Are yours all big compared to mine?
Nol neither had a pained nor sad face. He only sighed, so Eric guessed it was ok to ask since wasn't a sensitive matter. For some fucking damn reason, Eric started to care slightly for Nol and didn't want this demon puppy to feel down which would prompt him to whine Eric's ears full.
Or maybe Eric was just afraid of Nol's clingy and crying matters now.
"If teacher wants to know it, I will let teacher know!"
Nol watched the dark night sky as he continued, "Frankly, it's nothing serious."
Judging by the peaceful look on Nol's face, it really didn't seem like it was a big deal.
"When I was selected by the Demon Lord to become the first prince, I accidentally erased a whole village. Of course, no demon was hurt but well I wiped out all of their homes and everything, so obviously they're mad at me."
"That's it?"
"That's it," very earnestly Nol said but Eric felt like the villages' hatred was a bit deeper than that.
"Oh and because afterwards, I threw them into prison for a while because they were disrespecting me but I've changed now and know my mistake. So, I don't care if they hate me."
"I see, that's good of you," Eric smiled and patted Nol's head as he anticipatingly stared at Eric but inside Eric wanted to throw Nol down to the 51st level and confine him to prison. Fuck off, this was not the whole truth! Don't make it seem so casual!
Eric read Nol's thoughts, so Eric knew the truth. Actually, the true version of the story was quite sad. It was almost like the typical protagonist's sob and tragic backstory but Nol just brushed it off and made it sound like he was the villain.
Since Nol didn't want to dwell on it, Eric wanted to respect his decision and so this was the summary of Nol's cliche childhood:
Basically, Nol was a poor first demon shunned by the other poor villagers since his appearance was so extraordinarily good-looking.
Tried to be taken advantage of by both male and female demons, yet abused and bullied by all of them, Nol hid his power without fighting back, so the only joy he had was reading. Until one day, Del came and appointed Nol as the first prince.
Obviously, the villagers couldn't take this and they each tried to pass off their own children as Nol, very stupid of them trying to fool Del, while they kidnapped Nol and well, tried to do unpredictable things to him.
Finally, attaining a silver lining but being brutally denied of it, Nol lost control, destroyed a whole island while not harming a single person. The people who witnessed Nol's strength felt fear before they started to hate him even more, this was when they decided to kill Nol, as a satan spawn couldn't become their prince.
Long story short, Nol teleported them all to the outskirts for a bit which Del approved of. Afterwards, many bad twisted versions of Nol were passed down from village to village, city to city and so Nol got a horrible reputation as the first prince without any of them knowing the real story.
Well, this summary was longer than anticipated and Eric even almost shed a tear for Nol. Nol's only hobby that helped him pass this horrible time was reading then eventually writing. Since the Demon World didn't have their own stories, human books were transported here and Nol was able to steal some.
Then after becoming a prince, he travelled to the human world to read and discover more books. This was also when Nol found out about Eric. Excited, Nol went back to the Demon World to write a book and wanted to thank Eric for making so many great authors and stories successful, only for Eric- well, everyone knows what happened then.
Eric now felt truly bad for Nol. Eric realised what scum he was and reluctantly, yeah quite reluctantly because Eric still hated authors, promised to treat Nol better.
"Teacher is so good to me," Nol rubbed his head against Eric's head, "But I was trying to scare teacher. I'm sorry, I actually didn't really mean to take you as a slave!"
"I know, I know," Eric forced down a 'when have I been good to you? Didn't you hate me all this time because you know I'm a two-faced scum?'
When it was due, at least Eric had self-awareness.
"Teacher, I promise I'll be the best student and study relentlessly."
"Alright, I'm proud of you," alright you cringe spitting trope machine stop it already! It's so awful that my trauma from all these bad wannabe stories resurfaced.
"Teacher, it's late, we should go back," with slightly tinted cheeks or did Eric see nothing? Nol wrapped his arm around Eric and pulled him closer, then with the snap of his finger, the next second Eric plunged into the soft bed with Nol towering over him.
Suddenly, Nol's eyes turned misty and a hot whisper entered Eric's ear, "Teacher..."
Why the fuck did this sound so seductive and full of desire?
Fuck, was Nol a demon of many personalities? Where the fuck did this one pop up from?
"My student is really good, thank you. I was about to fall asleep," Eric smiled at Nol who seemed to wake up from whatever fucking trance he was in and had a conflicted look on his face. Eric's guilt-tripping worked successfully.
"Ahem," Nol coughed a bit embarrassed about those thoughts he had that Eric obviously fucking could read! The fuck, keep your fucking thoughts to yourself! I feel like a fucking peeping tom and stop already using poop analogies! It's disgusting paired with these, these lewd thoughts! Fucking hell!
"Teacher, teleporting just made my body numb a bit sorry."
"I see," Eric let this lie go since it was also embarrassing for him. Well, of course, demons were all lustful creatures!
Even his puppy wanted to hump anything!
Now that Eric thought about it, he wondered if... well... Nol was actually big, were all demons big?
If they were, Eric wanted to bury themselves in shame, after all, he used to be proud of his own. Now his seemed so small.
Creak. Suddenly the door opened and an obvious killing intent spread.