Demon King Reincarnation Chapter 18

“……So it’s like this.”

I’ve come to crush some rebels.

Rebels – that’s the revolutionaries.

I have no idea who their leader is, but the heads of everyone in their hideout are now all out under the sun. Since it’s even to the extent where revolutionaries have appeared, this kingdom’s despotic policies must be quite something. Even though I’ve studied a little bit about it since I was born as a human, I can’t really quite understand the feelings of the commoners. There were too many differences between demons and humans to begin with, to say nothing of me being the former Demon King. Since my human father is an otaku about his own people, there’s no such revolution going on in our lands, but there’s similar revolutionaries in a lot of the other n.o.bles’ lands, so there must be some burden on the commoners. ……Or, I wonder if there’s any other reason.

“……”

Well, whatever. I’ve even gone to the trouble of bringing all their heads out here into the sun. A similar revolution probably won’t occur for a little while. By the way, what shall I write down here with their blood?

“The rebels have been annihilated,” “long live the king,” “I present these excellent heads,” “give me the blood of young girls.”

……Mmm. It’s a little different, the last one. This, what is this, something seems off. My first life’s memories are trying to tell me that “happiness is fulfilling one’s responsibilities” or something like that, but that’s clearly wrong. Come to think of it, my first life’s memories have been somewhat cold to me ever since being born here. I wonder if it’s jealous of my life as a n.o.ble daughter. Well, I’ll just continue collecting beautiful things and doing whatever I please. Even if it means getting blood on my hands.

Finally, as a mystery, I wrote “The Demon King has descended.” – For some reason, something feels off.

Then, I turned around as I felt the presence of someone behind me. The person who was there was –

“Eh? – Rose?”

Heath.

Heath!? Why is a prince all the way out here!? He should be sleeping in the royal palace!? N, nononono! Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait! Right now, how do I look!? Well, it’s good that my dress is so dark that it blends in with the night. But, isn’t it still a bit bloodstained because of what I was doing (cutting off heads) just earlier!? Rather than saying it’s a bit bloodstained, isn’t it completely drenched in blood!? What should I say what should I say what should I say. I didn’t bring along my bodyguards or servants today either. Since it was just a bunch of commoners, I thought I’d take care of them myself in a single night, but if only I had known something like this would happen, I really should have brought them with me! I don’t have any clothes to change into, or even a towel to wipe myself with. If, if this kind of hobby is exposed to my fiance Heath, I, I don’t want to think about it!

“It’s Rose, right?”

“W, what is it? I, no, I (more polite) am just an ordinary commoner.”

“No, you’re Rose. There’s no way I could be wrong.”

Don’t listen to anything he says even if he has conclusive evidence!

“W, what are you doing here, Heath?”

“Eh? Ah, Tehel nii-sama told me to come over here and capture the revolutionaries, but it seems that won’t be necessary anymore.”

“W, well, something like this is nothing to me – isn’t what I mean. T, that’s right. Someone seems to have finished them off and annihilated all of them.”

“No, it was Rose, right? You’re covered in blood.”

It’s been discovered. I was hoping that because it was nighttime, that he might not see the blood on my dress, but I had been too naive.

“Urgh, what do you intend to do to me?”

“Nothing?”

“Mm? Is that so?”

The engagement would be broken off, destroyed, discarded, is what I had thought would happen for sure. W, well, as a n.o.ble girl, my beauty will always s.h.i.+ne through even through the darkness while covered in blood!

……Everything about me, anything else is fine, for some reason, I just don’t want to admit to having done this.

“Rose, come here.”

“?”

I got closer to Heath and looked at him. Then, Heath began wiping my face gently with a white handkerchief.

“……Mm. With this, you’ve become cuter.”

Heath said so with a wide grin on his face that did not seem to be his usual mask.

“-!!”

Without regards to what I wanted, the blood in my body was beginning to gather to my face and warm up.

“I, I’m leaving!”

“Ah, wait, I’ll take you……”

What Heath said after that, I don’t know. I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know. Ugh, what exactly is going on with me.