Emerging from the shadow pool, the girl slowly opened her eyes and stood up from her kneeling position. Yuta watched with some trepidation to see if she would attack him and made sure that she would not attack him.
Yuta was briefly dumbfounded by her beauty, as it was the first time he had had the opportunity to see her face so clearly up close. But that little interest quickly dissipated when he soon remembered the way she had looked when she attacked him.
As the girl opened her eyes and looked around in amazement, suddenly there was a flash in her eyes, and the way she looked at Yuta changed dramatically. Before, she had been looking around like an ordinary little girl, but now she was looking only at Yuta's feet like the person in front of her was a god and she wanted to pray to him.
At the same time, Yuta felt in his heart the girl's unshakable loyalty to him. She would probably die without hesitation even if he ordered her to die, maybe she would hesitate, but it would make no difference.
When Yuta realized that the possibility of a sudden attack had completely disappeared, he got up from his seat, approached the girl, and reached out his hand to stroke her hair. In her current state, this girl certainly looked like an ordinary person.
Her not-so-rare short brown hair fell over her shoulders and her long eyelashes made her look like a pharaoh's daughter.
As Yuta grabbed her chin and lifted her towards himself, he realized that she was averting her eyes from him. Of course, since he could feel what she was feeling now, he knew why she was averting her eyes. She was now ashamed and afraid of being punished for attacking him the first time they met.
Yuta decided to talk to the girl for a while after he sat back in his chair.
"What is your name?"
"My name is Natsumi, my lord."
When Yuta heard her call him lord, he remembered a DVD movie he had watched in a previous life and asked her to change her address.
"Uh, I guess you think I'm not worthy to call you my lord. Hmm I see, I deserve it, Great Master."
"Just call me Yuta."
Natsumi trembled with fear as if she had heard something terrible, but Yuta, feeling her emotions, immediately realized that this would not be possible.
"Okay, call me something else, but not Great Master or Lord."
She calmed down and said, "As you wish, Emperor."
"That won't work either, I don't rule any land."
"Yes, My Sun and Moon, you are my sun and moon, no matter what anyone says."
Yuta frowned and rejected this offer without hesitation.
"I see, the three-word address must not have sounded good Precious Owner."
"Hey, can't you address me properly? I don't want people to misunderstand, it makes me sound like a perverted psychopathic MC who turns people into slaves."
"Hai! Reason for my endless obedience!"
As Yuta's hair stood on end, he gave in and let Natsume address him as Lord. He had an instinct that the longer this went on, the more complicated it would become for him.
In fact, he wasn't wrong, and right before Natsume asked Yuta for permission to call him Lord, he was planning to offer to call him My Hidden Passion next time.
"Tell me your real age, Natsume."
Even before Yuta got the answer some information came to his mind, information that Natsume was about to lie to him and that he could punish her with a thought if he wanted to.
"Ahaha my age, I'm only 14. years old"
Yuta narrowed his eyes and looked with contempt at the human demon in front of him. He was not about to play games with a demon who used to live by eating humans.
"Liar."
Natsume looked up and saw Yuta looking at him from under his eyes as he sat cross-legged in his chair, swallowed, and said her real age in a barely audible voice.
"14... Actually, I am 114 years old, my lord."
As Natsume said these words, she knew that he could destroy her with a thought, and that was what she feared in the first place. She thought that her beauty was her only redeeming quality since she was weak compared to other demons and that if Yuta ever found out her true age, he would be disgusted by her.
She had experienced similar events in her previous life in the red light district. Even though she was not aging and was very beautiful, middle-aged perverts were only interested in her because she was a little girl, and as the years passed, it became clear that she was not aging and she was expelled.
In her previous life, being kicked out of the red light district had bothered her but she could go back and cause a small-scale massacre to get revenge, but being rejected by this boy who was looking at her with disgust would be the end of it all.
When Yuta found out her real age, he realized that she had eaten hundreds of people alive and sent her back, not wanting to ask any more questions. He had already gotten the answers to his questions, now he knew how loyal the people he had eaten were to him.
Yuta waited for a while and then looked up to see Natsume still standing there.
"My lord, you must accept me before I can return."
Yuta interlocked his hands and fingers, thinking that she could not return to the shadows on her own, then opened one of his fingers to make the customized hand seal of the ten-shadow technique.
The number of fingers left open summoned the monster with that number in the ten-shadow technique.
Yuta left one finger open and hands rising from the shadows grabbed Natsume and pulled her underground.
Thanks to the feedback from the ten-shadow technique, Yuta understood what she meant and why she couldn't return to the shadows on her own. Until now she had been temporarily sheltering in the shadow technique.