1 A mother's sorrow.

"Any news!?" She asked the poor servant currently kneeling in front of her.

"Afraid not, my deepest apologies" the fearful servant admitted with clattering teeth fearing for retribution.

Lady Inari had always been powerful and extremely intelligent she used to be kinder in the past, however after an enemy faction stole her daughter in an attempt in blackmailing her, she had retaliated hard, unfortunately was it the enemy faction who had the last laugh, even as Inari had coldly massacred all of them, only 1 knew where her daughter had been hidden and he had committed suicide before Inari could get to him, her daughter was extremely precious to her and she didn't waste any time making many other demon bend to her will in an attempt of expanding her power to have better chances at finding her daughter, as time had gone she had however become more and more bitter, She was effectively the queen of the demonic realm and her faction extended into every nook an cranny of the mortal realm as well.

Inari leaned her head into her hands.

"You're new, you might have heard rumors but unlike many others do I not mistreat those loyal to me, what you have heard happened to the faction who stole my precious daughter is the truth but I never retaliate without reason, please give me an updated status report even if you don't think it contains the information I desire"

The servant once again bowed, he had only been freed from his old faction 1 month ago and still had a hard time understanding what he was experiencing, it was rare for any demons to treat those lower with even an inch of kindness but Inari seemed different, maybe the rumors was true and he had truly been saved.

"Ye... Yesss m..my l...l..lady"

the young boy stammered while looking at the extremely pretty woman trying to steel himself.

seeing how she patiently looked at him gave him the final courage.

"As you know those 2 individuals are still searching themselves, they thought they briefly have been sensing small bits of power with a similiar signature to yours but every time they got there all they found was normal humans, in particular a Library have stood out, but they have been unable to find anything that would indicate it wasn't a cold trail.

we have secondly by inserting demons loyal to you in everything from police force to reporters in various countries of the human realm and been skimming through for anyone sharing your likeness, unfortunately also with a cold trail.

most of all of the super natural communities in the bigger regions on earth are aware they will experience your wrath if they ever find her and in any way mistreat her.

the demonic realm itself is impossibly vast but as you have been basically taking down even void beasts in your search of the outer skirts we can safely assume she is nowhere in the realm that is inhabited by intelligent life."

Inari listened patiently while the servant finished his report.

"This is the third time in 2 years that Library is mentioned, have someone report to the twins they are allowed to focus on the library and they have full permission to both be seen and interact if that helps their search"

The servant stood up and bowed politely and almost ran out the room.

Inari couldn't help but feel sad, how come the second she achieved the joy of her life it had to be taken away by greedy pathetic insects, she had used to reside in the hunan realms Asian continent many years ago where she amused herself with providing wisdom and guidance for the price of their local alcohol, who would have thought that in turn had they thought her a goddess and had raised shrines to her in the name of beauty, wisdom, harvest and alcohol.

She had provided some guidance in how to better tend to their crops mainly because she had enjoyed their newfound sake and didn't want the humans who produced it to die of starvation.

Little did they know that there really was no such thing as benevolent gods, most beings they revered was often just doing stuff on a whim or never existed in the first place, everything was set in a natural order, the whole idea species or realms being created by a higher being, was a bit of a funny concept to her, it seemed like a beautiful idea, unfortunately Chaos and evolution was the boring truth and it was simply a race in regards to becoming the predator highest on the totempole, its truly a wonder humans truly kept sacrificing and providing ancient demons souls without ever questioning if a benevolent god would really require lives of their followers, nah, the truth of the situation likely didn't even need to be explained to anyone with 2 braincells, and the demons gauged themselves in quite some feasts without even having to do anything for many years in ancient human civilization, even today many humans still greedily sign a pact with demons for power, pacts was extremely important to demons and could not be broken, but it was essentially how many demons had gotten access to the mortal realm as they had often simply eaten the humans soul and then taken over the now empty body to reside on Earth as their spiritual existence would have been too weak to withstand staying on Earth without residing in those humans shells, while they often consume more souls to gain more power slowly.

Pure demons did eventually mate with humans while inhabiting human vessels that's essentially what caused the super natural races to come into existence, but its been many years since any founders of the human supernatural races was around, most had quite frankly simply been killed off during the centuries of fighting between pure bred demons.