Hitsugi no Maou

Where it used to be the Senate floor.

In the deepest part of the building, where the soldiers cemented the entrance, the people of the king's capital and the villagers of the village of Horpo were hissing.

While listening to the sounds of war echoing from the outside, people hang their heads and pray at the statue of Morg, which is built in the center of the hall.

Nagi was in such a corner of the space, sitting in a stone bench with his little one in his arms.

He opens his mouth to her as his little one rolls his eyeballs firmly as he bites his lips and nags.

"Mr. Nagi, where did that black doo go? It's a shadowy doodle of a demon king's servant. Soon he's gone."

"Little one...... aren't you scared?

"I'm frightened. But there's Mr. Nagi, so you can't sift him. Men look strong in front of people who seem anxious, and you have to hold on to them.

Otherwise, we'll cry together when we're told. "

From the outside, I hear a distant sword trident.

Nagi grinned as she hugged her little body and sighed small.

"I'm sorry. This country is showing you terrible sights. People get hurt, they die all the time..."

"That's not true. Something that Morg has risen. A fallen Morg came back to life and went back to the sky... so glad to hear it (...), right?

……

"We're going to fight back, right?

Big reversal!

Nagi thought sincerely loving the little one who raised his voice in his chest.

If my own son were alive, he would have made a good friend with this kid. Little one, smart and gentle. Because he's a child with a pure heart.

... I don't want you to die. Like my son, there are plenty of kids to see burned to war without being able to grow up.

Even if I am the shield of flesh, I will not let this child die. Something that keeps you dead...

"Yikes!!

Covertly, a woman sat right next to the Nagis screamed. As the surrounding gaze gathers, one scream and one fury after the other in the hall.

Nagi was reflexively covering his little body when he saw what the woman next door was pointing at with her eyes peeled off.

Right in front of the nagi, there is a blue-white translucent figure.

Though it still seems obscure, it certainly looked like a piece of clothing from the Kingdom of Coffin, a testament to the senator.

There are dozens of the same shadows in the hall. They all stared at the floor and relaxed when they appeared without anyone knowing.

A figure in front of a nagi gets a groaning voice.

"We are not wrong... we just... the way the people can live... that's all we ask for..."

"... Speaker?

The moment the nagi snapped at his familiar voice, people panicked.

He jumps out of the hall with us to the emergence of things he doesn't know what to do. Neither did the voice of Nagi's deterrence reach the ears of those fleeing, and the hall was almost deserted in a matter of seconds.

Nagi was inadvertently getting up from the bench and poking the chancellor, listening to the footsteps going away to the exit of the floor.

The blurry body has a definite sense of flesh, and the chancellor easily falls to the floor.

Nagi scolded them out loud, staring at the other senators standing in the hall.

"There's a snobber adventurer out there! What are you guys doing!! Gonna kill everyone!?

"... believe me... it's not a lie... think for Coffin... so here we are according to the word of the Demon King..."

…… You guys are always...!!

Nagi hugs the little one and slowly falls back to the hall door.

The chancellor, who remains down, reaches out to the nagi and mumbles more words.

"Please, let me work for Coffin. I want you to understand our will. I'll do anything...... we're Coffin's brains. Any measure..."

"Go back to hell! I don't need your wisdom!

The plague god! and the spitting away and running nagi stopped feeling pain in his arm shortly afterwards.

The little one is biting the nagi's arm from the top of his clothes. To the nagging with his eyes rounded and utterly silent, the little one immediately took his teeth off his arm and said with a sorry face.

"I'm sorry, but wait. Just a little..."

"What?"

"I'll talk to that guy"

Then the little one out of Nagi's arm rushes towards the chancellor.

Nagi followed him in passing and grabbed the little shoulder that stopped in front of the chancellor.

But the little one gently holds his hand against the hand that grabs him and speaks to the chancellor with that attitude.

"Grandpa, you're a tough guy, aren't you? About the hunter...... remember?

"... the woman of the Tioline Forest... we sold to Snobba..."

"Do you think it was a bad thing and even a little bit?

Moment after moment, a light dwelt in the chairman's eyes, glancing the little one directly from the front.

Nagi hugging a chick. But the little one still asks the chancellor as he presses against the shoulder of such an onion.

"If the grandfathers hadn't told Snobba about the hunters, maybe the hunters would still be alive."

"We're not wrong! To save the people, I did everything I could to keep the blood of the Coffins alive in this vortex of unparalleled national calamities in history! No one deserves to blame us!!

"... it is..."

The little one exhaled like he was relieved (mostly) for some reason.

I look up at the nagi that frowns at me, and the little one laughs small, "That's enough."

"Let's go to everyone. Goodbye, Grandpa."

……

Nagi retreated from the nagging chancellor again, this time out of the hall door.

Running down the hallway, I say it with a little blame on the little one in my arm.

"I wish I could have followed you on even one of the evils. You chewed on my arm until you talked to me."

"Sorry, that hurt...... but I really wanted to make sure"

"What?"

"About the hunters, whether those people are sick or not. I know very little about those people, but I only knew I was involved with the hunters."

The little one narrows her eyes as she buries her face in the chest of the onion.

"If... you want to apologize to the hunter, I wanted to tell you. The hunter said he wasn't angry."

"... Huh?

"The hunter was ready. I knew if Snobba conquered this country, someone from the Coffins might snitch on him.

But here's what he said... I'm not a Coffin, but I live on the Coffin border, so there's no way I can get the Coffins to protect me. Instead, we have to fight Snowba in return for letting him live in the country. "

Nagi narrows his eyes as he runs down the hallway.

I rinsed my nose as my little one turned his ear to the heart of the snail.

"So the hunters don't resent the people. So if people were hurting their chests about the hunters..."

"... poor hunter?

"... yeah..."

Forward, you can see the exit of the floor. Beyond the open doors, the backs of the running people and the soldiers who follow them.

And the nagi screamed unto no one, as he smeared his teeth.

"Book it!! Always this guy is just stupid!!