Facing the door that kept being knocked on, Natalie’s first thought was naturally to ignore it.
After all, Natalie knew exactly why Daphiel had come to find her.
It was nothing more than asking her to go to the front lines to command the troops and repel the offensive of the human army of over 100,000.
But Natalie truly had zero interest in this matter.
In Natalie’s view, this matter could just be handled by Daphiel or other Demon King cadres.
Even if something really went wrong, she could just step in and take responsibility for repelling the humans then.
There was absolutely no need to waste time going on a personal expedition.
For the current Natalie, she had other, more important matters to handle.
Of course, Natalie’s so-called “important matters” were cultivating her relationship with Emily, plus the occasional harassment.
If she went to the front lines, Natalie would have to be separated from Emily.
As someone with extreme possessiveness, Natalie didn’t even allow Emily to leave her sight for more than 1 hour.
Once they were separated for 1 hour, Natalie would start to panic, worrying if Emily was being pestered by some dangerous woman or man.
If separated for more than 2 hours, Natalie would become incredibly agitated, wishing for nothing more than to see Emily as soon as possible.
And if they were separated for more than 3 hours, Natalie would most likely lose her rationality, her head filled with nothing but finding Emily.
However, Daphiel, who was outside, naturally knew that Natalie was in the room.
She wouldn’t leave so easily and instead knocked on the door even harder.
After all, Daphiel was truly at her wit’s end.
In the days since defeating the Hero, Natalie had truly stayed with Emily the entire time.
If she wasn’t dragging Emily to the garden, she was going somewhere else to play with her.
She had completely forgotten that she was still a Demon King and no longer even processed reports from her subordinates.
She didn’t even attend the morning court sessions that had to be held every day.
Additionally, with the recent human invasion, various documents had piled up in the Demon King’s office.
Meanwhile, the Demon King herself was obsessed with Emily’s beauty every day.
In Daphiel’s eyes, Natalie had thoroughly become the image of a foolish ruler who neglected state affairs because she was infatuated with beauty.
As for Emily, the Saintess, she had also become a disastrous beauty who threw the nation into chaos in Daphiel’s eyes.
Daphiel even started to wonder if Emily was using some kind of charm magic.
Otherwise, Daphiel really couldn’t understand why Natalie was so obsessed with Emily.
Of course, Daphiel was now certain that her master had fallen for the Saintess.
After all, Daphiel had sent people to watch Natalie and Emily’s “dates.”
Daphiel also knew that sending people to monitor the Demon King as a subordinate was highly disrespectful, but she simply couldn’t sit by and watch Natalie’s laziness.
According to the reports from her subordinates, the intimate actions between Natalie and Emily, along with Natalie’s frequent forced physical closeness, made Daphiel realize one thing: her Demon King had 100% fallen in love with the Saintess.
Upon learning the truth, Daphiel finally understood why Natalie had been so resistant when so many Demon King cadres had advised her to take a husband and leave an heir in the past.
After all, under normal circumstances, one of the most important things for a ruler of a country was to leave an heir.
Eventually, the cadres didn’t even expect Natalie to take a husband.
As long as she could favor some handsome guy she liked and leave an heir, that would be enough.
To achieve this goal, the Demon King’s cadres had worked extremely hard.
When there were no wars, they would bring the top handsome men in the country to meet Natalie almost every week.
They recommended all kinds of handsome men to Natalie.
The cool type, the cute type, and they even found several of the cross-dressing type.
One cadre, seeing that Natalie wasn’t interested in so many handsome men, had a sudden flash of inspiration.
He thought Natalie might not like handsome men but instead liked fat or ugly men.
Otherwise, it was impossible to explain why Natalie hadn’t shown even a slight interest in anyone after seeing so many handsome men.
Convinced of his idea, that cadre eventually took action and brought several ugly and fat men to see Natalie all at once.
That day, Natalie, who had always been indifferent to such things, finally showed a flicker of emotion — extreme loathing and nausea.
After all, that cadre had searched based on the standard of “the uglier, the better.”
The people he brought were the top-tier ugly men in the entire country, the kind that would make someone feel sick at a single glance.
After that day, Daphiel never saw that inspired colleague again.
Of course, both Daphiel and the other cadres believed that person truly got what he deserved.
‘Tsk, even if she really likes girls, why does it have to be the Saintess! There are plenty of beautiful girls in the Demon Race… and if she likes girls, why didn’t she tell us sooner! That way, we could have made some recommendations!’
Now, Daphiel no longer expected Natalie to give birth to an heir or anything.
She only hoped that even if Natalie really did like girls, couldn’t she have fallen for a girl from the Demon Race?
But why did Natalie happen to fall for the Saintess, the mortal enemy of the Demon Race?
With this thought, Daphiel’s knocking became even more violent.
Finally, after knocking for over 15 minutes, Natalie was finally annoyed enough that she opened the door furiously.
“Daphiel, do you have a death wish?”
“My Lord, you are finally willing to come out,” Daphiel said, checking the situation inside the room.
Her gaze locked onto Emily, and her eyes were naturally filled with loathing and hostility.
Seeing that Daphiel still dared to stare at her Emily with such eyes, Natalie stood directly in front of her in an attempt to block her.
But because she was shorter, even though Natalie stood in front of Daphiel, she couldn’t block her view at all.
“So, Daphiel, what did you come here for? If it’s nothing, then get lost. I don’t have time to waste on you.”
“Then does my Lord have time to accompany the Saintess on trips to see the sights?”
“Tsk, honestly, if I can’t hold back and execute you one day, don’t blame me. You’re bringing it on yourself!”
“If executing me can make my Lord become someone who works hard, then please give the order to execute me right now.”
“You really are a piece of work,” Natalie muttered.
“So, my Lord, you haven’t forgotten what I told you several days ago, have you?”
“Isn’t it just the human invasion? Didn’t I already tell you that I’m handing full authority over this matter to you? If you’re so anxious, shouldn’t you be heading to the front lines right now? Why do you still have time to stay in the castle and give me trouble?”
“The reason I’m still here is naturally because you are ‘occupied with so many things,’ my Lord. Since you’ve left so many political affairs unattended, I have no choice but to handle them for you to keep the country from stopping.”
When she said the words “occupied with so many things,” Daphiel’s gaze was fixed intently on Emily.
Emily was truly startled by Daphiel’s murderous look.
She hadn’t forgotten the last time she was almost tortured by her.
“…”
Facing Daphiel’s words, Natalie also looked a bit guilty.
After all, she admitted that she had indeed been slacking off a bit too much over the past few days.
She had completely forgotten her work and responsibilities as the Demon King.
Because of this, Natalie didn’t have much confidence to refute Daphiel’s sarcasm.