Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The Demon Management Bureau was established after the State of China strengthened its administrative management. It was a newly established management system in the history of demons.
In the past, the demons and monsters wandering among the crowds were controlled by various Taoist magicians. As long as they were not malicious, many of them could live happily among the people, and some of them would even become partners with humans and spend their lives together. There were even some who would join Buddhism and Taoism themselves and were willing to be driven.
However, this kind of management system was too loose after all. Once someone harbored evil intentions, it would often lead to murders, most likely more than one. If the Taoist magicians traced the incident after the incident, one could not save the life of the people who died in vain, and at most, the perpetrator could be successfully caught.
With the development of science and technology, it was becoming more and more difficult to hide the traces of demons and ghosts walking in the world, but at the same time, the country and the people had higher and higher demands for public security. At this time, the Demon Management Bureau was established.
The establishment of the Demon Management Bureau had three main purposes. The first was to count and manage the identity information of demons and ghosts and incorporate them into the credit system; the second was to provide shelter for demons and monsters who behaved themselves and had become spirits legally; and the third was to contract Taoist magicians as a government management department to cooperate in managing the behavior of demons and ghosts in the human world. Demons that broke the law would be held accountable and, if necessary, captured and killed.
Bai Ju felt that this kind of management system was quite necessary.
With such a system, life could be guaranteed for both humans and demons; but at the same time, there were also disadvantages, that was, there were not many people who could control the situation.
The demon heads were indeed powerful, but most of them had weird tempers, and naturally they were not willing to find trouble for themselves while trying to manage the little demons. Human magicians were somewhat biased when managing the demon world, and they were also prone to conflicts with the demons, which would lead to the little demons going missing. The sense of security was thus an unstable factor.
It was no wonder that the Demon Management Bureau had to spend a lot of effort to find big demons with good tempers and abilities to control the place. Then they searched and found Bai Ju who squatted in the mountains and acted as a Samoyed, while occasionally going to tourists to rub their hands.
Bai Ju was lying lazily and was very relaxedly chatting with Xiao Yao. He didn’t feel that he had said anything funny at all: “Huh? What are you laughing at… There are many kinds of modern food. I have tried many new ones like this, and the taste is really not bad.”
Xiao Yao buried his face in his thick white fur, holding back his laughter until his shoulders were shaking: “I’m not laughing.”
Oh my god, pretending to be a pet and being cute for food, how do I feel like it’s not in vain? Doesn’t it match the veteran cadre temperament that Bai Ju exudes all over his body?
Bai Ju paused and thought about it for a moment. He seemed to be able to understand the laughter of the human, so he explained in a low voice: “You humans may have a little misunderstanding about me, a demon king… I am not one of those divine beasts with noble blood. I’m just a demon blessed by nature, just a wild white dog blessed by God. Fortunately, I got a good pair of minions so I became the demon king… I don’t have that many airs, and I don’t like to live a life of being flattered by humans.”
“In the past, before falling asleep, there were several villages under my care. It was normal for me to play with the urchins in the village or ask for a pheasant from a passing hunter.” Bai Ju recalled it slowly. Then said, “Most of the villagers who met me handed me food, which was not surprising.”
To put it bluntly, in Bai Ju’s past living environment, although there were villagers and believers who prayed to the “Inugami[1]” seriously, but when they actually saw Bai Ju’s true form, they would think that Bai Ju was just a more spiritual stray dog from the mountains, or a messenger of the mountain god, so they would get closer to him and feed him more. After all, in the minds of ordinary people, no mountain god would lie down on the ground and let naughty children climb up and down on him.
Bai Ju never explained to the believers but occasionally children would hear him speak, however the adults in the children’s families often didn’t believe such things.
“That’s because they didn’t know that you were the Demon King.” Xiao Yao said, but still couldn’t hold back a chuckle in his throat. The air flow trembled and ran out, blowing the down on Bai Ju’s neck to tremble, “If they knew you were the demon king who protects them, they would have set up an incense table to offer you an offering every now and then, or prepared food for you. And when they saw you from a distance, they would retreat away by themselves.”
“…” Bai Ju choked and imagined the scene Xiao Yao said, feeling that his whole body was in bad shape. Was this a life for dogs? You don’t have someone to play with or to grind your teeth, chase and fight with, and you don’t have someone to smooth your hair and massage you. Wasn’t this torture for a dog?
Naturally, Xiao Yao was just talking. He had never experienced what happened in Bai Ju’s era. He just imagined it based on Bai Ju’s description. There was no way to test it.
Bai Ju thought about Xiao Yao’s words for a while, and finally commented: “It turns out you talk a lot.”
Xiao Yao chuckled and replied: “It’s because we hit it off.”
He didn’t really like to talk on weekdays, but maybe it was because Bai Ju had the look he liked best, or maybe it was because the atmosphere between the two of them was too intimate at the moment. As they chatted, they talked too much without realizing it.
It was indeed a fated relationship.
As the director of the Demon Management Bureau, Xiao Yao was a powerful magician in his own right; and the state arranged for him to be Bai Ju’s temporary guardian not only because of his position as director, but also because of his extraordinary strength. The magician world behaved similarly to the demon world, where the strong were respected. As long as they were not from the Eight Classics sect, whoever was stronger would be the father.
Director Xiao, who was the most powerful person in the circle, was his father’s father’s father… In short, with this important status, he and Bai Ju could be regarded as equals, but there was really no distance between them based on seniority.
It was rare for Xiao Yao to take the initiative to get close to him.
Bai Ju tasted a subtle smell, lowered his head and glanced at the human, and said reservedly: “You can’t talk nonsense about fate.” Them dog demons always took the bond seriously, and this human’s light use of words like “fate”, in Bai Ju’s eyes was almost equal to them straight up having a blind date.
It was so undignified.
Bai Ju pursed his ears and searched hard for half an ounce of ink in his stomach. Just as he was thinking about what to say, he felt the human being in his arms push him and get up.
Xiao Yao turned over and got out of bed, stretched out his hand to rub Bai Ju’s head, then a teasing smile appeared on his cold face: “It’s almost time, I’m going to make breakfast – what does Bai Wang want to eat? Dog food or human food?”
Bai Ju: “…”
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[1] Inugami (犬神, “dog god/spirit”), like kitsunetsuki, is a spiritual possession by the spirit of a dog.