Kuro no Maou

Episode 240: Four Ages

"Yay, there you are, 'Black Nightmare Mad Warrior (Nightmare Berserker)' Chrono and his destiny bond leads you and fellow (party member) Lily, aren't you and Soleil! What an odd encounter, no, this encounter is also defined and fated by far more divine generations -"

Hey, Will.

"Ooh!

"Hello, Prince Wilhardt"

Yesterday, there was so much going on in the dining room that I couldn't get lunch, so I came to check the taste of the learning food after school today. We are the Element Master threesome, but should I say coincidence, I met Will.

Sometimes after class at the last hour of each course, the dining room that shows so much buzz during lunch break also looks somewhere idle.

Students are busy outside of class, including club activities and preparing for quests.

So Prince Wilhardt, who is lonely at such a time, no, and having an elegant tea time where he makes his maid hold aside to his tea, apparently has no plans after school today.

Well, as for this one, it's convenient to talk to, and finally, it's even better because I don't see Nero Julius Ellord, another royal student.

What face can I lower and relate to that angry prince who just made a scene yesterday? If he appeared in the dining room, I would disappear like Sue and quickly disperse.

Now, in an effort to enjoy the fun after-school moments spent with friends in such a wacky way, well, in short, as one of the stories, I decided to shake the subject I had been meaning to hear for a long time.

That's what I want you to tell me about the legend of Mia Ellord, the ancient demon king.

"Holy shit! Tell me about this bloody history of darkness, which is disastrous and divine to me."

"Oh, Will seems pretty knowledgeable, so I thought you might be familiar with him"

"Huh haha! To rely on this all-knowing gray brain is a brilliant break, Chrono!

Come on, this Wilhardt Tristan Sparda will tell you all about your favor, the legends colored and glorious by glory and the history of the shadows that sink into the Great Abyss!!

It feels like I've been flattered, Will, but I already know I have a lot of knowledge of it without joking.

Simon was also surprised by Will's lack of knowledge.

Images like Simon the Alchemist is a genius of reason, Wilhardt the Prince is a brilliant literary talent.

With that in mind, the monocular glasses (monoculars) put on Will's right eye also appear to host an intelligent glow.

Well, it feels like Lily and Fiona, who don't know my ratings like that, are totally pulling back and forth to Will's narrative.

Even on the first day of school, which was also my first encounter with Will, I had sent a subtle gaze mixed with the same confusion and chillness, so apparently the image of him has not yet been covered from "The Weird Prince".

Finally, Celia, a maid sitting behind Will, erasing signs, also sends a cold gaze somewhere to the Lord, who speaks in a good mood.

Well, she's her, too, and I don't care if it's a lot of trouble.

"In the meantime, I've just been over here recently, so it would help if you could tell me from the basics"

"Um, that's true. If so, let us begin by speaking from a general category of history.

It was the beginning of all destiny spinning by the black gods, the first sight, the world was full of light - "

Oh, you're gonna start talking in heaven and earth.

It's a wack that started with a prologue that I can't imagine being magnificent, but I mean Will on a boulder around it, or the stronghold is holding tight.

Based on that, I could understand the division of history that is transmitted in this different world, no, this Pandora continent.

It is four things: ancient, ancient, dark, and modern times connected to the present.

Firstly, the 'Divine Age' at the beginning of the world.

This seems to be not a man, but a time when the gods created this world and actually lived, as it should be rightly called a myth.

Of course, nothing has been revealed about this era.

It seems that the existence of God can be inferred from the historical material left over from the next ancient era.

In other words, would it be an ancient position in modern times, that in ancient times the ruins and magic of the gods remained as legends?

Next, 'Ancient'.

This is the time when Pandora's "Black Gods" actually lived in this world, including Demon King Mia Ellord, who gives shelter to us who live now.

It seems, however, that this era is the longest period in the history of accurate Pandora.

Otherwise, the age of God is over, and the world of men begins, that is to say, beginning with the Rope period in Japanese history, until after so many wars, cultural luxuries and technological developments, the time has come to establish such a magical civilization that it crosses Pandora and modern Japan today.

Incidentally, Mia was born in the late ancient period when this magical civilization developed.

And the Ellord Empire, which united the Pandora continent, was born, and then it is unclear how long it actually lasted, but the 'ancient' comes to a complete end with the collapse of the empire.

The next "Dark Age" is, as the name suggests, a blank age with no idea what was there at that time.

The only thing we know is that the magical civilization that has progressed has been completely lost through this age.

It is unclear how long this dark age also lasted, but still more than people lived, the country will be born and civilization will develop.

And the time shifts with the 'modern' that leads to the present.

In this modern era, uncomfortable to say, however, the beginning of this era is the birth of a nation that has begun to develop enough to take off the dark ages and leave traces of civilization.

Those countries will repeat the same wars, devastation and reconstruction that they once did in the millennium or so to this day.

Many nations have vanished, but some still remain.

One of them is Sparda, and also Avalon, our neighbor.

In this contemporary history, there are also legendary figures who have only marginally joined the 'Black Gods'.

Is one of them the first king who became the ancestor of the founding of Sparda?

"- Whoa, let's get back to the legend of the Demon King, not to much of a wacko who talks about the history of our glorious Sparda."

And finally, it's about Mia Ellord, the Demon King.

"The fact that advanced magical civilization was developed in ancient times is understandable at first glance at the ruin-based dungeons that still remain, but strangely, there seemed to be many parts that were no different from the present"

"What do you mean?

"For example, um, well, Chrono, Mia Ellord was in a certain profession at an early age, you know what that is?

Question back unexpectedly.

But I still feel young enough that young Mia... well, what is it?

"Black Wizard?

"Sure, it seems that black magic could have been handled better than childhood, but it doesn't seem like a wack that made it a profession like an adventurer"

Did you use black magic, Mia, horrible girl! No, it's the later Demon King, so maybe it's natural to say that you can do that.

"If you're not a black wizard, you can't predict anymore, what was it?

"Shepherd."

The moment I hear that, the image of Mia wrapped in mockingbird fur gobbling around the ranch as Mae Mae rang comes to mind.

No, you're not, Mia's not the sheep, Mia's the one with the sheep.

Now I have an image of a large herd of sheep moffing me and turning my eyes...

"Uh, you've been doing some pastoral work for a long time."

"Yeah, but the legend of Demon King Mia Ellord begins with a little ranch called Asbel Mountains."

Either that's a way to build up like an RPG brave guy starting in his little country hometown.

No, but it also means that starting in any capacity is definitely not impossible, beyond the fact that there is a real example of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who went from peasant to heavenly.

"I tend to get the wrong idea, the Ellord Empire is a country that has existed since Mia Ellord was only a shepherd."

"Oh, then Mia - Mia herself founded the Wake. Isn't that right?

Don't worry, I've been getting so settled in me lately, I almost got it in my mouth.

Among other things, I'm likely to tell him in person, if you're not careful.

"Um, Mia, the shepherd, would have ended her life as a single villager if she had been, but there was an intensification of strife over the succession to the throne in the Ellord Empire at the time"

"What does that have to do with a shepherd?

"He was the hidden son of Emperor Ellord, apparently"

Wow, so you said you were dragged out onto the tabular stage of history.

"It is unclear what thoughts and history there were, after all, because there is no detailed literature left, since it was a story before he became Emperor Ellord on the boulder.

But Mia, who was taken out, is like the cadet course at this Royal Spartan seminary, and I'm pretty sure she went to that school.

Perhaps it was to make Mia a convenient royal general who would not be spared to put Mia at the forefront of the battlefield in the future.

So was the question of succession to the throne, but it was more than that, because it was a time of constant warring with other nations. "

I've heard of this warring age setup, even in the boulder.

It would have meant that there was room for the demon king to be born because it was an era context in which it was not strange for such a war to take place.

"But by attending this Academy, Mia shows up at the head, and later meets the legendary knights in charge of the Imperial Army of Ellord, it's destiny indeed!

Oh, something. Mia worked hard when you were a student, too.

But the image of Mia, the student, comes to mind for both the learning run and the sailor, and it's a mayhem in my head.

"Yes, the first and most powerful knight to serve Mia the famous Demon King," Freesia the Dark Knight ", is fulfilling his encounter as a student, everything was kick-ass in the uproar surrounding the pump that storms throughout the city on the day of his admission ceremony," he finds from the excavated recap and thought literature.

There are many surprising points, but the most surprising thing is that pumps have been inhabited since ancient times.

Maybe it's not weird to be there, but I didn't expect to be involved in the legend of the Demon King in this way...

"Meet the other famous members who reign as Pandora's Black Gods," said Artena, the Pale Thunder Knight, "St. Yomi the Sword of the Underworld."

Altena, I wonder if you mean the "Circular Shield of the Goddess of War (Altena Guardling)" or the unexpected, more popular god you've heard of somewhere.

I've never heard of Yomi, but I guess I'll give the swordsman protection by name.

It's a subtly Japanese-style name, so maybe it's knife-only.

"And since all three of them will be queens of the demon king, what a thick student."

"Are you getting married!?

"Um, the other four seem to have met since the war began in earnest"

"Are there seven of the other four in all!

"The story of the Queen of Demons, the seven goddesses of war, is famous, and the walls there will be paintings about them."

Ahead of Will pointing his finger so brilliantly that he could hear the sound of an effect called Bishi, he is certainly decorated with a huge painting titled 'Seven Goddesses of War'.

When I saw it yesterday, it just seemed like a piece of art, but when I think of the beauties depicted there as Mia's daughter-in-law, I get different complicated thoughts again.

Whether Mia was a white tuxedo or a pure white wedding dress when she wedded them... No, wait, if they were women, the answer would naturally be decided.

"My Lady, that means Mia was a man... right?

"Hmm, only a strangely minor theory sounds familiar to question the Demon King's gender"

Well, a minor theory, what is it?

"Sometimes the literature describes Mia Ellord the Demon King in a very different way.

He was an extinct beautiful young man, he was in huge armor, he was like a young child, he looked like an adorable girl, or something. "

"Heh, really..."

No, this is the first time Mia's gender is unknown to me more and more.

I wish I hadn't asked...

"Well, if you become a modern Avalonian royalty of immediate descendants, you may know the true appearance of the Demon King, but with this me it seems to be a secret that you still cannot unravel."

In the meantime, it's definitely not the kind of atmosphere Prince Nero can ask, so I guess I'll ask if you'll have a chance to talk to Mr. Nell in the future.

Hopefully this time the mystery will be revealed.

"Well, sometimes, Chrono, speaking of the Avalonian royalty, there was a noise in this dining room the other day."

"Ah."

And I'm the one who hardens it.

"Chrono?

"Mr. Chrono?

Until now, Lily and Fiona were more obsessed with the flavor of tea made by the maid Celia than with Will's story, but the moment yesterday's story about one thing came out, two horrible glances with a quiet rage in the back of their eyes turned to me.

Regardless, the two of you are not wackos who remember your anger toward me, this is an alley, an eye contact who peeks at me, the leader, in a battle on a quest.

It's also horrible that Fiona, a graceful twitch on one hand in a teacup, looks at you like that, but it's also horrible that Lily, who was being stroked by Celia, sends a cold gaze in her intact position.

"No, it's okay, it's okay, because I don't care about yesterday."

"Mmm."

"Really?"

In the meantime, it helps to heal the spear of anger quickly, though reluctantly.

"... hey, what, was that so awkward to hear?

I asked him if he felt disturbing signs or how Will pulled it off a bit.

"No, I want Will to hear it"

He's one of the few people who seems to trust my testimony.

"Um, well, let's hear it from the heart!

And five minutes later, Will said, My sister is sorry for the inconvenience.