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Leah first observed the man with her eyes.

There are sword wounds all over the body that are almost bone-visible, and it looks like there were attempts to harm it with magic or fists. Judging from the magic power, it seems to have been reduced by a national treasure-level artifact, but is it really that much reduced?

Even the King seemed surprised by the wound, as it seemed like it wasn’t there originally. Oh, and it seemed like he had received treatment from Mino… Other than that, he looked like a surprising mix of black magic and corrupt officials.

“Close your eyes. How dare a mere human…”

I’m sorry I stared at you for too long. By the way, where did you donate your liver? It’s not quite as simple as a small intestine.

“Make sure to remember what I just said.”

“Ha, do you think you can do anything by carrying my little brother on your back? I’m the one who’s in charge. I don’t know how a human could seduce the Demon King, but if I touch him a little, nothing bad will happen. I’ll teach you the lesson.”

Then, all of a sudden, the man raised his claws and grabbed my neck. The warrior’s body, which had lost its strength, was unable to react and just hung in the air.

“Ah, ugh. Ugh. Ugh…”

This crazy guy, his wrist is digging into his neck. Are you really trying to kill him? He’s the Four Heavenly Kings? Are you openly going to be an enemy of the Demon Tribe?

Or is there some backstory I don’t know about?

If I die here-

As the crisis of death came upon me without me knowing, all sorts of thoughts flashed through my brain.

“Praline! Are you crazy?”

“Turn off… Ugh… …Haa…!!!”

Finally, thanks to the brain-dead King who realized the situation and intervened, my life was saved. My entire body couldn’t do it, so I had to pant miserably on the floor.

Ugh, my neck hurts. Is that guy’s name Praline?

“Why, are you trying to remove the static in this gap, Pave!”

“Are you really going to completely end the Kyeonjok? If the warriors were really badly injured, they’d all be dead!”

…They’re fighting openly. By the way, the King of Dogs’s name is Pave. Since I didn’t feel anything special about almost dying, I quietly pulled the King of Dogs closer.

By the way, seeing that you attacked me in front of the Kyeon clan even though you knew my identity, I think you’ve proven one thing about your lack of ability. Seeing that you don’t know that Abel is advertising that he’s fighting and you’re acting like this, your political judgment is trash.

More than that, in my opinion, even if we don’t deal with the Abel impersonator right away, it seems likely that that Praline will soon die at the hands of the real Abel, not the fake. I won’t say anything, but Mino will report it.

It’s a typical behavior of people in high positions, so much so that I feel more reassured when I see that person than the King of Dogs.

I thought that I should quietly observe the situation and not show this to the people, but the King of Gyeon was already in a state of ruin because he was in denial of reality, so it didn’t seem like adding just one more spoonful would make a difference.

“Both of you stop. This is an order from the Four Heavenly Kings.”

“This cat bird- ugh!”

“Piggy- woof, woof!”

Oh, there must be some force. Once the fight calmed down, I looked at the mood of the Ken clan that had gathered in the commotion. Most of them did not seem to be in favor of the Ken King. And, none of the onlookers showed any signs of labor. In short, they were all idlers who did nothing.

“What are you looking at? If you have time to look at this, help Mino treat the patient.”

After clearing away the onlookers, I took a closer look at Praline. She had a scar from the magic. And, there was something like a broken green claw necklace (with lots of gray fur) hanging around her neck.

“How dare you, a lowly human! How can the Demon King treat the prince of the Ken Tribe, the Demon Tribe’s closest ally, like this? That position was mine to begin with! The position of the Four Heavenly Kings and the Ken Tribe is mine and no one else’s! How dare you give me orders without even knowing the subject!”

Oh, was it because of an inferiority complex? Leah looked at the man who was using the curse with cold eyes.

Because of the contempt he received during the warrior party, he feels like he doesn’t get hurt even if he gets cursed at a lot. No, that must be true. He was an incompetent guy to begin with, but he lost his position as the Four Heavenly Kings to a human he had probably ignored all along, and he probably thought to himself that he would generously accept his human request for cooperation (I don’t know why I thought that way, do all the higher-ups have broken thought processes?) but he ended up feeling inferior after getting the position of the Guardian King, which he thought was his, so it seemed like he couldn’t hide his petty feelings and exploded when he saw his younger brother being close to him.

” How can you get what you deserve by giving me your body? Do you think the Demon King will keep someone like you by his side for long? You’ll be thrown out the window soon. You’ve never loved me in the first place! You don’t even know the situation…”

ah.

Now that I think about it, I don’t think it’s okay.

I can tolerate other things, but I don’t know why he does this. Why does it hurt so much to hear a single statement that Abel doesn’t love me? Even though I know that the guy who said that is a idiot who did all sorts of stupid things in the 30 minutes we met.

I felt bad because it was an insult.

No, I felt bad because it was an insult to Abel.

Who was it that waited for me as if it were natural when I was confused between Noah and Leon, and who saved me when I was abandoned like an old pair of shoes and left to rot among the moldy clothes in the alley?

I can tolerate the swearing at me. But, as someone who knows how long he has loved me and how long he has waited for me, there is no other bullshit as great as this.

-Tsk!

Before reason could do anything, Abel’s hands went out and slapped the son of a bitch across the face. There was absolutely no reason for Abel to listen to such words.

“Take that back immediately!”

If I’m truly angry, and I take out my anger on someone without holding back, this is what can happen.

Despite being a young girl, unlike Abel’s cool body, a burning anger overflowed beyond her eyes without even trying to hide it.

“How dare you touch my body… You know how to shorten my life. You lowly thing… The guard!”

Kwak.

I felt someone grab my arms and restrain me.

“Let go of this!”

It is not easy to escape even if you struggle. Although he is disguised as a dog, he does not listen to you, so you can feel his subtle sexual power.

Angel? There’s no way an angel could be here. Why would he even disguise himself as a sage?

“Thank goodness he even cleaned up the onlookers himself. Throw those two in the dungeon!”

Seeing that the King of Dogs is in the same state as me, I guess she was also betrayed.

However, the response was different. Unlike me, the King of the Underworld resisted the two angels with his strength, but was soon hit on the back of his neck and fell to his knees.

I realized this when I saw the face of the man called Praline.

It’s a coup.

We need to understand the context further―

-puck!

Just like King Gyeon, I was hit on the back of my neck and lost consciousness.

Damn, this hurts more than I thought.

*****

It’s cold.

I awoke with a start to the sting of a dirty neighbor on the prison floor, a gray rat clawing at my leg.

Why am I here? I thought about it for a moment, and then I remembered that I had been kidnapped by the Hyeonjok, the older brother of the Hyeonwang, and the angel who had been listening to him for some reason. The Hyeonwang was right next to me, with his eyes closed and a magic sealing orb in his hand.

My weak body actually brought me good fortune as it forced me to control my strength by hitting too lightly and I was able to wake up quickly.

When I shook my feet to chase away the rat, the first thing that came to my mind was a feeling of bewilderment.

Are you really crazy? Even if he’s a bundle of inferiority complex and superiority complex, he’s still kidnapping me with him? And in broad daylight?

I quietly looked around and saw an angel with his wings out in the open, with no intention of hiding them, watching us like a guard.

“Hey. Hey?”

“…”

Are you ignoring me? For now, I’ll give up. Then, should I wake up the King of Dogs? At least he’s your older brother, so he should know better than me.

“King, King? Wake up. Isn’t it time to go to bed? …Isn’t it? There’s no window, so I don’t know what time it is, but anyway, we’re screwed now!”

Only when the King of the Dogs’ body was shaken strongly did the King of the Dogs, who had been sleeping peacefully, come to his senses.

“…What?”

“Don’t you remember? Your brother staged a coup, joined hands with the angels, knocked you and me out, and then dragged us here and imprisoned us!”

“Ah, I remember. …The magic sealing sphere, it seems like it’s planning to stage a proper coup.”

Suddenly, the sound of the King’s teeth grinding was clearly heard. I was worried about his health, but he needed to be alive to be of any use, and since I didn’t know what kind of danger was coming, I started to focus my thoughts on stopping him.

First of all, it’s almost certain that the King of Dogs’ older brother staged a coup. The King of Dogs is captured right next to us, right?

But I couldn’t figure out why he had dragged me along.

Oh, come to think of it, is it because he was going to kidnap us anyway that he insulted us so openly in front of people? No, that was more like he really spoke out of the blue. He had intended to be more careful, but I got angry and slapped him, which may have been the trigger for him to immediately carry out his plan.

“…Sa! Warrior!”

“But why did the angel cooperate with the older brother of the King of the Dogs? What benefit would it bring to them if the ruler of the Dogs changed?”

Only when the King tapped my mumbling shoulder and interrupted my train of thought was I able to come to my senses.

“Shh, look over there for a second. My brother and the angel who brought us are talking over there.”

…! You have to hear this. I quickly pushed my head as close to the bars as possible.

“Yes, I caught my sister and that spoiled human bitch just as you asked. So now you guys have to give up the position of the King of Dogs and the Four Heavenly Kings that you promised me, right?”

It was a quiet prison, so even though we were quite far away, we could hear each other’s voices very clearly. Even the sound of our own breathing. We held our breaths, covering each other’s noses and mouths.

The two of them continued their conversation calmly, seemingly unaware of us.

“You’re not going to break your promise, are you?”

“How could that be? It would be of great help to us if Praline became the King of the Ken Tribe and stood in the position of the Four Heavenly Kings.”

“Huh, I get it. By the way, when are you going to take that dirty human away? I don’t want that dirty human left in this land any longer.”

“Opening the gate to heaven takes a lot of time and resources. Rather, it is abnormal for the current Demon King to open it without any trouble, but the Demons do not seem to know this.”

“I am not a demon.”

“Ah, and other races too. Anyway, as long as you are well-detained, that will be fine. I hope you have gained public opinion so that there will be no problems when the King of Dogs succeeds in the future?”

“Of course― …I think I heard something.”

The shocking content left us shocked for a moment, but the conversation was cut off when Praline ran outside, saying she had heard some noise.

“Pooha…!!”

As I exhaled the breath I had been holding, damp air entered my lungs.

It was around that time that King Gyeon and I met eyes, instinctively sensing that the matter we were involved in was bigger than we thought.