A Demon Lord's Tale: Dungeons, Monster Girls, and Heartwarming Bliss

To The sea with the Children (1)

That day, I was carrying Riou and Sakuya in my arms, visiting the Ghost Ship dungeon that I had not seen recently.

To show them the sea.

Lefi, Rir, and Setsu were on the deck with me. Setsu had never seen the sea before, either.

“How do you like it, Riou and Sakuya? This is the sea! Isn’t it beautiful?” (Yuki)

Sakuya’s eyes lit up at the unusual sight of the ocean as I asked, but Riou couldn’t seem to get used to the smell of the ocean and started to get itchy.

Come to think of it, when we first brought Lyuu here, she also couldn’t get used to the smell of the sea. It seemed to be a problem that a beast with a good sense of smell faced.

“Oh, oh, she’s going to cry if you leave her like that. Here, leave Riou to me.” (Lyuu)

“Oh, please.” (Yuki)

Lefi took Riou from me and started to soothe her.

To be honest, I had expected this to happen, so it was a good thing that I had Lefi come with me. If I tried to soothe Riou, she wouldn’t stop crying at all.

“Oh, look, Sakuya, that’s a skeleton shark. But you don’t have to worry about being attacked because the one you’re swimming with is under your dad’s command, but if you see a skeleton shark anywhere else, you have to run away, okay? It’ll be like a B-movie that’s on during the day or late at night or something.” (Yuki)

“…I don’t know if there are skeleton sharks like that swimming around out there.” (Lefi)

Lefi muttered in disgust.

Yeah, well, skeleton sharks like ones swimming down below us right now should be rare.

Sunday Movie Theater’s “Skeleton Shark – Strikes Back”, event did not start.

These guys were the undead that came under my command when I inherited the Ghost Ship dungeon.

They were the watchdogs that I ordered to protect the Ghost Ship dungeon. They also didn’t need to be fed.

There were also skeletons and zombies waiting for me inside the Ghost Ship dungeon. Since they had no will and did not need to be fed, there was no need for me to take care of them at all.

However, I do come to check on them from time to time.

I didn’t like the undead, but… they were under my command, after all. I had to take good care of them.

“Ooh! Auh!” (Sakuya)

“Oh, you can’t have them, Sakuya, they’re under my command, but they’re not like Rir and the others. If you mess with them, they might eat you.” (Yuki)

“Buuuuuh…” (Sakuya)

Sakuya seemed intrigued by the skeleton sharks and wanted to reach out to touch them, but I couldn’t let him interact with them, so I made him give up.

Both Riou and Sakuya were represented by blue dots on my “map” to indicate that they were allies…. In other words, they should be considered allies by the Ghost Ship dungeon also, so I didn’t think they were going to be attacked by skeleton sharks, but I didn’t want to take any chances.

I would have to wait until the little ones were a little older to get them involved with the skeleton sharks.

“Kuh, kuh!” (Setsu)

Setsu, who also came with us, bobbed her tail and squealed cheerfully as if saying, “I want to look inside the dungeon!”

“Oh, okay. But it’s pretty dangerous over there, so you’ll have to go with Rir. Rir, show her around.”

“Kuu.”

Rir had barely touched the management of the Ghost Ship dungeon, but even so, he was already familiar with the inner workings of a dungeon.

Rir was no longer just a simple dungeon monster, he was now clearly in the same position of [Administrator].

And since he was serious about his position, he wanted to know what my dungeon area was like, so he also walked through the Ghost Ship dungeon and memorized all its features.

“Kuu!” (Rir)

“Kuu, Kuu!” (Setsu)

Setsu looked like she wanted to say, “Daddy, hurry up!” Rir replied, “Okay, okay, don’t run around too much. It’s dangerous there, you are heading in the direction of the Demon Forest”.

“Kaka, Rir has become a parent too. Well, he took care of a troubled child named Yuki, so he must be used to it in that sense.” (Lefi)

“No, I’ll tell you, he’s been pushed around a lot by his daughter, too. Setsu is already a great tomboy.” (Yuki)

“He’s a father, but he’s still a hard-working man, huh? Kaka, it’s not easy for him either.” (Lefi)

Hang in there, Rir.

The dungeon’s future depended on you.

“Well, Lefi, since we’re here, let’s have a barbecue on the beach today, so we can eat on the beach as soon as Illuna and others get back.” (Yuki)

“Oh, yes! They’ll love it. Drinks are good while having a barbecue, aren’t they?” (Lefi)

“Hahaha, right. It tastes better than usual when having drinks. Even Layla, who doesn’t usually drink much, gets drunk while having barbecue.” (Yuki)

Well, it was great to have a private beach.

It was a luxury to be able to barbecue on the beach whenever one felt like it, and one wanted to brag about it to people.

Why do people want to barbecue?

Why did it taste better outdoors than at home?

There was, indeed, a truth to it… I don’t know.

“Well, since it’s decided, we need to go back and prepare the food! With the amount of food that everyone in our family will be eating, we need to start preparing it now, or we won’t make it in time.” (Lefi)

“Okay, let’s do that. What do you want to eat today, meat or seafood? If you want seafood, I’m going to the fish market in the Rogard Empire.” (Yuki)

“Hmmm… I’m torn. We’ve become quite fond of seafood under your influence. Well, let’s prepare for both. Illuna will be happy. We will prepare the meat and vegetables, and you go and buy the seafood you like.” (Lefi)

“Yes, that’s a good idea. You two can’t eat yet, but we’ll enjoy it together!” (Yuki)

Riou’s ears twitched as if not understanding what they were talking about, and Sakuya didn’t understand it either, but he could sense that they were in a good mood and smiled happily.

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