"Bang!"
When Duanmu Huai kicked open the main gate and entered the Royal Palace once more, the King sitting on the throne had already turned ashen with rage. Standing before him were fully armed soldiers and the other three Heroes.
"Villain! How dare you commit such an atrocity against my daughter! Do you know your crime?"
"Know my crime?"
Duanmu Huai picked at his ear, looking completely unconcerned.
"What does this have to do with anything?"
"What are you talking about?!"
"I'm a Hero, after all."
A cold sneer appeared on Duanmu Huai's face as he stared at the King.
"You summoned me here because you expected a Hero to rescue your lives from the Demons, didn't you? Since that's the case, what's wrong with me playing with the Princess? After all, I'm going to save your lives. In return, I can have whatever I want, can't I?"
At this point, Duanmu Huai snorted in disdain. Wasn't that only natural? Since they had begged someone to save them, they should naturally satisfy all of that person's wishes. Forget the Princess—if he took both the Princess and the Queen for his enjoyment, wouldn't that be perfectly reasonable as well? After all, he was saving their entire country.
"W-What utter nonsense!"
The King was so furious that smoke nearly came out of his head.
"You're no Hero at all! You're merely a villain masquerading under the name of a Hero!"
"You're the ones who foolishly placed your fantasies on Heroes."
Duanmu Huai sneered at him.
"Do you think a Hero is whatever you imagine one to be? Give me a break. A Hero is someone capable of annihilating even the Demon King. How could he possibly obediently listen to the orders of idiots like you, who can't even defeat the Demon King's