Chapter 13: Kroc can take on the responsibility of going undercover.

“What is this girl even saying?”

Don’t want to take responsibility?

She was only thirteen years old! Couldn’t they treat her like an innocent, pure, and adorable little girl?

She had heard that when human children said they would get married when they grew up, it was treated as a joke. As the younger sister, kissing the cheek of her oldest sister to show closeness—wasn’t that perfectly normal?

Even though she was a demon, it should still follow the same logic, right? The other princesses and the maids in her own palace kissed each other all the time, and no one ever talked about taking responsibility.

Besides…

Hadn’t her own mom kissed her before?

“There are too many people who need to take responsibility for me.”

In Chloe’s memory, too many people had kissed her—not just the Demon King and those great lords, but also her peers, blood clan elders, and servants like Elda. As long as she let her guard down, they would all plant one on her face.

“Huh? And it’s not just her! You’re so young, how…”

The pure-hearted Flame Demon princess let out a disbelieving shriek and gripped Chloe’s hand even tighter. The force was too strong. Chloe instinctively struggled, and her shoulder strap was pulled down.

The clothes she usually wore were already thin. She either didn’t wear anything underneath or what she wore was no different from not wearing anything.

Very fortunately—or unfortunately—for her decadent image today, she had chosen not to wear anything underneath.

Thus, a patch of fair, snow-white skin was fully revealed before Elda and Rita’s eyes. Chloe’s expression instantly froze.

She had bathed with the maids plenty of times before, and being naked around the same sex wasn’t a big deal. But at this moment, after the other party had declared she needed to take responsibility, having her clothes pulled off carried a completely different meaning.

Chloe didn’t know what came over her. Feeling Elda’s eager gaze and seeing Rita’s somewhat dumbfounded expression, she鬼使神差 covered her face with both hands.

There were no tears, only a shy voice:

“This is my first time… be gentle…”

“That’s not what I meant!”

Rita ended up crying first. Her face and eyes red, she tried to push out of the gauze curtain and escape the bed.

This time, however, Chloe didn’t let her go.

She slipped out of the covers, her body moving as nimbly as a snake as she pounced toward Rita and wrapped herself around her.

“You’re running away? Does that mean you don’t want to take responsibility for me?”

Turning the tables was a tried-and-true tactic. The moment Chloe asked this, Rita’s body went soft and she helplessly collapsed back onto the bed.

“Then what do you want me to do?”

Rita had never been good at handling anything outside of battle. Chloe’s clumsy counterattack was surprisingly effective on her. She instantly lost all her earlier momentum and curled up in Chloe’s arms like a pure-hearted maiden.

Elda, who had watched the entire scene from the side, couldn’t close her mouth.

Was the princess she served actually a master of romance?

No, it was just that Princess Rita was too much of an airhead.

“Let me stay with her for a while.”

Chloe said softly to Elda. Although the maid was somewhat reluctant, she still withdrew from the gauze curtain.

Before leaving, she first reached out to adjust Chloe’s clothes, making sure everything that should be covered was covered, before going to brew tea.

She knew very well that Her Highness would not do anything erotic with Miss Rita.

A week ago, right after the trial ended, Her Highness—who had been harshly “loved” by His Majesty Yalith—had actually been completely fine. This was probably one of the benefits of getting beaten often.

For passing the trial, the Demon King had still given her a reward.

She had withdrawn the previous punishment and allowed her to indulge for a while, until the person entrusted with the task came to find Chloe.

When given the chance to indulge, Chloe would never wrong herself. Therefore, this past week had mostly been spent in bed. She had been calmly waiting for Rita to come find her and had already thought of how to deal with it.

【She really is becoming more and more outstanding, Princess Chloe.】

Elda sighed softly in her heart, feeling somewhat comforted by Chloe’s calm demeanor.

However, the cries that soon came from within the gauze curtain made it very difficult for her to stay calm.

They were supposed to be delivering a task. Were the two of them already tangled up together?!

Could it be…

That the task was to have a child?!

With this question flashing through her mind, Elda’s breathing quickened. She couldn’t help covering her burning face and dragged her chair closer to the bed.

No matter how obedient the blood clan girl usually acted, she still found it hard to maintain her composure when it came to recruitment scenes involving the little master she had served for many years.

……

Faced with her first undercover mission in life, Chloe’s only reaction besides screaming was that she really had no better way to express the emotions in her heart.

“Chloe, His Majesty the Demon King means that the Hero Limla’s party—the strongest among humans—lacks a suitable teammate and wants you to go.”

After Chloe’s hugging and endless explanations, once Rita understood that she really didn’t mean anything about stepping on backs, the calmed-down Flame Demon princess relayed the task Yalith had given her.

Send her to infiltrate the Hero’s party? And the strongest Hero’s party at that?

The only thing running through Chloe’s mind was that this old woman Yalith had finally entered menopause and gone completely mad!

She could already imagine herself approaching the Hero and then being chopped into minced meat.

“I understand how you feel. Calm down.”

Rita was, after all, the big sister among the princesses. After regaining her composure, she began calmly comforting Chloe.

“She actually wants me to…”

Chloe was about to continue when Rita, displaying her natural big-sister demeanor, reached out and covered the little girl’s mouth. Chloe could only make a few muffled “mmph” sounds.

“The difference in strength between you and the Hero is huge…”

Yeah, anyone could see that!

Plus, with her terrible acting skills, going undercover in the Hero’s party was basically asking to die, wasn’t it?

Chloe looked at Rita with grievance. Rita let out a soft sigh.

“Don’t worry…”

Chloe calmed down a little. That’s right—Yalith had a clear understanding of her abilities. She wouldn’t really send her to her death. And she had specifically chosen Rita to deliver the task, which obviously meant she was supposed to infiltrate together with Big Sister Rita.

With her around, even if they couldn’t defeat the Hero, at least they could preserve their lives.

Her thoughts cleared up. Chloe took a deep breath and looked at Rita with expectant eyes, hoping she would say what she had guessed.

“Being sent to deal with the Hero shows that your performance has been acknowledged by His Majesty. It’s not that she looks down on you.

I lost to you, and among our peers there’s no one else who can be your opponent. These past few days of decadence must be because you felt disappointed at having no worthy opponents, right? I understand! A human swordsman once arrogantly said that being invincible is lonely.

Don’t worry, the Hero is very strong—at least stronger than the vast majority of humans. She won’t disappoint you.”

The more Rita spoke, the worse Chloe’s expression became.

Until this considerate big sister patted her chest and declared that she would strictly follow the Demon King’s wishes by restraining all other demons who had contact with Chloe, ensuring that once Chloe infiltrated the Hero’s party, she wouldn’t even be able to reach out for help, the despairing little girl finally couldn’t hold back and burst into tears.

“You bad guy! You’re even worse than my mom! You’re a bad woman! I don’t love you anymore!”

Rita instantly became flustered. Just as she was about to comfort the little girl who had started kicking her face with her small foot, the gauze curtain was suddenly yanked open.

A red-faced Elda shouted urgently:

“Don’t bully Her Highness! If you can’t do it gently… then… then let me do it!”

Completely unable to hold it in any longer, Chloe jumped up, kicking and thrashing as she drove both of them out of her room. She buried herself in the covers, wanting nothing more than to sleep until she died.