Chapter 21 – Did I Mention It Earlier?

“Hello?”

-Hello.

What I heard was the familiar demon king’s voice. I thought she was calling and asked when she would come.

“Aren’t you coming soon? If it is later, it leaves a feeling of use in the chicken.”

However, she had to know that the demon king was not the one to call like this.

-I’m Sohee’s mother.

As soon as she heard this, her whole body froze. It was because Mawang’s parents thought she was a woman.

Unknowingly, I straightened her waist and said.

“Yes, Mother.”

In the tense atmosphere, my mother was silent for a while.

-… I’m asking just in case

“Yes.”

-Jihyun, you are a boy, right?

“I am a man, mother. And it’s Jihyun, not Jiheon. No no, it’s Jiheon. My name is Jiheon.”

-Is that so? Then may I ask you one more question?

The questions my mother asked were shocking.

-Is Jiheon dating our Sohee?

The mother’s voice, which I heard for the first time, sounded like a young woman speaking, to the extent that I wondered if she was the devil’s sister. Besides, unlike her who tried to reveal that she was a demon king, her mother was weak and soft-spoken like a rich girl. In that atmosphere, when something came out that she hadn’t thought of at all, her brain couldn’t keep up with it.

“Uh huh?”

-I asked if you were dating Sohee? Are you meeting as lovers? Two people?

“Me, me and the demon king, no Sohee, no senior. The senior is just seeing her as a friend. I am not a lover.”

-Ah! So, are you still at the stage of riding a thumb?

“Yes? No, we’re just friends.”

-Is it so? They gave me the password to my room and slept together in a hospital room where only the two of us were together. So that’s not a romantic relationship, but just close seniors and juniors?

“No, that, the situation at that time, mother.”

-Is my daughter a woman who sleeps with the opposite sex, not in a romantic relationship? Is it like that?

“It’s not like that.”

She was also the Demon King’s mother. She pretended to be kind and delicate, but she spoke quickly and pushed me. I was distracted by her attack and chose the words to say so as not to harm the demon king as much as possible.

Drooling!

“Jim is back!”

Just in time, the demon king opened the door to the hospital room and appeared. She came in with her beautiful silver hair that reached her back, and when she noticed that I was on the phone, she hardened her face.

“Ho, by any chance, are you Jim’s mother?”

She raised her trembling hand and pointed at my phone. When I nodded her head saying yes, she entered the room slowly and silently, unlike before, when she had entered the room noisily.

-Mr. Jiheon?

I forgot to answer for a while because of the Demon King. First of all, I definitely told my mother to clear up this misunderstanding.

“Oh yes, I’m sorry over there. My senior and I are just friends. What my mother knows is the truth, but I don’t have that kind of heart towards my seniors at all.”

-Is that so?

“Yes. We are just friends.”

Took

Suddenly, the demon king stuck out his lips and hit my leg. It wasn’t so bad that it hurt, but it was enough to get my attention.

She looked at her and asked with her mouth without making a sound.

Why?

… Took

She pursed her lips and gave me a disgruntled look, then hit me again with her fist.

It wasn’t the first time the demon king had done something stupid, but this didn’t make any more sense. She kept her strange behavior behind her, and focused on her demon lord and her mother on the phone.

-Is it so? Are you just friends? Did you misunderstand everything that happened?

“Yes. We are just friends.”

Munching

Suddenly, the demon king started eating the chicken first. When he saw me, he told me to wait. Besides, he held the chicken leg in both hands and ate each bite in turn.

As I was looking at her like that with her eyes wide open, her mother said.

-All right. So you can think of them as friends now, right?

“No, that… “

– I’m sorry I couldn’t go to the hospital. I’m busy with work right now. Besides, her husband has no reason to go on a business trip.

“Oh, that’s fine.”

– When you get discharged later, let’s have dinner together. Okay?

“Yes?”

-Then I wish you a speedy recovery.

Pop

Saying that, the phone hung up. When I put down my phone and looked at it absurdly, the demon king asked in a sharp tone.

“Why? Did your mother quit?”

Contrary to what she used to say with her eyes shining, now she lowered her voice and revealed the most unpleasant things.

“What’s wrong, what’s wrong?”

“It is nothing.”

“Then why are you eating both chicken legs?”

“… “

The Demon King turned his head to me. Apparently, he didn’t want to see my face either. Fascinated by such behavior, he looked at me sideways and asked.

“… Isn’t Jim just a friend to you?”

“Yes.”

What you just said was wrong. Instead of letting go of his anger, the demon king put down his leg bones and picked up his wings.

It seemed that he didn’t like being friends.

“But we are not ordinary friends.”

Stop.

The hand holding the wing stopped. I looked at it and wondered if this was the answer.

“Because it’s a former hero and a reincarnated demon king.”

Chun-Crunch!

He gobbled up a piece of chicken in an instant, then reached for another part.

“No no no! We jumped over it! Huh!”

“Then what?”

“Uh, um, best friend?”

“… “

The demon king thought deeply and picked up the other part of the wing. But he didn’t eat it, and held it out to me.

“I will be content with that for now. Eat this.”

It was still a vague word. However, he was fortunate to have saved even one wing, and accepted the piece. I put down her phone and ate the wings I had barely saved, thinking about what she had hoped for.

It seems like you wanted more than just friends, but did you really want to be in a relationship? Ay no way can it be

The Demon King’s appearance was so beautiful that I wondered if it was a doll. Their hair as small as a fist, their pretty and elaborate features, each boasted their charms, and the mysterious silver hair added a mysterious charm. Of course, his behavior was a bit strange, but many handsome men would have approached him. However, there was no way I liked it on an ordinary day.

Thinking about that, I tried to bend his wing bones, and the demon king said.

“By the way.”

“What.”

“What did Jim’s mother say?”

“You said you wanted to eat together.”

Suddenly, a question arose here. How did my mother get my phone number? No way,

“Did you give me my number?”

“Oh, it can’t be helped. Jim is not an unfilial man who rejects his mother’s request.”

“Then you don’t have to tell me. He gave me my number. So, is it your mother who called when you went out into the hallway earlier? Did you ask me to tell you then?”

“Yes. And your phone was turned off. So I thought it would be okay.”

“And you said I was a man there?”

“Mother saw the news. Don’t you hate being mistaken for a hype?”

“That’s by the way. Oh, what should I do? He said that we should eat together.”

“I’m glad though. You might kill your father, but you might not kill your mother.”

I’m not saying it won’t kill.

“By the way, honey.”

The Demon King tried to change the subject. I’m sorry I made her feel bad, so she deliberately pretended not to notice her.

“Don’t you have a plan?”

“Yes.”

“Is there a part that needs glass? I think you can do it all by yourself.”

“So you said. It is not required.”

“Then where would you use it?”

“You have to put it on the hype. Look at his reaction.”

“Well, you are right. He must be very scared by now.”

The demon king was right. In the first place, the exaggerated lie was quickly exposed. At that time, there were many people watching besides us, and the CCTV also properly recorded me defeating the bully. But I’m still, and I also have a file recording his nature. He would be terrified of when I would spread this.

I couldn’t help laughing when I said that.

“Oh, how scared he must have been. I wanted to know even if I couldn’t see it myself.”

“… As expected, you are disqualified as a hero.”

“Shut up. You are laughing too.”

“Isn’t Jim the Demon King?”

“Sheesh.”

The two of us laughed and started eating chicken, but the demon king suddenly screamed.

“Ah!”

“It’s a surprise! Why?”

“The man named Jim forgot this!”

The demon king wiped the chicken grease from his hands with the tissue inside the plastic bag. Then he took something out of the bag he had brought here yesterday.

“If you think of chicken, this is it!”

What he brought out so confidently was the canned beer he showed me yesterday.

No, beer goes well with chicken. Are you drinking during the day? I heard that drinking during the day is more intoxicating than drinking at night?

I asked with such doubt and absurdity.

“Are you okay? This time?”

“It’s okay. To Jim, beer is like water.”

“How much do you drink?”

“I haven’t counted since 4 bottles of soju.”

“You don’t have any memories after the 4th bottle?”

“What do you view luggage as, or as water?”

“Done. Just drink, drink.”

I decided to skip the strange pun. Besides, even if the beer was 500 ml, I thought it would be okay as long as I wasn’t very weak to alcohol.

Pucak!

As soon as I said to drink, the demon king opened the can with oiled hands. He held the chicken in one hand and the can in the other, and ate the chicken. He chewed the chicken with greasy lips pursed, then drank beer.

She, who had been drinking lukewarm beer in her bag since yesterday, was drinking it as cool as in the advertisement, and shouted as she lowered her can.

“Gulp gulp, kyaa! I love this taste! Uhahaha, kkeok, haha!”

Eating was almost like a bandit. Besides, laughing and glossing over burping. He showed me this, but there was no way he would see me as the opposite sex.

Her smile, revealing her teeth with pieces of meat, strangely reminded me of her sleeping this morning. She thought then that her tiny front teeth, showing through her tiny pink lips, were cute.

Only now, I wondered why the Demon King was sleeping in the same bed as me. It was actually something she should have asked as soon as she opened her eyes, but she forgot because her nurse sister and Yuri were coming.

“Hey.”

“Hmm? Why?”

“Why were you sleeping in my bed? While eating and brushing my teeth.”

“Ah, is that what you mean? Didn’t I tell you earlier?”

So she said, biting off her chicken. After the demon king swallowed everything, he continued her words.

“You were sleeping so well. Would Jim not see that?”

“What?”

“Mmmm, gulp.”

The demon king refused to answer while drinking beer.