Reincarnated in the Alternate World, I'm A Demonic Lord as Well as a Villager-Chapter 648 - 328: It’s Decided—Demon Officer Theo! (Part 2)
He always felt something was missing.
Shami walked to the back of the village and noticed a commotion ahead, so he quickly headed over.
Stepping out through the village’s back gate, he arrived at the pasture where Shami used to herd sheep. At the edge of the grassland, a few adventurers were confronting a shepherd and some lambs.
"I told you, these lambs can’t be eaten! They’re breeding stock I painstakingly brought back from afar!"
"Don’t be so insolent, you useless thing. We’re adventurers. If we eat your sheep to replenish our strength and defeat the Demon King, won’t it benefit useless villagers like you in the end?"
The adventurers were bullying the villager.
Shami looked at the adventurers with disdain. As a former villager, he himself had been bullied by adventurers.
During those days when he traded second-hand goods in the village, if he hadn’t applied some potion with a foul smell to himself daily, he would have been harassed by some adventurers like Lape.
"If you’re going to kill, just do it!"
The shepherd suddenly yelled. Shami abruptly realized the voice sounded familiar.
"You’re asking for it!"
An adventurer tried to draw a long sword.
"Hey, don’t cause any deaths. After all, they’re people from the village, and it’s hard to explain."
Another adventurer reminded.
The group punched and kicked the shepherd for a while before leaving, satisfied.
The moment they walked into the village, Shami discreetly tossed an explosive crystal at their feet.
Boom!
They were instantly blasted away.
"Good explosion!"
The shepherd, protecting the three lambs with all his might, raised his bruised and swollen head and shouted.
Looking up, the sunlight was blocked by a figure, and the shepherd’s face, either distorted by the beating or naturally twisted, trembled slightly at the mouth.
"Shami...?"
Shami stood in front of Theo with a complicated expression.
"Why have you returned, Theo?"
"Shami!!!"
Theo stood up and hugged Shami, tears and snot flowing, making Shami cringe and quickly push Theo away.
On the grassland.
Shami and Theo sat together once more, the somewhat noisy wind blowing over them.
"After buying dozens of breeds of lambs at the livestock market in Saint Karno City, I brought them towards the village. I finally returned to the village half a month ago. But the village has changed so much. I almost thought I got the wrong place."
"Yeah."
Shami sighed as well.
This place had already become an underground city of the Demon tribe. He needed to let the creatures in the village know that Theo was a villager, not some strange animal; otherwise, Theo might be mistaken for a wild intruder and get killed one day.
Theo suddenly clenched his fist, bursting into tears.
"Those damned adventurers actually stole and roasted over twenty of my lambs! I painstakingly spent months bringing them back from Saint Karno City, and there are only three left..."
"You sure have a particular attachment to lambs, Theo."
Shami patted Theo’s shoulder sympathetically.
"By the way, Shami, where have you been? I haven’t seen you since I’ve been back in the village."
Theo asked, still in tears, but concerned for Shami.
"You weren’t captured by some perverted adventurers and taken to a secret chamber for... were you?"
"Why would you think that!"
"The world is going downhill. Nowadays, adventurers can do whatever they want as long as they’re strong, infringing on villagers’ personal properties at will..."
Theo sighed, patting the rump of the lamb beside him.
"Truly, the same breed as the Demon King... Did you hear? The Demon King, I heard, is some skeleton-obsessed pervert. It really cracks me up, hahaha!"
Theo, who had been crying just now, suddenly laughed as if he found joy in the world.
Watching Theo teasing the lamb beside him, Shami’s expression darkened.
You’re the least qualified to say that, Theo!
"Let’s go. Let’s head back to the village. It’s a rare chance to meet up; let’s go to the widow’s house. I’ll treat you to lunch."
Theo stood up, bringing the lambs into the village.
Shami quickly declined Theo’s offer.
Not everyone is like Theo, able to eat anything inexplicable that’s put in front of them.
Theo suddenly remembered something and approached Shami nervously.
"Oh, Shami, did you see that announcement? That elf that came to our village, and Lina, they’re actually Demon Envoys! Back then, you were close with them, right!"
Shami took a step back.
Seeing Theo’s concern for him, with a face so twisted it was even harder to understand his expression, Shami didn’t know how to respond.
"Shami~ why did you come here~ I can smell your scent~"
At this moment, a teleportation gate appeared behind Shami, and Whitefur ran out from it, hugging Shami from behind. Seeing Theo, Whitefur awkwardly stopped, blinking.
Theo was dumbfounded.
There was silence for four or five seconds.
"Run, Shami! It’s a Demon Envoy! The Demon Envoy has captured you suddenly!"
Theo screamed, grabbing the three lambs in front of him and running towards the open grassland.
"Doesn’t look like they came to capture people though~"
Whitefur muttered and still kissed Shami on the cheek.
"Don’t be so loud! Don’t attract everyone else here!" 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
Magic Power surged from Shami’s hand, quickly subduing the fleeing Theo.
