Demon King and Hero

Volume 7 Chapter 3

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"Wh-wh-what are you on about!"

At Yuria's shocked words, the Demon King candidly replied,

"But the Chief God aside,  they're the two greatest beings, wouldn't it be right to show them respect?"

"This here is our goddess. She's still the Goddess our empire believes in, so wouldn't it be right to show her due respect?"

Yuria was dumbfounded. The Demon King, sure, since he did this all the time, but was this sly old man really the overbearing Pope that had given her the order to capture the demon king at the very beginning? Maybe, just maybe, when he and the demon king were together, some other group had replaced him with a fake substitute? Was what she was thinking, when Sermir, who had been pouring tea, showed a bitter smile and said,

"Unfortunately, that is the Pope who has the responsibility for conveying my words to the humans."

"Ho ho, unfortunately, what a choice off words! To I, the Goddess' loyal servant!"

"What, you mean you're the one that laid on that blessing?"

With instaneous killing intent the Demon God glared at the Pope. But, his response was swift and effective.

"Everything is according to the goddess."

As he brought his two hands together and mumbled in a reverent voice, the Demon God's bloodthirst turned to Sermir.

"Hwiiiiiing..." (Whining SFX)

Facing that gaze, Sermir could only turn to the Pope with a resentful look, only for him to avoid her gaze.

'H, he sold her out?'

Yuria could feel her mentality crumbling even further. But, her trials were nowhere near over.

"Ho, and you'd be the one who charmed my Demon King?"

"Eh, eh?"

The Demon God's frigid gaze turned from Sermir to Yuria, and she shivered  a little in the face of her killing intent. Trying to appease her, the Demon King said,

"Hm, hm... She's my wife."

"So, it was you!"

Nope, scratch that. Just pouring oil onto the flames.

"Wh, who's your wife!"

"We bought this love nest together!"

"Wha, what love nest!"

"So, the hero is a tsundere..."

"What do you mean, tsundere!"

"Going all tsuntsun... Then again, normally being tsuntsun, makes the deredere even cuter."

"I have no idea what you're sayiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnngg!"

Looking on at those two, Raelle muttered to the Demon God,

"What's with that Demon King... he's scary somehow..."

"I dunno, but same here."

Normally, by now Yuria would have long since pulled out her sword and gone berserk, but in the face of a God, let alone superior gods who could even annihilate other gods, all her titles of 'best warrior in the empire,' 'genius of the sword' were all meaningless.

"We more or less get it. So, hero girl. What did you do to attract my Demon King."

Having finally ceased the seemingly endless argument, with a cold smile, she sipped the tea that Sermir had poured.