Kuro no Maou

"... so you're the only one who's escaped home alone"

"Uh, one and one."

If you notice, Eye was standing in front of Knolls, commander of the occupying forces, and Deputy Sylvia in a room of command.

"Silly Yarrow! Neither is the same!!

Knolls growls and yells at the way he answers with no evil at all that only he and his cat have returned alive.

"Please calm down"

Seriously, to Knolls, five seconds before he punches him, Sylvia ears him cold.

"Have you forgotten that she should probably be a favorite under the Cardinal, not a bad hand?

"Guh... but yeah"

"I don't have time for her, you'll have to think about it right away"

Shit, I don't know what else to do.

Knolls manages to heal the spearhead of anger, meditate his eyes and put his arms together, in the wind that there is nothing more to say to this ridiculous adventurer.

"Thank you, Adventurer Eye, you may step back."

"Yes."

One missing reply between them, Ai left the room with Tsumiki to Otomo.

"... but don't be a battle-like fight at last this time"

There was some anticipation in Knolls' words.

He's not as good as Kilvan, but he's a raw cross who despises the Demons, and despite that, he's been able to occupy the village with little combat until now because his deputy, Sylvia, negotiated well and held the reins to keep Knolls from going wild again.

Sylvia's skill in moving the occupation forward is to be appreciated, but for Knolls, who nevertheless came intentionally to "list the Demon Nation as a blood festival," the ‘peaceful’ action so far has been a little dissatisfying.

"I'm guessing the excessive conduct of the Kilvan Priest made the Demons feel strongly defiant"

I have already heard about the brutal work of soldiers who have fled, such as the private imposition of the sentence of crucifixion in disguise.

If he could occupy the village of Iles without difficulty, all he had to do was terrorize the villagers, but because he was badly repelled, his actions turned into strong anger and hostility.

"Well, the number of enemies is known, I don't know if it's the devil, but if you care, we can call reinforcements for even 100,000.

Most likely, our troops, who already have enough, will be enough. "

Given the size of the village, even if all the villagers fought armed, it is not far enough for the number of occupying troops led by Knolls.

No matter how many demons don't execute fighting without even staying women and children, the question is whether it reaches 300 no matter how many estimates you make if you limit the number to vigilantes and adventurers who can be counted as legitimate combatants.

Unless that's really even the dragon showing up, my unit alone can settle enough, as Knolls would expect.

Therefore, Sylvia had nothing to say about that either, and what she was worried about was something else.

"There is no escape anywhere in Daedalus territory, I will push you carefully with the devil tribe to regret that you have defied God"

"... no, there is an escape"

"What?

Sylvia's elongated fingertips line the abbreviated map of western Daedalus, spread over the table.

"If you're going from Quaal to Daedalus through Southwest Street, there's nothing wrong with that.

But suppose you fled west on Northwest Street as it were. "

the Galahad Mountains, at the end of the line where it was written was the country name 'Sparda'.

"No way, I hear Sparda treats you like an enemy country"

"If Daedalus already falls, the villagers will realize that their country has already been destroyed, and it is only natural to ask for help from Sparta as a refugee."

"Uhm, is there a chance that the information blockade isn't perfect..."

Knolls roaring with a frown.

"The village will belong to the settlers anyway if you occupy it, if you miss less than 10,000 non-combatant demons, it won't be so much of a problem."

Strong resistance is expected, albeit by a few, so we must be prepared for some damage here as well.

Of course, the damage is negligible from the point of view of the Crusaders as a whole, but if it can be avoided, it will never go beyond that.

"No, that's not all I can do"

But Knolls strongly rejects Sylvia's suggestion that there will be no sacrifice for both enemy allies.

"Sister Sylvia, no matter how much you say, you can't just listen to this."

"… well, the commander is you, so please, I won't stop you."

Sylvia stopped saying anything more unnecessary to Knolls, who seemed to be prepared.

"I'm glad you understand, Sister Sylvia.

Then let's give the order, every demon who flees is a killer, not a single one will escape, never. "

That's right. The unleashing Knolls eyes, just like Kilvan, were host to the rays of fanatics.

Having survived the reconnaissance and finished reporting to Knolls, Eye returned to the camp where his adventurer party, no, the mercenary regiment to be exact, was sleeping, hugging Tsumiki.

The Crusaders' occupying forces use large buildings such as the village chief's house or the Adventurer's Guild, which are bound to be in every village, as their headquarters, to receive the surrounding facilities and make them temporary garrisons.

However, adventurers and mercenaries who are not members of the military are allowed to stay wherever they want if they do not even stand in the way of the troops.

It was not uncommon to dare camp outside the village because they and crusader soldiers were only temporarily employed, not necessarily good friends, and when there was poor interaction, there would be fights and other problems.

The 'Cypriot mercenary regiment' to which I belong can rightly be described as a typical example of this.

There was their camp around a relatively large farmhouse building, standing slightly away from the fence covering the village.

When he returns, Eye heads to his tent, appropriately greeting the members of the walking mercenary regiment.

I got Tsumiki off my arm and today was the time I tried to get into the tent thinking about taking a break.

"Oh, if you're home, don't look at me, Eye."

Eye turned with an obviously unpleasant face to the voice of a man called from behind.

Age is slightly above Eye and so on, a very good stature and face, but on the nasty nigga surface, that figure, which is half-coated without a single piece of armor, only seemed like a breeze that the wretched evil kid grew up intact.

"Can you not talk to me? Stay away from me."

Without passing the cold eye response as if by accident, the man packs a step further as he softens Brown's bouncing long hair.

"Come on, there's no way to speak to the captain like that, is there?

Let's get along better. "

The man is the head of 87 mercenary regiments here, as even Nari himself put it.

It is immediately understandable to anyone that the name is Cyprus and the name of the chief remains the name of the regiment.

"Don't call me creepy, you'll change your name from Cypriot Mercenary Corps to Eye Mercenary Corps if you're one step closer"

At some point the knife pulled out was gripped in Eye's hand, the tip of which was poked at the belly tip of Cyprus.

"I'm tired today, because I flew, I jumped, I exploded, I ran back for my life.

If you weren't a Great Adventurer Atashi, you'd be dead, wouldn't you?

Half-joke-like dialogue, but the eye that still keeps pointing at the knife is inhabited by a true color.

"Hehe, are you serious?

It is a cheerful reply that jokingly responds to the joke, but Eye perceived in the atmosphere that apparently Cyprus's interest shifted to the content of the dialogue he said, that is, the point that ‘there was a battle’.

"Yeah, we're gonna be busy, so why don't we just start getting ready right away?

That's all I left to say, Eye just walked into the tent with a knife.

Cyprus stood on the spot, not chasing Eye, and, no, suddenly laughed as if he'd forgotten about her or something already.

"- Ha ha, can you finally do a ‘matmo' job?

I'm tired of being a female demon, and I'm tired of him saying, "No, no, this is fate, too." - Heh, I'm loved by God. "