## Chapter 130 – Aser . District 7 (3)
Charlotte, as stiff as a stone, could only manage to roll her eyes around the office.
Thankfully, Aser didn’t seem to have been harmed by Lowe. He was still in his place, but the fact that he wasn’t reacting at all was even more suspicious.
Charlotte began to ponder what kind of conversation the two of them had while she was away.
However, Aser wasn’t wearing a completely peaceful expression either. He sat in his office chair, pressing his temples as if he had a headache, shaking his head from side to side.
It would be faster to ask the person who came all the way here instead of racking her brain.
Charlotte, who had barely regained her senses, carefully opened her mouth.
“Y-you, you… no, why are you here? Why are you here in the first place…?”
Charlotte’s considerable embarrassment was evident in her voice. Her voice trembled thinly against her will, and the unfinished words sounded almost pathetic.
Unlike Charlotte, Lowe calmly got up from her seat and slowly approached them.
As 25 approached Lowe, she was happy on the one hand, but she was trying to erase the happy feeling from her face because Charlotte and Aser couldn’t welcome her with a happy heart.
Lowe didn’t care and stood in front of 25 and asked.
“What are you hesitating about so much?”
The sweet scent felt like it was flickering in front of her eyes. A primal stimulus that aroused a desire to grab it with her hands right away.
A mother’s affection could not be easily shaken off.
However, 25 couldn’t be completely happy about her reunion with her. Charlotte was behind her, and Aser, sitting beyond Lowe, was looking at them in an ambiguous situation.
Depending on the choice 25 made now, she could subtly hurt the two of them.
It was Charlotte who pushed 25’s hesitant back.
She crossed her arms and said to 25 with a nonchalant expression.
“What are you doing? She’s waiting.”
“Yes?”
25 asked back in a flustered voice at Charlotte’s attitude of rather urging her to meet Lowe.
There was no emotion visible on Charlotte’s face as she looked up. Not the anxiety about Lowe, nor the annoyance about Aser trembling behind her.
25 felt strange, but she followed Charlotte’s words and hugged Lowe, who was waiting with her arms open.
Lowe gently stroked the head and back of 25, who was in her arms, with familiar hands, and whispered sweetly in her ear.
“Didn’t you miss me?”
She did miss her, but it hadn’t even been a week since she had parted ways with Lowe. A time when the immediate sadness was greater than the loneliness that came from reminiscing about memories.
25 nodded and buried her face in Lowe’s chest with a familiar movement, then opened her mouth as if mumbling.
“I missed you.”
Lowe smiled with satisfaction, put a little strength into her arms holding 25, and said again as if whispering.
“Yes, that one word is enough.”
The short but long hug ended, and 25, who stepped back and got out of Lowe’s arms, finally asked Lowe with a puzzled voice.
“Well… I’m glad I can meet Lowe again… but why are you here?”
Lowe crossed her arms and tilted her head.
“Because I wanted to see you, that’s why I came. Why? Is it… burdensome for me to be here?”
Seeing her eyes droop down as if unable to bear the weight of sadness, 25 shook her hand and denied it.
“N-no, it’s not like that! I’m just a little surprised….”
Lowe took 25’s wrist, sat her down on the sofa side by side, and began to talk.
“I thought a lot after you left. It’s only been a day, but I was very lonely. I felt like my heart was going to be torn apart if I stayed like this, but then a good idea came to me.”
“A good idea?”
“Yes, we broke up, but that doesn’t mean we can’t meet, right? If you can’t come here, it’s a simple matter for me to come here. I’ll come and watch you often from now on, so you don’t have to be lonely.”
Aser, who had only been listening to the two of them and hadn’t said anything, reacted for the first time.
“Wait a minute, you’re coming often from now on?”
Lowe said bluntly to Aser, who suddenly interrupted while she was talking to 25, with a dissatisfied expression.
“Is there a problem?”
Aser and Charlotte lost their words and stared blankly at Lowe’s face.
She was saying it so confidently that they even wondered if they were misunderstanding something.
But no matter how they thought about it, it wasn’t. It wasn’t a good thing for a demon king who ruled one district to come to another district so often from the perspective of the other district.
Orca was a notorious rascal, so no one cared, but it was different when Lowe, who was on a different level even among the demon kings, came. The weight was different.
Of course, how many demon kings could be dissatisfied with Lowe…
25, who had spent two years with Lowe and recognized her as a parent, was trying to talk as nicely as possible, but this was difficult.
Aser, who had barely regained his senses, moved away from the desk and stood next to 25, raising his voice.
“O-of course there’s a problem! How uncomfortable is it to have a mother-in-law who visits your honeymoon home every day….”
Before he could finish speaking, there was a sound like something bursting, and at the same time, Aser grabbed his side with a painful expression.
Charlotte, who had already approached Aser, physically blocked the nonsense from coming out of Aser’s mouth with her fist.
Lowe looked at the two of them with a puzzled expression, then grabbed 25’s wrist and got up from her seat.
“I’m going to spend some time with Ryu for a while, so come to the reception room if you have anything to say.”
Lowe naturally took 25’s hand and left the office, and the two could only stare blankly at the backs of Lowe and 25 as they left.
They could roughly guess what kind of activities the two would be doing while spending time together from now on, but they couldn’t say it out loud.
After a storm had passed, silence fell in the office. Aser, who was still rubbing his side, complained to Charlotte.
“Wasn’t that too hard? I’m still your boss, you know.”
“I’m sorry about that. I thought the Demon King was about to say something strange. It’s also my job to save the Demon King’s face, isn’t it?”
The method itself was a bit extreme, but there was nothing wrong with what she said. In the first place, she had memories of being disciplined like this often in the past. Aser didn’t say anything and sat down on the sofa where 25 had just been sitting, letting his body sink into it, and sighed deeply.
“Anyway… what should we do now?”
He never expected that Lowe, who he thought he would never see again, would come back. Her existence was not in the plan to spend a pleasant time with 25.
But he couldn’t force her to leave. He didn’t want to see 25’s sad face, and in the first place, it was impossible to drive Lowe out by force. There was no other way except for her to spend a pleasant time with 25 and leave on her own with satisfaction.
Unlike Aser, who was only complaining, Charlotte approached Aser, who was worried, as if she had a good idea, and spoke in a brighter voice than before.
“Demon King, this might be a good opportunity.”
Hearing the words “good opportunity,” Aser looked straight up at Charlotte, then put his hand on his chin and narrowed his eyebrows.
“A good opportunity? Does that mean I should take this opportunity to make a good impression on my mother since she plans to stay for a while?”
It was only for a fleeting moment, but Charlotte’s eyes turned coldly.
Aser seemed to have never imagined that Charlotte would give him such an expression, and he looked at Charlotte silently with a flustered expression and trembling eyes.
Charlotte then realized that her expression was dark and bowed her head to Aser, apologizing.
“Ah, was my expression that bad? I’m sorry. I felt like I just heard something really stupid.”
“Then what is the good opportunity you were talking about?”
Charlotte cleared her throat and sat next to Aser, tapping the table with her fingers and began to talk.
“You know, Demon King? District 2, which Lowe rules, is much more dangerous than other districts, and there are many things to be aware of. Moreover, Lowe has been ruling one district without any problems since the concept of districts was established in the Demon World until now. If I’ve gone this far, you roughly know what I mean, right?”
He wasn’t stupid enough not to know that much. Aser nodded with a different, somewhat solemn expression than before.
District 2, which was known to be difficult to manage, and although there were no people living there now, he had no choice but to acknowledge Lowe’s ability to manage such a district without any problems until now.
In other words, Aser had to somehow please Lowe for the sake of his district and receive the wisdom she possessed.
