Do You Think Someone Like You Can Defeat the Demon King?

- The day after Flam was sold off to a slave trader.

Naturally, even at rally time, she didn't show up in the basement of the castle.

It's hard to predict when everyone but her is in place, and Gene opens his mouth before the metastasis.

"Fram is back home, he won't be joining the journey anymore"

"Huh?"

The first to react was unexpectedly the brave Cyril.

I open my eyes and stare at Gene the Wise.

The remaining four stayed just to show each a small reaction.

The witch Eterna wrinkles slightly between her eyebrows, the warrior Gadio exhales "Hmm," the Virgin Mary turns her gaze to the floor and bites her lips, and the archer Linus mutters small, "Maybe that's better".

"How does Gene know that?

To Cyril's inquiry, whose voice is trembling, Gene gives an instant but bitter worm-bitten look.

I thought if I left the party, I'd disappear from her mind.

Not so sweet.

The presence of the "nest-eating" flam in her heart continues to interfere.

"Because I convinced you. I can't accompany you on your journey any more. She felt bad for it herself, so she went home on her own."

"Yourself, by will..."

"Yes, that's why you forget it already. It wasn't originally useful, you know, Cyril said it, right?

"Ugh, yeah."

Gene thinks the man Cyril deserves is himself.

Compared to him at 28, she's 16 years too old, but what matters is not age, talent.

If you leave blood, it is desirable to have someone better than the same.

He always thought so before he embarked on his journey.

And we met.

to the ideal Materials called Cyril Sweetica.

But the first thing she narrowed her distance within the party was not Gene, but a garbage-like girl with no talent, no strength and no help - Flam.

Coming out of a similar countryside would have earned me a lot of empathy.

of pride. He was angry.

I felt stronger and angrier than anything else in my life.

Why did Cyril choose Flam instead of herself when good humans should be attracted to each other?

So - I started making a real effort to steer things in the right direction.

Effort is Gene's specialty, with privileged talent and enormous amount of effort he gained the position of wise man.

If you take it to him like that, it is easy to keep Cyril's heart off the flam, and to hunt down the flam.

"Then it wouldn't be a shame, would it?

Gene walked over to Cyril and held her shoulder and said.

"... yeah"

Cyril shakes her head small and vertical.

Now, as you can see, it went as far as to make her admit 'Fram is incompetent'.

The disturbers are no longer here.

They would be sold off as slaves and would not even represent themselves on the tabular stage.

Then you have nothing to worry about even if that presence remained in Cyril, you just have to take her mind in the right direction, as before, and scrape off the dirt named Fram, who persevered and crept.

Apart from Cyril, no one questioned the fall of Flam.

The return is activated, the room is wrapped in light and the six parties move to the last point of progression.

Gene was leaping his chest like a child on the eve of an excursion to finally be able to take a journey without a leg.

◇ ◇ ◇

"Hey Cyril, Gene, wait!

Linus' frustrating voice echoed in the territory of the Devil Nation.

How many times does this make him call the two names?

"... Oh, I'm sorry"

Cyril, who stopped her leg, apologizes for looking at Linus and clearly sinking.

When Gene approached her like that, she said with a gentle slap on her back.

"You don't have to apologize, Cyril. Look, Linus, you don't have to slow down anymore, do you?

"Ha. I've been saying this for a long time, but I wasn't slowing down to fit Fram, was I? This is enemy territory, we need to keep it safe and move on!

"If we bind our power, there will be no threat or anything!

His confidence is in proportion to his strength.

Certainly, monsters and allied demons would be easily repelled where they ambushed them.

"What if the three demon generals attacked us, just in case, we won't damage them? Didn't I?"

General Sandemon, when he heard the name, Gene lost his word.

They are the demon kings that bind the demons, their direct men.

The only two people who still have experience in engaging are Neighborhood of Blood, Zeon of Phosphor.

But both of them were no less powerful than the brave, and the magical power unleashed was so powerful that Gene felt his life in danger.

"If you find out, slow down."

"Gu......"

To this point, Gene had no choice but to obey heavily.

Flam's not here anymore, so we should be able to speed things up this time - it goes without saying that the thought was spreading his stride.

Cyril, on the other hand, just couldn't afford to look around him like he said he wasn't here.

What comes to mind, of course, is the appearance of Fram.

I've said terrible things, hurt a lot, and stayed apart...... friends, important opponents, like you can't even be allowed to call them.

Living out of battle in a country town, she would have been crushed by the pressure of being a brave man so long as there was no bright flam.

That's why...

"... ungrateful, I am"

Regrettably, Flam will never come back.

About defeating the Demon King and saving the world.

There's no way my people won't notice how Cyril is doing.

Linus, who praised Gene, exhaled "Phew" as he moved next to Maria.

"I haven't either."

"What's the matter, Mr. Linus, rarely lose confidence"

"What kind of air is that? To be honest with you, Fram said something terrible to me, and I was wondering if just being away would change things a lot."

"Sure, Mr. Cyril is depressed because he sees it, and Mr. Jean has a rough nose and brave feet, Mr. Eterna looks like he's always in a bad mood, and you don't open a word to Mr. Gadio"

The way Fram worked desperately hard and tried to help someone would have unknowingly brightened the atmosphere of the party.

Most importantly, Fram himself didn't realize that, so no one can blame Linus.

"How's Maria?

"... I am"

Maria mumbles.

Linus said peeking into her face like that.

"Are you in trouble?

"Maybe,"

"Surprisingly, I was wondering if Maria had anything to do with me or Fram."

"I talk to Mr. Cyril a lot. When I was just beginning my journey, all the topics that came out of her mouth were about Mr. Flam."

Cyril always seems to enjoy herself and be happy when she talks about Flam.

Maria was just asking that, too, so much that she accidentally broke her cheek.

"Oh well... when Cyril gets depressed, it sounds like the whole party"

Still a young 16-year-old girl, but definitely the main force in the party.

Without her, instead of the Demon King, it would even be difficult to beat the Three Demons.

"I don't know if I'm going to say this in front of Maria, an Original nun."

"I don't care what Mr. Linus says, because it's always the subtle lack of delicacy"

"I don't know about that either... well no. Honestly, when I asked about Flam's status, I thought Origin was a mistake for the habit of the Creator."

Maria smiled proudly when she heard Linus's self-disciplined words.

"I won't make mistakes, Master Origin."

Seeing her fresh-faced, Linus falls in love with 'Do it super cute'.

Blonde hair, white skin, clear personality and tone - from what to what, Maria belongs to him.

"... looks like, she must have had the role she needed for the party with her. Still, we can't stop."

I can't even pull back the flam now.

That would be damaging to Gene's mood, and even though I was freed from the journey because of it, I can feel free to accompany her on such a dangerous journey twice.

Even without the flam, we have to move on.

"You're right, Mr. Linus. We are entrusted with the noble role of annihilating the Demons. Whatever happens, that's all we have to do."

Maria said that with strong determination.

But Linus has doubts.

Is it really a sense of purpose to ”save the world” to fulfill what is hidden in her breasts?

I feel more starved, blackened emotions sleeping in the depths of my heart as beautiful as clear glass.

Open it and it'll all be over.

Linus, who felt that way, couldn't get that far yet.

◇ ◇ ◇

The meal Flam was making was to be turned on duty.

On the first day, Gadio, the S-rank adventurer and most used to camping, is in charge.

"I can't guarantee the flavor."

and was a humble gadio, but the dishes made with meat from locally taken monsters were a lot more cluttered but delicious than the dishes from Flam.

While most members are satisfied, for some reason, only Gene looks up.

Many monster meats have a unique odor.

It has been erased as far as possible with vanilla, but it remains to such an extent that it can be perceived by humans who do not like its flavor.

"Gadio, can't you handle this meat any better? The smell would have disappeared nicer before."

Don't want me to go that far.

"Can't you be an S-rank adventurer, even though it was made of flam?

It was Gene's statement to make a fool of himself, but Gadio didn't change one expression.

Eterna next door had her eyes narrowed and she was irritated.

That said, it didn't hurt my mood.

"For someone who doesn't like the smell of meat, she's been looking down since the day before."

It's not disgusting, it's just a fact.

"... Ha, ha, that was a waste of time"

Gene looked obviously wolfy, willingly throwing a large chunk of meat into his mouth.

And chew with a bitter look and withstand the smell that spreads in your mouth.

Gadio snorted, "Hmm," he concentrated again on his meal.

Thereafter, there is no conversation between them, and the dinner proceeds quietly while surrounding the burning fire.

When Fram was here, there was communication that started with her, who couldn't stand the awkwardness of silence.

◇ ◇ ◇

After meals, as long as they are not raided, they will not travel at night, so each will have a free time before going to bed.

Cyril, Linus and Gadio maintain their own weapons, Maria prays to Origin, and Eterna concentrates and meditates.

Gene said, it was routine to read a magic specialty book while drinking sweet-scented herbal tea, but tea never comes out automatically now that Flam is gone.

I had no choice but to clamp my bags, find my tools, and fry myself.

Having lived incited to be a genius wizard, he has no habit of being able to fry his own tea since he belonged to the institute of the kingdom.

I didn't even know how to use the tool because of it, and when I was scattering it with this, the linus I saw approached me.

"There was something you couldn't do."

"Shut up, I'm supposed to leave this stuff to the service."

"The upper class is different after all. Give me that. I'll fry you."

That was a very humiliating event for Gene.

I can only entrust others with the simple task that I, said to be the finest wizard in the kingdom, could have done even with that flam.

He put his arms together, sounded the ground with a poor slack, and waited for Linus to be ready.

"Look, I got it."

Gene, who received a teacup that raised the hot air, immediately took a bite -

"... Pep"

I just spit it out.

"Oh, my God, this isn't good."

"You... what a strange attitude when people burned you! I just did what I normally do, didn't I?

"I have no choice but to taste the unsavory. It's bitter and the scent sucks, how can I get something like this out!?

Gene, who was hoarding frustrations from one of his meals, raved his voice toward Linus.

Of course, it is an unreasonable thing to say if you think it's a good idea and you try it from Linus, who can fry the tea.

I understood Gene was arrogant, and I meant to hang out as a friend on top of that, but that's just unforgivable.

"Doesn't this guy always make even the things he puts in his mouth satisfactorily?

The word was deadly.

Linus' anger exploded, trying to grab it by Gene, then.

Eterna, who incidentally wanted to go through, said this in an unconscious voice, at the same pace as usual.

"Flam was changing the way it was fried and tasted to suit them, so hey, wasn't that why it was delicious?

Just say it, she skips and leaves again somewhere.

Now it was Gene's turn to be irritated.

"Gu... Flamflam and why are you so useless... ugh!

Parisin '!

He slaps the teacup to the ground.

White magnetism splashed and the liquid in it wet Linus's feet.

But Gene has nothing to apologize for, and leaves everything behind.

"Oh, hey, Gene!

Linus hastily stopped calling, but it didn't reach his ear, forgetting me in anger.

I have no choice but to crouch down, collect the fragments and keep them in the right place.

"This teacup is a luxury item. That would be a lot of money for a jean."

When the fragment was recovered, the wet trouser hem was moved closer to the incineration and began to dry.

I feel melancholy with a blurry view of the shaking flames.

Linus is only 24, but he's the same S-ranked adventurer as Gadio.

Having survived in the world of meritocracy from a young age, he has gained unparalleled experience with his generation.

Such was his enlightenment.

"Bad air, looks a lot like the party the night before the collapse"

When an adventurer-to-adventurer party breaks up, the biggest cause is neither raids by monsters nor financial trouble.

It's a relationship.

"I hope something fatal doesn't happen before we reach Negijo, the Demon King."

While I pray that the journey will continue safely, Linus' vast experience assures me.

That won't be possible, he said.