“Demon King, you really just let her go like that?
Doing this is like releasing a tiger back into the mountains—there’ll be no end to the trouble later!
What if she gets stronger in the future and comes back to harm you? What then?”
“Are you really treating her as your sister?”
“This doesn’t seem good at all, Demon King. You shouldn’t have thoughts like that toward humans. All humans are bad seeds—none of them are any good!!!”
Desolate Fire chattered nonstop in Via’s ear, talking like a machine gun firing spells. It was incredibly annoying.
“Desolate Fire.”
“Hm? Demon King, you’re finally willing to acknowledge me!” Desolate Fire spun a circle around Via, looking very happy. “Do you have any orders for me?”
“Shut up.”
Desolate Fire looked heartbroken.
“How can you say that to me? Even if the whole world betrays you, I won’t! I’m your one and only Legendary weapon. Facing such a loyal demonic blade, are you really willing to say such hurtful words?
If you just said two fewer sentences, my opinion of you would be much higher.”
“I’m just concerned about you!”
“Enough. Don’t mention Sophie’s matter in front of me anymore. I’ve already reached the Desolate Fallen Continent. I won’t meet her again in the future.”
Via had already crossed the Yamar River and entered the demonkin territory—the Desolate Fallen Continent.
She planned to put Sophie’s matter behind her and stop letting human affairs affect her.
“What we should focus on now is our future actions, not endlessly discussing the situation on the human side.”
“Meow meow meow!”
The little yellow cat on Via’s head cried out, seemingly agreeing with her words.
“See that? Desolate Fire, even the little kitty is more sensible than you.”
Via stroked Little Ha’s head. “Little Ha knows not to dwell too much on the past. We should be looking toward the future now!”
Desolate Fire felt like there was something off about this little yellow cat, but she couldn’t detect any abnormality.
Maybe she was overthinking it.
“Fine, Demon King, you’re right. We should indeed consider our next steps. Your food supplies are almost gone, right? Also, the Demon King Armament’s energy should have been completely depleted in the previous battle, shouldn’t it?”
“As for the Demon King Armament…”
Via glanced at her armlet.
“The Demon King Armament no longer has enough energy to support combat.”
“Your current strength is Gold-rank…”
“It’s Diamond-rank now.” Via corrected Desolate Fire.
“Diamond-rank?” Desolate Fire was a bit surprised. “Your strength improved again?”
“Yeah, that battle let me break through my limits and reach Diamond-rank.”
Before fighting Sophie, Via had already been at the peak of Gold-rank, very close to Diamond-rank.
Breaking through during battle was quite normal.
“You’re quite close to the Transcendent tier too!”
Desolate Fire had been a little expectant, but she immediately sighed.
“Ah!”
“What’s wrong?” Via asked, puzzled.
“That’s true, but you haven’t even reached Transcendent tier yet. Aren’t you still just a small fry? I remember your maids are all Transcendent tier. As the Demon King, you’re not even as strong as your own maids.” Desolate Fire’s words were still quite biting.
“This… is only temporary. I’ll reach the Transcendent tier soon!” Via felt a bit uncomfortable inside.
“With your current strength, moving around in the dangerous Desolate Fallen Continent will be extremely difficult. Forget rising again—you might get kicked to death by the roadside before you’re halfway there.”
Desolate Fire pointed out the cold truth.
“You can only rely on the Demon King Armament now. Without it, you’re just a small-fry Demon King.”
“Pfft.”
Desolate Fire couldn’t hold back her laughter.
“It’s fine. Even though the Demon King is a small fry right now, small fries are cute too. I won’t look down on a small-fry Demon King—”
“System, activate silent mode on the demonic blade!!?”
Via panicked. She raised her armlet and shouted.
“Received. Silent mode for the demonic blade has been activated.”
After the Demon King Armament responded, it ignored Desolate Fire’s protests. This chatty Legendary weapon finally shut up.
“Meow meow?” Little Ha seemed to be asking Via what to do next.
“Hmm…”
Via was thinking. She felt that what Desolate Fire said actually had some truth to it.
After returning to the Desolate Fallen Continent, trying to rise again on her own definitely wouldn’t work.
She needed to find a way to get help first.
Giggle giggle giggle…
In a dimly lit room, a demonkin girl with long green hair was wearing loose, baggy pajamas. She lay lazily on the bed, reading a comic in her hands while popping potato chips into her mouth.
Clothes and socks were scattered everywhere. Neither the bed nor the floor had been tidied at all. The whole room screamed “do whatever you want.”
Thump!
Just as the girl reached an exciting part, the room door was pushed open.
She looked up and saw a demonkin maid in a maid outfit with curly twin-tails standing at the doorway.
“Melu, you’re reading comics again?” Kurei frowned.
“Mm-hmm.”
Melu opened a bag of jelly, but before she could take it out, Kurei snatched it away.
“Can you stop slacking off? All day long you just hide at home eating snacks and reading comics. How many years has this been going on?!”
Kurei held up the jelly.
“Look at this. What does it say?”
Melu stood up on the bed and puffed out her chest.
On her pajamas, several large words were written: “NOT! WORKING!”
“You’re even my senior! You used to be the head maid of the Demon King’s Castle just like me, but now you’re still considered my senior! Where’s even a trace of your old self? You’re so sloppy it’s ridiculous.”
Kurei was very dissatisfied.
“That’s different, Kurei. The Demon King is dead.”
Melu snatched the jelly back, tore open the packaging, put it in her mouth, and replied in a muffled voice:
“Since the Demon King is dead, there’s no need for me to work.”
“The Demon King isn’t dead.”
“Hm? You said the Demon King isn’t dead, that he revived.”
Melu looked completely unconcerned.
“I mean, Kurei, I know you worship the Demon King. I also think the Demon King is quite admirable, but the dead can’t come back to life. Fantasizing is useless!”
“The Demon King really isn’t dead!”
“Go ahead and fool yourself, but don’t drag your sister into it too.”
Kurei narrowed her eyes, looking unconvinced.
She had told Melu long ago that the Demon King had returned and that Melu should prepare herself, straighten up her attitude, and be ready to welcome the Demon King’s return at any time.
But after some time had passed, Melu was still acting like this, slacking off at home every day.
How could her former senior have fallen so low?
don’t think this is the correct chapter that was uploaded