"I know you're not sure about this either, but I appreciate your words." He said.
Ah, he read right through me!
"No matter what… Even if the worst happens, I'll remain at your side and help you." He said once more, putting his hand on his heart. "Your matters take priority over my family, don't worry."
Oh my god, he's really compromised into this!
Actually, you don't need to be so self-sacrificing, it's making me look like a bad woman…
"N-No, dear, please, calm down. We'll go find your family as soon as we can after the Frost Queen is dealt with, alright?" I said. "Don't be so self-sacrificing… You're making me look like the bad person here, gosh…"
"Ahahaha! Sorry…" He laughed cheerfully. "I missed that side of you."
"That although you always try to look tough in the outside, you're actually a very nice, and heartwarming person in the inside." He smiled charmingly.
Oh god, he's killing me!
He might truly become my second husband…
However, Partner and Lucifer were glaring at him while furrowing their eyebrows.
Emeraldine seemed to be enchanted by his romantic way to talk to me though, as if she was reading some sort of romance novel.
"So cute… You two make a cute pair." She said with a giggle.
"N-Not at all! Don't think we'll accept you any time soon, blondie!" Said Partner.
"Yeah! Don't you dare flirt with my wife like that in front of me if you don't want me to burn you into ashes!" Lucifer roared, showing his fangs.
"A-Ah! I apologize!" Jonathan lowered his head and hit the table with his forehead so hard the table cracked…
"C-Come on you two, you don't need to be so rude." I sighed. "Jonathan, don't do that again either, the table's not to break."
"Sorry." Jonathan apologized again.
I guess Jonathan will have to earn their trust some more before they'll even allow him to get any closer to me… Haha.
"Graaaarrr!" Nyx hissed at Jonathan while sitting in her father's legs. "RAARGH!"
"Yeah, that's right! Roar at him, Nyx!" Lucifer incentivized her.
However, I could tell Jonathan found her rather cute than intimidating, as he was giggling a bit.
"Hahaha, all of you are much nicer and funnier than I imagined…" He said with a charming smile.
"W-What?! You dare look down on my provocations?" Lucifer said angrily.
"Oi, calm down." I glared back at Lucifer, as my eyes pierced his soul. "No more screaming in front of the table while having breakfast."
"A-Ah…" He quickly sat down. "Ugh, okay… Sorry."
"Anyways, for now, let's concentrate in what we can do right now." I said with a nod.
Like that, once we were over with breakfast, we moved to our next important task, unfreezing the people inside the icicles and pieces of ice scattered around the city.
These were the small group of survivors of this ruined city that was once the home of the Demon King, and of course, they were all Majin, some looked stronger than others.
Using Jonathan and Lucifer's help, we gathered everyone together in a single area right behind the castle. Lucifer looked at these people with a bit of sorrow, but also hope.
He actually didn't knew any of them, yet he knew they were all the surviving descendants of his past friends.
"Alright, let's get this over with." I smiled, taking out the jewel where Brunhild's flame was and releasing it into the ice.
The flames spread, growing bigger and shining with divine, golden light. They spread across all the ice and began melting it smoothly. Seconds went by quickly, and so did minutes. It was a slow process, it took a few hours to begin seeing some people's half being unfrozen.
And then their other half two hours later. Slowly yet steadily, until it was finally over. They had been frozen for so long that they immediately opened their eyes as they were unfrozen completely, as if the curse spread through their entire bodies until every bit of ice was melted.
"My King, watch out- Ah! What is this?"
"It seems… we've been finally unfrozen, Gustaf."
Among the many unfrozen Majin, which were around seventy, a figure among them stood out, a young Majin with blue skin and a single black horn growing at the left side of his head, and sharp red eyes accompanied by purple hair.
The aura he emanated seemed to have a promising, hidden potential, but he had yet to actually awaken his strength… and those at his side seemed to be his protectors, several knights, especially a burly, muscular guy with stone covering his skin, who he named Gustaf.
"Welcome." I said with a smile. "You've been frozen perhaps… for hundreds of years. It has truly taken a long while, but we've managed to unfreeze you using the divine flames of a divine dragon."
"Ooh… W-What happened here?"
"Our city… it is all on ruins…"
"Who are these people?"
"We've been frozen… for hundreds of years?"
Although the people started to panic and questioning us, some even angered at us for having taken away their place, who I assumed was their young King, stepped forwards and talked to his people.
"Calm down, everyone." He said. "These people mean no harm. If they did, we wouldn't be here, breathing and talking. Let us first hear what they have to say before judging our saviors."
The people doubted a bit but trusted the young Majin's words.
"I apologize on behalf of my people. We've survived many things together, but never something … As the last survivors of the once glorious Demon Kingdom, we are not many, but we are united as one big family." He said. "It is nice to see you, my name is Hermes, I am the current King of this small, decaying Kingdom. A descendant of the Ancient Demon King."
"So you're really his descendant… You do look like him, hahah…" Lucifer laughed, as he suddenly started crying. And then, he ran towards the boy, and hugged him.