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Bonus Story:
Little Demons
THE GOLDEN BEAST HAD TAKEN IN AND RAISED four little demons, one boy and three girls—granted, demons didn’t actually have genders, but she had decided them on a whim. Regardless, they never thought anything strange about their genders and worshipped their mistress as a god.
The four of them were lucky enough to be given the chance to serve her again in the Material World. However, that was also the source of their problems: Their vessels were bad. Vessels were required for an ethereal being like a demon to exist in the Material World. Without one, they could appear in the world, but they were basically like fish that had accidentally jumped onto the land. While even the worst vessel was better than none at all, a poor vessel presented its own kinds of problems.
It wasn’t the quality of their vessels that was bad; they even had talent. However, they had extremely bad reputations. They had been awful people who had used the beloved princess Yulucia to satisfy their own desires. And after taking these people as their vessels, their mistress Yulucia, whom they so respected and adored, said to the little demons: “Well, just try your best!”
The words inspired the little demons—as expected, since they were her minions and all. Even if they were stuck with vessels she had just happened to choose on the spur of the moment because she had four on hand that happened to fit their genders. And even if their mistress regretted it, they would feel inspired anyway so long as they could be useful to their creator.
And so, the little demons went about like normal and were of course met with the scrutiny of the adults around them. Although Yulucia assured the adults that she had corrected their attitudes, they would obviously still be suspicious. As the person in charge of Yulucia’s education, Vio in particular kept a close watch on them, even going so far as to wear fake cat-eye glasses to hide her eyes as she scrutinized them.
W_е̂ bn̈ ӧv̌ е̊ l E ṅũm̊ а
Nevertheless, people’s attitudes toward the little demons gradually improved as they went about their work.
“Huh? That’s them, isn’t it?”
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“How are they capable of being so productive?”
“Wait, is it just me, or are they getting everything done too quickly?!”
The only thing the four of them inherently had was their talents. Furthermore, since they had taken vessels instead of being born as a baby like Yulucia, they had received proper education as nobility. Everything they did was quite notably unlike the unskillful Yulucia.
“Have those four always been that cute?”
Е̄ ǹ ù mа̌
“How come their hair is so shiny?”
“They have such nice skin too.”
Their appearances influenced what people thought of them as well. The bodies of their vessels had been affected by their demon hosts. High-ranking demons such as themselves could optimize themselves to look more human. The flaws inflicted by their bodies’ previous lifestyles were gone and their proportions were perfectly symmetrical.
It was the kind of phenomenon that irritated normal humans, but the demons hadn’t done it on purpose. Ordinarily, it would take some time for their appearances to be perfected, but Yulucia had used her powers to force their appearances to be more human right away.
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One could imagine that people would be suspicious about how much they had changed.
“Reforming one’s lifestyle also changes one’s appearance,” Vio would say, light glinting off her glasses.
Еnům.ӓ. i ď
Although Vio had such a scrutinizing eye, lifting the rim of her glasses gave her tunnel vision and nobody commented any further on their appearances. She was usually more perceptive than this, but her fake glasses were getting to her head.
Still, the four of them were demons, the kinds of beings that clashed with humans on a fundamental level.
“When do they sleep?”
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen them eat.”
“They just work nonstop, don’t they?”
Demons didn’t need to sleep. They didn’t need to eat human food either. Nor did they crave the same kinds of things that humans did.
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They slept for fun, but they didn’t bother if they had things to do. Just like Yulucia, they also got their sustenance from souls, and only food that had been made with feeling had any taste to them, so they didn’t crave to eat either.
Since they wanted for nothing, people began to be suspicious of them. Demons had a different limit in regards to how much of that they could tolerate; if this had been a performance of one of those bizarre stories, this would be the part where the atmosphere grew more eerie and the people who noticed would get into trouble, but that wasn’t what happened here.
“Oh, good morning, Lady Yul!”
“Hello.”
That eerie atmosphere always dissipated whenever Yulucia was with them, wearing her carefree smile.
Whenever Yulucia was around, they went from being perfect at everything to begging for her attention like a child might their mother or older sister. Yulucia’s obliviousness made her more human than most humans, and even though it didn’t befit a noble, it always managed to neutralize anything disquieting about a situation.
En̂uḿӓ .і d_
Everyone just felt so much more relaxed and carefree whenever Yulucia was around.
Yulucia was relieved that the four attendants had been accepted by the staff at the castle, but there was someone who was even more relieved.
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“Thank goodness,” said her father Forte, the Grand Duke of Versenia.
Forte had originally had good intentions when he assigned the four of them to be his daughter’s attendants. Nothing but good intentions.
They were the children of nobles who had been involved in the demon-summoning incident. The majority of the noble houses involved had been dissolved and several of them wound up convicted for their crimes. Nevertheless, it was the parents who had done wrong—their children were innocent. The young children were not punished and the majority of the now-orphans were taken in by their relatives. However, the four of them had no relatives to speak of.
No one else was willing to adopt the children of criminals, and they were going to end up in an orphanage, so Forte had taken pity on them and taken them in. His daughter needed attendants who were close in age to her, after all. She only had a few friends because of her unique looks and noble birth, so he believed she needed other children who could be her playmates.
W̊е̄b̆ n о v̇е l̊ Еn û mа
Of course, he had interviewed them all first, but they had all hidden their true natures behind their competence. He was a virtuous man who never could have imagined that children under the age of ten could possibly have such wicked hearts. It was around the time he introduced them to his daughter that he started to get the sense that there was something off about them. Despite his worry, he had decided to harden his heart and entrust them to his daughter in hopes that it would help her mature as a royal, even if they were from a branch family.
He never understood the extent of their heartlessness until he heard from his wife about all of the terrible things they had done. He had been grappling with how best to deal with the four of them when his daughter managed to take care of the matter herself.
He was so, so relieved by this turn of events. Proud of his daughter, he heaved a sigh of relief. Seeing him do so, someone gently put a hand on Forte’s shoulder.
“My dear.”
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“Liasteia.” Forte smiled at his beloved wife.
Liasteia smiled back as she said, “There is something we must discuss.”
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“Right.”
Her smile was so intense that all Forte could do was nod his head like a child who was about to get a scolding, and he was practically dragged into their living quarters in the castle.
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