Chapter 55: Everyone needs to face their dark past...
"Huh...it’s you?" the next day—or rather, the next evening—Natha’s messenger came, and it was a familiar person, I mean, demon.
Wearing a robe and a human disguise, they had a male appearance, but I knew the demon form was genderless. But I’d just assume he was a male since he disguised as one. Anyway, he was the spy Natha planted in the kingdom, the one I chased and cornered to send my desperate letter to the Demon Lord.
I guessed Natha sent this one because I was more or less familiar with him?
He came after I finished my dinner, waiting on standby outside the balcony door with a luxurious box in his hands. He opened the box and politely showed me the content, which was an old-looking scroll protected by preservation magic.
I opened the scroll to glance at the content for a bit, just to see that it indeed contained the royal cultivation method. But I could peruse the content later since there was something more important right now.
"Did Na—His Lordship tell you?" I asked first, to make sure.
He nodded, eyes still stayed gazing at the floor instead of me. "Please give me your order, Young Master,"
He was kneeling on the floor, while I was seated on the armchair, and it was quite awkward for me. I was used to being called that, but this was the first time someone kneeled in servitude in front of me, and he refused to do otherwise even after I asked him to.
I guessed...that was his setting?
Sighing internally, I gave him my first order. "First, tell me your name,"
I knew the name he used while disguising himself as a human, but I didn’t think it was appropriate to call him that.