The Heavenly Demon Can’t Live A Normal Life [EN]: Chapter 344

Just half an hour before, Billy was on his way to see Roman Dmitry.

He was supposed to set a meeting time as Count Bragan had ordered, but he ran into a problem right away.

“I’m very sorry, Sir Knight, but Master Dmitry cannot see anyone right now,” said Hans.

Even though it seemed like Roman Dmitry didn’t want a meeting at all, Billy tried his best to be polite. He spoke sincerely.

“I know that Roman Dmitry is busy. But Count Bragan is here representing the Valhalla Empire, and he can’t keep waiting forever. I’m not asking for a meeting right now. Tell me any date, even if it’s tomorrow or next week. Just give me a date, and I will tell Count Bragan and come back without complaining.”

“That is impossible. Master has forbidden anyone from entering until his personal schedule is over.”

“But…….”

But Hans just shook his head again and again. “I’m sorry, it’s impossible,” he repeated.

Billy’s expression twisted.

He was trying to be polite to follow orders, but the servant’s attitude kept irritating him.

“Don’t just say ‘sorry’! Can’t you at least tell Roman Dmitry that Count Bragan is here?” Billy’s voice became sharp.

The other person was just a servant.

Billy thought, “Even if we forget about Count Bragan, this servant is not important enough to talk to a knight like me this way!” He tried to look a little scary.

Count Bragan had told him to achieve his goal by any means, so Billy couldn’t back down so easily.

Hans said, “Sir Knight, the situation won’t change no matter how many times you ask. This meeting was never planned in the first place. I understand you’re impatient, but it’s very difficult to force a meeting on someone who doesn’t want one.”

“You little…”

Before he knew it, Billy’s hand went up.

He was being cheeky.

If a servant had treated him like this in Valhalla, he would have cut off his head without a second thought.

Just then, a voice cut through the air. “Put that hand down.”

Billy froze.

Right beside him, a man stood. His voice was like ice, and his eyes were even colder. Billy didn’t know this man’s face, but there was something dangerous about him.

At first, he didn’t recognize Kevin’s face.

Dmitry’s devil.

His reputation was great even in Valhalla, but that didn’t mean everyone knew exactly what he looked like.

Hans looked at Kevin.

“Kevin, I’m fine.”

‘Kevin?’

Billy’s eyes widened.

He looked back and forth between Hans and Kevin, and he realized that the mysterious man was Dmitry’s devil he had heard about.

He smiled awkwardly for a moment.

He thought that trying to hit Hans might make things worse.

“Haha, don’t misunderstand. I came to see Roman Dmitry…….”

“Stop talking nonsense. Who do you think you are, raising your hand to Hans here?” Kevin’s voice was brutal.

The problem was that Kevin’s words hurt Billy’s pride.

It wasn’t that his actions were right, but the other person wasn’t important, just a servant.

“What do you mean, ‘stop talking nonsense’? Aren’t you going too far?”

“I told you clearly to explain your actions.”

“Don’t talk to me like you’re ordering me. I am a knight of the Valhalla Empire, not Dmitry. I don’t have to be treated like this. Even if I touched a servant, what are you going to do about it?”

Count Bragan had said to show them the power of Valhalla.

When Billy spoke strongly, Kevin walked right up to him and looked up at Billy, who was taller than him.

“Say it again. What did you say?”

“This is too much! Do you think you can do anything just because you are called Dmitry’s devil? It’s not like I, a knight, hit him. I just raised my hand to a servant, so why are you making such a fuss? If you hadn’t ignored us in the first place…… Ack!”

Slap!

Billy’s head snapped around.

Realizing that he had been slapped hard, Billy couldn’t control his anger and drew his sword.

“How dare you slap my cheek?!”

Clang!

Rumble!

He raised his aura.

He drew his sword like lightning and tried to attack Kevin without thinking about what would happen.

But.

Whoosh!

Kevin avoided the attack.

Instead of drawing his sword, Kevin easily deflected the attack and slapped Billy’s cheek again.

Blood splattered from his face.

Billy, his face red with embarrassment, quickly tried to counterattack, but every time he swung his sword, his head turned away from the impact.

The impacts exploded one after another.

His intense anger disappeared instantly, and when he realized what was happening, he was kneeling and someone was grabbing his hair.

Slap.

Slap, slap.

He kept slapping his cheeks.

Billy tried to block the attack with weak hands, but the brutal hand grabbed his hair and wouldn’t let go.

Billy’s actions, especially trying to use violence in Dmitry, made Kevin very angry.

Moreover, the other person was Hans.

Who is Hans?

Besides the fact that Roman Dmitry truly cared for him, Hans was also very special to Kevin.

When Kevin first wandered around the slums, he entered the castle following Roman Dmitry and lived under Hans’s care.

He could never forget the kindness he received at that time.

Now, his social position has risen, and he is in a position to order servants around, but he has never forgotten his gratitude to Hans.

Because of that, no one in Dmitry could touch Hans.

Because Roman Dmitry and Kevin considered him important, Hans’s status as a servant didn’t matter at all.

And now, someone from outside was about to hit him.

After grabbing his hair and slapping him several times, Billy opened his mouth with difficulty, his face covered in blood.

“…Can… you handle this? …I, I am a knight of Valhalla.”

As he said, Billy is no ordinary knight.

He is a knight of Valhalla who serves Count Bragan.

Because he had the power of the empire behind him, he showed his anger even when faced with Dmitry’s devil.

Kevin smirked. He thought Billy was scared by his threat, so he said again, “You’re in big trouble.”

But then, Billy suddenly stopped moving. Kevin paused, confused. He stared at Billy, a strange look on his face, still holding tightly to Billy’s hair.

“Shall I tell you a funny story?” Kevin asked.

“You’re a crazy man,” Billy said, his voice shaking slightly.

Kevin ignored him. “A long time ago, when I didn’t know much, I went to a party in Barco with my lord. I heard some men insulting Dimitri, but I didn’t do anything. My lord got very angry. He hurt those men badly for me. He told me I needed to learn to judge people better.” Kevin gripped Billy’s hair even tighter and squeezed Billy’s head hard.

Billy cried out in pain. Kevin smiled cruelly. He looked just like Roman Dimitri when he was angry.

“Now, looking at you,” Kevin said, “I think you are someone I can hurt.”

When he heard these words, Billy’s face turned white. He finally understood that things had gone very wrong.

***

“…So, that’s what happened,” Billy finished, explaining everything with difficulty. He was still shaken by what Kevin had done.

Count Bragan listened to Billy’s story and became very angry. He thought, “Using violence in our territory is wrong! And Billy is a knight of Valhalla!”

“Dimitri, those damned fools!” Bragan muttered. “They’ve gone too far.”

Hans refusing to set a meeting date, and Kevin using violence against a Valhalla knight – it was clear they had no respect for Valhalla. Bragan felt his anger rising. He wanted to go to Roman Dimitri right now, tell him how wrong they were, and demand they fix everything.

But he couldn’t. He knew he needed Roman Dimitri. Ending their relationship would be a bad mistake because the Valhalla Imperial Family wanted many things from Dimitri.

Bragan sighed heavily and sat down on the soft sofa. “Roman Dimitri,” he said to himself. “He’s acting like a child.”

He was sure that Hans and Kevin were following Roman Dimitri’s orders. Dimitri probably remembered his bad experiences with the Valhalla Imperial Family and wanted revenge. “It’s just like the rumors say,” Bragan thought. “Roman Dimitri is supposed to be extreme. But I didn’t think he would provoke Valhalla, especially since he’s already fighting with the Cronos Empire.”

“…I’ll deal with it this time,” Bragan said, trying to control his anger. “Just this once.”

He knew he had to meet Roman Dimitri. He would meet him and explain what would happen if he kept treating Valhalla like this.

“Let’s see if he acts so tough when we meet face to face,” Bragan said, gritting his teeth. He knew he had to be patient to get revenge. A cold look came into Count Bragan’s eyes. He lay back on the sofa and started to imagine what he would say to Roman Dimitri when they finally met.

***

At the same time, far away, Roman Dimitri was talking to the kings of the three southern kingdoms of Cronos on a magic screen. The screen showed the faces of the kings.

King Umberto’s voice came from the screen. “[We can’t take any more refugees from Odelia. There are so many problems at the border because of them. Even when we punish them, it doesn’t solve the main problem. Criminal refugees run to the lawless area in Odelia. There’s no government there to punish them, so it’s a place where criminals can do anything without getting punished.]”

Another king, King Vittorio, added, “[That’s right. More and more criminals from Frank are running to Odelia as soon as the police want to arrest them.]”

The destruction of Odelia had caused a new problem. The leaders of Odelia had lost their king and queen and were only thinking about themselves. A lawless area had grown outside their many small areas.

It was a complete mess. People in the ruined capital were committing crimes to survive, but the leaders of Odelia didn’t try to stop them. They were completely selfish. No one in Odelia was trying to fix the chaos; they were just waiting for someone else to do it.

For now, they had left Odelia alone. They couldn’t send soldiers there because they were worried the war with Cronos might start again. Cronos had sent a clear warning by destroying Odelia’s capital. Even though they had agreed to stop fighting, the same thing could happen again if they ignored the Cronos Empire.

Now, Roman Dimitri spoke. “I agree,” he said. “We can’t ignore Odelia any longer. We waited to deal with Odelia because it was complicated, but now we have to fix it. To get ready for the war with Cronos, we must make Odelia stable. It’s in the southwest, behind us. If it stays a problem, it will hurt the three southern kingdoms.”

King Redford on the screen looked worried. “[Are you sure? Fixing Odelia won’t be easy. The lawless area is a problem, but the biggest problem is creating a system that the current leaders will agree to.]”

Roman Dimitri nodded. “Now is the right time. We can only fix it now because Cronos has agreed to stop fighting, and Valhalla is busy with its own problems. And we don’t need to worry about the leaders of Odelia. Even though their king and queen are gone, they still supported Cronos. That hasn’t changed.”

“This is like another war,” Dimitri continued, “but a different kind. We’re not just helping Odelia; we need to properly take them over.”

“I will send some of my soldiers,” Roman Dimitri said. “The most important thing is to stop problems in the area behind us. If the people in the lawless area and the current leaders fight back, we can treat them as enemies.”

“[I understand,]” King Umberto said.

“[We will handle it that way,]” King Vittorio agreed.

Roman Dimitri ended the video call. The problem of Odelia was something the three southern kingdoms would mostly deal with. Roman Dimitri would just send soldiers and give advice. He would then focus on the problem with Valhalla.

A week went by. Roman Dimitri spent the week working on his plan for Odelia. Once he had started to put his plan into action, Roman Dimitri called for Hans.

“Hans,” Dimitri said, “send for Count Bragan.”

“I understand,” Hans replied quickly.

Count Bragan. Dimitri thought to himself, “Finally.” The moment Bragan had been waiting for, and Dimitri too, was about to happen.