Act 3-38.1: Turbulent Everyday Life

    At a certain place in the Demon King’s Palace, which was located in the center of Nargol.

    Modes and Mona were chatting in one of the rooms.

    It was a private chat between the two.

    Modes was sitting on the carpet while Mona was sitting on his lap.

    「My bad, Mona.」

    「It’s not a big deal, dear. I’ll try to fulfill your request as much as possible.」

    Modes heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing Mona’s reply.

    Around this time, Mona’s former royal guard corps, composed of only female knights, were heading toward Kuroki’s place. In this way, Kuroki had gained his first, proper subordinates.

    At first, Modes wanted to use his subordinates from the Chivalric Order of Dark Knights which was composed of men but he then remembered that the Chivalric Order of Dark Knights was still rebuilding their force after nearly being destroyed by the Hero.

    That’s why he couldn’t bring himself to ask Runfeld to send a few of his already scarce subordinates to serve under Kuroki.

    He then considered the other lower ranking demons or orcs, but considering Kuroki’s overwhelming strength, weak subordinates were nothing more than a hindrance for him.

    Thus, he resorted to the last option. He asked Mona how many female knights amongst her subordinates—who were practically uninjured since their main job was protecting Mona—she could assign to work under Kuroki.

    To begin with, Mona would never meet with any danger as long as she stayed in Nargol, and the number of female knights serving under her was huge.

    Thus, Modes knew that it was possible to let go of a few of them for Kuroki.

    But then, he had to get Mona’s permission first.

    Modes had expected that Mona, who didn’t seem to like Kuroki, would refuse such a request, but against his expectation, Mona readily agreed to his request.

    Thus, Modes could heave a sigh of relief.

    「Modes-sama has never made a request after all.」

    Modes laughed. It was a laugh from the bottom of his heart.

    「Nuhuhuhu.」

    Modes hugged Mona with a smile on his face.

    「You mustn’t, Modes-sama… Doing that in this kind of place is…」

    「Nufufufu, It’s okay, don’t worry about it.」

    Just when Modes was about to flirt with Mona.

    Another voice suddenly interrupted them.

    「Your Majesty, Your Majesty. May I disturb you for a moment.」

    The one who called Modes was Loughas.

    Loughas only entered the room after Modes allowed him.

    「What’s the matter, Loughas?」

    「The truth is… Communication from Nut, who was observing the Hero and his party’s movements, has stopped. He might have been caught by them.」

    「WHAT?! Nut, who’s always been doing a great job for this Modes… Got captured.」

    Modes was looking up to the ceiling upon hearing that report.

    「And what’s so important about that, old Loughas? It’s just a rat. Is that rat so important to the point that you need to report it? Leave us now if you have nothing important to report!!」

    Mona spoke with a cold voice.

    「Surely, that’s indeed the case but…」

    Loughas nodded again.

    Nut’s status in Nargol wasn’t that high.

    Thus Mona’s train of thought to abandon Nut was correct, from her position as a ruler.

    But, Modes could never do that to the subordinates who always did their best for him.

    「Loughas. Is it possible for me to save Nut?」

    「Yes. The reason I reported this matter is because I know that Your Majesty will say that. But, the Hero and co are powerful. Your average personnel won’t be able to save him.」

    「Yeah, you’re right.」

    Modes felt the same way.

    But then, there was an answer for this problem.

    「We have no choice but to ask that person, huh…」

    Modes muttered so as the figure of the strongest Dark Knight appeared in his mind.

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    「Fufufu~?」

    Kuna made tea right in front of Kuroki.

    She was humming happily and seemingly in a really good mood right now.

    （Maybe she’s happy since Regena and her clan have finally left.）

    Kuroki smiled wryly upon seeing Kuna’s appearance.

    Regena and co had left for the Holy Republic of Lenaria yesterday.

    Thanks to that, the number of people living in his mansion, which was built right next to the Demon King’s castle, had dwindled. Only the servants who were appointed to serve Kuroki and Kuna from the very beginning, such as the werebear maid, remained.

    The werebear’s appearance was that of a small bear.

    Kuroki never saw her human form, thus he wanted to see her human figure someday.

    The werebear girl wasn’t like Regena and was unfortunately different from Kuna.

    Kuroki remembered the werebear girl drooling non-stop upon seeing Regena and co, as if she saw a feast right in front of her.

    Naturally, she couldn’t eat them.

    Considering that situation, Kuroki was really glad that Regena and her clan had decided to leave Nargol. Because if he had to be honest, Nargol was ill suited for humans.

    But then, Kuroki couldn’t help but feel slightly lonely.

    「How is it, Kuroki? You don’t need Regena since Kuna can make tea for you anytime you want.」

    After pouring the tea into Kuroki’s cup, Kuna stood in front of Kuroki while puffing her chest, looking really proud. But doing so also emphasized her huge breast even further, enhancing her charm by 120%.

    Kuna’s current attire was the maid attire that Regena used to wear. As for how he got his hands on this kind of attire, he had asked a certain dwarven craftsman to make the attire for Regena and the others, thus he got this attire.

    According to the dwarf, the employees of the Hero wore this kind of attire, thus he used the same style for Kuroki’s order.

    By the way, the werebear girl was also wearing maid clothes.

    Naturally, Regena was also taking care of Kuroki in her maid attire.

    For that reason, Kuroki was really troubled about where to look.

    The destructive power of the maid attire was already through the roof when Regena wore it, and that ultimate attire was now worn by the even more charming Kuna.

    Kuna’s breasts were far bigger than Regena’s. That’s why it looked like the chest part of her maid attire was about to explode.

    Kuroki was staring intently toward that particular part, waiting for a certain pair of bountiful breasts to explode from inside the attire..

    「What’s the matter, Kuroki? Are you not going to drink the tea I brewed?」

    Kuna said so while looking at Kuroki with an anxious look on her face.

    （Thanks God Kuna didn’t notice the fact that I was staring at her chest.）

    Kuroki raised the cup in front of him with a smile on his face to hide the fact that he was staring at Kuna’s chest.

    「Well, thanks for the tea, Kuna.」

    Thus, Kuroki drank the tea after he said so.

    The tea was sweet, it was the first time Kuroki tasted that kind of sweetness.

    「How’s the taste, Kuroki?」

    Kuna asked Kuroki while looking at him, as if she expected something.

    「Uhm, it’s delicious. By the way, this is the first time I tasted this kind of sweetness, is it the tea?」

    「Yeah, I got it from Datie.」

    Kuroki almost spurted the tea in his mouth upon hearing Kuna’s reply.

    （Datie… She’s that goblin queen right?）

    Kuroki then looked at the cup in his hand.

    In fact, he had just returned from Karon Kingdom a while ago. The reason why he went to Karon kingdom was to find out Goz’s whereabouts.

    Datie had told him that Goz was locked inside a jail filled with water as punishment for taking out something that was entrusted to her by Modes. In short, Goz wouldn’t be able to chase after Regena again.

    Naturally, Kuroki welcomed the news.

    It’s just that when he spoke with Datie, he got the feeling that she was looking at his crotch so many times.

    Kuroki felt really uncomfortable since she didn’t even try to hide it.