Chapter 176 – Funeral (8)

After the funeral, I gathered my strength and rested for a while. It was because we couldn’t fully accept Taffy’s power after making her a servant, and we had to decide our course according to Hero Wolf’s course of action.

Thanks to that, for a while, our family was living a regular life. When we wake up in the morning, we all gather together to have breakfast, and each of us goes about our own business until noon. Sophia or Elena rested next to me when work ended early, and Isabel, who was learning customer-related work, sometimes clung to me whining.

When Rumia wasn’t on duty, she would naturally come as a guest and help her with the housework or have sex with me. Because to her, her day and night were not very important factors in dividing her fortune.

After finishing their work until the evening, they would all gather together to chat or read newspaper articles to predict what would happen in the future. At sunset, Taffy, who had fallen asleep, also got up and quietly joined the conversation.

Sophia said.

“So, Master. Now Millia-sama will actively move. I’m sure he’ll contact the master and show me some action.”

“What action?”

“For example, wouldn’t they suggest cooperation? Master, you have become very strong now.”

Certainly, compared to the days when he prayed to Milia at the academy, it was the difference between heaven and earth. If in the past I was a weak demon who could be beaten even by a passing succubus, now Kelly next to Milia was a strong person capable of beating and raping.

I nodded her head at her words and said.

“It seems so. So what, do I have to wait until Millia calls her?”

“Wouldn’t that be nice? Although our master is strong, we are the smallest in terms of power. Other branch leaders have demon armies. But we have an army, so what? We need to increase our forces a little more now.”

Rumia nodded her head and said.

“Miss Sophia is right. Evan-sama has become stronger, but it is impossible for Evan-sama alone to defeat the ‘army’ of other factions. I think it’s better to strengthen our forces by cooperating with other places now.”

I looked at Rumia. After the priests died in the northern subjugation, Rumia was steadily receiving love calls from inside the church. Elena looked at Rumia and said.

“Even if Priest Lumia occupies a high position in the capital, won’t we be on our side? Evan won’t be able to use it to do bad things like he usually does, but he’ll help you defeat the other demons.”

I shook my head. It wasn’t for personal reasons that I didn’t send Lumia to the capital. During the last subjugation, quite a few priests died, but Alexander supporters still accounted for the absolute majority. As long as they were there, sending her Lumia to her capital would be tantamount to throwing her into the jaws of her tiger.

“Not yet. You have to wait a little longer There are still a lot of Saint Alexander’s gang in the church. In addition, it is unknown whether the middle class will support Lumia. It would be great if there was an incident that would wipe out Alexander’s gang or make the middle class support Rumia unconditionally. There is none.”

“Me. I can kill you.”

Taffy asked. I shook my head and pressed her cheek tightly.

“Taffy. Thank you for your heart. But it’s too dangerous. We don’t have to do anything dangerous. Because the faction at least has an advantageous position.”

Taffy was a good kid who wouldn’t do it if told not to. As I spoke, her eyes twinkled and she nodded. Said Isabelle, looking at the mousetrap.

“How is the thieves guild? Didn’t you say Fabian was the boss there? Now that Fabian was Evan’s friend, how could he have any room for help or side with us?”

The mousetrap shook its head at Isabel’s question.

“I do not know. Since the Thieves Guild itself plays a role close to an agency, I wonder if it will just continue working with the new master.”

“That’s not very good. The Plancia family is still trying to kill me. If you suddenly put another assassination request in the thieves guild, this time more bigwigs than before might come.”

“Certainly there is a possibility.”

The mousetrap didn’t negate my concerns. Isabel looked uneasy at her aloof attitude, and Elena glanced at the mousetrap and said to me,

“Did you get a letter from Alice? Since we finished the hero case last time, can’t we come home now?”

“It looks like you are still busy. Since the letter came last week, there hasn’t been any letter at all. I don’t know what you’re talking about, they say the legal process is very complicated regarding the distribution of the property of the dead Hero family. Are you that busy?”

“You must be busy with legal matters. Even when I was at the home of Plancia, the people who worked in the law always wore dark circles.”

“You shouldn’t scar Alice’s face.”

As I said that, I groped for Alice’s face floating in the air. Pale skin and red hair. Dark circles that add a bit of a tired look to a slightly sharp expression and around the eyes. I tried peeling off the shape I imagined in my head, and I tried to make it gasp while kicking back.

“No, it might not be surprisingly bad.”

“Trash.”

“Devil.”

As if Sofia had been waiting, Elena threw out one word at a time. I cried a lot at Elena’s rubbish comment, and said while rubbing Sophia’s head lightly.

“Hey, what if you use devil as a curse word when you’re also a devil? Use some devilish curse words.”

“Master. There’s no such thing as a demonic curse. Millia-sama also takes ‘garbage’ as an insult, and it’s bad. I mean, he really hated being called a hep.”

I couldn’t imagine Millia swearing. She seemed to be as classy as she looked. I asked Sofia.

“Did Milia also say that she was from the human world? A bit old?”

Sophia nodded her head. According to her explanation, Milia is a type of demon who lived long ago in the human world, then became a demon and lived all the time in the demon world. Did she learn her elegant fashion and cigarettes, which give off a strong sense of luxury, during her human days?

I remembered my memories of being at the academy. Back then, Milia had talked about her love and justice. She’s the devil, but she believes in the old ones, and used to ask me to prove her love.

She was Nana who talked about love and justice, she who said she believed in love and justice, and other demons who were very peculiar in many ways. I pictured her face and her elegant purple hair. I also remembered the faint purple eyes that looked like they were studded with amethyst.

“She was a very strange woman.”

I breathed in as I said that. A faint scent of flowers tickled his nostrils. I sniffed and turned my head. Taffy was looking around her head, and Rumia blinked her eyes and straightened her back.

Isabel and Elena felt a different atmosphere and looked around awkwardly, and the mousetrap naturally stood in front of Isabel and put her hand on her waist. Sophia laughed and said.

“Ah, this… That’s where I felt it a lot.”

“Excuse me-.”

A decadent tone ran through the lobby accompanied by a knock. I couldn’t forget that voice. As soon as I winked, Elena and Isabel ran away with the mousetrap. It was a signal that we had set ourselves in case of an emergency.

Rumia opened the chest of drawers to see if there was holy water, and Sophia looked back and forth between me and the door, demanding my answer.

Taffy, who had been sitting crookedly, got up from her seat and asked.

“Are you going to fight?”

The story of fighting the Pandemonium branch manager Milia so easily came out. I felt her question so reassuring, and I smiled at the memory of her servile bowing in her academy.

“Let’s just listen. What are you talking about?”

It could have been a surprise attack, but he didn’t know Millia’s intentions yet. She told me she believed in words like love and justice. I was using those old words as a motto. Milia had saved me once.

My strength had grown so strong that Milia couldn’t touch her carelessly, and she kept her holy water in the drawer so that she could throw it if necessary.

Therefore, I thought I should try talking to Millia. I said to Taffy.

“Taffy. Just in case. I’m hiding upstairs, and if the guy who comes in now thinks he’s doing something weird, I’ll attack him right away.”

Taffy nodded her head, then rose to become a shadow. Rumia made eye contact with me, nodded her head and stuffed a holy water into her sleeve.

I said to Sofia.

“Sophia. Open the door.”

“Okay-.”

Sophia walked toward the door with a reluctant look on her face. She could hear her breathing out as if she was smoking on the other side of the door. Sophia looked at me again, holding her doorknob.

“Are you really open?”

“Uh. Open it.”

And the door opened.

There stood the same woman she had seen before. Succubus Queen Millia. She rocked her lobby with her leisurely steps in a fancy dress and fur coat. She wiggled her pipe, scanning the ceiling and around the room, looking at me and saying.

“Hi. Evan. Are we really seeing each other after a long time?”

“What’s the matter? He told me to come and see me.”

Milia giggled and laughed after hearing my rude words. And she took another sip of her cigarette.

“Evan. When she was at the academy, she called me Milia-sama, so her charm has disappeared? Has your love grown cold? I’m a little sad…”

She said that and made her cry. The twitching of the corner of her mouth didn’t make her feel real.

“I said I wanted to be a confident man. Milia. Huh? Aren’t servants enough to be cute in front of you? As your husband, I have to show you a strong side. How is it? Are you satisfied with this?”

I winked, showing off my arm muscles. When I said that, Millia tossed her cigarette in the air and laughed.

“As expected, Evan is fun. Well, I didn’t come here to make a deal today, so there’s no need to be so nervous.”

Milia glanced over at me. Blinking her eyes and emitting faint demonic energy, she nodded her head and said.

“There is something I want you to help me with.”