Kuro no Maou

The incident occurred on the night of the seventh of the month of fresh water, coming back after a less fruitful outing.

"Sariel, this is..."

One dish is now placed on the table. On the plate is laid the glossy white rice of the cooking stand, on which is beautifully sprinkled only half a dolorious brown loo. Poking your nose is an irritating scent of spice. The seductive fragrance that made me unexpectedly remember hunger. But it made me feel more like, nostalgia, something like.

"Yes, it's Curry"

Yes, it was undisputed, curry rice.

"What is curry? From what I've seen, is it one of the rune dishes because it uses rice"

"No, Curry is our hometown dish."

Curry rice is mostly Japanese cuisine, even at this time.

I'm nothing like a yellow eater character. I'm not a wacko with unparalleled thoughts about curry, but I still prefer it just like most Japanese. I've never seen a curry kind before in Sparda, so I gave up half the time wondering if I missed reproducing Count Red Wing on the boulder as well... I didn't know there was enough ingredients in this country to make a curry.

"Let's eat fast"

You just guessed my will with that one word, and Fiona takes her seat promptly, no matter what else.

"I'll have it."

A quiet dinner began. Occasionally in the lounge, only the sound of the tip of the silver spoon faintly touching the bottom of the plate sounds. I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything, and I ate curry all at once.

"... Welcome"

Yummy. It was the perfect curry.

Potatoes, carrots, onions and pork. It is a recipe with no shards of originality, where only ingredients that should be called Japanese curry rice temples are used, but that is why it is good. Being faithful to the basics is so important that I also struggled to teach the princess of Avalon.

Thus, the flavor of my hometown, reproduced by stunning, made me so obsessed that I wouldn't let him share my thoughts until I finished a plate like this.

"Thank you, Sariel. It was delicious."

"It seems to have been in your mouth, above all"

Simple reply I just heard this morning as well. It's the same faceless look, but do you dare to think about making a curry because there's something like her care or appeal?

Even if he had bruised thoughts, if he ate this, he has to admit it.

"Besides curry, can you make it?

"Sayuko Shirazaki has a wealth of culinary knowledge. Recipe reproduction is easy as long as the ingredients are aligned"

Shirazaki has a great level of female power when it comes to good cooking. I definitely wanted to eat handcooking and see it...... once again, will what Sariel made also taste exactly the same as her handmade?

"Right. I'll serve as much as you need, I'll take care of the food."

"Yes, Master, thank you"

I'm sure I'm not the only one with a sharp rise in Sariel's ratings.

"… please replace me"

Fiona on the boulder also seems to have succumbed to this perfect curry forward. Even if not acknowledged by the mind, the stomach (body) is honest.

A week passed quietly, and it was the 13th of the month of fresh water. After all, Lily hasn't returned, and she hasn't been sent a single sighting. Sounds like she disappeared like Xia that day, just after she left the lounge. Most of all, Lily can use a predator coat that can visually disappear, so if you really want to disappear, you can escape as many people's eyes as you want.

In the end, I just have to wait for her to come home.

I had a peaceful day for Sparda, even as I precipitated my hopeless anxiety to the bottom of my heart.

First of all, the fact that there was officially a bounty in the Galahad war also reassured me. I figured it was offset by Sariel's case, but it went hand in hand with Will being paid safely, as he was saying in fancy.

Starting with the basic rewards of participating in the emergency quest, the destruction of Lynnfeld, who will become the rank of numerous soldiers and giant weapons like Taurus and even the enemy general, and the Seventh Apostle Saliel, the real Commander-in-Chief. With all the extra and special rewards - the total amount is a stunning billion clans.

There have been several opportunities for me to earn big bucks, including winnings from the Curse Gladiator Games (Cars Carnival), prizes in the Battle of Ischia, and quest rewards for the Last Rose Crusade. But only this time, the digits are different. Even the most expensive sparda coins can be tremendous.

I find it tempting to throw it into shadow space (shadowgate) as usual on boulders. Well, I can't even trust safety now that Sariel has had a crushing experience.

With that wax, the majority of the huge quantity of gold coins decided to be deposited with Sparda's bank, which would be used for the first time this time. Of course, it's the main office in the upper compartment.

I have known for a long time that banks exist, but since convenient spatial magic (dimension) can be used by all members, it has never been necessary to use them for gold coin storage purposes, and I have never had any experience with huge payments, commercial transactions, etc., I have never had any edge at all. At best, there's a banking system in place in this fantastic different world, so impressive.

Anyway, the cost of buying 'Tyrant Armor (Maximilian)' to Moldred through this national, Sparda Bank, could have been paid smoothly, and it would be easy to settle when buying a house.

Thus, in fact, we are the "Element Masters" who have become fine rich, but there is no great difference in their lives.

I'm still at the stage of looking for a house, so I'm staying in this run-down dorm life. I don't have any inconveniences for now, and I'm wondering if I can keep doing this until I graduate.

As Fiona told me before, I don't have the need to go to seminary already, but I still want to graduate officially for once. The title of dropping out is irresistible from me in Japan.

So far, there's nothing I have to do in such a hurry, so I keep coming with Fiona to get the credit I need. From me admiring things like a little dating between students, school life is only a little more occasional than ever. Fiona also seemed less than full.

Speaking of which, when I meet Kai at school at the end of my class, I also have a mock fight. Not every day, especially since it's not a promise.

Fortunately, I haven't met Saphir that he's still in seminary, just like Kai. The school is peace itself, without being put on an extra little bit.

Regardless, my main activity in the present situation is to devote myself to new mastery of black magic and protection day and night for further empowerment apart from class.

It is difficult to say that the protection from the first to the fourth mastered so far is still able to draw its full power, and I would like to adjust the new fifth protection to a level that can be used in action by the time the next test is found.

Fiona, like me, seems to be struggling to master the protection of Endymion. If the witch's workshop is completed, will it also deepen its research into the protection?

On the other hand, Sariel is not just working day and night for Japanese culinary reproduction.

The other day, Sariel also finally made her adventurer debut. As Fiona put it, she started working solo to improve her rankings.

And the next day it was rank two.

He has carefully selected and ordered only near-field crusade quests, and then used the transcendent stamina of the modified and enhanced man-made man (Homunculus) to hunt for the target monster using the full duration of literal insomnia rest, 24 hours a day.

It's not impossible if I want to do the same thing, but I'm never going to because I'm mentally tired without interruption. I had no idea you were really gonna do that... he's a hell of a guy.

But what's really scary about Sariel is that when he came back to the dorm with a bronze plate guild card showing rank two, he started making our dinner with ingredients in his hands.

"Hey Sariel, you don't have to do that. I'll be back on quest."

"At present, I still have enough strength to sustain three days of combat action with insomnia. There's no obstacle to doing your chores."

"No, you're not asking me if I can..."

"If there is no problem in the performance of the mandate, there is no reason to rest"

While I was a little dented in my response as if to deny my care altogether, I decided to let Saliel like me already on the spot.

That dinner I was able to do that was Omelette.

Its flavor, wrapped in chicken rice and fluffy eggs, is the omelette itself that I correctly imagine. I couldn't help but tremble as touched as I was when I was a curry, in the glory of coming out at a western restaurant.

"… please replace me"

"Yes, Master Fiona"

It tastes like a nostalgic hometown to me, but for Fiona, it's one form of delicious dishes I've never had before, even dreamed of. If Sariel continues to recreate Japanese national cuisine at this rate, Fiona's stomach (body) will be completely corrupted within not so far. I regret it, but I eat it, like.

Whatever it is, I hope Fiona doesn't get along with Sariel as well as being recognized as one of them. I feel like I saw just a little light in my upcoming relationship.

On the other hand, now there's been a new move somewhere different from us.

"Hey, Fiona, isn't the city making a little noise lately?

"Instead of the city, the seminary… no, the adventurers,"

Lunch break today after the 13th class. Talk to Fiona about that while walking on the grounds of a seminary overflowing with students.

"Oh, I mean, it's like right before the Galahad War"

The adventurers crossing the city of Sparda look like everyone and he are busy trying to get ready for quest. It's as if a thousand delicious quests await you from now on.

"Maybe you'll leave."

"Oh, this could come out"

The adventurer history itself is short, but I intend to have a fuller adventure than the guy there. Neither me nor Fiona had anything to say about it, and nature and legs went to the Adventurer's Guild.

As if to affirm our expectations, the Alliance headquarters was more vibrant and vibrant than usual in terms of the number of adventurers. Most of all, I am already accustomed to the size and busyness of the headquarters. After all, while I think about it, I'm just going to the counter for the purpose.

But on the verge of getting in line for the most empty row, my leg stops. Goal change. After all, let's make it this column. After a few rounds, I made that decision.

"Mr. Chrono."

"Forgive me, Fiona. I want to tell her with my own mouth, as much as I have returned safely."

"I hope you don't insult me. I'm not that narrow."

"Right, right... thanks"

There is only one person in this sparda, such as someone who goes out of his way to put such a cliché on Fiona. Well, it's time, my turn came around.

"Long time no see, Elina"

"Yeah, really, long time no see...... Welcome back, Mr. Chrono"

She returned the words with a quiet smile.

I don't know about Elina since she and I broke up when she confessed. Was that indeed at the beginning of the moon of darkness?

"How have you been?

"I won't change anything. Every day, it's a repetition of the same job. Chrono-kun seems to have had a lot of trouble than that. Because I hear a lot of things about the approximate circumstances and rumors that there are no roots or leaves."

"That's... well, it's longer if you talk, and it's not much fun to tell people and make them listen, so let me refrain from explaining it in detail"

"If you're going to talk to me, I'll ask, but I'm not going to imitate what I'm going to hear from you. I'm just saying that you came home safely, that's all."

I used to be that way of breaking up, but I'd be happy to have you say this. If the boulder is flowing for as long as four months, will Elina be able to organize her mind? Now it's like a dream that she confessed to me that she "loves me" already.

"By the way, you didn't come all the way out here to see me, did you? What can I do for you today?"

There's a place called Guild Reception, and we can't be chatting for that long. Even for me, there is no denying going straight to the point.

"Urgent quest, aren't you answering?

"There's no way you wouldn't notice a boulder in this atmosphere."

The fact that all adventurers are in a hurry to prepare indicates that all adventurers have a job to be mobilized. And such a big job is none other than putting aside an emergency quest.

"But I haven't heard anything detailed yet. In the meantime, it doesn't look like the Crusaders have moved."

"Yeah, this emergency quest is totally separate from the Galahad war."

And there have been no natural disasters such as earthquakes or major storms here lately. Then the opponent is limited to monsters.

"What's the other guy?

"Pride Gem"

I had a feeling that maybe. Is it unusual for me to be in the middle of something like that?

"Even so, I wonder if it will come with a pin. It looks like a rare monster. It's the first time I've heard of it."

"I've seen records in the Alliance's library before. Big and strong without interruption, isn't it slime?

"You know very well. Chrono, are you a surprisingly studious man? Or are you a monster maniac?

"I just happen to remember what I read"

I looked it up at Pinpoint for the Demon King's Trial, which can't be said.

"Nevertheless, where the hell did he spring from?

"The location is Latifundia Forest."

Oh, my God, a sparda is a near-field dungeon like the one used by a newbie adventurer at the end of his eyes and nose.

"So close, no one noticed?

The Great Forest of Latifundia ranks as dangerous as two in the shallow part and four in the deep. If a pride gem appeared in such a place that it would be rank five monsters and have such a disaster-class risk that an emergency quest would be issued, it would be making noise sooner.

At least, the very information that we were moving to the Sparda side when we were in Greedgor was properly conveyed.

"Actually, the signs of emergence themselves have been around since last year. That's exactly when you came to take your Rank 1 crusade quest."

"Ah... could it be that there was a massive outbreak of slime?

Look at the nodding Elina, the point goes.

When we first came to Sparda, we ordered the Crusade Quest together for the first ranking up. My reps were goblins and pumps, and Lily's reps were slime. At that time, Lily must have earned more than three hundred crusades.

Slime has inhabited the Latifundian Great Forest, commonly known as the Lati Forest from the beginning. The opponent is a Rank 1 monster, and hunting for it is as powerful as Lily. Even with that awesome number of crusades in sight, I only thought that Lily would be natural.

"The massive occurrence of slime is not so uncommon, but what's been happening since last year has been more suspicious."

Still, he said he had been investigated several times. Most importantly, to see the current situation, it can be seen that the results of the investigation were just as fruitless.

"It said Pride Gem is a giant like a mountain, but you couldn't find him investigating such a big guy?

"I couldn't discover it because I was faking it."

Like, he was disappearing like a predator coat, using his slime-specific clear body? No, you don't. Because he is a water attribute, he cannot have the intrinsic magic (extra) of a disguised system with a visually deceptively advantageous light attribute.

"I'll impersonate a tiny pond in the woods that's not even named after me."

"Uh, I see, you don't notice the sole"

"I stopped the simulation, and now I hear it's about the size of a lake."

Apparently, following Gratney Octo, it's going to be a fight against super giant monsters once again.

In retrospect of Alliance material, Gratney Octo and Pride Gem ecology have much in common. First, its giant. Then, in that he leads a tremendous number of herds.

For once, all the flocks of Gratney Octo will be toddlers, but there is only a slight difference between the Pride Gem and the Split because it is slime.

Fortunately, Pride Gems don't fly like those bulimic octopuses do. He didn't move from there when it emerged, and he's going to expand his sphere of power in concentric circles as it is. This means that the guy who showed up in the Ratti Forest, without moving from that first pond he had simulated, is still absorbing the surrounding flora and fauna there and continues to expand.

"Is the place pretty deep?

"Yeah, shallow in the woods. Rank two, even adventurers are usually enough to get in."

"Then, they, don't overflow right out of the woods"

"Yeah, we've already got an evacuation order in the nearest village of Rakel. By now, the Spartans will be on the ground ready to attack."

"What, the Spartan army is already moving"

So what about us, the adventurers?

"It's an emergency quest, but this time it's like a service to adventurers."

"You mean you'll give me a chance to give you a hand first"

"Yeah, until the Spartans are ready to launch a total offensive, the Adventurer's Freedom."

Pride gems are dangerous opponents, but only in return for that. And even an adventurer of about rank three would be able to sidestep his prey depending on his standing around.

Gratney Octo was a tough battle between living and dying, but this time it's going to be a battle between rivals targeting the same target.

Well, I hope your pride gem is weak enough to just focus on things like who knocks you down first... it's the monster Mia chose to try out on purpose. I don't know what kind of horrible special abilities you have. It would also be dangerous to put too much foot pull on each other.

"Have you set a deadline yet?

"Four days from now, on the 17th, a total Spartan attack will begin in the early morning. Actually, three days of respite."

Pretty short, but as a Spartan army, I wouldn't even have the in-laws to wait too long for you. It's just that they'll let you like it until you're ready to attack it truly, and as a Spartan army, there's nothing wrong with this emergency quest failing.

Even for me, if I can get the army to have an ass, it means I can challenge it with confidence. When I was in Gratney Octo, it was almost certain that if I missed it, I would be wiped out. I mean, it was my loss. I could crash that giant because Saliel woke up to shelter, and Lily and Fiona rushed me, so I could stab Todome. This time, I have to grasp the victory on my own.

"So, what do you do, Mr. Chrono? The emergency quest" Pride Gem Crusade "has just been officially released."

"Ask for the order process now"

I decided to place another extra order for Elina, who just laughed and didn't have to ask for answers.

"And I want to add one member to the 'Element Master' -"

Emergency Quest Pride Gem Crusade

Reward - Pride Gem Body - 300 Million Clans, Other, Dividing Body Additional Reward Due to Size of Nucleus

Deadline/Fresh Water Month 17

Client - 52nd King Sparda - Leonhardt Tristan Sparda

Request Details · Crusade promptly for Pride Gem, a Rank 5 monster that appeared in the Latifundia Great Forest. The monster boasts a giant beyond the boundaries of the slime, while at the same time being able to follow numerous splinter bodies. There are also many special individuals in this schizophrenic that differ from normal slime species, and they are intelligent enough to solve a person's language, and even -

Thus began the sixth trial.