Chapter 190: Owner of the Half Moon Palace

The Half Moon Palace is a place of entertainment for the wealthy in the demon kingdom. Due to their outstanding reputation, they have gained enough power from backers that they are not afraid of anyone. Anyone who has gone against it with malicious intent has been eliminated in mysterious ways.

The owner has never shown his face, but rumors say that he possesses a beauty that is left unmatched. However, he has a peculiar requirement with his hiring process. One of the qualifications is beauty, so the toad demon has been doubting that the horse demon can enter when he is goddamn ugly.

She sighs as she clears her mind. Maybe the owner of the Half Moon Palace has a weird taste. 

"Ah!" The toad demon exclaims.

The horse demon pauses, "What?"

"Someone complained about a dish on the second floor. You should go look at it because that customer seems loaded!"

The horse demon neighs in annoyance, "Who dares to question the quality of an ex-employee from the Half Moon Palace!"

He walks up, annoyed on the stairs and towards an area next to the railings. Unlike the usual table, that table has a silk tent, taking up five large table areas. His stumps naturally have drawn a lot of attention from the other guests.

Kyrie also follows the horse demon with his eyes into the tent. However, the horse demon flies out from the tent in just seconds, indenting into the wall. 

The tent falls down and slides off the rails of the second floor. The guests underneath scramble to move away to avoid getting hit by the falling tent. The enormous crash sends food and broken pieces of furniture flying everywhere.

A handsome white-haired demon appears with his female servants behind. He steps on a chair, letting his tied long hair gracefully fall off his shoulders.

"I turned you into a horse and expelled you. But you still dare to steal my recipes and make them this bad!"

The demon lifts his hand, and one of his servants places an expensive embroidered silk napkin on his hand. He spits the food that remains in his mouth onto the napkin and throws it to the ground. 

Due to the commotion, the toad demon comes out from the kitchen and sees the seductive demon walking toward the horse demon. The aura coming out of the demon is too great for the toad demon to fight against. 

The toad demon looks around for help and catches Kyrie in her sight. 

The horse demon has greatly offended that client with the food he has made, but Kyrie has not made any fuss about it. Instead, he even praised the horse demon.

The toad demon rushes to Kyrie and kneels to the floor even if there is a slim chance that he would help. 

She grabs his cape and begs, "Please save us, oh great demon noble! We are just humble nobodies that struggle to even earn a living! Please! I beg you, and show us mercy!"

Even though she knows there is no such kindness in rotten places in the middle of nowhere, the toad demon begs even if there is a slim chance.

The toad demon bows again while still tugging his cape, and the hood from Kyrie's cape falls down. The sparkling silver hair becomes the attention of all the guests. Although they enjoy the unexpected fight between a handsome demon and the horse demon, Kyrie's appearance has made everyone's head turn.

No one there has seen a noble demon since their classes are too far apart. They have heard rumors about those nobles that only stayed on the best lands, but nobody has expected to see one in their lives. They never expected that demons could look so beautiful aside from the notorious owner of the Half Moon Palace.

[Owner of Half Moon Palace, Musa. He was… very fond of Ian. So, he appeared more frequently in the later parts of the novel despite meeting Ian in the beginning… ]

Ian puts Kyrie's hood up again.

Suddenly, something gets thrown toward Kyrie. Kyrie avoids it quickly, but the toad demon gets hit by it, sending her flying out of her own restaurant-inn. Kyrie looks back to see the horse demon on top of the unconscious toad.

Ian quickly places himself in front of Kyrie as Musa appears out of nowhere. 

"What is this? Two noble demons?" Musa says sarcastically.

He looks at the others and tilts his head, "With three elves? Has the world turned upside down with all the recent events?"

Since Musa is closer, Kyrie can feel his energy better. Without even seeing Musa's powers in action, Kyrie can tell how strong he is. 

Musa lifts Ian's hood and smiles.

"A handsome demon."

"Cut it out, Musa," Ian blurts.

"Well, aren't you cold to just ignore me like that? You have known that I was here all along, but you still choose to ignore me? Where is that psychopath?"

Kyrie walks out from Ian's shadow and looks at Musa. Then, he looks at Ian.

Musa is so close to Ian that there is only one step between them. However, Musa quickly takes his eyes off Ian and looks at Kyrie with a bright smile. 

"I didn't know you had a gem like this hidden from me."

Musa takes off Kyrie's hoody and whistles in amazement, "If you don't have these horns, then people would really think you have fallen from the sky."

"What are you talking about, owner of Half Moon Palace? Didn't the devil also fall from the sky?"

Musa bursts up laughing while Ian clenches his jaw, "You really got someone interesting! Hahaha!"

Without asking permission, Musa joins the table while telling everyone how he met Ian.

They have met inside the second gate, and they team up to fight against the otherworlders. Although Musa is definitely a demon, he has not sided with the fallen saintess like the other demons. 

The other demons have joined the fallen saintess for the apparent reason. In the demon continent, only one thing speaks louder than money, and that is power. 

Plus, the fallen saintess's backer is no other than the fallen god many demons worship, so there is no other good reason not to join.

Therefore, Musa's actions have confused many in the demon continent. Why is the owner of the Half Moon Palace so adamant about joining the fallen saintess? 

Many have thought of reasons.

"Musa is too beautiful, so the fallen saintess hates him."

"Musa is too wealthy, and the fallen saintess wants him to give up everything."

"The fallen saintess is too ugly, and Musa has a peculiar taste in his companions."

"They are both powerful beings, and powerful beings like to dominate rather than become submissive."

However, the reason for Musa to not join the fallen saintess is an easy one. He does not want to get involved with her backer, who's at the top of the god realm's blacklist. 

He knows this small fact because he is blessed with the ability to foresee the future, even though he cannot control his power. 

His ability is unknown to anyone but Kyrie. Since he is a reader of the records of this world, he would naturally get to know some secrets.

"Why are you here, Musa?" Ian asks without any formalities.

Musa pouts while placing his head on his palm, "You were softer when I met you before. How come you have turned so cold?"

Kyrie widens his eyes a little bit since he thinks he is the only one who notices. Since Ian is slowly regaining most of his memories from the previous loops, his personality also has changed to be a little more serious. 

The silence hints to Musa that he should spill the truth.

"What is the fun in telling you everything?" Musa looks at Kyrie and winks at him.

[Is this a challenge?]

Kyrie lets out a dark smile. He imitates Musa and places his chin on his palm. Then, he proceeds to blink both of his eyes charmingly to Musa.

Musa's cup shatters in his hand while being taken aback. His ears flush red.

Kyrie chuckles while enjoying his victory of 'who has the thickest skin,' but he jolts when Ian's hand wraps over his torso. He peeks at Ian's darkening expression and gulps guiltily. 

A chill runs down Kyrie's spine to alert his entire body that he will suffer for playing games with other men.