Demon King's Repayment - chapter 159

The man on the display stand, leaned on the chaise couch, reading a book, drinking tea, and doing trivial things that humans were used to doing.

The onlookers became excited soon.

“Ah, so cute, so cute, did you see him drinking tea? He needs to use such a small cup to drink little by little.”

“Humans are really fragile and squeamish, but he poked my heart so much that I really want to raise one, but I am afraid that I couldn’t raise him.”

“I heard that hundreds of years ago, humans were creatures that could be seen everywhere. Why are they so rare now?” The one who said that was a young demon who was born in the spiritual world and was less than a hundred years old. For him, the era of human gathering was already a legendary story.

Gradually some demons began to express their intention to adopt.

The skinny vendor with a frog head jumped on the stake next to the pillar and flipped through the stack of files in his hand.

“Master Qiongqi, you can’t buy him. You have a history of cannibalism. Now human beings are close to extinction and can no longer be used as food.”

The powerful demon with red hair, burly stature and protruding fangs snorted unhappily, turned and left the crowd.

After he left, a big demon with a bell-like mouth, knotted muscles and double horns on the forehead paid a high price to the frog vendor and bought the rare human on the booth.

The vendor with the head of the frog took a few pages of densely packed feeding precautions and explained to him, “You must prepare warm nests and comfortable clothes. Human skin is very delicate, a slightly rough coat can cut his soft skin.”

“Food preparation is the most important thing. It is difficult to find edible things in the world. You must buy them through special channels. Don’t feed them indiscriminately. The nutrition and taboos are written here.”

“Every day you must take time to take him for a walk outside, otherwise he will get depressed.”

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“Finally, you must provide him with gold, silver and spirit stones every month as pocket money, and a half-year family leave to go home. These are all written in the contract, but compared to the cost of raising a human, they are just a small matter.”

The demon who looked tall and strong, rubbed his hands excitedly, blushed, and smiled, “I know, I know, I know all of that. I raised a human being and I managed to raise her to 120 years old.”

There was a sound of admiration among the demons.

“When she died, I was sad, and I couldn’t take it for a long time.” 

The tall demon wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with fingers like tiger claws, and turned into a demon with a horse body, tiger claws, and double horns. He stamped paw print on the purchase and sale agreement.

The man on the booth walked down and stood beside him, and stretched out his hand to smooth the mane on his neck.

“Ah, I’m dead. He’s so nice and docile.”

“He took the initiative to do that so soon. I heard that humans have a very good slicking method. No other race can match them.”

“Humans are very delicate, even if they don’t do anything, it’s fun to watch them eat and drink. Some demons are local tyrants, which really makes me envious.”

The onlookers talked about it, and the demon who successfully got the pet carefully humped the human on his back, proudly raised his head and walked away on the cloud.

Yuan Xiang heard the frog quack and talk for a long time, only to realize that in the demons’ eyes, the human race was such a delicate and precious pet.

She couldn’t help asking, “Is that person going voluntarily? There are humans who are willing to be demons’ pets?”

Wu Yuan, who had lived in the spirit world since childhood, said on her shoulder, “Here, the number of humans is extremely rare, and demons are very gentle to humans. If humans choose to be raised, life would be much easier, and there should be hardly any humans who are unwilling to raise. I wanted to take a look at humans, but I couldn’t find them everywhere. In the end, I ran a very long way and slipped directly into the floating world. Then I met you, Xiang’er.”

Yuan Xiang, whose three views(world views) had been refreshed, had to admit that his words had some truth.

Walking slowly along the street all the way, on both sides were various shops with flamboyant decorations, which contained countless goods that Yuan Xiang had never heard of.

They walked into a lively restaurant and inn with the “Lishe” sign.

The demons’ requirements for meals and accommodation seemed to be very casual, so there was only one restaurant in the huge market, which provided services for those very few demons who had higher demands on life.

The restaurant was lively and festively decorated. Most of the guests who ate there were gorgeously dressed, talking and laughing, there were pure and lovely girls with wings on the back, and there were ghost-faced knights with swords in their hands and snow-like clothes.

There were big demons with huge bodies and hideous faces, as well as groups of miniature demons.

Five bowls of steaming food were brought up, and everyone else was immersed in feasting, but Yuan Xiang could not put her chopsticks down when she saw the strange ingredients in the bowl.

No wonder demons felt that humans were very squeamish. They used food not only in a simple manner, but also in a casual way to swallow.