Demon King Ascension System

214 Sneaking Inside (2)

Of course, getting inside through a proper door would be hard due to the orphanage not having many backdoors or side entrances. A single double door at the front and a single backdoor were all that they had. And both were unavailable due to Blake having to go past the kids if he ever wanted to use any of the two.

Fortunately, the orphanage was more generous in installing their windows, enabling Blake to go inside one of the windows that he knew was almost never locked and located quite far away from where people usually gathered.

Well, technically, someone used to go there all the time whenever he felt suffocated with his own mind and tried to get some fresh wind to air out his stuffy mind, but with Blake disappearing from the orphanage, no one else should be there.

Just as he predicted, the window looked to be locked, but upon closer inspections, the window was not pressed against its frame, a tiny part of it was sticking out from the relatively flat window sill. Using the tips of his fingers which were as strong as a normal person’s grip, Blake easily pulled out the part that stuck out and opened up the window from the outside.

“Go in first and make sure there is no one inside,” Blake said as he gestured for Robus to jump inside, making sure that he jumped lightly to not make any sounds.

The interior that Robus saw was a foreign one to him. A floor that seemed to be made of smooth tiles of some type of stone was beneath his feet and when his eyes looked up, a combination of the familiar wooden materials that he found on the humanoid demon base was combined with some other unknown material that looked fairly smooth in the surface and white in color, something that he had never seen before.

He had seen all kinds of new things ever since he arrived in this unknown place, but Blake seemed to have found them as nothing unusual as Robus noticed that Blake wasn’t as cautious or curious about the things that they had seen so far, which was quite surprising to Robus considering his humanoid friend often stopped him from moving in as he liked, and now Blake was instead sending him forward without even worrying about many other things that Robus could not understand, which was different from what Blake used to do.

But that was a question that he had for himself and Robus just did what Blake asked him to do. Scanning left and right with his eyes, and staying silent to make his ears more sensitive to other sounds such as footsteps, Robus observed his surroundings closely before reporting it to Blake.

With Robus confirming the coast was clear, Blake carefully put his body in through the window, firmly holding onto the frame as he landed on the ground with his feet, making sure he made as little noise as possible.

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After landing, Blake then did the same thing as Robus, listening closely to his surroundings while looking everywhere. CCTVs were almost a requirement for any building in this day and age where dangers lurked around everywhere, and of course, the orphanage also had them installed.

However, the orphanage didn’t have a dedicated monitor room where someone like a security guard stayed there all the time to watch all the CCTVs in case an intruder came in. The CCTVs used in the orphanage would never be checked by the caretakers as long as something major did not happen.

So unless Blake made a scene, the caretakers would not even know that the CCTVs saw him go through the window and started navigating throughout the whole building.

Robus followed closely behind Blake as he watched everything around him with interest. It’s not because he was curious about building materials or architecture in general, but it was due to the fact that he now had a different perspective now that he was not even a meter tall.

The wooden parts looked fairly similar due to him crushing dozens of those wooden buildings while he was in the humanoid base, but seeing the details up close and having his body surrounded by them was a different feeling that he had never felt before.

And finally, Robus stopped moving completely when Blake had also stopped walking in front of a closed wooden door.

‘This should be it…’ Blake thought to himself as he stared at the door that led to his old room. It’s technically not his room because he shared it with 4 other kids, but it was the room that he used to sleep in and where his bed was located.

And considering the connection that the system gave him also told him to go into this place, then he must have been correct about his guess about the locket being the object that he was looking for.

The kids were urged to go out at this hour and no one should be in their room as they should be spending their time elsewhere, just like Blake that spent his time on that window instead of his own room despite it also having a window of its own.

Blake then slowly pushed down on the door handle, pulling the latch properly inside its chamber before pushing in while putting force on the door to the side of the hinges to minimize the amount of creaking and overall noise created by the door opening.

Just as Blake had expected, the room was empty. No one was inside the room and even the lights were still turned off. There should be an hour or two before the kids are told to go back inside, and Blake should have plenty of time to take the locket necklace and go out through the window that he got in through.

The window in the room connected directly to the side of the orphanage where children were playing and he couldn’t just casually jump out of there after all the hassle he went through to not be noticed.

Blake then walked to his bed, which was surprisingly tidy even though he hadn’t come back for quite a long time.

‘Did they already remove my things?’ Blake thought as he walked to the drawer beside his bed.

He opened it up and found that his clothes were still there, not a single one missing. Blake found it surprising that the caretakers did not remove his stuff immediately after he was missing for a whole month, but he did not think that they actually cared about him and there must be other reasons why they did not do it.

Blake ignored the negligible stuff for now and stood beside his bed frame. Using one of his hands to pull up the 1×2 meters rectangular bed, Blake found that the locket necklace was still there.

It still has the same silver color and it still shone despite having been put under a bed for how many years.

However, Blake did not snatch the necklace right away. Instead, he stared at it with focus as he noticed something about the necklace. And that was none other than the presence of nether inside the necklace.

It was very faint, but Blake was sensitive to nether, and in an environment where nether was very scarce in the first place, the amount of nether inside the necklace definitely stood out.

‘If this necklace has been with me ever since I was found by the orphanage… Then does that mean my parents were also demons…?’

Blake slowly reached out his hand forward, wanting to grab the necklace to learn more about it.

*Click*

But before his fingers touched the surface of the necklace, a click was heard from behind him, and the light of the room was suddenly turned on.