Kuro no Maou

My mom was an idol.

Bring some sparkling clothes to your beautiful makeup. Every night, sing, dance, delight customers.

Back then, though I didn't know what the real meaning of the job my mom was doing - still, now and ever, my mom was the best idol in Carla Mara.

So I admired my mom and had a dream that I would be an idol too. Anyone who lives in Carla Mara dreams about it once.

My first customers are my mom and my brother.

When I imitated the idols I saw in Vision and sang and danced, they were very happy.

Friends next, neighbors next. Everyone smiled and praised me that the boulder was your mom's daughter.

Successful experiences at an early age seem to lead to the underlying confidence of the person... When I was a kid, it was better to be in a lot of shape, later on, to create confidence and thoughtfulness.

Sure, I was on track. But everyone was happy, everyone complimented me. That was a very happy childhood.

But when I was nine, my mom died.

On his way home from work, he was unluckily involved in a gang protest. Take the arrow to your chest, and die instantly. As for the end of those who dwell in the slums of Karamara, it was a common thing.

We, the brothers and sisters who lost our only guardian, had been thrown out as slaves to the first tier of the Great Labyrinth, the Abandoned City.

It was literally a hell of a walk for the dead.

I honestly can barely remember those days. Anyway, I was scared.

Though I remember only once when I was cornered by a zombie and could really die, along with deep trauma.

Hiding in a worn out tance, a mishidden child was bitten and devoured by a zombie in front of him, and when it was over, he stopped by the tance where I was - and he noticed, my brother was here, and I was being helped.

As a child of slaves engaged in material recovery in the first tier, I would have been quite useless. I still survived because my brother always protected me.

My brother was strong. How can you be so strong? I couldn't even afford to question you back then, I just relied on my brother to do my days.

"Don't worry. Soon... Soon, this life will be over. I'll finish you off."

Was that a word to comfort me? Or maybe your brother has had his own ambitions since then.

Ambition to be the Demon King.

"- Welcome to this place from today, you two."

One day suddenly, my slave life was over.

When I returned after collecting supplies without any harvest, they took me straight out to the ground, put me in a carriage, crossed a large bridge into the center street... and I was supposed to live from now on in a small, beautiful orphanage.

"For a while, we'll live here. Don't worry about anything, you can do whatever you want."

How did you free your slave identity? Did you get the means to get into such a central city orphanage? Even now I still don't know, but it was definitely all my brother did.

So, there's a difference between cloud mud and when I lived as a slave, maybe my standard of living is a better environment than when I lived with my mom, and I spent it.

Within that orphanage, my brother soon became central. It's not just the kids. The adult staff taking care of it, even the dean, seemed to be at the mercy of his brother.

In shame, even I, a slave newcomer, was treated very well just by my brother's sister. The kid who harassed me with so much cynicism was disappearing from the orphanage the next day.

In such an environment, I grew up without one handicap while in an orphanage.

Like my brother said, I did what I wanted.

I watched the idols I admired, as much as I liked them in Vision, and imitated them.

My mom's already dead, but still, I have a dream of being an idol. This is all I have. If it's to make this happen, I'll do whatever it takes.

That's how I felt, and I was going to work on it myself.

Practice singing and dancing and, of course, let me sing in that connecting place in the orphanage, or live on the street nearby. Though I was blessed to be in an environment where I could imitate idols as much as I wanted.

Beside me being a self-satisfied idol, my brother was becoming an adventurer. Sure, you couldn't even register for the Adventurer Guild if you weren't an adult, but taking advantage of your adult appearance, your brother became an adventurer at the age of eleven.

And by the time I was thirteen and my brother was really fifteen years old, as the youngest rank four adventurer, I had given that name to the Great Labyrinth of Carlamara.

And another day.

"Ah, finally... finally, the thread of destiny has crossed"

Thinking my brother was whining about something more meaningful again, a carriage more luxurious than I'd ever seen came suddenly to the orphanage. It also comes with a horseback rider escort.

The uneven and fully armed knights stood side by side, and the last thing they showed up from the carriage was - a slender old man.

"Oh, I finally found... my last grandchildren"

Adventure King Xanadu. Yes, the old man named him.

Actually, my mom was Zanadu's daughter.

My dad was just an adventurer, and although I heard he tried the Great Labyrinth and died before I was born - I didn't know he was the kind of man who would run off with Xanadu's youngest daughter.

I only had frightened feelings for my own father, more than respect. Just now I am a worthy nashi who died and left no great store for my remaining mom.

If you'd been stronger, you wouldn't have made your mom struggle, and you wouldn't have died in such a crappy accident.

"Relax, I don't care about that guy. The important thing is that we are legitimately inheriting the blood of Adventure King Xanadu."

And Xanadu himself admitted it.

I wondered why now...... but in the end, I didn't get a satisfactory answer. I don't know, Xanadu's grandfather and I were bareback like only my brother knew... well, it doesn't matter to me, and it's not a situation where we can get involved.

Anyway, it was abrupt, but as the grandson of Xanadu, I became part of the family of the great treasury that dominated half of Karamara.

So what's the matter, though?

My brother built a base based on the funds he had accumulated at the Adventurer. You think you're securing an entrance to the secret Great Labyrinth of everything? Though I would never want to go to such a place again.

Anyway, my brother bought a house, so I got out of the orphanage and got into trouble there too. I had a meeting with Temennigle about not living there, but my brother said no, and I also kinda didn't like how anything drools in me to go to a place like that.

As you can see, Adventure King Xanadu is quite old. I'm not surprised when you pick me up anymore. When that happens, when it comes to the interest of the remaining relatives, it's not a troublesome thing to be a newly recognised grandson at such a time in inheritance. Even if we don't feel that way, from the other side, you're a bunch of bugs who've come to gather heritage.

That's why I kept my distance.

"It's time for you to make your debut."

Gobbling around at your brother's house, they said that.

No, I'm off today, so I'm just taking a break. Never a wack skipping idle activity. Although I don't have any income.

"I'll prepare the stage. After that - do as you please."

Because that's what your brother always says and spoils me.

The opportunity to make a debut soon came.

It is Carla Mara's year-end regular, rookie idol audition show Dream Stage.

Originally, the rookie idols appearing on this show are powerful people who already have some track record and have a solid fan base. I'm just saying that I'm not super popular enough to get a face on Vigeon every day...... it's not like I can get an amateur with little track record of activity and no face or name for sale on Locke.

Suddenly I was supposed to compete, having only about lived on the street, either screwed with the mysterious power of my brother, or used Xanadu's grandson's position, or something like that.

Sure, I got the stage ready.

So I decided to like it this time.

The stage is the coveted Farasha Gold Stadium. Before a full audience, I sang in the best mood. I'll never get another chance like this, anyway, so I'm trying to fully enjoy it - and as a result, I won.

The next day, he signed with a production run by the Xanadu treasury, and as a one-jump, popular idol, the offer arrived and, if he realized it, became known as the top idol that reigned at the apex of Carlamara.

Well, I've been dreaming about this, and I've been trying.

But when you get so far to clap, is it your strength, or is it because of your brother's mysterious power, or the conspiracy of the Xanadu treasury? I don't know what's right anymore.

But still, I became a top idol with fame. My mom watches, and I'm not ashamed, I can perform the best song and dance.

So I sing again today. To get one or many people to listen to my song.

I'm Emilia.

The best idol in Carla Mara - I'm not giving this seat to anyone else for a while yet.

Because now that I've fulfilled my dream, I have a new dream. That 's--

Back then, when television had just appeared in Japan. In front of the TV on the corner, people gather around and stare at it to eat... I remember watching such monochrome material footage on a TV show or something introducing the Showa period.

In the lower town of Carlamara, such a sight can be seen in its current progression.

Right next to where we live, street TV, Original, medium sized visions are installed, with a variety of shows and commercials drooling over, making it the biggest entertainment for the neighbors.

Among other things, the live distribution of idols where cute girls sing and dance is the most popular content.

They each have their own production and produce numerous idols, including the Xanadu treasury, which dominates half of Carlamara, as well as the Grand Chamber of Commerce, the Luxury and that Silverian Familia.

Idol, which is extremely popular in this country, benefits greatly in terms of both entertainment and advertising revenues. A merchant of that size seems to have a trend wherever one idles as an advertising tower.

Carla Mara, or the countries in the Atlas Great Desert, say the culture of dancers has flourished since ancient times. Although it is a blah-blah sex industry, the presence of brilliant dancing dancers nevertheless seemed to be widely supported by the people of Shirai as an admiration.

In Carla Mara, which boasts such a cultural basement and even unique video communication facilities for ancient sites, it may indeed be a natural flow for idol culture to blossom once and for all.

So mature Carla Mara's idol culture is quite high level. In other words, there are even moves such as martial arts and magic in the physical ability to become superman if you train. When it comes to strength in idols alone, it would be much higher than on Earth.

There is still a group of idols in the corner vigeons who, with their forged flesh, perform acrobatic dances that are impossible in ordinary people. How many times are these kids spinning in the air?

Anyway, such culturally developed, high-level idols of strength are and always have been Carla Mara's best entertainment. Leki and Ursula are also obsessed with the appearance of sparkling idols.

"Come on, here we go, Super Idol Emilia's One Man Live! This is Farasha Gold Stadium on site, check it out, a huge number of fans are pushing it! In an attempt to hear a little raw singing, it seems to be overflowing all the way around the stadium- '

"Wow, it's starting Death!

"Emilia's concert, from the beginning, is twisted."

Emilia is the idol that boasts the overwhelming number one popularity in Carla Mara today.

There are no days when her appearance does not appear in the visions, the culmination of the idol world, which has also garnered high support from young and old, all ages.

Both Leki and Ursula have become fans since I first saw them in Vision. The kids love it, too, and not one kid doesn't remember her song.

Sure, she's an amazing beautiful girl, and the singing and dancing are brilliant things... but I don't really know what a terrific difference in strength that draws a line with other idols is. Under Emilia, the idols who contend for the number two seat also have a lot of meritocracy that I don't think is particularly inferior to her.

But I guess Emilia, who has actually become so popular so far, has a special appeal like no other. Like the hypnotic effect of working unconsciously? Was it "Charm" or was there such a thing?

It's a pretty rude way to suspect it as an idol, but it's not that I don't like Emilia. I'd rather be a normal liker, and if they told me who I liked best in Idol, I wouldn't hesitate to raise her name.

The reason is that she has long flax hair that looks a little like Mr. Shirazaki.

Because she is a slightly more beautiful girl than the Japanese, she also has a sense of intimacy at will.

I don't know Emilia's true attraction to me, but it was still too much of a look to make her special.

That's why I'm not going to be a wacko to relax and watch Emilia live with you two right now.

The environment surrounding us has changed a lot. It's changed.

"Well, I'll be there."

"Come on in."

"Havana Nice Day!"

Exit the doorway of the new residence, the Omboro apartment, with energetic drop-off words.

Unlike in the dungeons, the vibrant residential atmosphere in many people is fresh, and I realize that once again it has become a humane living environment.

That's how I headed to the Adventurer's Guild, my destination today, as I got a little lost in the streets I'm still unfamiliar with.