The Hero Reborn as a Demon King Loli

How do you treat an ear again? Never mind, let's just cast a healing spell on the head...

Lulu's reply left Chloe's mind blank, so she simply gave up trying to think.

I started casting healing spells on my head... the kind that glows green.

……

"Xiao Yi, what's wrong with you?"

Still confused, Alesia rubbed her fingers together and asked Chloe, who was squatting in another corner with a green glow on her head, with a curious tone.

However, Chloe did not react at all to Ilesia's touch and continued to remain withdrawn.

If Alessia listened carefully, she could also hear Chloe, who was withdrawn, muttering things like "This must be a dream," "I can't accept it," and "Why, why did things turn out like this?"—escapist statements.

"Little Yi, can you please pay attention to me? I'm getting angry if you keep doing this!" Ilesia, who was vigorously rubbing Chloe's cheeks, pouted and said somewhat aggrievedly when she saw that Chloe was completely ignoring her.

However, Chloe was already repeating her ramblings without any reaction whatsoever.

"Little Yi, if you don't pay attention to me, I'm going to bite you!" With that, a somewhat annoyed Ilesia opened her little mouth, revealing her little tiger teeth, as if she was about to bite her.

“Aba aba…” Chloe still didn’t react.

"Little Yi, if you don't say anything, I'll take that as you agreeing to let me bite you... *slurp*." Alesia said, involuntarily drooling.

Ignoring Ilesia, who was drooling over Chloe, only Linfiel's behavior was relatively normal.

After all, she could be considered an outsider, but looking at Chloe, who was suddenly squatting in the corner with Satania on either side, and asked Lulum, who seemed a little lost, with a look of interest.

"Speaking of which, Lady Lulum, what exactly did you say to Lady Chloe just now? Why did she suddenly become like this?"

Lulum's bewildered expression disappeared after Lulum asked the question.

Instead, she darkened her face (physically) and gave a self-deprecating smile.

Then Linfiel couldn't tell if Lulum was speaking to her or to her:

"Look at you, you can't even figure out this situation... You must have said something wrong! If you suddenly told Chloe you were getting married, she definitely wouldn't accept it right away!"

Why does it feel like they're not talking to me? But is that how it is? Lin Fei'er thought to herself.

Although she wasn't very bright, she could still understand such simple logic.

Lady Lulum is getting married, and the groom isn't Lady Chloe, so Lady Chloe is so jealous she's practically devastated.

She understood that feeling.

Linfair looked at Chloe, whose head was covered in green light, with an empathetic look in her eyes, and then looked as if she was reminiscing about the past.

I wonder what Lin Fei'er remembered.

Meanwhile, Lulum was still berating herself.

Or rather, it's Black Rum who's criticizing Rum:

“You need to learn how to lay the groundwork! Don’t you understand what laying the groundwork means? Don’t tell me things like ‘get straight to the point.’ Look at Chloe’s expression; do you think she’ll listen to your explanations anymore?”

After scolding Lulu for a while, Blacklum looked at the reclusive Chloe, shook her head, and continued to mutter, "Watch how I do it!"

She then walked over to Chloe.

"Little girl, why don't you go take a nap over there?"

Upon hearing Helm's words, Alesia, who had been staring at Chloe's neck with a gradually unfocused gaze, suddenly hardened her eyes and immediately jumped onto the sofa and fell asleep.

Well, Ilesia's actions were definitely not her own initiative; Blacklum did use some form of mental suggestion.

It's just that the effect is outstanding.

Now, although there are six people in the room, it has become a situation where Halum and Chloe are alone.

Unlike Lulu, who was at a loss when faced with the withdrawn Chloe, Blacklum simply and forcefully pulled the disoriented Chloe into her arms and whispered in her ear:

"Lulum won't get married..."

Upon hearing this, Chloe, who was in a state of withdrawal, subconsciously looked at Helloum, and her eyes began to brighten.

Seeing Chloe's amusing reaction, Helm's face lit up with a slightly pleased smile, and he continued:

"But the Demon King is getting married..."

Chloe's body trembled violently, her eyes lost their luster, and she became even more withdrawn.

Blacklum's smile deepened:

"But don't forget, should the Demon King be the bride or the groom?"

Upon hearing this, Chloe's eyes widened suddenly. She looked up at Lulum, whose smile was growing even wider, as if she understood something, but wasn't entirely sure.

Helum stopped teasing her and instead reassured her:

"That's right, the Demon King's marriage, of course it'll be to a girl! Lulum doesn't understand what you're thinking, but don't I understand? Don't worry~"

The green light above Chloe's head vanished instantly.

Once she regained her senses, she opened her mouth but didn't know what to say. After hesitating for a long time, she finally managed to utter a sentence:

"I'll sit at the kids' table!"

……

The misunderstanding was resolved, and Chloe's mood immediately brightened.

However, she still asked about the cause and effect of the matter while in Helm's arms.

Why is Lulum, the Demon King, in such a hurry to get married?

Since it wasn't something worth hiding, Helm took it upon himself to discuss Lulum's thoughts with Chloe.

Chloe was also somewhat surprised, never expecting that the demons would have such a reason for going to war with the humans...

"Using marriage to buy time for a year? In other words, if the demon race's food crisis is resolved within this year, then the demon race... at least Lulum, as the Demon King, will have no reason to start a war with the human race..."

But no matter how Chloe thought about it, she felt it was unlikely that the demon race's food crisis could be resolved within a year, even if the experimental wheat was still available.

"Unless there really are potatoes... Where have I seen them before? My memory shouldn't be wrong... But when the system was still working, I never saw potatoes for sale. Where could they be..."

While Chloe was thinking, her gaze inadvertently drifted to the gacha interface.

"I remember now! It was 'junk' from gacha pulls!"

Chapter Sixty-Seven: After all, I'm not some kind of demon.

Chloe remembered that the potato was a classic, fashionable little piece of junk she had drawn when she was drawing cards before.

And she casually tossed it aside.

Now that I think about it, she really lost a great tool!

According to Lulum, the reason why ordinary plants cannot be grown in the Demon Realm is because those ordinary plants cannot adapt to the magic power in the Demon Realm soil... and potatoes are not from this world, so they don't need magic power at all... Based on Chloe's experience of growing peaches among humans, this should be the case.

Furthermore, potatoes can adapt to many harsh environments and, most importantly, are a crop with a very high yield, so they should be able to be grown on a large scale in the Demon Realm.

Chloe had already recalled where she had lost the artifact... after all, it had only been a little over ten days, she wasn't about to forget.

Looks like I need to go home.

It was in the house where she was born as "Chloe," the house she shared with Lulum.

Chloe clearly remembered that it was her second time drawing a card after her rebirth, and the specific location was an open space near her home.

But it's been sitting in that empty lot for so many days now, I wonder if that potato has gone bad, or if some creature has eaten it...

If that potato is unharmed, it could very well become the key to stopping this "necessary battle."

But first, we still need to confirm with Lulum...

So Chloe asked Lulum, or rather, Black Lulum:

"Helum, if there were a plant that was unaffected by magic, could adapt to the environment of the demon realm, and could produce a large quantity of crops, but only contained one seed, could you prevent the demons from going to war with the humans in a year?"

"If I had such a crop, even just a single seed, I could promote it throughout the entire demon race within a year... Unfortunately, there is no such plant in front of me."

Hellum paused for a moment at Chloe's words, then smiled and shook his head, assuming that Chloe was just giving an example.

However, after hearing Helm's affirmative reply, Chloe's eyes lit up, and she said with some excitement:

"Really? Then Lulum, I need to go home now..."

“Go home? Sure, judging from Linslet’s condition, it’s impossible to start the research right away today… Let’s go home together.”

Seeing that Chloe was calling for Lulum, Lulum immediately ran out and responded.

However, she clearly misunderstood Chloe's meaning, thinking that Chloe was referring to her residence at the academy when she said "home".

"Shall we go back together? But Lulum, are you able to leave the Demon King's Castle?" Chloe realized that Lulum might have misunderstood her, so she shook her head to remind her.

"Are you talking about that house in the forest? Chloe, why do you suddenly want to go back there?" Lulum also realized what was going on, her tone slightly puzzled.

So Chloe started talking to Lulu about potatoes.

Of course, she couldn't expose the system, but since Lulu had already sensed that Chloe was hiding something, Chloe didn't explain much about the origin of the potato, leaving it open-ended.

"Chloe, although I don't know how you came to know about this amazing plant, if it really exists, please be sure to bring it back. I'll arrange for someone to escort you there right away..."

After listening to Chloe's explanation, Lulum also spoke with a serious expression.

Of course, as a plant expert, Lulu also had doubts about whether this "potato" was actually real.

If someone else told Lulu that there was a plant that could grow without magic, she would definitely think that person needed to have their brain checked at the hospital.

However, because Lulum trusted Chloe, and because Chloe did indeed have some little secrets that even she didn't know, Lulum still chose to believe Chloe.

"Arrange for someone to escort me? Isn't that a bit much? It's just going back to where we used to live. Can't we just ask someone who knows teleportation magic to take me there?"

Chloe looked at Lulum, whose expression was unusually serious, and tilted her head to say something.

It seems a bit hard to understand why Lulum would make things so complicated.

Lulum patted Chloe's head and said, "How can this be considered troublesome? I should have personally taken you there, but I need to store energy for the seal these few days and can't leave the seal too far away... Most importantly, the super monsters in Star Forest have been going berserk for some reason recently, and I'm afraid you'll run into them."

After hearing Lulum's explanation, Chloe felt like she might know why the super monster had gone berserk...

Thinking this, Chloe turned to look at Linfair, who was standing to the side, her face covered in sweat and her eyes darting around.

(Image of a black man sweating)

Hmm, it seems the culprit has realized what's going on.

……

While Lulum was returning to the Demon King's castle to arrange manpower, Chloe leaned back on the sofa in the laboratory, arms crossed, legs crossed, and said to Linfiel with a disdainful expression:

"This is your responsibility. If I tell Lulum the truth, how many months' salary will you have deducted?"

Upon hearing Chloe mention money, Linfair immediately tensed up.

"Lady Chloe, aren't you also responsible for this? If you hadn't 'jumped off the train' back then, I wouldn't have inexplicably gotten involved with those two super magical beasts..."

"Oh? You mean you blame me? Do you think Lulum will believe you or me?" Chloe chuckled lightly at Linfiel's seemingly attempt to shift blame, speaking calmly.

You have to be selective about who you're blaming.

If Lin Feier really tries to shift the blame to her like this, it would be as ridiculous as trying to trap wolves in a group of seemingly kind people.

"I'm sorry! I misspoke! Please forgive me, Lady Chloe! Please be lenient with my salary and such!" Linfeier, having figured out her position, immediately bowed and apologized.

"Well, I'm not some kind of demon after all. As long as you show some sincerity... didn't Lulum give you a bonus of several thousand before?"

Seeing Chloe's radiant smile, Linfair instinctively clutched her wallet.

However, before Chloe could even get some "activity funds" from Linfair, Lulum returned to the lab with someone.

When Chloe saw Lulum enter, she quickly sat up straight, and her expression returned to its previous innocent and naive state.

In short, she is very well-behaved.

The little girl couldn't possibly have any bad intentions... Anyway, Linfair, who knows Chloe's true colors, doesn't believe it.

Chapter Sixty-Eight: Wow! Baldy!

"Lulu, you've arranged the manpower so quickly?"

Upon seeing Lulum bring people in, Chloe instinctively controlled her expression and posture, putting on a strange and quirky look.