He Didn’t Want to Be the Center of Attention, Hence, after Defeating the Demon Lord, He Became Guild Master

When they made the wine dishes and returned to the upstairs living room, Miralka and Eileen also came out of the bath, and they were thirsty, so the evening drinks lasted for about an instant for all of them.

Not only Eileen, but I also dried Miralka's hair - it was surprisingly smooth because of the usual care.

"I've even crossed the desert hierarchy, and fighting will really hurt me."

Er, Miralka's in the back, so you're okay? I've got Dick, I've got him, I've got his hands combed. It seems comfortable to touch. "

"Dee, women like to have loose hair."

The Master will focus on everyone but me - you want to hear more about me? Is that what you want me to do?

"... Eileen has a little cat hair, and everyone else has the same type of hair. But Master's hair is different from ours... how could that happen?"

"Eh... ah, you know, what I just said is that I'm not included, and Miralka and everybody are being rough, so I just thought Dee would be happy."

"Rurururu...."

"Oh, come on. Eileen has fluffy hair, but I don't really dislike it."

I immediately followed Eileen, who was intimidated by showing her a thread incisor that was unique to the demons. She calmed down her anger.

"Hmm, I'll get even better soon."

"... Mr. Cody, what's wrong? Touch my hair."

"Eh, no, no... nothing."

"You might want to stretch it out once. Although the shorter the cody is, the more settled...."

Miralka told me, and Cody smiles bitterly. Do you think it doesn't suit me?

I wonder if it's okay for now. While I was in the vanguard of the party. "

"Well, Cody also works in the back of the inner guard. Irene specializes in the avant-garde."

"I haven't been very active lately. Ha ~, I wonder if there will be any enemies that go well with the militants. I'm going to lose confidence."

"Isn't it just a party to make up for something we don't have each other? I'm counting on Lord Irene, and I'm counting on you."

The Demon King is fully established as part of our party. It is odd to think that the Demon King himself will join the former Demon King Crusaders.

And a thousand years ago, there was a master who was part of the party that saved the country. There's not much to be afraid of - not at all, because chronic mindfulness leads to alarm.

"... where's Dick? Is Dick counting on me?

"Of course I am. But if Eileen takes it seriously... there's a risk, isn't there?

"Uh-huh, I'll be careful with that." Even if I turn it into a Onigami, I can manage it myself, so it's okay. "

"Speaking of which... Irene, are you okay today? When I fought that bony dragon, I was a demon."

Side effects of demonization - Instead of gaining momentary power and greatly increasing her combat reputation, she has to pay the price.

She doesn't want to say it, but from what I've seen - no, you'd better not even think about it. Because it is an implicit fact that Eileen is actually more a maiden than anyone else.

"... I'm fine now, but in the middle of the night..."

"Nh...? Are you sure you're okay? If something goes wrong, I'll take care of it."

"Oh, I'm not a doctor. Dick, you're being too attentive. I know that Dick can do things like a doctor."

Since healing magic alone can heal wounds and lacks versatility, my master taught me how to detoxify and treat basic diseases. I learned that the technique was better than that of a doctor in King's Landing, rather than that of a clinic in Yamamura, because I began to live here.

The master looked at me with a smile without saying anything. I couldn't calm down because I was watching something grow, but I couldn't tell you not to look at me like that in front of everyone.

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The next day, when we were ready to leave, we asked about the shop and moved to the temple.

There were not only adventurers heading to the labyrinth, but also Duke Markis. He lowers his head deeply in front of his eyes as he sees me.

"Lord Dick, I beg your forgiveness... my shallow thoughts have added such a person to the search..."

"The Duke does not bow his head in front of the people. That doesn't mean anything goes back to normal."

"But... in the face of the existential crisis of my country, I will pull your legs for my own sake..."

Eileen went to Markiss' mansion wearing a mask last night and learns from him about Clive.

Markis mistakenly thought that the "Masked Savior" had come to solemnly himself. He was so scared that he asked me what to do with Eileen through a magic tool that he could remember. I told him I wouldn't blame him anymore if I thought he was good - Markis still couldn't get over it and came to apologize to us.

"... the masked saviors are watching everything. For them, I tried to harm Dick and the others... but I'm not dead yet either..."

"Die or not die, that's not it. What you need to do now is think about the life of the people of King's Landing, that is, make politics better. That's something I can't do with a single guild master."

"Next time you do something extra... the section of your Mansion will have a better view."

"Ah... yes. Let me remind you again and again of my liver...!

Miralka stood next to me sometime and threatened Markis with distraction. Knowing the origins of the two names of "Poor Disaster" will show that what she says is not a joke.

"I'm not the one who suffered the direct damage. Once this operation is over, I want you to apologize again."

"Yes... I've heard from the masked savior that the wounded are coming out."

"You tried to act selfish to believe so honestly what the saviour said. I wonder who he wanted to protect."

"Gu...."

Miralka relentlessly pokes at the pain. As far as Rowe knows, Markis tried to use Clive's power to get out of Primiere.

A confrontation between the Orlandos and the Størens. Having been caught up in such a thing, Shelley was seriously injured once.

― ― To be honest, I didn't visit Markis because I wasn't confident that I could contain my anger.

"... I also hear from Primiere. In the future, although it is the Duke, you should report any involvement in the exploration beforehand. You can ask for that."

"I understand. Kirsch, our family ordinance, will be our liaison with Dick… I will not mention it now, but I wish you good luck."

Marquis leaves the temple with the butler's old man. Kirsch came out of the rest of the Orlando guards and came to me.

She brought a favor to my guild to prevent Vincent's rebellion - and then moved to the Orlando family, but I can hardly say she's benefiting from the job. It is a profession that everyone in King's Landing aspires to if it were to be a decree of the Duke.

Kirsch, with his bright red hair tied behind him, smiles brightly as he comes out before me. I had a tough face when Markis was there, but this gave the impression that it was quite soft. The clothes you are wearing, and the skirt you are not wearing, are also dressed up as active women.

"Long time no see, Alliance Master. I've always wanted to say hello, but I can't let you bother Dick on the front lines...."

"No, you can always say hello. I was wondering what kind of day I was spending at home in Orlando."

"Yes, such a rude word... even though I was picked up by the Duke, I'm not standing in front of a hero like you"

"This guy doesn't like to be treated like that. Treat them as people around them so that nothing happens."

Today, Miralka has been very kind to me since I got my portrait back from Lowe last night.

I'm glad to hear that, but I'm not feeling well. If the ideal has exploded for a gentle Miralka and other men, it's very troublesome - I try not to feel heterosexual with my party mates.

"... what are you looking at in love with? Just because a woman made a slight mistake doesn't bother you."

"Yes, that's fine. Always criticize me."

"Master Dick is tough on himself... but I have no feelings for you other than respect. It is because you are the same hero that you will make loving complaints against your companions....."

"Ah, love... what are you talking about? Don't get me wrong, it's a pure and unmixed complaint."

Miralka stabs her nails, but her cheeks are red. Kirsch hides his mouth with his white gloved hands and laughs elegantly.

But she changed her mind, tightened her expression, and said with a samurai's face.

"Fifty of the guards from the House of Orlando are coming to us, under the full command of the Alliance Master."

"Oh, thank you. I'd rather ask the Duke for the materials. When you build a base in the Labyrinth, you'll need it. I just want to make a place on each floor where people can escape."

"Yes, sir. We will work with the Adventurers and the Knights to increase our base."

This will also make it easier for those on standby. Newly boiled monsters are still weaker than older monsters, so the hierarchy we trampled is not that dangerous.

All that's left is to move on - you don't have to trample all the remaining 90 floors, first you have to use any method to get down to the bottom. Exploring the later hierarchy can be a challenge for Explorers after sealing Snakes.

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Launching the magic team of the transition and descending to the eleventh floor, the base was crawling with tired adventurers.

It's simple, but Kasumi and Leonid are discussing it with a tough face, as if they were sitting on the main team during the battle.

"Oh... you're here, Dick. I've been waiting for you."

"Mr. Leonid... maybe you spent the night exploring?

"I didn't mean to do that at first. It's an abandoned fortress in the woods... so I found a soldier's journal written on the verge of retreating."

"As the Lord told me, it was a monster we could clean with our own hands... but the Hobbgoblin herd made it difficult. My skin has turned black, so I think I should call it the dark (dark) goblin... but there's an individual who uses magic and it's hard. My dagger broke my bones."

Kasumi pulls out the dagger and shows it, but the blade doesn't spill - but when she concentrates on her magic, she's experiencing metal fatigue.

"I'll introduce you to a good blacksmith if you care for your weapons. I think the workshop I always use at the indigo maiden pavilion is good, but I know the power of the mogri."

"That's great, I'll let you know later. If this breaks, the best product will disappear. I was worried."

Kasumi's eyes remain closed, but his smile is gentle and has the power to reassure those around him. Leonid's tired eyes were also revived, and he wiped his face with a handkerchief from an Alliance member as he sprayed the water bottle over his head.

"Oh, sorry, don't take care of me... but it's a diary. A lot of worn out parts can't be read, but after Hobbgoblin raided the fort, the soldiers who wrote it ran into the hidden room and survived for a few days and kept writing the journal. But unfortunately, they probably killed him there. There was a grudge about why the kingdom wouldn't send reinforcements and hide the existence of this labyrinth from the people."

From the leather bag, Mr. Leonid takes out the leather-cover book, which has black stains everywhere, and gives it to me.

Imagine that a book made of parchment had few scratches and was not in poor storage condition. Goblins will not be able to read, but this journal has been treated as a treasure taken from humans.

I glanced through my eyes. I had some interesting information, but what was written on the last page drew my consciousness at once.

(Magic Letters (Runes)... this pattern, like I saw it somewhere...)

"Master, can you take a look? I remember seeing this somewhere...."

"This... I think the magic team depicted on the altar I found on the seventh floor contained these characters. It seems to have something to do with it."

The text on this page is blurry and unclear, but I can read fragments of the string "Summon".

Hmm, 'Summon Monster'. If I may, I can call someone this letter indicates. I told you the demon or the snake would come out... Master, what should we do?

Does this labyrinth have a unique spirit, or is it a monster?

I don't think a single soldier can summon me, but if there was a summoner in the fort at the time, it could be that I summoned something with this magic letter.

That led to the collapse of the fort - no, even if I'm lost, I can't help it.

"Dean, it's okay. There are many types of magic letters, but this shouldn't be dangerous. Probably a fairy."

"Fairies... I've heard of them, but I've never seen them. Is that what summons you?

"It's unusual to say it's unusual, but if you go to the forest where the fairies live, you'll answer the call. In my experience, there is no more detail in the land where I live. If we can summon the fairies, exploration won't go far."

Leonid opens his eyes and Cashmere is also interested. If I could call the fairies, I would like to see both of them, but given the risk, I should summon a small number of them.

I tell them that I want to change the place because there may be danger in trying to summon using magic letters through the magic pierced earrings that everyone has. Lotte and Shelley were particularly nervous, but the mob was calm.

(As we are watching, the danger is minimized. Don't tell me you're not going to try the summons alone with Master and the manager.)

(Yeah, I know. If you do that without consulting me, I will lose my place at this party)

Answering Cody's thoughtfulness, everyone was relieved to hear it. Miralka explains it to the two Alliance Masters on my behalf.

"I'll change the location because it may affect the surroundings when I summon you. Looks like you're tired of exploring all night, so you should leave it to the replacement."

"Let me see... Dick, we're kind of expanding our base."

"It'll be safer for other Explorers. It is better to stiffen the area around the magic team of metastases too hard. Well, if you take down a goblin like the one you two fought against, it won't boil anymore."

"It seemed to me that they sucked over the years. I won't be late for immature monsters either... fuah. I'm sorry, but I'll let you sleep for about three hours."

Mr. Leonid and his men migrated biting and killing yawns. Mr. Kasumi also smiled at us before moving along with the women close to him.

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It goes up to the ten floors where the Spiritual Dragon was. Such a large space is a good place to try a summons.

Master and Verlaine draw a magical formation on the ground. When ready, Verlaine pulls out her dagger and tries to hurt her finger. He said he needed blood for the summons.

"Verlaine, can you use my blood?

"Master's idea not to let a woman slit her finger feels something, but... ah..."

"Already... Dee-kun. I'm indifferent when it comes to me."

"I can use healing magic."

I pull out the sword I wore a little and scratch my thumb. And when I drained the blood into the magical formation, I recovered and wiped the wound with magic.

"Summoning you now qualifies you for a contract with what your husband called. Well, as long as the will makes sense."

"If you call something bad, I'll calm you down."

Yuma came right behind me, even though I told her to look at it from a distance. With that devotion, I want to stroke my head unexpectedly, but I weigh myself in time and time.

"Then I summon you... 'Come before me, Lord of the covenant, engraved in the true letters of old'"

When Verlaine reached out to the magical formation and chanted, the light flowed out of the formation, transforming it into a cylindrical pillar of light.

--A small figure emerges in the light. As I suspected, it was a girl the size of a palm with four clear wings.

(Is this the fairy...? Or...)

The fairy that kept her eyes closed trembled. And without a sound, my wings began to pluck, and my eyes opened slightly.

"... muu. Even fairies often wear clothes, but are they naked?"

"Ah... don't look, Dick! Hauu, I can't reach it...."

Emma jumps from behind and tries to hide my eyes, but there's something soft on her back in the clap, not if she's concentrating on the back.

Why was the magic letter written in the soldiers' diary to call the fairies?

If the fairy understands this word, I would like to extract information. Verlaine is right, because the fairies who live here have knowledge of the labyrinth.

"... it's been a long time since I've seen a living child. I thought they were all dead."

A fairy said in a small, often passing voice. There are no ups and downs, and the expression looks like a doll.

"It was... you who gave me blood. Even though he is a child of man, he possesses powers that do not seem to be man. The vessel is bigger than the one that used to be part of the snake seal."

"... is that the first king of Albain?

The fairy nodded small and his eyes, which seemed to be half asleep, fully opened.

She shifts her gaze from me to behind - there was Sherry watching from afar with Cody and the others.

"It's the age of the Spirit of the 'Snake'... the Spirit has awakened, the body is already awake."

"I see...."

"... what kind of existence are you for this labyrinth? What does' snake 'have to do with...?

Master's ignorance of existence means he did not encounter it a thousand years ago.

But the fairy side was different - when I saw the master, the expression changed for the first time.

What dwelt in those sad eyes was like sorrow or loneliness.

"... long before this' Berthalis' floated in the air, I was summoned to monitor the seal of the 'Snake'. Berthalis fell to the ground because the snake seal was broken. However, the seal changed shape and disabled the 'snake' again."

I have to tell Leonid and Kasumi later, without hiding it.

The magic letters they found, the fairies summoned by them, were literally the ones who knew all about the ruins.

"Unless that elf chants, I'm not summoned. Berthalis was an island made by Elves and the ancients. I'm also made to imitate elves."

As if you were reading my mind, the fairy says. As I said, fairy ears were in the same shape as elves.

"Fairies... no, you mean spirit-making (demi-elemental)?"

"That's what I've been called. I was created by Elves and the Old Man."

The fairy affirms Verlaine's question. The old man - what it means is that the master and his best friend are "the one left behind".

Why is Master the only one who can seal the snake? Even if we know why, we still have a lot of questions.

What is a "snake"? If I'm right, the answer is...

"The Berthalis Snake was made just like me. But even the creators of this power have retained it... and sealed it in the deepest part of the floating island."

― ― The "snake" was created by people who lived on floating islands.

People with much better magical civilizations left and scattered floating islands that were destroyed by the serpents they created or fell on the ground.

The survivor or descendant was the master and his best friend.

"... you want us to take responsibility for what they did now?"

"Once the Snake is on the ground, the creatures of this continent will perish. In order not to do so, we have to replace the snake, which took over the old dependency and started its activities, with a new vessel."

"Already the Snake awakens in the deepest depths?

I listened without being upset. Even if what the fairy is saying means to become a new "snake" vessel for the master, it is the same thing that I knew from the beginning.

The master intended to take over the seal from his best friend. Even if I knew it meant death.

--I won't let Master die. Then I have one thing to do.

"Master... what the hell are you doing..."

"... Dee-kun, no... that's not something you can handle 'human'..."

Even if it is like challenging God to fight.

If that's the only way.

Only those of us who fought against the Devil King and got stronger can even be qualified to challenge him. It has to be us who are separated from the strength of the 'human'.

Defeat the "Snake". Or, disable it. In order not to lose the master and not to send problems ahead to the people of the kingdom a thousand years later.

"--If you knew about this labyrinth, you could do it. Take me where Snake is."

…………

Fairies don't answer. But looking at the reaction, it turns out it's not impossible.

--And I knew it.

In this way, my people can't watch from a very long distance.

Miralka, Eileen, Cody - and Shelly.

Shelley didn't bring Lotte. Shelley's strength, which has grown with the possession of spirits - but Lotte remains as strong as the S rank - is too dangerous to face the "Snake".

Still, Lotte didn't lean or anything. Her eyes, which sent her sister out, were filled with pride as one of the guild masters and unwavering trust in her sister.

"We'd rather stay than you alone. It's not like you said," You need a division of roles to steadily win against a superior opponent. "

"The samurai tremor won't stop anymore. You feel like you've finally met someone you can really fight?

"I don't want you to say you're going alone. I can't leave you alone because you have something like that."

"... I may not have the strength. But if I had a Spirit, there might be something I could do. If you're manipulated, kill me."

"I will never let that happen. I will protect Shelley and your souls."

It's not that the five of us aren't afraid, but from that word, we can only feel so domineering that we're embarrassed.

--I regret thinking about going alone for a moment.

They always pulled me forward. I showed strength, feared being called monsters, covered them from behind, and told myself it was my role.

Unprecedented, they were brave men and heroes - I was just looking at it from behind.

But not just now. Whatever happens in the deepest part of the labyrinth, I'll never stand out.

All you have to do is keep an eye on them. I don't need any other honor.

"... I'm sorry for trying to dress up. Guys, come with me... no. Let's fight together."

Yes!

Even Miralka chose the same answer as everyone else. To unite all who come to the battle.

The fairy is watching us in silence. Verlaine placed her hand on the shoulder of the master who was turning his back on us - the master's eyes were wet and red with tears.