[Alysha's Pov]

When I finally found the principal's office after several hours of... asking around, I entered the building and asked a teacher where he was.

Said teacher wasn't too happy with me being here, and screamed at me "Go away demon, you're lucky enough to be here already." I think he just had a bad day. Poor guy, he needs to vent some frustratrion. I continued in my search after I told him to say hi to satan for me, as he was going to go meet him.

After 10 minutes, I finally found the principal's office. Entering, I saw him working on paperwork. He looked at me suprised, but didn't react violently, which is always nice.

"Good morning Alysha. What do you need from me?" He asked. I'm suprised he called me by my name, as almost nobody ever does it. They always call me 'Cat' or relatives of such nickname. It's not like it makes me a bit happy...

"Ah, yes! I decided to leave the school. I confirmed that I don't need to stay here any longer, and decided to tell you just in case. Thanks for everything and I'm not changing my mind." He looked at me in suprise once again and said 

"Are you sure? I thought you liked it here." Oh my, I do indeed like it, but there's not enough bandits to torture around here...

"I did like it, but I'm no good with people. See ya~" I say and run outside ignoring his calls. Hehe, sucker! I'm not falling for your wordplay! I know he wants to keep me in here for some reason. Too bad for him~

I run outside the building and dash towards the gates. Since I'm not going to stay here any longer, I unleash my inner sadist and begin laughing maniacally whilst running. 

Once at the gate, I punch the guard that was on patrol there. He explodes, but I ignore it and kick the gates open. They too explode, and I make a furious dash outside, still laughing. I really need to vent some of my inner sadistic desires on someone, so once I arrive at the forest 10 kilometers away I search around for someone to torture. 

Sure enough, I find a lone student. It looks like he was practicing his magic, as there were some cuts on the trees. Probably either water or wind blades, quite high level too considering the cuts were pretty~ deep.

I land from my tree-hopping near him, and the ground explodes under my weight. He turnes to look at me, but once he saw my crazed face, he immediately paled and began to conjure a spell. I don't let him finish though, as I jump at him and bite off his hand in which the magic was being conjured in. 

I swallow the tender hand and look at him once again. He was screaming in pain, which fuels my sadistic self even more. I catch him with my tails and begin pulling on his arms. After about 20 seconds of slowly increasing the pull's strenght, his arms finally come out from his shoulders and he screams even more.

I throw the arms in my mouth and chew a bit. They're quite tasty... Nobles always taste better then commoners even though they sometimes are even weaker then them. 

I shove my hand into his chest and rip out his heart and begin to chew on it. It tasted even better then the arms. Letting my desire take me over, I rip him apart and swiftly devour him, clothes still on. 

Satisfied, I take out a map. I search for the city in which the king should hold the ball in, and find it after a bit. I put away the map and begin tree-hopping over to the city. 

After a day, as I was nibbling on a monkey I had captured and rippered apart, I feel movement from inside the bag. I can't store living beins in my bag, which means only one thing.

I swiftly take out the snake's egg and I see as it slowly cracks open. I watch it, amazed at the spectacle of birth. After a while, a little snake of about 30-40cm comes out of it and looks at me. Just like the egg, it had a golden color with green stripes here and there.

"Hello little snake. I'm going to take care of you, so that makes me your mother." The snake just looks at me... like a snake would? I'm not sure what its facial expression is like. 

It slithers over to my arm I stretched out to him and coils around it. I heard snakes usually don't care about offsprings, but I can see that it sees me as it's mother. It looks so cute! How can people say snakes are scary~!

I rip out a piece of my monkey snack, and tear it into little pieces. I then give little pieces of it to the snake. It opens his mouth and I put the meat in it. Oh god, It's soooo cute! My maternal instincts take over and I begin caressing it's head. I'm not sure if it's a boy or girl, but I don't really care either way. 

It doesn't seem to dislike it though, so I continue petting him and feeding it for a solid 30 minutes. He then looks satisfied and refuses to eat more no matter how much I try to prod him to eat. He coils around my arm and settles on it. I heard snakes sleep with their eyes open, so is it perhaps asleep?

I slow down from my tree hopping to make sure he doesn't fall off. It seems a bit scared of going at such velocities at firt, but then slowly gets accustomed to it. I guess it's newborn brain is still learning? I don't know how giant magical snake babies work, I guess I'll ask for help once I reach the city.

We continue on our journey and I feed it all kinds of meat to make sure he has a nice and diverse diet. During the time frame of two days, he had already grown 5cm and his eyes already showed a wisdom unbecoming of a baby. I guess baby snakes are really amazing?

I ended up naming it Asu Bloodseeker, as I think it's a boy. It (now he) looked like he even understood his own name, so when I called him he would always look up at me. He's just so cute! I'm sure he's going to become a great snake! I wonder if I feed him strong people he's going to become stronger faster?

I would sometimes play with him using my tails, or catch a small animal and let him chase it around. He looked so cute when he caught his first rat! He came up to me and tried giving it to me! I couldn't resist but to hug him (making sure to be really gentle) and to let him eat it.

It took 3 days in total to arrive at the city. The ball was during around 3pm, so I still had about 4 hours of free time left. I entered the city wearing a black robe. I as usual, got quite a few stares while walking around the streets.

I spent the next 3 hours shopping for various kinds of dishes for me and Asu and also bought a couple of shiny gems. The shinier the better in my opinion, but Asu didn't seem to agree since he tried to usher me forward by biting me. I complied and kept on moving.

I could see columns of nobles walking towards the castle, which stood tall in the center of the city. I joined them ignoring the pitiful gazes on me. I made sure to wear something proper under the robe, meaning I'm wearing my favourite gothic lolita dress, it's a mix of black and blue colors with ribbons and frills all over it. It costed around 60 gold coins, which is insane but I couldn't care less about money. Asu was wrapped around my neck, making him kinda look like a scarf.

When it was finally my turn to enter, the guards checked my invitation. The one checking my papers nodded and let me pass through. They probably didn't recognize my name, as people often only know my title.

I must say, the castle was quite nice. There were hundreds of nobles going around, but it still seemed like it had tons of space left. The walls were nice and decorated, there were tables for buffets and people kept entering, with servants shouting out their titles. 

I looked around and froze when I saw a familiar face. It can't be, why is he here? Why the hell is the Pervert here!? I know it had been a while since I last saw him, but shouldn't he be in school still!?

He was surrounded by noble girls chatting with him. Of course the Pervert was too busy oogling them to notice the several angry stares coming from the boys that were sitting a couple tables away.

Sighing to myself and telling myself that he's the only person I know, I walk up to him. He sees me coming, first a bit confused, but then recognizing my style of wear he smiles. He waves a hand at me as I approach. The girls around him look at me questioningly, but get suprised when I slap his face. He was still smiling though and says "Ouch, that's not nice Alysha! Be gentle with me will you!" I slap him again with a vein popping out of my forehead and I say  

"You Pervert. You're too busy looking at these girls to even notice that you're missing out on your duties. You're the 'Hero', go and talk to relevant nobles and make friends with them. Can't you even notice their stares!?" 

His smile freezes and he turns at the boys, who were still staring at him with jealousy. He turns to me and rubs the back of his head whilst laughing awkwardly. I slap his face again, and feeling satisfied, turn around and leave. I don't care if you look at me angrily girls, you're not strong enough to even be considered air in my eyes.

I sit down at a table alone with a plate full of meat. I spend the next thirty or so minutes eating and ignoring the curious stares and pitying looks from the various nobles. I only pay attention when the reason I'm here arrives.

"His majesty, Her majesty, the prince and the princess have arrived!" A servant shouts, and everyone turns to look at the door. The man I met twice, once with the hero and once for my S-rank upgrade, had finally shown his butt in here. Took him long enough.

I must say, the rumors of the princess being beutiful are true. She looks like an angel descended from the heavens. Heh, if she's the angel then I must be the demon... She's not as pretty as me in my opinion though, and I'm not saying it to feed my own ego.

The prince was also quite hot. He was 180cm tall, had a nice round face and sharp blue eyes. He too looked like an angel, but more of a masculine-type angel. Heh, that's the guy they want me to marry? At least his looks are decent. I doubt he'd ever understand me though.

They arrived and began to chat with very expensive-clothed people. Must be dukes or higher to talk to the king like that. Eh, not that I care. Since adventurers technically don't own alligiance to any country we don't need to pay taxes, but we don't receive benefits either. It's quite the wierd system. He's the king of the country I'm in, so I'm supposed to pay respects to him, but since I'm an adventurer I don't need to. 

I walked up to him the same time the Pervert did. Heh, so I guess the king invited him too? How fun. He probably wants to marry him to the princess or something. I pity you, princess.

The king turns from the noble he was talking to and looks at me and the 'Hero' for a second. He looks at me with a blank face before realizing who I was. It doesn't take a genius to do it either, I mean, only I would ever come up to the king dressed in a robe.

"So you've actually come, Alysha. I didn't expect you too. It's a nice suprise though. Would I be correct you at least considered my offer this time?" He says and then turns to the 'Hero' "Ah, you too 'Hero'. I'd be quite happy if you accepted my request. My daughter already agreed, so we're all set already." Heh, so I was right! They want to rope him in via the princess! Nice move, king!

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One of the nobles couldn't quite shut up though, and he looks like someone from pretty high up in the food chain. "Your majesty, are you sure it'd be a good idea to trust a person dressed in such... conspicuos clothes?" The king turns at him with a frown and says "Duke Pilgrim, I trust this person enough to know she won't do anything bad. Also, Alysha, I think you can remove the robe, I'll make sure nothing bad happends." Heh, isn't he like really polite with me? I wonder why.

The nobles all look at me and the king with suprise. I shrug and take off my robe. I think I heard a few gasps when they saw my tails and ears. Heh, suckers. 

I heard a couple of whispers too like 'Why is the 'Bloody Cat' Here?', 'So she is as beutiful as the rumors say?', 'Are we all going to die!?', 'Why did the king invite her here?'. Heh, stupid nobles. At least they don't make comments about me being a demon, but I think that's due to the king's presence.

The king looks at me and says "So, have you considered my offer?" I look at him, then at the prince for a second, then say "I hope that his majesty isn't expecting me to marry someone I've never met before. May I at least talk with him in private for a bit?" Hehe, I'll make the prince tell me everything of their plans involving me. I don't trust them at all. The king nods and goes to talk with his son, who was chatting with a couple nobles. 

Oh, of course, the 'Hero' was staring at the princess. I Pity you, princess. Pity to you...

[Prince Gaunter's Pov]

I've grown up being called 'The Ice Prince' due to my cold demeanor and distrust for others. My father taught me that one should never fully believe what another person says, and I agree with him. I've been showered with gifts all my life and people would praise me constantly. I know that, however, they're all only trying to get on my, and thus, my father's good side.

I have also received several marriage offers, just like my sister. Even though my father says that I should marry someone by now, I just can't bring myself to do these political marriages. They all just... expect me to marry someone just because of their political position. I simply can't trust them for that reason, so I always decline everyone.

Imagine my suprise when my father said that he was going to try and marry me to a certain someone. He never told me who, but he said that said person is a demon, and that she is perhaps even more beutiful then my sister.

Two things are strange about this. First of all, my sister is considered the gem of the kingdom, called the most beutiful woman in it. Also, why marry me to a demon? I've got nothing against them as I know better then the common populace about them, but why marry me to one?

My father says that it's a try at showing other demons that we mean peace and not war, he also says that this demon must absolutely be roped in. He also said that she already once declined, but he sent another offer and hasn't yet received a response, which means there's a chance, but it's low. I don't quite get it, who would decline to possibly become the next queen? 

As we arrived at the ball, my father turned to me and my sister and said in an absolute 0 voice

"Reina, remember, you are not being forced to marry the 'Hero', so should he not be good for you, I want you to decline. The choice is up to you. However, Gaunter, you're more limited. I neglected to tell you who the demon is, and I doubt she'll show up, but should she be here, I want you to at least get on her good side or impress her somehow. You'll easily recognize her, as she is the all-famous 'Bloody Cat'."

My jaw was so wide that my bones were creaking. The 'Bloody Cat'?! Isn't that the SS-rank but considered SSS-rank adventurer who's also known as the bandit's bane? The same one who's constantly on the run from the assassin's guild!?

"Gauntler, I know you may have prejudices against her, but remember that rumors often can't tell you everything about the person. I've been looking at reports of her activities, and I can say that she's not the monster you think she is. If you dig deep enough in her, you'll actually find a very fragile heart. So please, can you do this for me? We need her in the kingdom for her strenght." He says whilst looking at me in the eyes. I nod, after all, it must be a big matter considering the look in my dad's eyes. 

"Well, knowing her she'll probably not come, so you can be relieved at that." He says with a little laugh at the end. 

We arrive at the ball and the servants announce us. I go directly to talk to some of my friends, who were already there. We talk for about 20 minutes before my father arrives and has a smug smile on his face. I can already guess what happend...

"Gauntler, she's here and has requested that you talk to her before she considers the offer. Bring a couple guards with you if you want. I told her to wait in our private living room." I'm quite suprised at the end. He keeps quite a number of important papers in there, why does he trust her enough to know she won't take a peek?

I nod at go, ignoring the wispers of my supposed friends. I know that their parents just want them to get on my good side to leech favors off of me. Unfortunatly for them, I'm not that dumb.

I leave the ball room and go to the room my father said she's in. I wonder, is she truly more beutiful then my sister? That's somewhat hard to believe...

I arrive, and when I open the door what I see stuns me.

A girl perhaps 14 or 15 years old was sitting on the couch. She indeed had two tails and a pair of cat ears on her head. Her eyes shined a deep ruby color, and her hair was as silver as the moon, as were her ears. She was wearing a dress filled with frills and ribbons that looked very expensive. I wonder, just how rich is she? I heard she always loots the bandits she kills, and considering that bandits would run away even just by hearing her name, she must have killed quite a number.

She had her tails on her lap and a comb in one hand. She was carefully passing it through her tails, and without even looking at me said "Well~ Look who's here. Why don't you come in here? Oh wait, you're the one supposed to say that...? Eh, too bad." She giggles a bit at herself and finally looks up at me.

"Well sir handsome, why not stop staring at me and instead come inside? I'm sure you're father told you to get on my good side, so why not start now by doing as I say?" I'm quite impressed, she guessed correctly, and she has absolutely no respect in her tone, but no disrespect either. I guess she doesn't want to judge me yet?

I comply and go sit on another couch in front of her. The guards behind me stroll in but I motion for them to go away. They look at me awkwardly for a second, then at the girl. Finally, they then leave.

"Hm? Not going to let the guards protect you? After all, I'm a demon..." I immediatly realize the game she's playing. She's trying to discern if I discriminate against them. I absolutely don't, so I say

"I have nothing against demons. I'm not like the common folk." She giggles a bit at me, then says "Really now? Last time I checked, nobles often discriminate more against demons then commoners do~" I look at her suprised for a second. Really?

"Eh, whatever. Ignore it, rather, what's your name prince?" I look at her with a raised eyebrow. Really? She doesn't even remember my name?

"... It's Gauntler. Gauntler Vhorace." She nods and was about to say something before suddently stopping. She looked at me with an apologetic look for some reason, then put an arm around her neck and took off her scarf. Taking a better look, it was actually a snake!?

"Sorry, Asu's hungry. He's quite the glutton you know? I heard that baby giant snakes eat more then the average human. Forgive me for a second." She says and takes out a steak from her spacial bag. That thing looks like it could easily cost 500 or gold coins, after all, I've never seen one with so many runes on it.

She tears the steak into pieces and feeds it to the snake who voraciously eats them. He actually looks quite cute. Once it's done, it coils back around the girl's neck and stays there.

"Well, now that that's out of the way, why not get to know each other for a bit~. Oh right! I almost forgot! I must absolutely~ tell you something!" She sounds... childish...

I just keep looking at her with a blank expression. She puts on a dramatic expression, before peeking a bit, and noticing my lack of reaction, she pouts. "Eh. What's up with you!? Play along with me will you!" I just keep staring at her. Her face goes blank and stares back at me for a couple minutes too. She then suddently throws herself back shouting "Ok! You win! Stop the staring contest! I just wanted to tell you to quickly go save your sister! That 'Hero' a miserable pervert! That's all I wanted to say so stop looking at me like that! Aren't you supposed to get on my good side!?"... Isn't this supposed to be the 'Bloody Cat'? The same monster who would kill if you just look at her? It makes it kind of hard to believe...

"... I know that already. The 'Hero' is indeed a pervert and an idiot, but at least he has a kind heart." She looks at me blankly for a second, before her eyes suddently sharpen and she says "Kind heart? That idiot? You have no idea. If he truly has a kind heart, then why would he constantly try to approach me, despite me being a complete monster?" 

I was a bit taken aback and was about to answer before she said once again "Also, I'm not into wordplay. What do you and your father want from me? My strenght? I can give you that, but there is a price to pay. I'm not about to be married off to some noble, or prince in this case, and get stuck here for the rest of my life, which will surely be longer then yours by the way. If you guys want to rope me in then I guess this is a good method, but I want you to at least prove to me you're not a complete retard. So, how about you prove it to me?" I was completely dumbfolded. Nobody ever called me a retard after all, and this girl just straight up insulted me and my father, guessed everything correctly and was straight up honest with me. 

"... Yes, we do want to rope you in. But I too am not about to get married off to someone I don't know. If you're expecting me to simply want to marry you then..." "Ah, well then no marriage! If you don't want to then that makes everything soooo much easier!" "... I didn't say no yet, As I was saying, I too want at least some proof that you too are not an idiot." 

She nods with a faint smile before saying "Well, why not duke it out in a battle of wits? Do you play chess?" I nod at that a bit confused. Chess is supposed to be a game for royalty, does she even know how to play it?

"Then, if you can win against me at that I might actually consider this offer~. I have a couple of other veeery~ fun things to make you do before I seriously consider this marriage thing. It's stupid in my opinion, but everything's up for the catch if it's fun, right~?"

Before I could answer, the door slams open and some guards stream in. What? I said that nobody is supposed to enter though?

The guards surround her and all point their spears at her. She just keeps staring at them with a blank look. That's when a noble even I can recognize as someone very important arrives. He's the leader of one of the major political factions in the kingdom.

"'Bloody Cat', you're under arrest for commiting treason against the kingdom by murdering several nobles. Under the royal degree that we have come to decide to today, you're now officially a criminal. Guards, seize her." Her face takes on a pained expression, before she starts giggling and says

"Hm? What's this? Storming into a private conversation and arresting someone? That does sound like something scum like you would do. Also, are you telling me not to retaliate when a noble tries to abduct and/or rape me? Have you uncles all gone senile perhaps?"

The noble grits his teeth, but before he could say anything I say "Enough. Duke Hordrake, this is indeed a private conversation, and my father has never agreed to make her a criminal. You're actions today can be considered treason themselves, so quickly leave." He looks at me with a smug smile and says "Ah, well, during the ball today we held a referendum with the king, and since 80% of the nobles decided were for this to happend, not even the king can stop it."

I looked at him angrily, but before we could say anything more the girl starts laughing. She then gets up and disappears. All of us look around the room, trying to find her but to no avail. I then hear a voice coming from above us. 

"If the kingdom wants to be my enemy, then I'll gladly accept said challenge. I have no qualms about killing you all, so you have an hour to reconsider before I begin to destroy this entire city, and I will not stop until every single person related to this is dead, and I won't mind consider killing thousands of innocents. Do consider this~ I'm being quite nice you know~" I look up, but only find a hole in the ceiling. 

[Alysha's Pov]

Of course, I should have considered that nobles hate my guts. Why did I even consider coming in here... Too bad, I would have really liked to beat that prince in a game of chess. He was quite hot as well. Eh, I don't really care, as I would never have married him anyway. After all, I could tell he was actually quite innocent beneath that cold face. He truly expected the noble to listen to him when he said to go away... Heh, he truly doesn't realize how the world works.

Sneaking around on the roof, I locate the pervert based by his smell. I've gotten accustomed to always keeping an eye out for his smell, to make sure I don't stumble where he is all the time. It never did help though...

Once I found him, I break the stone under me and fall down into the room. The sight that greeted me was... wierd?

There were several armed nobles lying in a nice pile on the side, and the Pervert was screaming "Well? Who's next?"

We looked at each other blankly before I say "Pervert, what the hell did you do this time? Aren't you supposed to make friends with these idiots? Are you perhaps an idiot yourself? Ah wait, you are indeed a hopeless retard. Go die." I say and slap him in the face. He falls down crying. 

I look at him with a blank face for a second, then an idea comes to my corrupted mind. I turn and look at the princess, who was staring at me with wide eyes. What? I slapped him, deal with it.

"Hi ms. princess! You're bro's approach was halted by some retard noble~ Why don't you go help him out or this kingdom might not last long~ You have an hour to decide~" I say, and I don't explain any further.

I jump out from the roof and dash madly outside. As I run, I break the sound barrier and make a mad dash for the forest. I already know the king is going to lose, after all, the nobles have simply too much pride and since I killed so many of their sons, they probably want my head pretty~ badly. Too badly they don't realize what a true monster is. Luckily for me, I had considered a situation like this in the corner in my mind, I just didn't think it'd happend.

But now, this leads me to a pretty~ nice idea. If they truly think of me as a monster, then  that's totally fine, but they will forever have to remeber me as the Monster King...