The Demons In the Reverse Harem Game Are Obsessed With Me

After Julia had calmed down a bit, the boy carefully closed the door and whispered to her while still leaning against the wall.

“If I let you go, will you keep quiet?”

“…”

Julia blinked her eyes brightly and looked up at the figure that was right behind her back. The first thing that caught her eye was the blonde hair, which had been covered in dust, and those eyes that were in deep blue like the autumn sky.

Thump, thump.

The sound of heavy footsteps through the thin door eventually approached closer and closer. The boy’s chest quickly hit against her back. As she realized something at the same time, Julia’s eyes widened in astonishment.

His appearance was a little younger than she had remembered, but Julia could still recognize his identity nonetheless.

‘No way—Legion?’

As one of the characters who could be targeted in the game [Demon’s Paradise], his basic story was the fact that he had been a sword master from a lowly background.

During the war with the demons, he had manifested his supernatural powers and eventually became a hero who single-handedly blocked all the demons from helplessly shoving inside. Afterwards, he made a contract with Emperor Ingrem V to infiltrate the Demon Realm in order to save Princess Estelle.

However, befitting of the genre, ‘tragedy’, Legion was cruel, ruthless and absolutely calculating. He had already been promised a lot by the Emperor in exchange for saving Estelle, but he hid that fact from the key, Estelle, herself and continuously tortured her with hope.

A dizzying peal echoed in Julia’s ears as she recalled the facts.

‘Nonsense. Why would Legion appear in the Imperial Palace already?’

There were still another four years left until the game’s prologue finally began. She was very surprised because it had been the first target character whom she met, but her fear towards Legion was actually even greater than that.

The priority was to give him whatever he wanted and survive in the end. She immediately as well as frantically nodded her head in response.

“…?”

The boy’s gaze appeared a bit wary, but what about it? Julia was very desperate at the moment after all.

‘I don’t really know what it is, but please let me go. I don’t want to die so absurdly!’

Perhaps her appeal which was done wholeheartedly had worked, the boy who was holding her back eventually loosened her a little. However, the footsteps that were just outside the door felt even closer than before as well. She could already hear their conversation pretty clearly now.

“Could a petty thief sneak all the way here? This is the Second Princess’s Residence after all.”

“That’s actually a nice thing to say to the Princess. It’s her birthday, but she can’t even attend it.”

“You have to say it properly. Today’s banquet was held for Princess Estelle. Somehow, the date just overlapped. The Empress had left unjustly, is there anything we can actually do anyway?”

The footsteps gradually stopped right in front of the door. They could have already confronted each other with the presence of that single thin wall in between them.

She could feel that the boy’s chest was pounding against her back. As if he had finally noticed her true identity through the men’s conversation from outside the door, she could sense the disappointment in the eyes that were looking downwards at the back of her head.

“Damn it, it’s going to be like this…”

As she heard the boy’s menacing voice, Julia helplessly lowered her eyes. His gaze towards her was mixed with the same deep disgust as the many others.

It was actually a very familiar thing to be glared at by the people around her or even got regarded as something ominous. However, to be treated like that even by a boy whom she only met for the first time had made her feel rather emotional at once.

She wanted to prove it. She was not a stone that would just roll silently when got kicked. Julia immediately grabbed the boy’s wrist in response.

“Follow me.”

“What are you doing…!”

“They’re not the ones who wouldn’t be looking for the Princess’s room.”

An annoyed gaze followed from behind her, but Julia simply tried to ignore it. She acted impulsively, but it wasn’t a decision that had been based solely on emotion itself. She couldn’t just watch and see him get caught in trouble like this.

“Quickly. Hurry up.”

“Don’t touch me carelessly!”

“No. You shouldn’t be getting caught in a place like this.”

Judging from the contents of the conversation between the previous men, it seemed that Legion was seriously trying to rob the Imperial Palace by targeting the birthday party itself. In the meantime, the place where he finally decided to hide himself was, of course, an Abandoned Palace like this.

As he traced along his waist, several small jewels dropped onto the floor. Julia immediately picked it up and shoved him under the bed before the boy could even have the time to utter a single word at all.

Suddenly, the door opened wide.

“Who, who is it?”

“I’m going to search the room for a while.”

“I just asked you who you are.”

Julia hid her trembling hands behind her back. Just by standing in the way of the men who were holding onto weapons, the momentum that soared just now had cooled down at a ridiculously fast rate. Their tall stature with muscles trained to their limit and those ferocious eyes like beasts had aroused fear as well as pressure just by remaining within the same space.

The knights, who had been pushing all the way inside with their boots, must have been annoyed by the small, shabby woman who was currently standing around in front of them.

“We are the Imperial Guards. We are looking for a petty thief who had stolen some jewels that were to be presented to Her Highness Princess Estelle. So, do not interfere and back away slowly.”

Julia clenched her fists tightly as she saw that the men were already rushing inside mercilessly to open things up before rummaging through every one of them.