A Demon Lord’s Tale: Dungeons, Monster Girls, and Heartwarming Bliss

lone, so you can snuggle up all you want without anyone pryin’,” respectively, before heading back to the castle with all the other residents in tow.

That said, it wasn’t as if we were really spending all that much time by ourselves.
It was already the afternoon and we had to return to the castle for dinner, as there was going to be a big farewell party for both the hero and the princess.
It was an event that had left the kids bursting with excitement, even after playing all day.
I didn’t understand where they got all their energy.
Joining them for just their morning play session was already enough to leave me feeling totally exhausted. Man… the girls are making me feel hella old.
Wait, aren’t I supposed to be the youngest of the bunch? Technically speaking, it’s only been a year and a half since I was reborn.

We spent the majority of the afternoon discussing whatever random topics happened to come to mind.
But as evening approached, I decided that it was either now or never, so I nervously brought up something I’d been waiting all day to mention whilst scratching my cheek and thereby hiding a portion of my face to mask my embarrassment.

“Oh uhm… there’s something I’ve been meaning to get to.” 
“Mhm?”
“Could you do me a favour and let me borrow your left hand?” I reached into my inventory and produced the ring I’d crafted for her.

“…Mkay.” Her cheeks reddened as she spotted it, but that didn’t stop her from happily presenting me with her hand.

I took her thin, fair fingers in mine and slowly but steadily slipped the accessory onto her fourth.
Her ring was unlike most of the other things that I’d created in that it was made without the application of Weapon Transmutation.
Rather, it was something that had been crafted by hand.
Coming to this world had led me to spend a lot on shaping the finer details of items of all shapes and sizes.
As such, I’d gotten fairly good at handicrafts and the like. Pretty sure my overinflated dex stat is playing a big part in it too, since it’s higher than all my other stats.
But if that’s the case, then why hasn’t it been doing much for me elsewhere? Swordplay and I still just don’t seem to mesh.
It’s not like I’m not putting the effort in either.
I’m practicing regularly, but it just doesn’t really work.

“And uh… sorry.
I tried to come up with an original design, but that didn’t seem like it would work, so it ended up looking just like mine and Lefi’s.”

One of the ideas I’d entertained was crafting a unique ring for each of my wives, but I soon gave up on it because I realized that I would have to then wear three distinct pieces of jewelry if I wanted to match all of them.
That didn’t exactly seem practical, so I called the whole thing off.

Nell’s ring wasn’t the only one I’d worked on.
I had actually finished Lyuu’s as well, but as we weren’t going to be officially married until her father showed up again, I decided to label it as a prototype and place it in storage so I could forge her a better one when the time came.

“That’s totally okay.” She smiled.
“Thank you very much, Yuki.” A faint giggle escaped her lips as she raised her hand to her face in order to inspect the piece of jewelry she’d been given.
“I guess this means I’m officially one of your wives now… S-should I start calling you darling?”

Wow.
What a cutiepie.

“O-of course not.
T-there’s no way I could possibly do that.” Nell covered her face with her hands and started to twist from side to side.
“W-what am I saying? That’s way too embarrassing!”
“Calm down, Nell, you’re twisting yourself into a knot.” I chuckled.
“You don’t have to change the way you refer to me.
I mean, look at Lefi, she still just calls me by my name.
Nothing wrong with that.”
“R-really?” At first, she only peeked at me from between her fingers, but ended up slowly lowering her hands as she calmed down.

C u t e.

“Mmk… I guess I’ll just keep calling you Yuki for now,” she said.
“But one day, I want it to feel natural for me to call you darling.”

Hnnnnnnng.
Holy fuck.
Is she trying to smother me with so much cuteness that I die? Goddamn, that was a three hit combo right there.
And a lethal one at that.
Damn heroes, acting all sly and shit.
I’m onto you! Don’t think I’m not!

“Heroes are scary,” I said.
“Super goddamn scary.”
“Huh?” She gave me a blank stare.
“I know exactly what you’re up to.
You’re going to weaponize that goddamn cuteness of yours, turn it into a weapon of mass destruction, and wipe out every demon lord there is.”
“Uhm… Yuki?”
“And so, the demon lord known as Yuki was brought to his knees, and the world was once again restored to a state of peace and tranquility.
The end.”

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“Yuki? Hello?” Nell stared in confusion as I refused to respond or explain myself.
“Seriously! What the heck has gotten into you this time!?”

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