683: Casimir

Chapter 683: Casimir

“Alright, alright, you really are a workaholic!” Thrace hadn’t expected his younger brother to become like this!

The old “by the book,” “muddling through” younger brother was gone!

Now he was the plusMAX version of a workaholic younger brother.

However, by the law of conservation of energy, if someone is a workaholic, someone else will be idle and bored.

That was exactly Thrace’s situation; Ye Zian had “snatched” most of his commissions.

Naturally, he became free.

He could flirt with girls, drink, and tease his dear Lily. Even if he got smacked, it was fun, and he enjoyed it.

Just then, someone suddenly came knocking.

“Hello! How may I help you…?”

Lily, who was in her second-floor office, was sitting at her desk, doing reports and such. When someone entered, she subconsciously spoke, then looked up.

The next moment, her pupils slightly constricted.

The visitor was a handsome, stern-faced man.

However, Lily didn’t just notice his good looks; she recognized who he was.

“Is Thrace here?” the stern-faced handsome man asked Lily.

“Casimir? What are you doing here?” Lily frowned slightly and asked him.

She felt a bit of a headache, not because of him specifically. In fact, she and he were old acquaintances.

Casimir was Thrace’s older brother—or maybe not. The two of them had fought many times over the “older brother, younger brother” issue.

What gave Lily a headache was that, compared to Thrace’s hooligan-like personality, Casimir seemed more “noble.” And the reason Thrace left home was…

Besides some melodramatic events, one of the biggest reasons was his own personality and his dislike for his younger brother (from Thrace’s perspective).

As an older brother (from Casimir’s perspective), Casimir had always wanted to educate his younger brother, who was always acting like a scoundrel and even opened some kind of agency, never staying home.

This made both him and their father very disappointed.

Their mother passed away early, and their father was quite strict… well, not just strict, one could say they were estranged.

This applied not only to Thrace but also to Casimir.

Yes, that’s right, Thrace and Casimir’s father was a demon, and a Demon Lord-level existence at that.

Their education… was all in the demon way.

As Demonkin, Thrace and Casimir did not agree with this. Even though Thrace and Casimir also disliked and disagreed with each other, their attitude towards their father was unified.

“I’m looking for Thrace,” Casimir told Lily. “It’s urgent.”

“Alright, I’ll take you,” Lily nodded slightly, stood up, and then added, “But I hope you two don’t start fighting again.”

“If he doesn’t have that sour look on his face and say a bunch of annoying nonsense,” Casimir said with a cold face.

……”

You’re the one who always has a sour look. Lily rolled her eyes internally, speechless.

Lily led Casimir to the basement.

“Hey! Hey! Hey! Look who it is! Isn’t this my ignorant younger brother!” In the basement lounge area, on the sofa, Thrace saw Lily approaching. Just as he was about to tease Lily, he saw someone he really didn’t want to see following her. He immediately threw up his hands and said with some exaggeration.

“If you don’t drop that punchable attitude, I don’t mind exercising my right as an older brother to hit my younger brother,” Casimir said to Thrace with a cold face.

“I’m the older brother,” Thrace pulled his feet in, sat up straight, and said to Casimir.

Ye Zian, full of curiosity but also a little scared, edged closer to Sister Gu Yu. With Gu Yu by his side, he felt much safer.

Gu Yu calmly sat there, watching the show.

“Alright, you two brothers don’t need to fight as soon as you see each other,” Lily said helplessly. “Casimir, you promised.”

“I said there was a precondition,” Casimir said with a cold face.

“Alright, alright, quickly tell us what’s going on!” Lily, helpless, went straight to the point.

“What else could he want! He can’t make it on his own, so he’s coming to his older brother for shelter and comfort, of course~” Thrace said from the side.

“You shut up,” Lily gave him a death glare.

……” Thrace raised both hands in a military salute.

He still respected and revered Lily, not because her strength was greater than his, but for many other reasons.

“Father is looking for you,” Casimir said to Thrace.

“What does it want with me? Why isn’t it staying in Hell? What, is it dying? Does it want me to go back and inherit its position?” Thrace looked at Casimir, his usually playful expression now turning somewhat serious.

Ye Zian, who was secretly enjoying the drama, whispered to Gu Yu, “Sister Gu Yu… what’s going on?”

He didn’t know the full story, but Gu Yu, as an “old employee,” surely knew something.

“Hmm… some kind of family drama, I guess,” Gu Yu pondered for a moment before replying to Ye Zian.

“Alright… Thrace’s father is in Hell? Is it…” Ye Zian scratched his head. He knew that this world had Heaven and Hell.

“Thrace’s father is a demon, and the one who came is his younger brother… uh, older brother? I don’t know either, anyway, those two brothers are always fighting,” Gu Yu shrugged and told Ye Zian.

“Oh~” Ye Zian nodded slightly. Thrace was a Demonkin, Lily was too, and even Gu Yu was… he had gradually learned these things.

How to put it, while Demonkin parents aren't necessarily demons... if one parent is a demon, the child born will definitely be a Demonkin.

Unless two demons combine... well, they could even be Demonkin, called Pureblood Demonkin!

Angels and demons are born asexually, or rather, “naturally.”

And after their birth, if they then combine with each other, that’s “man-made.”

“So Thrace and this… uh… Casimir, are Pureblood Demonkin?” Ye Zian continued to ask curiously.

“No, they’re Half-blood Demonkin,” Gu Yu shook her head slightly and said, “Because their mother was an angel, but she passed away after giving birth to them. I don’t know the specific reason.”

Oh! Ye Zian understood. No wonder Gu Yu said it was a melodramatic family drama… angels and demons, how cliché and dramatic!

“While I share that thought with you, it’s actually not the case,” Casimir shook his head slightly and said, “You’re in trouble, Thrace.”

“What trouble could I have? It’s not like it can come to the human world,” Thrace shrugged and said, “Since that’s the case, what do I have to be afraid of?”