The dragon's harem

Chapter 963: The Fated One

”You gotta pay for repairs! You know how expensive materials are now that the new demon lord burned half of our lands.” Kodono growled, tapping his hand on the table.

”I told you I will.” Grambleg sighed, the two of them couldnʼt keep fighting now that they were stopped by the demon lord.

Knock! Knock! Kodono and Grambleg were sitting in the living room when they heard a knocking on the door. One of Kodonoʼs serpentine wives approached went to the front door and opened it up, screaming her lungs out right after.

Kodono and Grambleg rushed out, but the two of them screamed in terror as well as they saw Arad with his gang outside.

Inside Kodonoʼs house, the horrors of the abyss gathered. Kayden was wearing a Hawaiian shirt decorated with pink and green flowers, short black pants, and his hair tied into a long ponytail: He sat crosslegged on the couch with a tired look on his face, ”Can we hurry? Lily isnʼt good at cooking.” That was the god slayer and the strongest demon of the abyss.

Kali sat on Aradʼs lap, looking around the house with a curious gaze. She looked at Kayden with a smile, ”Mom can cook...just not as good as you.” The demonsʼ goddess of destruction, this innocent-looking little girl once stepped on a demon lord, forcing him through a thousand layers of the abyss.

The pale night sat on a chair beside Arad, drinking tea that she brought with her. Kodonoʼs human wife massaged her shoulders with a terrified face. She couldnʼt believe it, demons needed to book a meeting and spend a vast amount of wealth and time only to see her, let alone get her to agree to help. Arad had just brought her in an hour.

”Is Lamy here?” Arad asked, looking around as he didnʼt see her. But, he could still sense her magic upstairs, hiding inside her room. ”I see...sheʼs scared.” Arad stood, ”Iʼll bring her out.”

”No wait!” Kodono gasped, ”Iʼll go get her down.” She rushed upstairs.

The pale night looked at Arad, ”Daddy, arenʼt you quite unreasonable? Keeping me up this late.” She giggled, and Kodonoʼs wifeʼs brain almost exploded as her eyes looked between Arad and the pale night.

”Iʼm not your daddy!” Arad growled at her with a tired face. Kali stood and glared at the pale night, ”Grandpa is right, he isnʼt a daddy but a grandpa.”

Arad sighed, face palming as he slowly looked at Kayden, ”Is this a joke now... Come on, say something.”

Kayden nodded, ”Kali, he isnʼt your grandpa...a great-grandpa would be better.” He smiled, ”Give up, youʼll never be able to change Kaliʼs mind when makes her mind.”

Soon after, Kodono slithered into the room with Lamy. The pale night immediately looked at her and said, ”One has to go, either the demonic or human part.” She leaned on her arm. ”I can remove one and leave the other. But that means setting up a single place to live in.”

The pale night can only turn Lamy into one thing, either a demon or a human, not a mixture of both. Lamy was already a hybrid.

Becoming a human would mean saying farewell to her family and going to live a short life in the mortal world before dying of old age. While turning into a pure demon would mean losing her motherʼs human blood, which is a thing she doesnʼt want to do.

To Lamy, both her parents are precious. Giving up on her motherʼs human blood would mean sheʼll become the daughter of her father and the pale night who gave her a new body, rejecting her mother. After seeing how many demons hate humans and the hardship that her mother went through, Lamy was well aware that the last thing her mother needs is to get rejected by her daughter.

”Isnʼt there any other option?” Lamy looked at the pale night with pleading eyes, but what she got was both a nod and a denial. ”Technically, no. Probably, yes.” The pale night scratched her head.

”What she wants to say...” Kali spoke, her body steaming as she shifted her form into her true demonic body. In the blink of an eye, a twelve-foot-tall purple-skinned demon woman with six arms, a skirt of severed hands, and a necklace of heads sat on Aradʼs lap, her tiny pink dress from earlier barely holding her upper chest together. ”She canʼt help you. But someone else might be able to.”

Kali wrapped her left three arms around Aradʼs neck and pointed at his face, ”Great-grandpa here might be able to help.”

”Kali, youʼre heavy, whatʼs this form.” Arad growled, getting crushed beneath her massive hips.

”My true form.” Kali replied with a smile. ”Like Dad, Iʼm a demon. He adopted me when I was three centuries old, and now Iʼm over fifty centuries old. The little girl form is how I was at that young age, I just didnʼt want to grow older.” She looked toward Kayden.

”I just loved our peaceful and quiet family life and I donʼt want it to end.” She also is the goddess of orphans so staying as an adopted kid grants her power due to living by her divine portfolio. A god of fire would be stronger if he lived in a plane of fire, a god of agriculture would be stronger if he lived on a farm, and so on. Even Mira would be stronger if she were to live a greedy lifestyle.

”A demon?” Arad growled, trying to pull his legs from beneath her hips, ”I sense divine magic from you.”

”Iʼm the demon goddess of destruction.” She looked at Arad with a smile, ”Didnʼt I tell you that before?”

”No...you never did... and why is a god pretending to be a kid in Alina...” Arad growled, but even he was disappointed in himself thinking that Kayden of all people had a normal

daughter.

”I just explained why I take that form.” She pulled Arad back in place, ”You arenʼt going anywhere.” Her eyes quickly shifted toward Kodono and his wife, ”You know that no amount of begging or wealth can get me to move. And Iʼm sure itʼs common knowledge that no demon had ever seen me in this form and lived.”

She smacked Arad on the back, ”If Lamy wants to keep both her human and demonic side, she only has one choice.” She looked at the pale night, ”Is that right?”

”Yeah. I think so too...” The pale night nodded, ”Iʼm not sure if itʼll work or not, but itʼs worth a try.” She looked at Lamy, ”Only he can help you. Not me, not Kali, no one else.” Kodono and Lamy looked at Arad, and Arad shook his head, ”How do you expect me to help? I thought you could just give her a new body and be done with it.”

”Hmmm...” Kayden looked at Arad, ”I see...so thatʼs what they want to try...” He already guessed, no wonder Kali wanted to come. As the goddess of demons, she mustʼve felt Lamyʼs concerns and saw her first meeting with Arad.

”Lamy...” The pale night looked at her with a grin, ”If you want the best of both worlds, start serving Arad from this day onward. He doesnʼt need to look for a cure, and you shouldnʼt think

about anything but fulfilling his orders.”

”What?” Arad and Lamy cried at the same time.

”What she wants to say is...” Kali glared at Lamy, ”Forget about finding a cure for yourself. Go serve Arad instead. One day youʼll either find a cure, or the strength to live with what you

got.” ”That wonʼt work.” Arad sighed, ”I donʼt need anyone to serve me, and Iʼm not going to keep her around if I canʼt find her a cure.” He glared at Kali.

Kali looked at him, ”You donʼt need to bother curing her. And she must only think about serving you. If you two can keep that up, one day she might resolve her problem, whatever that resolve would be.” Kali leaned on Aradʼs chest, pushing him back. ”Just think of Mira, did she ever think of becoming a goddess? She was a human until just recently. What about Merida, she was slowly killing herself until you came along, now sheʼs as powerful as a demon lord. Aella with Zephyr, and everyone else.”

The pale night rested her legs on Aradʼs shoulder, ”Same with Lunara, her fate drastically changed after meeting you. Some people are fated, they have enough power to change the world around them. Youʼre one of those people, staying close to you is a boon that not many

people understand.”

The pale night looked at Kodono, his wife, and Lamy, ”Just ask them, how much effort it takes to get a meeting with me. Let alone Kali, they wonʼt even see her in their dreams...” She looked at Kayden, ”And he...” She giggled, ”Most demons only see him when heʼs coming to kill them. They never see him in a casual outfit smelling of fried eggs and bacon.”

As Arad was listening to them, Doma asked him to let her out for a moment. He waved his arm, and a clone of himself popped out with [Gemini] and then shifted into a woman with [Virgo] Taking Domaʼs shape.

”I...really like getting out.” She stretched her arms, her pink eyes glaring around the room, stopping at Kali, ”Get up, thatʼs my place.” Her eyes flashed red with bloodlust.

Kali glared back at her, ”Whenever Arad goes, destruction follows. He brings the end of things, but that end always gives birth to something new and beautiful. All demon lords are tyrants, but now that Arad is a demon lord, this layer shall witness the birth of a new age.”

”And what do you mean by that?” Doma closed up and glared at her straight into the eyes with an enraged face.

”I quite like him, and this is now my place. Got a problem with that?” Kali said with a grin. ”Yeah, one big, fat, problem. Thatʼs my place.” Doma growled. The two stared at each other for a second and then nodded, each sitting on one of Aradʼs thighs.

”You two!” The pale night growled, ”Get away from my dad!” ”Iʼm not your father!” Arad cried, getting tired of those two demons.

The pale night stared at him with a passive face. ”Iʼm not joking, youʼre my sweet, loving, daddy.” She sat behind him and wrapped her legs around his neck, looking at Lamy with a

smile.

Doma sighed, ”My mother was a medusa, I might be able to help stabilize you with some curses.” She looked at Lamy, ”I donʼt know much about Lamia, but I might be able to find something by comparing demons and devils. In any case, for my research to progress, I need a test subject.” She pointed at her. ”Since Iʼll look for a cure for you, Iʼll experiment on you.”

Lamy looked at them for a second and then took a deep breath, ”Fine, itʼs worth a try.” She looked upstairs, ”Better than staying holed up here like a maggot.” For her whole life, she saw her brothers and sisters grow strong and leave the house to fight and claim a piece of the abyssʼs glory for themselves, she alone was left as the weakness of their household, a shame on her whole family of great demons.

Lamyʼs parents had fought tooth and nail to keep her safe, but that only served to make her feel more like a burden. What hurt her wasnʼt her weak body, but being a burden on her parents. As long as she can make a living for herself, sheʼs satisfied to stay in her weak body for the rest of time.

Lamy looked at Arad and Doma for a second, those people sure have it easy, even the demonsʼ mother and the demonsʼ goddess are all over him. If she must burden someone, let it be Arad instead of her poor parents.

As they were sitting, the pale night blinked, reaching to her ear. ”Hello... what do you want?”

ʼItʼs me, Sena. Selica evolved a bit too rapidly and I canʼt keep her body stable on my own. Can you help me get her a new one that can adapt better to her slime? And a monster form as well to unleash her full power?ʼ Sena asked.

The pale night stood, ”Got it, Mommy! Iʼll be there in a second.”

ʼIʼll burn your whole layer if you keep up with that joke. Iʼm not your mother.ʼ Sena growled back at her with a tired voice, sheʼs been annoying her with this for a long time.

She giggled and looked at Arad, ”Sorry, I must go now, mom is calling.” She took a step and

disappeared.

Arad sighed, ^Is that joke she does every time?^ He was slowly getting exhausted from the

pale night, especially with the heavy Kali sitting on him.

”Get off of me! My leg is numb.” He growled.