Chapter 2.1 - Chancellor's Confidential Book

It seemed that there were also wild birds in this Demon country. Outside the window, you could hear the lovely birds’ loud cries and occasionally playing with each other.

“You keep me in a bird cage anyway. If that’s the case, why don’t you put the birds in the same cage as me? They’re cute and I won’t get bored.”

“…..eaten. Stop it. ¹ ”

“I don’t really have a hobby of preparing birds and grilling them by myself.”

“You! You’re gonna get eaten!”

Today, the Demon King was in great shape and had blue veins popping up on his forehead again.

Beside the Demon King, the man from the Vampire race was standing quietly. In his hand was a bundle of papers waiting for the Demon Lord to go through. His hard work really deserved to be praised.

The cute bird had disappeared from the garden before I knew it. What a pity.

But still, there was nothing to do.

“Could you lend me some paper and a pen that you don’t use?”

At my words, the Demon Lord looked up. Then, with a slight gesture of thought, he scratched his head and called out to the incubus man in front of him.

“Some paper and pen won’t cause too many problems. Curiz, give it to him.”

“Yes, yes. Prince-sama, you can’t write curses on this paper. Please don’t try to put a curse on it.” the incubus said.

“Don’t worry. The only curse I know of is the ‘spreading curse-like characters inside the building’ spell, so I can’t activate it by writing.”

“That was a big nuisance, though, you know? It took all of us to clean it up!”

“I could have at least helped with the cleaning… I was jealous of how much fun everyone seemed to be having.”

“No, no, no, there’s no way I’m letting a state guest do the cleaning!” the incubus exclaimed.

“Yet you lock that state guest in a cage… ” I trailed off.

“If the Prince wasn’t mischievous, we wouldn’t lock you in a cage either!”

“I see… then, I’ll be quiet today.”

“I’m really counting on you… I’ve been feeling very tired for a while now.”

The Demon King, who rubbed his fingers between his eyes, stared hard as he looked at me, then returned his gaze to the documents at hand and began working.

I took the paper and pen and began to write on the paper, remembering the contents of a book I had found in the room of the Chancellor of the Potpourri Kingdom. I figured that if I didn’t have any books to read, I might as well write one myself.

The silence continued for a while. Perhaps the Demon King liked the serenity, and when I asked for the next piece of paper, he immediately handed it to me.

When the contents of the book that had been placed in the Chancellor’s room were roughly written, I stacked all the papers together and vertically thumped it a few times to align the sides and returned the pen with thanks.

“What on earth were you writing?” The incubus asked me, and I was happy to answer.

“I remembered a book I found hidden very deep at the back of the Chancellor’s room once before, so I wrote it down here.” I smiled and replied. The atmosphere in the office got tense.

“… Perhaps, the top secret of the Potpourri Kingdom…”

“Could it be a classified document…”

“Wh-what kind of content is it…”

The Demon King and the others were talking with their heads close to each other. The only person who didn’t go over there was the male Vampire standing beside me. I looked at the man and a possibility came into mind: he’s nocturnal, so he might be sleeping while standing up right now.

As I was admiring his dexterity, the Demon King stared at me.

“That… That thing you just finished writing… I am wondering if you could share the content with us.”

“Uh, but this seems… to be a book that was kept confidential by the Chancellor, is that okay?”

“I definitely want to know the contents.”

“Oh, Maybe Demon King too is… the same as the Chancellor?”

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“What? What do you mean, ‘the same’?”

“I was wondering whether you also collect confidential books with contents like this?”

“My prince, any high ranking person in the country would have confidential documents like that.”

“I see. But is it really okay for me to share this with you all?”

“The prince is already in our custody, so why not? No one will know that the prince actually knows the contents of the Chancellor’s confidential documents.”

“Oh, I see. Then, I will read it aloud.”

As I picked up the stack of papers, I heard the people around me gulp their saliva in anticipation. I could see that everyone’s eyes were on me, except the Vampire. I hadn’t realized there were so many people who were similar to the Chancellor. For the first time, I was afraid of this country.

I inhaled… and picked up the piece of paper containing the most important part.

“The woman’s red lips quivered in fear as her white, supple hands were held and tied with a necktie. The man gazed down into her fearful eyes, fascinated, and tore off her underwear, which contained her droopy melons.

‘Please don’t do this… I have a husband who is very dear to me.’ ‘You’re the one who seduced me to have sex with you under your husband’s watchful eye, aren’t you?’ ‘No, that’s not true…’

The woman’s alluring mouth spat out words of denial, then the man’s hand reached out and found a secret place that was still soaking wet and dripping with honey-”

“WOAH, WOAH, WOAH, SHUT UP!” My reading was interrupted by the Demon King’s scream.

Everyone’s face turned bright red.

“What kind of confidential book is that?”

“If I’m not mistaken, the title is ‘A Secret ** with the Madam ~No Doesn’t Always Mean No~’. The genre of the book is said to be ‘NTR’. Do you all like NTR ² ? I just can’t get myself to like them…”

“Oh, nooo! I don’t like that stuff! What’s with that book called ‘A Secret ** with…’! It’s not a book for kids to look at!”

“Is that so? I thought it was one of those sex guidance books. But I guess the hurdle was still too high for me… Pure love is certainly better than NTR.”

“You’re only fifteen, aren’t you? What a shameful thing for you to speak about things like sex guidance…!”

‘I wonder if there is no sex guidance in the demon country.’

That’s right. My secret dream was to love and be loved and start a family. But I had already given up on that because I knew my bloodline wouldn’t allow me to. Who would want a romantic marriage with an insignificant prince like me?

I was sure that the only people who would approach me to make a connection would be the unthinking ones who were dazzled by my temporary status as a prince, or the ones who wanted to make me their secret plaything. But I guess since I’ve taken after my mother, I was not as good looking as the rest of my siblings; so I was sure no one would reach out to me, not even to make me their secret toy.

“I’ll confiscate that!”

The Demon King held out his hand to me, and I reluctantly handed him the stack of papers. Thinking how unfortunate it was that I could no longer read it to pass the time, I let out a sigh of disappointment, only to get severely scolded by the Demon King telling me that I should never read stuff like that.

“Good grief.” As if exhausted, the Demon King let out a sigh.

I somehow thought it was fun to make the Demon King angry at me, but that’s a secret.

Footnotes

<ol>Japanese sentences have no subject so it’s ambiguous who is being eaten here. Literally means cuckold or cheating.</ol>