All Chapters of Pushed Into My Own Demon Kingdom: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

The lesser demons dragged me the rest of the way and tossed me into the staging area of the arena.The place was full of battered fighters. Some stared at nothing with hollow eyes, and others drowned in despair.A group of guards walked over carrying branding irons and numbered tags. They meant to stamp a number into my face and turn me into another piece of livestock for the fights.The Demon King, reduced to this. The humiliation burned worse than any wound, and I thrashed against them with everything I had.However, the hours of abuse and the loss of my hellfire had left me too weak. My resistance barely amounted to anything.The branding iron was about to press into my cheek when a commotion of heavy footsteps cut through the noise.It was Corvin Rask.He had been someone I personally promoted from nothing, my most trusted confidant, and the man who ran this arena. With him here, I believed I would have my strength back in no time.Hope flared in my chest, and I fought hard

Before I could speak, Vanessa let out a shrill cry from the side.“Iris, what are you doing? He is only a mortal. I have nothing to do with him anymore. You do not need to bow to him. Let us get back to what we were talking about. You said the Demon King is going to marry me, right?”Iris’s brow furrowed, and she kept glancing back at me.When I nodded, she shook her head.“He will not. He will not be marrying you.”“Why not? You just said—”Iris raised a hand and cut her off. “The Demon King has no need for someone who betrayed him.”Vanessa froze. Her eyes snapped to me, and the smile on her face locked in place like a mask.She stepped forward without thinking, her voice trembling with cautious hope. “Iris, what do you mean by that? Are you saying he is the Demon King?”She let out a bitter laugh at herself. “No. That is impossible. He is only a useless mortal. How could he possibly be the Demon King? You are joking. You have to be joking.”Iris did not bother with her any

I forced my way straight into the Hall of Judgment.I had Troy and Vanessa in one hand and the gate general in the other, and I threw all of them down at the High Priest’s feet.“I was gone for a few days and not a single person in this entire Hall recognized me. Old man, were you trying to overthrow me?”The High Priest’s face went white. He scrambled out of his seat and dropped to his knees.“My king, you must not say such things. Even if I wanted to, I would not dare. Please, my king, see the truth for what it is.”I scoffed, settled into the throne, and pointed at the people on the floor.“Then explain how the entire realm came to believe I was handing my title to this nobody, and that he had free run of my Hall.”When he saw that my expression had not softened, the High Priest switched to looking pitiful. He started pleading through tears.“No, my king, those were never my words. I would never dare say such a thing. Rumors twist as they spread. I have been wrongly accused.

I laughed.“So what you were saying is that if I broke all four of your limbs and tossed you into a jar of brine, you would keep on living. Is that right?”Troy’s face drained of color. He stared at me, shaking. “You… how could you even say that? Do you not have any sense of decency?”“Decency?” My gaze swept back and forth between Troy and Vanessa.“I would say mine was already miles above either of yours. You want to talk to me about decency now? Where was all that decency when you two schemed over my insurance money and shoved me into the Demon Pit?”Something flickered behind Troy’s eyes, as though a realization had struck him. He scrambled away from Vanessa’s side and rolled across the floor to put distance between them, his voice trembling.“Demon King, if you want this woman, she is yours. Take her. There is no reason for the two of us to fall out over someone like her.”I looked at the pathetic display in front of me and felt nothing but contempt. So this was the man Van