Free Life ~Record of the Struggle of a Different World General Merchant~

It began with Melissa's words.

"You know, you know, lately, there's a demon in the city."

The end of spring is approaching, one day in late May. The girl in Sister clothes, who had begun to immerse herself in your mansion, began to talk without a clap at her dinner table.

The Virgin of the Church, Melissa, is a daughter who does not fit the position and clear appearance and likes to talk during meals.

Like the town girl, "This happened before this," and "This happened today," she talks about cluttered events.

They are all content with no other love, and one of the listeners, Noble Daughter, always listens to more than half of them.

But if there's a noisy word like "demon," it's something I'd care about.

I turned my eyes and body toward Melissa, who was pointing me toward frying vegetables served on a large plate, and said, "Devil?" and ask back, "Precious.

"Yes, demon. I'm frightened. Last night, in the alley, a black demon was eating a rat. He said he saw some believers."

"Huh? What's a black demon... like 'tar demon'?

Nobunaga thinks of a black demon all over his body. Tar Demon. It's a Level 100 junior demon. This demon is black to the tip of the nail, except for the big monocular eye.

"Uh-huh, I guess not. If a Level 100 demon was moving in the city, don't think the Knights people would find out right away. Not even caught on my 'Virgin Radar'..."

"Right. My exploratory skills aren't responding either. Didn't I see something wrong or something?

"Yeah. I was really frightened, and the devil seemed to stick between the cobblestones, somewhere. You can't do that."

"Oh? It melted?... It must be a demon, that. Is it the mucus system, not the devil...?

It's unthinkable, such as a creature that changes into a liquid form and escapes. Slime or Aqua Jam? Precious to think of demons that make up your body with mucus.

But Melissa also shook her head sideways.

"Yeah, it's not slime or anything. Believers say there were wings like bats in a goat-like corner. He said he was the devil himself. It disappeared into a cobblestone gap."

"Uh-huh...?

Guitar puts his neck further up and puts his hand on his chin to think. Was there such a demon? What the hell is the devil's identity? Though I've thought deeply about it, I can't think of it right away.

Melissa likewise, with a frown root. Yeah, but that's it.

Two people at the Kanst-level who have a lot of experience in combat and use the realm of mighty demons as their sphere of activity, think about it, and there is no answer that this is it.

What is the demon the faithful have seen -?

Forget about eating dinner, too, the two of you in wonder.

There were those who laughed at them like that.

"Heh heh, humans don't know stuff. I can see that."

It's a chaotic dragon, a lutoo, who lives in a shop "Free Life". The chaotic dragon, who looked like an adorable girl, rocked the frills of her gossip clothes, holding her mouth down and laughing small.

"Hmm? Rootoo, you, you know what I mean?

"Naturally. I am a thousand years old chaotic dragon. There's less I don't know."

"Yes, yes, it's awesome. So, what is the devil's identity? Can you tell me?"

If you do, throw up a lot of sayings, and a chest stretching routoo. We've been living together for a month. Are you accustomed to such magnificent words and deeds as well, Guitar asks for continuation with a bitter smile.

"Kukukuku...... okay. My fiancée has only pleaded. Let me tell you something."

Fiancée, in the part of, you are likely to disagree unexpectedly. But he just wanted to know the answer and clear his mind, so he drank a lot of words.

It was also worth it, and Luttoo uttered so much about who the devil was.

"Well, that's probably Book Imp."

"Oh!"

Pong and his own hands slapping noble and Melissa. They sounded familiar with the name.

"He's a little devil not enough to take, but he's good at running and hiding. They can change their bodies like thin paper. It would be before breakfast, like diving into a cobblestone gap for drainage."

"Oh, there were some monsters like that! He sure can solve it like paper. You mistook that for" melted, "I'm sure."

"Maybe so! Wow, Rootoo! Know something!"

"Hehe... what, I'm a great chaotic dragon!

"I know! But even without that, wow!

"Ha ha! You better praise me!

"Wow! Awesome!

Melissa praises her for her attentive and high laughing routine. Yumiel buzzes the field with a subtle puffy flapper.

Anything at the Free Life table was still busy today.

"But... Book Imp"

Your daughters think about the three noisy daughters.

Book Imp. As its name suggests, the demon who lives in the book.

Mainly demon users summon them and carry them with them sealed in the book. Others may have naturally occurring book imps lurking in their treasure chest.

Either way, it's a demon with a book on it. Where there are books, shadows are hidden demons. Book Imp is in an unbroken relationship with the book.

Books. Demons. Lurk in a book, demon. Books and demons......

"... could it be"

Demons that can't even occur naturally all over the city. The emergence is probably man-made. Someone unleashed a book imp on the city.

Someone who, albeit low-level, serves the devil.

That's someone. Who manipulates the book demons?

You had an idea.

"Come on, throw up! Summon the devil, what are you trying to do!

"Why! Why 'd you find out?

"Oh well. The killer was Mr. Eru. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

"Hino, no, no, no...!!

In the basement of the Royal Library, in one of the rooms in the off-limits section, a scream arose that drew.

"Forgive me! Forgive me! Curiosity! Researchers are creatures who can't resist curiosity!

"Ask God if you can forgive me?

Having previously "hung out" with the Church's most powerful Virgin, Eru dyes her face blue and white and sticks around here and there saying she won't be taken.

The dark-haired elf tries to grab onto the table, onto the bookshelf, and to the stone gap on the floor at the end.

but is stripped by the power of a level-worthy Virgin, and dragged as it drifts.

To hell. The Virgin invites you, to hell.

All Eru could do was raise his voice no longer.

"Not yet -! I didn't do anything yet! Attempt! Attempt! I'm innocent!

"Hmm? Wait a minute. You haven't done anything yet...?

To the words uttered by Eru, noble, Melissa stops pitifully. When you saw it, you thought it was a chance, and Eru screwed up about his innocence.

"Yes! That's right! I haven't done anything yet! I got a book about [Sammon Demon], but I haven't done anything yet! Innocent! I'm innocent!

"Uh-huh...?

Apparently, it's not a lie. You judged that based on how Elu showed an attitude of total surrender like a dog who showed his belly.

"Then who is [Book Imp]..."

If the one who invokes the devil and is serving is not Eru, who the hell is the killer?

I was just seriously convinced, you unnecessarily bother me with your head.

"Wow, you seem to understand, don't you? So, now I..."

Behind that, Ri, it's time for Eru to try to get out of the room with the Devil's Summon book.

"[Sammon Demon] has an anti-arts designation for the church, right? Such a handsome book, it burns. [Divine Judgment]"

"Ahhh!?

And for every forbidden book that becomes the seed of disaster, the Virgin who inflicts heavenly punishment on an elf who is not afraid of God either. The lightning of God, Eru, became black, how he fell.

"Abbbbbbb......"

"This guy seemed like the killer... in fact, he was trying to"

"Who is the culprit with you?"

"I don't know. But if there were demons all over the city, I wouldn't even be able to take a nap. We'll keep investigating."

"Ra!

Bisci! And Melissa twitches the chops next to her own head. You laugh bitterly at what a kid is and wants to imitate characters from movies and plays. The two go side by side, out of the lab in the off-limits section.

"Asaka..."

Later all that was left was an ashed forbidden book and an elf researcher rolling on the floor like a burnt out match.