I! Cleaner!-Chapter 1107 - 1021: The Feast (Part 2)

'Phew... that... that's good...'

The black goat, not realizing that Leon's words were literally just two sentences, breathed a sigh of relief and eagerly offered,

'You... you can rest assured! We'll definitely do it well. Just tell us what you want us to do!'

'Mm.'

Leon responded casually and then unhurriedly instructed,

'I just happen to have something for you to do... lie down.'

'Oh...'

Following Leon's instructions, the black goat lay on the cold, hard ground and asked,

'And then? What next?'

'See that basket of fruit over there... those glossy, shiny red fruits, you see them?'

'I see them, and then?'

'Then take one and hold it in your mouth... don't bite, just hold it, yes, yes, just like that!'

Directing the black goat to hold the red fruit, then lying there splayed out, Leon nodded in satisfaction,

'Alright, just pretend you're already dead, stay in this position and don't move, that's my only request.'

'Oh...'

Nodding without understanding, the black goat lay back on the large white platter... platter?

Reaching out with a hoof to tap on the platter beneath, realizing it was indeed a platter, the black goat, laid out like a roasted lamb holding a red fruit, suddenly sat up in alarm, spat out the fruit, touched its face with a hoof, and screamed with wide-eyed panic,

'No way! How did I end up like this again? Didn't you turn me back?'

'Well... I did it to save you.'

Seeing that the black goat had noticed something was amiss, Leon, who had surreptitiously transformed it back into a sheep-headed demon appearance, coughed awkwardly,

'After those succubi dragged you back while you were asleep, they started examining you up and down, curious why you didn't look like a sheep, they even reached to pull off your pants to take a look.

To keep your identity as a wandering gunslinger hidden, and to avoid exposing us too soon, I just adjusted your appearance slightly to resemble the other sheep-headed demons here...'

'No! This won't do!'

Looking at its own bottom layer demon form in the shiny platter, the black goat, desperate to rid itself of the form belonging to the lowest echelon of abyssal demons, even suppressed its fear of Leon and pounded the platter with its hoof.

'I don't want this! I want the strongest! The most hideous! The scariest! The most sinister! The most ghastly face that scares people to death! You... give me back my face!'

'...'

The ugliest, most sinister, most ghastly face that scares people to death... you're not talking about my face, are you?

Unable to resist touching his own face, sensing the black goat's anger and panic, Leon said understandingly,

'So you weren't really transformed to look like me, you just deliberately made yourself resemble my appearance during resurrection, right?'

'...'

I knew it...

After deliberately setting up a "roast lamb" scene to provoke the black goat, and experiencing its panic and resistance, Leon sighed inwardly.

It seems that, despite how cavalier this guy pretends to be, the days he spent in the abyss were likely beyond miserable, with deep psychological scars left behind... well, thinking about it, it's not surprising.

Recalling the information obtained when touching the Evil Desire Nest, briefly deducing the black goat's experience, Leon couldn't help but feel a twinge of sympathy for the black goat.

This guy, possessing top-notch talent, even though it was from Lust Demon God's pasture, and of the "meat sheep" nearly lowest abyssal species, still managed to quietly reach a top-tier great demon level, it's quite an inspirational story when you think about it.

But to a Lust Demon God ruling over powers exceeding general pillar gods, even a great demon just shy of godly status is akin to a shrimp. So no matter how remarkable the black goat is, it would still find it hard to escape the fate of being a feast.

So its talk about descending to the world to wreak havoc is probably just self-flattering; it's more likely escaping from Evil Desire Nest to the real world to avoid being eaten by Lust Demon God.

Even its supposed ambush and desperate escape sounds dubious when you think about it... for a nearly god-level great demon, without intervention from the clean-up bureau, how many organizations could have forced it to flee for its life to the human realm?

In short, the tragic past likely makes the black goat deeply despise its "weakness." To rid itself entirely of the weak past, upon resurrection, it abandoned its original species' appearance and chose what it considered the "strongest, most evil, most ghastly, and most terrifying" look...

Ugh... with that thought, suddenly it doesn't seem as pitiable anymore.

...

'Hey!'

After touching his face once again, Leon, possessing a frightful, sinister, ghastly appearance that could cause gods to wail at night, spoke to the silent black goat,

'Whatever you really think inside, I'm sure you understand it yourself, so I won't say anything extra. Just remember one thing from now on, you absolutely must not use my face.

Too many demons in the abyss know my appearance, using my face will definitely get you exposed, and my face is mine; it's not yours. Even if you use my face, you won't become me, got it?'

'Heh... fine.'

After listening to Leon's words, the corners of the black goat's mouth twitched mechanically to form a stiff smile tinged with self-mockery, then it decisively nodded and responded,

'Got it.'

'Good.'

After receiving the black goat's promise, Leon waved away the surrounding illusions... there was no platter or fruit at all, only a strangely shaped makeshift cage, with a completely "unconscious" black goat tightly bound inside.

'You?!'

Seeing the reality around itself, the black goat immediately grasped the situation and became furious, grinding its teeth and accusing,

'You went to all this trouble just to... just to mock me?'

'I'm not that bored.'

Feeling the black goat's mix of thirty percent anger and seventy percent sadness, Leon, who used to get along quite well with the foul-mouthed demon, couldn't help but hesitate slightly before finally speaking,

'I'm not fond of preaching, so I won't tell you stuff like "don't choose to escape" or "learn to face yourself"... but I'm pretty certain there's something you'll definitely want to do with your own face.'

'What... what do you mean?'

'What I mean is, a great demon-level meat sheep would be a delicacy coveted by Original Sin Demon Gods, so you'll most likely be sent to Lust Demon God.'

Motioning with the black goat's right hoof to point further into the depths of the abyss, seeing the delight on the black goat's face, Leon calmly explained,

'Fighting your way down there sounds too troublesome, so I plan to use this convenience as a way to blend right in front of Lust Demon God.

And as payment for helping me out, when Lust Demon God is about to enjoy you, I can use the Abnormal Transformation Secret Technique in reverse, lending my power to you once... just this once, okay!'