights
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He was a filthy monster. And she did hate him. She just really wanted to touch that filthy, hateable monster’s hair. That made sense, right?
No. Not even a little.
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- Part 5 of Summer Nights
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“What are you doing here anyway?”
Xellos shrugged. “Oh, just taking in the color and spectacle of the season, offering you fresh fruit. I know these probably seem like dastardly actions to you, but what can I say? I’m a monster.”
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- Part 6 of Summer Nights
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Xellos shrugged nonchalantly. “You couldn’t beat me,” he said.
Filia’s scowl gained new intensity. If she was being cool-headed, which was a rare but not entirely unheard of state to find Filia in, then she might have reluctantly accepted this as true. But she wouldn’t now. Her pride was on the line and she was blinded by anger.
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- Part 7 of Summer Nights
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“My advice won’t fail because it is excellent,” Xellos said assuredly. “Perhaps you should start picking up parenting tips from me, Filia,” he said, turning to her. “After all, I am the World’s Best Dad.”
Filia sucked in an exasperated breath. “Just because you bought a mug doesn’t make you—”
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- Part 8 of Summer Nights
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As he readied to make his leap, he trod on a dry leaf. He cursed his luck as the little lamb looked up. He had precious little time before even a brain as useless as a sheep’s got the clue that it might be a good idea to run.
But it didn’t run. In fact, it crossed its little streamlet on light, little hooves and looked curiously into the darkness until it spotted the predator. That froze the wolf. This was moron behavior even among sheep.
The lamb watched as the wolf tried to shift his sharp predator mind back into gear in this unprecedented situation. Then it appeared to make up its mind. It lowered its head.
And rammed it straight into the wolf’s nose.
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- Part 9 of Summer Nights
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It had all started so–for want of a better word–innocently, Xellos reflected as he made his way through the inferno of timber and smoke that he found himself in. But things were rapidly getting out of control.
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- Part 10 of Summer Nights
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The county fair should’ve been the highlight of Filia’s summer. It brought new and exciting sights from throughout the area, rewarding business opportunities at the crafts section of the fair, and plenty of time to spend with Val. Normally, she’d have looked forward to it, but all she could feel as she passed out tickets from under an awning was dread. And it was all Xellos’s fault.
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- Part 11 of Summer Nights
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“I thought you’d abandoned cloistered temple life,” he said. “I thought you’d made a decision. And now I find you’ve come crawling back to the saintly lifestyle of lighting incense and singing songs about dead gods.”
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- Part 12 of Summer Nights
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The longer it took the angrier she was with herself. It shouldn’t even be a question, she thought forcefully. They’re garbage! He’s garbage. And what do you do with garbage? You throw it out, that’s what!
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- Part 13 of Summer Nights
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“I mean, you like ducklings, don’t you?” Xellos asked. “It’s very juvenile to like ducklings but blanch at the steps necessary to get ducklings. But I suppose it doesn’t surprise me. The Dragon race has always had a high and mighty attitude about these kinds of things.”
Knocking his brains out with a ladle won’t solve anything, Filia warned herself as she felt her grip tightening around the spoon.
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- Part 14 of Summer Nights
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It was a roundabout way, Xellos had to admit, of getting a cup of tea. Going to a café might have afforded him better service and less generalized insolence than stopping by Filia’s and waiting for her to snap enough to need to sooth her nerves with tea, but… then again, that wouldn’t be as much fun.
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- Part 15 of Summer Nights
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“You can’t be drunk,” Filia said, as if she could order the facts away. She clomped over and tried to pull him up. “That shouldn’t even be possible!”
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- Part 16 of Summer Nights
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“Well, if he likes negativity, then you just have to be positive,” Amelia said brightly.
Filia’s brow crinkled. “Positive?” Treating Xellos with any kind of positivity aside from positive revulsion had never occurred to her.
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- Part 17 of Summer Nights
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It was all because of Val. He was what had drawn them together and he was what they all orbited around now. The tottering child with the unfortunate haircut passing his mornings at the local preschool had no idea what he had brought her; what he had brought them all. Hopefully, someday he would.
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- Part 18 of Summer Nights
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“What are you, a connoisseur of angry mobs or something?” Filia snapped.
Xellos shrugged. “I suppose you could say that. I’ve seen a lot of them.”
“Gotten chased by them?” Filia asked snidely. “No,” she snorted. Mobs should chase monsters, but they never do—only things that look like monsters. “You probably incite them.”
“I prefer to think of it as redirecting their negative energies and channeling them toward more productive activities,” Xellos answered with a smile.
Filia scowled. Miss Lina was right; Xellos should’ve been a politician.
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- Part 19 of Summer Nights
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She used to recoil from him, but every time she did so she felt a tiny pinprick of humiliation. Those added up. As soon as she realized that it all amounted to a contest that she did not want to lose she ceased her retreat. Now she didn’t give him the satisfaction of letting him know that he’d rattled her. Let him be the first one to shrink away!
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- Part 20 of Summer Nights