The Demon Lord's Bride (BL)
Chapter 505: Turned out we could play house outside of the honeymoon

Chapter 505: Turned out we could play house outside of the honeymoon

You know that scene in drama when the husband comes back late at night because of work, with a tired expression and a smell of alcohol?

Never thought I’d experience that in another world. What a thrilling life.

Natha didn’t even say anything about me taking off his vest, sitting him on the bedroom couch, and fetching him a glass of water--cosplaying as a house husband. Technically, I was a husband who stayed at home too, but I did none of the housework, so...

Kind of fun.

Me cosplaying, I mean--not him looking tired.

"Nat? Is something wrong?" I asked after enjoying my five minutes playing house, caressing his hair as he leaned on the backrest with closed eyes and furrowed brows.

"Hmmh," he opened his eyes and raised his arms instead of answering.

I tilted my head for two seconds, grinned, and then climbed into his lap and hugged him. "Like this?"

He held me tight and pressed his face into the crook of my shoulder, inhaling deeply. "Mm; let me rest for a bit."

I caressed his hair in wonder, trying to recall if I ever saw Natha looking this tired after work. Hmm...I didn’t think I had. Made me even more curious about what was happening on that border.

"Is it hard?" I pressed my cheek on top of his head, brushing stray hair off his face the way he always did it for me.

"More annoying than hard," he said, before adding after a three-second pause. "Which is worse than if it’s just hard."

I pulled away slightly to look at him better, confused. "Huh?"

"I’m not good with annoying things," Natha clicked his tongue and twisted his lips. It was cute because rather than a tired civil servant, he looked like a last-year resident doctor.

"Ah! Is that why you shove the annoying case to Lesta?" I whispered while wiggling my brows.

His eyes perked up slightly as his brow arched. "Oh, you realize?"

"After hearing his whining for months, I figure it out."

He chuckled and pulled me closer again, laying his head on my shoulder while his arms tightly circled my waist and back. "Ah, as I thought," he let out a long sigh of relief and I could feel his shoulder finally relaxing beneath my arms. "The best place is by your side."

"Of course!" I snorted, slapping his back lightly. "I won’t forgive you if you think otherwise."

He lifted his head and this time, I could see a smile on his lips--which I could only see for two seconds before he pulled me in for a kiss. Ah, a kiss after a long day of being separated by work--it was delicious, although I could taste the alcohol he did not usually drink when he was with me.

A ’work’ drink, as he called it.

And it brought me back to the fact that we had yet to talk about it properly. "So? What happened?" I asked right away after our lips parted, before I got too carried away and forgot about it. "I heard the Wrath’s soldier attacking first. Are they trying to reclaim the land?"

He looked disappointed that our intimate moment ended, but I put a resolute gaze in my eyes. Still, I played with his shirt collar and buttons as an incentive that we could continue later.

"If we look at it simply, yes," he sighed. "Around thirty percent."

"...and the rest?" I bit my lips as the answer already sneaking into my head. "R-revenge?"

"Don’t worry, it doesn’t include you," his arms around me tightened, as if telling me there was nothing I needed to be concerned about. "They are a bunch of temperamental people, but they also cool down quickly," he added an explanation quickly. "As much as the humans took for them, they’ll take from the humans."

"I see..."

So, my thought was right. Eruha told me it was only a small skirmish between soldiers in the two borders--which almost always happened anyway--but it still bothered me. I knew very well that the last war was also started by those little skirmishes, and thinking about it happening again...

"Sweetheart?" Natha took my fingers, which had turned idle, off his shirt.

"Hmm?"

"Tell me," he said softly while rubbing my fingers.

Oh--of course, he would figure it out.

I bit my lips and asked quietly. "So...they’ll raid the kingdom too, right?"

"That is likely," he nodded. The silver eyes gleamed as they pierced into mine, and a little smile formed on his lips. "Are you worried about the civilians?"

See? He could see into my mind despite sealing off his ability to sense my thoughts.

"I would be lying if I said I didn’t, but..."

It was always the innocent people who received the consequences of the leader’s actions. They could hide in their fortress, even using the civilians as meatshields. It was horrific.

The problem was...it was hard for me to say anything. To be exact, it was hard for me, who became one with the demon slaughterer Valmeier, to say anything.

"It would be hypocritical of me to say they shouldn’t do it, because I was doing the same."

"Valmeier only attacked the fighters," Natha said while rubbing my wrist.

"I know, but the war is devastating for everyone."

And even more for those who did not involve themselves, but couldn’t help but get dragged because they were too powerless to get away. Just looking at Fatia’s kingdom told me that already. I was sure there were actually more people who wished for peace rather than war there, especially people who lived on the border. Valmeier had seen so many citizens crying in pain and misery as they became collateral damage.

Even if I did not hurt them with my own hands, it was still an effect of something that I did.

Natha caressed my cheeks and smiled softly. "I can tell them to spare the civilians, and tell my people to try urging them to take refuge outside of the conflict zone."

My eyes widened and my back straightened. "W-Would you?"

His answer came through another kiss, and I spent another minute hugging him tightly before another curiosity sparked my mind.

"But...why now?" I tilted my head. "It’s been...more than a year."

Knowing how temperamental the demons of Wrath were, you would think they’d made a move right away after the new Lord appeared.

At this, Natha answered rather hesitatingly. "...because they just found out that the Hero is no longer there."

"Oh?"

Natha twisted his lips first before continuing with a sigh. "I had been holding back information so they wouldn’t wage war straight away after the new Lord was appointed, but they found out about it recently."

"How?"

"Anonymous tip."

My brow raised high. Something Natha did not know happening inside a realm that was supposed to be under his influence?

No wonder he looked annoyed. I could imagine him trying to look for the answer by drinking with the overly energetic new Lord who Eruha said loved alcohol as much as fighting. What an expensive investment you made, my Lord.

"We’re still trying to investigate it for now, but it’s hard doing it without arousing suspicion," he leaned back against the backrest again, looking as tired as he was in the beginning. Perhaps the memory of the day came flooding again.

But oh, I loved him so much for coming back here instead of staying there to solve everything first.

And while we were on that topic...

"Umm...did you...did you do it because of me?" I fiddled with his green pendant. "Because you didn’t want the war to happen when my position was still shaky?"

He gave me his charming, affectionate smile that always made me want to throw myself to his chest. It embarrassed me to say it myself, but it always astonished me how he could love me this much.

"I don’t mind they had their revenge and whatnot," he exhaled heavily. "I just wished they did it later, after our child is born."

I threw myself at him as if my body worked automatically, and hugged him tight, burying my face on his neck.

He chuckled and patted my back. "What is it?"

"It’s nice knowing that we have the same thoughts," I whispered.

He laughed softly for a while, but the laughter ended with another sigh. "Haa...that’s why this is annoying," he clicked his tongue while still caressing my back. "I can’t very well say they couldn’t do it, because they would say I’m biased toward the humans."

Yeah, and some people who didn’t like him--or us--would use it to drag me. Worst of all; they could use that with the fact that Natha’s father was branded a traitor before to make a narration that Natha betrayed the realm of demons.

People had been seeing me more as a prince of the druid instead of the human kingdom’s war hero, but that notorious reputation might come back if Natha made a wrong move.

Even now, if they found out Natha had been putting an embargo on the information about the Hero’s whereabouts...

"But we also cannot disclose the real reason," I was the one who sighed then, finally understanding why Natha made that kind of face when he arrived earlier.

"Mm..."

Ah, damn it--now it became suffocating again, even though the atmosphere was getting good in the middle. This damn curiosity...I should have waited until tomorrow or something--

"Well, now that it comes to this, I just have to make sure the war never reaches us," Natha shrugged, stopping my regretful thoughts.

I raised my head and pulled away slightly to look at him inquisitively. The silver eyes narrowed into crescents, and his lips curled into a smirk.

"So, I just need to make the Realm of Wrath win."

I stared at him in a daze for a few seconds, before grasping his face and kissing him hard, deep, with all my affection and pent-up desire as I fumbled around his buttons. Gods--he was so cool! Cool enough to wake up my sleeping arousal.

"Shall we...continue what we did this morning?" I whispered.

Instead of answering with words, he picked me up and threw me to the bed. Along with him, on top of me, as if his fatigue was nothing but a lie.

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