I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

"I am Scoleric, the Skeleton Prince, wielder of the Bone Sword, the Demon Child of the Skeleton Clan…" Li Yue casually threw out a string of titles to intimidate, but the large sack on his back still exposed his thieving intentions, making his upright self-introduction somewhat lecherous.

"These things… will serve as food for the closed battle training, for the Demon Children to use…" Seeing the pig-head's cleaver extend further and further, Li Yue continued to raise the stakes, attempting to use the Demon Expeditionary Force to force back the pig-head—after all, he came here to get materials, and a large-scale fight would increase the danger.

The pig-head hesitated for a moment, but quickly tightened its grip on the cleaver's handle.

"The head chef said that no matter who it is, stealing food is a capital crime," the pig-head didn't care about so much. "Even if you are the Skeleton King, I will chop you up, otherwise I will be made into a dish by the head chef…"

"Eat me! I will atone for my friend!" Egg jumped up, still unwilling to give up the metal elements in the pig-head's stomach.

"Don't make trouble, I'll handle it…" Seeing the pig-head's reaction, Li Yue had already made a decision, telepathically telling Egg not to cause trouble.

Seeing the pig-head drooling, Li Yue hurriedly stood in front of Egg, to prevent the pig-head from suddenly opening its mouth: "I understand, so if that's the case… do you think you can explain it to the head chef?"

"*Slurp*… Explain what?" The pig-head swallowed, staring straight at Egg, which was peeking out from the rib cage.

"You and it, fighting over food, attacking each other…"

"You killed it, worried about becoming a dish, so you stole the vegetables from the darkroom and fled."

Li Yue arranged the plot, pointing the tip of his sword at the standing pig-head and the already disemboweled pig-head respectively: "How about it?"

"Ah?" The pig-head didn't understand; the pig-head just wanted to eat Egg.

And after Li Yue finished speaking, the Thorns of Decay stabbed straight into the Demon Chef's stomach!

The Demon Chef was thick-skinned and tough, and although it could feel the death intent on the tip of the sword, it thought that being made into a dish by the head chef would be even worse, so it didn't care and swung the cleaver, straight at Li Yue's skull!

[Malice +444]

Then, both sides got what they wanted—the cleaver chopped into the skeleton's skull, and the skeleton's sword tip also pierced into the pig-head's stomach.

Immediately afterwards, the pig-head turned to ashes in a cloud of death aura. Li Yue, with a rusty, bloody cleaver on his head, endured the dizziness and quickly set up the scene—first pulling out the cleaver from his head, then hacking at the corpse on the ground several times, making it a bloody mess, and then transforming into the image of the second pig-head, carrying the sack and walking out.

"What are you still doing? Hurry up and follow," Li Yue called to Egg, while smashing a few bricks at the back door, breaking the cleaver, and barely squeezing out through the hole.

Egg was originally still pondering what had just happened, but upon hearing Li Yue's telepathic message, it hurriedly rolled out together.

…

Li Yue disguised himself as the Demon Chef and carried the sack back to the Maze Corridor, while Egg trailed behind, carrying the sack and hiding its form; the kitchen started to make clanging sounds, whether it was a new Demon Chef discovering that the ingredients had been stolen, or some reaction occurring in the several deep barrels displayed there due to a lack of supervision.

Li Yue was not yet very skilled in using the Demon Chef's body, just like the first time he disguised himself as a Shadow Demon. Several times, his stomach scraped against the wall, almost causing him to fall.

Li Yue could have clearly left already, but he was still waiting under the corridor, looking at the direction of the kitchen without saying a word.

"Why aren't you leaving?"

"This show is still missing something…" Li Yue frowned with a pig's head on, accidentally wrinkling his eyes.

"Missing what?"

"Missing an eyewitness."

Li Yue had committed a crime in the library before. At that time, four slave scholars died, and the lazy Book Demon was forced to cite Tom's testimony. This time was no exception. Under the effect of "Completion," he suddenly remembered this matter when he reached the corner and waited.

Just as he was saying this, he saw a pig's head sticking out of the broken back door of the kitchen. Without thinking, Li Yue threw the cleaver towards the kitchen, but it was a bit off, throwing it towards the wall.

Li Yue used telekinesis to control the trajectory of the cleaver, making it fly diagonally towards the pig's head that was sticking out; the pig's head was startled and hurriedly retracted, and the cleaver hit the broken wall, making a light "clang" sound and sticking into it.

"Head Chef! Something happened…" The pig-head shouted in the kitchen.

Li Yue sped up, running away as soon as he threw the knife—this time, he disguised himself as a thief in order to eliminate the suspicion of "Scoleric," and deliberately took a detour on the way back to the library, first running near the vault before turning back in the direction of the library.

The vault was not open, and it just looked like an ordinary corridor. Under the corridor, a huge suit of armor turned its visor, watching a big-bellied Demon Chef running past furtively.

Li Yue was quite particular about his grasp of rhythm, just using his belly to block Egg in the blind spot of the armor's vision, so it was not discovered.

"Hey…" The armor wanted to call out to Li Yue in a muffled voice, but found that this pig-head actually didn't stop at all, carrying the sack and leaving, actually just passing by like that?

However, the armor remembered that there were skeletons ahead, so it didn't chase—guarding the corridor of the vault was its task, and it was normal for the Demon Chef to occasionally go to the vegetable garden to purchase ingredients and pass by here.

And Li Yue passed by luckily and turned the corner, knowing that ahead was a corridor patrolled by several skeleton soldiers—it was here that he encountered the skeleton captain riding a bone horse, and it was also here that he heard the alarm about the loss of vegetables in the vegetable garden.

Skeletons are not like armor; the entire Maze Corridor is their range of activity. Obviously, he can't slip past, and he must find another way; and as long as he breaks through this group of skeletons, Li Yue can re-wear the "sharp, bony beauty" and walk back to the library swaggeringly.

The last good show will allow him to take the materials back home, neatly put Budibooge in his pocket, and also collect so many materials…

Huh? Wait… Where are my materials?

Li Yue was observing the bone pile under the corridor, and glanced at the sack, only to find in astonishment… it was empty?

Outside the sack, an egg was tightly attached, again with bulging eggshell veins, looking like it had been completely wiped clean.

"Where are my things?" Li Yue questioned Egg, "Did you eat them?"

"Sorry, I really couldn't resist," Egg's answer was polite, "The three materials you need most… aren't they all with you? The rest of these… were a burden when we escaped, so I helped you get rid of them."

Egg's voice was weak, while Li Yue was furious—the murder weapon was thrown away, and two eyewitnesses were found, all for the sake of being able to successfully bring the things in the sack back to the library?

Why didn't "Completion" remind himself to be subconsciously wary of Egg?

Could it be that the blessing is ineffective against otherworldly demons?

Li Yue couldn't help but think of some irrelevant things, and then he began to hear voices behind him, it was the pig-head chasing out and talking to the armor.

Immediately afterwards, a series of loud pig snorts rang out, but Li Yue inexplicably understood the meaning of the snorts: "Where did that pig-head… Demon Chef… go?"

"Reporting… Head Chef…" The armor replied in a muffled voice. Li Yue knew there was no time—the Demon Head Chef had chased out.

In Demon King City… you can still accidentally provoke powerful guys…

Under the "Transformation" skin of the Demon Chef, is Scoleric made by Li Yue using the Demon Blueprint. Once a conflict occurs with the Head Chef, it will be difficult to hide Scoleric's identity.

If the Demon Head Chef discovers that the thief is a disguised "Scoleric," wouldn't it lead to a war between the Demon Kitchen and the library or the Skeleton Clan?

He just dealt with internal troubles and didn't want to provoke external troubles—at this critical juncture, Li Yue certainly didn't want his identity to be exposed by the Demon Head Chef.

Taking advantage of the armor's slow speech, Li Yue quickly made a decision and must see this play through to the end.