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Chapter 3 – The Prettiest Ladies in the City

  After leaving the Watcher's Chamber, Joshua returo his messy-as-nine-hells room.

  The ing could wait as Joshua walked toward a siderably tidy bookshelf and pulled out a book titled "History of the World".

  The book had been written by humans, as it doted the progress of the human civilization in this world. It seemed like the demon prince was very ied in human civilization.

  What surprised Joshua was that the book was written in English…

  Joshua turo a mirror beside the table, and the refle of the Chaos Demon in it was how he looked like ba Earth. That made him think of the parallel universe theory. Perhaps the demon prince was him in another world... because they even shared the same name.

  The fact that the "History of the World" was written in English helped Joshua a lot. He had wao know how the human civilization in this world had progressed and what their political situation was.

  If this world was made out of a monarchies, then produg movies to a group of illiterate peasants would be pointless.

  "The cil of Seven? May the resple light of magic shine over the whole of Nornd?"

  Joshua verbalized the ret history written in the book and heaved a sigh of relief.

  The human society in this world was much more democratic than Joshua had anticipated. While it was not a modern democratic republic, it had a setup akin to a parliamentary republic.

  Simply put, the humans of this world had realized the idea of "everyone is equal". Such equality was not realized through ws or revolutions, rather it was due to the magiature of the world itself.

  The magical elements of the Human Realm were ireme abundance, and even farmers at the bottom of the social hierarchy knew how to cast a fireball spell. It was a veritable world of spellcasters.

  So, status in this human society was determined by knowledge, and the more magical knowledge one accrued, the higher their social status. In such a society, illiterates would be few and far between.

  However, that was only present in a few main tries within the Human Realm, and there were many more nobilities or divine right monarchies.

  Just like Earth, this world was vast, and the number of tries in this world was far beyond a single digit. The closest try to the Demonic Realm was one of the most prosperous magical tries in the nd, Nornd.

  Thus, Joshua decided that the sing of his movie would be focused on these magical tries.

  would be the script. Joshua now bore the burden of ceasing the hatred humans had for demons, and to ge the perception that demons were evil. Aplishing that was not difficult in his opinion, and he just o get humans to worship demons.

  The act of worship he had in mind definitely did not refer to the dark rituals of demonic summoning, or the cultivation of a heretical cult, rather… Joshua wao turn demons into idols.

  To save their race from fag extin, the demons chose to take the path of an idol or something like that…

  In order to create a good demonic image, Joshua had two scripts he could think of. One was Beauty and the Beast, and the other, Léon: The Professional.

  Beauty and the Beast, in Joshua's mind, did not need further introdu. It was a well-known fairy tale, and while some may feel that it was a little childish, almost everyone had heard of the story before. That once again proved that the wonderful tale had a following in human civilization, no different from Hans Christian Anderson or the Grimm brother's stories.

  As for Léon: The Professional, it was one of Joshua's favorite movies. It was a story about a professional hitman and a little girl. The tale of a man taking a young girl under his wing was an evergreen topid that movie, without a doubt, raised both Natalie Portman and Jean Reno as Joshua's childhood idols.

  The focal point of those two works was to get the audieo love the "Beast" and the "Hitman". By repg the characters with demons, plus some editing, the plot would not look out of pce.

  Joshua still had no idea who he would cast as the actor for Léon, but he had someone in mind for the role of both Belle and the Beast.

  Perhaps it was a little regrettable, but the movie that shaped Joshua's initial perception of beauty would o wait, so he decided to go ahead with Beauty and the Beast first.

  "Servant, please summoh for me," Joshua said to the water elemental servant standing by the door.

  The elemental servant did not have a mind of her own and was simply a messenger, much like a homing pigeon. After she bowed to Joshua, she left to fulfill her orders, while Joshua started to pen the script.

  Ever since he arrived in this world, Joshua noticed that his memories had bee terrifyingly clear. Be it the memories of his time oh, or the demon prince's, everything was ready to be "pulled out" of his brain.

  He could even clearly remember the patterns on the back of a seven-spot dybird he had caught when he was ten.

  Joshua had read the inal English version of Beauty and the Beast followed by the animated movie by Dishe tter was the most popur version of the story, thus he was able to remember every siail of it.

  He now just had to add iails using that framework.

  Joshua took out a sheet of paper. The papers were inally used by the demon prio sketch out his odd blueprints, and the writing tool he used was a familiar charcoal pencil.

  Just as he wrote the title of the script on the paper, the floor of his room rumbled slightly.

  "Yhness, what would you have me do?"

  Zenarth came much faster than Joshua had anticipated. He stood by the door, not stepping into the room. With papers scattered all over the room, the coiling fmes arouh's body could light the room up.

  "Zenarth, how are your ag skills?" Joshua looked at the Sin Demon as he asked.

  "Ag?" Zenarth did not seem to uand what Joshua was saying.

  "Simply put, do you know how to fool humans?"

  Joshua spun it in a way that a demon could uand.

  "Of course, Yhness… That is a pulsory skill for a demon. While I may never be as good as the succubi or the satyrs, fooling those foolish humans is something I aplish."

  Zenarth's guile did not seem to match his martial appearance, however.

  Deceit was a pulsory skill for every demon? So, that meant every demon was an actor? For a race with deceit as their natural talent, not venturing into politics was a waste.

  "Very well, stand still over there for a bit."

  Joshua measured Zenarth's shape a as he began to draw the cept art for the script.

  As a Sin Demoh's head looked like Leomon from Digimon. So long as he did not reveal his menag expression and wiped out the fmes in his mouth, he actually had the look of a big ge.

  heless, that did not take into at Zenarth's terrifying scales and the va flowiween the gaps in his scales. Even the fmes on his body alone would deter anyone from toug the big cat.

  That itself was not a problem, though, and Joshua, who was inally a game designer, was quick with his sketch. He drew an image of the imposih in a bespoke court dress.

  "Zenarth, your clothes do not burn?" As he got to that part, he suddenly realized that the demon's clothes looked like some primordial beast skin, whily covered the important parts of his body.

  To get Zenarth to wear the court dress he designed, he would need him to keep the fmes hidden.

  "It won't, Yhness. I trol the temperature of my fmes."

  Now that was ve. With no worries about the clothes catg fire, Joshua could go ham with the design. The important thing was to cast the female lead, Belle.

  It was not quite possible to use a human female, and any girl who was a little timid would probably just faint out of fear while she acted with Zenarth. Meanwhile, anyone a little braver would lob fireballs at him.

  Joshua o ensure his actors' safety so he decided to choose from the female demons instead.

  "Zenarth, I have a mission for you."

  Joshua immediately pulled out a part and wrote a notice as he pced his personal seal on it.

  "Your orders, Yhness?" Zenarth bowed slightly as he awaited Joshua's orders.

  "Fihe prettiest girls iy," Joshua said.

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