As she took each step, her yellow dress, which she had changed into, was smeared with mud, and her face was also stained with dirt as she scratched her itching face.

But for Evelia, who was filled with the desire to closely observe the cute white rabbit she had seen a moment ago, these were not important things at all.

As she pushed through the bushes, a vast forest came into view. Evelia looked around in despair.

It seemed impossible to find a rabbit in such a wide place.

Dispirited, she dropped her shoulders to turn back when something sparkled in midair at the base of a tree caught Evelia’s eye.

What is that?

Sparkling… it must be a jewel!

“A jewel…! Wonderful!”

She hadn’t found the rabbit, but the thought of showing off the jewel excited Evelia. She toddled over to the sparkling object and grabbed at the air.

“Ah!”

It was a jewel, but it was a jewel that was hanging from a man’s ear. She hadn’t known that at all.

Just a moment ago, there was no man in sight.

“Huh?”

The man appeared with a painful yell as she pulled the earring.

Surprised, she only gaped at him as the man’s form gradually became clearer, revealing dark black hair and golden eyes.

His lips were so red they seemed as if he had just drained blood.

“What’s this little one doing? No, how did she see me?”

Above the man’s head were two pointed horns, but when he shook his head, they disappeared somewhere.

“…?”

Unable to understand why a person appeared when she pulled the jewel, or what he was, Evelia tilted her head and asked blankly.

“Who are you?”

The man grinned and answered.

“A demon.”

One of the 72 demons, Agares.

He had come up following the traces of the summoning when he heard that a human had summoned a Dantalion for the first time in a long while.

Being called the ‘Ruler of the Eastern Demon Realm,’ he had no interest in trivial things such as conquest wars or the Demon King’s throne.

His interest lay only in things that could entertain him as he had lived for a long time.

Having seen the Dantalions get destroyed, Agares thought, ‘They’re doing quite a bit. Those are the famous Artina family.’ He then left the noisy garden and was sleeping in the forest behind the manor.

He had come up in anticipation, but it was not as interesting as he thought.

Not wanting to be found by humans and bothered, he was sleeping ‘deeply’ under the largest tree, hidden, when someone pulled his earring hard.

Who dares to attack by pulling an earring?

Waking up from his sleep with a grimace, he saw a little girl with pressuring blue eyes staring at him in surprise.

Hey, you’re the one who surprised me, why are you surprised? I should be the one to be surprised.

Apparently, it had been too long since he used his power, and while he was in deep sleep, his earring had revealed him. Thinking this, he looked back at the little girl.

At the word ‘demon’, her blue eyes widened even more and he felt like teasing her more.

“Demon…? Demon…?”

“Why are you comparing it to that? I am one of the 72 demons who rule over the demon race, and I am the second.”

Agares shrugged at the girl’s question if he was a demon.

“So, you are a demon… demon…”

So you are a demon!

Agares did not look as gruesome as the Dantalion. Therefore, her visual fear was less than when she faced the Dantalion.

For some reason, the answer to ‘What did I tell you to do when a demon appears outside the manor?’ which she could not remember when facing Dantalion, came to her now.

Pretend to be very, very scared!

“Rooooooar.”

Evelia showed her tiny fangs and made a sound of a lion from her throat.

In her mind, it was a roar fit for the king of animals, but the sound that came out was just like that of a puppy.

…? What is this kid, a beastkin?

No matter how hard he tried, it was quite astonishing for the devil, who had existed for a long time, that this seemingly human child was making animal sounds.

“Are you a beastkin? It’s strange. You don’t have ears, nails, or a tail.”

Agaress expressed his doubts, looking at Evelia’s head, hands, and buttocks.

“No, human! Rooooooar.”

Even in the middle of a threat, wrong information should be corrected!

“…What does that mean?”

I can’t believe I’m getting confused dealing with a human kid.

“Avery scary threatening sound.”

Even during a threat, it is polite to answer a question!

If the threat is not felt by the sound alone, this time the nails are together!

Evelia raised both her hands near her face, made a pose as if she was going to pounce on him with her nails any moment, and again made a sound like a puppy.

“Ha ha ha ha!”

What was so funny about the threat that Agaress laughed heartily, rolling on the ground clutching his belly.

By the time the laughter stopped, seeing Evelia still continuing to threaten, he burst into laughter several times again.

Agaress, who finally stopped, wiped away the tears in his eyes and said,

“Oh, I had a good laugh.”

The remnants of a chuckling laugh were still intermittently on his lips.

“Why, are you laughing? I threatened you seriously.”

Evelia, who had been under the misconception that her threats, which even made the Knights scared, were very scary, asked with a slight frown. It was a side effect of wrong education.

“Demons usually laugh when they’re scared. Just accept it.”

At the expression that she really didn’t know why he was laughing, Agaress almost burst into laughter again, biting his lips to hold it back.

I think she’s the child of the Artina Duke I saw earlier, and she even faintly smells like a spirit.

I should normally kill her… but Agaress couldn’t remember the last time he laughed so much.

It would be fun, shall I keep her alive for a while?

“What’s your name?”

Unlike Dantalion, the devil Agaress, who didn’t seem very hostile, asked while circling around Evelia.

“Aga… no, demons don’t casually give out their names.”

Agaress, who was about to answer her innocent question, stopped abruptly.

Demons don’t casually give out their names.

Knowing a demon’s name is the first condition to control it as a servitor.

Therefore, demons were very reluctant to have their names known in the human world.

“Aga? Is your name Aga?”

Chuckling, Evelia burst into clear laughter.

Hey… how dare you turn my majestic name into Aga…

Agaress had cast a spell to prevent his voice from leaking out, so their conversation was not heard outside the forest.

He noticed the knights and brothers, who were worried about Evelia not coming out after going into the forest to look for a rabbit, coming into the forest.

“Kid, what’s your name?”

“Evelia.”

“Evelia?”

“No, E. ve. li. a.”

It’s vel, you fool!

“Okay, Evelia. I’d appreciate it if you kept our meeting a secret. Just… uh… say you saw a rabbit. I’ll repay you if you keep this a secret.”

After saying that, Agaress disappeared in the blink of an eye while Evelia blinked.

“Our Aga! What were you doing alone here!”

Cedric ran and asked.

What should she answer. Evelia, who pondered for a moment, slowly opened her mouth.

She intended to keep the secret.

“Um… Aga… saw a rabbit.”

“A rabbit? Did you find it?”

“Yes. A very cute rabbit. If I see it again, I’ll catch it.”

She looked around the base of the tree while being held in the arms of Arcan, who was going back emptyhanded, but there was no trace of Agaress anywhere.

In the tree. This time, Agaress, who was hiding properly, made a strange expression upon hearing Evelia’s words.

She said Evelia.

His stomach still hurt because he had laughed so much.