Konjiki no Moji Tsukai (WN)

There are multiple entrances to [Chanjmon Cave].

Wherever you enter from, the power of the Nucleus of the First Demon King has achieved a maze that confuses intruders, but one of them, a slight footsteps, was heard from the gap between the entrances that should have collapsed.

That's somewhere else, not where Kuzel came out. Near the place was a person dressed in black. It's like waiting for someone.

Listening to the footsteps, the person is gazing towards the entrance. The sound gradually grew louder and stopped perfectly after a while.

And the rocks that were blocking the entrance along with the destructive noise of Dogovo are blown away. From inside, someone appeared with a small light.

"Hey Ishka, have you been waiting?

It was the previous demon king Avoros who came out saying that. That invincible smile was always the way it was, but the next moment he got on his knees gawking.

If you look closely, his body was worn out and bloody. A regular person wouldn't have been able to walk this far.

The person in black, called Ishka in a hurry, approaches. And gently attach your hands to his shoulders as you labor his body.

"... too much is impossible"

It was like he was even wearing a mask in his mouth, and his cuddly voice sounded on the spot wrapping the silence.

"Ahaha...... because you just let me go. I was ready."

Avoros smiles bitterly pointing at the sword in his left hand. The words emanating from that little mouth were not as light as usual, but were mixed with exhales that were putting up with the pain.

And huh ~ sighing louder, I sat down on the spot. But it conveys a willingness to never let go of the little light in its right hand.

"Is that...?

"Yeah, this is the Nucleus of the First Demon King."

"Is it worth enough to get it until His Majesty looks like that?

"Yeah, well, if it's true, I didn't want to use Sacrifice. There was a risk that this body would be eaten the other way around..."

"Your Majesty..."

"But I really need this. To fulfill the rest of your wishes."

Avoros stares with his delightful eyes at something like a small fire that emits its blue and white light.

"But why did they leave me here? I was wondering if I would have had to get that kind of scratch if I hadn't stood by you."

"Mm-hmm. You got caught up there, too. It's hard to have complete control over me now. That's why I asked you to wait here."

"... Was it"

When Ishka put it that way, Avoros' lid slowly lowers.

Avoros then exhales heavily, trying to wipe with his hand the large grain of sweat seeping out of his forehead, but Ishka also confirms that his hand is trembling.

"And... you need it, don't you? The rest to the castle... the man who delivers... the material..."

……

Then suddenly the Nucleus disappeared so that it was sucked into the sword held by Avolos, and the next moment Avolos drooled his head with his eyes closed. It stopped working like a switched off toy.

"Your Majesty!?

When Ishka softly supports him, she holds that little body. And the moment I tried to grab the sword that was falling to the ground,

"Oythemeye, I touched Lunjaneye!

Ishka retreats reflexively into the creepy rage she did hear from the sword.

"Ah? What dayo oi, sono kid tabache mattanoka? Gay, gay, gay!"

"... well, you're Sacrifice's will"

"Ah? Nani. Anxious. Ku name. Nden. Dakola!

"... His Majesty is alive. You are His Majesty's sword. I'll have you come with me."

"Ho ho, maa raw kittenalaise. Soleni delicious emon eating Wasetekreta courtesy da. Kitsutte Yarze with Mo Shao Shidake! Gay, gay, gay!"

Ishka approaches the sword and takes it in her hand, quietly and vigilantly.

"Sikkashi, I'm Ertha Amazing Itaga, Sonoga Kini Word Tke"

……

"Annanja, Madamada Dattena. Gay, gay, gay!"

Without nodding. When Ishka has two beings,

"- Aquarius gate"

As soon as I whine small, a large reservoir of water spreads at Ishka's feet.

"Ho ho, water no transfer magic ca? Kushibrini Seeing Taze"

There is no response to the words of Sacrifice, which I say admirably, and Ishka sinks straight into the water with them in her arms.

The next day, soldiers from [Demon Nation/Heros], who were looking around, confirm the collapse of [Shanjmon Cave], but the shock was set to run to Yveam and Akwinas, the demon king, who heard the report.

Deciding it was not a good idea to break into the castle late at night, Kuzel ran to Lillin as soon as he picked up the next morning.

Since Yveam had also received a report of Kuzel's visit beforehand, the soldier who had informed him of it also confirmed that he was Kuzel himself, and then led him inside the castle.

Upon learning of his visit, Lillin and the others welcomed him, wondering if he had finally arrived, but when they saw the look on his face, which was changing his blood phase, they understood that something had happened and heard the circumstances.

"What the hell!? The Nuke was taken!?

Lilyn makes a shout that echoes the entire room being given by Yveam.

"Stupid!? Even a few previous demon kings can't capture you!

The Nucleus of the First Demon King, with the illusionary power to deceive himself as well.

Lillin was treading that it was not available to anyone who had ever named him Demon King. That's all I thought Arre's presence was heterogeneous and not something that someone could get so easily.

"Yes, it certainly shouldn't be as easy to get as I am"

"If so!"

"But suppose you took a way that wasn't easy...... what do you say?

"............... what do you mean?

Lillin, who regained some calm in Kuzel's words, turns his sharply narrowed eyes to Kuzel.

"The previous Demon King used a sword called Sacrifice."

In a heavy atmosphere he says so, but Siuba, Nikki, Mikazuki and Shamoe, including Lillin, who was on the spot, are either unaware of its existence or inclined to their necks.

"... what is that?

"... created by me... Ah, no, it was almost like an accident, but it's a sword that should have seen its birth and sealed it in a place that feels the evil of its existence"

"... What kind of sword are you talking so much about?

A knock sounds on the door of the room as Kuzel tries to spin the next word.

"I'm sorry, Lord Lillin, but I need to talk to you suddenly."

It was Yveam, the Lord of Demon King's Castle, who appeared there. Her face also looked as difficult as if she had another hell of a case.

"... Could you be referring to [Shanjmon]?

"... you knew?

Perhaps the information that the cave collapsed arrived this morning. Yet it seems surprising that Lillin has already grasped it.

"Oh, Kuzel here lived there. I'm here to teach you that."

"Sh, lived there!?

Eveam expresses his astonishing colour on his expression because he did not mention the location of Kuzel.

"K, Lord Kuzel is over there... Oh, no, well... I thought Hiiro might be able to discover something. I came to ask Lord Lillin how to contact him, but if Lord Kuzel knows what happened to [Chanjmon], why don't you tell me?

Apparently, he doesn't know why [Chanjmon Cave] collapsed. So I've come to visit Lillin, who seems to know how to recall the day colors that can also be analyzed and appraised.

But if there is a Kuzel who is a party, she says she wants to hear from him.

Lillin also wanted to know in what process The Nucleus of the First Demon King was taken, so he prompted Kuzel to talk quickly.

I just have one thing to check before I do.

"Hey Demon King, what was resting there...... you know what?

"............ I am aware. I'm still the Demon King."

"Then there's no problem."

That's all I ask, I exhale thinking I don't have to explain it poorly.

"Demon King, I'll ask you a question later, but I'll get an answer, okay?

What I want to ask is why the Nucleus of the First Demon King was kept there...

"Oh, come on, I don't care what you can answer. And yet here I don't know who's listening. I'll show you to the conference room. Can you come?

Lilyn felt the hassle of moving to the suggestion, but decided she had no choice but to respond here with her face up. However, they allowed Siuba to accompany them as a condition.

Nikki, Mikazuki, and Shamoe had a look they didn't understand well, so they decided to take the comprehensible Siuba.

This is the room where the Demon King Yveam and the Demon King's Direct Guard (Kruel) hold the Demon Nation Conference, and there is a long table in the center of the room.

And now Yveam and others, Akwinas and Marione, Lilyn and Siuba, and Kuzel were sitting back in their chairs.

In a position where you can see everyone, there is a chair reserved for the Demon King, where, of course, Yveam lines up. Akwinas and Marione sit beside them, with Lillins in their vacant seats.

"So, Lord Kuzel, can you tell me what you saw and heard in [Shanjmon Cave]?

When Yveam prompts Kuzel to speak, he pulls his jaw small and speaks quietly.

"Okay. First of all, who collapsed the cave..."

That's how I name my predecessor, Avoros, but I found little surprise. Lillin and the others were quite surprised, but apparently Yveam and the others had a very good idea of whose work it was.

"Again... Avoros..."

Squeeze as Yveam squeezes out with a bitter look. As far as the word goes, it still seems to have meddled the anticipation.

"But how do you..."

"Yes, Kuzel, that bothered me too. You were about to tell me about the sword he had earlier, but that sword is liver, right?

I ask, remembering the sword that Lilyn was talking about earlier.

"We talked a little earlier, but the sword he was holding. His name is Sacrifice."

I'm still frowning as to whether no one has ever heard the name. But only Lillin saw it. The moment Akwinus' eyebrows moved only slightly disguised as faceless.

"Sacri...... Faith? It's a name I've never heard of, but what is it?

Marione listens as she touches her proud moustache.

"... Demon Sword Sacrifice. This is the sword that once perceived and sealed the danger."

"... sealed? Shh, I want you to wait a minute. The way you put it sounds like you sealed it...?

Eveam's doubts are especially so, and the other two sight Kuzel with equally suspicious thoughts.

"Right. You may accept that. Sacrifice is the sword that I did seal with this hand."

"Oh, really... why is Avoros doing that Demon Sword?

Kuzel answers Yveam's question with his eyes slightly down.

"I don't know that. I don't understand how I got to know where the sword was sealed, and how I unsealed it. But what he definitely had was Sacrifice."

"... where were you sealing it?

"It's the undersea of the [Belial Sea]"

Most people are stunned when they hear the name.

"[Belial Sea] … an uninterrupted vortex and intense currents in the sea far north of here. And most importantly, a sea of demons designated as a danger rank SSS inhabited by numerous ferocious monsters...... sword there?

It was Marione who asked while explaining that. nodding as Kuzel affirms,

"The fool's off too. Say it! Sure, if it's the bottom of the ocean there, it's not a place where half-breed people can step in cheaply, but someone like you went there? It's a good idea. Come on."

When Marione exhales with her nose as if she were frightened, Lillin, not Kuzel, the tense person to whom the words are directed, gives that look of muckness and unpleasance. But Marione continues.

"He said he lived mostly in [Chanjmon], but that's what's suspicious. That's not a place where people can live. From what I've seen, it only shows that the Imp are screaming."

Marione, watch your mouth.

"But Your Majesty..."

Yveam embarrasses Marione, who vomits words without abomination, but he shouldn't be withdrawing his words just to flatter his shoulders.

Angry with that attitude, Lillin hits Marione with that sharp gaze and tries to open her mouth to hit a word,

"Marione, I don't know if you and I can figure out the essence."

It was Akwinas, who had never spoken a word before.

"What are you talking about?

"I don't know if those who are there are lying, that's not you, is it?

"No..."

The two gaze at each other, but it was Marione who took the gaze off first.

"I can also tell you are frustrated by the deprivation of the Nuclear. But now it's a prerequisite to get a little more information. Give me a little more room."

"This is a long story! That Nuke is in the hands of the previous Demon King! If we don't go get it back right now, he's bound to cause disaster in this country!

Marione gets up with a bang and a slap on the table and momentum. But Akwinas, who receives that anger directly from the front, does not waver,

"The man is not lying. Right, if you say it's on... its odd."

Akwinas flushes his cleavage eyes and points them at Kuzel. Yveam and Marione were frowning with wonder at his words, but Lillin was gently tongue-in-cheek and "troublesome" in his mouth.

"What do you mean, Akwinas? What makes him look odd?... Lord Lillin?

Yveam comes face to face to face to ask Lillin, who would know the circumstances. Kuzel also stares at Lilyn in a bewildered way.

(... Ha, his eyes are really hard)

Lillin looks depressingly at Akwinus' red eyes to expose her frustration. And those his eyes were now pointed at Lillin.

"Don't worry. No matter who he is, he is a guest. I'm not going to do anything you don't want."

…………

The two stare at each other without distracting themselves.

"... let's promise"

"Well, it's a lot wider than that, but can I make that kind of promise lightly or something? You wouldn't be the Demon King."

Lillin's words were supremely natural. It was Yveam, not Akwinas, who reacted first to Lillin's words, who told him to provoke.

"Lord Lillin, if that's what Akwinas says, I'll protect you too."

"............... what if it's different?

"There is absolutely no such thing. There are no words in the king's name."

"…… there is one condition. Have him swear that if he understands who the man here is, he won't divulge it to anyone but those who are here."

"... Got it"

Lillin sighed at her words like that and now nodded small with her face toward Kuzel.

Kuzel also nodded back as he was convinced. He will remember his anxiety, too, but he seems to have judged Lillin's care and Yveam's character.

Lillin leaked a sigh of sighing at his words and now nodded small with his face toward Kuzel. Kuzel also nodded back as he was convinced.

And Kuzel moves his mouth quietly.

"Actually..."

Kuzel speaks of his identity as "Beastman" rather than "Demon Nation" or anything else.

Then Marione had an even more rugged look on her face, and Yveam also had her mouth slightly open and solidified again, but Xel kept explaining.

"Then, dumb...... ki, you think you're that Kuzel Gio?

Marione emits his name with an incredible face.

Yveam, by contrast, looks like he doesn't understand right now. She doesn't seem to know the details of a person named Kuzel Gio.

"Kuzel... I didn't think so when I heard your name, but I still did."

Akwinas seemed to have expected Kuzel to be a blacksmith Kuzel because of his knowledge and the shame of his eyes that broke Kuzel's identity.

"This figure has been changed by Mr. Hiiro. To avoid any extra hassle."

"I see... would it be easier for Hiiro?"

Yveam has been good at moving that little head cocky over and over again.

"But what's the proof?

"What? Are you still not going to believe me?

Lillin creates a grumpy side to Marione's further pursuit.

"Then why don't you ask Mr. Sequence Number One over there to see if Kuzel's lying? Looks like you have big eyes. It can also be a bit of an effort to spot authenticity."

Encourage Akwinas to gaze, and look at him not only Marione, but Yveam as well. Akwinas quietly closes his eyes and moves his mouth.

"............ it's the truth"

That word was enough. The two of us grasp that his "Devil's Eye" discerns the truth. And there's no way he could have lied or anything on this occasion, which means that what Kuzel said proved to be right.

"But why live in a place like that? No, not by now. Why did you come out to the public..."

"You're not talking about anything that's on the agenda right now, are you? What should I ask Kuzel now is what the Devil's Sword looks like and what measures should I take in the future..."

Marione's doubts are particularly true, but Lillin smashed them down lightly. Marione couldn't argue with it because it was also an argument, so she was forced to shut up.

"Oh, yeah. Lord Lillin is right. I'm sorry, Lord Kuzel, but if you're one of Hiiro's people, there's nothing wrong with you. Whatever your origins or background, if that hiro admits it, I won't say anything."

Did Kuzel admire Yveam's words? He opens his eyes and smiles gently.

"Thank you. That boy still seems like a hell of a lot more than I thought."

Lillin discerns that there is an implication in the language that she fears she will not be able to help the Demon King.

"Then I want you to let me listen. What you know."

"Yes."