The legend of the Crimson Demon clan started from Suqing

#119 - The naive princess

The blonde girl seemed very interested in her surroundings, looking around and swaying from side to side, her steps appearing unsteady and dangerously precarious.

She was like a goldfinch just released from its cage.

After shaking off their pursuers, the two sat down at a table outside a shop to rest. After ordering two glasses of juice from the waiter, they began to chat.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Ai… Iris. I'm really grateful for your help just now."

As expected, she used a fake name.

Zun Zun teasingly pretended not to know, saying, "Iris, you're blonde. Judging by the situation in this country, you must be a young lady from a noble family, right?"

"A young lady from a noble family? N-no… I, I am…"

Iris glanced at a stall owner selling clothes in the distance and, as if suddenly remembering something, said, "Actually, I'm the granddaughter of a silk merchant, Iris, not a young lady at all."

Her blue eyes looked at Zun Zun, cleverly hiding her panic, with a hint of feigned seriousness, as if she intended to deny it to the end no matter what.

An uninformed person might believe her, after all, Duster and Cecily are also blonde, but neither of them are nobles anymore.

Since she insists so strongly, let's just go along with it.

However, thinking about it, those guards weren't arresting her for doing something wrong, but rather protecting her, right? After all, no matter what, Iris is a princess of a country, how could she go out without a few guards protecting her?

Speaking of which, where did that perverted female bodyguard with ulterior motives towards the princess go?

Since Iris was hiding her identity, Zun Zun couldn't directly ask, but she probably slipped away while out of her sight.

Moreover, Zun Zun was now a little troubled.

If he were here for sightseeing, he would be very happy to have a chance encounter with the princess and have a wonderful romance. But now he was here to steal something, and he didn't even know whose house he was going to steal from.

Thinking about it carefully, saying he was going to steal from the royal palace in front of a princess, or even taking her to steal something… he might get beheaded.

"T-that…"

Iris fidgeted with her fingers, cautiously asking, "I-I don't know what your name is…"

"Zun Zun."

"…Eh?"

"I'm a Crimson Demon. Although Crimson Demons have strange names, that's really my name."

Zun Zun saw that she didn't seem to believe him and thought that he was using a fake name like her, and even said such a strange name, so he couldn't help but explain.

Iris was a little strange at first, but she immediately understood after hearing that he was a Crimson Demon. She probably thought that no one but a Crimson Demon would have such a strange name.

He felt like he was being offended.

"Speaking of those two…"

Zun Zun looked at the grapes and cherries on the table, rubbing against each other and kissing, his expression extremely strange.

What was this supposed to be?

Saying it was interspecies love might not be quite right, after all, they were both in the fruit category, at most it was the difference between humans and elves or beastmen. But such human-like rubbing made people a little confused.

The most incredible thing was, how did they sense each other just now?

If you were to ask Zun Zun how he felt, it was like taking your pet dog out for a walk at night and bumping into the neighbor's dog, and then the two of them locking eyes.

And Polna, your face—or rather, your skin—has also turned too red!

After that, Zun Zun noticed that Iris's eyes were constantly following someone.

Following her gaze, it turned out to be a traveling vendor uncle, selling something like cotton candy, soft and fluffy like balloons, with colorful colors, and even shaped into various animals, which looked very interesting and fun.

"Cotton candy, delicious cotton candy!"

The uncle seemed to see the desire in her eyes, so he took the initiative to strike up a conversation: "Little sister, would you like to buy a beautiful and delicious cotton candy? Little sister is so cute, uncle will give you a discount, now it's only 100W Eris!"

After careful consideration, Iris said, "I've never seen this kind of food before. 100W Eris each? Hmm, a fair price. Then please give me two, uncle."

Saying this, the girl who took the uncle's joke seriously, took out her wallet from her arms. Just as she was about to take out a high-value coin, Zun Zun grabbed her wrist.

"Wait, what are you planning to do?"

"Isn't it right to pay for things…"

She said this in a matter-of-fact tone, a tone of natural justice, as if the person with the problem was Zun Zun.

"There's a limit to being naive, how did that perverted female bodyguard teach you?"

He couldn't help but mutter.

"What?"

"Nothing."

Zun Zun shook his head.

The vendor uncle's eyes lit up, and he said in a seductive tone, like taking a child to see goldfish, "Hahaha, little sister is so cute. In that case, uncle will give you a discount, how about two for 100W Eris? Uncle, I like innocent and cute little sisters like you the most."

"Really can give me so much discount, thank you so much, boss."

Iris took out a high-value coin from her pocket, ready to hand it to the greedy merchant uncle whose eyes were shining with greed.

At that time, his finger was only 0.01 centimeters away from the coin, but a quarter of an incense stick later, the vendor uncle would completely flee in panic, because Zun Zun decided to say a threatening word.

"Uncle, your greedy stench of money has already dissipated. I advise you to take the 200 Eris and leave quickly, otherwise I, Zun Zun—a Crimson Demon, will retaliate for everything! Or, do you also want to dance?"

"C-Crimson Demon? Black hair, red eyes… Eek, eek——————!"

The emotionally excited Zun Zun's eyes glowed with bright red light, and when the vendor uncle saw those red eyes, he was like a miscellaneous ninja seeing the hero of the ninja world, scared out of his wits and fleeing in panic.

Of course, he also left behind two cotton candies.

Although the Crimson Demons are not as infamous as the Axis Order, they are just as bad, belonging to a brain-problematic race. The best way for ordinary people to deal with them is to run away quickly.

Zun Zun's mood was subtle.

In his previous life, it wasn't like he hadn't used his family background to scare off hooligans who were deliberately looking for trouble, and even the number of times was countless, but there was also a big difference between "brain-problematic Crimson Demon" and "my father Zhang Erhe". Although the results were the same, he still felt like he had lost something.

Iris, who got the cotton candy, was tasting it with a happy face.

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"This is really delicious. The dense texture has a slightly sweet fruity flavor. This might be the first time I've eaten such a novel and interesting food. Zun Zun, if you don't mind, would you like a stick too?"

She smiled with a happy face.

She probably rarely eats commoner food in the royal palace… No, she probably can't eat it at all, so she's curious about this novel and interesting commoner food.

Zun Zun took the bear-shaped cotton candy she handed over.

"Then I'll accept your kind offer."

"…You don't have to be so polite."

A beautiful smile appeared on Iris's face.

Food needs to be shared to taste even better, although Zun Zun had eaten it many times, he still ate it with relish.

After finishing the cotton candy.

Zun Zun said, "Iris, what are you doing here? Although this is the royal capital, the security should be quite good, but after all, the Demon King's army often comes here to harass recently, and it's easy for danger to occur. It's better to go home as soon as possible."

While strolling around just now, he heard the tourists chatting. They said that the front line was in urgent need, and the King and Prince had personally led the troops to stop the Demon King's army. Iris must be in charge of the royal capital at this time.

However, the princess, who should be on the throne giving orders to the nobles of the kingdom, was now eating cotton candy that only commoners would eat on a bench by the street.

Zun Zun advised, "Your family will be worried."

"It's okay." Iris lowered her head slightly, and said with a lonely expression, "There are no relatives at home now, even if I go back, I won't see my favorite brother."

I see, so that's how it is.

She must be a little unaccustomed to the King and Prince's departure, so she secretly sneaked out.

However, the King and Prince had just left, and the princess disappeared immediately after. The royal palace must be in an uproar now, right?

"Instead, Zun Zun, what are you doing here?"

"Ah, actually—"

"Zun Zun, what are you doing here? Eh, who is this?"

Before he could make up a lie about coming for tourism, he saw Chris appear behind them. She was also carrying a small green polka-dot package, which contained something, but it should be the tools that would be used tonight.

"Her name is Iris. We just happened to meet."

After Zun Zun introduced them, he saw Chris with a 'you're kidding me' expression. Obviously, no matter how busy she was running around, as a thief and goddess, she knew what the princess of this country looked like.

"Hello, I'm Iris, the granddaughter of a silk merchant."

"Oh, oh… Hello, I'm Chris, an ordinary adventurer."

"Adventurer!?"

Chris's self-introduction seemed to turn on Iris's switch, and she looked at her with an expectant look.

"You are adventurers?"

"Yes… or not?… Hahaha!"

Faced with the princess's questioning, Chris could only laugh awkwardly.

"I have a presumptuous request."

Iris said softly with a little shyness and full of pleading, "Actually… I long for the outside world. Since you are adventurers, then you must have a lot of adventurous experiences, right? Please, please let me listen to your adventure stories."

That's right, Iris—the princess of Loka—is a very orthodox beautiful girl, and that pitiful, animal-like pleading look made it impossible for people to refuse.