@mangabird:
I do not think so.
I believe the author sped this up because it was neccessary for the next part.
Last time we saw how the arrogant former heavenly king was told by his father to bring back Dariel.
Now as village head and married to Marika Dariel has more personal reasons to stay there.
But at the same time the old man from the demons is someone he also feels gratitude towards for raising him and giving him that advisor position in the demon realm back then even though Dariel could not use magic and was called "the weakest demon" due to that.
So with this development the conflict of personal reasons within Dariel has been set up for future development in the human - demon - relationship.