I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

“Clang, clang…” Minnie and Minny played their lutes with fiery enthusiasm, the two little fellows holding up the pear-shaped soundboxes, each plucking a string, and skipping towards the entrance of the Thirteenth Library.

Schorrek seemed to have a refined interest in dancing to the music, but he only twitched his toe bones, forcibly restraining himself, until Minnie and Minny carried the lute to him, then he snatched it away and examined it carefully.

The hastily made lute didn't look great—the headstock, neck, and soundbox were pieced together from wooden planks, some parts were the reddish-brown of the bookshelves, some were the wood-brown of the floor, like a beggar covered in patches.

But even so, the soundbox's soundproofing effect and the strings' flexibility were quite good. Overall, it was an item that, although ugly, could satisfy its use.

[Test play… ]

Schorrek plucked the strings a few times, playing a simple and melodious tune.

This was the first time Li Yue had heard music from this world. For some reason, his thoughts were drawn far away, as if a scroll was unfolding in his mind—a demon city under the moonlight, chaotic yet with hidden order; countless full moons changing, the demon city standing firm, but the humans climbing the mountain turned into white bones, and bats with torn tendons and broken skin withered and fell in the sky, the background being leaves rising and falling, casting countless shadows…

The tune was short, repeating in a cycle.

“You guys get lost.” Schorrek stopped his fingers, his empty eye sockets looking towards Li Yue and the four Minnies.

[Waiting for the Gate of Chaos to open… Find that…]

Schorrek's bloodlust came quickly and dissipated quickly—but Li Yue had no doubt that if he lingered here any longer, he would attract the skeleton's malice and the ferocity of the bone sword again, so he hurriedly conveyed his thoughts to Minnie and Minny, and left with them.

“The Skeleton Prince's personality is not bad, oh?” Another group of Minnies said on the way downstairs.

“Yeah, much better than the commanders participating in the war training that Old Minnie told us about~ They didn't kill anyone~”

Li Yue was shocked, thinking, is that what you call a good personality? In less than an hour, he had already wanted to draw his sword and kill himself three times; looking at the Minnies in his group, he found that the two little fellows were staring at him eagerly, waiting for praise.

“You guys are awesome, you saved my life.” Li Yue praised generously, “How did you do it? Huh? You made a lute in such a short time?”

“Oh no, the time was too short, otherwise we could have done better~” Minnie waved his hand, but his ear holes widened, obviously not having heard enough of Li Yue's praise.

“As Minnies, we must satisfy everyone's needs!” Minny said proudly, “Making lutes, making beds, making knives and swords… I heard that some Minnies saw a musket and even made it!”

Li Yue was stunned—is this what service-oriented talents look like at their peak? Minnies?

“Guns? As long as you've seen them, you can make them?”

“Not that amazing… you have to take it apart and study it carefully…” Minny poked Minnie's butt, telling him not to boast.

“Can you guys make them?” Li Yue imagined himself controlling countless muskets with his mind… with just a few volleys, there would be considerable lethality, not to mention that the brain spirit could use its mind to perform complex calculations and calibrations…

“We can't… the pair of Minnies who could make muskets are already dead, and we haven't seen anything new in a long time…” Minny extinguished the fire in Li Yue's heart.

“Then what can you two… make?”

“Beds, lutes, lamps…” The Minnies in Li Yue's group were home furnishing talents, “If the items in the entertainment room and lounge are broken, the Minnies have to fix them…”

“Knives! Swords! Flails!” The other group of Minnies seemed to have guessed what Li Yue was talking about, jumped up to answer, and made it clear to Li Yue that they were cold weapon experts.

“I can tell, each of you… has unique skills.” Li Yue conveyed to the four Minnies, “Great, I'll remember that.”

“Haha, remember it well, Minnies are very powerful!” The four Minnies gave each other a high five.

Li Yue thought to himself, Minnies have considerable strength, and their arms and fingers can be flexibly extended to complete various complex manual tasks, which can be described as treasure-like mysterious creatures.

He wondered what the lords in the Demon King's city were thinking, just using them to move books and do chores in the library?

“So where did you come from? Were you also captured by the Demon Expeditionary Army?” Li Yue re-read the relevant content about Minnies in the Demon Illustrated Handbook, but couldn't find their origin. The “Distribution” column only showed “Library.”

“Our hometown… doesn't seem to be on this continent… it should be in… the Sea of Death…” Minny tried hard to recall a long time ago.

“We were sent here not long after we were born, maybe it was done by the Demon Expeditionary Army, like brother said?” Minny hugged Minnie, almost hugging the wrong one.

Li Yue imagined that hundreds of years ago, the Demon Expeditionary Army on a small island in the Sea of Death… found the Minnies, a mysterious creature, and then perhaps suppressed them with force, or perhaps coaxed and deceived them, demanding that the Minnie tribe send some newborns every once in a while…

“But can you go back? Do you want to go back?”

“Of course we want to go back! Minnies can only… hehehe… in their hometown…” Minny's round face turned red.

“Yes, yes, yes! The oldest Minnie here is in his thirties! He said that Minnies can go home at the age of forty-eight!” Minny clenched his small fist, seemingly taking a lie as a belief.

Li Yue compared the lifespan of Minnies in the Demon Illustrated Handbook and didn't think that the Demon King's city would really have an arrangement to “send” the Minnies “back.”

Suddenly, Li Yue felt a sense of sadness, just like seeing Lockefer in prison; then Li Yue couldn't help but imagine that if he became the owner of the library, became the Demon King… perhaps he could reorganize the relationship with the Minnie tribe?

After all, Minnies are Li Yue's only family in this world, right?

And they are the kind with great potential—strong hands-on ability, willing to obey orders, only asking for a little praise…

Li Yue looked at the two pairs of Minnies in front of him with a new look, inadvertently revealing some warmth.

“What's wrong, already starting to miss us?” Minny giggled.

“In the future, I…” Li Yue forcibly swallowed the promise he was halfway through, “In the future, I will praise you more, so you won't be praised when you go home.”

“Hehe…”

Li Yue turned his head, put the Minnies' matter aside for the time being, and thought of something else—life had just gotten on track, the closed war training was about to begin, and there were still many things to be careful about…

In this way, Li Yue and the Minnies returned to the library hall and resumed the boring translation work—of course, it was boring for most brain spirits and slave scholars, but it was the most reliable way for Li Yue to deeply understand this world.

While Li Yue savored the little episode that had just happened with Schorrek, he conveyed to the blonde scholar Tom to translate, re-evaluating whether he should sneak into the closed war training to “learn from the master.”

The Minnies said that Schorrek's personality was not bad, which proved that the other demons of the Demon Expeditionary Army were even worse, and if he sneaked in as a Minnie, the risk would be extremely high.

Today the skeleton wants to sleep in a bed, will there be zombies who want to eat meat tomorrow?

These are all foreseeable practical problems that cannot be ignored.

Thinking about it, Li Yue became suspicious of Schorrek's true purpose—what exactly was “that” that he repeatedly kept in mind and wanted to find?

Since he wants “that,” then why don't I… do “that”?