The Selfish Demon King (MewGulf AU)

🌻Chapter 25

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It had been one month since Gulf arrived in the demon world.

The sky never had a cloud in it, and it was blue just like back home. The only thing different was that he never saw the sun.

He had never seen it rain. It was always clear and felt like spring.

The only place he could freely walk alone was in Mew's room and the adjacent garden, which was inaccessible from anywhere else.

He actually was starting to feel at home here. Back in the human world, there was always something that made him feel like a foreigner.

Maybe that's why his desire to go back there wasn't as strong anymore. Gulf wondered if that was because he now understood tha this was his world.

"But there are a lot of things that make me unhappy."

Not being able to walk around freely, for example. Being tied to Mew all the time. Only being able to see his family for one hour a day.

One day after Iruma brought in their tea, Gulf sighed. His brother, Tong, looked at him curiously.

"Don't you miss the human world? You want to go home?"

"Yeah, but I think it's just because that's what I was used to. But I never had any true friends there. Not any close ones."

"Now that you mentioned it, you never brought any friends home."

"Yeah. Because whenever I started to get close to someone, they'd act strange. They'd get possessive. I thought I'd never get treated normally."

"That's because you're an incubus. Even though you were sealed, there was something about you that couldn't be suppressed. Everyone wanted you and wanted to be with you."

"That's what it felt like. I just wanted to be friends, but they always wanted more. It was so hard to make friends."

"You can't help it. Everyone will want to be more than friends with you."

"I remember it was so hard not being able to use our magic when so many people were after you."

"Especially when Gulf started middle school. Incubi start to appeal to others around twelve or thirteen."

"If they live here. But Gulf lived in the human world and was sealed, so I don't think that has anything to do with it. Maybe that was Gulf's first...experience."

"I didn't notice."

"Umm..."

Actually, his first experience was when Mew had forced him after he came to this world, but of course he couldn't say that.

"Hmm? Did I imagine it? The middle school was farther to walk than the high school, right? Lots of suspicious people were around him then. Wouldn't it make sense that it would have been then?"

"Maybe."

"We had such a good time in the human world."

"Yeah, I can't believe the king. Why'd he have to come and ruin it?"

"He probably wanted to leave the demon world when so many people were bothering him about incubi."

"What a pain."

"And because of that, Gulf's locked up here."

"And we can't even touch him."

"It's all because of that selfish Demon King."

"We'd be able to save him if only he wasn't the Demon King."

Gulf frowned at his family's discussion. Of course, he had tons of complaints about Mew, but he didn't think he was that bad.

"Actually, Mew is pretty nice...".

"Gulf?"

"He's selfish and possessive, but he's not really that bad."

His family was silent.

Finally, one of his brothers spoke. "Gulf...do you love the king?"

"Love? N-No...at least...I'm not sure. It's just hard to hate him when he's so nice to me everyday"

It was a habit of Mew to call him cute or adorable. But Gulf could tell he always meant it.

"Well, it's not like I don't understand...he is the Demon King after all."

"He's like a different person in front of Gulf. He's not cold at all."

"Yeah, now that I think about it, he does seem different."

"He looks at us with more malice than he used to. Usually he ignored us, but now it's like he has it in for us."

"I thought things might calm down after a while, but I guess not. He's scary as usual to us."

"I'm happy I'm back home, but I just wish we could spend nore time with Gulf." His father said.

"I want to hold him and kiss his cheek and sleep together!" Tong added.

"I wish I could take a nap on your lap," Gulf lamented.

"He'd kill us."

"Definitely."

They all sighed.

TBC