I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

"Give me back my brother!" Minnie's eyes were filled with tears, her small hands constantly rummaging on the ground, as if searching for the next weapon.

The other Minnie-Minis around her kept their distance, perhaps afraid of being innocently caught in the crossfire, or perhaps due to Old Minnie's earlier arrangement.

"Stop it, it's me," Li Yue had no choice but to transmit his thoughts to Little Minnie.

"Ah? Brother?" When a familiar voice echoed in her mind, Minnie's tears fell like rain, "How can it be… Really? Is it really you?"

"Let's talk somewhere else…" Seeing Minnie's disbelief, Li Yue was about to pull her towards the furthest corner of the entertainment room, but before he could take a step, he inexplicably turned back and roared at the other Minnie-Minis in the room!

"Completion" came into play at this moment.

The Minnie-Minis panicked and ran away, some stumbling on the carpet because they were too slow, or knocking over tables, creating a chaotic mess; after running away, the Minnie-Minis didn't forget to stretch out their little hands to restore things to their original positions, but their bodies were hidden behind the sofa. From Li Yue's perspective, the room seemed empty, and the golden light on the wall flowed slowly.

[Malice +1, +13… ]

"Why did you run here? Didn't we agree not to come?" Li Yue pinched Minnie's cheeks with his thoughts, both angry and scared—what if the trainees who came out first couldn't resolve their grudges and killed a few Minnie-Minis as a sacrifice?

"Are you really my brother?" Minnie completely ignored Li Yue's question, only because the one standing in front of her was still Skollgrek's skull, just with a slightly slender body.

"It's me," Li Yue transmitted a picture to Minnie—in the picture, Li Yue removed the skeleton made of self-healing bones, instantly restoring his original brain spirit appearance, and then put it back on.

"It's really my brother…" Minnie shouted excitedly, then quickly covered her mouth, "It's really you! You didn't die, that's great…"

"Huh? But you… how did you turn into a skeleton?" Minnie was stunned.

"This is a new magic I learned in the closed-door war training," Li Yue casually explained, easily deceiving Little Minnie—her eyes revealed a look of envy.

"Why are you the only one here? Where's Mini?" Seeing that Minnie believed him, Li Yue finally remembered the other little guy.

"I sneaked out while he was asleep, because the more I thought about it, the more I felt that the skeleton in the corridor was lying to me…" Minnie's eyes darted around, "Even if brother refuses our help and goes to find bones alone, he would definitely come back and tell us. He hasn't returned all night, which is unlike him…"

Li Yue thought that it was because he didn't have time—at that time, he wasn't sure when Budibaugh would cast his gaze in the corridor, so he couldn't reveal his identity to Minnie-Mini… After dawn, he also had to conceal the fact that one brain spirit was missing from the Book Demon, so he forgot to inform Minnie-Mini.

After that, the bell for the closed-door war training rang, and Li Yue entered the Blood River, and had no chance to comfort Minnie-Mini.

"Brother! Since this is you, then what about Skollgrek? Did you kill him?" Minnie-Mini's little glasses widened, her voice was very low, but it was hard to hide her excitement.

"Yes, killed him, very easily," Li Yue recalled the thrilling scene at the entrance of the Thirteenth Library, the Budibaugh who appeared with Skollgrek's death… Then he looked at the bone sword in his hand, unable to bear to expose the reality that he used the Gual Tu Mo.

"So amazing!" Minnie clapped her hands, jumping up happily, "Brother can even kill the Skeleton Prince, I can rest assured now…"

"But why did you kill him? Ah?" Minnie asked, puzzled.

"Because he would hurt us," Li Yue changed the subject, "What about you? What about Mini? How was your day?"

"Same as usual, delivering books, taking books, eating, sleeping…" Minnie moved closer, "It's just that the golden-haired one is a bit strange, he seems to be plotting something…"

Li Yue thought of the golden-haired guy—the one responsible for cleaning the toilet in the Sixth Library, and also a witness to the deaths of the old scholar and the others, a young scholar named Tom.

"Oh? What did he do? Did he look at the symbols on the table?" Li Yue only cared about whether there would be another life-stealing slave scholar.

"No! He can't understand it even if he looks at it!" Minnie waved her hands repeatedly, "It was his companion who said that since those people died, this golden-haired Tom seems to have gotten sick, and he always likes to run to the toilet…"

Next, Minnie talked about the gossip among the slave scholars, and Li Yue pretended to listen seriously, but in reality, he was calming his mood—after experiencing the battles in the Blood River and Mento's blessing, Li Yue had been in a very tense state, like a string that was already a bit rotten, hanging a heavy iron block, suspended for centuries.

Listening to Minnie's rambling for a long time effectively relieved Li Yue's tension, and his individual state changed from "tired/tense" to just tired.

Listening and listening, Li Yue fell apart and fell asleep in the corner of the entertainment room; Minnie talked to herself for half the night, poked Li Yue's skull, and realized that her brother was already asleep.

Minnie stuffed Li Yue's skull into the corner of the wall, wanting to avoid bumps; but after standing and watching for a while, she felt it was unstable, so she hugged Li Yue's skull in her arms and sat with her back against the wall.

After sitting for a while, Minnie still didn't feel sleepy. Looking at the scattered skeleton on the ground, she suddenly hopped over and started playing with it.

Minnie used Li Yue's slender skeleton, which was not yet completely healed, to create a stick-figure-like bone throne on the ground, solemn and shabby.

"Brother, this is your throne—" Minnie hugged the skull in her arms, her voice low, imitating the etiquette officer she had seen in books, inviting Li Yue to "take a seat."

Seeing that Li Yue didn't respond, Minnie chuckled, broke up the bone throne, put down Li Yue's skull, and started drawing on the ground again—this time, Minnie drew a knight on a hill, with a small house behind him…

Since Li Yue's bones were limited, the skull represented Li Yue himself, and a rib and four toe bones outlined a stick figure; leg bones and arm bones were arranged as the gentle slope of the hill, and the square little house in the back was, in Minnie's imagination, the strict Demon King's City.

Behind the stick figure skeleton, followed two round bone joints, heading towards the outside of the Demon King's City with their knight.

"Hehe… The powerful knight leads his companions on an expedition, bringing disaster to mankind!" Minnie straightened her almost invisible waist, making a smug expression.

"No, don't bring disaster to mankind, many humans are also very pitiful…" Minnie concluded from the limited knowledge she had heard in books, erased the picture on the ground, and began to weave another story.

"Once upon a time, there was a couple… Their brother was a textile worker…" Although the story Minnie made up was about a textile worker, the worker's workshop looked like a library.

"The couple would bring food to their textile worker brother, who worked hard all day, every day. The brother was worried about the couple's health and never liked to eat…" Minnie rubbed a small piece of dust from the ground as a piece of tough meat, but she couldn't help but drool.

"The textile worker said that when he earned enough money, he would send the couple back to their hometown to get married…" Minnie placed an island far away from the "workshop", filled with scattered bones.

Many, many bones, representing many, many of their kind; piled up very high, making this island bone pile three-dimensional.

Just as Minnie was about to add more emotions, conflicts, and twists to the story, Minnie was stunned to find that her round shadow suddenly changed, revealing a line of demonic common language text.

"What is marriage?" The shadow text kept changing in thickness, like a line of restless prompts.