The Demon King's Paladin Part 1 Vol 2.

Chapter 310. Bringing Dolls To Life

" Please, stop, you're a Marquess! You shouldn't be doing this!"

" Relax, I'm doing it because I want to, Patrick. Would you feel better if I command you to let me do it?"

" Dad, just give up, we can't stop him anyways. If you're worried about Mom and Kim, they haven't even been to the living room at all since yesterday. They won't even notice the glass being cleaned up."

" See. Victor gets it, besides, what else would I do? Sit on the couch? Wait at the dining table? I may as well do some sweeping up while I wait."

Patrick grimaced and flinched at my words, but he seemed to accept my thinking. It's only been around 5 minutes since the girls went into Ms. Victoria's room. I figured I'd have some time, so I've been sweeping up the glass all around the living room and putting it into a dustpan from the kitchen, despite Patrick's protests. It was quite a nice house now that the glass was gone. Nice hardwood floors and comfortable looking furniture around a nice-sized fireplace. Now that I was finished with the glass, I guess I could go for the dust around the place. I obviously picked up some of it with the glass, but there's always more dust sitting somewhere in a house. Well, before that, I have to dump this glass I have in this dustpan into the trash.

/Cling./

With that done, I felt a lot better about sitting down now, but I feel like sweeping up the dust as well.

" Matthew, they're ready now."

Princess Alice called for me before I could start working on the dust that had built up in the kitchen. I placed the broom and dustpan back in the kitchen where I found them and then proceeded to the hallway where the girls had gone. Princess Alice was waiting with the door open for me. Patrick and Victor were right behind me as I walked.

" How bad are they?"

Alice thought for a moment and eventually found the words she was looking for.

" It's like there's life, but it's buried deep inside. I've never seen anything like this before. The Mo- Ms. Victoria is worse than her daughter, but they both aren't speaking to us. Kim did do as we asked though, but Ms. Victoria, we had to lift her out of bed to get her to change."

" I see. I'm going to need to fix that first it seems."

" How are you going to do that?"

" I'm going to start with telling the truth, if not that, there's an experiment I could try, but I have no idea if it'll work. Worse comes to worst, we'll have to take this slowly to get them to speak to us."

" Okay."

With our quick chat finished we walked into the room. Once we were in the room, I took a look around to see that it was a simple looking master bedroom with a bed that would put a king-sized bed from my world to shame. Most of the beds I've seen in Diablos were like that, the shortest fully grown adult Demons I've run into are around 7 feet tall, it also turns out that Demons quite enjoy being able to spread out while going to sleep, to accommodate that, most beds are gigantic by Human standards, I've only ever seen beds like this in celebrity house videos back in my world. What made this bed in particular special was the fact that Ms. Victoria and her daughter Kim were sitting up on the bed like 2 dolls on a shelf. They looked like their strings were cut and they were just sitting there, not even reacting to the strange man who entered their room... Not even the fact I was Human seemed to resonate with them. Sarah and Anna were currently sitting next to the bed in wooden chairs looking at me for my reaction to what I see. I can't imagine the puzzled look on my face offered the answers that they wanted.

" They've been like this the entire time."

Sarah explained what Princess Alice had already told me, I looked at the bed again, I noticed that Victora and Kim were put into 2-piece pajamas that didn't seem to fit quite well, I wondered why that was?