Chapter 56

Meanwhile, in the conference room of the broken Demon King’s castle, four generals were gathered together for the first time in two hundred years.

In fact, it was not a conference room, but just a meeting room. It was because everything was already smashed — far from it being a secret meeting — ant-type demons were now working hard back and forth.

“Zanbar, what kind of person was the one that the princess took to the villa?”

The centipede comrade, Roxan, asked as he put his shoes on each of his feet.

“Huh. Crazy guy. That’s why the princess hates you.”

Thinking of Bella, who didn’t like demons having many feet, Belzeb, who didn’t have a single foot, scoffs at him. Of course, that didn’t mean she likes Belzeb, a demon without feet.

Just ten years ago, the generals had similar powers. Still, they were very different now.

Zanbar, who was loved by her, was sitting on a chair as if he was their leader, and the other three were sitting on the floor. If they had to rank Bella’s favorite, he was the first, followed by Belzeb, Roxane, and Talam that didn’t rank any different.

Talam, who has the largest number of troops, was unable to do so, no matter how much he wanted to look good to Bella.

Because he was a cockroach…

“A human kid whom the princess touched while she was in the human realm. If possible, don’t touch him.”

Zanbar sternly warned.

If they touched Kiehl, it was obvious that he didn’t know what Bella would do.

In addition, even though he didn’t want to admit it, Zanbar didn’t want Kiehl to get hurt either.

“The dream demons are talking nonsense, is the princess really trying to keep that person as her companion?”

At those words, he frowned.

“Do not insult the princess.”

“But… For such a blasphemous thing to happen again.”

Blasphemous thing…

It was their last meeting in this conference room. Lucit, who was a respected general, had a love affair with a human, and the son that was born between them entered the demon realm. They coughed as they glanced at Zanbar, the center of the incident.

“Anyway, the Princess’s companion will be one of the four of us.”

“What are you talking about. Of course, it’s me.”

Zanbar firmly stopped them. From generation to generation, the Demon Kings have had one of the generals as their companion, so among the four, he, the most favored, was the most influential… If it wasn’t for that incident two hundred years ago.

“Have you already had an affair with the half-demon?”

“Are you at the center of that blasphemous thing?”

Zanbar folded his arms and stared at the generals with furious eyes. He didn’t even have an excuse. At that time, the ant-type demons passed by, and the stories they were talking to each other came into the ears of the generals.

“Will the princess become like Lucit?”

“Isn’t the atmosphere like that?”

“The dream demons will like it.”

Talam’s eyes twinkled, and he grabbed one of the ants’ shoulders, or the chest maybe.

“Hey. What are you talking about now? What is the atmosphere?”

They roared without noticing.

“The Princess didn’t kill the human and spent the night at the villa!”

Zanbar listened with one ear and flowed through the other. She said she would read a children’s book to Kiehl, so he should have watched the two fell asleep and sleep together once or twice.

“Well, that sort of thing…”

However, the reaction of the rest of the generals, who had not even witnessed such a thing with their own eyes, since the previous Demon King was different.

“Nonsense. With a human…”

“Since she has become an adult, let’s suggest she decide on a companion right now.”

“Great.”

Seeing them like that, Zanbar shook his head.

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Bella only calmed the noisy Iwer and said.

“Go and pack your bags. I don’t know when I will go to the human world.”

“I will go, too!”

Pur, who was next to her, also asked with her eyes wide open. If she said she didn’t take Pur with her, she would have been noisier and more likely to cry than Iwer.

“Yes, my teddy bear. Pack your bags.”

She would say she would take them all with her, then leave Pur out.

‘By the way, Iwer is the same as Pur.’

No matter how much she was the next Demon King, they were demons whose goal in life was only the favor of the demon king.

‘…If we go to the human world, I have to get my heart back and send them to the demon realm, too.’

Bella wanted to leave Iwer, too, but she couldn’t keep her heart in Kiehl’s chest.

After she got everyone out, the villa just got quiet.

“It’s really noisy, and I’m going to die.”

Pur was the only remaining bear tribe. It was because two hundred years ago, due to some kind of incident, the previous Demon King annihilated all the bear tribes, and the only remaining one of them was Pur.

“Pur must have been so excited to see Iwer after a long time.”

And, Pur’s only friend was Iwer.

“By the way, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other too.”

Bella turned her back and turned to Kiehl.

“Oh, my god. You’ve also grown taller. You used to be very small.”

Her expression as she said those words seemed to long for those days.

“Would you like me to be shorter?”

At his words, Bella then sat down next to him and rested her head on his shoulder before answering, “What did you say? Our Kiehl should be tall. Thank you for growing up so well.”

With those words, the two slowly started talking to each other, which they had never been able to talk about before.

“Then, Rio didn’t come with you to the Demon Realm?”

“Yes. I came alone.”

“What about Iwer?”

“Ah, with Iwer.”

Rio was the one who died in the Demon Realm, though Bella didn’t care.

‘Anyway, my role is to lay the foundation for Kiehl, so I did everything I had to do.’

The more she asked, the more curious she was about Kiehl’s life in the Imperial Palace. How could he have been supported without her heart…?

“What kind of person was the emperor? Is he good?”

“He’s not really a trustworthy person.”

“Even you speak very objectively of your father.”

“Even though I was his own child, he sometimes hated me.”

“Why?”

“I do not know. Is it because I don’t have any magic power?”

“Even the current emperor can’t use magic, can’t he?”

“That’s a little funny to doubt that I am of the imperial family when he can’t even use it himself.”

She laid her head on Kiehl’s lap and poked his chin from below.

“Aren’t there a lot of people against you?”

“Why…”

He couldn’t quite figure out why she was lying on his lap so naturally. Nonetheless, he didn’t hate it, so Kiehl pretended not to know and touched Bella’s hair one by one to calm his pounding heart.

“I was worried a lot, but there was not as much contempt for the imperial family as I thought. Perhaps, the current Emperor…”

Couldn’t calm himself down, he turned his gaze away and calmly talked about his life in the Imperial Palace.

“…That’s why people who were against me shut their mouths.”

“That is fortunate. You grew up smart.”

Bella closed her eyes heavily on his lap and then opened them as she listened to him. She had stayed up all night the night before to seal her power, and as she raised the holy sword, it seemed that she used a lot of her power, as if she were tired.

“At first, there were a lot of assassinations, but now there are few. There are many families who swear allegiance, especially the Duchies….”

Kiehl seemed to be talking to himself more and more, so he gazed down slightly. Bella’s lips were slightly apart, and her eyes closed.

“…No way, are you sleeping?”

A small wheezing sound tickled the air in the room.

…He knew she thought of him like family.

Kiehl’s face flushed, and his thumb gently and carefully touched Bella’s lips.

‘This… You’re too defenseless.’

Soft and red lips.

However, Bella was not defenseless. She opened her eyes abruptly at the touch of something touching her, and she stood up quickly.

“Ah! I have to go get the holy sword…!”

Kiehl quickly put his hand behind his back.

‘Haa… you’re driving me crazy.’

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Bella was worried that some stupid demons might attack Kiehl, so she didn’t let go of Kiehl’s hand and headed to the place where the Demon King’s castle was broken. As a child, he always held her hand and looked up at her, though now, she awkwardly had to look up at him.

“I found a way to the human realm.”

“Really?”

She pointed to the holy sword that was still there, and Kiehl slowly went and picked up the holy sword.

“Can’t Bella touch this?”

“Yes. That holy sword was a pretty good sword. Where did you get it from?”

Bella asked clearly. Although seeing Kiehl’s expression slowly hardening, it became more and more icy.

“This is a gift from Bella.”

“Ah…”

When Kiehl saw that, he briefly let out a breath.

“Have you forgotten?”

He couldn’t hide his sadness.

“No, no… I just couldn’t remember.”

“It must have been like what Zanbar said that you picked it up on your way.”

At that time, she remembered that when she gave this holy sword, Zanbar was criticizing her for giving it as a gift, so she said, ‘I picked it up on my way.’

“No. It was never a birthday present.”

Kiehl smirked at Bella as she approached, and he backed away.

“You did it for me.”

“No!”

“I didn’t even know it was such a thing, and I always carried it with me.”

When he spoke bluntly, she couldn’t help but be bewildered.

“Oh, no. Why did I say that? That’s not it…”

As Bella tried to grab his holy sword, Kiehl quickly moved the sword to the other side, “What to do? It’s just something that doesn’t mean much to Bella.”

A calm sadness piled up inside Kiehl’s.

He thought it was okay to just be by her side.

What did it mean by going strategically? What did it mean to coax Bella well so she didn’t get agitated…?

“I…”

Kiehl became more and more speechless. Now, even tears were stabbing inside him like a dagger. Seeing that, Bella came close to him, waving her hand, and pleaded for the injustice.

“No, really. At the time, I didn’t think it was a sword like that.”

Even though she reached out her hand to grab the holy sword, Kiehl’s managed to switch hands.

“I’ll prove it.”

“What are you proving?”

“You’ll know when I touch it.”

“….”

“I didn’t know it because the divine power was so strong that it was different from when I gave it to you before.”

A sigh whispered on the surface of his sadness and blew a little. Kiehl sent the sword behind his back.

“That’s okay. I know this is Bella’s weakness.”

This time, she came closer to him, and she wrapped her arms around his waist and stretched her arms behind his back. When Bella touched him so naturally suddenly, the instinct to withdraw a thousand steps came out.

‘Don’t… Don’t hug me so suddenly.’

When Kiehl raised his sword so high that she couldn’t take it at all, Bella grabbed his shoulder and raised her fingers to grab the holy sword.

“Give it to me. This is unfair.”

In addition…

Bella’s face drew closer, and she gazed up at Kiehl with her rose-red eyes sharply. To the point of being cruel, she sent all Kiehl’s sorrows behind and gave her only one thought.

He just wanted to put his face down on her and touch her mouth.

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