I already had predictions, such as what was on the other side of the star door.

This is the last trial, then there can be no one but her waiting for me beyond.

I opened the door ready. I found a hindsight waiting behind it.

I walk quietly before her, and kneel under her feet knowing the danger.

"Demon King..."

And it came to pass, that I felt my eyeballs warm.

I've always wanted to see you. Blurred vision, hot stuff flowing down, it flooded the floor.

I can't stop crying no matter how many times I blink.

Even though I knew this was a false phantom, I could not help but be thankful to see Lord Jeremiah again.

The illusion of Jeremiah the Demon King does not even vomit heartbreaking words if it does not strike a cat human.

He looked back at me quietly and looked down at the fool who was faithful with falsehood and understanding.

"Wrinkles are a phantom... but will you do as you've always done, wrinkled beretot"

"Naturally, only you, my lord, have never turned your true allegiance to anyone else until this day"

That I had forgotten the beautiful voice of the Demon King, which was one of my agony.

But I remembered. I can hear the demon king as he was at the time, I'm just glad that's all.

Raise the bell, Belletto.

Absolutely beautiful princess with star eyes in beautiful dark hair. That look, the way you talk, it stays the way it was at the time from what to what...

But my body was stained with 300 years of experience.

If this is the enemy, they may deceive you. If you die here, Patia, the people inside will grieve.

Thinking so, I have grown larger than I was back then, and I cannot be sweet to the Demon King.

"What's the matter... didn't I finally see you, what are you putting up with... get on your knees, frigid beretot"

"Demon King...... I can't do that"

"Why, then you refuse to give orders for fright?"

"No...... But I..."

I have never disobeyed the Command of the Demon King, and I am now rejecting the Demon King.

I give priority to the Patias over the Demon King.

I meant to be loyal all the time, but I was acting like a liar.

"F... why is that? Tell me about it, Beretotto."

"Yes, now I have those I must protect. Without an insider named me, worst of all, this place would collapse when something happened... You're going to have a harder time or a harder time than you are now."

That is why I will not die. It is unacceptable to ride on the knees of Master Jeremiah, who is not real.

Even if it's a shadow, it's a betrayal of loyalty.

"Do you take them more than frightened? Right..."

"Yes. You are a phantom, you are… you are no longer there. I must do more for them who live now than for my loyalty to thee"

Master Jeremiah is gone.

I have been unable to acknowledge it for the last 300 years. But this is the truth. The Demon King is gone.

"Khufu...... say things like kings. That's funny."

"So this life is not yet dedicated to you...... My daughter is a little like you and loves me fuzzy. She dies of old age and longevity, until then, I want to watch Patia"

"Well, then you can move on to this door."

"Thank you...... Demon King......"

I obeyed as I was told.

I stood up and slid through next to the Demon King and stood in front of the hidden white door.

"Oops, my leg, it's stuck..."

"Huh...?!!

Am I disqualified? The Phantom Lord Jeremiah was holding me from behind and gently enveloping me.

No matter how much my head knew, my body didn't move.

"Straw, if it were true Jeremiah... I would have done this. Sorry, don't say anything, just disappear..."

"Demon King...... no, and the demise, huh...... what?!

"But the wrinkles... all the time, together..."

But the demon king's mass has disappeared, his senses, his appearance, everything.

The last word I have left doesn't even know what I tried to say.

No. That shouldn't be fake, meaningless, etc...... The Demon King has disappeared from before me again.

"Zaga... I haven't heard anything from you, something like this..."

Opening the last white door, the cat human entered the deepest part of the furnace without thinking about it anymore.

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That was too disproportionate a room to call a furnace.

Not the furnace. That's the altar. It looked just like it was paired with that underground altar that Zaga would take as its root castle, a place where everything was united in a white tone.

In the middle of that altar lay a naked woman, very similar to the statue of the goddess, in the same place where the statue of the goddess rests where it is said on that underground altar.

Looking at it for a while, a black shadow slowly solidified next to the woman, which seemed to turn into a Nekocht Zaga.

"You made it..."

"Yeah. But this...?

That looks a lot like a human being.

But obviously something was different. It was far from humans what we could even call signs, magic, and the shape of souls.

"Goddess.... pitiful she became the very driving force of this castle so much more distracting than she is now"

"So this is the furnace..."

"Yes."

That's when the dim room lit with white lights and the entire altar shone bright.

The goddess just sleeps and doesn't move at all.

"The goddess recognized you, come on, I'm waiting for a warm bath."

"Yeah, for one bath, I didn't think I'd be able to turn my mind so far..."

"It must have meant that the darkness in my heart was so deep. Well, now it's clear. That's my successor. Success to the God Killer Blade. No, I'm not asking you to kill our enemies, just make the people of Grangram happy again. I want her to see me smile again."

I see, from that point of view, it may have been an appropriate trial.

Zaga intended this from the beginning, to push this castle against me, and in the end it seemed to deceive me.

And one more thing. Maybe he was also in a position to serve women.

For his eyes toward the goddess were interspersed with tenderness and sorrow.

"To that extent, as much. Then you'll have a sunny, hot bath."

And I said my farewell unto Zaga, and Mr. Big Fuku led me back to earth.

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"Here, please don't move around like an eel, hey, we're almost there..."

I got the most bath.

It's my family, so I took Patia to enjoy the bath in the middle of construction.

"Cat, from, the mess, that's enough! Cat, cat, cat, cat, cat, cat!

"You have no choice, let's do that.... Oh, what is that?

When I poured the water I had left on Patia's body, my daughter flew into the hot tub holding something.

Then they threw it into the water.

"Is this it? Me-ki-ku, the one you asked for."

"Also..."

"Chip... on your face, toy, I can't take this off. Children, all welcome."

"I don't feel biased towards your hobby for that..."

Shiro-Pi very similar, seven little bird toys, swimming the hot tub looking comfortable.

No flair or anything thanks to it.

"Cat, cat, cat, cat, it's getting warm! Cat, come on, come on!

"Oh... this is quite, no, the best, the best water...... haha, warm......"

It was a shady trial, but the bathing I waited for ahead was the best moment.

Father-in-law, sister-in-law, couga, demon king...... I decide to live now.

Until there are no more people I can take care of...... because this is how I can't help it......

"Hey Patia, please don't swim in the bath, the waves are standing and very hard to get in. Hey, are you listening to me? I can see the whole butt."

"eheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh?

"Yeah, it's sexy next to Jog's ass."

"I know. Jog's buttocks aren't so bad..."

I was going to be sarcastic, but I decided not to ask you anything anymore.

I'm not holding Barney's shoulder. Maybe this is true.

Stopping the mixed bath and dividing the water entirely between men and women made me feel like such a shame when I looked at Patia.