Breakfast was especially lively. Everyone traded barbs and played around with the fairies nearby. It looked rather noisy, yet a faint warmth filled the air.
Of course, because of what had happened yesterday, Shien was ultimately caught by the girls and made to settle the score.
The greater the shock caused by that remark about "having children," the fiercer the girls' retaliation was today.
In any case, neither Aiyi nor Lide let Shien off. They targeted him all morning.
However, after yesterday's farce, no one was impulsive enough to want to start throwing punches anymore.
Thus, Aiyi and Lide could only try to punish Shien through verbal attacks.
Yet without resorting to violence, how could Shien, the undisputed king of trash talk, possibly fear these so-called Demon Lords?
So, for the entire morning, Shien gave it his all and verbally battled everyone. Not only did he stand his ground against the two Demon Lords, but he even dragged Roxie into it, nearly angering her to death.
However, after learning that Shien's talk about "having children" yesterday had merely been a ploy to fool people, Roxie was much calmer than she had been the day before. She was still angry, but not angry enough to grit her teeth like Aiyi and Lide. In the end, she wisely chose to surrender, decisively withdrew from the battlefield, and declined to take part in Shien's grand verbal free-for-all.
Thanks to that, Shien achieved a complete victory today, defeating both the Dragon Demon and the Beast Demon at once.
Unable to outtalk Shien, Aiyi and Lide could only grudgingly acknowledge the result, secretly swearing that they would settle this score someday if they got the chance.
But if they were not going to use violence, Shien really wanted to say—
"I'm not talking about just