The Prince of Sloth [DxD]

A certain Castle – somewhere in the Belphegor Domain, Underworld

Agni: "Lord Seir… please stop… at this rate, you will hurt yourself!"

Sheetal: "Lord Seir…! He… he is not stopping at all!"

It wasn't just Agni and Sheetal screaming nervously, a few other maids were also very worried as they chased after their young Lord. Considering the incident that occurred last month, they were all the more nervous and fearful. Getting scolded or getting punished is another thing, they would still be fine with that, but they did not want, for the love of Maou, for their young Lord to get hurt because of recklessness.

However, one thing peculiar was that they weren't looking at the floor as they chased after him in order to stop him lest he hurt himself, rather, their eyes were focused toward the ceilings of the corridors as they ran and ran and ran.

Regardless of whether the maids were looking at the floor or the ceiling, Seir did not care about them at all as he was busy giggling and laughing in exhilaration, "Ahahahaa..." while flying through the passages of the castle with his little bat-like wings.

'Just as I had thought, flying is so much fun…'

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'Has anyone ever wondered what is it like to have the ability to fly and soar through the skies?'

While each individual may have his or her own distinct answer to the question, perhaps only birds can give the most accurate answers, unfortunately, birds don't speak the human language so communication is not possible, and since humans are incapable of free flight, they cannot give an accurate answer either.

Philosophically speaking, the desire to break the chains of gravity and freely soar through the skies is something deeply rooted in a human's psyche. At its core, humanity's desire for flight represents their innate yearning for freedom and transcendence. After all, flying symbolizes liberation from the constraints that life, work, economics, society, morality, relationships et cetera imposes on a person. People when they are overwhelmed by constraints often want to break free of said constraints and spread their wings above the clouds.

Of course, that is only philosophical, in reality, if someone wishes to spread their wings, all they can do is try out new things or go on a trip for a change of pace, they cannot and will probably never be able to freely soar the skies like a bird, or wait… maybe they can try using gliders, parachutes, and wingsuits to experience what it's like to fly… but that's not true flight, it's assisted flight and that's not true freedom. For argument's sake, they would be ignored.

Getting back on the topic, even if it is virtually impossible for a human to fly, even if a human can never understand or experience the feelings of a bird as it spreads its wings and freely soars through the skies, that doesn't stop humans from yearning for it.

'I guess that's human nature, they yearn for things that they do not or cannot have, yet they do not care about the things that they already have…'

Every human being, save for the ones who suffer from Acrophobia would want to soar through the skies, probably, and Seir is certainly not any different, back in his previous life, he too had a yearning for the skies even if he knew that he could never get there.

But then something absolutely absurd happened in his life, or maybe re-life (?), and suddenly every impossibility became a possibility.

Imagine being a terrestrial (land-based organism) for nearly two decades of your life, and being incapable of flight or any other aerial movement except for maybe being able to jump half a meter into the air, then suddenly, you get reborn into a different world that has magic and mystic, then a few months later you suddenly discover you have a pair of wings on your back, what would you feel? How would you react? What would you do?

Normally, a person experiencing something so otherworldly might freaked out, or maybe not, maybe they would be exhilarated more than anything, and that's exactly what happened with Seir. Considering that he had already experienced something as absurd as rebirth with memories retained, and also discovered the existence of magic soon after getting reincarnated, he was more susceptible to accepting the sudden revelation.

How did he react? Yes, he was stunned and scared for a moment in fear of falling and hurting himself, but he quickly overcame the shock and fear once he noticed that he wasn't falling. Instead, he was frozen in a single place in mid-air as the sound of something flapping reached his ears, which made him turn his head and look at the cause of such absurdity, and that's it. Once he discovered that he had grown a pair of wings in a matter of milliseconds, he was on to the next thing, which was to try and flap them.

Of course, one thing he found strange was that his wings were not feathery like that of a bird but bat-like, which did make him all the more certain of his race.

'Yes, I am most definitely a demon or something!'

'Though to be honest, for someone who belongs to the darkness, is it really okay for me to be this cute…' mused Seir as he stopped for a moment to look at his reflection in the window glass. This is the first time he has seen his appearance since he was reborn, and he had to say that he does look very cute with white hair, red eyes, a pair of red horns, and a small tail dangling behind him, same as his father, along with fair white skin and white sclera same as mother, and finally, a pair of pointed ears that are same as his elder sister.

Based on his standard of beauty, and taking into account the kind of people he is surrounded with in his second life, he would definitely consider himself to be very cute, no perhaps the cutest baby ever.

'With this kind of appearance, and taking into account my attitude, I will probably become a narcissist…' chuckled Seir. Truth be told, he didn't mind turning into a narcissist, on the contrary, he might actually enjoy it, 'If I have indeed become a creature of darkness as I think I might have, it is no surprise, I suppose… This is perhaps the natural result based on the kind of personality I have…'

With such a thought in his mind, he shook his head and dodged Agni coming to catch him, then he looked at her with a sly grin for a moment and flew away laughing.

"Unholy shit, Lord Seir is really enjoying making all of us chase after him!" groaned Agni in frustration.

Sheetal immediately jabbed Agni, "Watch your language Agni… we don't want Lord Seir to learn such words…"

"Uhh… but… sigh…" Agni could only sigh in defeat. If Cecily were to learn that she used such language in front of Seir, she would be punished severely.

Unaware of Agni's helpless state, Seir continued to fly through the corridors of the castle, laughing and startling the maids that he would encounter on his way.

"Wait… Lord Seir!!!"

So, how did things turn out this way? Well, for that we would have to turn the Clock back a few minutes.

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Flashback: Start

Sitting inside the baby crib, Seir tried to use Wind Magic to create strong winds that would definitely make people wonder if he was insane or what. Despite the accident last month, he hadn't learned his lesson, and this time, he wanted to do something more dangerous, that is, to lift the entire Crib into the air and make it float around in the castle.

Why was he being so reckless? It's because he is bored, so incredibly bored that he can't help but want to do something, even if that something might be a bit dangerous.

As a former human from the twenty-first century, Seir has been used to doing something or the other almost all the time unless he is sleeping or lying down on his bed daydreaming. Even if that's just wasting time on YouTube watching nonsensical and pointless videos or reading another generic Isekai manga, it is still some stuff that he would do. But ever since he became a newborn baby, all he ever does is suck on woman's tits for milk, pee, poop, sleep when is get exhausted, and does awawawaa stuff… he wants to do something else as well, he wants to use Magic!

And he did!

Ignoring the maids watching over him, Seir created strong winds in his room just like he happened to do accidentally a month ago, immediately the maids panicked and got into action to stop him. But he had no plans to stop and fed more demonic power to the magic circle further increasing the Wind speed.

'Why is it not lifting up into the air?' thought Seir doubtfully as he noticed the crib not moving at all, he tried to figure out the reason and noticed 'Solid Ice?' encasing the legs of the crib, making it impossible for it to get carried away by the wind.

Figuring out the reason, he looked toward the source of the problem, 'Sheetal?'

The maid in question passed him a knowing smile, which made Seir grit his milk teeth, 'I'll get you for this someday!' But he can't do anything to Sheetal at the moment, so he decides to use another approach, and that is to create a circle of Wind around himself. If he can't lift up the baby Crib because of Sheetal's ice, then he would lift himself up. 'Humph! You think you are too smart, huh? Well, let's see what you will do about this!' There's just no way Sheetal would dare to encase him in ice!

Yes, this might be a bit too dangerous and a foolish thing to do as the winds might just tear him apart or he might end up injuring himself, but is he going to stop? Fuck no!

Besides, Seir has come to the realization that as a demonic being, his physique seems to be extraordinarily sturdy, and on top of that, he is wearing magically enchanted baby clothes, so he won't be getting injured that easily.

With that in mind, Seir decided to take action.

Before Sheetal or any other maid could react, a magic circle suddenly appeared underneath his butt, and from that a sudden burst of cyclic wind came out lifting him above the baby crib and pushing him toward the ceiling, 'Nice…'

Seeing him rise the smile on Sheetal's face froze, "Wait… Lord Seir… you might…"

Agni hurried forward to catch him, "I've got him!"

'No, you don't!' In order to escape Agni's hands, Seir increased the output from the Magic Circle and was pushed toward the ceiling at a faster speed.

"Wait Lord Seir, at this rate you would crash into the ceiling!" Sheetal shouted, and yes she was right… Seir was indeed about to crash into the ceiling which caused him to cut the demonic power supply to the magic circle.

With the magic circle gone, the winds pushing him above also disappeared and he started to fall back to the ground with Agni already ready to catch him.

'Don't wanna, don't wanna, don't wanna!' thought Seir as he racked his undeveloped brain into thinking of a way to remain afloat and not fall back into Agni's embrace.

Just as he had such a thought, suddenly, he stopped falling, 'Huh?" Confused, Seir looked around, 'What happened?' It wasn't until he got a weird feeling, a feeling he had never experienced before in either of his life, that he looked back and saw a pair of cute little bat-like wings sprouting from his back, flapping, that he realized what actually happened.

Seir was shocked, 'What the hell? Wings? In addition to a tail and a pair of horns, do I have wings too?'

He had never imagined that he would one day sprout a pair of wings, but then again, he had never imagined getting reborn and having the ability to perform magic, so a pair of wings is not that big of a surprise, but still, wings?

'But well… who cares? Rather, it's great that I have a pair of wings, as it's the exact thing I need to save myself! For now… I need to use them!' with such a thought, Seir imagined flapping his little bat-like wings, and surprisingly it was very easy, it was very natural, he did not have to put in any extra effort; it was like moving an arm or leg, and the wings started flapping, carrying him forward.

The maids in the room were surprised to see their four-month-old young Lord sprouting his wings and using them to fly around the room while laughing excitedly. They did not immediately go forward to catch him. Instead, they allowed him to fly as he wanted. For them, the flight is as important of an event as crawling for a newborn baby.

In fact, Sheetal even went as far as to contact Sephie and Mal through a magic circle to inform them that Seir has sprouted his wings and has started to fly.

Unaware of Sheetal's little actions, Seir thought to himself while moving in circles, 'It feels amazing!'

Suddenly, the gate of his room opened as Élise walked in, this did not go unnoticed by Seir as he grinned to himself.

"Agni, Sheetal, it's time for Lord Seir's fo– kya!!!" Before Élise could complete her sentence, the figure of Seir moved past her and disappeared from the room. "L… Lord Seir?! Was that him?" she asked the other maids.

Agni, Sheetal, and the other maids looked at each then suddenly, they panicked, "Chase after him!"

'Okay… things did not go the way I wanted… but…!' Seir smiled to himself as he flew through the corridors of the castles while startling and being chased by the maids.

'A demon with bat wings, huh? This is fucking awesome…'

Flashback: End

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Normally, creatures of darkness are said to be ugly & gory, with scaly skin and weird protrusions and horns on their body. Orcs, Ghouls, Goblins, Cyclops, Ogres, Zombies, Undead, Arcane, Oni, and so on… all these creatures are described as ugly in literature with inhuman characteristics and bodies, but none of the people around him resemble the creatures of darkness he had read about in his previous life.

On the contrary, almost everyone in the castle is as beautiful as the most beautiful man and woman in the world from his previous life. Meanwhile, people like Sephie, Roygun, and Cecily have an otherworldly beauty that perhaps only the goddess of beauty can match, which is kind of strange considering that everyone here is a creature of darkness.

In fact, even Malakarion, despite being a man with devilish red skin that would scare the shit out of a normal human as they would find him to be a super scary monster, is actually incredibly handsome if you look carefully. Those facial features, in conjunction with his red skin, crimson horns, white hair, red eyes, and Black Sclera, give Mal a unique devilish charm that one can't expect from a human.

'Are creatures of darkness really supposed to be this beautiful?'

Don't take it the wrong way. Seir wasn't complaining about having such otherworldly beautiful looks, but he still had to wonder if this was really all right.

But then again, not all creatures of darkness are supposedly ugly; there are always a few exceptions, for instance, Vampires who are said to be very beautiful and attractive. But Seir is quite certain that neither he, nor anyone around him is a Vampire, after all, none of them have the trademark pale white skin and cold body temperature as that of a typical Vampire in the literature, nor do they seem to have Vampires' fangs that they use to drink blood. He too hasn't felt any urge to drink anything but breast milk from the moment he was born, as such, Seir is quite certain he is definitely not a Vampire.

Or is that that the Vampires of this world are different and instead of having a thirst for blood, they have a thirst for breast milk?

'If Dracula and Carmilla were to hear my thoughts, they might end up rolling in their graves…' Chuckled Seir.

On a more serious note, unless Seir's weird thoughts are indeed a reality, neither he nor the people around him are vampires, which leads him to the other possibility, 'Maybe we are succubus and Incubus or something… that would at least explain why I like to suck on those damn titties so much…'

Succubus and Incubus are often described as men and women with very beautiful appearances, often with wings, horns, and demonic aura. These characteristics seem to match those of the people of the Castle.

'But then again, I have always been a horny individual, even in my past life, if I had a chance, I would have been the same… so maybe we are not Succubus and Incubus… but, another type of demonic creature or something… Demonic creatures that differ from most European literature and are naturally very beautiful.'

While having such thoughts, Seir reached the end of the corridor, and just as he turned left, his vision was darkened as his face was buried inside the valley between a pair of fleshy mounds, 'Arghh…' Seir tried to turn around and fly away, but a pair hands firmly held him, preventing him from flying away.

'Oh… no…' Seir perfectly knew the owner of the pair of hands. She has held him so many times in the past four months that he can never forget the warmth, it was his dear mother, Sephie.

Sephie lifted him and spoke, "Seir dear…"

'Am I in trouble?' thought Seir as he stared at Sephie. It was difficult to read her mood which made him smile cheekily. He knew that he needed to do something that would divert her attention from whatever she was about to do, so he attempted to speak, "Mommy…" and unexpectedly succeeded.

"!!!" Sephie's eyes widened as she stared at Seir in surprise. Her mind went blank for a moment and she kept looking at him.

"Sephie… Seir…" At this time, Mal also arrived at the place along with a few maids and looked at the duo of mother and son staring at each other unblinkingly. He was confused as to why Sephie was frozen in place. Doubtful Mal approached his wife, and after putting his hand on her shoulder, he questioned, "Sephie… is everything okay?"

Mal's question woke up Sephie from shock. She did not pay any attention to him. Instead, she looked at Seir and spoke, "Baby… one more time… just one more time…"

Mal was a bit confused by Sephie's words, "What happened? Is Seir okay?"

Sephie hurriedly responded, "Ye… yes… our baby is perfectly fine… in fact, he… he just spoke his first words… he called me mommy!"

"What? Really? Seir spoke his first word?" Mal was also surprised and looked at Seir, "Seir, can you… can you speak once again…? Also, can you speak Daddy after you speak Mommy…?"

Feeling the expectant gaze of both Sephie and Mal, 'No other option, can't disappoint them…' Seir had no other choice but to respond to his parent's request. While looking at Sephie he spoke, "Mommy…" then turned toward Mal and called out, "Daddy…"

"See? He did… Seir called me Mommy!" Sephie exclaimed with an excited smile and embraced her son closely.

"Yes, he did, and he called me Daddy!" nodded Mal with the same excitement as he hugged his wife and son.

Hugged by Sephie and Mal, Seir thought, 'I guess, this is also fine…'

The maids watched the heartfelt moment from a distance, some of them, including Agni and Élise got very emotional and shed a few tears for their Lord, Lady, and young Lord.

Cecily smiled and captured the heartfelt moment with a camera.

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Author's Note:

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