'-. We did it, didn't we!?

The rolling battlefield of countless corpses, the voice of friends who can't even remember their faces. It is the fellows who fought together who bark victory praises. Oh, yeah. This was when I was human...

The world was overflowing with war. There were as many reasons as there were to fight. When a country is born, it perishes, and every day it prepares itself for war and takes its weapons. Born as a warrior in a powerful country in it, I was proud to say I was a lucky man.

"Oh, this victory will make our territory more stony. No other neighbors will be able to attack."

We grabbed it! Finally, peace is finally upon us......!

It stopped the repeated invasions of neighbouring countries and finally defeated the empire that had the most power in the neighborhood. A triumph that many of my friends took at the stake of their lives. All this time, even an oligarchy me couldn't contain my feelings, barking victory with my people. The continued victory succeeded in showing the world the territory, the power, of our country. Even if the world was still fighting repeatedly, our country was promised peaceful days for the time being.

'Hey, -. What are you gonna do after this?

"I don't care what they say. I will do more to protect this peace than I did to promote you to general in this victory."

"Oh well. This peace doesn't last forever."

"What are you going to do?

'I... I'm going for the blacksmith who was his dream. Look, Aitz, you were always drooling while you were taking care of your weapon at night, right? If it was true, it would have been best for him to be a blacksmith.'

"Do you carry on people's dreams? You don't have your own dreams?

"It was all about the peace at hand. Honestly, there was nothing. But when I think of him, I want to try something."

My country had all of its people fighting with weapons in their hands. But it was no longer necessary, and many warriors let go of their swords. Those who specialize in that path will serve in the armament that is to come, and will protect the people. I didn't have dreams like my friends either. Who can dream, for the battle was repeated to a limited extent. Fortunately, I had the talent to fight. The king asked me to continue to protect my country, recognizing its merits. There's no reason to say no, there's no other way to go. I accepted that I was in a position worthy of my own talent and role.

"Is this your blacksmith? It's narrow, but it tastes good."

'Aren't you subtly disparaging!? It's okay. It's narrow. I'll save you the trouble of picking up the tools!

Everyone who called them friends went their own way. A lively face you never saw on the battlefield. I thought I was somewhat envious of that attempt to enjoy the peace I had won myself. Peaceful years pass, more than a decade. Other countries continued to contend, but my country continued to have peaceful days without incursions by other countries......

"Another tax hike? You're not expanding your armaments anymore, are you?

"It is the decision of kings and nobles. It will be a necessary cost to make the country better"

The taxes that could be collected were limited because everyone could not afford to accumulate them in the era of continuing war. But when the people began to accumulate wealth, the country began to collect taxes. The nobles also remembered to fatten their own personal bellies, so that they could use every hand. Compared to when we were fighting together in the state, we felt the trenches deeper in each position.

"You know, if you take so much tax, you won't be able to do your job properly, right? The nobles have more money than we do, don't they?

"Compared to that time, our country is becoming much richer. I don't have any trouble eating, and I don't have to worry about invasions from other countries. The cooperation of the people is essential to maintain that rich country."

Mouth the everlasting phrase said by kings and nobles. As a position to be sandwiched between, I can understand both statements. If you are, you should have between me...

"Well, that's peaceful... but I don't know what to say, I can't breathe better than before."

"I think it might be..."

It is not easy for the people of the same country to bump into feelings of objection in their opponents. But there were no opponents who could hit their anger, and their grievances just builded up.

"Can't I complain to you, you platelet?" And you, you still use that axe?

"Yes..."

"Take good care of it, but it's a subtle weapon for the general. How about a new one?

"There won't be a war. I don't think it's necessary now. Just use it for training."

'Don't say that, think you'll give me a job. Your arm would be perfect, wouldn't it?

"... Huh. Right. It's not a bad idea to see how you've grown as an artisan."

'Whoa, you're gonna tell me. You always gave us the courage to fight, and I'll hit you with the best, including that reward! I'll show you what a collection of laxios is!

Many of the people swallowed up all sorts of grievances because of their companions who fought together to protect their country, their consciousness remaining. But that never lasted forever. Eventually the people had appealed to the king to improve their own treatment, and they had joined forces to raise their voices. At first, verbal protests also gradually became more radical, and finally began to cause problems that could not be left alone as a country.

"Do you suppress the people? But don't suppress it with force..."

And it was inevitable that we, who were in a position to protect the country, would take the weapon in our hands. Those who survived the war, the half-breed repression was not enough, and domestic strife was already no different from war.

'... hey, -. Was this the kind of peace we won?

……

Desolate streets, rolling corpses, the smell of fire and blood on your nose. But there is nothing to gain from victory. I can't find any joy. All that remains is the feeling left on the axe given to me by a friend.

'If this was the end I wanted to die in the war. What do you think?

……

'- Bad, you hated it. You're always the unfathomable side, but I'm meant to be able to absorb your feelings. You don't have to say anything.'

My friend fought as a side of the people. I pleaded guilty to it as a side of the country.

'Bad. Then one, I wonder if you could ask me. Thank you. I won't die like this. But even if he keeps getting caught, he's beheaded anyway. Then go ahead, with that axe...'

"You tell me to put my friend in my hand... you tell me"

'- Glad to hear it. I guess I can still be your friend. -... Let me burn your figure in your eyes again at the end of the day. That way, I feel like I could go back in time...'

The feeling left on the axe will not disappear forever. If I close my eyes, my friend's smile, who I shouldn't even be able to remember his face on my eyelid, flickers in distortion. What should I have asked for and what should I have done?

With the intensification of domestic strife, other countries have been attacking with all the opportunity. Though I fought it, I no longer had the power to survive the world of war again in my country, where I had reduced the people with my own hands and had lost the power to fight. Still, I kept waving my axe. There can't be any reason to let go of this axe right now. Until my own life runs out, if I don't keep fighting, I'll have nothing left.

'Oh, I thought there were only corpses. You seem to have some breath. "

I met Yugra when I thought it would all be over. Only one of them remained petite and unusually floating in the midst of everyone falling to the earth in a blood-soaked manner.

"Oh, my God, that's a face that's embracing death. Well, it's nothing good. If you're gonna die anyway, why don't you just make one last monologue? Even if you're a man you don't know with anybody anywhere, it's better than talking to a corpse, right?

"... I wished and fought for peace with my people"

That the peace that should have won created further strife and that nothing remained. I was on the verge of dying, exposing my heart to Yugra without suspicion or alarm.

"Hmm. That's a good thing. People can't help but make enemies. Even if we unite if we have external enemies, if we have no external enemies, we will now create new enemies inside. Whether you're human or subhuman, that doesn't change. Don't worry. You just die in normal reason, without resisting it for granted. There was nothing you could do now."

"Now... or... Then when will I be able to resist?"

'Oh, you put it badly. No matter how far back in the past, you can't. [M] It just means that if you're going to live... You've only been answering each other before. [M] Based on that answer, we have to act, and nothing will improve. "

"... well. Right. But even now, I don't think I can accomplish anything..."

That's what I could understand. But I guess I'll be dead by the time I get to that answer as to what I can do to avoid such an end. That's what Yugra said when she was thinking.

"You just have to be the Demon King"

"Demon... King...?

'If you want to stop the human race from fighting, it's good if you become their common enemy. The Demon King is immortal. If you fight forever, the humans can keep taking hands of each other. "

"... I see, that makes sense. But even if they tell me to be like that."

"I thought I could be. If you want. [M] Do you have any regrets? You ready to turn the world against your enemies? If you're gonna make a deal, I'm gonna make your distorted wish come true. '

"- I..."

And I became the Demon King. There is no doom to death, to the existence outside reason that keeps you alive for eternity. Yugra further gave me the power of the 'struggle', the power I deserved to be the enemy of all humans. But not every other demon king had the same purpose. At one point, my prospects began to go crazy due to the "black" rampage.

'I'm sorry. When you move now, man can be truly extinct. [M] Let's just get some sleep. You should be free to do it after you wake up. I'm sure humans will be a little more powerful then.'

"Oh, let me do that"

Yugra put the demon kings to sleep in order to survive humans. "Black", which I decided was out of my control, was also treated so that I could never be on the surface stage again. This is good. After I woke up, I decided to compile an army of demons to fulfill my contract with Yugra.

If it becomes a threat to all of our human beings, if it becomes an absolute obstacle, taking on hatred all by itself. As long as I remain, all the struggle will go to me. At least whoever knows what this axe feels like...

"Really crap. It's an idea you never want to be compatible with."

"To you...... what do you know!? If there is no battle, humans will eventually..."

"Oh, that's good. I'm not interested, and I don't hear your words."

The eyes of a man looking down at me, I don't feel any will there. But the man's eyes are perfectly visible in my heart.

"As for 'me', there was something about the anger that took the lives of my loved ones and all sorts of things. But more than that, 'I' purely doesn't like your way of life. It's just uncomfortable. I'd love to if I could correct it, but your readiness is strong. 'I' would never break your heart. So end it. You will never leave this cave again. [M] Your struggle ends here today. as worthless, not understood by anyone."

This man tramples through my heart, understanding my readiness, knowing my aspirations, yet not worthwhile. It cannot be better for such a person to be in this world. But my body has already been deprived of its function by demonic eating. I can't do anything about this being that can end if I can even point one finger at it.

"Your ideals don't even know your name, they are trampled by just one individual ego. Goodbye, Scarlet Demon King, and then you keep living the hell out of it that creates no value."

He turns his back and leaves the spot. Will it end like this, will it? Then what the hell made me king of demons? What was accomplished. Don't be ridiculous, if you are human, if you understood in my heart......! Breaking through his throat, the demon eater flows into his body. You can no longer even spin words.

"O...... ooh ooh ooh!

There's only one thing I can do. Just put all your thoughts on an unspoken growl and curse him. But he left the place without looking back once.

It will take a little longer for the Scarlet Demon King's body to fully decompose. If it's dangerous, it's the demon eater who already splashed near the entrance to the cave. I can't see any demons on the road already. What you see is a good number of demon eaters present around you. Without a demonic creature, the next attack depends on the allowance or something that moves. But so far, there is no bareback with the demon eater flying over here. That's right, because the magic that flows through 'me' 's body is thinner than the magic of the demonic realm in the atmosphere.

The demon eater even takes in the magical powers around him. The time for 'I' to be preyed upon is already a while away. That said, that won't be the case if you make loud noises or move hard in vain. Compared to that time, you're now incorporating a trace but magical spirit into your body.

The surrounding demon eater stops moving and gradually becomes enlarged while taking in the surrounding magic. If this behavior continues as it is, will it suck up all the magic in the Ghane demon kingdom and become very dangerous, okay there? Some demon eaters have already seen signs of change.

"(No matter how many times I look at it, it's mysterious)"

The immobile demon eaters, which have become more than a certain size, are moving out, and they are slowly changing their size in small ways, sticking with other individuals. And the terrain around it gradually clears up and begins to emit light. The sight is reminiscent of The Black Demon King Killer Mountain.

Demon eaters eat magic and increase its volume, increasing the number of divisions. But if individuals who have absorbed more than a certain amount of magic are nearby, they will decide that no more food is expected. They stick together with each other and change the surrounding terrain based on the magic they capture. They use unwanted individuals as nesting material so that their numbers do not increase too much. It is also because of the nature of demon eating that "Black Demon King Killer Mountain" became such a heterogeneous space.

When I first found out about the demon eater, I wondered why the demon eater would not feed on trees so full of magic that they emitted light even during the night, if the demon eater eats all the creatures that possess magic. And I came to the conclusion that all that surrounding was not created by the demon eater himself. There are a few other things I found out. The demon eater does not attempt to expand his territory by more than a certain amount, and eventually becomes one individual and the activity is sedated. I would have just said that this is a consideration for biological parents who feared that humans would perish no matter how they scratched their feet if they expanded the nest indefinitely.

"(Seems like Nariya Yukura)"

The demon eater was used to stop the black demon king. It was definitely the White Demon King, Naruya Yukura, who created the demon eating from that. If it was a demon prepared to prevent humans from being eradicated, 'I', who stepped on it with some constraint, made several observational experiments of that ecology in the virtual world of 'gold' to understand how it works. The cave will be a complete demon eating nest, but the erosion of demon eating will stop around the cave. I've made it a place where no one leans over, but it would be too much consideration if the Scarlet Demon King were not to be on the table stage in the future.

Even if the Scarlet Demon King is resurrected in the future, it is the deepest part of the Devil's Eating Cave. It is preyed upon before carrying out the activity and keeps repeating the resurrection without even being able to move. For a Scarlet Demon King who has no special magical knowledge like the Black Demon King who summoned 'me', it would be impossible to leave that will barely on others.

"(- Are you sure this is a good idea, 'me')"

I didn't intend to use this method. The reason is simple, because Ilias or Marito can't possibly allow it. Whether to capture the demon eater or let him attack the Scarlet Demon King, he had to do it all by himself. A method that residents of this world can never do without beside. 'I' wouldn't have even admitted it, such as letting someone have it ready to commit suicide. We have to keep them away in order to carry out this method. We have to kick him out of the mosquito net. But it was "I" who entrusted this method to "I". "I" relied on "me" to do these things without feeling guilty. It's about me, so naturally I can understand. But it still throws words at me like I ask myself.

"(- I'm not even sure if Grandpa Kara's dead)"

Marito said at that time that there was nothing else to rush to report. I even reported on the mother of Ekdoyk and the others, so I should have been able to assume that I didn't report on Grandpa Kara because I decided I didn't have to. Then it is quite possible that Grandpa Kara will be safe. No, I can even say it's expensive. Still, 'I' left that room and chose to use 'I'.

"(While I'm at it, I'm timid, too)"

The reason for this is clear. If Grandpa Kara had been heard dead at a later date, 'I' could not have taken this approach. There would have been a situation in which we would not have been able to avenge the use of demon eaters in the presence of the guards of Ilias and Ekdoik, and we would have had to leave the Scarlet Demon King alone. 'Me' was afraid of that. Before someone I could never forgive, I was afraid I couldn't do anything. That's why I didn't even check with Marito that night about Grandpa Kara's safety. If I had confirmed that, at the end of the day, Marito would have stepped up the perimeter alert around the room where 'I' slept.

"(You don't have to talk about it." I "is you and you are" I ")"

Which doesn't mean it's real. It's just a difference in the way the spirit just switches on a case-by-case basis. I might have had a chance to interact a little more if I were a dual personality. A difference is being made between 'me' and 'me'. Needless to say, they're changing 'me'. I'm not going to take this change badly, I even think it's a good thing. It's hard to say it's a good thing from 'me' that I've relied on the 'me' who just hasn't changed since Earth. It's your job to succeed, 'cause I can't do it.

"(Well... the problem that remains...)"

I don't have to worry about falling thanks to the light produced by the demon eater. Don't worry about this either because 'I' will regret all the pain in my body later. The problem is after I leave this cave. There is no demon eater outside the cave. You'll show up in a while, but that's still ahead of you. There's still time to get away from this place. I'm talking about what the problem is and how I can get home safely. Walking from Ghane Demon Realm to Ghane with this body dies in boulders. You run into demons on the road and you die, and you run out of strength. Though Kutow has no problem seeing that Duvleoli has already recovered it, Duvleoli, who obtained information from Kutow, cannot approach this cave. Marito and the others will understand as much as' I 'brought in the demon eater.

"I mean 'purple', I guess I'm keeping Duvreoli waiting where I left Kuto. If I could get there... I wouldn't be able to."

"You know very well"

The shock of being pushed by a stun gun from behind, I honestly don't have to do that to just push it gently to fall. Well, you'll behave with care. [M]

"... As you can see, I'm an injured person, and I'd like you to do something about it. Larheit."

I can't get up completely, but I managed to see behind it. There were three strangers there. No, I can intuit that one is Larheit's new body.

"I didn't expect to go to the Scarlet Demon King alone without a escort. It's not like you."

"Not really. 'Cause that's how you behave in the winning arena."

"I thought you would even commit suicide when you headed to" Black Demon King Killer Mountain, "but I didn't expect to use demon eating. He's a real pain in the ass."

"If we had been watching faraway to that area, we should have caught him then"

"Even for us, I was interested to know what kind of contact you would attempt with Scarlet Demon King. Let me thank you as Laitis for taking care of one of the obstacles."

The actions of the Knights of Tayz, the Garne soldiers, and the Demon Kings could have escaped that siege in anticipation, but they could not fully grasp the actions of the Larheits, whose hands had not completely read through. But I was sure he was planning some interference in this battle between man and Scarlet Demon King and asking how it was going. If I realized that 'I' was acting alone, I would also be aiming to secure it.... Duvleoli or Larheit, which one you encounter first was the gift of carriage or not, but will this happen? Ma, what luck for a man who acted without relying on his people.

"So, if you're going to take him away, I think it's better to get it done soon. If I sense your magic, the demon eater will pop up soon."

"Right. We use magic that suppresses magic, but it will also be a matter of time."

"Larheit, are you taking me to Master Real?

One of Larheit's people raises his voice. She sounds like a woman vocally, but she doesn't feel emotional as if she were a machine. Consistent with the surroundings of the 'purple' or the reality in contact with the Duvreoli... then the user of metastatic magic? This is going to be hard to expect Duvreoli to track down.

"No, I've already talked to Mr. Ritial about his treatment. He will be asked to serve as a trading material. Let's just say we get out of here first."

"Okay. Put on the rest of it. I'll kill you."

"Don't let them use wasted effort because even if they kill you, they just change your body"

"All right, I'll kill you later"

"... let's move"

The other man who stays is responsible for this body. I feel like a hard worker, but I'm also convinced given the character of a woman who uses larheit and metastatic magic. - Is it from this person if it collapses?

"Oh, let the man lose his mind. Don't talk about anything until you hand it over to the counterparty. That way, there's no threat."

"Okay."

I don't hate people with learning abilities, but I wonder if I'll ever like them when it comes to Larheit. At the same time as the sigh, the consciousness of 'I' was interrupted.