Aaaaah…this is heaven alright…hehehe…I’m being fawned over and treated like a king on a throne!!!...or a demon lord on a throne, I guess?

What? Do you think I’m wasting my time? of course not! A sloth efficiently wastes his time to use it efficiently…right? Well…anyway this is not wasting time I’m using my precious time to rest and build up my strength and stamina to face off against whoever comes to kill me.

You telling me to go train to get stronger? Ke-kekeke…sorry but a sloth’s way of getting stronger is to laze around and do nothing every day. Isn’t that the reason I named myself Acedia? Ha-hahaha…I’m literally the embodiment of laziness itself I tell you!

I’ve been placed in the throne room (it’s the same ballroom I was born in by the way), food and beverages placed all around me, three of the seven deadly sins praising and fawning all over me: Lucifer, Freya, and Beelzebub. Can I just call them the six DS’s cause the six of the seven deadly sins is a mouthful you know?

Wait…isn’t this going to make me a total shut-in if it keeps up? I know that I’m the embodiment of laziness but if I keep living a life where I do nothing but eat and sleep, I’ll turn into a fat pig, and my dream of snatching people's first love is going to end in a total failure. Ah! Did my true feelings come out just now? Imagine you didn’t hear that. Teehee!

Alright then, guess I’ll get to work now! I turn to Lucifer, “Lucifer?” I mean…Lucifers is more like my secretary because he seems to be the most forward among all of them, the others don’t seem to mind that, so I didn’t pry into it.

“Yes. My master?”

“Can you tell me where Mammon, Lyssa, and Zelus are?”

“Mammon and Lyssa are on the front lines facing the human invaders and Zelus is out gathering information, my master.”

“I see…” So they are having a war against the humans huh…

“Do the humans have people as strong as all of you?”

“There are certain individuals who possess a decent amount of strength, my master. Kekekeke…but they are nothing more than mere flies against us.”

“Hey…my flies are way stronger than them you know.” Beelzebub chimed in.

“Beelzebub! But do you not think that it is quite rude of you to speak without our master’s permission?”

Beelzebub suddenly fell to her knees and started begging for forgiveness “Please, do forgive my rudeness, my master. I shall accept any punishment fit for this lowly servant of yours!”

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…sigh…this is going to be a total pain for me, isn’t it?

“Beelzebub!”

“Yes, My master?”

“Can you stand up?”

“As you wish, my master” She slowly stood up and held her head down.

“First off, can you please stop treating yourself as a mere servant?”

“Yes?” She just stood there, wide-eyed unable to understand what was going on.

Ones she raised her eye to look up at me, I gave her a gentle smile, which made her blush a little, I faced the others in the room “You are my subordinates, and as your master, I do not want you to think of yourselves as mere servants.”

“Next…” I looked back at Beelzebub who was still wide-eyed from all the confusion, “All of you are free to give your opinions anytime you want. If you go too far, I’ll stop you myself and you won’t be punished for it either.”

I turned my gaze elsewhere and held my finger to my lips, “Let’s see…” I looked back at all of them once again “I want you to stop calling me ‘master’ from now on. You do know that I have a fine name called ‘A-ci-di-a’ right?”

They all looked at me with wide eyes, as if I were some alien from outer space humph! How rude! Lucifer was the first to recover from the shock Oh! So, he’s mentally strong too huh, but I bet he’d freak out if I were to tell him that I’m going to abandon him for good. Hehehe…my sadistic side might dominate me if this keeps going…I’m scary, aren’t I?

“But master, we cannot possibly simply refer to you by your name. That would be way too disrespectful of us.”

“Hmmm…then why not just use ‘Sama’ at the end of my name?”

“‘Sama?’, but what does ‘Sama’ mean, master?” oh! Of course, they wouldn’t know what that means!

“‘Sama’ is a word used to refer to an individual of higher status than you. So, you can just call me ‘Acedia-sama’ from now on.” Kekeke… I can’t believe my Otaku knowledge is being used at a time like this.

All three of them stepped back, stood next to each other, and bowed their heads, “understood, from this day forth, we shall refer to our master as ‘Acedia-sama’.”

Mmmm…that’s got such a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? “Oh! Remember to tell everyone else in the castle about this too.”

“Yes, Acedia-sama” Lucifer replied.

“Alright then, can all of you tell me more about the relationship between the humans and the demons?”

Freya who was unusually silent until now, stepped up to answer that question. “The humans and demons have been at war for the past millennia. Demons have always been led by one demon lord, while humans have divided themselves and formed many kingdoms. The demon lords of the past were utterly weak, compared to you, Acedia-sama.”

“Kekekeke…even we could easily defeat those incompetent geezers.” Waa! Aren’t all of you expecting a little too much from me?

“So, are you saying that you could easily destroy the human realm if you wanted to?”

“If that is your wish, we will certainly execute it, Acedia-sama.” Wait… now it’s because I told you to? I don’t want to be a mass murderer you know. I mean…yeah, I am a demon lord but still…

“Would it be possible for us to work together with the humans?” I asked this to make sure they were willing to work together with them.

“It would be possible, but it would be difficult for both humans and demons to trust each other. The hatred between them has been rooted in their hearts for a long time now.”

Well, I don’t particularly have a goal, so why not just consider establishing peace among the human and demon realms? I'll make that my goal from now on! I probably have a long lifespan, so I can take my time and go at it slowly, I guess?