"- Oh, I'm finally here!! It's too late!

As soon as I entered the front door of the mansion, my cousin's shout jumped into my ear.

When you look at it, there's Suthern, Kuma, and Mitsuki next to it.

We were going to go a little early, but apparently we were the last.

Looking at the time, 11: 56.

Since then, I've recovered Butcher's last drop item, cleaned up some chairs and blocked the rocky pop point again, which seems to be slower than I expected because I took the time to finish it later than I thought.

And so on and so forth,

"Ku, ku ku......!!

Suddenly Suthern laughed like a villain.

"Knock. Um, days of submission and ninja from the Great Collapse Katastrov to this time.

Oh, how long I've been waiting for this day!

I thought you said something strange all of a sudden.

"- Somaaaaaaa!!

He storms at me as if he had met his parents' enemies.

but well, if it's Southern, it's fine.

I calmly responded with a forward kick,

"Become!?

But Suthern unexpectedly makes a beautiful move.

Paper my kick, grab my foot like a tangled snake,

"Ya, please! He's your stuffed animal!

Get that demon away from me quickly. Yes!!

He's been clinging to my feet and begging me.

"Uh... what's a demon, is that you?

Susan shook her neck gushing as I pointed to her deliberately and adorably tilting her neck.

"That's right! There's nothing else!

"No, but..."

Suthern is overly scared of Kuma, but I think Kuma is just a good stuffed animal who is scared of smiling and is just a little bit viable to threaten people...

No, well, it also feels like it's not just a stuffed animal at the point where it moves on its own, but hey.

I twist my neck, but Suthern's opinion seemed different than mine.

"You say that because you're only looking at the top of him!

You still don't know who he really is. "

"What is it, that? Even aliens came out of the inside?

I said so in hassle, but Suthern moved his masked face abusively.

I look at the beard behind me for a moment, and I dive in my voice and continue.

"... this was a few days ago when I was always staying at an unlocked Alex's house to float the inn bill"

"No, don't confess to the crime."

Or, you're so careless, Alex.

Are you thinking about not looking for a home except for the brave ones?

Well, I have the impression that I'm characteristically locked up in the house or something.

"That day, I fell asleep tired from the fierce economic war of the Death Merchant (clerk) dealing with the Dark Curse (item).

... The problem is, the morning after that.

The next day, I woke up on my pillow with a blade in my hand... and he was standing there!

"That's scary!

To the boulder. I don't think that's a joke. I feel like a level prank.

Suthern continued by shaking his head even more.

"That's not all!

If it ended with something like that, I wouldn't be making so much noise either!

I was so freaked out by your knife that I tried to pretend to be dead, I realized. "

"Hey, what are you doing?"

I had a blade on my pillow. Is there anything more scary than a stuffed animal standing there?

Suthern told me to spit.

"- Already, that breakfast was ready on the table!!

"Isn't that a beauty story!!

Rather, he was as dedicated as any new wife.

"Then, fool! I'm cooking even though it's a stuffed animal!?

And better than me!!

I switched two cups and confirmed it for sure!!

"You're eating well!!

He was a real jerk.

"Ma, wait! That wasn't the end of the weird phenomenon!

The clothes I was supposed to take off and scatter yesterday were beautifully folded!!

"So that's more of a good thing too!

When I was scared and I said that, I didn't know what Suthern was talking about.

"Don't say anything unsolicited! And there was underwear and stuff!

Shame on you!

"First of all, isn't it a problem that you were taking off that embarrassing underwear and scattering it?

"I'm not ashamed of my underwear!!

Suthern crimson to his neck and screams like that, but he can't hang out with the boulders anymore.

"... Kuma"

"Hih!"

When I called, Kuma laughed at Nita, Nihil, and took over the frightened Southern.

I've wasted precious time hanging out with fools.

Everyone else saw that Apple was going to Maki's place while I was hanging out with Suthern.

"... maki"

"Oh, Ringo, hiccup"

"... Hissing"

But even in that greeting of Maki, the apple doesn't break the hard look.

He looked nervous like a kid on a class tour day, distancing himself from Maki without a scratch,

"... look"

The short said apple went to the

- Huh, Huh, Swi ~!

A flowing moving combo of steps, high steps, air hammers!

And

"... this, Kanji"

A slight doya face, somewhere proud with almost no expression!

Maki said, "Ko, what am I supposed to do with this? I've looked at me with eyes like," but I pretended I hadn't seen anything.

"- Totally, they're always busy."

But there was just one guy in that, some guy who wouldn't break his usual iron skin.

"As much as we didn't see each other for just a few days, how dare we all make a scene here.

Are you glad to see so many of your people? "

... Mitsuki.

She came next to me in the face of the chill itself as if she was not interested in such a foolish noise.

"Oh, oh.... Well, just a little, too much, maybe."

I answered blurring my gaze subtly upwards.

Honestly, even if Mitsuki says that to me right now, somehow, I have trouble reacting.

Seeing my confusion, Mitsuki eased the look slightly.

To laugh bitterly, I tell you.

"You don't have to worry, I'm not accusing you of anything.

It looks like this, and I'm quite happy about this reunion. "

to Mitsuki, who is only faceless, but slightly self-derisive,

"No, it's okay! I don't doubt it."

I did my best to return the word of denial.

"... really, is it?

"Oh, not at all! Not at all! Not even this one!!

I insist even more strongly on the mitzki of how I suspect him.

'Cause I guess so.

Above Mitsuki's head, your familiar cat ear said, 'Big joy!' I can't possibly get that feeling when I see you squirming so badly that you want to title it.

"Pfft. It would be nice to hear you say that much.

... right.

If I were a little more intelligent in expressing my feelings, I might have been surprised, even if I didn't say so. "

Mitsuki laughed small and said that.

I was caught by it, and the cat ear movement on my head was like, 'Big joy!' to 'Ecstatic!!' It is turned into.

Look at the cat ears dancing so crazy that even the dog's tail won't turn that much.

"No, you're the one with the head..."

"Of the head?

"... no"

I manage to drink down the scratch words that came out to my throat.

Maybe that, a kind of involuntary muscle or something like that.

I don't know who he is, so let's just relax.

"More than that, I can't even relax very much.

Guys, it's time to end the chatter and get together in the living room!

Let's start the last discussion. "

The operational meeting that started that way, but there were a number of reports that were worse than expected.

What was particularly unexpected was how the city looked?

According to reports by Maki and the Sutherns, the situation in each town seemed worse than I had assumed.

Though the 10th is borderline, I thought Suthern was using sticky fungus to do a demonic invasion reduction, and it wouldn't be a worse situation than normal, but it was sweet.

Unlike the NPC of the game, real people feel stressed and anxious about blocked situations.

That seems to be accelerating the deterioration of security in the town.

According to Mahiko's story, although the Knights suppressed it, something rioting was about to happen yesterday in the Wang capital?

Again, there is no respite for a moment.

However, some information makes me hesitant to take action now.

A weakening of the Demon King, but only a little behind schedule.

In particular, it hurts that the demon king's dying enhancement properties, commonly known as "genuine mode", could not be sealed.

Unless you do a special quest and seal it, the Demon King dramatically increases his Attack Defense when his HP cuts 10%, and changes his Attack pattern.

I remember clearly once in the game because it's killing me.

At a moment when the measures I had put in place beforehand worked and I thought I could defeat the Demon King in a few moments, I felt a shock, a fluctuation, similar to killing from the Demon King.

I don't know if that was a systematic production or if it was due to my hunch.

But anyway, the battle of the Demon King from that moment on was on a different level than before.

My all-powerful attacks are lightly withheld and heavy attacks are instantly returned out of step.

And that's not all.

If this one were within three meters of the Demon King, he wouldn't have done it, and he would have carried out a long-range attack on the rear guard at the same time.

Although I myself managed to withstand the Demon King's onslaught, the other members I brought with me did not.

In the first place, the members at that time had a strong connotation of several pairs to try alone and not strengthen the Demon King.

There is no way that such a companion can withstand the Demon King's attack, and lightly the front collapses.

I've never seen a defeat before.

(Never, you can't leave the Demon King on the verge of death!

In case you don't make sacrifices from your people, that would be an absolute condition.

Fortunately, I now have a 'Special Attack' that I didn't have in my gaming days.

It shouldn't be impossible to knock off the Demon King's HP at once without lowering it to less than 10%.

But...

(So, after all, is there a choice not to use 'The Incarnation of Rage')

Think of that and watch the apple glitter.

Suddenly he sees an apple tilting his neck, and a little guilty.

I might make you worry a little bit again, but I can't help it.

Besides...

(If that's the reason, I can definitely, myself, stab Todome with this hand on the Demon King!!

After all, all settlements also have a desire to put them on their own hands.

Stupid, I know I'm the one who won't gain anything.

However, I was the one who made Ena that way, so I also wanted to be myself to cure it.

"... postpone, do you?

Did you take the grid as lost?

That's what Mitsuki asked me.

The cat ear on his head also said, "Stop?," he shakes anxiously as he asks.

Sure, there are some things I'd like to postpone a little longer and be more fully prepared for.

Still, I declared, as if to shake off the untrained.

"... no, today. Let's do it now."

Clearly, make a decision.

I'm not saying there's no stray.

I can't even tell you that the time has come for us to lose to the Demon King and regret this decision because of this lack of preparation.

I just didn't think we couldn't defeat the Demon King right now.

Get ready for all that, hit as many hands as you can in a limited amount of time, and that's how we're gathered here.

I believed that the odds of victory were never low.

And there are a lot of things we have to talk about and do when we decide.

First, because routes and maneuvers change depending on the extent to which demon kings and demon castles have been weakened, we have yet to reward everyone with plans to crusade the demon kings.

I don't have a very complex operation, but it doesn't translate into no advance explanation for boulders, and I'd like to practice collaborative action in the Demon King's War.

Besides, just in case, 'The monsters of Demon King's Castle flooded out of the open door!' I had decided not to open the castle gate until it was critical so as not to be a thing.

After all, we couldn't open the last door by proper means, so we have to type "Kaji" into the seal of the castle gate and let the doors of the Demon King Castle open completely.

"Explain what the Demon King crusade is all about now!

Afterwards, we all went to unseal the castle gate of Demon King Castle and then... "

"Wait, please"

But in the middle of that explanation, Mitsuki's voice whispered my words.

"It's a waste of time. The opening of the castle gate, I will go now.

Rendezvous locally. "

"No, but..."

When I tried to disagree, Mitsuki shook her head a little sadly.

"Unfortunately, from what I've heard of the operation, I don't know if I can fight enough at Demon King's Castle.

So at least I want to do what I can. "

Mitsuki in the game had specifications that would leave the party if she went all the way around Demon King Castle.

That's not a Demon King crusade for his father, like, and it wasn't a big reason, but independent of that, he still somehow feels stronger that he doesn't want to be on the spot when Demon King Castle approaches him.

When you actually get into Demon King's Castle, it's a delicate place for Mitsuki to be able to overcome that limitation.

"It's..."

When I accidentally jammed the words, Mitsuki stopped by and laughed thinly.

"... don't look like that, please.

Still, I will fight with you.

And if there is imminent danger to you, never... "

"Mitsuki?

Suddenly confused by the atmosphere changing Mitsuki, Mitsuki quickly took his usual cool look away.

"... nothing.

And remember, "Promise."

I said so and walked out to the outside in a refreshing manner.

"Hey, hey, soma! Promise, what!?

I tapped the table vigorously with my van, not lightly with Mami eating in strange places.

I can't waste the time Mitsuki is trying to make me.

"- I'm going to explain the operation of the Demon King Crusade!