When I came back to the mansion and transported Ena to her room and then headed to the living room, the gaze of everyone there gathered on me.

An apple that always looks up to me looking more and more caring when I show up.

Mitsuki looks at this one with her ears pinned, only as a tattooed young man.

For some reason, I weave the example red cape again, and you look at me once while leaning back with its weight.

Maki came here with only her gaze while eating Dustdus honey maple pudding, the famous confectionery of this world.

I knew people and I was distancing myself from the group and shrinking, but as soon as I saw what I looked like, I gained momentum and rose out of my chair, Suthern.

I'm a fragmented member enough to want to hold my head, but there's no doubt that each one of them excelled in a show.

I have a lot to say about the last one in particular, but even this guy came all the way from himself with the right readiness.

The complaint swallowed up in my stomach.

Instead, say something more important.

"I'll tell you first.

I'm messing up this city right now, no, 'The Curse of the Demon King'.

I'm the one who caused this.

I knew this would happen and provoked the Demon King "

To my confession,

"Become, what the hell!

Only Suthern had a major reaction.

Apple and Mitsuki probably knew all along.

Ringo looks at me even more worried, Mitsuki is flat with only one ear pickled, and Mahiki somehow predicted it, after all she nods and ends up eating pudding.

The moment my words were finally over, Kuma finally flipped back, but this probably had nothing to do with my story.

It's uncomfortable the other way around if you can't blame me so far, but the biggest sin I can do right now is not to apologize here.

That's why I said the words that go on.

"On top of that, I decided.

... I will defeat the Demon King.

So I want you all to help me. "

To my words like that,

"... that's for sure"

"From the beginning, I intend to."

First, apples and mitzki stand up and show their will.

Shortly afterwards, you finally regained your posture and laughed wickedly at Nitaa,

"Ma, he was originally the one I had to take down.

I'll help you with anything you say. "

When Maki ate the pudding too, he declared so.

And

"... I am"

Remaining, the last one......

"Only this time. I have no choice but to help you this time."

He said so in a slightly creaking voice, obliquely turning away his masked face.

"It is also true that I will cooperate with Teng himself who caused this incident, but in the first place, I worked with Alex because he said that he would defeat the Demon King.

Whatever you say, the Demon King is related to my sealed and right arm... it feels like there's no such thing as a rival, so to speak.

Besides, I... I don't want to cure my servants... "

I pushed Susan to say something that didn't even sound like it was going to boil down.

"Are you sure? All this time, I can't afford to be reluctant or caring.

If you're gonna cooperate, I'm gonna let you use it relentlessly, okay?

To my words, Suthern did laugh, under a steel mask.

"Hmm, don't make fun of me!

I'm a proud sorcerer, Southern!

That's why I don't imitate things like teasing them before they matter.

For the noble purpose of killing the Demon King, let's go down to your gates now. "

Soaring Southern.

Regrettably, all that time, this guy really looked like a proud sorcerer.

"... then it's settled"

Nature and I were laughing at a powerful dialogue that I didn't think Suthern had spoken of.

Grab a fist hard and declare with determination.

"- With our hands, be sure to defeat the Demon King!!

Where unity of will has been achieved, we finally move on to a realistic story.

First, Maki remarked that trends in the Knights can be captured.

"Oh, I thought Soma cared, and I've been asking about the damage to The Demon King's Curse.

The hardened people seem to be trying to protect them in the castle for now, and some of them have stopped moving outside, but the Knights are trying to get them to the city. "

"My people were made to stop, and those who died from it..."

To my question, Maki shook his head beside him.

"Mm-hmm. Some say my buddies have solidified and rushed back, but all the adventurers in this city who haven't solidified seem safe for now.

I don't think I've been able to find out about the other towns. "

"Right. In the meantime, good.

Now you can focus on defeating the Demon King. "

What I was most afraid of was my buddy eating a time out on his way out on an adventure and the party collapsed, the deaths continued, and what the worst hadn't happened.

I still can't feel safe, but as far as Mayuki's story is concerned, so far it doesn't seem to be harmful.

"But do you have measures?

The Demon King Crusade is the grief of those who live in this world.

In fact, several crusaders have been formed so far.

But no one has succeeded in defeating the Demon King, not even reaching Demon King's Castle. "

Mitsuki spoke while putting cat ears to sleep.

That worry is certainly better.

"That's... we should figure it out.

At least I have as much information as I can get. "

Even an unknown attempt on the part of the Mitsukis is something I've been through several times in the game for me.

If there is no specification change, there is no mistake until it can be cleared depending on how it is done.

However,

"It's just that the problem is the time limit.

I'm going to defeat the Demon King somehow within ten days. "

When I said that, they all looked surprised at the boulder.

Apples don't seem to understand it very well, but Mitsuki tingled his ears, and Maki looks honestly surprised.

As far as Southern goes, "What is this guy, an exaggerated paranoid maniac? ♪ I'm looking at you like ♪

I don't just want this guy to look like that, but I don't even know what it feels like.

But I really have a reason why I have to let things get cleaned up within ten days.

According to the "7743 Report" compiled by the "Cat Ear Cats" players, there is only ten days left for players after the "Blessing of the Demon King".

- 'The 7743 report'.

Also known as the 'Nanashi Sun Report', it is the largest material representing the magnitude of the damage of 'Blessing the Demon King' and links are also posted from 'Cat Ear Cat Wiki'.

The bulk of that report is a text that records how the players, who have been forced to save data by The Demon King's Blessing, managed to stay put and clear the game.

Well, if you put it in a nutshell, it's a play diary.

It is that reality that numerous reflections and validation data have been added to it, and that only when has it come to be called under the daunting name of 'the 7743 report' and so on.

The content of that report varies, but the most important of them would be the information that after the 'Blessing of the Demon King' event, the period during which decent play is possible is about ten days.

This game will continue to play flat even when the dead come out, but only about the negative elements is the diligent 'cat ear cat' thing, in fact when the character dies, a little disadvantage is starting to occur.

For example, when an adventurer dies, the rate of increase in the degree of demonic invasion around him increases, when a merchant dies, prices rise and the price of an item soars, when the Knights die, insecurity and banditry events become more frequent, and when a city celebrity dies, the city loses its vitality and events become less likely to occur.

If these are one by one, we don't have a lot of influence, but if that builds up for dozens of people, it's another story.

The person receiving the 'Blessing of the Demon King' generates the same disadvantage that he is dying until it is lifted.

Marriage to the same sex is also possible in this game, so almost all marriageable characters should have been suspended for time, regardless of the player's gender.

And a marriageable character is mostly a character with great power, and naturally the disadvantage at death is also greater than other characters.

The fall of the key characters causes the country to decline visibly, and that is the tenth day since the 'Blessing of the Demon King', when it reaches the critical point and various problems erupt.

In this world, events can occur independently of me.

If a deadly event happens in a place without me, no, even if such a big event doesn't happen, it's inevitable that if it passes ten days, there will eventually be victims somewhere.

So absolutely, I want to settle it within ten days.

No, I have to put it on.

What do you think you might be doing with all that?

But I don't think I want to lose any of my victims in this case.

It's also thinking about that for more selfish, selfish, solitary reasons, not for those who sacrifice.

"Mmm. I know how hard it is for you...

But can you really defeat the Demon King in ten days?

So Mayuki poked me right at the core, cutting off my masochistic thoughts.

This guy is dumb to say one way or another, but his head isn't spinning badly at times like this.

When I talked to Maki about clearing the game earlier, I prioritized sending it forward to find out how to get back.

At that time, if I was sure I could defeat the Demon King in ten days, I would have headed to defeat the Demon King before I could find a way back.

And in fact, at that point, I thought it was impossible to defeat the Demon King in ten days.

But now, things are a little different from then.

"Think now if you can do that"

That's what I said, I dropped my gaze on the table.

Rationally, if you go to Demon King Castle and defeat Demon King, you can complete even from Level 1.

However, although Demon King Castle itself has existed since the beginning of the game, Russ Boss' Castle is on the boulder.

I can't even get there by being half-baked.

Helping solve that is the

"This is the item I got this time..."

A number of quest items arranged narrowly on the table.

Besides The Golden Key, which I picked up from Lyden's feet, there was a really wide variety of items there, from keys large and small, colorful gems and treasure balls, dull grey relief, miniature city models put in glass cases with water, silver cups with clear colors, to ducks and rubber balls with toys at the end.

It's just, still,

"I knew it would be difficult..."

To reach the Demon King in ten days, I will not forgive the boulders.

No, you clearly won't be able to.

It's not that there are not enough items, there are too many events that need to be done from here.

The quest items the character has are more of a small number of objects that can be used as is to go to Demon King's Castle.

Like Ryden's keys and the silver cup here, it's often the key item you'll need for your next event.

With this many items, it is also possible to perform all Demon King related events, but ten days is very short of time for this.

To challenge the Demon King in full condition, it is necessary to perform more than a hundred events graciously.

You should be able to get some quest items ahead of you and make quite a few shortcuts than you understand the tactics of most events, but still it's like ten days is not enough.

First of all, to a minimum, you should think about which event to perform to fight the Demon King, which is best.

There were three obstacles, in other words, walls no matter how strong they were, that absolutely had to be countered by challenging Demon King's Castle, regardless of game age, parameters, skills, bug use, etc.

It will probably be these three things that we have to work out first right now.

The first is the dark cloud over Demon King Castle.

If you approach Demon King Castle without measures, you will die instantly no matter how defensive you are by lightning falling from the clouds, so you have to get certain items to protect yourself.

However, there is a countermeasure item among the quest items obtained this time.

We can use this to greatly relieve the damage from lightning, so we'll figure it out.

The second is the sealing of the great door that leads between the demon kings.

There are several other doors that are closed by tricks, such as the castle gate at Demon King's Castle, but if you're prepared to go solo, you can mostly slip through them with the "Mirage Wall-Through Bug".

It's just that only in front of the last door where the Demon King is, it's a safety zone, and I can't use my skills there.

Only the door there needs to open somehow without relying on the bug.

It is difficult to clear an event to unseal this door, and it is unlikely to be very timely, at least in the next ten days.

but there is actually a backhand that opens the last door without having to have that event.

In the quest to open the castle gate of Demon King Castle, there is an event called Entering Hiragana's four-letter keyword at the end.

Here, if you put in the correct four letters "Kaimon", the castle gate of the Demon King's Castle will open safely, but if you type "Kaimon" here, for some reason, there is a play setting that all the doors in the Demon King's Castle will open.

With this, naturally, even the front door between the demon kings opens lightly.

However, this backhand is the sword of the blades.

The difficulty of the Demon King's Castle attack jumps more than a few times at once, as demons that were somehow separated from room to room will strike at the same time.

If we use this to step into Demon King's Castle, there are no reports that we've suddenly been surrounded by dozens of demons, and that's not going to be a battle unless we have an overwhelming difference in abilities.

However, I am aware of the impotence from the beginning.

If you're going to challenge a demon king without weakening, it will also be true that you need enough strength to judge it.

Even if the battle gets tough, this is the only way to open that door.

I'm thinking of using this backhand to try Demon King's Castle this time.

And finally, the most troublesome third obstacle is the blood pond around Demon King Castle.

It is said that the bottom of the volcanic crater where the Castle of the Demon King is located, and its blood pond accumulated at the bottom of the bowl-shaped terrain, is the end of those who have ever challenged the Demon King.

Its ponds, boiled about by the heat of the volcano, were also inviolable zones that systematically refused to allow players to enter.

Because the Demon King's Castle is surrounded by its blood pond, you naturally have to cross this pond to get into the castle.

However, in order to do this, we need an item called 'Bridge of the Moon', and to obtain it, we must perform rituals when the Moon is full, three, half or new moon, and gather the power of the Moon in an item called 'Cup of the New Moon'.

Perhaps this is the quest to be the biggest neck in the 'cat ear cat' offense, and this really takes over a month due to the order of rituals and the age of the months.

Of course, there's no time for that to happen to me right now.

All this time we have to ignore our game-era knowledge and somehow attack that pond without the 'Bridge of the Moon'.

Fortunately, unlike in the game age, intrusion restrictions on players are not working.

With air hammers and instant protrusions, I can get over the pond by myself.

However, given that I'm taking my people, I still want to manage to get rid of the pond, or even the bridge so I can get over it.

(After all, is it best to use the right items to make scaffolding?

No, but there's thunder when they take up too much time...)

Thunder relieves with quest items, but some damage goes through.

I know it's no problem damage if you can run through it, but it's a little harsh considering stopping your legs and doing the work.

(So you make a hole somewhere and bleed out the pond or something?

... That doesn't work either.

That blood pond builds up in the lowest level of the fire escape, so we can drain the water... Hmm?

For some reason, my dialogue caught my head.

(No, well.

It looks a little unusual, but that must also be water, liquid.

If so......)

As soon as I thought about it, the idea of an attack flashed on my head.

It's a little bit of a change of mind.

Nothing. Eliminating or bypassing that is not the only solution.

"- Okay, I've made up my mind!

That said, when I hit my hand, I looked around at everyone gathering.

"We're going to the underwater city now to get underwater aptitude items."

"... is!?

Suddenly Susan hardened into words, but my intentions remained the same.

The current time is 11: 52 PM.

We will still be able to make it enough.

I do not know when the full membership will be gathered next.

If it moves, it should move now.

Everyone looked at me with a seductive look exploring the bag with the event items in it quickly, but eventually Mitsuki came forward on behalf of me.

"I have certainly heard rumors that the treasure trove protected by the synthetic organism Poseidal, the deepest part of the underwater city, has treasures that will allow you to remain free even in the water.

But are you leaving now?

For decades, the location of underwater cities has been considered unknown.

It's midnight and we're leaving at this hour... "

While struggling to get the item out, I returned an invincible reply to that word.

"It's okay. I plan to come back in about two hours now, and don't worry about moving to underwater cities."

"What do you mean?

I held an item and lifted it to Mitsuki's words.

It's a miniature city model, put in a water-laden glass case.

"- Underwater cities, here they are"