Boundary Labyrinth and the Foreign Magician

Once the sightseeing was interrupted, towards the castle of Forestania, we were to first pass on the story to everyone and then prepare for the meeting with King Ignado. Tesdilos and Wimberg were contacted. He'll be back from a security patrol in the city soon.

In the meantime, I'll explain to Grace and the others. Though I also wonder if it would be better if Tesdiros and the others could talk to King Ignado without preliminary knowledge in order to give him an unambiguous opinion on the current situation.

"Yes... was it"

Grace, who had heard from me what King Ignado had said, was listening with her eyes closed quietly. I guess there are still parts overlapping with my situation. Whether it's about Grace's parents or my mother and me.

"A demon with the power of a sealing technique... Right. It's a special case, but I think it still means a lot to us."

When Claudia says so, Rosemary nods too.

"Right. There are still many problems with demons. It is also a comforting story that we have been able to come in people all this time in it.... It's just that while King Ignado is active as Beast King, we're going to have to be a little bit careful how we handle him."

"You can't make it known that he was more of a demon."

King Ignado was cautious because he couldn't reveal it.

Ashley and Stephania have the best words. We know how Tesdiros and the others have come to this day, but King Ignado has hidden it to this day. Even if that's not a bad thing, it comes from people who look at it, people who interpret it in bad faith. It could make King Ignado's position worse when the information is released.

"Considering that, I'm convinced you were cautious."

"Mm-hmm. But for that reason, we can work together. Good thing the Beast King doesn't seem like a bad person."

Sheila said, Mallane also shook her neck vertically with a serious look.

"Right. Even for me, if it's a demon situation, I'd like to cooperate. emotionally or in a position."

"As far as I'm concerned, I don't think it's human resources."

"Right. I'll do my best too!

and is Grace, who is looking straight at me, and Illumhilt, who holds his fist with Serafina on his shoulder. Right. Our policy from here is to cooperate with King Ignado. We nod at each other face-to-face.

Looks like Tesdiros and the others are back while we're at it. Cecilia came for me, so I'm going to go to the two of you first.

"I'm sorry you had to come back because I was on my way to work."

"No. I don't mind. Did something go wrong?

Face to face and exchange words, Tesdiros asks. Right. There's never been anything like cutting it up and calling it in at work.

"No, that's not what I mean. King Ignado wants to talk to you two a little bit."

"Is the Beast King of Einfeus with us?"

"Yes. I know you can guess, but we're going to talk about demon entanglement. I want you to hear more directly from King Ignado than from me and tell me what you think on top of that."

The secrets of the labyrinth, the original spirits, etc. lie low, but if you can only be careful there, you will be fine.

"I understand."

Tesdilos and Wimberg nodded without hesitation when they told him about the area.

So we all take them up and head to the reception room.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting, Your Majesty. I've brought you two"

"I'm sorry, Lord Theodore. Non's name is Ignado. The Beast King of Einfeus."

"Tesdiros."

"My name is Wimberg"

And, we introduce ourselves to each other, make tea and take a seat.

"I said I wanted to hear the story, but if it were to be an intrusive circumstance, it would make sense to expose myself first. First of all, it would help if I listened to Nong and told him a lot of things."

Two demons nod at King Ignado's words. That's how King Ignado's story began.

"- I see."

When the story of King Ignado was finished, Tesdiros opened his eyes, which had been closed, and said quietly:

"If we look back on what happened before we met Lord Vallos, it was our days to cross the battlefield and join the Lords in a skirmish to receive a little negative emotion and money. Maybe most demons want to heal their hunger in each way and get to the upper stages as they build up their power."

Some of them get drunk about wielding power and killing? Are you saying that the demon is a demon, but therefore finds joy in eating negative emotions themselves?

"I was able to awaken... so I couldn't get into drunkenness, like them. Awakening didn't change anything from the days until then... but that's how I met Lord Vallos in the depressed days of the invisible exit."

It should still be noted that for Tesdiros and Weinberg, Varros is probably not an object of respect.

"When I saw the overwhelming power of that one, and listened to the demon kingdom... yes. I thought something would change. That's how we found ourselves under Master Vallos."

"But we were defeated. I am convinced and not dissatisfied that I did not have the strength. More than winning or losing - I wanted to protect the will that Lord Vallos entrusted to the future. That one wanted change, but neither killing nor destroying it was intended. So we wanted to stop Istrum, to leave our strength to restore peace on earth, to live and live in a different way for the losers, and to explore the path of coexistence."

"The result is where we stand today."

He said he lives as a person, using sealing techniques to hold on to his nature as a demon. Yes, tell King Ignado.

"Sealing…?"

King Ignado closes his eyes.

"It's not like I knew how the rest of us would look at us. But I thank Lord Theodore for this. Compare when you are a demon to when you are not. I could know the beauty of the world. When I was a demon, I don't want to go back to a tasteless, dry slaughterhouse myself. Lord Vallos knew this, so recently he began to think that he might have wanted to lead us through the current state of the devil. Now... I don't know what's really going on."

...... oh. I guess so.

Because Vallos became a demon himself. Beristio, too, and Gardinis, Zaradi and Alverinde, who ran away from Halvaronis. And Istrum, who flipped the anti-flag on the moon. I knew how to see and feel when I was a demon and when I wasn't, and two worlds.

I was able to know the beauty of the world, because... it's a feeling because I was born a demon, Tesdiros, so maybe it's a little different from how Vallos and others receive it...

I feel that the oldest ginseng who turned to demons had a slightly different way of interacting with people than the demons of the second generation and beyond, who were born demons. In each case, even if the answers given are different.

With great power involved, it's also the high-ranking demon who can behave the way he wants.

But well...... if you think about it with the story of Tesdiros in mind, maybe the same was true of the couple of demons who are the benefactors of King Ignado.

By suppressing his nature as a demon by his children's abilities, he seemed to feel differently in the world than before. So I ran away from my buddies until then and chose to live with my parents and kids.

Has King Ignado come to think of it, too, so that he may look up to heaven and sigh?

"My friend... I don't know if that's what he thought. The beauty of the world…? Was that..."

"Regardless, we are also interested in the person. I'm willing to spare your cooperation."

"That's... thank you. It's really good to be here to talk to you."

King Ignado is asked to shake his hand. When I, Tesdilos and Wimberg responded, for the first time King Ignado narrowed his eyes and gave him a soft grin.

After that... I wonder if I need to talk to the person. We're talking about visiting Termwilds, along with the confessors. Then... maybe you should ask King Ignado if he knows anything about monkey beasts.