The maid squad is too strong, what use is there for me, the Demon King?

The purple-haired girl sat blankly on the ground, helplessly gazing up at the sky, her eyes filled with endless despair.

I have to pay off my debt tonight.

The creditors gave the purple-haired girl a month's grace period, during which she and her mother worked hard to raise the money to pay off their debts.

However, the amount owed by the girl's father is roughly what the mother and daughter could earn in a year of working. The money they earned in just one month is only a drop in the bucket compared to the debt.

Just a few days earlier, the news that her mother had fallen ill due to overwork became the last straw that broke the girl's back.

The girl rushed home immediately, and the sight of her mother lying weakly on the bed filled her eyes with tears.

The mother's body was curled up, her face was pale, and her breathing was rapid and weak.

“It’s okay… I can still…” the mother said haltingly.

My mother is seriously ill and even getting out of bed has become difficult, but she is still thinking about working to pay off her debts.

She didn't want to see her daughter become merchandise in the hands of creditors and playthings in the hands of nobles in order to pay off debts.

Her husband has disappeared to evade his debts. Is God going to take her daughter away too?

"Mother...you should rest well first. I will find a way to pay off the debt."

The purple-haired girl held her mother's hand tightly, her eyes filled with worry and determination.

Her purple hair cast deep shadows on her face, making her complexion appear even paler. Tears welled in her eyes, her lips were tightly pressed together, and her body was stiff. Her heart was filled with despair and helplessness, but she also knew she couldn't give up.

But what should we do?

He made such a boast, but he didn't have the ability to earn enough money to pay off his debts in the remaining few days.

She also considered other options, such as relying on the local lords, the Brant family.

If she were to offer herself up and serve as a maid in the Brant household for the rest of her life, perhaps the noble lord would help her pay off her debts.

But this approach is essentially no different from paying off a debt with oneself. At least this way one can stay in the local area. Although it also means being forced to separate from one's mother, at least there is still a chance to meet again.

The idea was good, but the final decision rested with the Brant family, with the noble lords.

Although the purple-haired girl was beautiful, she was quite young, just over ten years old, and did not meet Brantga's standards for hiring maids.

Moreover, even if she met the standards, the Brant family wouldn't give up other candidates with better qualifications and spend more money to choose a girl who was slightly prettier.

Are there more good people or bad people in this world?

The answer is naturally neither; the majority of people are ordinary people who are neither good nor evil.

Few people will offer help to a girl in debt, and even fewer will harbor ill will towards her.

But perhaps there are more evil people in this world?

The thieves who attacked her father on his journey, causing her family to fall apart, were evil people.

The creditors who come every day to pressure the mother and daughter to repay the loan, who verbally abuse them, and who even physically assault the mother, are also evil people.

The father, unable to face the debt, abandoned his mother and daughter and ran away alone... no, that man was also a villain.

The Brant family, who did not treat their people like livestock but were merely unfriendly and failed to govern their territory well, causing the girl's family to fall apart, were they evil people? Or were they just ordinary people, indifferent to good or evil?

Regardless of how the Brant family is defined, the proportion of villains the girl encounters far exceeds the proportion of good people.

Rather, she never met any so-called kind people, and no one offered her any help when she was in dire straits.

I heard from my father... that man said that there is a Church of Holy Light in the Kingdom of Olmec.

The Church of Holy Light worships a deity who brings light to mankind. It is said that the Church of Holy Light once grew to the point where the entire country was filled with believers in the deity.

But now even the existence of the church is little known.

The girl now knows the reason for the decline of the Holy Light Church.

The so-called gods have never brought light to mankind, which is why they have lost believers, and the church has naturally declined.

But none of this concerns the girl; what she needs to face is her current predicament.

The path of becoming a maid in a noble household is no longer viable; if she cannot repay the debt, she will have no choice but to pay it off herself.

Even disregarding my future fate as a commodity in the hands of creditors, what would happen to my seriously ill mother if I left?

The answer was obvious, but the girl didn't want to imagine that scenario.

If someone could help me escape this predicament and save my mother, I would surely dedicate all my energy to that person and worship them as a god.

Gray saw the girl's desperate expression, though he didn't know what she was thinking or what she had gone through.

But his battered and broken appearance had already aroused Gray's sympathy.

"What happened to that woman?"

Gray maintained his current persona, asking the two maid sisters behind him in an innocent tone.

"I don't know," the maid Katarina replied immediately. "Young master, there's nothing much to see here. Shall we go look around somewhere else?"

This is a lie.

Katarina, like the purple-haired girl, is the daughter of a merchant, but Katarina is older.

Perhaps her father had mentioned it, so Katarina knew roughly about the purple-haired girl, but she didn't want to cause any trouble, so she changed the subject and wanted to leave with Gray as soon as possible.

She didn't want to bring the young master out once, only to encounter some strange situation and end up being blamed by the master.

But Gray II was a man, and his mind was certainly not that of a six-year-old child. He saw through Katarina's intention to take him away.

But Gray had no intention of letting her have her way, and, using his current status as a child, he became stubborn.

"No, I'll go ask that lady what's wrong with her." With that, Gray started walking towards the purple-haired girl.

Seeing that her attempts to stop him were futile, Katarina immediately gave another maid, Sparrow, a wink, signaling her to explain the situation and prevent Gray from contacting the purple-haired girl.

The sparrow knew this poor girl and knew about her situation.

Although I sympathize with the girl's plight, I ultimately feel it's none of my business and I can't really get involved.

After receiving a subtle hint from Katarina, Sparrow explained the situation of the purple-haired girl to Gray.

To Katarina's relief, after hearing these words, Gray simply said "Oh" and turned to walk in another direction.

It's wonderful that the young master didn't hear it and then had a change of heart.

I'll probably forget about this little incident soon, right?

Like Katarina, Gray also wanted to avoid any unnecessary complications.

But that was just Gray's idea as an adopted son of the Brant family.

Meanwhile, the shadow of the Shadow Court had already secretly memorized this place.