"Everyone but me wants us to stand in the capital by tonight."
"Demon King... now what?
The inhabitants, prepared to quarrel with the brave, doubted Merle's words.
That's what I told you to get out of the capital for everything but yourself.
"I fight with the brave alone"
"That's so lame! The brave men were taking a bunch of dragons, and from what I've heard, they're throwing a party. Isn't that right! How do you fight that number alone with your opponent!
"Shut up. That's okay. That's a tough one."
To the whimsical girl's voice as usual, the residents flashed the thread of tension.
Despite this situation, Merle's prolonged voice became a stabilizer to calm the inhabitants.
"It's been awhile since I became a demon king. Wow, I wondered if there was a relationship between the Demon King and the Brave One."
"And you said?
"Is it natural for a brave man to defeat a demon king? So at first, I tried unconsciously to be a demon king, too, didn't I? But do you always have to contend with a brave man and a demon king in the first place?
"Oh, that's"
"If I give you a name, you will naturally come out brave and defeat the Demon King -! I was breathing. If you think about it normally, it sucks, right? Judging by their titles alone, they're trying to kill each other, right? Seriously, I don't think it's stupid."
Merle's out-of-consciousness thoughts made the residents question mark on their values.
Forget how long I would ever raise my voice of anger, and there were residents listening to Merle.
"With that, I came to this city to do the Demon King. But here, people, demons and monsters can all live regardless of race. There I feel the future."
"Is the future…"
"So. a world that doesn't need brave men or demon kings. A world where we don't dispute because we're human, because we're demons, because we're monsters. I think it's time to throw away old values and create a new world."
Residents breathed in Merle as if they were prolonged but convinced.
I didn't even think about it. But a future that is now spreading as a reality in front of us. When residents also realized their lack of resistance to demons and monsters, they felt that there was such a future.
"The answer I got there is to end the demon king and the brave man, separating my generation."
"End the Demon King? What does that mean?
"I'll settle there with the braves and me. That idiot brave guy is probably going to kill anyone but me, so let's all get out of here by the end of the day. Orders."
I told him to order him to stab the nail.
I never normally used the word "order," but all this time I was informed to obey the inhabitants.
"If that's what the Demon King says..."
"Yes. Let's talk about it. I'll leave the capital when I get home. I'll take care of it. Come back when you're done."
From now on Merle believed in the word that he would settle something, and those who were there left the castle behind.
"Lucille, will you fly the mayor of Pecona and bring him here? By Express."
"... Yes, sir."
Things have moved.
Neither the prolonged voice to rule the people, nor the tone in which he had been doing so, appeared to be masks to be unaware of anxiety.
Lucille, who was spending time with Merle and keeping her distance close, suffered her chest when she noticed she was different than usual.
I hoped over and over again that that wasn't the feeling of goodbye.