Volume 8 - CH 1.1

Part 1

Noticing that Diablo had come, Shera stared at him with her emerald eyes.

「Ah……」

「Umu」

What was with the 「Umu」? Even he himself who answered like that didn’t understand it.

She opened her mouth with a stiff expression.

「Although I am incocompletent[1]……Erm……I will be in your care.」

Maybe having been taught that by her mother or someone, she said words that she wasn’t used to with difficulty, and lied down on the bed of green piled up leaves.

Diablo didn’t know what he should do.

「G, guess we should sleep?」

「Uh-un? I don’t really get it but……On the first night we become a married couple, it would be alright if I just leave my body to you like this, that’s what Kaa-san said.」

He didn’t know the circumstances of other households, but in Diablo’s case, even if she left it to him, it wasn’t alright at all.

It would be nice if things happened automatically if he just clicked like it did in bishoujo games though.

──Was auto mode not implemented in this other world!?

However, a Demon King that was estranged from lovers’ talk was uncool.

Diablo curved the ends of his lips.

「Hmph……Just leave everything to this Demon King.」

Shera’s cheeks dyed red.

──Is Shera, really happy being married with a pillbug like me?

Pessimism started to sprout.

She was the sole survivor of the Elven royal family, and the forest’s blessings would be lost if she didn’t get married to someone.

This was a marriage for the sake of the country.

Her choosing Diablo as her partner, was because he was strong. That was probably the only reason.

──Guys who think they could get girls to fall in love with them just from saving their lives, they are fundamentally overconfident.

He stopped his hand that he extended.

Shera had closed her eyes.

「……Diablo……I love you.」

She had said that.

He gulped.

Her words repeated inside of his mind over and over. His brain slowly understood the meaning of it.

「Shera……you……」

His voice was involuntarily shaken.

Translator’s Notes:

[1] It should be “incompetent”. She says ふつつつかなのですが instead of ふつつかもの.