Chronicles of The Demon Lord's Return

She stood there, petrified. At the very least it wasn't like her daughter Ligeia who fainted, tears coming out of her frozen body, looking like a sublime sculpture.

I kept admiring the view in front of me, not once looking away from her eyes. As I approached, I gave her a hug. her body was as cold as a corpse, and she didn't show any motor skills in response to my hug, merely continuing to cry.

I looked at Ligeia besides me sobbing too, it was all a very overwhelming moment emotionally, and honestly, I was never a big fan nor did I know how to act in such situations, so it made me uncomfortable.

Seeing as the person I'm hugging still isn't responding, I let go of her and asked Ligeia. 

"What's her name?" 

"Morveth, your Majesty."

Morveth…

As soon as she approached, my heart started pounding, and my body started sweating a little, it felt like an estranging deja-vu in my head. 

I didn't know that the body stored memories? How come was I feeling like this?

Morveth began to gain some consciousness, muttering softly "...your Majesty"

"Yes Morveth, it's me."

"Your Majesty… I'm not having another of my dreams, am I?"

"You're not, Morveth, I've been resurrected." I took her shoulders again to an embrace, while she shivers in my arms, staining my naked body.

"Y-your Majesty, I'm sorry for being the only one who remained alive after the massacre… I was too cowardly to fight at the time, so I hid… Divines. Calidris, Yseldra, Belmorth…" She kept listing the names of what I assume were people affiliated with me "Everyday, my guilt and shame couldn't be any more immense, I dreamt of you everyday, longed for seeing your existence, thought of nothing but how to inflict revenge on those who did this to us. But now you're suddenly back." She gets her face off my chest and looks up to me with such an endearing expression "I never wanna lose you again."

I couldn't help but pitch a tent underneath the curtain cloth hiding my groin at our contact and the eyes she made towards me. Coming here was such a blessing…I thought. Since we were in contact she felt it, and only smiled but said nothing else.

"Morveth, I have to explain to you first that I don't have any memories of being a Demon Lord in the past." I tell her, surprisingly to no reaction.

"I already understood your situation fully the moment I looked at you." She said "My speciality is soul manipulation after all."

No fucking shit… I thought, then how come is she still crying in my arms and calling me his Majesty?

"You might be surprised, your Majesty, but I think this is your second Reincarnation, actually." She made this shocking declaration.

"Huh? How come?" I dumbly asked.

"It's the same soul mark of the Demon Lord of Withering I always knew. However, it's not exactly the same shape, I can see that you have different memories and are unlikely to remember your first life. But I can fix that!"

So I'm actually him after all? My identity that I thought I was, 25 year old life in Chicago, working as an academic, my family and the women I've been with, all that was a mere extra to who I truly was?

What a reveal.

But, okay I don't really think much else of it, it's certainly cool that I won't get to just live being an imposter of someone else, and this is actually who I've always been. But you're telling me that I was really this awesome in my previous life?

"We will see about that, Morveth. For now, can I just get bathed and have some clothes? By the way, does anyone else live here except you two?"

"Well yes, but I do have a few mindless wraiths keeping things tidy. The dust here is just the remains of your attributes, my Lord. Since you've returned, you can vacuum it out simply by being here."

"R-right." I replied, weirded out by the insinuation made by my subordinate.

"Well, your Majesty. Let me call some of the Ghost Servants here. Your attire is still down in my place, none of it was ever touched... W-well, maybe I did a little bit b-but..." She said the last part in an increasingly quiet tone, blushing and squirming while doing so.

Oh man, this woman is truly wonderful.