Chapter 2

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Chapter 2: This is a demon

Translator: yuzu

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You never expected that a few days later, you would end up visiting this brothel again, even though it left such a strong impression.

This time, you did not come for your sister, but rather you had another objective.

But you pause and hesitate at the front door for a long while, unable to take a step.

“Oh?”

A slightly familiar male voice, low and muted, with that signature style of teasing, is transmitted to your eardrums.

A shadow materializes in front of you.

Startled, you quickly raise your head and encounter a pair of slender dark red eyes with a mirthful quality.

“Ah…” You open your mouth, but your voice trails off blankly.

In truth, you are nervous and unsure of what to say.

The young demon who is dressed like a waiter looks at your flustered and overwhelmed appearance, and his smile deepens further. The syllables gushing out of his throat are magnetic and deceptively seductive, teasing and evil like the intrinsic nature of demons.

“You’ve come back, Little Miss.”

The tall demon crouches on the steps, and he smiles at you like a gentle and considerate elder brother.

“Are you looking to play with big brother1?”

If you changed the scene and the actors, such a line could be endearing if it were a cheerful older boy next door speaking to a cute little human girl. However, the other party is a demon working in a brothel, and his suggestion to play with you definitely isn’t what it means on the surface.

His aura is brimming with a grown man’s pheromones, and his skillful technique at flirting instinctively gives you the urge to withdraw.

Uuw… at worst, you can go back home and accept defeat2.

This kind of thing… you’re sorry, but you really can’t do it!

Seeing your hesitation and withdrawal, the young demon who is keenly attuned your emotions quickly removes the frivolous look on his face. He turns into a refined and courteous gentleman, and he politely asks you, “Little Miss, are you looking for someone? Your sister went somewhere else yesterday, and she is not inside our shop.”

Based on the tone of his voice, you can tell that your sister is a frequent customer at the nearby brothels.

After all, she is a high-level swordsman who is cute and spends a lot of money. She is bound to be quite popular at the brothels.

“I-I’m not here for my sister.” You stammer: “Is there… a half-beast named Dubin in your store?”

“Huh? Yes, he’s here…”

Suddenly realizing something, the young demon pauses. He looks at you with a rather strange and surprised look. He continues worriedly and reminds you, “Are… you sure you want Dubin? He’s a werewolf-hyena hybrid, and he might not be a good fit for you…”

“It’s… It’s not what you think!” Your cheeks flush with embarrassment. You are so shy and introverted that you’re unsure of how to explain this. Finally, you give in to despair, and whisper dejectedly: “Can I trouble you to just take me to him? Please don’t worry, I’ll pay the fee according to the rules.”

The long and narrow eyes of the young demon are filled with a keen curiosity and a concealed interest in your affairs.

But as a professionally trained attendant, he does not pry into the underlying reason for your visit. He had spoken up earlier because he did not think you were the type of “bad girl” to play around in this kind of place. Although this brothel is a place for pleasure-seeking women who are willing to spend money to relax, you are a meek-looking little human girl with a childish face. The adult sex service of this establishment is not available to you.

Of course, if you are feeling upset and just want to find someone to chat with, you still have many choices. For example, fairies have a patient and gentle personality. There are winged men and the ever-popular tree spirits and water sprites, and they are extremely good at entertaining these types of guests.

The male brothels3 in this world are actually very similar to the ones in your previous world. The entertainers in the store are employed like those with a regular job, and they receive guests voluntarily. If they are not satisfied with the workplace or have other plans, they can turn in their resignation to the manager and leave. However, prostitution as a profession is not only well paid, but the tasks are also much safer than the hard work of killing monsters outside. Naturally, there is no shortage of replacements, and the barrier of entry into the career is quite high. Not many people meet the requirements. Of course, there are also a good number of people who work part-time in the brothel for various purposes, whether it is to double their income or relieve their physiological needs.

Particularly during breeding season, the number of guests in the brothels surges several fold. During this time, every brothel will recruit many part-time prostitutes in order to meet the needs of their customers. After all, guests of every race each have different requirements. Furthermore, some of the arrogant and dispassionate races will not mate with other races aside from their own.

If a guest asking for a prostitute is a race that the host is unable to accept, the prostitute has a right to refuse the guest. However, most of the time they will give into the temptation of shiny gold coins.

When you pass by the water tank from several days ago, you notice that the male mermaid isn’t inside. You can’t help but ask curiously: “Um… Mr. Demon4, do you know where that mermaid went?”

Even though you have no idea know how you caused the merman to enter estrus and found his advances to be a little embarrassing, you don’t inherently hate or fear him. Furthermore, his beautiful fish tail was injured, so you are a little worried.

Of course, it’s not because you have any special feelings for that male mermaid. You simply feel regretful that a perfect gem was broken in front of your eyes, and you are instinctively sympathetic towards living things.

You are a little surprised when the young demon walking in front of you suddenly stops upon hearing your words. The raised triangular tail behind him slowly droops.

The demon’s tail is slender and long, like a slippery snake attached to a viper’s head. However, the tip of the triangle is flat and a bit sharp, and it looks like a small arrow.

You suddenly remember that when you first saw the young demon, his triangular demon tail was drooping, but then it perked up and swished from side to side, almost like a dog wagging its tail when it greets its master.

You don’t know if the young demon is like this with every guest, but you still feel like his tail is pretty cute.

If you weren’t so embarrassed, you would actually really want to touch it.

“Do you like that merman?”

You freeze, and then blink a few times distractedly, “What?”

You were so engrossed with the young demon’s tail, that you didn’t hear what he said.

The young demon glances at you from the side, and then he laughs. “It’s nothing. Mermen become very violent and aggressive during estrus. In order to keep to Segon from frightening the guests, the store manager sent him away for the time being. If you want to meet him, you’ll have to wait half a month.”

“I see…” Actually, you had only asked out of curiosity, and you don’t really want to meet with the mermaid, so you quickly change the topic, “Excuse me…”

Before you finish speaking, a white shadow suddenly appears in front of you.

“You finally came meow~”

Before the white shadow is able to pounce on you, the young demon sweeps you into his encircling arms, causing the white shadow to miss its target.

“That’s unfair meow! Why’d you dodge!”

It is a cute little boy around eight or nine years old, with a cute delicate face, and a pair of soft white animal ears that poke out of his short, fluffy white hair. He stares accusingly at you with puffed cheeks, and his ruby cat-like eyes are filled with dismay.

You suddenly feel a bit of tingling.

Incidentally, you have basically zero resistance to fluffy creatures, so you’re very fond of this sickeningly cute shota5 with cat ears. In fact, when you first met, you did indeed go crazy over him. A few days ago when you came looking for your sister, while you were waiting in the lounge for the young demon, you suddenly heard something in the corner of the room that sounded like a kitten crying. You followed the noise and found a small catboy hiding in a cabinet, whimpering and sobbing. He had cried so much that his eyes were red and swollen.

You had assumed that he was a poor little child who had been left behind in the brothel by his careless parents, so you took him into your arms and comforted him gently until he stopped crying. Then he opened his teary eyes and looked at you like a sad kitten.

“Big sister, my mom and dad don’t want me anymore. Will you take me home with you meow?” The little shota sobbed and sniffled.

You bit your lip a bit awkwardly, trying to come up with an answer that wouldn’t hurt him. The little shota suddenly kissed your face, puffed up his meatbun-like cheeks, and proclaimed haughtily: “I don’t care, in either case I’ve already kissed you, so you’ll be mine from now on meow.”

You were a bit dumbfounded by his childish speech, but you didn’t take it to heart.

But when the young demon reappeared, he mercilessly tied the little shota into a rice cake6. Then he smiled and explained to you that the cute cat-eared shota was actually a hundred-year-old adult male catboy, and you were promptly stunned.

The difference between cat people and other races is that they do not have an adolescent period when they grow up. Instead, they spend longer in childhood. After outgrowing their child form, they will mature into their adult form in just two weeks, and then stop growing. They do not gain their elderly form until just before their deaths.

In other words, a male cat ten times your age flirted with you.

Your mood at that time was a bit complicated.

Probably since you are such an introverted and shy girl, you aren’t particularly popular among the men of this world. In the past ten years, you have not encountered a single man seriously interested in you. In the end, you came to this brothel once, and two nonhuman men made advances on you.

But due to your memories from your past life, you weren’t bold enough to accept being together with nonhuman men.

Moreover, humans have a short lifespan, and you don’t want your hair to turn gray while your lover looks the same as always, completely untouched by time.

Furthermore, this hundred-year-old kitten looked exactly like an eight or nine-year-old human child. It was impossible for you to be the slightest bit attracted to him.

You sigh in distress, and then remember that you are still being held in the young demon’s arms. You promptly whisper to him in embarrassment: “Mr. Demon, you can let me go now.”

But the young demon didn’t seem to hear you, and he did not react at all.

Also you feel like his body temperature is exceptionally hot.

Or could it be that demons normally have high body temperatures?

You are doubtful, and you try repeating yourself.

“Ah…” The young demon suddenly regains his senses, and he loosens his arms that were wrapped around your shoulders. “Sorry, I was distracted and didn’t hear you.”

From the corner of your eye, you see that Mr. Demon’s triangular tail has become strangely stiff.

The demon suddenly says something to you: “Aleucus.”

You stare blankly for a moment, but then you realize that Mr. Demon might be telling you his name.

But you are doubtful. Why is he suddenly telling you his name?

You don’t have the time to think about this, because the cat-eared shota suddenly starts trying to rub against your body, not wanting to be left out.

But he is unsuccessful, as someone picks him up by the scruff of his neck.

“Wuah— Let me go meow!”

The cat-eared shota flails with his limbs.

“I heard you’re looking for me?”

A cold and tough male voice comes from above your head.

You have no choice but to slowly tilt your head.

Ah… so tall.

Even though you’re 160cm7, you need to look up in order to see his chin.

Then your eyes make contact with a pair of cold gray eyes looking down at you.

And… the top of his head looks like it feels amazing…

Fluffy…

Translator’s notes:

Big Brother: In Chinese (as in Japanese), it’s not unusual for unrelated strangers to refer to themselves brothers or sisters.Accept defeat: Literally in the raw, “accept punishment” (for failing to complete a task). However, this doesn’t have a lewd or corporeal connotation in Chinese as it does in English, so I’ve altered it.Male brothel (牛郎店): This is a good opportunity to explain this term. Literally, “Cowherd store” (as in a shepherd) translates to “male prostitute store”, although the meaning is somewhat similar to the host clubs or cabaret clubs in Japan. That said, the Japanese host clubs are strictly “no touch” (I’m not sure about the legality or rules of them in China), whereas the brothels in this universe do provide sex in addition to milder entertainment like in host clubs and cabaret clubs.Mr. Demon (恶魔先生): You can think of this as Demon-san (Japanese), although in Chinese it’s pronounced Demon-xiānsheng.Shota (小正太): A Japanese term that refers to small boys, particularly with regards to the fetish.Rice cake (粽子): More accurately, zongzi, also known as “sticky rice dumplings”. Essentially, this is sticky rice packaged in banana leaves and tied with a string.160 cm: 5′ 3″ in American measurements. This is incidentally the average height of women in China.

Translating this novel is actually quite a challenge! The second person narration is a bit unusual for me, and the author has somewhat artful and flourishing long sentences… it takes some time to figure out how to word it.

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