Demon King Reincarnation - Chapter 8

Chapter 8

“Maru.”

“Yes, here’s a non-vanilla white mocha vanilla cream frappucino! Master!”

“……Maru.”

“Yes, here’s a bean paste rice cake! Master!”

……For some reason Maru knows exactly what I want without me even saying it. And, he always prepares it perfectly for me immediately. Is he psychic?? Is he a psychometrer?? Scary. Even for someone like me, I’m a bit afraid of such a child. Well, it’s fine. Since it’s pretty convenient.

Maru’s quite useful as my servant. He’s become my page. I have no complaints about having something so beautiful by my side. As a gift for the king, I gave him the head of the prime minister from a neighboring country that we had bad relations with. I really enjoyed killing him with my own hands, but it seems that most human nobles aren’t like that.

“Ah, master! It seems that there’s a guest!”

Right after Maru said so, I heard a stomping sound as if a pig was running. Curses! – That person’s arrived.

“Onee-samaaaaa ♥ Onee-samaaa ♥ I’ve just returned to our country, onee-samaa ♥”

The door opened with a bang and a girl with no ladylike qualities about her at all was standing there. She’s not even closing the door, how rude. The person who had arrived was a gothic lolita beauty.

“……Welcome, and thank you for coming, daughter of a viscount, Marie Mariequant-sama.”

“Ahh ♥ Onee-sama, really, you’re so lovely today as well ♥”

This pig girl is the daughter of a viscount, Marie Mariequant.

She’s a beauty with a face that I like, but unfortunately she’s such a pig. I met her around the time that I got engaged to Heath. Or rather than saying I met her, it’s more like she started stalking me. Also, goth lolita doesn’t fit my tastes.

Her disrespect towards me always gets me angry, and I almost brought out my spear so many times, but even so I didn’t move against her in order to keep an aura of great pomp and circumstance about me and have allowed her to stay by my side. After all, there had been such individuals in the demon race as well.

“Onee-sama! It’s the music festival today!”

“That seems to be right.”

“Let’s go to the royal palace together ♥”

While pressing her ample bosom against my face, Marie was making a request of me.

Just like its name suggests, the music festival is a festival for people to enjoy music. It’s mostly sponsored by upper-class nobles that would call out famous musicians to compete against each other.

“……Yeah, let’s go together.”

Because it would be absolutely ridiculous for me to wait for Heath to come and pick me up. Setting the most noble person in the world aside and getting hooked by a little country bumpkin, I don’t know how foolish he could possibly be. Nope, no idea.

When Riley brought us to the royal palace garden, it was already crowded and lively. I could hear beautiful music playing everywhere.

“Onee-sama, did you call a musician here this year?”

“Yes, over there……”

Just as I said so and was about to guide Marie over there, I saw that hateful boy – the third prince, His Highness Heathcliff Akaido. By his side yet again, was that unsophisticated and unfashionable country bumpkin little girl. Today, that country bumpkin was wearing eccentric and gaudy colors in a flower pattern with her first-class bad taste. It’s almost to the point where I want to ask her where she bought it from. Well, it’s probably also because I’ve bought out all the merchants that had good relations with Marquis Rickson.

“Ah! Onee-sama! It’s His Highness Heathcliff! Don’t you have anything to say to him?”

“He seems to be busy talking with another lady, so let’s just enjoy the music for now.”

Even though I said that, I kept paying attention to Heath. He seemed to be rather tired, but just like always, that country bumpkin had such a loud voice and was being an airhead.

“Heathcliff-sama! The music here is wonderful!”

“Ahh, that’s right.”

“Me too! I’m good at singing! Is it alright if I try singing here?”

“Ahh, that’s right.”

Ho. So one of Hendra’s hobbies was singing. So she had something going for her besides her looks. Indeed, Hendra’s voice is just as lovely as that of a little bird’s, if she uses her loud voice for singing, it just might work. If she can satisfy my ears, I might even spare her life and just lock her up in a birdcage.

Hendra moved a few steps away from Heath, and stood with her feet shoulder-width apart. Then she took a deep breath, and began singing.

“—-!”

It may be a bit soon, but…… Let me give my first impression.

“It hurts my ears……!”

That’s what it comes down to. She was so overly off-key for every note that words could not do it justice. Also, she couldn’t vary her pitch, and her voice was useless as she was only loud. Since I’ve been enjoying elegant music up to now, my ears can’t endure this cacophony. My first life’s memory was shouting “Miku disappearance rape.” The nobles all around us and even that dauntless Marie, had all gone silent with their mouths wide agape.

“……Riley is an idiot.”

“Yes, ojou-sama.”

“Silence that toad for me.”

“Ojou-sama, please use peaceful means……! I’ll be more than happy to.”

“Hurry up already, and go! Stop that toad! I’m going deaf!”

In order to not blow my cover as an innocent girl, I can’t take care of this myself. Honestly, I really want to rip out her throat myself! She’s defiling the art of music!

“- Everyone! There’s killer bees! Killer bees are here! Everyone, please escape somehow!”

Riley started shouting loudly. Hendra stopped singing immediately with a “bees!? Nooo!!” and ran away. Good work, Riley. I’ll reward you with some excellent wine later.

Well, just as I was about to begin pretending to escape as well, someone lifted me up from behind.

“Huh?”

When I looked, it was Heath. From behind me I heard Marie exclaim “how romantic!” She really can’t read the situation at all.

“Y, you insolent fellow!”

“It should be natural that I’m helping my fiancee, though?”

“……! ……I’m quite able to escape on my own, Your Highness. Please put me down.”

“Never mind that, just listen to me for the time being.”

“You’re being quite pushy, aren’t you, Your Highness.”

“Ahh. It’s because Rose has been avoiding me.”

He whispered something in my ear that I didn’t understand.

I didn’t understand it, but, Heath carried me just like that under his arm, all the way to the horse carriage.

“Riley.”

“Yes, ojou-sama.”

“Heath is more arrogant than even the Hero.”

“Ojou-sama is quite calm.”

“That may be so.”