Chapter 7: The Devil's Strength and Weakness

Tying the rope of the Giant Maniac to a telephone pole, he went into the human-owned teahouse to take a break. The teahouse is located next to the road, with a bamboo fence separating the seats from the road. Rick sat in a seat on the road, close to the Titano to take care of it.

The Giant Whimpered a few times, and after Rick had finished his drink and returned to his seat, he sat down and began to grab his shoulders with his hind feet. The rainbow-colored fur kept flying into Rick's teacup, and he picked it up and drank it properly.

After he sat for ten minutes, another customer arrived. The guest had long, blood-red hair, softly draped over his shoulders, a pair of rare golden eyes, and a small, pointed face even though he was a man. She has a white and translucent complexion, and wears a gray sleeveless, thigh-covering minimalist high-necked long top with a long zipper in the middle. The lower body wears trousers of the same color and straw sandals. Judging from the exposed arms, although he is not a military general, at least he has a lot of exercise, and his muscles are quite beautiful. The sandals didn't match his other outfits, and it seemed to be a cool fashion, but he suddenly returned to the countryside, and shouted to drive the cattle. So he looked closely, and saw that his toenails were dog-like claws, growing out of the fingertips and bending downward, rather than human flakes.

Finding something strange made Xi Ke observe the person more intently, only to find that this person's eyes turned into cat pupils, and he looked more closely, and a pair of horns appeared on the person's head that was not there originally.

The boss's expression did not change, and he peeked at the giant maniac while sorting out the cups and plates. This newcomer doesn't have any problems in the eyes of the average human.

Rick noticed that the guest had a green strip of grass stuck in his hair and a purple root in it. That's the decorative coriander that they sprinkled on the "Laughing Fruit Mantis Head Soy Sauce Braised Fangtooth Sheep Claws" in their store. Since most of them won't be eaten, they go through the trash can and enter the trash arch with the Minotaur.

Nick looked at the man very carefully, and the man looked at him as well. Suddenly, the man's figure shrank rapidly, his mouth bulged out, and his coat turned into a gray ribbon that caught the cowbell that appeared out of thin air on his neck. The man turned into a minotaur.

Xi Ke rubbed his eyes, and when he looked again, he was back to the same red-haired man he had been, with no horns, no cat pupils, and even his toenails were human.

The man bought a plate of fried flower branch balls and sat down diagonally across from Xi Ke, his hand hanging on the armrest, and glared at Xi Ke, "So you are really human. 」

Rick shrugged his shoulders and didn't speak. He was sure that this man was the Minotaur.

If he had just started working before, he wouldn't have asked anything and worked silently. But after many workplace breakdowns, he now knows that any unusual situation (late payment by your boss, sending a lawyer to talk to you, or starting to emphasize that the value of your work is growth rather than salary, etc.) should be actively taken into account, which is a warning sign that a serious crisis is about to occur.

"Why are you cursing the shop in Samihot?" asked Nicker.

"Because I want to. The Minotaur said. Demonic standard answers. If the devil was so angry that he slaughtered his master because he had eaten the pudding he had reserved for himself, they would also say, "Because I wanted to kill him." And not, "Because he ate my pudding." For humans, "I was so angry that he ate my pudding, and I wanted to kill him." The part that most needs to be told to the audience is, "He ate my pudding." To the demon, it's "I want to kill him." 」

However, Xike is human, and he needs to know if Samihot has eaten the pudding of the Minotaur.

Both of them spoke in Ethero, and although the boss had been looking at the place, there was a distance from which he could not hear what they were saying.

"Why did you want to be the size that is so short that it could easily be stuffed into the oven?"

"There was a human who saw me like that, and I fell in love. This time, the answer was a little more human, and instead of using emotions as the main motivation, the responsibility for triggering emotions was placed on others.

"Is it true that you said it was a demon training ground?" asked Rick. He wanted the demon to be human enough to understand what it means to be real.

"yes. Not all, though. If they are released into the human world without first training, they will start raising money for disaster relief, sending orphans to families in prosperous countries, and opening hospitals in poor areas. 」

Rick was stunned.

The Minotaur raised an eyebrow at Rick, "This is not sarcasm. Atatamopup. They can learn these tricks at once, and then provoke the descendants of Evan Sal to make another magical revolution. We don't want to lose this land yet, and maintaining the status quo is good for both sides. 」

Why did doing good deeds provoke the Staff of Light? It should be said that the fact that demons can do good deeds is very suspicious.

Feeling that he would never be able to figure this out, he returned to the original question, "Is there any reason why you want to harm Sa Mihot?"

"Who else but him, everyone in that place is weaker than me!"

Judging from the fact that the Minotaur Demon can shapeshift, he should have a certain level of strength. But he said something contrary to human logic, so much so that Rick once again couldn't understand it. He only understood one thing: the Minotaur Demon should be stronger than Xi Ke, who was also present at the time, at least that's how the Minotaur Demon judged.

And Samihot's strength is about the same as that of the Minotaur Demon.

Nick sucked the last bit of tea into his stomach, got up, and said, "Forget it, it's good to know that there is no enmity between you. Whoever is strong and who is weak should not be considered a deep hatred.

"Who says we don't have a grudge? he's slept with my sister and eaten my pudding, robbed my robot and cook, and popped my balloons!" said the Minotaur with wide eyes.

Rick propped his hands on the table and said, "None of them have anything to do with me. In a deep voice, he threatened the Minotaur and said, "I don't care what you want, don't affect me and my demons. 」

The Minotaur replied, "I will not do anything to the weak. Neither will he. We're not like the people who rob old women. He solemnly said in the devil's language, "Murmingt (I) will not trample on you ant. As he said this, his eyebrows were slightly raised, showing a gentle angle, his pupils dilated, and his face tapped forward slightly, moving his entire shoulders and upper body, as if exuding a reverent light.

In this moment, Mormein is uniquely connected to the eternal truth of another world, which seems both threatening and reassuring. It's like a steep and dangerous mountain wall, but it attracts human worship and even risking their lives to climb it.

He had read in books about the special attraction of demons, which could easily attract a large group of humans to follow them as traitors, and this time he really knew what it was like. Rick scratches his cheeks, unties the leash of the Giant, and heads back to the haunted house.

Rick doesn't look at the Minotaur Devil's assurances the way humans do. For the demons, not doing anything to the Seal, and deciding to sacrifice the Seal, are two things that do not conflict. It's like humans don't use a charge to deal with domestic animals, but they kill each other to eat.

It only ensured that they didn't want to go all out to kill Xike right now.

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The next day, Sa Mihot got a 32-inch video tube TV. Nick didn't know how he got it here, and it was already in the store when he saw it. Sa Mihot leaned on the TV and said, "I've seen it, and none of the stores here have TVs, so we have to make a market segmentation!"

"Does the demon watch TV?" asked Rick, holding the rag.

"Developing the market from scratch is the true spirit of a businessman!" Sa Mihot raised a hand and paced left and right: "I don't want the crumbs of the bread, I want to start my business!"

It's just a TV. Xi Ke didn't care about him, he opened the carton next to him, and the accessories were all in it, and Sa Mihot was quite thoughtful, although it was a little too thoughtful. I had a video recorder and a memory disc, but I forgot the question: "Is there a wire here?"

Samihot stopped: "What line?"

"Signal cable. You have that to watch the show. Without that, you have to go to a rental shop and rent a film to show it. Rick said.

The magic word technology has matured, but it is obviously still very early for complete magical image transmission. As to whether the magic word technology can be used in images, the mage world has doubts about this.

Someone tried to create a magic vision a long time ago, and it turned out that magic was particularly distracting from the image. The picture of the beautiful woman wearing a swimsuit basking in the sun by the blue sea is shown on the magic vision and becomes a purgatory ocean crawling with skeletons, and the beauty is still hundreds of years old for some reason. Some of the research colleagues who were present to watch the effect did not realize that it was the same person, and the person who found it soon escaped into the empty door.

The fate of the mages on the Battlement Island is similar, but the main problem is that everyone has wings and tails, and there are inexplicable bare butts in the background, and they draw circles or hearts in front of the camera from beginning to end. To make matters worse, every time some great religious leader appears on television, the characters degenerate into a state where they are publicly excommunicated.

Mages on either side are frustrated with the development of the Magic Project. In the end, they decided to make video playback products the exclusive domain of scientists, and they stopped playing!

After listening to what Xi Ke said, Samihot's ears moved, and he rushed upstairs with a smoke. Xi Ke didn't have time to tell him that even if he connected the line, most of the channels would have to be paid to watch, and only the few channels run by the state were free.

This didn't seem to be a problem for the demon, and Samihot brought back a demon the size of a football with a mop-like head. Rick remembered that the little guy seemed to be selling at a stall upstairs. Samihot plugged one end of the signal cable into the TV slot and the other end into the mop demon's mouth. The mop demon closed his mouth, and his eyes under the mop's fur shimmered red, and after a while they turned into a continuous green light.

Then Sa Mihot picked up the remote control, stood three or seven steps and pressed the TV handsomely. The TV is turned on, and variety shows that you need to pay to watch appear on the screen.

The most surprising thing about Rick was that he wasn't surprised by this. He's used to demons to the point where he doesn't even feel the TV plugged in?

"Just feed him the leftovers of the guests. Samihot said to Xi Ke as a matter of course.

Rick nodded as a matter of course.