No.20 Nine Demon Kings

Today is really calm, as usual.

At least that's what Jack thought when he was awakened by the melodious singing of birds outside the window.

Ever since he resigned as the leader of the Demon King's Palace, Jack has been staying at home, playing with the cat, the dog, the bird, and the maid.

Of course, it would be more perfect if Lilis kept his promise, handed Rhine Harvey into his own hands, and tortured him every day.

"Sir, there are two people calling on you."

After Jack finished washing, his maid said to him.

"Oh, is it?" Jack said casually while putting on the customer service, "does one of them have short blonde hair?"

"In fact," said the maid, "one of them has long golden hair, and one has long black hair."

Jack's movements stopped: "Long blonde hair?"

The maid nodded.

"So, does he look like...you know..." Jack danced and tried to express something, "Like..."

"He looks dignified, but he's also very kind—although he's not in a good mood right now," the maid replied quickly, "and the other guest... I can barely feel his mood swings."

"It's strange if you can feel it," Jack muttered, "The father and son are not fighting each other, so what are you doing here?"

Obviously, no one would answer him.So he shrugged, quickly tidied himself up, and walked towards the reception room.

"Where is the peace talks meeting?" Jack asked incredulously, "My house?"

The king looked at him coldly, and Lilis nodded with a smile.

"Why did you choose my house? Have all the other buildings in the world been destroyed by your war?" Jack asked loudly.

"Calm down, Jack," Lillis said, "we just need you to hang out for a day, and then you can come back tomorrow and continue your retirement..."

"What are you kidding?!" Jack was almost hysterical, "If you make peace in my house and stop the war, this place will be written in the ridiculous little notebook of the Monet family, and from then on it will be Forced to receive a steady stream of visits, countless parents will lead their little idiots to my gate and point and say oh my little baby look here is the king and his rebellious son tearfully expressing his heartfelt love The place--"

"—then you can sell this house and buy another one anywhere," Lillis rolled his eyes. "Tell me the real reason why you don't want to give up the house."

Jack stopped his flamboyant movements, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end, just kept peeking at the king standing beside him from the corner of his eye.

"Even if you have a large group of child molesters in your house, I will forgive you." The king said deadpan.

"I didn't raise a child mole!" Jack argued fiercely, and then his momentum weakened again, "I, I have some, uh, torture tools in my basement, they are tailor-made for one person, and Most of them can't move—"

"Tools of torture?" The king sneered, "It seems that those are better than raising children."

Jack kept winking at Lillis, asking him why the king was so mean today.

Lillis gave him a "man always has a few days a month" wink, and was hit by the king's thick book.

"Go out," said the king, "those things in your cellar will be delivered later."

Jack: "emmmmmm, I still want to confirm that those responsible for the delivery will not happen to include Rhine Harvey, right?"

"What made you think I would send a general to do such a trivial matter?" The king squinted at him. "Go out, you don't want to know the consequences of asking me to repeat a sentence three times."

Jack walked away dejectedly.

"Recently, your character design has collapsed very badly," Lilis said.

"That's what a small number of people feel." The king sat on the throne very naturally.

"Okay," Lilis sat down across from him, "then what are you trying to say by dragging me here on the grounds of a truce?"

The king stared at him for a while, and said: "For more than ten years, you have pretended to be my son, and you have been very happy."

"If you just wanted to say this, I would formally apologize to you," Lillis said, "but without me, you have prepared at least one heir in advance, right?"

"Forcibly changing the subject will not work," the king said indifferently. "I have indeed prepared other heirs, but the loss you have caused me by pretending to be an heir is still huge."

Lilis: "...Are you talking about mental loss?"

"On the one hand," said the king, "on the other hand, the financial and material resources needed to cultivate an heir are huge."

Lilis: "I thought I'd broken a few of your swords at most over the years..."

"So," said the king to himself, "you must make reparations for that."

"If you want money, you want life." Lilis said.

"I am afraid your life is not worth so much," said the king.

"I'm one of the only two remaining demon kings in the world," Lilis said. "If you want to buy my life, you have to lose the whole country, right?"

The king narrowed his eyes: "What do you mean by two demon kings?"

"Finally willing to pick your mind out of those cold interests?" Lillis said.

"Stop talking nonsense—what do you mean by two demon kings?"

"It means that there is only one devil embryo left in the devil's lair," Lilis said. "You should be happy, as long as you kill me, live for 1000 years, and kill another devil, the world will be peaceful, isn't it?"

The king frowned at him.

Lilis said empathetically: "If you are worried that there is something like an elf tree in the Demon's Nest that specializes in making embryos, then I can tell you with certainty that there is no. In fact, the life force in the Demon's Nest is thin. , except for myself, the embryo, and a bit of moss on the wall, I haven't seen any other life in it."

"You don't need to explain this to me," said the king. "After I find an heir, I won't live more than 100 years. I can't care about things after 1000 years."

"Then why are you looking for an heir?" Lilis said, "Since you can't die, isn't it easy to live for thousands of years?"

"Death stays away from me, old age doesn't. I don't want to walk around like a skeleton," said the king, "and you are the one who sat on the throne for nearly a thousand years and let the enemy break into the castle." people."

He knew that Lilis was the No.20 Eighth Demon King.

Lilis looked up at him, frowning.

"When the devil king was first born, his mental age and physical age were only two years old," said the king. "I don't think a two-year-old child can fool me."

"...The Book of Eternity?"

"No, the records of the elves," the king smirked, "after I returned their traitor Winter, they were happy to give me some information."

"Well," Lilis sighed, "I knew that the elves would be a disaster sooner or later."

King: "Then what accident did you encounter last time that you passed down the memory?"

Lillis: "Why do you want to know this?"

King: "In order to avoid future troubles."

"You said just now that you don't care about things after a thousand years." Lilis said.

"Since you and I are sitting here alive now," said the king, "it is not a thousand years from now."

A moment of silence.

"Your back-up heir is that red-haired kid who used to correspond with Jack?" Lillis asked.

"If you speak of Antony, yes," said the king, "I have placed defenses round him."

Lilis: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not interested in that kid."

"I know," said the king, "but you are interested in the throne."

Lilis frowned, looking troubled.

"You should know the inheritance cycle between the devil and the brave," Lilis said. "At the beginning, I just wanted to be the heir of the brave, kill you, take the position, and then find a heir to the brave after the situation stabilizes, and then commit suicide without destroying it." Circular."

The king looked at him coldly: "So you want to break the cycle now."

Lilis: "Yes."

King: "You rejected King Isaac's advice more than 1000 years ago."

Lillis: "I didn't even think about trying to convince you to accept my suggestion."

King: "So you want to force me to accept it?"

Lillis: "I didn't say that."

King: "But you want to."

Lillis: "It was me who wanted to do it a few months ago, to be precise."

The king looked at him suspiciously.

Lillis: "Lately, I've been trying to find a way to have the best of both worlds."

King: "What is the best of both worlds?"

Lillis: "Breaking the cycle, and protecting you."

Lilis looked up at the king with some mixed emotions in his eyes.

The king turned his head, refusing to meet his gaze.

"You said there are only two demon kings left," said the king, "then the cycle will be untied soon."

"Of course I can stand still and let the brave be hacked to death twice, but what's the point of that? According to what is written in the "Book of Eternity", it is almost an established fact that all the demon kings die and the brave finally succeeds. I don’t know if the content of a juvenile book written by the gods is real! Skynet is restored, the evil is overwhelming, how passionate, how touching!—” Lilis calmed down his shortness of breath, “——I’m sorry, Rui Well, I'm so excited..."

"It's okay, Anthony is like this sometimes," the king's fingers stroked his delicate chin. "Then, where is the Book of Eternity?"

Lilis: "...Huh?"

King: "I would like to see something that can excite you so much."

Lilis hesitated for a while, and took out a book that was not very thick, with the words "Devil King's Rules" written on it.Lilis tore off the last few pages of the book and handed it to the king: "This is the "Book of Eternity". The previous devil kings always tore them off and buried them everywhere as soon as they came out of the devil's lair, so that the brave men at that time I found out, and then ran to fight with them... However, my situation is a bit special, so I didn't have time to tear it up."

The king took the few sheets of paper and found that what was written on them was not far from what he knew. (For the general content of "Book of Eternity", please refer to what the author of Chapter 3 has to say)

"If the Eternal Book is just a few sheets of paper, why is it called 'The Book'?"

“Because they look like they were ripped out of a book,” Lillis said, “so people always think there should be something else … but there isn’t, it’s just those pages.”

"So the "Book of Eternity" is just an appendix to the "Rules of the Devil King," said the king, "then why do you choose to follow the "Rules of the Devil King" while rejecting the "Book of Eternity?"

"Because they are different," Lilis folded his arms, "The "Devil King's Code" just tells me what kind of responsibilities I have to bear as a devil king, while the "Book of Eternity" says that as a devil king, you must die .It's hard for you to read "The Eternal Book" when you have just finished "The Devil's Law", isn't it?"

The king looked at his slightly defensive posture, thought for a moment, and put his hand on Lilis' arm.

Lilis had goosebumps from the cold.He quickly lowered his arm and rubbed the touched place with his other hand.

Lilis: "I wanted to say it before...why is your body so cold?"

The topic jumps so fast.

King: "...I am the mage of the ice element."

Lilis was still complaining: "The other ice elemental mages combined are not as cold as you!"

The king's eyes narrowed: "Have you met other ice elemental mages?"

Lilis: "...those are students from other schools, come to the temple to do 'hand in hand' and other social activities..."

King: "Oh, 'those', it seems that there are quite a few people who want to 'hand in hand' with you."

Lilis: "..." Ryan, is your focus a bit wrong? (╯‵ ′)╯︵┻━┻

Lilis simply started the shameless mode: "In short, you are colder than others!"

King: "What a coincidence, I also think you are hotter than others, hotter than the fire element."

Lilis: "... Should I be jealous too?"

The king smiled: "Find a mirror to look at your face, you are already eating."

Lillis: "Okay, who is that?"

King: "Anthony."

Lilis: "I think I need to eat this vinegar."

"Don't be so," said the King in a gentle voice, "Antony is only my nephew."

"Why don't you say he is your heir now?" Lilis asked.

"I thought," replied the king, "that you might tell me a little about your plan to break the cycle?"

Lillis: "I haven't thought of a way to have the best of both worlds..."

King: "It doesn't matter, it's okay to lose both."

Lilis stared at him blankly, eyes wide open.

The king couldn't help laughing: "I haven't seen your expression like this before."

Lilis: "You...you mean..."

King: "Exactly."

Lilis: "But...you...you are not..."

King: "Didn't I say that? I don't care about things after a thousand years."

"This... so..." Lilis was still a little confused.

The king looked at him and sighed: "Lillis, you should know one thing very well--I am a tyrant, a tyrant in the letter. I will order my most sympathetic knight in pursuit of a quick victory (Note ①) To massacre the city, I will set up a chess game involving the lives of nearly a thousand people in order to train the rebellious heir (Note ②), and I will even force against my most loyal minister in order to create an interesting situation (Note ③)—— Lilis, has my mask been worn for so long that even you have forgotten my real face?"

"I never forgot," said Lillis, "but you've never played so big before..."

"That's because there is no one on the other side of the board," said the king with a smile. "So, would you like to sit down? Sit across from me."

Lillies smiled too. "I'm sitting across from you right now," he said.

"On April [-], Yanji, [-], while pretending to make peace with the rebel army, King Ryan secretly sent troops to capture the base camp of the Demon King's palace, wiped out the enemy army, and successfully rescued Prince Lilis.

On April [-], [-], Prince Lilis passed the heir test and officially became the heir to the throne and the identity of the brave.

On April [-]th, the first season of Yan, [-], King Ryan's old illness relapsed. In order not to delay state affairs, he gave up the throne to Prince Lilis.Prince Lillis becomes king.

On April 27, 20, the king's castle collapsed completely, and the rescue team found the bodies of King Ryan, King Lilis and an unknown man in it.After investigation, the unnamed man appeared in a small bar in the southern border town and talked with the city general Andy Crowder whose body was found the next day.After detailed investigation, it was found that the man was probably No.[-] Nine Demon Kings.

In the summer of 28, on April [-]th, the National Meteorological Administration issued a notice. According to the detection by the magic nuclear weather detector, starting today, there will not only be two cold seasons on the mainland, but also two buffer periods.Therefore, the seasons on the mainland were changed to four seasons, named spring, summer, autumn and winter.Since then, there has been no severe cold or heat in the mainland.

In the summer of April 29, [-], Count Antony, then the chancellor of the Exchequer, King Lilis' cousin, succeeded to the throne. "

— A New History of Modern Times, by Vincent Monet.

The author has something to say:

Note ①, the most soft-hearted knight: Rhine Harvey.

Note ②, rebellious heir: Anthony.

Note ③, once the most loyal minister: Luo Wen.Please make up for Xiao Luo Wen's tragic childhood in the ditch with a icy heart.

Thanks for Xie’s mine, what? ヽ(°?°)?

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