Demon Lord: Erotic Adventure in Another World - Chapter 703

703: A Complex Bond and the Future Plans!

703: A Complex Bond and the Future Plans!

Asmodeus sat in the regular bar, where he spent most days relaxing after practice.

He and the party had spent twenty days in Francel so far.

Asmodeus didn’t need sleep and returned from Lumeria at five in the morning.

Sometimes he spent a short time with his children.

But to avoid ruining their growth, he planned to visit in the afternoon once his Divine Core matured.

However, to do that, he needed to reach halfway to Rank Four.

He then used his golden domain to spend four hours in the morning to meditate, gathering mana and divinity, before four hours training with Nerim and Vivi…

which ended at nine o’clock thanks to cutting the time spent outside in half.

‘It’s a good thing that four hours in the domain is two hours outside.

After two weeks of using it for my lovely wives in Lumeria…’ After that, he enjoyed a late breakfast before training for three hours with the party.

The group still did their own thing during the afternoon and only agreed to eat the evening meal together.  “Are my friends doing well?” Vivi asked Asmodeus who was watching her learn the language of the mainland from Nerim.  ‘It’s good for me too, I couldn’t read it perfectly before.’  He mused to himself in silence, but Nerim taught them brilliantly without getting angry or arrogant.

She taught the poor children each morning before Asmodeus took the others to his kingdom, leaving them to Gretel and Anne to adjust.

‘Although I wanted to take Nerim, my wives have been exceedingly conscious of her scent and name recently…’  Nerim grew stronger each day thanks to the mixture of divine, demonic and abyssal energy inside her, but compared to his wives, her strength was lacking.

“They’ve recently settled and received their first week’s pay.

I believe Gretel is going to take them shopping in the city.”  Vivi met Gretel once, and after the pair met, a strange sort of kinship formed between them.

Although Asmodeus originally planned to bring Vivi with them.

Gretel shouted at him and said that when they left the city, she would adopt Vivi as her own.

‘I’ve never seen Gretel so enthusiastic before…

other than serving me, of course.’  “Mm?

Really.” Vivi narrowed her eyes with a cheeky smirk.

“Then if I do well on this test, will you take me to the city?” She’d stopped treating Asmodeus as a stranger, growing closer with each day.  ‘Well, she’s like my daughter too…’ That’s how he felt, and after asking his children permission because it was unfair of him to look after Vivi and ignore them, but to his surprise, even Nyxielle and the jealous Aurelia accepted Vivi.  ‘Though the boys accepted her because Gretel adopted her and she’s cute…!

My boys, why are you so much like your dad!?’ It was Ryusei who asked him…

If Vivi was his sister, or not.  Although still young, Asmodeus learned from Serena that demons weren’t usually like humans regarding meeting their life partner.  “Okay, if you do well, we’ll go to the city and I’ll give you an allowance.

One gold coin for each correct answer!” “Ah!?” Her eyes lit up, and she glared at the test paper furiously.

[Such a wonderful father…

I miss you already~] ‘To think demons typically bond with someone from a young, similar age and then grow together, and as their demonic energies mix, the two naturally grow from friends to lovers upon reaching adulthood.’ [Don’t blame yourself!

I am so happy to have taught you, my cute husband.]  Serena mocked him for still having human viewpoints, but he didn’t mind.

Whether it’s demon, divine, human or even abyssal, those were all parts of him now.  ‘Well, what can I say?

My wife is just too high grade.’ [Fufufu~ are you looking for something special tonight?

All this flattery will get you everything you want.] Since his divine core stabilised, the range and stability of his telepathy increased.

However, he focused on speaking to Serena mostly, as she was the empress.

So he would give her news and information for her to pass down.  ‘Though she’s cute with the kids…’  [D-Don’t mention that…

you know I can’t help but love all those little mini-Ryuji’s!] She would sometimes sit with the children and speak to him, allowing them to pass their messages to him.

It was a shame they couldn’t hear him.

But learning about how Nyxielle stole Leon’s pudding and made him cry.

Or Seris sneaking out onto the training fields to find her mother made being so far away worthwhile.

“It’s not long till we leave…

right?” Vivi asked a question, while the quill in her hand slipped from her grasp.  “Are you worried?” Nerim jumped in, hugging Vivi from behind.  ‘If I’m honest…

sometimes it feels like Nerim and I are this girls’ parents, but it’s unfair of me to do that to Gretel.’ Though even Serena didn’t comment on this, because they both knew that the castle knights and maids voted Gretel the most likely woman to become the Emperor’s concubine, whether it was her devotion or blind affection towards him, it could match even Serena’s.

[You know we’ve already accepted her, right?

My dear husband.] Asmodeus stroked Vivi’s hair, the messy curls coiling around his hand as she peeked up at him with an uneasy expression.

“Don’t worry, take your time and if you have something to say to me, just say it when you can.

I’ll wait till you are ready.” ‘I know.’ Nerim glanced up at him from beside Vivi, their bodies touching each other, but struggled to speak, her lips parting and closing several times.

She would do this often after they kissed, whenever they touched, or came close.

Her scales would become deep blue, and her gills would flutter.

Asmodeus wasn’t clueless, but refused to break the current status quo.  […I’ve accepted her, it’s just Velvet and Yumiko.] ‘I know.’ Like a broken record, he smiled bitterly, shaking his head.

He threw all the complicated feelings aside and stuck to his focus.  ‘If something happens, it happens, I won’t ask for forgiveness.

But I will make it up to you all.’ While thinking about the future and serious issues, Nerim suddenly gasped.

“Oh my, you’ve gotten all thirty questions right!?

This is amazing, it’s the first time.” Her voice sounded genuinely delighted at Vivi’s growth.  “To think you struggled with one two weeks ago, what a genius.”  “He-he-he!

Then~ please give me the gold!” “Sure, but let me carry it for now.

We’ll leave in an hour, so go with Nerim to that water mage who runs the boutique.

I won’t take it out of your money.” “What!?

Really?”  It wasn’t just Vivi who brightened up, but Nerim’s cheeks also flushed.

The price of the renowned Madame Rujan’s boutique was close to one hundred gold per person.

But Asmodeus regularly sent Nerim there without asking for money.

“Call it my treat for doing well and Nerim.” “Mm?” “It’s my treat for you working so hard to teach her, please take some time to relax.” He forgot the awkward atmosphere from before and slipped three hundred gold into her inner pocket.

The smooth and natural motion brought a deep pink hue to Nerim’s cheeks, but she didn’t reject it, nor pull away.  Nerim took a deep breath, recovering herself.

“O-Of course I will!

Y-You…

Thank you.” Vivi’s eyes glanced at the pair; she then whistled with a smirk on her face.

Her academic grades might have been abysmal, but her street smarts and common sense were at a much higher level than those of many grown adults.

“Go on, I’ve got to meet Logan about our goal…”  [You’re such a damn player…

ah~ I wish it were my pocket you slipped into so smoothly, I’d clamp down on you and….

~~~~] Serena’s deeply hidden erotic thoughts spilt into the telepathic conversation, almost melting his brain, so he forcibly cancelled the connection.  ‘Ever since I gained this abyssal power, my libido and demonic nature have been more rampant…

even in my wives.’ Thanks to the abyssal energy countering the divine aura.

Asmodeus and his wives no longer held back their hidden desires or wants…

if one of them wanted him.

She’d find a way, even if it meant burning the world.

It was a saving grace that Asmodeus himself felt the same, so nothing untoward happened.

‘Without my Time Domain, I would’ve been sucked dry by now though.’ He smiled bitterly while stretching his aching limbs and headed out to meet Logan.

Thanks to the two weeks of relative ease, the trail of the pirates who sold Brando and his fleet into slavery finally showed its tail.

The informant was a dwarf from a city south of Francel, close to the mainland’s Central Domain.  ‘To think they planned to sell them into the nobility and mainland, rather than earn a quick buck.’ Asmodeus enjoyed the twenty days of relative peace, but now their time of relaxation was coming to an end.

He didn’t know what the future held in store for him.

But he wouldn’t abandon the people who supported him.

“I just hope that crazy bitch doesn’t appear again…”