17. First Meeting
Dullahan finally returned home and slowly loosened his clothes, organizing the events from the banquet in his mind.
"After all, hasn't Karl shown up?"
"Securing cooperation from Chris as planned is good······ but not having Karl is somewhat bothersome."
"Even though it's only been three days since my regression, Karl's actions as the original protagonist have already changed."
"He hasn't shown up at the academy either······ and he didn't participate in this banquet."
"Clearly, on the first day of regression, he said he met the guy, right? Was there anything particularly unusual?"
"......? Even if you say that, I don't know how the hero usually is? If you're curious, why don't you go find him yourself?"
"Going to find him directly······ surely that method is the most efficient and effective. Just ask why he's acting differently from before."
"Directly, go and ask······ well, that would be the most certain······ but, Pelican."
"Why is it, Master?"
Thinking about Karl's behavior, I noticed Pelican peeking at my naked body while undressing, and said to her in a cold voice.
"Are you saying a faithful slave can peek at the master's naked body?"
"Oh my, Master is so cute. Are you embarrassed?"
"I just find it irritating that my body gets dirtied by your lewd gaze. Take your eyes off me right now."
"Hmm~~ Sometimes······ no, it seems Master has some cute sides too. So cute I want to eat you up······ haeng!"
"······ Get out!!"
At the same time as commanding Pelican who was staring lewdly, the mark on her chest began to emit red light.
Soon, she started feeling pain from the slave mark, but instead looked at herself with even stickier eyes.
My expression became more distorted, and finally, to prevent her from peeking, I closed the door, ending the situation.
"Haeng······ Master···!"
"Why are you making such lewd moans while feeling pain······ crazy woman."
Dullahan said that and started pondering how to deal with this crazy pervert slave who enjoys pain in front of his door.
"Haa······ the pain mark doesn't seem to have much effect······ is there no other way?"
From Dullahan's perspective, Pelican had become not the infamous demon who brought the empire to ruin, but just a perverted slave.
Dullahan, who didn't even know that she had performed the most horrific revenge on Dia without him knowing, just looked at the door with cold eyes where the moans were coming from.
As the time of torment from Karl to Pelican passed, suddenly sounds came from outside.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
A violent knocking that sounded like it would break the door.
Hearing that, I stopped thinking and slowly left the room.
"Haeng······ Master?"
"Who is it that came now······ who is it?"
"Ah, that? Probably a thief cat······ no, the black magic woman······ haeng!"
"······ Chris came?"
Hearing Pelican's words with a lewd expression while rolling her body, I hurried to the door and opened it.
"Hello······ Dullahan-nim."
When I opened the door, there was Chris standing with a tense expression, as Pelican said, and seeing that, I slowly gestured to her.
"······ You didn't tell me, yet you came so quickly. Come in for now."
"Yes······ yes······ eh?"
Chris, entering my house with a full face of tension, was startled when she saw the unspoken scene and looked at herself.
"Who is that woman······?"
The scene she saw was none other than the perverted slave still lying on the floor making moans.
"Ah, that woman, you mean?"
And answering Chris's question, since I had nothing more to hide, I naturally spoke.
"A demon."
"··· What? That?"
"Even if you look at this appearance, you wouldn't believe it······ surprisingly, the one who healed you just now was that woman."
Chris, hearing my words, was in a state of shock that couldn't be hidden, her face showing disbelief.
"Wearing a maid outfit······ isn't she just a slave······?"
"There's something I didn't explain······ unintentionally, the demon became my slave."
"··· What?"
"You don't understand? It couldn't be helped······ I don't understand either."
I was somewhat adapted to treating Pelican as a slave now, but I still didn't understand why she became my slave.
······ and choosing to do such perverted things was even more incomprehensible.
Thinking that, I slowly turned my gaze to Chris who was startled by seeing the demon's appearance, trying to calm her.
But she showed a behavior different from what I expected.
It was that she was frowning at the demon lying on the floor, clenching her fists as if angry.
'······ Why is she suddenly angry? Even if she looks like this, the one who healed your eyes is that woman?'
Of course, Dullahan thought Chris would be startled that the Pelican who healed his eyes was in such a mess.
······ But, what kind of situation is this. Even if I don't know why······ clearly, Chris's behavior towards Pelican was clear hostility.
And Pelican, noticing her gaze, was looking at Chris with a dull expression while soaked in moans.
"Looking at me with the eyes I healed······ it feels a bit dirty. Relax your expression?"
"Who told you to heal? It's all because Dullahan-nim ordered it."
"······ Why are you two fighting the moment you meet?"
From the two women staring at each other like enemies, I said with an incredulous expression while watching their eye battle.
Then suddenly Chris grabbed one of her hands, gestured to the suddenly standing Pelican, and said.
"The slave is quite arrogant. To dare speak to the 'alliance' that shares the master's will."
"··· Ha, what are you saying? How can you forget that you were healed by me in just a day? What happened to that woman's head?"
"No, stop fighting and listen······"
"The one I should thank is Dullahan-nim who showed mercy to me, and you are just Dullahan-nim's 'tool'. How can a person thank a thing?"
"Then you······ are just a relationship that can be manipulated according to Master's will at any time? Meanwhile, I······ am in a 'one-of-a-kind' master-slave relationship connected by 'contract'?"
"······ I'll be gone for a moment, you two fight. I'll be thinking about the plans ahead."
Finally giving up on stopping the two women's argument, Dullahan left the door with a relieved expression.
The women who had been arguing intensely approached him, grabbing one arm each before he could leave.
"Ah····· no! We have to plan the empire's conquest 'together' from now on!! Come with me."
"Master? Are you saying a new woman has come······ you're not going to abandon me, are you? Right?"
'······ Why did this happen?'
The sight of them clinging to his arms with obsessive obsession made even Dullahan, who had lost most emotions, dizzy.
'Now that I think about it······ it's been a while since such clear emotions appeared in such ordinary daily life.'
Dullahan was being swung between them, his head hurting, while feeling something cool filling a corner of his dried heart.
'This seems pretty good.'
"Master, please speak quickly!! I'm the one who can satisfy all of Master's desires, or that woman who has no value other than a title?"
"First, get that wicked chest out of the way!! Dullahan-nim, I can perform all your commands!! I can make a master-slave contract!!"
'······ Is this really good?'
Watching their quarrel with a somewhat good eye, Dullahan looked at them with cold eyes again, then thought.
'······ So, when does this end.'
After that, they continued meaningless arguments for about 30 minutes, and when I could no longer watch, I shouted at them, finally seeing the end.
The conversation in the first meeting of the former demon and former princess ended in the worst atmosphere.
'Haa, from the first meeting, they fight like this······ what will happen in the future······ my head already hurts.'
Dullahan, watching their conversation, thought about the future where they would fight fiercely, and just quietly sighed.
He couldn't have predicted that they would fight even more crazily than he expected.