For a foreigner who clearly looked like no good, Margaret decided to take a more aggressive stance.
"May I ask what you want with Jia Xiu? If it's nothing important, he needs to rest right now."
At the sight of this, Mia even slowed down her seed-snacking.
She could watch this all day!
The visitor—or, more accurately, the demon—was a high-ranking Lust Demon lying low in the Ukmak Empire. He wanted to lure Jia Xiu, a "natural seed of evil," into joining the Demonfolk.
He wanted Jia Xiu's filthy soul so badly that he'd acted on his own without orders from his superiors.
Luring Jia Xiu would be difficult, sure, but even if he failed, he probably wouldn't get caught. And if he succeeded, it'd be his chance to get promoted!
He was really eager to climb the ranks.
The Lust Demon gazed "affectionately" at Jia Xiu. Oh, he was like a flawless sheet of pure black paper, with endless room to fall into depravity.
The moment he saw Jia Xiu, it was like a cat spotting catnip.
So, so, so, so evil!
He completely ignored the barbs in Margaret's words and greeted her with impeccable politeness. As a Lust Demon, a rare breed among Devils with both great combat ability and social skills, he'd seen this sort of thing plenty of times.
"Hello. I'm Johann von Wolfgang, an envoy from the Ukmak Empire. It's a great honor to meet you. I watched Mr. Jia Xiu's trial and was deeply impressed, so I came to make his acquaintance."
Make his acquaintance.
Margaret was annoyed. This was the most troublesome sort of person, one who wouldn't state his purpose and just vaguely claimed he wanted to make someone's acquaintance.
So many lonely wives had been lured away in the late-night tales