Chapter 18 – Episode 18 ― Reconstruction of Likeability (3)
Episode 18 ― Reconstruction of liking (3)
“Hey, don’t do this…”
The ogre soldier, who had returned to the prison where he was shifted after ten days, laughed sinisterly as he listened to the human woman’s angst.
“It’s been a while since I came back, and even my clothes are neater, human beings. How are you getting around like this?”
“Don’t… , No, His Majesty…”
The soldier’s already stern expression distorted even more ugly. Grunent’s handmaid, Barbara, shrank her little body even more.
It was only last week that he suffered in this prison.
In the process of moving the residence of Princess Grünent, whom Barbara serves, it seemed that some of the princess’s decorations were missing. Barbara was cautiously looking around the area where the princess had previously stayed, not knowing that she might remain in prison.
Prison was a scary place to even think about, but Barbara heard from human apprentices that the atmosphere in the castle had become quite harmful to humans. Besides, her princess trinkets were things she had cherished since she was in Merde. Barbara wanted to make a sensational gift to her lord because she was worried about her.
Her guard at the prison entrance, who had previously ignored or bullied her Barbara, let her go without a word, with her grim face.
So she was careless. She had believed the words of the human servants. Fear filled her maid’s eyes.
“A lowly person like you dare sell His Majesty’s name?”
As the ogre growled, Barbara’s body began to tremble. He giggled and pulled up the hem of her maid’s skirt.
“No matter where you lie, it’s like garbage…”
“Oh, my, please… !”
“Heh, I know. Know. Don’t look I missed you too.”
Her maid’s face turned pale. She lost her virgin here in prison, and even then she had to be called out from time to time by her guards. She occasionally gets fucked in front of the princess as well.
Memories of her that had been forgotten for a while suddenly came flooding back, and she lost her temper.
“Oh, no! Don’t do it, don’t do it!!!”
“This crazy thing…”
The handmaiden tried with all her strength to pull her body aside and escape, but she was pushed against the cold stone walls of the prison with her arms held in the hands of the ogre.
All she could do was fight her feeble thud and make her scream. The ogre was already violently pulling down her underwear and unbuttoning his pants.
“Ah!! Don’t, don’t, don’t like it!!”
“Hey, hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey…”
“… ?!”
Suddenly, the ogre’s body jerked back about one meter. She then started making strange noises as her whole body shuddered out of nowhere. With her limbs outstretched, her eyes rolled over and saliva trickled from her mouth.
If modern people saw it, it was a situation where they would exclaim, ‘Didn’t they get hit by a Taser?!’ There were no stun guns here at Evirzio, but instead there was a lich treasurer who could fire blitz spells at any time at any target he didn’t like.
Behind the slumped ogre, faint smoke billowed from her body, her skeleton in her ornate robes gazed at her bewitched handmaiden.
“Hey.”
“…”
“Hey, human woman. Are you okay?”
“… Ah…”
“Fine… ,Kuk!”
Barbara suddenly sat down, hugging her theory.
“Go, thank you, thank you!”
“… Uh?”
Lyon said she couldn’t understand what had just happened.
After spending several months in prison, Barbara became less intimidated by the skeleton-shaped demons, and also knew that they were more gentle than other demons.
Because they didn’t have penises.
Her even her is her skeleton that saved her. Fearing that the fallen ogre might rise again at any time, she decided to surrender herself to a stronger lich in an instant.
So, for the first time in her 300 years of life, Liron, who came down to her prison for a while to find materials for her experiments, was able to hold her human in her arms. Even when she was living as a human, she was a human woman who had never been hugged.
“Uh… , Hmm. I don’t think it’s a water person. Who are you.”
Her maid’s cries, which had been throbbing as if she were out of breath, finally calmed down. She said in a weary voice, barely pulling herself up.
“Grünent… , Her Highness, the lady-in-waiting… This is Barbara.”
“Aha. Was it the princess’s maid?”
Lylon scratched her skull with her bony fingers.
“Don’t linger around in such a dangerous place, go up quickly. How the hell did this jailer get his education…”
I’m going to have to nag the corrections officer.
“His Majesty said not to touch humans. Does he mean that there are still some people who haven’t been properly guarded?”
“Gam, thank you… Thank you.”
Seeing the human maid disappear after saying hello repeatedly, Lee Ron muttered to herself.
“Not even strong kin. She’s a weak human being. His Majesty still has a light in his eyes. Foolish bastard.”
Clicking her tongue, Lilon climbed over the body of the stunned ogre and went inside the prison to solve her business.
“… Kwan.”
“…”
“Lion!”
“Huh, yes!”
The theory awoke from her thoughts. She had Araña’s long arm, or one of her forelimbs, pressed down in the middle of the treasurer’s papers. The thorns at the ends of her arms snapped menacingly.
“Leon. Are you listening?”
“Ah yes. Yes. Your Excellency.”
“Hmm…”
Looking at her theory with her doubtful eyes, Aranya jingled at one of her other trinkets in her hand. She was a hairpin with many small metal and glass ornaments. Aranya’s sword was something similar to the one stuck in her hair.
“You mean humans fixed this right away?”
“Yes, Your Excellency. I dropped it in the training room last time and it fell off, but one of the trainees who was watching it fixed it on the spot. It felt like nothing.”
“I mean…”
It was just a small metal ornament dangling down and slightly bent in shape after inserting it. However, it was not common for her demons. There were fewer demons with the shape of human hands than expected, and there were even fewer who tried to show off even if they had dexterity.
Neither Minoreus nor Lyrondo, who were not interested in women’s ornaments, looked at her hairpin with interest at Shyk Viena’s words.
There are many things in the castle that require delicate hands, such as grooming or crafting weapons, grooming or assisting with experimental materials.
“There are employees who walk around with prototypes made by trainees. In the city, there are few places that make jewelry, so you have to wait a long time even if you order, but it is said that it is better to have human trainees make them. “
“Yes, it is. I saw it too.”
Aranya nodded her head.
“I really couldn’t have imagined it. To think that Her Majesty’s insight was this deep.”
“Hmmm, it’s embarrassing to praise you openly.”
The sudden appearance of Roan raised the four servants in a fright. These days, Roan went beyond reducing ‘Overwhelm’, and was also practicing getting rid of his presence. He was an excellent swordsman as the original demon king, so he was an ability to try.
“Your majesty. When did you come?”
“Um, is this the trinket?”
I think you’ve heard all about jewelry. With a wry smile, Aranya handed her hairpin to the demon king with both hands.
The demon king’s eyes, which were spinning the ornaments on the palm of his hand, were fixed on one spot.
“… This? Is it glass?”
“Ah. Yes. Your majesty.”
The demon king’s eyes narrowed. It was because he recalled the rumors the warrior had heard while playing the game.
There are places where glass is precious.
A shortage occurs in other countries, and there is a quest to exchange this glass with resources overflowing in that country.
At this time, the hero and the princess help solve the problem and gain fame and items.
“Where did you make it?”
“This is Dong Huang. The desert sand there is fine. The quality of glass is also the best in the entire continent of Moira. Now, even if precious glass is piled up, no one will buy it…”
… So a shortage arose.
Because the trade between humans and Evirgio was cut off.
The treasurer answered the emperor’s questions and looked at him, but Roan said nothing and returned the trinket to Aranya.
“Hmm. He stopped by on the way to his office. Since we’ve been gathering since early morning, I’m wondering what’s going on. I was told by the correctional officer to stop by for a moment to say something. Is that it?”
“Oh, no. I would like to tell you about the royal prison, Your Majesty.”
“Any special additions? I think I saw the cleaning and food conditions a while ago.”
They say that a diligent boss makes people under him tired, but at least it was much better than a boss who cuts his throat.
Roan moved quite diligently as if to offset his indifference, and the meeting was willing to move in the face of such a master.
“There is quite a bit of good information coming out.”
“… Hmm?”
“About the internal affairs of the kingdom, human prisoners have started blowing. Your majesty.”
“Hmm.”
The demon king gave an ambiguous exclamation at Schikwiena’s words. Minoreus’ eyes widened as he asked the correctional officer.
“Why all of a sudden? No matter how much I tortured it, it had no effect.”
“Whoop whoop.”
The succubus’s charming smile flashed across the corrections officer’s face.
“Well, isn’t that thanks to Your Wise Majesty?”
‘Me?’ Roan, who almost asked back, kept his mouth shut. At times like this, if you stay still, half of it is gone. The demon king’s shell had the power to make silence attractive.
Shikvienna’s words continued.
“Seeing the human slaves cleaning the prison, they seemed surprised and asked. How it happened They seem to have conveyed the word that the castle will not eat humans, educate them and use them, and that if they work properly, they can get paid.”
Ah.
You want to live.
The demon king’s purple eyes flashed sharply.
“Even if it’s not so, it seems that those who were starving in the past ate properly and rested in a clean place, and their hearts were relieved, but when the human slaves preached the word about Your Majesty, it seemed that their hearts were broken.”
For a moment, Aranya, Liron, and Minoreus’ eyes overflowed with respect for the Demon King.
“The situation at Merde appears to be worse than expected. It must not have been easy to win the battle between demons and humans. When one of our soldiers dies, ten of them die.
So, it is said that the number of people who will do farming has decreased a lot this year. Therefore, the yield is also less than before. They said that the food we ate in prison was better than the food we rationed to human knights because it was difficult to procure provisions.”
“Oh my God, did you look this far…”
Roan didn’t respond to Minoreus’s dumbfounded words. The humble appearance aroused the admiration of Aranya and Liron even more. It was a virtue that was difficult for a young demon king to possess.
“In addition, it seems that the human princess was released from prison. The ladies-in-waiting had to go to prison, and they said that His Majesty was taking good care of the princess and other humans. She must have said that Your Majesty is merciful.”
It wouldn’t have been easy to believe it from the point of view of being tortured, but while living in a prison fuller than in Merde. Besides, if you keep listening to the stories of human slaves and prisoners who suddenly got better treatment, it is likely that there will be people who change their minds.
It’s good to earn the respect of people below you, even if it’s like catching a mouse by kicking a cow. Whether it’s war or internal affairs, they do all the real work.
“I didn’t do anything. It’s all because you guys do it well.”
Seriously. Roan did just that. The members of the mini-meeting did a really good job and even worked hard.
However, his servants were thrilled to see a demon king showing modesty, a rare political attitude among demons.
‘Oh my god… Really, he was a person who could change so much if he put his mind to it. He thought he was old enough, but I guess I still have to develop my eyes for people.’
The chancellor looked at the demon king’s straight face. At one time I thought he was too cold as ice, but now his appearance reflects the majesty of a monarch.
‘I’m really glad. I can finally stand face to face with the former majesty. If we sincerely support His Majesty from now on, how far will this country be able to stand upright…’
They were the members of the small meeting who were determined to devote themselves to establishing the future of the demons.
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“Why did you kill him?”
Up until now, the atmosphere was very warm. I received a lot of compliments from my servants. Respect overflows in your eyes.
Looking at the bloody eyes in front of my eyes, it’s like a spring dream.
Roan returned to the office from the small conference room. Diobe, who had returned to his job after a while, was tidying up the office.
She told Shikbi that the forest fairy, Lauca, who had been found and treated in prison, was in a condition sufficient to speak her words, so she sent her to the office.
And Lauca appeared with a tag of -100 affinity, hanging a muzzle and all sorts of restraining devices, just like a violent beast would suffer. It was the lowest point ever, and it was the bottom allowed by the favorability system.
She’s somehow washed her hair, but her burning red hair proves that she really is like Lauca in the game. This is because she was the only forest fairy with hair like flames in the world of this game, on the continent of Moira.
‘At least they told me that in the game.’
And she was staring at the demon lord with her deadly expression. She has a muzzle, but it’s just covering her face so she can talk.
“I heard that you were imprisoned here as a serial killer. It’s rare for forest fairies to be brought here. Why did you do such a heinous thing?”
“I cannot forgive…”
In her blood-vomited voice, Lauca growled.
