Seeing Lucifer running around like he was looking for something, the system felt things were starting to go wrong.
[You can't just bring a zombie to her and then tell me that's saving her.]
Lucifer was a bit surprised the system figured out his plan so fast. But it only guessed part of it.
"Who said I wanted to save her by bringing a zombie?"
[???]
The system was stunned by this question too. Bringing a zombie to her but not saving her. Was he just going to let the zombie kill her?
"What I'm doing is saving her from a boring life. Once she becomes a slave to the lord of hell… Ahem, the savior Lucifer, her life will definitely be super exciting."
[Huh? What…]
The system didn't even know what the hell to say anymore. Sure, the quest requirement was to save someone, but it didn't say save them from what.
[You're playing word games with me.]
"I'm not playing any damn word games. It's clearly because your request wasn't clear enough, and my ultimate genius brain caught the loophole."
Hearing the system's frustrated tone, Lucifer couldn't help but puff out his chest arrogantly. Trying to monitor him? That wasn't going to be easy.
[Next time I'll be more careful with my wording. Consider this one a trial run.]
"A trial run better not forget the reward."
[…]
The system was a bit speechless. At first, it used those weird-ass rewards to motivate Lucifer. It never thought he'd like that stuff this much.
[Don't worry. I've got rules. I won't go back on my word.]
This small stuff didn't matter. What mattered was making Lucifer become the savior.
Lucky for them, fortune really does smile on good people. Soon enough, Lucifer found a zombie. Judging by the outfit, it was probably a guard for this building.
"Ha ha ha, see, the savior's luck is just too good. Only a few minutes of walking and I already found one."
The zombie didn't even have time to react before Lucifer grabbed it by the collar and dragged it off. Its weight was clearly not light, but now it was flying around like a kite in the wind.
He ran like crazy back to the girl's apartment and found she'd already hidden in the bedroom. As a standard-issue savior, he immediately kicked the door down to rush into the girl's room.
"You… you… you…"
The girl was about to find something heavy to block the door but hadn't done anything yet before the door went flying. Plus, she saw Lucifer dragging some super disgusting thing into her room.
Lucifer let go, planning to let the zombie attack her, but that brainless thing actually bit him back.
So he slapped it straight toward her. Even with its neck broken, it still got up and lunged at the nearest prey.
"What the hell is that?!"
Right when the girl was scared shitless by this creature and about to kick it away, Lucifer suddenly appeared behind her.
He gently wrapped an arm around her waist, using one leg to lock both of hers so she couldn't move now.
"Relax. It'll be fine. One bite from it and you'll turn into a zombie just like it."
Lucifer said this while laughing, but that exact unserious attitude freaked the girl out more than ever.
"What… what do you want?"
With things this bad, all she could do was try to negotiate. She didn't want to turn into some disgusting, brainless thing like that either.
"I want you to be my slave No. 1."
As a 'straightforward' demon king, Lucifer didn't hesitate to say the main reason he came here.
"You sick f*ck! I'd rather die than serve you!"
She opened her mouth to bite her tongue and kill herself, but Lucifer shoved two fingers into her mouth so she couldn't bite down.
"Biting your tongue will make you bleed but it's really hard to die from. Letting a zombie bite you, your body won't die but your brain will."
No matter how stubborn the girl was, tears started streaming down her face now. Not because she was weak, but dying like this was just too humiliating. She'd rather die on a battlefield. Dying in some freaky way like this was way too shameful.
The more she cried, the more Lucifer laughed. Dying wasn't possible because he'd already claimed her. The position of slave No. 1 was hers and no one else's.
"Got any last words? Go on, say them."
As he spoke, he kicked the zombie so it fell flat, giving her some time to talk.
"Hmph, if you dare do anything to me, my dad won't let you get away with it. He'll definitely have a sick freak like you castrated."
The girl used the meanest tone she could to threaten Lucifer. Even if it was just a last bit of pointless effort, whatever.
"You've been going on and on about your dad not letting me off. Who's your dad? Say his name so I can grab him and make him slave No. 2."
Lucifer thought what she said was hilarious so he started showing off. Anyway, he could actually do it now.
"My dad is Victor, Victor Blackforge. He's a billionaire in the weapons industry and he's got really wide connections."
Even if she couldn't fight back or get away, that didn't stop her from bragging about her status to scare Lucifer. Even scaring him just a little would make her feel a lot better.
"Huh???"
How could he not know that name? Victor was the guy who adopted him. This girl was Victor's daughter so that… made it even easier to make her his slave.
"Ha ha ha, so you're Victor's daughter. If that's the case, do you know Lucifer? Your name is Scarlet, right?"
Hearing these questions, Scarlet froze. She'd heard Victor mention that name plenty of times. She'd also argued with Victor more than once about his decision to raise some freeloading loser like Lucifer.
"So you're that illiterate, lazy, game-addicted piece of trash Lucifer?"
"Huh? Which asshole made up that kind of crap about the savior?"
Even if it was true, Lucifer was the savior now and wouldn't allow anyone to just blurt out stuff like that.
"Savior my ass! I'm two years older than you, so technically I'm your older sister. And you dare try to make your own sister your slave? You pervert, inhuman, bastard, animal, traitor..."
Hearing Lucifer call himself the savior, she lost her shit and started cursing nonstop. Now that she had the higher status, it was way easier to curse him out.