"..." I step out of the carriage, arriving at the castle. Lucien and Laplace get out as well, and Laplace immediately bolts through the gate, running away from Lucien, who stares at me and gives a malicious smile.
"Well, I suppose our partnership ends here! It was... inconvenient, but not entirely bad. So if we work another mission together, I hope for equally good cooperation," Lucien says and also heads into the castle.
My puppets will only arrive tomorrow since their carriage is nowhere near as fast as the one we, the demon king's children, used to come to the castle.
"Haa... Seems I'll have to stay in my old room..." At Esther's mansion, I lived in our shared bedroom, and it was large and comfortable. Going back to that old room seems quite dull and unpleasant.
"..." I walk toward the gate to enter, until I notice something strange. The guards here aren't the ones who used to mock me before, and the current ones don't even try to stop me.
