episode_0026

The Demon King… .

From the moment I heard of the existence of the warrior and the saint, I already expected the existence of the Demon King,

Why did Lily, the Demon King’s subordinate, appear in front of me and the nameless?

I looked closely at his expression to try to figure out his intentions,

Lily is still smiling brightly and waiting for our answer.

I just can’t figure out what the intention is.

He let out a small sigh and lowered his head to look at the coachman lying on the ground, trampled by Lily’s feet.

“,,,”

The coachman is clearly in a life-threatening situation, but he is laughing hysterically as if he has lost his mind.

I wiped my face in disbelief.

“You came for nothing.”

I never thought I would be that happy….

Nameless, who had a somewhat blank expression, took a step closer to Lily while still blocking me as if guarding me.

“Did you say Lily? What do you want from me and the Master?”

“Lily! What do you want? Uh… what was it? Wait a minute!”

Lily kept putting her finger to her lips and tilting her head as if she really couldn’t remember.

I couldn’t help but frown at his foolish appearance, which was different from his appearance.

The anonymous man glanced at me, raised his wooden sword, and pointed it at Lily.

“… What do you want to do?”

Lily smiled at the nameless man who was pointing a wooden sword at her and clapped her hands.

“Ah! I remembered! Could you possibly help us revive our Demon King?”

The anonymous man frowned and opened his mouth as if to answer before looking back at me.

Are you asking for my opinion?

Hmm, honestly, I don’t feel like taking anyone’s side and fighting with the Demon King or the Hero.

If I stand on the side of the warrior, the warrior will one day become an obstacle that gets in the way of my goal.

However, it was very uncomfortable to stand on the Demon King’s side and be with someone who clearly claimed to be evil.

And now that the hero has appeared, the Demon King’s resurrection will succeed whether we cooperate or not.

“Let me just listen to the story.”

In fact, no matter what my thoughts are, I can’t completely turn my attention to it once I’ve caught the Demon King’s eye.

‘I don’t know how I came across it.’

For now, it is important to get through the current situation smoothly.

“Master?”

“Good idea!”

The nameless man opened his eyes wide in confusion, and Lily laughed heartily and clapped her hands.

Of course, I didn’t say that I was listening with the intention of really cooperating.

The reason she’s showing this attitude now is to get more detailed information about the Demon King, and there’s a coachman right under Lily’s feet, and if she’s not careful, he could lose his life.

It is important to always assume the worst, and open your mouth after making a reasonable judgment.

He met the nameless man’s eyes and nodded.

With just that, the nameless nodded in agreement with my intentions.

When I said I would listen in on the conversation, an excited Lily opened her mouth to chatter.

“Where should I start! Ah, let me start with the story of our Demon King!”

Lila’s expression suddenly changed, and she clapped her fingers together with a sad look on her face.

“Right now, our Demon King is fucking asleep because of the hero… .”

“Warrior?”

“Ah! Yes! It was hundreds of years ago, so if the warrior was a person, he would be dead by now, right?”

If it’s a few hundred years ago, it’s likely to be a time before I came here.

He nodded.

Lily cleared her throat once, then continued her explanation with a sad look on her face.

“Anyway, if the Demon King wakes up from his slumber and wants to regain his original power, he’ll need a lot, lot of souls!”

“So what do you want from us?”

As I was talking to Lily, my head started to feel dizzy.

I wanted to continue the conversation as quickly as possible, so I asked them what they wanted from us.

The somewhat absurd answer returned and I frowned.

“I don’t know about that either.”

“What are you going to do if you don’t know?”

Lily scratched her head awkwardly, as if she had difficulty answering.

“Actually, there was something the Demon King said before he fell asleep, but it was a little, really a little! ambiguous.”

I suddenly felt a headache and rubbed my forehead.

Then what do you want me to do?

Even after that, I tried to ask questions by beating around the bush.

I kept getting the same vague answers like I didn’t know, so I thought the conversation wouldn’t progress, so I moved on to the next topic.

“Ha… If you don’t want to talk, then that’s fine. Then what do we gain by helping you?”

I was wiping my face with my hands,

When Lily heard my question, her eyes sparkled and she smiled brightly and spread her arms.

“It’s a whole new world! The Demon King’s goal is really on a different level! If you hear it, you’ll definitely be impressed!”

It’s a new world….

It piqued my interest, and something new caught my eye.

Lily, who accepted my reaction positively, became even more excited and chattered.

The anonymous man who had seen me often hardened his expression and moved away from me.

“Listen! The Demon King sacrifices a large number of souls and breaks free from the limitations of the created body! When that happens, the Demon King becomes a transcendent being, like a god… ”

“Ha!”

God?

Indeed, as Lily said, it is definitely a goal I can admire.

Isn’t that the clue that can help me reach heaven?

The corners of his lips went up as if they were torn apart.

“To have power- Gyaak!”

He lunged at Lily at a speed that made it impossible for her to react, grabbed her by the hair, and pinned her to the ground.

He slowly put his lips against Lily’s ear.

“I’ll cooperate, so tell me the story in detail”

“… Ugh.”

He held the wooden sword to Lily’s neck.

“Or your neck will roll on the floor.”

Lily, who had been showing a relaxed expression until then, nodded with a pale face.

“Right, you’re a good kid.”

It was already a good feeling to travel with an unknown person.

At the end of the day, good fortune came to me on its own two feet.

It’s a truly happy day.

The nameless man looked back at Lily, who was standing in an awkward position, carrying the coachman who had fallen asleep as if he had fainted on his back.

“Is the groom really okay?”

“Yes! Of course! I’m sure you’re having a pleasant dream right now!”

Certainly, the coachman had been laughing heartily since a while ago.

Suddenly, I became curious about the content of the coachman’s dream,

He shook his head, remembering that the person who showed him his dreams was a succubus.

‘I think it’s okay to go back soon.’

He approached Lily and patted her shoulder.

“Lily.”

“Yes? Net!”

Lily’s awkward posture was instantly corrected and she stood at attention.

My body shook violently and my gaze stayed on one spot, but then I moved my gaze.

“… I and Anonymous will do as we said before, so tell your colleagues the same.”

“Yep!”

He turned his back on Lily and approached the nameless man.

“Let’s go slowly.”

“Yes, Master.”

Turning my head for a moment, I saw Lily in the distance, having come to her senses, spreading her wings and rising into the sky.

Finally, when Lily was completely out of sight, he stabbed the nameless man in the ribs.

“Ugh, Master?”

“Do you remember what I told that girl?”

The nameless man bit his lips as he recalled the situation just before.

“… Yes, but I will still follow you, Master, until the end.”

A cute anonymous reaction from a minor misunderstanding made me chuckle and smile.

I wanted to pat her head, but because of the unavoidable height difference, I felt uncomfortable and just held her hand and played with her hair instead.

“I know what you’re thinking, but it’s not what you think.”

“Is that so?”

The eyebrows twitched at the nameless, subtle reaction.

“Don’t you trust your teacher?”

The anonymous shook his head.

“… It’s certainly hard to imagine the Master being under someone else.”

I scratched my cheek, feeling awkward because of the excessive spacing out of anonymity.

“Then what do you do?”

“Um, let’s bring the groom over first and then talk.”

Myeong glanced at the coachman on his back and nodded.

“Oh, yeah.”

Lily, what the Demon King asked of me was, broadly speaking, only one thing.

It would collect a lot of souls, and I agreed to it.

If you simply look at this conversation between me and Lily, you might misunderstand it as what Myeong did and think, ‘Isn’t this an evil act that hurts people?’, but I have no intention of following their demands outright.

In the first place, I don’t know how to harvest souls from people, and if all I want to do is gather a large number of souls, then in other words, wouldn’t it be enough to just gather people?

And it is possible to gather people in one place without necessarily resorting to force.

The method that comes to mind right away is to build my own independent power.

Specifically, if I were to take in and care for people who have a hard life, who don’t have anything to eat today, and who harbor hatred for the world, they wouldn’t want to leave my side.

Of course, if you ask if we will harvest souls from them, the answer is no.

You just need to cut ties with the Demon King when the timing is right.

I applauded my brilliant mind for coming up with a truly perfect plan, and one corner of my mouth went up in a crooked manner.

“Master? Isn’t that just volunteer work rather than gathering people together?”

“What.”

While talking to the anonymous person, the plan was refined little by little.