Master’s Smile

"Duh, how did you get here... Huh!?

Keep your eyes patchy, shivering clerk.

Well, if all of a sudden the Demon King comes to the store without any apology, you're in trouble and confused.

... I'm a little sorry, but I have to act on my position, too.

That means next time, and I want you to forgive me this time.

But is it also known about Crankheit?

You made me live a life of disablement as a member of the Dark Alliance not long ago... now I want you to sing your freedom fully.

Unless, as far as I'm concerned, this is the effect of a gift from these kids.

"Oh? Is it weird when we come?

"Yes, what! There were several times Master Crankheit, because there was never a Demon King to come!

When Crankheit says mean things, the clerk blues his face.

Stop it because you look cute......

But now that Crankheit is wearing an adult woman's mask, he won't stop teasing like this.

I had no choice but to care more about the clerk than to stop her. [M]

You don't have to worry about it at all, so you can handle it normally.

"That's not how..."

"Are you willing to go against His Majesty the Demon?

"Shit, Shit, Shit, Shit, Shit!

So stop making fun of Crankheit.

You don't have to worry about my words. [M]

I didn't want to be myself, because the guild kids said it was a gift.

... Again, I wonder if a guy like this is okay with a king.

I wonder if a new Demon King candidate will come out soon.

"More than that, I wanted to ask you something. What about that book, sales?

"Oh, the book you keep over there, is it?

A clerk who sees a disastrous book in such a way as to be afraid.

Yeah, that's not your eye for books to leave in a good place in the store. You're scared.

"Yeah, what do you think? I've reviewed" The Devil of the Dungeons "many times, and it would be a good sale because I'm able to study properly, wouldn't it?

But Crankheit doesn't seem to realize it and is confidently chested.

Oh, is that so masterpiece?

Hey, I'm getting interested, too.

"Well..."

"What do you think?

Crankheit launches a chase on the clerk who is going through a difficult time to say.

Hey...... if you're watching such an unscented reaction, you'll know you don't even have to ask how it turned out.

"Actually, it's not selling at all..."

"What... what!?

See, as expected.

But it seemed shocking to Crankheit, and he opened his big mouth disappointingly.

Hey, I don't think grown women do that kind of thing.

"Why!? Wouldn't that be funny!?

"Higi, no, no!!

Crankheit grabs on the clerk's neck with a tired look on his face, and the clerk makes a sad scream.... head?

Hey, wait a minute!

Keep it up. Then the clerk can't even talk if he wants to.

We can't let the guild child kill unnecessarily, so we give the clerk a help ship.

"Mmmm..."

"Oh, thank you, Demon King"

The clerk thanked me for taking his hands off my neck and finally allowing me to breathe freely.

No, I'd rather apologize from here.

But now I'm the Demon King.

Although I can be lowered as the master of the Dark Alliance's Army of Salvation (Yelktila), I cannot apologize now that I am here as the Demon King.

Let me apologize in my heart, I'm sorry.

Thank you so much, I was wondering if you'd let me know why.

"Yes. It would be very interesting to hear that Master Crankheit seems so confident..."

"It would be?

"Well... when I open the book trying to read it, the disastrous signs blow up all at once and faint the reader..."

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Oh, Crankheit's stiff.

Or is it a previous issue than the decision as to whether it is interesting or not?

He said he can't read... What book did you write, Crankheit? The Book of Curses?

He said he'd faint just by opening it... it's too scary.

Well, some things in the world seem to curse me just because I read them...

... but it's amazing that my kid can write a book like that.

Well, although Crankheit is showing a reaction that he didn't seem to have written in hopes.

"So no one could have read it properly to the end... In the alley, they call it a book of curses."

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Oh, I knew you were being treated like a book of curses.

Was it too shocking, Crankheit keeping his mouth open and rigid?

From her point of view, I guess I wasn't even willing to write such a book, so is it natural to be sad?

But it's also impossible to force the Demons to read Crankheit's book...

No one would love to read a book that faints every time they read it.

"Shh, excuse me! You're being rude."

The clerk looks at the stiff crank-height and bows his head to us.

No, no, this is the one I asked, and you have nothing to blame.

Honestly, I'm sorry about the crankheight I wrote a book that I can't read to the average person.

This store still kept the book in a good place, so I'd rather be grateful.

Nevertheless, it is also sympathetic that no one reads it instead of being criticized.

So I guess I'll take it.

"What!? Oh, the... are you sure you're okay? If anything happens to the Demon King, I'm the one who caused it."

Well, you'll be fine.

Speaking of curses, I'm familiar there.

For example, Mille, the daughter of Terdolph, who is said to be the most powerful knight in the Kingdom of Evan, was also de-cursed.

I'd be in danger too if Crankheit really tried to curse me, but if you're not willing to... maybe.

"Oh, really? Then I'll take it soon."

The clerk immediately brought me a book.

... what book you have to hold with gloves on while keeping your eyes open...

But there was something I forgot to mention.

Oh, you. Not one book, all of it.

"... Yes?

You didn't understand what I said, the clerk looking at me with a kyotonic face.

So again, I ask you to bring me all the crankheight books that are sold.

It's Crankheit's work that you think is like your daughter's, right?

I'll buy it all for you, which would be what kindness is all about.

Of course, I'll pay from my personal expenses, not the Demons' taxes.

... You're not a fool, are you?

"Oh, thank you -!!

The clerk dropped me off with a very good smile.

While holding the book, I returned to the castle with a crankheight that had stopped moving.