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

The next morning.

Gray woke up very early, after all, to prevent the servants from waking him up and discovering Alpha's situation.

Before he even opened his eyes, he felt Alpha's limbs tightly wrapped around him like an octopus.

When did you pick this girl up?

Gray has always been a good sleeper; he can fall asleep as soon as he gets into bed, so he doesn't know when Alpha attached himself to him.

Perhaps because he is the Demon King, Gray is always full of energy, and only needs four hours of sleep a day to maintain twenty hours of activity.

This is also why Gray can receive education from the Brant family during the day and still tirelessly engage in Shadow Warrior activities at night.

Gently prying Alpha's limbs apart, Gray jumped off the bed and gazed at the sleeping girl.

Her face was slightly thin, showing signs of malnutrition.

That makes sense, Alpha is a farmer's son, while the people in this territory are all poor and starving.

It's normal to have such a thin body when you don't get enough to eat at the age when you need the most nutrition.

Now that this girl is with him, Gray will at least make sure she has enough to eat.

Ignoring these signs of malnutrition, Alpha is still a pretty little girl overall, and a little beauty in the making.

It seems this girl has pretty good family genes?

While we can take a closer look, we still need to get down to business.

Gray cast a concealment spell on Alpha. Although no change was visible to Gray, those with low or no magic power would still be unable to detect Alpha's presence.

Of course, this is only a visual disappearance, equivalent to invisibility. The person is still there, and you can still touch them if you try to.

In other words, things that can't be seen or touched... some people might be scared and think it's haunted.

Gray noticed the tattered clothes on Alpha's body.

We definitely can't let her continue wearing these tattered clothes. Alpha can wear her own clothes. They're both six-year-olds, so there's no need to worry about girls wearing boys' clothes.

Judging from this, it seems he'll need to sleep for a while longer.

Unlike Gray, Alpha is a true six-year-old child who needs a lot of sleep.

Gray didn't plan to just wait for her to wake up, since he didn't know how much longer she would sleep.

I grabbed a set of clothes that fit me, placed them by the bed, and then opened the door and went out.

Just after Gray left, Alpha vaguely felt something was missing from his arms, so he turned over and hugged the clothes Gray had left behind.

Yes, this is it, the thing that smells like Lord Shadow...

"Young Master, you're up quite early today?"

As soon as I stepped out of the room, I was greeted by a maid.

Katarina, Gray's personal maid, is currently cleaning the hallway as usual.

Good morning, Katarina.

The Brant family treated their servants quite well. Although they lacked power and couldn't manage their territory well, their relative friendliness towards commoners was rare among the nobles.

For the past six years, the Brant family has treated his adopted son as their own, and Gray can feel their kindness.

"Young master, you can have your meal after you've finished washing up," Katarina said.

At the dinner table, Gray's adoptive mother, Thris, was teasing his adopted sister, while his adoptive father, Ed, had left early in the morning.

As a lord, Ed Brant was not a dissolute nobleman who did nothing all day; rather, he frequently toured his territory, and it was clear that he wanted to manage it well.

The intention was good, but unfortunately, there were no results.

No matter how many patrols you conduct, it won't solve the problems of rampant thieves, cultists, and slave traders in your territory.

In other words, the only way for this territory to improve is through his nighttime activities of eliminating thieves.

As for his stepsister, Leah Brandt, Grey's assessment was...

It's so troublesome to soothe a baby. I hope it will get better as she grows up.

The Brant family's breakfast was lavish and a little wasteful; Gray secretly stole some to take back to Alpha.

Still sleeping...

Gray placed the food on the desk and left.

Gray isn't completely idle during the day.

The Brant family arranged educational courses for him.

The curriculum is divided into four parts: arithmetic, language, swordsmanship, and magic.

Arithmetic was of little use to Gray, after all, he was a college graduate in his previous life.

Mathematics is very underdeveloped in this world. In a world of swords and magic, there are indeed few people who study mathematics, let alone physics and chemistry.

The morning lessons consisted of arithmetic and swordsmanship, and the morning passed quickly.

Alpha didn't wake up until Gray finished lunch and went back to his room for a nap.

It's good to be young, just fall asleep.

I went to bed at 5:20 and woke up promptly at 13:14.

"Lord Demon Shadow..."

Before Alpha could even finish greeting her, the girl's rumbling stomach made her blush with embarrassment.

"Get dressed and eat well. I'll take you to learn something this afternoon."

"Yes!"

Alpha changed out of his tattered clothes right in front of Gray.

Gray turned his head away.

Should I teach her what shame is?

Next is Alpha's feeding time.

"This is the food for nobles..."

Alpha quickly devoured the food and even licked his lips clean.

The afternoon classes consisted of Chinese language and magic, and Gray planned to bring Alpha, who was in stealth mode, along with the Chinese language class.

Gray believed that it was essential to master the most basic skill of literacy.

The same goes for arithmetic; you should at least know the four basic arithmetic operations.

As for swordsmanship and magic.

Swordsmanship is unnecessary.

Shugray bluntly stated that this swordsmanship class was like children playing house, it was useless, and he was just wasting his time to pretend to learn it.

There's no need for Alpha to learn; it's better to teach her myself at night.

Magic class is probably the most useful of the four courses, but the teacher who teaches Gray magic is someone his adoptive father hired from the magic academy, and Gray isn't sure if she can see through Gray's concealment magic.

In order not to attract too much attention, Gray deliberately controlled his performance in magic class, appearing to be unremarkable, with a little magical talent, but not much.

It's not that I want to play dumb to fool others, it's just that for the activities of the powerful figures behind the scenes, it's better to keep my public identity ordinary.

Finally, it was late at night, which was the time Gray looked forward to the most.

Gray plans to spend this time outside Alpha for some real combat training.

The training subjects are wild beasts in the mountains and forests, with the aim of training Alpha's combat skills and mastery of magic.

As for training her in terms of interpersonal skills, let's wait until she's older.