After Natalie effortlessly dealt with the thugs’ invasion, Elodie was in her base waiting for nightfall with the Suicide Squad.
Then she suddenly heard from her subordinates about the thugs invading the mansion.
After all, Elodie had been keeping an eye on the mansion using a subordinate with Farsight Magic.
Elodie had no idea if Natalie might secretly take Emily and run away while she wasn’t watching, so she had to have someone monitor her.
Of course, Natalie also knew that Elodie’s people were watching her.
If anyone else had dared to do that, Natalie would have killed them already.
But because it was Elodie, her sister, doing it, Natalie turned a blind eye to her surveillance.
“Who were those people who attacked the Lord Demon King?”
After hearing the report, Elodie began to ponder the question.
Elodie naturally didn’t know about the grudge between the thugs and Natalie.
But considering Natalie’s habit of never thinking about consequences,
Elodie figured she had probably provoked some local bullies without realizing it.
Thinking about that, Elodie couldn’t help but feel sympathy for those thugs who had no idea they were messing with Natalie.
After all, Natalie the Demon King was not an enemy these local bullies would normally encounter.
“My Lady, what should we do next? Should we continue the plan?”
“…No, the situation has changed. Let’s put the plan on hold for now.”
Originally, Elodie’s idea was to have the Suicide Squad constantly harass Natalie until she got annoyed.
Simply put, annoy Natalie until she couldn’t stand it and went back to being the Demon King.
Elodie knew this method was stupid and inefficient.
But other than that, she couldn’t think of any other way to make Natalie obediently return to being the Demon King.
For someone as willful and world-class powerful as Natalie,
there really wasn’t much that could make her obediently go back.
And now, the task of annoying Natalie had been taken over by those random thugs.
Without knowing Natalie’s current state, sending people to annoy her could easily lead to accidents.
Elodie didn’t want to send these loyal demon soldiers to their deaths for nothing.
“I’ll go to the Lord Demon King first and find out what happened…”
After all, figuring out the specifics would make it easier for Elodie to adjust her plan.
And so, Elodie sent the Suicide Squad, who had been ready to die, back first.
She herself headed to the mansion once more.
When Elodie arrived at the mansion, she immediately looked around.
The entire mansion looked no different from the last time she had been there.
The walls that the thugs had smashed with their bodies had been repaired by Natalie using magic.
If her subordinate hadn’t told Elodie about the attack,
she wouldn’t have believed that Natalie had killed dozens of people there not long ago.
Taking a deep breath to calm herself a little, Elodie knocked on the mansion’s door.
After all, Elodie didn’t know if Natalie was still angry.
If she was still angry and saw her annoying sister show up, she might take it out on Elodie.
It wouldn’t come to hurting Elodie, but getting scolded a few times was certain.
Elodie waited only a few seconds before the door opened.
A timid Xilina appeared in Elodie’s view.
The scene of Natalie slaughtering dozens of thugs had really scared Xilina.
Even though hours had passed, Xilina still hadn’t recovered.
Xilina had silently made a decision in her heart: no matter what, she would never disobey Natalie’s orders from now on.
She absolutely couldn’t end up like that thug leader.
But deep down, Xilina also felt a certain satisfaction from having her revenge!
Even though she hadn’t done the killing herself, seeing her enemies reduced to a mist of blood,
especially the thug leader’s dying screams, gave Xilina a sense of pleasure.
“Um… little girl, it’s me. Do you remember me?”
“I remember you. You’re Lady Natalie’s relative.”
“Yes! Um… is Lady Natalie here?”
As she spoke, Elodie glanced around the mansion’s living room.
Besides Xilina, there was no one else in the living room.
“…Lady Natalie is here.”
The moment she heard Elodie’s words, Xilina was first surprised, but still replied that way.
After all, Xilina really didn’t dare to get close to Natalie right now.
But since a guest had come, she had to go call Natalie.
‘Sigh… Natalie, can’t you hold back a little in front of a child? And in front of that Saintess, is it really okay to act so brutally…’
Seeing Xilina’s fearful expression, Elodie silently sighed inwardly.
After learning from her subordinates about Natalie’s cruel treatment of the thugs, Elodie was naturally speechless.
She knew the person Natalie liked was a kind Saintess.
But Natalie had shown that violent nature in front of Emily—no matter how you looked at it, it would hurt her favorability.
It was like showing violence to someone who doesn’t like violence; any normal person would be afraid of being abused later.
But as the person who knew Natalie best in the world, Elodie actually thought that if Natalie truly wanted to be with Emily, it was better for her to know her true nature.
Natalie was the type who, once she got worked up, didn’t care about the consequences and was ruthless.
It was better to know this nature early on, rather than finding out after they were already together.
Of course, Natalie’s dangerous nature was limited to her enemies.
To the people she liked, Natalie was very friendly, even overly so.
So Elodie wasn’t worried about ending up like those thugs one day.
Otherwise, the time she teamed up with Daphiel to stage a coup against Natalie would have been enough to get her killed a hundred times.
But Natalie wasn’t angry at all about the coup.
She just simply ran away from home with Emily!
Even when she saw Elodie coming to bother her again, she just found it a bit annoying.
“Could you please call Lady Natalie down for me?”
In order to see Natalie quickly, Elodie asked Xilina, who was just a servant, in an extremely gentle tone.
She showed none of the arrogance of a Demon King’s Executive or a member of the royal family.
Under normal circumstances, as a Demon King’s Executive, Elodie had no need to be so gentle to a refugee servant like Xilina.
There were nobles in the demon race who looked down on the lower class, but Elodie was clearly not that kind of person.