[Somewhere far away from the Forest of Rogrendria]
A demon with black wings flew towards an ominous castle.
From the window, he knocks, as another voice tells him to come in.
As the demon comes in he sees nothing but a silhouette of a man with long hair, sitting on his throne as the shadows hide his face.
The demon says, Muza'rn-sama I’ve got a report from the forest watchers…
The ominous man Muza'rn replies asking, “Which forest?”
“Rogrendria’s sir.” the demon answered.
“Hmm… interesting… did he wake up from his slumber?” he asked.
The demon replies, “No sir.”
Then Muza'rn questioned, “I see, so what’s it about?”
The demon replied, “The watchers have discovered multiple undead soldiers interacting with goblins.”
Slightly wondering, Muza'rn asked, “Was there a master controlling the undead?”
The demon answered, “No sir.”
“I see then, continue to keep an eye on them and proceed with the plan as usual. If the undead are without any master capture them and also use them for experiment.”
“We will soon launch the attack.”
The demon said, “Yes sir.”
Then he exits the window.
…
[Meanwhile at Forest of Rogrendria]
A groaning voice that spoke to us, right when there was going to be a chemical reaction in our chemistry.
…Heh Heh Heh! Looking at you two unfortunate love birds sure makes my heart melt fast.
We both reacted with a "huh!?" at the same time.
“What the heck!? Who and where are you!? Show yourself!” I said.
A green light starts surrounding us, as it gathers from all around…
!!?
It was the same as the tiny spirit fox he saw…
Poof……….
A green fox appeared with numerous tails and covered the whole room with its massive size.
“Dammnit I can’t fit in,” he said as he got stuck.
Fwhooooooosh…..
Then he began shrinking into the size of a child, showing his frizzy green hairs and a tail along with his white furry ears.
“That’s better!” He said.
Frustratingly as he ruined our moment I asked, “Hey kid! Where the heck did you come from, scram off.”
“Oh I see… so this is the mortal who was trying to assert his dominance,” he said smirkingly.
Again with mortal? … wait a minute… assert his dominance? Didn’t someone say the same a while ago?
“Who the heck are you? You weird monster… fox… human child thingy…” I asked.
But before… the furry child could say a thing… Belle started leaking some of her demonic aura, I could feel the anger…
“You… dumb child… how the heck you tried to ruin a romantic moment of mine… I always dreamed of having it ever since I was a child…” she said…
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
In her anger, she started shooting huge fireballs of magic, which nearly started breaking down our newly built house.
[Meanwhile, as the Village Elder sees the fireblast coming through from his house, he says “Maou-sama sure doing it wild!”]
“Wah!!!!!!!! Save me from this frightening woman,” the furry child said, as he was dodging her fire attacks.
And then he latched onto my back to hide… or perhaps he wanted me to be his shield…?
“Chill out Belle, Let’s hear what this kid has to say…” I said to her while risking my own life, knowing how scary she can be when she’s angry.
“ARGHHHHHH! Fine,” she said.
Then with a menacing gaze, I asked him, “So kid where did you come from, and why did you try to disturb us this late?
Then he jumped off my back landing on the bed with a flip.
And then he said the only thing I didn’t want to hear, and perhaps it was his cute yet proudly arrogant face with a smirk, that annoyed me as well.
Pointing his thumb at himself, “I’m Rogrendria, master of this forest, one of eight mythic beasts, and one of the shapers of this world.”
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And once again we both reacted with a "huh!?" at the same time.
Rogrendria… HUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
Heck no! I don’t believe you, I said.
Then Isabelle said, there’s no way that a freckled smug child is Rogrendria sama…
And we both continued to keep dissing him. He stood there in shock… maybe things didn’t go the way the furry child thought.
Hearing that almost wanted us not to believe him but I still needed to verify…
(Athena, can you identify who that person's child is…)
( ( “It’s Rogrendria.” ) )
(Alright! …Huh!?)
My heart skipped a beat as I froze in shock.
…
(WHAT THE HECK!? I just casually said alright but that’s the real thing???)
(Belle is still going on… what am I gonna tell her…)
The child or should I say Rogrendria was going to burst into tears… as he stared blankly at us with teary eyes, still frozen from the disrespect.
Yo “Belle, let’s just stop…” I told her…
“Why!?” she said.
So I responded, “Because… that’s actually… Rogrendria…”
And as I expected, her reaction was a big “Huh!?” as she gets the same reaction and shock as me…
(Athena… help…)
( ( “I’m afraid… I can’t help with this one.” ) )
My heart almost crushed.
(Dang it even Athena won’t help.)
So I went with courage and said… "Wait, w-wait, we didn’t know!" You looked so much different from the history books that speak of your legend and how you defeated your brother…” While scratching my head…
“Ha.. ha.. ha.. Even Legendary beasts can look... different... sometimes, right?"
As I looked towards Belle with an eye, so she could get the message…
I guess we both had the same synergy as he understood it.
So she said… "He… he… he… I mean, no offense, but a little warning would’ve helped. Like maybe, uh, a big transformation or... glowing aura… right?"
(He did show a big transformation before shrinking…) I said to myself.
But after hearing it he blinked and twitched his mouth… still unsure how to react to us…
“W-would you... like an apple, they’re still fresh!... I think...?” I show him an apple as I try to change our current predicament. "
I guess, the the awkward tension broke as he took the apple and bit.
As Rogrendria shows a small chuckle at the taste of apple.
I guess he didn’t hold any grudges for now, but there was an unspoken agreement between all of us, never to judge a book by its cover.
…
After eating the apple, I asked why Rogrendria decided to show himself to us, even though he had been slumbering for so long before Belle was even born.
And so he responded, giving us a long-short story.
He started by telling us after he went to slumber, he had the ability to watch over the world in his dream state and how he knew about this world’s history including the rebellion of demons, Isabelle, and her father, including the cult of Oscavalca.
Then he told us, about the current movement of Oscavalca’s cultists and how they’re occupying this forest and capturing monster races for their experiments. But as an old pact stands he can’t “directly” intervene… so he needed someone… and he has found that someone…
So he started talking about me... how he'd been watching the world through his dreams, and how my mana had instantly awoken him the moment I entered the forest. It was something that had never happened before, not even with gods sending or summoning people from other worlds. Even the lesser gods didn’t exude the kind of power I had back then... (I’m glad we turned it off). The first thing he did after waking was cast a concealing spell on us even Athena couldn’t sense it (I guess his concealing spell is superior to my skill). He did it to keep us hidden from the cultists and demons spying around. Even so, the word has already begun spreading among demons, after they caught sight of undead soldiers together with goblins.
And then he told us the main reason he had come at such a time while everyone would be asleep. And it was…
“Hey Mortal, I want you to make a familiar contract with me! So I can continue my mission without interference,” he said.
And so… I replied with a “No!”
Hey! Hey! Hey! Mortal whatchu sayin’ you lost your mind? A mythic beast is asking you to make a contract. Even Kings and demon lords have never been able to get this type of opportunity and have been dying for this chance… Even the girl (Belle) failed to make a contract with me, whilst it is my first time to give a mortal an opportunity to make a contract with me… you should feel lucky. He said with a worried face.
And so I responded, “Mythic beast or not I don’t want to be involved in any sort of battle after finally getting a chance to start a new life… (but I should also be considerate about how Belle feels, after all, it was the cult of Oscavalca that was involved in spreading the chaos in the demon world and in Belle’s life…).
Then I looked towards Belle's who looked quite frowned and said… “I’ll only do it if my wife tells me to…”
And she happily said… “Ara~ Kazuma-kun… thanks for giving me this opportunity.” As she gives Rogrendria a death stare…
(I guess first impressions do matter… but what the heck was she frowning about!?)
And like a cute kid Rogrendria approached Belle and knelt as he said, “Dear sovereign Queen of Demons, I’ll do anything for you… please grant my request…”
(I guess it really must be important… or perhaps it was his sly way of dealing with Belle.)
But Belle did go hard on him… as she said… “Fine, but since you said you would do anything then from on you’ll be our maid… you’ll take care of everything from laundry to cleaning to dishwashing and anything a maid does… otherwise I’ll reject your request.)
(I guess Rogrendria’s plan backfired.)
…
At first, he hesitated and gritted his teeth but then said.
“Fine! I’ll do it, as you wish my Queen.”
(Why do I feel like, things are gonna get noisy soon? But it was interesting to see that Belle is not being affected by what Rogrendria said. I mean the people who hurt her the most are now on the move once again… well to be honest it doesn’t matter. If anyone tries to hurt her in any way possible I’ll make their life a living nightmare. I guess maybe that’s how she feels.)
“So how do we make a contract?” I asked Rogrendria.
Rogrendria replied, “Well the first thing you need to do is activate all that mana you were exuding before… otherwise the contract would fail and you would explode inside out… because I’m the embodiment of nature meaning the mana needs to be poured out endlessly for it to succeed.”
“Ok,” I said.
(Athena you know what to do.)
Unlimited Mana [ON]
Here!
Feeling the burst of my mana Rogrendria said…
“This mana is truly fascinating… Also, you don’t have to worry about anyone seeing us I activated the concealing magic in this place.”
Let’s begin…
As Rogrendria began preparing, Isabelle saw everything in silence…
And so Rogrendria poured out some of his raw mana and told me to add my blood, even a drop would suffice. So I pulled out Emberblade and gave myself a small cut on my thumb, as my blood combined with his mana.
Then he proudly said, “And with this, our souls shall be bonded forever!!! Ha ha ha!!!”
“Bonded!?” I guess he wanted to possess me but I guess that sly fox doesn’t know…
And so with a huge surge of mana, a green light started whirring and twisting and went inside me…
But then he saw the Horror as he saw eyes all over inside me… with a silhouette of a woman covered in bright light… it was something he thought would devour him in an instant, as he immediately came back out.
“Dude what in the world are you!? What the heck was that… you’re something not meant to exist, you’re an anomaly.” Rogrendria said to me as he was shivering… kinda like Zach’rin (Undead Sage).
So I replied, “Yeah right! says the guy who was trying to manipulate me in order to take over my body, you really thought it would work huuuuuuh!?”
(I guess it was Athena, inside that gave him a scare.)
Hearing this Belle got infuriated and shouted, “YOU TRIED TO DID WHAT!?” as she looked at Rogrendria.
"Belle completely lost her composure as she attacked him, yelling wildly."
But I guess he really got punished…
He’s now an actual familiar and a housemaid.
[Around the same time, the Village Elder hearing noises and shouting of Belle while seeing fireblasts says, “Maou-sama you truly are amazing for going so long and so wild! You have shown this old man what it means to be a demon lord!” Sob]