Demon King, you just need to conquer, and your husband will come up with the solution.

"Of course, I'm not here to talk about this. I don't like to repeat myself. I'm here to take away the traitor."

As she spoke, Trinity pointed at Mary, her eyes turned gloomy, and she threatened her, "Mary Belle, don't think I won't touch you just because you're with the hero.

Now there is a legendary wizard in the mansion who was destroyed by me! Do you think you are more capable than the legendary wizard?

I've long felt that you have evil intentions, but you turned out to be a traitor. Now that Ains is gone to protect you, you are nothing!

Tsk, Irons is good in every way except that he always fails to see that the group of women around him are more dangerous than each other.

I didn’t even see through Helena who had been coveting him for a long time, the dark elf who was watching him, the weird nun who believed in some god, and Adela who left. I wasn’t much better myself.”

At this point, Trinity couldn't help but frown, pouting and muttering in dissatisfaction: "Tsk, why is this guy so involved with so many women? It's so annoying!

As for you, Mary Bell, you are even the lowest of the bunch... so low that you actually did something so stupid that I can't understand it. You actually betrayed him!

Mary, are you going to leave me on your own initiative, or are you going to fight to the bitter end? If you take the initiative, I will give you a more decent ending.

Fighting desperately, the person next to me is one of the best puppeteers in the entire continent, and among the people I know, there is also a witch who is well versed in soul magic.

Put those two together, and guess what I'm going to put you through?"

Chapter 18 Shocked! The Demon King actually did such a thing! ?

"Dang...dang...dang..."

As the bell tower at the top of the Demon King's Castle began to ring, the big black bell cast by the 13th generation Demon King in the bell tower announced the beginning of a new day for the Demon King's Castle.

The Demon Realm is not a good place. This area, which was split from the Great Rift Valley and the Primordial Continent, seems to have been abandoned by the gods. The land is barren and the climate is extreme.

Therefore, the Demon Realm is also called the Land Forsaken by God in the divine law system of Yuanshi Continent.

The Land Forsaken by God is worthy of its name. Even though the Demon King's City was built on one of the few relatively stable plots of land in the Demon Realm, it still maintains a red sky all year round that makes it impossible to tell the difference between day and night.

Looking up, there was no sun, no stars or moon above the Demon King's City. There was only a sea of ​​red clouds rolling and surging in the red sky, as if the entire sky was covered by a red curtain.

To this end, the thirteenth generation Demon King cast a large black clock according to the time calendar of the Yuanshi Continent, which can tell the time for the residents of the Demon King's City, so that the residents of the Demon King's City can know their current time point according to the big black clock.

As the big black clock announced the beginning of a new day, the Demon King's Castle also woke up and began a new day.

Inside the Demon King's bedroom in the Demon King's Castle, Queen Margaret was also preparing for the new day, but her early morning preparations seemed a little different...

"Finya, what do you think of this dress? Or should I change into this one today? Hmm...how about this one? It's not so luxurious, and it will look more intimate..."

Standing in front of the huge mirror that fell from the dome to the ground in the bedroom, Margaret took out clothes from her closet one by one and placed them in front of her plump body in white gauze pajamas.

The woman whom Margaret called Finia was a dashing head maid standing behind her, wearing a standard maid uniform.

The head maid has a pair of dark red dragon horns on her head that look like old roots, and her eyes are filled with intimidating dragon pupils, which also reveal her identity. Her true form is a magic dragon.

Facing the Demon King's question, Maid Head Finia placed her hands on her belly and replied to Margaret with a calm expression: "Ms. Margaret, in my opinion, no matter what clothes you wear, you are indisputably beautiful. I think Mr. Irons should have the same idea."

The female devil smiled slightly, changed a few more clothes in front of the floor-length mirror, and said: "Woo~ That shows that you, Finia, don't understand Ains. That guy is quite a reserved person in his bones. Haha~ When I saw him wearing that outfit yesterday, his eyes were blank~"

Head maid Finia nodded silently, recalling that she watched Margaret changing clothes in the dormitory for two full hours yesterday before finally wearing the black gauze dress to meet Irons.

How should I put it? As the head maid who had served three generations of Demon Kings in the Demon King's Castle, Margaret's appearance yesterday was really an eye-opener for her.

However, she discovered that the Black Thorn Queen, who was usually very majestic when facing many demon kings, actually had such a girlish side. How to put it...it made her feel a little interesting.

"Lady Margaret, although it may disturb you while you are changing clothes, I still need to remind you that Mr. Irons has just gotten up. If you continue to worry about it, I'm afraid you won't be able to meet Mr. Irons in the lobby in time."

"What?!" Hearing this, Margaret panicked and changed clothes faster. "Tsk, why did he get up so early... I didn't have much time to prepare for him... Hey, Finia, take a look! Which one looks better? "

Seeing Margaret's panicked expression, Finia sighed helplessly and suggested, "Lady Margaret, if you think Mr. Irons got up too early, I can order Polupoli to find a way to let him sleep a little longer."

"Sleep a little longer?"

"Well, like drugging him, or knocking him out or something."

"...You, the Demon Dragon Clan, are really simple and crude in your approach..."

"We usually call it efficiency, Lady Margaret."

Seeing how Finia came up with such an amazing plan without changing her expression, Margaret also witnessed the innate unique thinking of the Dragon Clan.

She waved her hands awkwardly and said, "Well... forget it. I think I've almost decided what to wear..."

In the end, Margaret chose a luxurious red and white court-style dress, which was a gift given to her by the Blood Demon Lord when she ascended the throne.

Whether it is the pleasing style or the distinctive color matching, it all demonstrates the unique artistic aesthetics of the vampires among the demons. This vampire dress is also one of Margaret's favorite pieces of clothing.

It's just... this thing is very difficult to wear, because it is too focused on aesthetics, resulting in the fact that for the sake of appearance, it basically abandons the humanity.

The steps to put on this set of clothes are extremely complicated, and this vampire suit is not just clothes, but also a bunch of matching jewelry, such as headbands, pendants, bracelets, waist pendants, etc.

It would take a lot of time to put on this whole set of clothes. While Margaret and Finia were trying to put on the clothes, the Demon Queen's bedroom on the other side of the Demon King's Castle...

Oh no, Irons said he did not agree with this statement, this was the former Demon Queen's bedroom, and now it was just an ordinary dormitory for guests to stay in.

Yes, it's very ordinary, except that the decoration is a little more luxurious.

Compared to Margaret who spent a long time struggling over what to wear, Irons's situation was much smoother. He just got up, washed, and changed his clothes. There was nothing to worry about for a grown man. He just picked up any outfit and put it on.

However... there was something that puzzled him, that is, why were there so many clothes that fit his body size in the bedroom of the Demon King's Castle?

When asked about this, the two little devils were vague, and Irons knew that he probably wouldn't get to the bottom of it, so he just gave up and regarded it as Margaret's careful preparation.

Served by the two little demons, Irons walked out of the bedroom and was led by them to the restaurant of the Demon King's Castle.

Looking at the long dining table that was dozens of meters long in the classically decorated restaurant, Irons asked the two little demons curiously, "Speaking of which, has this table ever been full of people?"

The Polupoli sisters were stunned. After looking at each other and thinking for a while, they shook their heads and responded, "Since we two joined the Demon King's Castle, we have never seen this table full of people..."

"Well...how many people have sat there at most?"

"Hmm... the most frequent one was when the Demon King returned a year ago. He held a banquet and dozens of Demon Lords and Great Demons came to the banquet. That should have been the one with the most people."

"The devil returns? A year ago?"

Irons looked a little surprised when he heard this. He couldn't help but ask, "What does it mean that the Demon King has returned? Does it mean that the former Demon King Margaret has left the Demon King's City?"

Polly tilted his head and asked, "Mr. Irons, don't you know? This matter is quite famous in the Demon King's City..."

The elder sister Boru nudged her younger sister with her elbow and reminded her, "Poly, don't forget that Mr. Irons is a human, not a demon."

"Oh...oh, sorry..." Polly realized it belatedly and lowered his head embarrassedly to admit his mistake.

Boru was the commentator and explained the reason to Ains: "The Demon King left the Demon King's Castle about seven years ago and disappeared for a few years, and then returned to the Demon King's Castle about four years ago.

The Demon King announced to the public that he was traveling in the human world to understand the situation, and said that he had returned and there was no need to worry.

But we, the insiders of Demon King’s Castle, actually all know that after coming back that time, the Demon King only stayed in Demon King’s Castle for a short period of time before leaving Demon King’s Castle again.

After that, he came back several times intermittently, until a year ago, when the Demon King finally returned, settled down in the Demon Castle, and governed the Demon Castle.

As for where the Demon King went during this period, we, the lower-level maids, don't know. Perhaps the head maid Finia knows a deeper secret, but Polly and I are too low-level, so we don't know. "

"He disappeared for a while seven years ago, came back four years ago, and then left again. He came back several times intermittently, and only settled in the Demon King's Castle a year ago? This..."

Irons touched his chin and felt that something seemed to be wrong.

If Queen Margaret has been away from the Demon King's Castle for a long time in the past seven years... then the problem arises. I have been keeping a regular correspondence with Margaret since four years ago.

The trade between him and the Demon Realm was also negotiated with Margaret from the very beginning.

The only way to do this is to send the letters to the Demon King's Castle through a caravan...

Now tell me, the Demon King himself is actually not in the Demon King's Castle for a long time, so how did those letters get to Margaret?

Could it be that his caravan always has the bad luck and when they come to the Demon King's City, they just happen to run into Margaret returning to the Demon King's City to visit her relatives?

This is unreasonable, there must be something fishy going on!

Then think about Margaret's obviously overly friendly and familiar attitude towards him, as well as the words she said.

A bold idea gradually formed in Ains' mind. Could this Demon King... be a perverted stalker and surveillance maniac?

She hadn't been back to the Demon King's Castle for the past few years, so she must have been staying in Blackwater Town watching him every day, right? Otherwise, how could she appear right in front of him right after he was sent to the dungeon by the hero?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he seemed to have grasped the truth. When he was in Blackwater City, Trinity repeatedly reminded him that someone was watching him in the dark. Could she be talking about Margaret?

Shocked, the Demon King of the Demon Realm actually did such an unspeakable thing in private! ? Is this the extinction of human nature...devil nature, or the loss of morality! ?

Chapter 19: High-end business wars and diplomacy often have simple methods

"Jingle Bell……"

Just as Irons was thinking about Margaret, with a crisp ring of the bell, the waitress pushed the dining cart into the restaurant.

Before the food was served on the table, Irons felt inexplicably familiar from the aroma wafting from it. This smell... I felt like I had smelled it before?

With a hint of curiosity, Irons was somewhat uncomfortable being served by the twin demons to prepare for the dining ceremony. To be honest, Irons was not used to the situation where he needed to be served and entertained by others just by making a move.

Even when he was with Catalina, he had never experienced such distinguished service. Moreover, Irons himself did not like to have too much physical contact with other people, which made him very uncomfortable.

"Well, Polupoli, I can handle things like dining by myself, I don't need your help..."

"But, Mr. Irons, we..."

Irons raised his hand quickly to stop the two from talking: "Hey, stop it, I know, you will definitely say that it was Margaret who asked you to do this. If she really wants to blame it, just bring me up, or tell me, and I will talk to Margaret..."

"..." The two Poluboli sisters looked a little conflicted, but they still obeyed Ains' request and did not continue to do anything to Ains.

After getting "freedom" from the two sisters, Irons breathed a sigh of relief. Watching the waitress bring the covered plate to him, Irons felt that the fragrance was becoming more and more familiar.

When the maid lifted the lid of the dinner, Irons showed an expression of expectedness. The breakfast served by the maid was not luxurious at all. In fact, to some extent, this dish was very homely in the human world.

The name of this dish is Duolun Lamb Stew. The method is to cut the lamb leg into pieces and blanch it with low-alcohol wine, and then stew it with potatoes, melons and radishes that are abundant in the season.

During the cooking process, add several spices for seasoning. If conditions permit, you can add dried salted fish pieces for seasoning. Wait until the soup becomes thick and the meat is soft, then you are done.

This dish is easy to prepare and the ingredients are simple. The finished product has a strong meat flavor, thick soup, rich taste and a very filling feeling.

This dish was popularized by an unknown minister of the Duolun Empire, and once popularized, it became the most popular home-cooked stew in the empire.

Its popularity has also affected foreign countries, and it has become one of the most vivid postcards of the Duolun Empire, a southern border country. Seven years ago, this Duolun mutton stew was officially declared as the national dish of Duolun, and it was very popular at the time.

Huh? Why does Irons know so much?

It's very simple, because he created this thing!

When he first came here, Ains had a full appreciation of how big of a food desert Duolun, a southern country close to the Demon Realm, was!

Duolun people have no rules at all when cooking. The combination of ingredients is purely random, and seasonings are used regardless of the situation or order.

The ingredients of a dish may look normal and common, but once handed over to a Torontonian, it will give you a sense of randomness like opening a blind box!

You never know what kind of twisted food they can make with such normal ingredients. Even just one look at it can make you feel the cry of the ingredients after being alienated!

The Duolun people don't even know how to remove the odor of their abundant Duolun goats! They have low-alcohol bitter ale at their fingertips in daily life, but they have never considered using alcohol to remove the odor of mutton!

As a gourmet born in a land of gourmet food, this is something he cannot accept at all. These people's cooking knowledge must be improved!

Therefore, the first thing Ains did after being promoted by Catalina was not to formulate national policies, development plans, or reform the old system, but to promote his own customized recipes!

This Duolun lamb stew is one of Ains' main dishes. The fact that it has been promoted across the country and even abroad in just a few years shows how successful Ains's creation is.

The recipes promoted by Irons even indirectly influenced the relationship between the Duolun Empire and the Buvol Empire, because the presence of spices was repeatedly emphasized in the recipes promoted by Irons.

The Buvol Empire is the country on the continent that produces the most spices. Because of this recipe, Duolun directly became Buvol's largest spice trading partner.

After the Buvol Empire introduced the recipes of the Duolun Empire, it opened a new door and discovered the unique and wonderful uses of various spices in food. Before that, Buvol spices were mostly used as aromatherapy and medicinal materials.

As a result, relying on this unique cultural exchange, the two countries have gone from being strangers with little relationship and far apart to becoming friendly countries.

The practice of conducting diplomacy through recipes and spices also opened Catalina's eyes at the time, making her realize that diplomacy could actually be conducted in this way.

That period was also the time when the relationship between him and Catalina was the best. We were two young people full of vigor and vitality. At our most brilliant age, we did the most brilliant deeds together and promoted the history of the continent...

But... unfortunately, nothing can remain unchanged forever, especially the human heart...

Looking at the stew in front of him, Ains couldn't help but sigh. Then he picked up a piece of stewed carrot that melted in his mouth with a fork and put it into his mouth. Hmm... What a familiar taste...

It reminded him of the early days in Blackwater City, when he had just met Mary Bell and brought this girl from the slums up to his side to train her.

It was also at that time that he met a foreign girl named Adela who collapsed in front of the Governor's Palace and was seriously injured. He brought her back to the Governor's Palace to recuperate, and she later became the object of his training.

It was also at that time that he began to contact Helena and borrow money from this rather willful Chamber of Commerce lady to finance the development of Blackwater City.

Then, once they started borrowing, they couldn't stop. The city taxes they collected had to be returned to Helena the next second, and after that, they had to borrow more to maintain the city's operation...

But Helena never seemed to care, and always believed that she could pay the money back. Of course, sometimes Irons felt that she seemed to be quite curious about the time when she couldn't pay it back.

However, I, Ains, have always been a man who repays what he has borrowed, so I will never disappoint my partners. But this time, I am afraid I will really disappoint them...