Chapter 186 Part 2: The Betrayer (2/2)

*crack, crack, crack*

One-eye broke the arms and legs of No.3 and Big 4 before slowly making his way to me. As he sauntered over, he let forth a sonorous laugh. “My dear Master, do you know how long I’ve waited for this day?”

“…” Truth be told, I never expected the devils under me to betray me. Up till now, all my subordinates had shown themselves to be completely loyal to me. For example, the now deceased Mo Ci, Big 1 who enjoyed addressing himself as ‘This Lordship’, the slightly cowardly No.4…No.1, No.2, Big 1, Big 2, so on and so forth. All of them gave their lives for me and that made me believe that my devils would forever be loyal to me, that they would never betray me. Unfortunately, I was wrong, devils weren’t as simple as I had thought.

Devils themselves were known as the representatives of chaos, betrayal, murder and cruelty…any of those descriptors could be aptly placed on a devil. To them, another person’s pain was their pleasure.

Even though I was a devil myself, I actually forgot about that point. All this while, I had lived under the protection of my subordinates. Thanks to that, I viewed myself as extremely fortunate and even began to treat myself as some kind of main character who could go around recruiting little brothers willy nilly, the kind with their loyalty maxed out at Lv.100.

As reality would have it, I was wrong. There were definitely a large number who were completely loyal to me, but there were also those who harbored ambitions and a traitorous heart. It just so happened that One-eye was the latter, a rather successful one no less.

One-eye threw me a heavy punch that felt even worse to my weaker-than-normal constitution. Adding on the fact that One-eye was a strength-type devil to begin with, that punch left me severely winded and gasping for air.

“Mas…ter…” Body severely burnt and limbs broken, No.3 miserably dragged his battered body towards me but was summarily stopped by a scoff and a stamp on his head by Nine-finger.

“Even though I don’t know why the Boss decided to betray the Master, but since the Boss told me to guard you two, you’d better behave.”

“Good, keep them under watch, once I’m done having fun, I might just reward you with the leftovers.” One-eye bellowed with laughter having said that.

“Boss, what’s the reward going to be? Also, what are you planning to have fun with?”

“Moron, who else can it be other than her?”

One-eye pointed his finger at me…

‘Me? You’ve got to be joking, I said so many times already, I’m a guy, not a woman, stop mixing the two up!’

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“Don’t be angry, even though that’s charming in of itself, I still prefer your smiling face.” Having spouted that goosebumps-inducing line, he continued walking towards me with a certain thirst in his eyes, hands extended forward in a groping motion as he did so. “Did you know, from the moment I first met you, I decided that I would have my way with you, even if it was only just once!”

“…”

The first time we met…the first time we met, my first impression of those two were that of a pair of tsukkomi and boke.

“Perhaps our first meeting left too much of an impression on you, that’s why you always thought of us as fools. Truthfully, all that was just an act.”

“That’s right, that’s right, I’m not stupid!”

“Shut up, you’re the moron here!” Nine-finger immediately his shrunk inwards from being scolded. “After all, no one would suspect a fool to be capable of betrayal.”

‘He’s right, no one would think that a fool would be smart enough to do such a thing. Even if said fool wanted to do so, he would mostly likely telegraph his intentions in some obvious manner.’

It was precisely because I saw all my devils as morons that I had never once suspected that the day would come where they would stand opposite me. Still, why was it One-eye who betrayed me and not the others? It was at that moment that a thought suddenly occurred to me. Around the time I returned from the human realm, No.3 reminded me that One-eye was busy creating a faction of his own and that he was one of the few subordinates who became a commander soon after pledging his loyalty.

More annoyingly, I forgot one important piece of information, eating souls boosted one’s intelligence!

At birth, if devils weren’t able to receive enough nourishment from souls, their intelligence tended to be lower than usual, in other words, a brain deficiency of sorts. Such a deficiency could not be made up for easily, no matter how much supplements one threw at the problem. As for One-eye, he was already a commander of a hundred devils before meeting me, back then he must have consumed all the souls just like me.

The reason was simple, Nine-finger was a moron…if One-eye had given him some souls to consume, he wouldn’t be so confused as he was right now. For all I knew, he still recognized me as his master, it was simply that One-eye held a higher position than me.

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