"Ugh..."
"gumin, you're awake? Co eat dinner!"
About ten minutes later, gumin held her head as she pushed herself up from the sofa.
Although she had been unconscious for a while, it surprisingly didn't hurt much—just like accidentally bumping into a cabinet door. Thankfully, she didn't have a concussion.
After feeling relieved for a mont, gumin hurried to the dining table at Darkness's urging.
Eiji and Kazuma sat on opposite sides of the table, but gumin didn't ntion the wand incident at all.
"Where's Aqua?"
She took her seat.
"She hasn't co back yet!"
Darkness handed a bowl of rice to gumin, then sat back down and picked up her own dinner.
Eiji watched her thoughtfully for a while.
"W-What? Is there sothing strange about ?"
Darkness, feeling uncomfortable under his prolonged gaze, couldn't help but ask.
"Not really. I just didn't expect that aside from being a perverted masochist, you actually have this side to you too."
Eiji replied calmly, his words full of stereotypes.
"I-I'm not a pervert!"
Darkness didn't want to be described that way by soone she'd barely t and refuted strongly.
"So you're not denying being a masochist?"
"..."
Darkness fell silent, her face slightly flushed, looking sowhat embarrassed.
Why are you blushing, you teapot!
Kazuma stopped chewing his smoked lizard burger, his strange gaze shifting from Eiji to Darkness.
He rembered—hadn't Darkness been slept with by the boss?
Was the boss planning to start a Darkness route?
Ride first, pay later?
You're sothing else, boss!
"What's with that look, Kazuma!"
"Nothing, don't mind , sis-in-law!"
"How many tis do I have to say it—I wasn't slept with by the Demon King!"
"Yeah, yeah, sure!"
Seeing Kazuma's completely unbelieving expression, Darkness felt exhausted.
A month ago, trapped in the Demon King's Castle, her father had personally brought her out. The Demon King had actually said right in front of her father that as punishnt for killing his subordinate, he'd sleep with her!
As a result, now everyone in Axel knew she'd been slept with by the Demon King!
Although thanks to this, her father had finally stopped arranging blind dates for her—which felt pretty good—being constantly misunderstood by the townspeople and labeled as "the woman slept with by the Demon King" still left a bad taste in her mouth!
But being looked at with scornful eyes, in another sense, also felt incredibly stimulating!
"Wait!"
gumin, who had been focused on eating, suddenly felt like sitting on pins and needles.
"Kazuma, weren't you always wanting to acknowledge the Demon King as your boss? Why are you calling this person boss now?"
gumin had finally spotted the crucial point!
Darkness also suddenly had a realization!
That bastard Kazuma had really been calling this young man nad Nangou Eiji "boss" earlier!
The two glanced subtly at Eiji, feeling like the chairs beneath them were getting uncomfortably hot!
"Ah, well... that..."
Kazuma froze for a mont.
He really hadn't considered this issue before!
"As you know, Kazuma's a fence-sitter!"
At that mont, Eiji suddenly spoke up. He was leisurely cutting his hamburger steak, his movents unhurried as if he wasn't the least bit flustered.
His words were t with unanimous agreent from gumin and Darkness, both nodding in sync. Kazuma's face instantly darkened.
"I saved his life during the trial, and he started calling boss ever since!"
"So that's it! I get it now—Kazuma must have his eyes on Mr. Nangou's royal emblem!"
Darkness had an epiphany, glaring furiously at Kazuma. "Kazuma, you are absolutely forbidden from using the royal emblem, or I'll make you regret it! Got that?!"
"No, Kazuma must be after this person's money! I clearly rember that just from slaying various major monsters, the bounty rewards he collected totaled 835 million!"
gumin spoke with absolute certainty, refuting Darkness's argunt.
Eiji gave gumin a subtle look.
I don't even rember the exact amount myself, yet you recall it so clearly?
Just who exactly is the one eyeing my money here?
"Hey! In your eyes, am I really the kind of person who won't lift a finger without so benefit?!"
Kazuma shouted indignantly.
"Aren't you?"Do you even have any room to refute?"Under gumin and Darkness's intense, oppressive gazes, Kazuma took a mont to self-reflect.
Perhaps, maybe, possibly, probably... he really didn't have any room to refute.
"I'm confident I'm not that kind of person!"
But he still had to save face. Kazuma seriously and firmly denied it—he couldn't let the boss misunderstand!
"Eek!"
"Your skin has gotten thicker, Kazuma!"
The dining table was instantly filled with a cheerful, lively atmosphere.
Half an hour passed, dinner was almost over, and Aqua still hadn't returned.
"I'm full!"
gumin clutched her round belly, looking utterly satisfied as she slumped back against her chair.
Anyone who didn't know better might think it was so new prison trend.
"No one was fighting you for it, why eat so fast? And eating so much this late at night—make sure you digest it properly later!"
"You have to eat every al like it might be your last! I'll go exercise in a bit!"
"By the way, who made tonight's dinner?"
"We bought it from the bar, since we have a guest."
After admonishing gumin, Darkness turned to answer Eiji's question.
Among their group, only gumin and she could cook, but the als they made weren't exactly sothing to boast about.
"Speaking of which, Darkness, there's sothing I've been wanting to ask you since this afternoon."
gumin shuffled over to the sofa, sprawling on it like a limp noodle, only turning her head to look at Darkness, who was busy clearing the dishes.
"During the trial this afternoon, why did that fat pig lord seem to keep staring at you? And his gaze was super creepy!"
"There was such a thing?"
Kazuma jumped up in surprise.
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He grinned maliciously, already picturing how miserable that fat pig lord's eventual fate would be. How dare he covet a woman the boss had slept with!
Serves him right for giving a hard ti!
Eiji pricked up his ears.
"Uh, we've only t once before..."
Darkness hesitated, clearly seeming to hide sothing.
"Just from eting once, he started targeting Darkness?"
gumin pondered for a mont, her expression gradually turning displeased.
"That fat pig looks exactly like the kind of cunning, treacherous scoundrel he is, and on top of that, he's a lord. He might use his authority to make things difficult for us later—we need to be prepared!"
Kazuma had offended him, and Darkness had also caught his attention.
No matter how you looked at it, they had thoroughly made an enemy of him!
"Don't worry, when the ti cos, we'll just have the boss step in. After all, with the royal family's emblem, even that fat pig of a lord wouldn't dare act recklessly!"
Kazuma, however, was quite at ease.
He was always ready to borrow authority from the powerful!
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