Boundary Labyrinth and the Foreign Magician

"Non had friends who would be friends for a long time. Yes...... I wonder if we met before we became beast kings."

King Ignado said, looking up into the sky when he would have eyes that looked somewhere far away. Before becoming king of beasts. King Ignado says he's been on the throne for quite a while...

"At that time - were you indeed hunting and going too far into the back of the woods? It was good to hunt down the prey, but the dirt was loose due to heavy rain that had fallen a while back. The cliff collapsed and fell down to the river that runs underneath. No, I don't think I can kick the wall now and come back up there. The skill was still sweet back then. That's when it happened."

And King Ignado joked lightly and laughed and said. I laugh bitterly at that word.

Kick the cliff off the cliff on the way down and back up, huh? Well...... I guess a good beast man can do it without magic.

Maybe that's not a bad memory for King Ignado. He looked like he was talking about it somewhere he missed it.

Anyway, King Ignado at the time was injured, and after falling into the river and flushing and losing consciousness, he was helped by his family, apparently. With my father and mother. I have one child.

"You told me you were a parent and child with an elf in your ancestors several generations ago. Because of the mixed blood, neither of the elves fit in, and he said he lived in the woods. Cut and expand parts of the forest, build fields, keep chickens - build waterwheel huts... Well, it's a rain-fed life."

Hidden and his family, or something like that?

"As for you, you will be the benefactor of your life. The father is a very intelligent man again. I kept a good amount of books. Non well... then, when I went into the woods with thanksgiving and exercise, I hunted animals and demons and visited my family... I have always been a benefactor and friend and have been allowed to read various books as well. It's not just training in the woods that he became king of beasts, he fights while he thinks about it, and he may have gotten all kinds of ideas from those books."

I see. That's what King Ignado's intellect comes from.

That's how King Ignado seems to have been close to his family for quite some time.

"By the way. The day Noun became king of beasts. When I visited the report, the family was under attack. The house was destroyed, and the waterwheel hut was blown up, and there was no shadow to see the house that was stuck. The raiders were... demons. The touch of death dancing freely through the sky and spreading its indignation. I tried to get into an enhancement... but I noticed it there. The family was a demon again."

Raids by demons......? I'm not another HR, I'm talking.

"- The Devil's Parent and Child..."

Did you name the mixed blood with the elves to delude them into immortality?

Another demon has raided because of a fellowship, or...

"Non went in to help even though his thoughts turned white. The demons who attacked me fought against them. Einfeus is a kingdom where the powerful gather their families and become beast kings. Then with the demon. Not to mention because he's a benefactor and a friend of mine."

But still, it was already too late by then. Though the demons managed to defeat King Ignado and his family by fighting together. The mother scattered to protect her child, and the father was mortally wounded again.

So... in the meantime, the man told me what was going on, yes.

They said they were demons.

"The demons, who can't wake up and are weak... they sometimes come together to help each other. While pretending to be a bandit group, I guess I harvest negative emotions by being evil enough not to be overly eyed by my lord. My friend met a female demon in those lives, and in the meantime set up a child. But... in the meantime, a child was born."

I woke up because I wasn't even old yet. The thing is... that wasn't a combat type, it was an auxiliary type.

Auxiliary...... so was Zaradi, the belly of Vallos......

The leader of one of the strongest bandits in his peers looked at the child's abilities and was ambitious. So the parents and children fled. But they found out where he was and it was the end of the story.

"In making a hidden living, the family was suppressed by their ability to destroy themselves as demons. They can take the power and keep it in the shape of a gem. Use that ability on my father, my mother, and myself. That's how I abandoned my power as a demon and lived as a person. I said curse to be a demon... Sure, I guess so. Ever since my friend sealed his power as a demon, he has said that everything he sees, everything he hears, everything he sees is beautiful."

A child demon with similar abilities to the sealing technique. No, maybe taking power and shaping it like a gem can also draw strength from that gem.

That's... sure. If our combat abilities are low, it's not surprising that there are ambitious people out there who can use them.

"And His Majesty took my friend's child," he said?

"As you can guess. In those days we spent together as friends even though we were demons. to that word I left at the end. I believed there was no such thing as falsehood. The child was also able to live with men, keeping his own power sealed because of his own abilities. And Noon is the Beast King. It's not hard to shelter."

...... oh. You know what?

Speaking that far, King Ignado sighs and sees his palms.

"I will be praised as the most powerful beast king, etc., but Noon is already quite old. Not so far away, your strength will fade, and at some point you will lose to the young warrior. I'm not dissatisfied with that. There is no remorse in the way I have walked as king of beasts."

That's what King Ignado says. He holds the palm that was open. That's how I went on with the words.

"The only thing I care about is my friend's forgetfulness. After Noh disappeared, I wondered more recently if he had a safe place to live. When I heard the story, I couldn't stay or stand."

"Is that what happened?"

When answered, King Ignado looks up and then bows his head.

"Please forgive me for my disrespect and dishonesty in imitating my mind in a far-fetched way."

"No, because at the same time I take the position of sheltering the demon, and at the same time I am taking my mother away by the demon, and I am also a demon killer. Not to mention the son of a benefactor, it's only natural to be cautious. No need to apologize."

Even so, King Ignado did not raise his face for a while.

But a lot of things convinced me. You think it's the way King Ignado stood around, or that you said you wanted to talk to the Tesdiros and the others?

He feared that if he lost his position as king of beasts, he would no longer be able to shelter his son.

I guess you didn't think you had much time as King Ignado. Not to mention if it is the negotiation of an exotic aristocratic opponent who until then had little interaction. If you miss the opportunity, you don't know what time it will be. I have to go see him, even if it's somewhat forceful.

I know how that feels. Even I have a part of King Ignado's troubles that aren't human resources. Even Grace and Claudia and Illumhilt would be close to it. Everyone was able to secure the scaffolding, but I'm guessing the person didn't even reveal that he was a demon.

You think you'll lose your parents in a demon raid? You think you'll seal your abilities and live in people? There's a lot of parts of me and Grace that look dabbling. I still don't know if we want to, but I want to help King Ignado and his people as much as possible.

This is not about negotiation anymore. I'm responsible for what Vallos and Beristio asked me to do. I think so.

"My position is as we talked about earlier. I'm still halfway down the road exploring the path of coexistence between people and demons, but if you're in tune with that will, there's no reason to refuse. I wonder how important it is for us to feel."

"That's for sure"

"... Tesdilos and Wimberg. Can I see you two? I'm in Forestania, so I was wondering if I could talk to you right away."

"I want to talk to you."

King Ignado nods as he looks straight at me. Now, while explaining the situation to everyone, King Ignado decides to make out with the Tesdiros and the others.