…sigh…I knew that this was eventually going to happen, but I’ve been running away from reality this whole time. I just thought that I could ignore all these troublesome things by simply telling them that I’m a legitimate ‘sloth’.

…sigh…why in the world did it have to come to this? Please tell me I’m just dreaming; please tell me this is all just a dream and I’ll find myself sleeping peacefully in my cocoon right now…

I visibly heaved a long sigh, while about ten strong individuals were kneeling in front of me…at least they looked strong…they didn’t look as strong as the six DSs though…

“Is something the matter, master?” it was decided that I’d be addressed as their ‘Master’ in front of the masses and ‘Acedia-sama’ when we're in private.

“It’s nothing” I looked back at them and noticed them scowling at me, “but it seems as though they’re quite dissatisfied with me.”

Lucifer noticed their displeased expressions and frowned at them while emitting an ominous dark aura, but it was instantly overpowered by the purple aura that was oozing out of Beelzebub…whoa! What’s wrong with her all of a sudden? Is it because I let out a sigh just now? I bet an elegant lady like her would expect me to act majestic in front of my subjects!!!

While I was petrified by her sudden change, she elegantly turned to face the ones who were kneeling at me, opened her folding fan swiftly, and placed it in front of her mouth. A palm-sized scorpion appeared from behind the fan, it moved from her neck to her shoulder and slowly climbed down to the ground.

And about nine more appeared one by one from behind the fan (okay fine! It came out of her mouth, okay?) when the scorpions noticed their prey, they rapidly ran towards the ten people kneeling at me while making noises like crickets.

They climbed on each one of their shoulders and crawled toward their mouth while pointing their stinger threateningly. All the people in front of me were visibly horrified by the scorpions on their mouths and the aura that was directed at them from Beelzebub.

Beelzebub, still holding the fan to her mouth finally spoke up, her ice-cold gaze directed at each one of them as if she had ten sets of eyes pointing their bloodlust at each one of those old geezers.

“If you dare to disrespect my master ever again…” Her expression instantly turned into a horrifying smile, even though she was covering her mouth with her fan, everyone in the room could see just how ferocious her eyes looked, they were the eyes of a predator delightfully awaiting their turn to feast on their favorite snack “…my little ones would be overjoyed to feast upon your incompetent brains, you disrespectful fools.”

Ever since I told Beelzebub that I don't mind them talking to me normally, she's been extremely careful and scary at times.

I could feel a cold sweat running down my spine, kyaaaa! What the hell is wrong with her? I would have peed my pants if I was in their shoes!

Ah! I can’t pee now, can I? Wait- that’s not the point here! Why is such an ‘elegant’ young lady so freaking creepy all of a sudden?! And why does Lucifer look so satisfied about this?!

Aaaah!!! Elegant big sister types are totally scary!!! But I can't deny the fact that she's a little cool...

Wait…that’s not it! I’ve got to do something about this situation right now!

I finally got up from my seat and walked to Beelzebub, I tapped her shoulder to stop her from going any further. She quickly snapped out of it and swiftly got down on one knee, while the scorpions got gobbled up into her right hand…well, that’s gluttony for you, I guess!

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They were all still frozen from the terror they were stricken with, the first one to break out of the shock was a somewhat middle-aged vampire, he had brown hair and silver eyes. When he noticed me in front of him, he bowed his head down.

“And you are?” when he heard me questioning him, he raised his head and answered, “My name is Lazarus Arnold Salvatore, my lord. I am a pure-blooded vampire and the head of the noble family of Salvatore.” Ooh! So, pure-blooded vampires are nobles huh?

“I see…” I paused for a bit, “so, Lazarus…” I continued while smiling gently at him, “You seem to be quite displeased with me being the Demon Lord of the Abyss of Dementia.”

"Even, if we were. We cannot go against you, my master."

"Oh, Yah. That rule where the demons can't go against the Demon Lord or something. I gotta do something about that."

"What are you dissatisfied with?"

"Your strength, my master."

"I see..." it helps when they're this direct. I need people like this who see things in a new light. Instead of worshipping me like those six nincompoops.

The other nine regained their composure when I finished talking to Lazarus. I took a step back and looked at all of them. “Why don’t all of you come at me at once? Then you can see for yourself how strong I am.”

“But my master that is…!” I could hear Lucifer spouting some nonsense from the background, so I just ignored him and waited for them to reply.

All of them looked at each other and seemed to come to a decision, “we would humbly like to accept your offer, my lord.” I gave them a satisfied smile and I noticed Lazarus twitching at something behind me, I turned to look at the troublemaker who was bearing her fangs at Lazarus, “Freya!” I shot at her, and as soon as she noticed me, she quietly apologized, “I’m sorry master” …well, I guess I could forgive you for acting like a cute cat…is she doing that on purpose?

Once that was taken care of, I told all of the ten warriors to ready their weapons and stand in any formation they preferred. There were six men and four women who were from different races, all surrounding me from every side…wait…I did say any formation, but isn’t this a little too unfair?

I’m pretty confident I don’t need my weapon, but I guess I’ll just take it out to show off a bit. I slightly tapped the earring on my right ear, and it turned into a long scythe in the blink of an eye. All of them backed off a little at the sight of the scythe and looked at each other, they nodded their heads to one another to reassure themselves, held their weapons even tighter, and ran towards me all at once.

…they were extremely slow; it felt like everything around me was moving in slow motion. I spun my scythe once, I used the handle of my scythe to knock down each one of their weapons…they had different weapons ranging from long swords, short swords axes, and many more… my movement was so fast that none of them could even understand what was going on.

Once their weapons flew out of their hands, they just stood there, completely dumbfounded. I used that opening to produce thread from my fingers which were as hard as steel and choked their neck in mere seconds.

…I was kind of afraid that they might start crying if I damaged their weapons, so I just made sure to use the handle of my scythe to them off their hands…aren’t I such a good person? …I mean I could be a little mean sometimes…

Once they noticed that their necks were being constrained, they just stood there, holding their breath in. I instantly turned on my aura, they all felt fear grasping at their hearts like they could die any second now, tears welling up in their terror-stricken faces. …I wouldn’t exactly call it an aura, it’s more like hundreds and thousands of eyes filled with bloodlust pointed straight at you. I’m not sure how powerful my real aura is, so I don’t want to use it right now. I did mention that I’d be mean sometimes, right? Teehee!

Once they seemed to be at their limit, I retracted the steel thread surrounding their necks and instantly stopped the bloodlust pointed at them. Ones they felt that they were out of harm’s way, all ten of them fell to the ground at once as a wave of relief washed over them.

And once everything was done, I turned to the six DS’s who had their mouths hanging wide open…Wow! Even the refined lady Beelzebub had her mouth hanging wide!

“U-um, can you take care of them for me?”, they stood there like statues, awestruck by the tremendous power of their master…hahaha-hahaha.

Once again Lucifer was the one to break out of the shock first, “C-certainly, my master”, I just went to my throne, took a pillow out of my spatial storage (by the way my throne looks more like a sofa than a throne, you know.) and went straight to sleep, while the others were taking care of the aftermath of Yours Truly.