The Demon King and the King
Author: Unicoon
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n8138gc/3/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA
“What is this about school?”
“I don’t understand. Someone explain!”
The nobles were in an uproar.
“School? There’s no way we can let someone this unknown—”
One noble muttered it.
Lady Ulrika caught it at once.
“So it’s no good? That’s a shame… If I can’t go to school, perhaps I’ll destroy this world…”
The nobles’ panic only grew.
“Destroy the world? There’s no way she could!”
“But if it’s the Demon King from the legends, destroying the world would be…”
“The Demon King is a fairy-tale, obviously!”
Tension filled the audience chamber.
Then a huge laugh rang out.
“Ha ha ha! School? The Demon King wants to go to school?”
King Zenon clutched his stomach.
He rose from the throne and walked up to Lady Ulrika, unhurried.
“What? You’re not afraid of me?”
“Afraid? This is interesting. All the more if you’re the real Demon King!”
“Is it! Interesting, is it!!”
“It is! Interesting! Ha ha ha!”
“I see, I see! Ha ha ha!!”
Lady Ulrika and King Zenon laughed together.
The ministers could only gape.
When the laughter died down, Zenon asked:
“Ulrika, was it? Are you truly the Demon King?”
“I am. I have ruled the Demon Realm for a thousand years.”
“How did you come to this country?”
“I leaped across worlds with spacetime magic.”
“Why do you want to go to school?”
“I peeked at your country’s school from the Demon Realm, and it looked like so much fun! I wanted to try going too, and I want to make friends.”
“I see. As expected of a Demon King! Your thinking and your actions are both completely off the wall!!”
King Zenon nodded hard.
“All right. I’ll allow you to go to school!”
At that sudden decision the nobles rushed to stop him.
“You mustn’t, Your Majesty!”
“Please reconsider!!”
“Silence, you noisy incompetents!”
“Guh…”
The nobles shut their mouths. They had no answer for that.
In the quiet chamber, Lady Ulrika and King Zenon faced each other again.
“Now, Ulrika. I have a request of my own.”
“A request? What is it?”
“Will you be my friend? My name is Zenon van Luis Romulus, king of this country.”
“Friends! How wonderful! Then from today, Zenon is my friend!!”
“Yes. I’ll be counting on you, Ulrika.”
While the nobles stood speechless, Lady Ulrika and King Zenon shook hands firmly.
“Well then. The entrance exam happens to be in two days. Prepare yourself!”
“Mm! …Hn? Entrance exam? What’s that? I wasn’t told about this!?”
“If you want to go to school, you have to take the exam. That’s obvious, isn’t it?”
Watching her panic, King Zenon grinned.
“Don’t worry. I’ll assign you an attendant who knows about school. Do your best, my friend Ulrika.”
“Gunununu… Obviously I will!”
And so Lady Ulrika would sit the entrance exam.
The road to enrollment was long.