[That comment does, genuinely, make him smile. He's heard it before from Naoya, but this is different. This, she means with his attitude, and not the sheer power he holds, or the fact that he's someone who has been dead so long that's just been reincarnated.
It... makes him feel better, actually. To have someone completely not in the know say something. All she knows is that he's the King of Demons.
There's no humanity left in him, but comments like that make it a little easier to bear.]
Gotta say, you'd be putting the crown on me yourself if you'd seen the other demons in the running.
[Demons who are very much still present inside him, but they're thankfully quiet for the moment. He leans in, presses his forehead to hers, grinning. One eye turns back to blue from where it'd been red in that moment.]
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It... makes him feel better, actually. To have someone completely not in the know say something. All she knows is that he's the King of Demons.
There's no humanity left in him, but comments like that make it a little easier to bear.]
Gotta say, you'd be putting the crown on me yourself if you'd seen the other demons in the running.
[Demons who are very much still present inside him, but they're thankfully quiet for the moment. He leans in, presses his forehead to hers, grinning. One eye turns back to blue from where it'd been red in that moment.]
They'd be far, far more willing to eat you.