A Demon Lord’s Tale: Dungeons, Monster Girls, and Heartwarming Bliss

"Master! I made you some tea!

"Uhm."

I brewed tea and nothing was originally in the water bottle, but I received a cup of tea from Reyes with a deliberately serious rotten look on his face and took a sip.

"- Shit! Thought you could satisfy a woman with such tea!!

I have no idea what tea tastes like. It was me, but it only flashes like that and yells at Reyes.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! In the future, we will refine so that we can brew good tea, Master!

"Do that. Think about it, for example, if a guy who's usually gutty makes tea for a regular occasion, it's delicious for some reason. Then I said, 'That? This man's tea is delicious...' and he can make an unexpected impression on his memory."

"Ooh...! Indeed!"

Was Reyes impressed, he exhorts?

"That means your master has had the experience of behaving like that too!

"Eh, yes, no, I wonder how it went..."

Because I don't even know how to brew tea, I naturally don't have the experience of behaving like tea to someone.

"... Ooh, Didn't Leila ask you before how to brew tea, but instead of doing it, she said, 'I'll leave it all to you in the future' or something?

Nell, who understands I'm just saying texty things on the tip of my mouth, says so softly as I nibble, but I decide not to listen to her and cough one up to deceive her.

"Gohon...... anyway! Reyes, what you need is meticulous skill in everyday life. Learn steadily, one by one."

"Okay, master!

"Um, I hope so. Remember, all technology feeds itself and becomes a great asset, and a weapon…"

"Hehe! Yes, in your words. Come on!

And Reyes bowed his head to me with all due respect.

"... uh... what the hell is going on...?

And Griffa, who watched our farce with an indescribable look, pushed silently for a while, and then eventually squealed like that.

"... you're gonna have a headache, so you better not ask."

Yes, it is Le Laure who sighs in a frivolous manner.

I don't know what to say, you feel like a good looking after older lady from her.

The party leader himself sounds like Griffa, but I'm sure he's a compiler of the guys.

"... it seems like normal driving, let's just say I'm relieved. It looks like there's been a raid there, just like here."

"So, after all, there was a raid there too"

"Oh, there it is. Plenty of bones showed up. Even so, it seemed smaller than you."

To my question, Carotta snorts.

- We were currently rendezvous with the Holy Knights who were acting differently.

We thought there might have been more raids on another team than there were demonic raids on us, so we turned back and joined them once we stopped our policy of continuing our quest alone.

And as expected, there were raids by dungeon demons there as well.

However, to hear the story, the scale of the raid seems to have been smaller than ours.

They're a little over a hundred against us who've attacked nearly 300. Looks like a war-class demon also showed up, but only a few of them, too, he said.

Based on that fact, the enemy demon king would have judged us to be more of a threat.

... My status has been changed to the number of people who are now disguising themselves as human beings, but maybe the other demon king is breaking it.

No, you'd be definitely nursing it.

The Demon King can use the 'map', a feature provided for the dungeon.

This means that the amount of DP that can be obtained from the subject can be confirmed.

In my dungeon, naturally, the DP I get from myself was zero, but in this dungeon it should be different.

First of all, definitely, the acquired DP from me would be from its original status, indicating the highest number in this.

The Enemy Demon King probably trusts that number more than the status shown.

I would also refer to the latter figure if the status and the obtainable DP were not engaged. There's probably no way to mislead DP.

Plus, there was Nell over here.

The Holy Knights are strong, and I'm sure Carotta is quite powerful, but that's only strength within the human sphere.

It's highly likely that the Demon King tried to crush me and those with Nell somehow and sent many over. It was all a waste of scratch.

"So... this one was empty, what have you made progress on your offensive route to the Demon King?

"Ah. Perhaps I found my way."

"Heh... Huh? You found it?

To be honest, I thought it was no longer possible to find it by the end of the day, etc., so I say that while looking twice at the nodding Carotta.

"Just one problem, or troublesome. That's why I wanted to rendezvous with you once before the raid."

"... sure, it was more of a hassle than a problem"

Griffa laughs bitterly and agrees with Carotta's words.

... trouble, huh?

You must have read my insides, Carotta glances at this one before continuing with the words.

"It would be quicker to actually get a look at it than to explain it by mouth. - That's why, follow me."

"Uh, I see..."

I squirm at the sight that spreads in front of me.

Damn... that's definitely a hassle.

- It was the cemetery (...) that preceded them being taken to Carotta.

The sky has a cloudy dark night sky, dark fog brings the neighborhood in, and decaying tombstones are built on the ground of the soil.

The space is endlessly wide as far as I can see, and I can't even feel the shaking of the ship that just happened.

A completely different space was spread out here.

Probably like the meadow area in my dungeon.

It seems that this is the only place to add a new hierarchy and a cemetery area.

And - all sorts of magic reactions in my magic eye.

Some magical reactions are shaped like demons, but many of them can be felt off the ground.

It's on the ground, what is a mass of magic?

It's a trap (...).

There are apparently tons of traps set in this cemetery area that have been misplaced in the dark.

"A trap."

"Um, that's what I'm talking about. We can confirm that there are many traps and demons lurking in this thin darkness. That's quite a few, too."

"Sure, that sounds like a good number..."

With magic eyes, it is possible to discern if it is a trap that activates and attacks magic, such as one that has magic inside its structure, but does not react to other purely physical traps, such as pitfalls, rockfall, or sword mountain traps.

It's hard to believe that the only thing in this cemetery is a magical trap, so you should assume that both types of traps will be set everywhere, and that only the same number of purely physical traps are set, beyond being able to confirm with a magical eye that there are quite a few magical traps alone.

"What makes you think the end of this cemetery leads to the Demon King?

"He left a mark on it when he reached the Demon King. You did, Lord Griffa?

"Yeah, you still have the last one. Even though there used to be no cemetery like this, it still leads to the Hierarchist's room, and there's still a chance that it's still a skull ahead."

That said, Griffa knocks on the outside of the door that leads to Tonton and the cemetery, the side wall that still forms the shape of a normal ship.

Sure, there's something there that looks like a mark written in something like chalk.

This is how marking distinguishes between paths that have passed and paths that have not.

Even until I get here, that's how I see you describing it a few times.

"Oh... this is definitely the mark we put on you before, Master. Hierarchists waited ahead before. If the hierarchy is being added, then the demon king's bastard freaked out and added a new trick to hold back the intruders, huh?

"Hmm... sounds possible. After all, is it more likely to peek ahead than look for other paths?"

Now, thinking about what's going on, Griffa asks Reyes next to me.

"... hey Reyes. I knew I was curious, so I wanted to ask you, why are you calling me a master about you, the masked lady?

"That's because, of course, you're my master of hearts, leader!

"... no, I have no idea"

To Reyes, who thumbs up gleefully, Griffa returned that word in a bewildered manner.