Chapter 2 – Being a Demon Heir 10—Oh, fuck it
The tests are almost always so ridiculous that Baekhyun has trouble understanding the meaning of it. Like what the hell does he learns or gets from going to every single modern art museum across Europe or getting the same goddamn cheeseburger from all the McDonalds outlets in Southeast Asia?
Munching on the last piece of cheeseburger in a McDonalds in Singapore, he rolls his eyes, trying to push down the burger down his throat. He is millimetres close to throwing up from eating only cheeseburgers for the past 2 weeks. He swears that his mouth reeks of onions and his body odour is courtesy pickles.
"Done," he mumbles. Not long after, he hears a ridiculing chuckle and turns to its direction. In the initially empty seat next to him, a small cluster of black smoke slowly appears and takes the form of a black cat. Of which, only Baekhyun can see amongst the crowd of humans.
"Black...don't make me want to throw you into the forest of knives when we get back," Baekhyun says to the cat, or Black as he calls it. (Yeah, Baekhyun was lazy to think up of a name when he first got his companion and almost named it Death but didn't after he got his arm scratched to the point of bleeding a pint of blood. He settled with Black cause obviously, the cat's fur is black.)
"You did before and nothing happened, remember?" Black teases as he jumps from the table to the washing area. "Or are you losing more brain cells by the minute, oh your dear highness, the only heir to the throne?" he continues to mock Baekhyun as he places his paw under the stream of water, causing it to splash on a customer's shirt.
Raising a brow at Black's mediocre prank, Baekhyun scoffs. With the slightest hand gesture in the direction of a female customer carrying her tray of drinks, he causes her to fall. Her seemingly expensive outfit, now soaked. In addition, he manages to cause the guy that became Black's victim to also be affected by the female's drinks.
"Show off," Black hisses before disappearing and leaving Baekhyun shrugging his shoulders. Getting up from his seat, he stretches a bit before exiting the outlet. Just moments after blending into the growing weekend crowd, he vanishes.
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"Welcome home, your highness," says the maid, Joohyun the moment Baekhyun appears in the hallway heading towards his room, announcing his return. As she lightly bows to him with her fox ears down, a butler appears next to her and greets him as well. "Your room is ready for your rest from your travels," explained Sehun, who has his wolf ears moving about from uneasiness.
Baekhyun is close to scolding the young wolf on his lack of stamina but he feels so drunk off cheeseburgers to even think of which speech he should go for in talking with Sehun.
With both hands in the pocket of his sweater, he plainly nods to what the two have told him before questioning them simply, "Time?"
"6 hours, sir. The king changed it right before you returned," Joohyun replied as she straightens herself up and held out a vial containing a clear substance. Before Joohyun could continue talking, Sehun chimes in and told Baekhyun, "It was 3 days before you returned."
Sehun receives a low growl and death glare from Joohyun for adding more fuel into Baekhyun's obvious displeasure at the short time his father decided to place knowing about his return.
"Come and get me when it's time," Baekhyun starkly says before retreating to his room.
The door opens with a flick of a finger and without a moment to spare, he rushes to bed and slams himself into bed face on. His shoes and socks quickly remove themselves as he mentally commands them and a blanket flies out of his bedding closet. But to his discomfort, the blanket did not make its way to his body.
Groaning as he turns around, he sits up on the bed and is presented with a sight awful considering his mood and condition right now. Jongdae, his royal adviser is tangled in his blanket and Chanyeol, his second aide (which he questioned, why would Junmyeon needed an assistant when he already works perfectly by himself) blankly looking at the adviser.
"Just make it quick, I only have a few hours to sleep before it's next week in the human world," Baekhyun bluntly says as he removes the blanket from Jongdae and has it come wrapping his legs.
His right elbow against his right knee and his knuckle supporting his tilted head, he stares at the two with drowsy eyes.
Pushing his thick glasses with a lot of force, Jongdae starts to look over his notes and clears his throat. "Your Highness, you're needed to attend your classes. You've been missing on a lot of classes ever since you when to earth," Jongdae states, where Baekhyun gives him a long hum in return.
"In order to make sure you still remember your lessons, you'll need to come to the left wing's library for your regular understanding exam in the next hour," Jongdae announces. Not even getting to continue his explanation, a large deer head appeared next to him. Its anthers poking Jongdae, making the adviser screech and jump to Chanyeol. The second aide fails to support the adviser's weight and the two fall to the ground.
As they stare at the ever-growing deer head, Baekhyun conjured up a large spear into his left hand. His eyes shut close as he lets out a yawn, he throws the spear and the moment it comes into impact with the deer's left eye, it explodes into tiny sparkles.
The sparkles fade into thin air, except for the few that manages to find their way to the adviser and second aide. The sparkles sticking onto Jongdae and Chanyeol turns into blood, much to the two's horror.
"We'll just come back next month for the test," Chanyeol quickly stands up and begins dragging Jongdae out of the room.
❝ Finally, some goddamn time to rest. ❞
– Byun Baekhyun, the tired demon prince.
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