episode_0167

It’s been a week since Goddess Stellania has been spreading new facts about demons.

A system was established in which Stellania’s meeting schedule was managed by Algot, and Saint Selena followed and assisted Stellania.

The news that the goddess herself travels around spreading the ‘words of the goddess’ quickly became a hot topic among people.

The goddess’s wish to end the long fight against the demons and the fact that the demons are not as evil as they are known also emerged as a hot potato among people.

It was also a great help that Edward was working behind the scenes to ensure the stability of the kingdom.

After the Demon King’s army retreated, the kingdom’s concerns were mixed with national stability and anxiety about when the Demon King’s army would invade again.

However, the goddess Stellania personally took the saintly woman around Kubel and spoke ‘words’, instilling confidence in the people that the demon king’s army would not invade again.

Of course, no matter how many people heard Goddess Stellania’s words, there was a part of them that was skeptical.

Although the goddess was only telling the truth, it was natural that the idea of demons that had been ingrained in people for so long would be difficult to completely change until people saw with their own eyes that demons were not such bad creatures.

And the goddess Stellania… … .

“Yunoa, I am doing as you said, but… … The schedule is very difficult. Can you please adjust it?”

“She’s a goddess. Does it make sense for God to get tired?”

“Ha… … I’ve lost all my strength now, so I’m just plain tired.”

Forced to give 14 speeches a week.

Naturally, the more the word of the goddess is preached, the faster its influence grows.

In order to spread the ‘word’ of Stellania to as many people as possible, Algot made a huge schedule.

The reason this was possible was largely thanks to the narration that stuck with me.

When I first asked Stellania for this job, she reacted very unfavorably and found it annoying.

However, the narration was immediately heard in a voice directly heard by Stellania—

『Stellania, a pathetic goddess who has lost her power and cannot find a way to regain it on her own.

She was now kicking herself out of helpful work and not contributing even a single speck of help to the restoration of the world she had ruined.

He hides in the arms of the human who cares for him all day, and keeps quiet about the terrible thing he has done.

Until recently, the promise to take responsibility for one’s own karma has been swallowed up along with the power of the goddess… … .』

After being verbally beaten for a while with this feeling, he finally surrendered and said he would do whatever he was told to do.

As a result, the condition I put forward was to take action to correct the prejudice against demons that had taken root among the people of the kingdom through the mouth of the goddess.

Delegate all plans for the activity to Algot, and faithfully follow Algorot’s words, thinking they are the same as mine.

Because of these conditions, Stellania was forced to endure a hellish schedule of 14 sessions a week.

Even though Stellania was rotten, she was still a goddess, so there was actually no reason for her to obey my words as a human.

But the narration that is with me… So, the existence of another faceless goddess made Stellania submit.

The person she was looking at was an apostle of the goddess who was far higher in rank than her.

In the meantime, the narrator was pouring out harsh words so that Stellania could hear them, so there was nothing that could be done.

“It may be difficult at first, but once you get used to it, it will be okay… … Probably.”

“Haaa… … .”

Stellania sighs at my soulless consolation.

But I couldn’t help it.

Honestly, isn’t it a blessing to be self-employed?

This wouldn’t have happened if she hadn’t created all kinds of troublesome problems for the world in the first place.

I deliberately asked Algot that it was okay to ruthlessly plan Stellania’s schedule to achieve ‘maximum efficiency’.

You might say this was some kind of evil employer behavior or something, but there was a good reason for it.

First of all, removing prejudice against demons from the people of the kingdom was not something that could be done with a few sermons.

This means that the deeper the roots are, the more digging needs to be done.

Moreover, the person who does that is Stellania, the goddess of this world.

Stellania lost all of her goddess powers and was incapacitated, but she still had the characteristics of being a goddess.

She is recognized as a ‘goddess’ without being questioned by the people of this world.

And the most important thing… … never dies

Never dying means never dying from overwork.

In that case, there’s no problem with pushing it a little too hard.

It’s safe because even if you say you’re going to die every day, you’re never really going to die.

『Yunoa was justifying to herself for various reasons why she had made Stellania do such a harsh job.

Of course, Stellania needed to do her job, but Yunoa’s sadistic tendencies were also revealed.

It was just that he himself did not acknowledge it.』

At that time, I heard a calm narration in my head.

No, I definitely don’t have that tendency.

Don’t blame me.

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As Stellania worked hard, the mood of the people began to change little by little, centering around Kubel.

The biggest change I noticed was that some of the adventurers I talked to in the guild seemed curious about demons.

Now that the demon king’s army has completely withdrawn from the kingdom, the new facts about demons spread through the goddess’s story have become quite an interesting story for adventurers.

As the antipathy toward demons gradually began to differ, the number of stories to share about it also increased.

And among them, there were people who wanted to see with their own eyes and see if the goddess’s words were true.

But no one has yet had the courage to go directly to the demon world to confirm it.

However, since Stellania was working hard, it seemed like as time passed, we could begin to interact with the demons little by little, centered around Kubel.

And at this point, I was seriously searching for various ways to find the Demon King’s soul.

According to Stellania’s prediction, it was highly likely that the demon king’s soul that escaped Bersella’s body wandered aimlessly in the air and returned to the demon’s embrace.

So, as a result of investigating in various ways to find out the location of the demon god, I was able to obtain information from Xavier of the Demon King Castle.

“Demon God is not a real being. Do you think there is a reason for God to come down to this world in person?”

that… There is.

A somewhat incompetent goddess who has come down to life… … .

“Demon God is a spiritual being, a god who helps our demons prosper for a long time.”

“So, anyway, it doesn’t exist in person right now?”

“… … You’re asking something strange. That’s right.”

There are so many clues.

I have to find the demon king’s soul again, and then I have to somehow destroy it or not.

After being extracted from Versella’s body, its whereabouts are completely unknown.

Even if you try to find out the location of the demon god based on the clues you got from Stellania, the demon god does not exist.

So where is the demon king’s soul now?

“Hey, I have one more question… … .”

“something? I’m busy because Versella asked me to do something.”

“Huh? Did you ask me something else?”

“Bathhouse in the Demon King’s Castle… … I was instructed to make something called ”

baths… … Now that I think about it, I don’t remember seeing a bathroom in the Demon King’s Castle.

Do demons live without washing? … .

It was a bit interesting that Xavier also listened to Versella’s request while sighing for various reasons.

Anyway, this isn’t important… … .

“Zaviel, what do you think about the Demon Lord’s soul? Are you still regretting that the Demon King’s soul could not swallow Versella?”

I was purely curious.

The fact that the Demon King’s soul escaped from Versella’s body became a known fact to almost all demons in the Demon King Castle, as I personally told her.

What does Xavier think about this situation now?

If he was plotting to retrieve the demon lord’s soul and turn Versella back into the demon lord she used to be, I wouldn’t give an honest answer, but I wanted to ask for now.

Xavier has a history of sneaking into a church and trying to kill a saint in the past.

Even if you’re hiding really bad thoughts and lying to me, if you tell me a lie that big, maybe the narration will tell you the truth.

“Hmph… Is a human being who has no relationship with us demons asking such a thing? … .”

“Well, I was the one who pulled it out.”

“I keep blaming you.”

Xaviel narrowed his eyes and glared at me.

But for some reason, I didn’t feel as alive as I did when I was caught by him right after extracting the Demon Lord’s soul.

Honestly, if I think about it differently, it wasn’t that I couldn’t understand that he was blaming me.

An opportunity has come to end the fight against an eternal enemy, but suddenly a strange man comes from the other side, blowing the entire opportunity and offering to live in peace from now on.

Xavier stared at me intently, then slowly opened his mouth again.

“But well… … I don’t know now. Twice I saw the previous Demon King fall cruelly to the sword of the hero. Even if Versella still had the devil’s soul… When I look at you, I sometimes think that no matter how much of an advantage we had in the war, the outcome would have been the same.”

It was an unexpected answer.

“Is that so.”

“… … And looking at Versella now… … Nope. I may have lived too long.”

Xavier made an unintelligible sound with a bitter face, then turned around and walked away from me.

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