The Demon Castle was alive. Not in the "oh, it's bustling with servants and soldiers" kind of way but it was literally alive. The stones whispered at night. The chandeliers wept waxy tears. The carpets… shifted when Rei wasn't looking.
But Rei could have handled that. He could have pretended it was just normal Demon Castle ambience.
What he couldn't handle was the furniture.
"Finally," Rei muttered, dragging his exhausted body into the throne room after surviving yet another morning of yandere politics. "One normal chair. That's all I want."
He sat. The chair immediately vibrated beneath him then it sighed and whispered:
"Rei-sama… will you marry me?"
Rei shot to his feet so fast he nearly dislocated his spine. "WHAT?!"
The throne blushed—or at least, the dark runes carved into its arms pulsed red. "I've been waiting for you for centuries. You sit on me with such warmth… it must be fate."
[System Alert: New Proposal Detected. Source: Demon King's Throne.]
