Chapter 192 – Stimulus #2

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[What are you doing?]

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[Are you resting?]

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Seeing Adele express her feelings for me with only emoticons, I burst into laughter and drove to a deserted place.
This is because Marcella has called to see her urgently.
After I got out of the car and waited for a few minutes, the portal opened and Marcella appeared.
With a very serious expression on her face, she greeted me politely and told me about her business.

“I stopped by the Demon Realm yesterday… Amon, who is waiting for an order over there, and other monsters, led by him, are showing suspicious movements.”

“A suspicious move?”

“I am forming a group with other monsters and building friendships. I am afraid of thinking bad thoughts.”

Demons also make friends with each other.
I have breeding activities, I have family, and I have friends.
Originally, it would not be considered strange.
But Amon is a lone wolf style.
A top level monster who is reticent and likes to spend time alone.
A guy like that forms a group with other monsters and builds friendship?
It’s definitely winning, but…

“I am the Demon King.”

I don’t think the monsters tied to my name will betray me.
Marcella, who grasped the meaning of her short sentence, obediently agreed.

“Yes that’s right. Demon King is the king of demons.”

“That said, I would like to hear your opinion.”

I trust Marcella.
As much as her intuition works, she sees no harm in listening to her opinions and formulating her plans.
Marcella, who was pleased with my words, twitched her tail and thought about something of hers for a moment.
Then she opened her mouth.

“Currently, the Demon King is in a state where he has tightly hidden his demonic energy. It’s no exaggeration to say that they were completely sealed because they were afraid that Adaline would find out. I am worried that this may have weakened the power of the name Demon King. What if…”

Marcella swallowed her saliva.
Afraid to talk behind your back.
I gave her what she wanted to say.

“If we continue to be human like this, the influence will disappear and the monsters will rebel, right?”

“Yes… I think the possibility is good enough.”

“Right.”

It was definitely a point.
It was the same with the monsters who had been unusually anxious recently, and suddenly this movement was caught… It seemed to be true that my influence had faded.
I asked while crossing my arms and formulating several hypotheses.

“Marcella, how are you feeling right now?”

“Yes…? What is my heart?”

“Is your loyalty strong? Has anything changed?”

“I am always strong. I will never turn my back on the Demon King.”

Well, even though I died, Marcella is faithful enough to revive me five times, and now she has given me the affection I hadn’t given before.
Rather, it would have risen if loyalty had increased, but there would be no possibility of betrayal at all.
Just bringing up such a sensitive issue gives Marcella credit.

“Who are the monsters gathered?”

“Amon, Orbas, this is Garp.”

All of them possessed the best abilities and were excellent monsters with great ambitions.
Amon has a formidable hypnotic ability, Orvas is very resourceful and has a legion, and Guff stimulates the violence around him and makes him go mad.
According to the grade I decided, they are all S ranks.
Even if only one of them gets out of control, it will cause tremendous damage to the Demon Realm.

“If they rebel, they’re the perfect people to shake up the Pandemonium. I don’t think it’s cunning.”

“Yes…”

“Do you really think that friendship through boring everyday life is not?”

“Amon has been alone for hundreds of years. This alone is the answer. He’s plotting something. He must bestow eternal rest.”

“It’s a waste to beat them out with just heartache. I guess I’ll have to check with Malphas.”

At that, Marcella flinched.

“Eh, to Malphas…?”

“It’s a shady guy, but there’s no monster like him to find out the truth.”

“That’s true… But it will take a price… And that’s an unacceptable price…”

“Stop. If you can’t confirm it, don’t worry, you can sell your feet. Has Yuria’s bow been completed?”

“It’s done. Yuria-nim was very satisfied.”

“If not, I will have to go out for a drink. Contact Sehwa and Yuria.”

“Yes, Demon King.”

Marcella immediately disappeared through the portal.
Letting out her sigh, I stood still for a moment and looked around.
It wasn’t to appreciate the scenery, but to blow away the demonic energy from the portal that would have been buried in my body.
After spending enough time like that, I got into the car and looked at my phone.

[You just ignored my message again!]

Talk from an angry Adele.
I was fed up and tried to send a reply, but I suddenly had this thought.
What if Adele’s divine power had unknowingly dug into my inner self and erased all of my demonic energy, rather than my influence fading while I was still human?
When I recalled the strange feeling I had felt the other day, and what Marcella had said had harmed me, this too was quite possible.

‘Let’s check first.’

Yes, check first.
After thinking, I tapped my phone.

[I didn’t know how to reply. Because you only send emoticons.]

[You can also send an emoticon to Jihyeok!]

[Can we have a conversation with that?]

[(-᷅_-᷄)]

[I’ll think about it. I arrived home, can I rest?]

[I know. I want to rest too. I will sleep.]

Please sleep When you sleep, I feel comfortable.

[Have a sweet dream, Adele.]

[Mr. Jihyeok too. (๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)]

**

Back at home, my eyes widened.
Because there was so much food waiting for me that the table top was bent.
The doctor with a bright smile greets me as I slowly head towards the kitchen.

“I’m here?”

“What the hell is this?”

“You said congratulations. I’ve been feeling a little better with food. Wash your hands immediately.”

After washing my hands with a bewildered expression and sitting down, the doctor scoops up warm rice and puts it in front of me.
After that, he sits across from me and smiles at me.
To be able to act pretty like this… He’s become a wise mother too.
I happily raised the spoon.

After dinner, we washed the dishes together.
Wearing rubber gloves, they smeared pom-poms on each other’s faces, or if they were bored, they bumped their lips to express affection.
After washing the dishes, I sat on the sofa and passed the time.
No one talked about children.
I just clung to it like usual and watched a comedy movie.

Then, when the middle of the movie passed…
The doctor suddenly jumped on top of me.
I casually patted the doctor’s butt.
Then the doctor speaks in a tearful tone.

“Today was really hard. To the point where I seriously thought about whether working at the hospital was a dream, and whether I had heard it wrong.”

“It doesn’t matter… I told you to contact me right away if something happens. Now let’s get into the lab’s medical equipment.”

“It’s not that schizophrenia has developed, it’s that I’m happy.”

“Okay?”

“Yes…”

As I tuned in to the doctor, I examined her face.
She thought that if the child had demonic energy, the doctor would also be affected.
First of all, the iris is fine, and the pupil is round.
The skin was fair, but not pale. It was the original skin color of the doctor.
It’s normal, but you have to watch the progress.
Because the fetus hadn’t even been made of its body parts yet.

“What’s the matter?”

The puzzled doctor’s question.
I laughed awkwardly and let out a short sigh.

“Never mind. I’m happy, but I’m sorry I ran out of seconds… I’m on a business trip. It’s important.”

“Business trip?”

The doctor’s voice was low.
Crinkling her eyebrows, she argues.

“Your name is the president, but aren’t you on business trips too often? You can do it if you have someone below you.”

“Who is below?”

“The person you trust the most in the company. The executive director I talked about last time, or the kid who said he was kind…”

“Aram?”

“Yeah, he.”

“Aram does a good job. But your sister knows. The important thing is that I take care of it myself.”

“Even so…”

I moved the disapproving doctor aside and comforted him.
As the doctor puts her hand inside her t-shirt and starts rubbing her belly gently, she puts on a languid expression, as if she has calmed down a bit.

“It’s an opportunity to grow the company even bigger.”

“You’re already big… Is there any reason to work that far?”

“Desire is a constant. Especially when it comes to things like power and money. That’s what being human is And now that there are two more beast slayers… No, three more, we need a lot of money because we need to make the lab run smoothly. Understand me.”

The doctor’s complexion changed.
A face that seems to have decided on something. She nodded her head.

“I see.”

Great. The urgent fire has been put out… Now I have to put out the fire that is about to break out in the Demon Realm.

**

I had a good feeling about the demon realm I hadn’t visited in a long time.
From the unpleasant air that stings your whole body to the dull sky… It’s very good.
On either side of me sitting on the throne in the throne room of the throne room of the Devil’s Castle, Leona and Yuria were holding scythes and bows.

Transformed into Evil Valkyrie, Leona was squirming around her body as if she wanted to wield her scythe at any moment.
On the other hand, Yuria was staring at one place with her melancholy eyes.
She wants to visit Meryl, who lives in the mountain next to the annex in that direction.
I’ll have to bring it to you once you’ve taken care of this.

The demon realm was very quiet.
All the monsters were holding their breath because I was showing off that I was not in a good mood.
I didn’t even say anything after putting them together separately, but if the whole demon realm noticed my energy and stayed calm, I don’t think my demonic energy has faded…
As I rested my arm on the armrest of the throne, I opened the portal while thinking about this and that.

Wow-!

The monster that came out of it was Malphas, a humanoid monster with dark skin all over the body.
This guy, who looks like an old hunchbacked man dying, is a very unusual monster.
His physical abilities are trash, and his outward demonic abilities are also not very good.
If it appears on Earth, it only exudes weak demons that can’t escape the F-class.

But it’s different when he uses his abilities.
It emits a tremendous amount of demonic energy to the point of jumping to S-class at once.
Malphas’ ability is wish fulfillment.
If you say your wish, Malpas will ask for a price, and that price must be paid by both the demon lord and the F-class monster.
It is said that there is no such thing as special treatment.

The wish and the price are made in the form of an unequal exchange in which one party has no choice but to suffer a loss, not an equivalent exchange with equal value.
The one who suffers the loss is the one who made a wish. Malpas never asks for a price unfavorable to himself.
There is no wish he cannot grant.
If the wish ends in failure, it means that the client’s price was insufficient.

I said as I watched him rubbing his hands together.

“Malpas.”

“Yes, Demon King. Please tell me.”

A shrill, unpleasant voice.
Leona and Yuria slightly wrinkled their brows, but they stayed still because they were seated.
After organizing my thoughts, I went straight to the main topic.

“I have to ask you.”

At those words, Malphas trembled.

“Are you saying you’re making a request? The Demon King…?”

“It looks like you’ve eaten your ears. I heard you right.”

“Heul heul… It’s something to live for a long time. It looks like you’ve found some entertainment. However…”

“Know. That your ability will only come true if the requester pays the price unconditionally.”

“It is so. If not, please tell me. What do you wish for?”

“Is Amon trying to rebel?”

“Amon… Amon, the oldest and highest ranked monster in the Pandemonium, is rebelling… An interesting request…”

Malphas’ dark eyes closed.
It means you are hitting the abacus. After a moment of silence, the boy’s eyes widened.

“The price is one arm of the Demon King.”

One arm? Is that the devil’s arm?
This fucking swindler…