The Precious Demon King - Chapter 92

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◈ The Precious Demon King

Chapter 92: Tabs Welcome!

Flash.

Kim Jangmi and Edmond appeared in the yard of Kim Junyong's residence.

"Oh my, that was really in an instant!"

"Nyaa, did you enjoy the trip, nya?"

"What do you think?"

Having been together throughout the journey, Kim Jangmi and Edmond had grown very close.

"Wasn't breakfast delicious?"

"That's right, nya. It's a shame I couldn't use the sauna one more time, nya."

"Hoho, we can just go again."

They ended the trip after eating breakfast at the hotel. After saying goodbye to Lorenzo and returning to South Korea, it was already 4 p.m.

It had been morning, but in an instant it had become afternoon, so it felt like time travel.

"Ugh, I don't want to go to work."

"Couldn't you just quit-nya?"

Kim Jangmi laughed softly at Edmond's words.

"It's only fun to slack off when you've worked."

"...?"

Looking at Edmond's confused face, Kim Jangmi laughed.

"All right! I need to prepare for tomorrow again! Let's tell Junyong and go again next time."

"Good, nya! Always welcome, nya!"

She stretched once and tried to prepare for her routine the next day.

"Hm? But where's Junyong?"

"Hm? Don't know, nya. Hm?"

Edmond was the dungeon keeper. A familiar of the black mage, he had full authority over space.

In his awareness, a being with the same presence was caught.

Another dungeon keeper?

It was inside the building on the first floor. Edmond glared sharply, puffed up all his fur, and went in.

"Huh, you...?"

"Uuugh."

Luciel groaned as he looked at the cat.

"Now I know for sure. Edmond de la Fleur."

"That's right. It's me!"

"Why are your forms all like this?"

The legion commander had the appearance of a high school girl, and the chef wasn't even human, but a cat.

"W-What's wrong with this form?!"

"..."

"Enough! Why are you a dungeon keeper?"

"By Master's command."

"Huh!"

Edmond felt as if his authority had been infringed upon. However, since the order came from Kim Junyong, he didn't dare object.

The quick-witted Luciel lowered himself.

"I am nothing more than a dog stuck guarding the house."

"Hm?"

"I cannot step outside this dungeon."

"Huh."

So he was a dungeon keeper for internal use. Edmond's whiskers twitched as if he were in a good mood.

Well, I do go on business trips a lot.

He grinned and extended a paw.

"Let's do well together, nya."

"Uh, yes."

Strictly speaking, the two were old acquaintances from Demon King Modeus's army. They were companions bound by a tragic fate, to the point that they even died together.

"But why didn't you go back to the Demon Realm, and instead decide to serve Master, nya?"

"You know that well enough, don't you?"

"Hmm."

Edmond nodded. Luciel's origin was as a son of Modeus, but even his sons alone numbered in the thousands. Among them, those who survived were another matter, but in any case, Luciel's existence was nothing more than a common kind to Demon King Modeus.

"Master is a good person, nya."

"That is so."

The two demons quickly hit it off.

"This is Master's older sister, nya."

"Huh!"

Luciel immediately dropped to his knees before Kim Jangmi.

"I greet the noble one."

"Oh, please don't. You're...a demon, right?"

"Uh, that is correct."

Though still a little dazed, Kim Jangmi now knew that not all demons were evil.

"Please take care of me."

"I should be the one saying that."

Luciel's courteous greeting pleased Kim Jangmi greatly.

Dressed in a neat suit with slicked-back hair, he looked like an elite employee in his early thirties from a large company.

"Nyaa, from now on you can think of him as the butler of this mansion-nya."

"Butler?"

"The caretaker, nya. His previous job was also as a butler, nya."

"Ahh!"

If he came from a background as a butler, then he must have held a position similar to that of a secretary. She had thought that, since they were demons, they would all be brutal monsters. However, Edmond, Remi, and now Luciel looked no different from ordinary people.

"Please take good care of my Junyong."

"Huh, I only serve with the utmost loyalty."

"Good."

After deciding to greet them again in the evening, Kim Jangmi returned home. Luciel didn't just look like an elite employee outwardly–he really was experienced.

So he really was a secretary.

Edmond offered a bit of advice to his former coworker.

She's the one with real power in this family-nya.

Huh, thank you.

"But where did Junyong and the children all go?"

"Uh, they went to the Demon Realm."

"Hm?"

"...?"

"Nyaa?"

Edmond's cat fur bristled sharply.

"Don't tell me...he took Jia and Jihun with him?"

"..."

Luciel glanced over and saw Edmond shaking his head desperately.

Creak.

At that moment, Remi appeared with a chocolate jujube bar between her lips.

When she bowed her head slightly to Kim Jangmi, she looked unmistakably like a high school girl.

"Remi. Are Jia and Jihun in the Demon Realm now?"

"Yes."

"..."

Kim Jangmi's insides boiled.

"Can you bring them back right away?"

Remi shrugged and picked up her phone.

"Hunter phone."

"Ah!"

The hunter phone was connected by something other than radio frequencies. What it was, humanity still hadn't uncovered it, but it connected to the internet anywhere.

With the message and community functions provided by the Demon Realm Forum, it was always possible to make contact.

– Mom's house. Come at once.

How long did she wait with an anxious heart? Suddenly, Yu Jihun appeared in the yard with a flash of light.

"M-Mom."

"You! Yu Jihun!"

Kim Jangmi angrily grabbed him.

"No matter how immature you are, this is too much! Is now the time for you to be a hunter?"

"No, it wasn't me."

"If not you, then who? Always going on about hunters–the moment you awaken you went running off to that dangerous place?"

"No, Mooom."

Flash.

Soon, Kim Junyong appeared, along with Cheon Yubeom, Lee Mina, and even Yoichi Sasaki.

"Huh, Junyong! You've become an adult and yet..."

Flash.

Lastly, her daughter appeared.

"...You, what kind of state are you in?"

"M-Mom."

Yu Jia, fully equipped, was covered all over in monster blood.

"Ah, Noona, wash the blood off first. You're scaring Mom!"

Seeing Kim Jangmi panting heavily, Yu Jihun quickly summoned a water spirit to clean Yu Jia.

"Ahhh! You two!"

In the end, Kim Jangmi collapsed.

* * *

An unfamiliar ceiling. When Kim Jangmi opened her eyes, Kim Junyong's face came into view. As her vision grew clearer, her consciousness returned.

"Junyong."

"Yeah."

"Where are we?"

"My room."

"And the children?"

"Over there."

She looked in the direction Kim Junyong pointed. Yu Jia and Yu Jihun were standing with their hands raised.

"...Come here."

"Yes."

"Mooom."

The children quickly lowered their hands and approached the bed.

"Should I leave?"

"Why would you?"

Kim Jangmi scolded Kim Junyong.

"How could you take them there just because they pestered you?"

"We were just going to sneak off before you got back."

"Nooo!"

Her neck throbbed again.

"No, Uncle, come on."

"What, brat."

Kim Junyong grinned at Yu Jihun.

"I understand your worry."

"Whew, I'm not over-worrying, am I?"

"Of course not."

Just thinking about her children going to the dangerous Demon Realm made her dizzy.

"Mom."

"Be quiet."

The dutiful-daughter train that had always listened to her mother had derailed.

"I'm going to be a hunter."

"Yu Jia!"

"I've already decided. This is my path."

"Huh, you think that's easy?"

"She has talent."

"Junyong!"

Her brother had been cheekily butting in since the beginning, and it was irritating. Kim Junyong gave a faint laugh and said something that was anything but serious.

"If she has talent, she should be taught."

"How can you say that?"

"So don't teach her?"

"Of course! With so many jobs in the world, why do that dangerous hunter work?"

"Hahaha."

"...Why are you laughing?"

"Noona."

Kim Junyong's face was still smiling, but his gaze looked more serious than ever.

"If I'm not around, who will protect them?"

"Huh?"

"These children should at least be given the chance to protect themselves."

"...?"

"Do you think Earth will always be okay?"

"..."

"Of course I'll protect it. But there's no need to turn a capable child into someone helpless."

Yu Jia quickly picked up on Kim Junyong's words.

"Right, Mom. It's like saying you shouldn't get a driver's license just because car accidents are scary."

"..."

Kim Jangmi tightly shut her lips. She was worried and concerned, but she held back her words, thinking that this might just be a mother's selfishness. Sometimes it felt like her children had already grown up. Along with that realization came a strange sense of betrayal that made her eyes fill with tears.

"Let them learn while they can."

"That's right, Mom. It's best to learn while Uncle is by our side."

"..."

Kim Jangmi finally let out a sigh. Because it concerned her children, she couldn't make a normal judgment, but what they said was right.

After listening to Kim Junyong, she realized it was indeed a serious matter. It was the era of dimensional invasions. It was a world where it wouldn't be strange for a dungeon to erupt at any time.

With an environment now in place to learn survival skills, not learning them would be a waste.

"Fine. I understand. I'll allow it."

"Mooom!"

Yu Jia hugged her mother tightly. Kim Jangmi stroked her daughter's back and looked at her son, who stood there awkwardly.

"Then is Jihun going to be a hunter too?"

"Ah, this one has no talent."

"Urgh."

Yu Jihun clutched his chest at Kim Junyong's brutal honesty.

"It's enough to raise his mana for self-defense."

The difference was that the talentless Yu Jihun would only learn self-defense, while the talented Yu Jia would be raised as a professional.

"Can I do it too?"

"Hm?"

Kim Junyong brightened at Kim Jangmi's unexpected suggestion.

"Of course! The longer Noona lives, the better for me!"

"..."

Sensing the many emotions absent from Kim Junyong's innocent joy, Kim Jangmi felt a heaviness in her chest.

"All right, thank you."

"Wow, since you're a healer you probably won't die easily."

If she could just hold out during a crisis, Kim Junyong and his familiars could come to her rescue. This way, the survival rate of the entire family would increase.

"Why didn't I think of this sooner?"

Kim Junyong felt foolish for thinking of "hunter awakening" only as a way to travel overseas. Because they were family, he had been stuck with the idea that they were ordinary people. It felt as if something inside had blown wide open–a great relief.

"That makes you that happy?"

"Of course! Isn't it better not to die than to have to avenge someone's death?"

"..."

Sadness tinged Kim Jangmi's face, while shock colored Yu Jia and Yu Jihun's faces, but...

At her brother's, at their uncle's utterly pure smile, they could say nothing in reply. He truly was happy.

* * *

[ Special Advisor Support Division Group Chat ]

Team Leader Lee: It looks like we'll be staying in the Demon Realm for a few days!

Deputy Bureau Director: Please continue with regular reports.

Team Leader Lee: Aye.

With Cheon Yubeom having outright resigned from the Hunter Management Bureau, Team Leader duties were taken up by Chief Director Lee Mina.

This left Lee Mina and Kim Sangsu as the only field agents. The bureau wanted to dispatch more agents, but they couldn't place unverified people at the Special Advisor's side.

"First, let's finish as much of the construction as we can!"

"Let's get it done quickly!"

While the Special Advisor's family was away, they quickly began driving the construction forward.

A restaurant rose on the site where three blocks had been combined. On a lot formed by six joined blocks stood two existing houses, a guard post, and a multipurpose building.

The restaurant was open for all to see, but Kim Junyong's house was surrounded by massive walls that blocked the view from outside.

"Wow, it's practically a fortress."

"Even flying drones has become difficult these days. This could be a problem."

Hansan 2-dong Merchants' Association (virtually an implicit nonaggression and cooperation pact among the world's intelligence agents).

"Ah, let's all just focus on running our businesses."

"Yeah. Special Two has become a regular at our shop these days."

"Hah! Yesterday she even ate three hot dogs! What is this!"

"Whoa? There she is."

Unlike Special One, who never appeared outside his territory, Special Two often showed up in the commercial street these days.

[ Tabs Welcome! (Residents Only) ]

Remi, after sneaking a glance at the note stuck up beside the counter, ordered nonchalantly.

"Six mango juices."