episode_0052

“Fucking Richie.”

“Fucking succubus queen.”

Whenever Hira and Galvein met, it was almost like an introduction that they always exchanged words.

If we look for the root of this customary incident, it was that Galvein thought Hira’s love letter was spam and burned it, even though he himself had feelings for her.

Therefore, in this relationship, the fault lies with Galvein more…

“No, actually, it’s 100% true.”

“Cool.”

Lucy landed a fatal blow to Galvein’s lifevessel with her words, without any physical force.

“Do you have no conscience? If it were me, I would have gotten on my knees and apologized right away. No, I would never have done that to Leon in the first place. ”

Flapping, flapping.

All I could hear was the sound of Lucy shuffling papers.

Just like Galvein’s conscience, shaking like a reed right now.

“It’s all over.”

What does it mean that it’s all over? His unrequited love (or was it?) could only be interpreted that way in Galvein’s negative life vessel.

“Documents, documents. I know your first love was like rice in a soup before it even started, but don’t mess around. ”

“Hehe, isn’t that the first love of young people? Since they are full of energy, they can’t always get along and there are ups and downs, right? This time, it’s a bit extreme.”

“…”

Lucy and Galvein looked at the interrupted Matapju as if he were a very stupid person.

That would be the case, who is young?

They were all descendants who had lived for at least several hundred years. Rather, they were younger than the soldiers of the road, and the youngest of them, after the King of Dogs and Leah, was the youngest, and it was strange for the Matapju to say such things.

“But sometimes, a sincere conversation can untangle a complicated relationship, so why not have a conversation?”

Galvein pretended not to hear and started organizing the papers.

Although he realized the truth that he had done something stupid while exploring the ruins, the karma he had accumulated over the years had already made the relationship too distant and hateful.

However, Matapju continued to encourage Galvein to talk in a kind voice. Eventually, Galvein, the leader of the professional group project, got so annoyed that he threw away his paperwork and left.

*****

“You said Hira, but while working, it seems like the succubus queen hasn’t completely lost interest. I wonder if it’s something we don’t know. At least, I wonder if we can get back to square one.”

“…”

“Why are you doing that?”

“Well, since you kicked out Galvein, the amount of work we have to do to organize and move the documents has doubled. Couldn’t you have told me a little later?”

“…Ahem.”

Matapju slowly began to bend his back and cough in vain. It was a clear sign of desertion from the group project.

“I guess this old lady is not suited for this kind of physical labor since she is so old.”

“…Are you crazy? You won’t be able to take another step until you clean this up with me.”

Of course, it was of no use to Lucy, who was essentially Abel’s fully evolved form in terms of ability and personality.

Matapju was dragged away by the back of his neck.

*****

“That crazy, fake mother-in-law…”

Even without that, the demons who saw Galvein in a state of ultra-low pressure, who was already feeling sick from working 24 hours a day for several days, began to avoid his presence secretly, sulking.

No matter who the Four Heavenly Kings were, they all realized a long time ago that there was no benefit to being around a bad boss.

It was true that most of the demons who had not realized it had already died at the hands of Abel or sometimes the other Four Heavenly Kings and were sent back to the Demon World, so it was true that they did not exist.

However, there are always exceptions. The Four Heavenly Kings were naturally filtered out from the tradition.

Even so, since they were all originally single, it didn’t really matter, but Mino and Fabbe had just gotten together that morning, and Mino was just excited, unaware of Galvein’s burning desires.

“My friend!”

Mino waved from afar. He linked arms with Pave while holding the other hand.

“Why are you like that? What’s wrong?”

The two Heavenly Kings succeeded in completely destroying Galvein’s mentality through salting-

“K, kekeke… Hehehe… Get out! I said get out!”

Eventually, Galvan exploded and started shooting magic in all directions.

“Why, why are you doing this! I only greet you-”

Even though it was only a magic of 1~2 circles, this incident, which would have normally ended with a noisy commotion and a light disciplinary action, started to escalate rapidly for the sole reason that Leah was walking with Hira nearby.

“Um… So, I want to develop my relationship with Abel a bit more, but I wonder if there’s more to it… Is that too greedy?”

“Ah, ah, no…! If it’s Leah-sama’s word… anything…!”

Hira closed her eyes and flapped her wings repeatedly. Although she thought it was a physical expression of her support for Leah, this also turned out to be a minor misfortune.

-phut!

“Pang?”

Drumroll.

Leah’s arm, which had been slowly recovering after being cut off by the goddess the last time, was hit by one of Galvan’s Manatan magic. The arm that seemed to be attached fell off, and in an instant, the atmosphere became as cold as ice.

“…Oh, noble one-!!!”

“Re, re, re, Rea…?! My arm, my arm…”

Leah herself didn’t seem to feel any pain and just stayed still, but the Four Heavenly Kings, who knew very well what would happen if Abel found out about this, panicked and ran towards Leah.

And Galvein, who had caused a major accident, felt screwed.

“…What the heck is going on?”

And Abel’s voice, which had just arrived, added certainty to that expectation.

Abel went to spy on the kingdom and bought chocolates to give to Leah, but they were left lying on the floor in a pitiful state.

*****

Leah was immediately transported to the Demon King’s castle.

According to the healers of the local tribe (and some humans who had completely surrendered), it was not a magic that would cause problems with magical recovery, so if professional healers were to come along, it would be cured quickly.

Also, in order to heal properly in the first place, there was a magical healing inhibitor that the goddess had secretly planted that Mino had not noticed, so it had to be cut off. If not for that, the Four Heavenly Kings would have become the Three Heavenly Kings this time.

“Leah… If only I had been a little more careful…”

“I told you it would heal quickly. I’m fine. It didn’t hurt that much.”

The conversation has been going back and forth between Leah and Abel, but for now let’s look at the story just outside the hospital room.

“Ugh… Demon King… I really think I’ll attain Buddhahood…”

“Galvein, you’ve shown me a lot of patience just by not killing me on the spot.”

With his skull half-shattered and his life vessel locked, Galvein, who was kneeling in front of the sickroom in a reflective posture, asked questions into the room, but was met with cold threats.

Of course, it was nice to say that nothing happened, but it was a fact that he had cut off Leah’s arm, so Galvein was number one on the waiting list for imprisonment or crucifixion. And honestly, it was his own fault.

“Oh, damn Richie.”

And a little while later, Hira quietly approached Galvein in the hallway.

“…Ah, you can’t hear me, can you…? Re, re, Rea-nim was in danger… Ugh, ugh.”

Wouldn’t it be okay to just hit her once? The thought crossed her mind for a moment, but she quickly withdrew her fingers.

If he had just put a little strength into his fingers and hit Galvein, who seemed to have fainted, one of the Four Heavenly Kings could have really become vacant again.

“… Haa… That, Lucy… Lucy? The Demon King from the future… told me a story…”

As a result, they both ended up making a big fuss about the topic they both liked. Hira has now come to know that fact.

It’s not like the feelings we had built up between us disappeared right away, but at the same time, I felt a sense of emptiness and a gap in my heart again.

“S, common sense… I didn’t recognize the love letter, but… when a person suddenly changes… shouldn’t you think that it was your fault… Ugh… …Stop it. Y, it was that damn Richie’s fault after all…!”

That’s not wrong. But still, Hira was a bit too soft.

“…Heh heh. I’ll let you off the hook just this once… W-Of course, about the love letter! What you did to Leah… Even if you apologize 100 times, I, I won’t forgive you…! ”

He wondered who he was muttering to that no one else could hear, but Galvein’s recovery itself was something that Leah had given permission for, so Hira quietly began treating Galvein.

If Abel or Lucy had passed by, I would have called them fools, but in any case, they weren’t here right now.

“This, this is pretty good… …I, I don’t know…! You’ll figure it out, do it yourself!”

Hurrah. Hira quickly left the place, afraid that someone would find out. It was because he knew that the feelings were mutual due to their previous feud, and he didn’t want anyone to get caught getting excited.

“…”

And, since the Life Vessel was the main body, Galvein was listening from the beginning.

“I tried to apologize…but.”

However, that feeling didn’t last very long.

If Galvein was the first batter, there was also the second batter who harmed Leah’s body.

-Thud, thud!

“Abel-!!?”

“Oh my demon lord… Ugh, ugh.”

Mino came in from the sickroom window next to Galvein, his spine snapping in half with one unerring, precise throw.

“That bastard Vampire Lord couldn’t find one spell and cut off Leah’s arm again. Good thing he did. Be thankful I didn’t bring a stake because I was in a hurry.”

“Because of the power of the goddess… I completely hid… at that time…”

“That’s why you didn’t drive the stake even though your body was completely healed. You two are stuck in the hallway until Leah, who was sitting or standing next to Galvein, is fully healed.”

“Ah… No, but that seems too much… Abel? Oh, right… Last time Mino ate my blood, he put it on the cross.”

Well, it was a normal (before Leah came) daily life in the Demon King’s Castle.

Leah looked back and forth between Galvein and Mino, whose spine was U-shaped, as if wondering if this was the only one, but seeing as Mino had turned into a hedgehog after trying to drink Leah’s blood from the beginning, she quickly realized that this was weaker than average.

*****

Ring ring.

Leah took advantage of Abel’s sleep and quietly left the hospital room.

Of course, the Demon King’s Castle has been like this in the past and will be like this in the future, and although it wasn’t that hard of a blow by a high-ranking demon, it was still severe by Leah’s human standards.

As he slowly raised his hand to heal his injured arm, a shining light of healing illuminated the dark Demon King’s castle.

“As expected.”

The power that had been eating up all of his life force was activated after eating only a little bit of his magic power or his current standard. His arm was also completely healed.

“It was originally a power that was activated by consuming a huge amount of magic power, but did life supplement the missing magic power? Now that the magic power has increased overwhelmingly, it’s fine… I don’t think that’s the case.”

As I continued to think while tearing off the bandage on the silver sword, I realized that the end of the silver sword had become a little blurry.

“Oops. That’s right. I need to recover both of them.”

Leah turned off her healing power so that her magic wouldn’t run out and went out into the hallway. She thought there would be no one there, but her expectations were dashed when she made eye contact with not one, but two people.

“Re, Leah…?! Hehe, hehe.”

“Nice to meet you! Is your injured arm okay?”

It was Hira and Pave who were taking care of Galvein and Mino respectively.

“Well, I see. By the way, even if Pave is like that, Hira is unexpected. Don’t you think the two of you are on bad terms?”

“What?! Th, that… Uh, huh…”

“You said you were worried about Galvein! It’s not like it’s a bad thing, so why are you like that?”

“Oh no.”

For a moment, I remembered Galvein’s foolish confession in the ruins. I don’t know if he still has feelings for me or what, but at least he’s opened his heart, Hira.

…and, the one next to me happened to be Faber.

Knock knock, knock knock.

Pave blinked his innocent eyes, not knowing what he was doing.

Yeah, what crime did Pave commit?

I just took out the healing light again and healed Mino’s spine and Galvein’s life vessel.

“Mino will wake up soon.”

“…Yes, yes? Then what about Galvein?”

“Didn’t you know? Whether it’s a crack in the life vessel or a broken skull, Lich doesn’t lose consciousness from multiple sleeps or damage. I know because I personally broke them and fought them when I was a warrior. Stop pretending to be unconscious, Galvan.”

“…”

“…”

Galvein, who raised his head slightly, and Hira, who was trembling and turning his neck like a machine, met each other’s gaze.

And then, without looking back, I grabbed Fabbe and Mino’s arms and ran away.

As expected, the woman’s intuition was right on the mark, and Hira’s scream was heard right behind her, along with the sound of a wall breaking.

“This… damned Richie! Swindler! Malmijal! Shame on the Four Heavenly Kings! Trash! ”

Every time Hira uttered a single word without even hesitating, a burst of noise would come out, so there is no need to talk about Galvein’s future any further.

“…But what does that have to do with a woman’s intuition? And Leah was originally-”

“Shh. Anyway, that’s how it is.”

Karma, Galvein. It’s because of what you did.