During 5 days I learned a lot... all about etiquette, Elena is a great teacher and I learn super fast so I finished everything in 5 days, although it was very boring.
There are so many rules and limitations that human nobility has, seriously, why so much hassle for simple things, I can't understand the meaning of it. Besides, my hunger didn't help since I had to eat certain things every 1 hour.
Fortunately, the frequency decreased over time and now the hunger is much less, seriously I don't know how so much fits in this body. I spent almost all my time with Elena, at most I met some maids.
I discovered that Elena is some kind of military strategist, she's been waiting for my birth for over 700 years, every day she's been waiting for a new demon king to be born, although she's apparently weak in combat she's a talented strategist.
In addition, her position is truly a noble among demons, this mansion where we are has several noble demons but almost all of them are out at the moment, most are out precisely to help me.
Elena divided them into teams and assigned a bunch of missions as soon as she received my egg to take care of. Some of them are even building a castle for me, and so much luxury that I don't even know what to think, my life here is great, but what I want most is to spread chaos, it's almost a primal desire that I feel to cause destruction.
When I told Elena about this feeling, she said it's part of my "baby" phase and that when I grow up this desire will be easier to control. I even had self-control classes... it's not like I made a mess by devouring like 20 humans in a dark basement... maybe I really do need self-control classes.
I think this instinct is part of me being born recently, similar to how a baby is attracted to sound or shiny things, but in my case I'm attracted to food and destruction.
Putting that aside, now that I know etiquette, I'll finally have something fun to do, Elena may be weak but she's a natural strategist, so I challenged her to a physical fight.
I want her to show me how the status difference works, it will be a battle between pure brute force versus strategy. Several maids will gather to watch. Seeing them all watching reminds me of how Elena always gives me baths, it makes me feel like I'm really a child, although I'm technically a baby, my mental age is greater than that.
"Your Majesty, choose a weapon from these here."
"Although I couldn't bring all types of weapons, I believe there may be something here that will satisfy Your Majesty, we have: Sword, Axe, Machete, Spear, Knife, Dagger, Katana, Club, Staff, Nunchaku, Halberd, Glaive, Falcata, Pike, Rapier, Bolas, Kukri, Tanto, Halberd, Wakizashi, Sai, Machete, Scythe, Heavy Sword, Light Sword, Heavy Axe, War Axe, Hammer, Great Hammer, Combat Hammer, Katanagatari, Spiked Mace, Scimitar, Double Blades, One-Handed Sword, Long Scythe..."
"Wait, wait, wait..." I ask her to stop talking, I don't know what half the names she said mean, but I can't let her keep going, there are over 800 different types of weapons here.
"I'll just pick one here, no need to say which ones you have..." I start looking at the weapons, I think I want to learn to use various types, so I can switch weapons during the fight thanks to my passive Talent Adaptation, I can become a master of any weapon.
So fighting with multiple weapons gives me a wide range of possibilities. Of course, at the moment I don't know how to use anything, so I need a weapon that doesn't require technique.
Although using a Katana seems fun, I decide to pick something big and heavy.
"What's the name of this weapon?" I see a weapon that could be interesting.
"This is a Great War Axe, Your Majesty." The Axe is huge, bigger than my body, its blade could easily be mistaken for a metal plate, just from the size I can tell it must be extremely heavy.
"I'll go with this one..." I thought about picking a giant hammer, but the axe is sharp, so in addition to the impact that comes with the weight, there's also the cut.
I try to lift it and it's lighter than expected, or maybe I'm just very strong. I hold it, putting the handle on my shoulder and the blade behind me, I bet the scene is funny, a girl who looks delicate carrying a giant axe.
I walk to one side of the arena while Elena is on the other, honestly I'm a bit nervous, I don't know how strong Elena is, but I'll do my best.
"If you die, I'll get really mad, Elena."
"I won't die, Your Majesty, we can start." She's not holding any weapon, but I know she's not underestimating me, I see it in her gaze.
A maid who is in the stands starts counting.
"1...2...3...Begin." As soon as she speaks, I advance with an explosive speed, the ground where I was breaks instantly.
'I'll take the initiative.' I can't say I'm bad at strategy, but she's a military strategist, obviously I can't compare to her yet, so I'll try to win using pure power and speed.
She seems surprised as I approach quickly. I move my axe to make a top-down cut, she dodges to the left while the place where she was is completely destroyed, everything within a 12-meter radius is destroyed by the impact of the axe, I can't see anything because of the dust.
My instincts feel something and I dodge, I see a fist passing near my face. I pull the axe from the ground and jump back to get out of the dust cloud.
"Where, Urk." I feel a fist hit me in the back, at some point she came up behind me, and I didn't notice, I move the axe to make a horizontal cut, she jumps back.
'Gotcha' she can't dodge in midair, I advance to strike, taking advantage of the axe's range. When my axe is close, she puts her hand on the side of the axe and uses it to spin and propel herself to attack me.
The action surprises me, soon a flying kick hits my face, throwing me back, now I've lost my weapon. I never expected her to use the axe itself as a way to hit me.
I feel the blood flowing, my nose is broken from the blow, Elena always seems like a loyal puppy and when she thinks she's done something wrong, she asks me to punish her, but she's also a serious instructor.
Proof of this is that she doesn't hold back in hurting me, I never expected her to break my nose, I haven't even been able to hit her yet, I'm clearly faster and stronger, but I don't have a speck of technique, I'm almost like an animal attacking recklessly.
"Your posture is too open, Your Majesty, don't attack recklessly and leave so many openings."
I prepare to fight without my weapon, this time she advances forward, her blow hits my face, I feel pain, but that's exactly what I wanted, I use my tail to grab her hand.
"..."
"Arhg." I feel my tail being cut, tears fall from the pain, breaking my nose hurt more but it's nothing compared to my tail. She never fell for my trick, she used what I did to cut my tail with her hand.
"Your Majesty, being hit to land an attack is not a good idea to use in a fight like this."
I don't know what a fight "like this" is, but she's clearly going hard, my body soon regenerates completely, if I could use magic I could have already finished this, but this is to test my combat abilities without magic.
I advance towards her, she prepares to dodge, but instead of hitting her, I kick the ground, the force of my blow on the ground makes the entire arena tremble, destabilizing her.
I use my tail to try to hit her feet while I advance with a punch to try to hit her face, she seems to already know everything from the beginning, she grabs my hand and uses it as she spins up, standing upside down using my hand as a base to support herself.
Soon she spins down again, stepping on my tail.
"AAHRG" she tries to punch me in the face right after, but I bite her hand.
"!!!" she, who didn't expect this savage attack, ends up sending her punch straight to my mouth, crushing her hand with my teeth, she makes a pained expression and steps back.
"Not bad, but this kind of attack wouldn't work on all opponents, Your Majesty."
"I imagine so..." It's not like I could bite all my enemies, but at least I got something in this fight.
"But you were hurt." I never expected to beat her, she has experience, what I really want is to use Talent Adaptation, I want to evolve through this fight, the longer a fight lasts, the harder it will be for my opponent.
"True... not many beginners can hurt me, Your Majesty is talented." I don't know how Elena does this, but she knew all the strategies I made.
"Come on, didn't you get scared just because you lost your hand, huh?" I provoke her, she clearly doesn't fall for this childish temptation. She circles around me carefully.
After a while like this, she advances towards me.
'Where will it come from...' I try to predict where the attack will come from. She suddenly makes a completely new move that leaves me confused, I feel her hand pierce my stomach and go through it.
My whole body trembles with pain, strangely this pain is less than the pain I felt in my tail. My instincts start to act, I use force in my body to compress the wound, trapping her arm in my stomach.
I move my hands to hold her arm in my stomach, she tries to get out but I'm physically stronger, I try to use my tail to cut off her arm.
But she makes a bizarre move, so flexible, and pierces my eye with her shoe.
"ARHG." The pain distracts me, decreasing my strength, soon she pulls her hand out of my body and steps back.
"Your Majesty was open again, you should have been more careful with the enemy even though he was immobilized..." I have a hole in my body, and a destroyed eye, even this doesn't cloud my judgment, the passive Mental Resilience is wonderful.
Soon these wounds close, Elena knows how strong I am, although I didn't talk about my status, I told her that I could regenerate from severe injuries, when I said that I thought she wouldn't go easy, but she's hitting harder than I thought.
Her lost hand can be recovered with magic, but as she's a succubus, she can't regenerate naturally, so she still doesn't have a hand, but this woman's mental fortitude is insane.
No one in this fight uses magic, but the damage caused is still great. For someone who said she's weak in combat, she's stronger than I thought.
This time I advance forward, putting as much force as possible in each step, although this makes me slower, it creates vibrations making the ground tremble with each step, she soon moves to attack me.
She's going to throw a straight punch, but I stop stepping hard and use my tail to grab her wrist and spin behind her, I try to strike but I'm met with a kick to the stomach.
My plan with the tremors worked more or less, she made a move in a way that compensated for the imbalance caused by the vibrations, when they stopped her blow was wrong, but even so she still had no openings.
'Elena is monstrously strong...' she's clearly weaker, but I still can't hit her.
"Cough, cough." I cough up blood, soon I notice how her kick blew up some of my organs, my body as a demon king is insane since it's still fighting even with these injuries.
If I'm this strong with my power drastically sealed, imagine when I can use everything I have.
"Let's stop for today." I ask her to stop, no matter how fast I'm growing in this fight, the pain, even reduced, is still pain, and I'm a bit tired of getting beaten up.
"Understood, Your Majesty." She says as her hand grows back, showing her healing magic.
"..."
'I couldn't even enjoy the taste...' although I ripped off her hand, I didn't have time to savor it.
"How do you think I did, Elena?"
"You did very well, since Your Majesty has no experience, this fight showed how you have a tremendous growth, probably in a few more minutes I would have been injured again, but Your Majesty has many openings."
"These openings are something that Your Majesty should not try to compensate for with the tail, but rather resolve them."
"W-Well, I'll do my best for that..." I'm encouraged to hear her say I did well.
"Shall we eat something?...who's going to fix the arena?" I just realized I did a lot of damage to the arena, especially my blow with the axe.
"There's no problem, Your Majesty, the arena will be repaired with magic, for today's meal we'll have some new dishes."
"I can't wait, I can already taste it." I say with a smile as we walk, having an animated conversation, at first it was strange to talk to Elena, but she's a pretty cool girl, although her appearance is somewhat tempting, I was a man after all.
Soon we arrive at the dining hall, tomorrow I'll receive a training routine to improve, I can't wait to become stronger.