Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 91

"...and that's all we have managed to learn about him" - Aim would have respectfully bowed to his King if he had a head or a neck. However, in the current conversation, where only his mind and pure consciousness existed, such courtesies were impossible. Not to mention that in front of the King, who could see through the mind of Aim through and through - a meaningless gesture.

Usually, after such a report, the King would reply to the Demon King's report with some meaningless words, instructions or comments, something rather useless to be honest. It is at the level of "Hmm, is that so?" or "Is that all you can convey to me?", Or even "I'm disappointed."

That is how the communication of the Demon Kings to their King usually ended like.

So the fact that after hearing what Aim just said with the King not reacting to it at all, made Aim incredibly nervous.

Unlike the thousands and thousands of previous similar reactions, this time the King had remained silent.

Aim, who had died ingloriously just a few hours ago in the Singularity at the hands of Drake's Noble Phantasm and was just revived by the power of his King, after finishing his report and having received no order in return, was forced to simply wait in silence.

An order that, it seems, would not be coming anytime soon from the King.

The unsettling silence was... Unpleasant.

It was like a subordinate who had just delivered an important report to his boss, and instead of being dismissed promptly his boss was silent as he seemed to lose himself in thought. It would leave the subordinate standing uncomfortably in his office, afraid to leave without, afraid to speak as it would break his boss' concentration, instead being forced to wait for an order in discomfort.

This has not happened before.

Aim was old, not as old as the real elders, but he was older than many of the other Demon Kings. And in his entire life, this has never happened before.

A thought, disgusting like some kind of inappropriate joke, slipped into Aim's mind.

Maybe just for a second, but he thought that something bad had happened...

Something that doesn't fit into the King's plan. Preposterous.

It was an impossibility for a simple reason - his King is capable of foreseeing the future.

It was ridiculous to even think that the King who possesses a great mind, a great magi, who is capable of foreseeing the future, would be surprised by something unexpected. It was simply impossible from any logical point of view.

And yet for a pitiful fraction of a second, in the mind of Aim slipped a seditious thought.

Perhaps ... The King was surprised.

"Hmm, I see" - after a second, which seemed to Aim to be infinitely long, the King wiped out that infinitesimally small doubt "I understand."

Aim exhaled, relieved. Yes, the King's reply had instantly cast away from him any shackles of doubt that had touched his mind for a second.

His King was indestructible, invincible, but first of all - he was omniscient. It was impossible to surprise him in any way. Any event that could happen was simply one of the thousands of insignificant events that he had foreseen and studied with the meticulous mind of an infinitely powerful intelligence.

Of course, nothing could surprise his King and nothing could shake his confidence.

Aim believed this with all his sense of self.