Chapter 124 – Chapter 10 – The Flowing Times
When he was appointed to the academy, Klaus asked Ruscal for a favor.
He said he wanted to have cooking facilities in his room.
At the sudden request, President Ruscal had a rather puzzled expression on his face.
Inside the Continental Academy, of course, the dining facilities are fully equipped.
It would be rude to even compare it to the army jjambab that Klaus ate for 7 years. It was literally a place where dishes were splendid and tasted beyond imagination.
It’s natural if you think about who the people who enter the Continental Academy are, from where they are.
It was only natural, then, that with the best dining facilities, there was no need for separate cooking facilities.
In such a situation, Klaus suddenly wanted a catering facility, which would have been embarrassing for the president.
– I see. Don’t let that happen –
However, President Ruscal did as Klaus wanted without asking why.
He thought that there was a reason he didn’t know about, and if Klaus didn’t explain that reason, he also had a good reason.
That’s how Klaus got a cooking facility in his professor’s office.
There was nothing to use at the beginning of the semester, but he has been using the facility for a woman for some time now.
“Is it medium rare, Yulia?”
“Yeah. That’s right, Klaus.”
Cheeik!-
The outside is cooked just right, and when you cut the inside with a knife, you get a steak with reddish flesh and rich juices flowing out.
The dish, nicely served with some decoration, is soon placed in front of Yulia.
“… Thank you every time.”
“No. Rather, I am truly grateful. It’s because I needed someone who would eat and evaluate the dish, which is still in the rehearsal stage.”
“I say that every time, but it is already a dish that is perfect for me.”
As Yulia answered, the man sitting in front of her smiled.
Hurry up and gesture, and the demon king elegantly slices a piece of steak and puts it in my mouth.
After munching on her steak for a moment, Yulia smiles brightly and she claps lightly once.
“I’m sorry to the royal chefs of the Demon King’s family, but your food tastes better after all.”
“Haha. Just because the person in question is right in front of you, you don’t have to exalt yourself that much.”
No, really. I feel it every time, but is it really amazing? How can it be so delicious? I never thought that that Southern Devil man would have found out that cooking was his hobby.”
At that, Klaus burst into laughter.
A man who says cooking is his hobby in front of her woman will answer that nine times out of ten, he is targeting her.
That formula also worked very well with Yulia, the demon king in the novel, because it was also a part of achieving peace for Yulia, apart from simple taste and sincerity.
Assassination, a way to send away a person in power you don’t like at once.
Among them, the most effective and less suspicious is to poison your meal.
Julia, too, had received countless threats of poisoning.
Once, the royal chef broke the oath of allegiance to the demon family and poisoned it.
Even eating her meals was stressful for her after it happened.
When I was in the Demon King’s family, the few remaining servants still managed it thoroughly.
Even that was impossible at the Continental Academy, where he almost ran away.
At the meal that hundreds of cadets eat together, you can say what kind of poisoning it is.
Poisoning a meal in a fraction of a second was nothing to skilled assassins.
Because of this, Yulia tried to eat it by skipping meals that day if she felt suspicious, or by doing something herself.
Of course, the results were not good every time, and I could never feel comfortable because even the part about eating life, which I should enjoy as a living organism, came as a stress.
Klaus aimed for that part and focused on cooking.
After he buys her trust, she cooks for her in front of Yulia watching her.
He deliberately prepares slowly and slowly as much as possible, and does not give the impression that he is going to poison it.
In the most stressful part, Klaus appears again to help.
The man who is said to be the greatest hero in the Continental War is cooking for himself.
What kind of woman can ignore the behavior of a man who takes care of and cares for her, only for herself?
‘I scored a lot with this. Of course this episode is the same.’
After doing this over several rounds, it naturally increased tremendously.
Since it is a dish exclusively for Yulia, of course it is thoroughly tailored to her taste.
Later, even after becoming a true demon king and unifying the continent by destroying the West.
She refused any food from the royal chefs and only ate Klaus’ cooking.
It’s really hard to get a girl just by having sex.
Since it is not always possible to compete with only the main dish, it must be prepared as an appetizer or dessert.
If everything that comes along with it is satisfactory, the demon king will never be able to abandon himself.
“This is my first time.”
“Yeah?”
“Feeling happy with what you eat. It’s the first time. I was always nervous about whether there was poison in it or if someone poisoned me.”
“East is also very late. I thought only the West was a mess.”
“The scars of the war were left everywhere. The prestige of the demon king family, which seemed to never be shaken, has now become a sandcastle that has almost collapsed.”
Squeak, squeak-.
Yulia moved the knife with a slightly firm hand gesture.
She had a bit of a melancholy look on her face, but she soon shook her head and gave her a smile on purpose.
In a place like this, she said that she didn’t want to be depressed in front of such a wonderful dish.
“It is really delicious. There’s no way you learned this during the war, when the hell did you learn this?”
“After the war was over. Now that the war is over, they will unconditionally push me out. If I get kicked out of the military, shouldn’t I have to decide on something to live on? Cooking came out of that thought.”
“With this level of skill, the human aristocrats might have scrambled to invite you.”
“… I don’t think you want to treat them in any way.”
“Ah. That, I guess. I’m sorry, I’m really sorry. I said something stupid.”
Julia now knows almost everything about what happened between Klaus and the nobles.
Making and serving dishes to nobles in such a situation was almost like insulting Klaus, so Julia apologized urgently.
Of course, Klaus shook his head saying he was fine.
If anyone else had done that, she would have hit her right over the head with her plate, but this woman is an exception.
As long as he didn’t insult himself with real malice, it could be said that he was able to laugh over all the mistakes he made.
“I think he said he had something to show me.”
After a meal and a cup of coffee.
When Klaus finally starts talking about his business, Yulia bit her lip.
She looked worried for a moment before pulling out a letter from her bosom.
“This letter.”
“Who sent you?”
“Kalagul, who is in charge of the chamberlain in the Demon Castle.”
“Are you trustworthy?”
“Your father, after my father passed away, is the only demon tribe that I have been able to rely on.”
To put it a little more exaggeratedly, it can be said that he is similar to his grandfather.
It has to be, since Yulia is her collar goul, who has been watching her since her childhood.
“Then, the correspondence itself must be reliable.”
“Yeah. Read it once. I’ve seen it once, but I can’t believe it. Klaus, who doesn’t know anything yet, I want you to make an objective judgment with your eyes and thoughts.”
A bastard who knows nothing. I already know everything.
No, apart from the part of knowing everything, it was just a situation created by Klaus.
Klaus looked at Yulia, who had never even imagined such a part.
When Yulia received the letter she gave her, she confirmed the contents.
‘… I knew it.’
What was written inside was the news secretly sent by Karagul, the chamberlain of the Demon King’s Castle.
Objective content about the strange behavior of the warrior chief Heetari and Khalagul’s thoughts about it.
For now, he doesn’t openly doubt it, but the events that happened that day were so decisive that he couldn’t leave his ominous thoughts.
“… Warrior leader Heetari. What kind of person is this demon? I have basic information, but the evaluation I get from the castle of demons, and what do you think, Julia?”
Even though I knew everything, I erased all those feelings.
It was Klaus who asked that question as if he really didn’t know anything.
“He was chosen by his father himself. The main mission is to protect the demon king family and punish those who threaten the king.”
“It can be said that it is the center of the direct power of the demon king family.”
“Yeah. Even after my father passed away, he did not follow his uncle like the others and was loyal to me. He is not greedy for power, to the point of avoiding the seat as soon as he senses that the conversation will flow in that direction. It is a very pure martial artist.”
“A man like that betrays me. This is a very difficult problem.”
I cut her off for a moment and looked at Yulia’s face.
The chief chamberlain, whom I regarded as almost like my own family.
And the one who is suspected is the warrior commander who thought he would never betray.
How the hell did this happen, who should I trust?
Either one of them could really be a traitor, or it could have happened because of a misunderstanding.
“… This part is important. On the day we received the funds we sent, they suddenly turned dark and immediately attacked even the demons called the chief chamberlain and the treasurer. There is a huge amount of money right in front of your eyes, and since you have confirmed that such a huge amount of money is going into the demon family, you may have wanted to block or interfere with it.”
“So, Klaus, are you saying that the warrior commander is really a traitor?”
“As Yulia requested, when viewed from an objective point of view from a third person, that is the most reasonable suspicion. Of course, there is a possibility of misunderstanding, and conversely, it may be a ploy to trap the warrior chief, but didn’t you say that the chief chamberlain who sent this letter is the most trusted demon tribe, Yulia?”
At Klaus’s question, Julia nodded her head.
Many loyal people remained by his side, but among them, the demons were especially reliable.
That was Chamberlain Carlagul.
“If you don’t, you have no choice but to doubt the warrior commander. And if this is true, the worst hypothesis that there is a traitor among Yulia’s aides becomes a reality.”
“…”
Yulia clenches her fists in disbelief or as if she feels betrayed.
She purses her lips and shudders as she shudders and wonders what to do.
However, since Klaus has already done the work, there is only one conclusion.
Suspicion of the heinous traitor and catching and severing the decisive case.
That was the only fate placed upon the warrior commander, and it was the future Yulia could choose.
While Yulia sat and groaned, Klaus removed all the dishes in front of her.
If you fill this place with fragile things for no reason, it won’t be long before it’s gone! It will be shattered with the sound of shouting.
“Yulia.”
“…”
“You don’t have to make decisions and act right now. There is also the option of ordering a more careful look at the line of suspicion. I also don’t move if there is not enough information. It’s just a step back until you get your hands on something tangible.”
“But, but that traitor could embarrass me.”
“Isn’t I there?”
I’m here, what the hell are you worried about?
It was a bit arrogant, but in the end it was something I had no choice but to accept.
After staring at Klaus for a while, Julia suddenly smiles.
Then the woman gets up from her seat and falls into her arms.
“It seems like the two of us should think about it together, don’t we?”
“… But why are you taking my shirt off?”
At the man’s words, the goddess of the night smiled.
Then, gently put my index finger on my red lips and whisper in my ear.
“Shh.”
