The next day.

Me and Filia were called to Lori's room.

Formed in the middle of his room, Lorilli speaks loudly of his episode.

"Lori, Lori said there!" If Lori is Lori, Lori is Lori again... "!

"Really? Wow."

"Hey Yuri, listen to Lori properly!

Lorilli pinches my face with her tiny hands and rocks it thoughtfully.

"If you don't tell me to ask, I won't do it! You should be ready!

"Lori Lori, you... good inside! It will be a good training. Please, shake it harder!

"Don't have fun! This is meant to be punishment!

Even if they inflate their cheeks so much, what becomes training becomes training.

So you can go harder and harder.... hey, stop squeezing your cheeks!

"Yuri and Lori are fine. I'm tired from yesterday and I don't want to move a step."

Phyllia squeaks with a soulless face as she looks at us fighting each other.

I can't feel any hegemony in that voice color.

"Phyllia doesn't have the strength! You look like some kind of grandmother!

"...... Huh!? Oh, Grandma............!? Wow, am I an old lady!?

"Yeah, if you ask me, you don't have the same strength as your grandmother."

"Oh, no............!

Feelia stares into her own hands with a blurb and tremble.

"I, still, seventeen years old, am... gaku"

"Ah, Phyllia's dead!

"That wasn't life."

Me and Lorilli gaze at Firia jumping on the floor like a fish given up on land.

……

Remaining silent, Phyllia stopped the move.

And get up silently and mucky.

"Is that it? It's happening?

"Oh, that must have started acting good, but you got embarrassed while you were doing it. Phyllia's so embarrassed right now, you can't touch her too much, can you?

"How embarrassing it would be to be explained!?

Phyllia protesting with a bright red face.

Really, I didn't realize.

and the door of Lorilli's room was knocked.

It was Gargador the Demon King, the Lord of this castle, who came inside.

Yuri, Phyllia, give me a minute.

"Ah, yes, what is it?

Phyllia changes the response instantly.

Every time I see this cat-bearing skill, I always think that no matter how hard I try, I don't feel like catching up.... Oh, in a good way, of course.

"I'd like to talk to you, but can you follow me?

"Okay."

I was about to leave the room about behind the Gargador as it was, and a tall voice stopped it.

"Father! Lori Lori too! Lori Lori too!"

The Lord of the Voice is Lorilli.

I'm jumping at the foot of the Gargador with a piompion.

Ah, the Gargador is stuck with its cuteness.

"And, angel.........!

Can the Demon King use an angel as a compliment?

I'm not sure what's going on around there.

"Ro, you can't have Lorilli. My dad wants to talk serious now. You understand me, Lori, Lori."

Gargador, who manages to recover, tells Lorilli with a sinking, painless look.

How cut-off thoughts are that?

"Mmmm... I have no choice! Because Lori Lori is still a child!

With that said, Lorilli laughed nicely at the Demon King.

"I've been with you two all yesterday, so I'll be patient today! Because Lori Lori is an adult!

"Lori Lori, you've grown up again...... My dad would love to..."

The Gargador, who then wept, looks back at the secretary who had refrained behind him.

"Secretary, I've made up my mind. Enact today as a national holiday! It's" Lori Lori's anniversary of another step of adulthood "!

"Admitting it, I can see every day going to be a holiday, so I dismiss it."

"Gu, Gu Gu... Being a demon king doesn't mean you can do whatever you want..."

It's obvious.

As much as you shouldn't make a holiday like that, I can tell.

"Dear Lorilli, let's play with me, shall we? Your Highness will be back in a few days."

"Yeah, okay! Lori, Lori plays with her secretary!

That's why I left Lorilli with my secretary, and we were supposed to follow the Gargador.

It was like Gargador's own room that was guided.

In a room where everything you see seems luxurious, but you only have the minimum you need.

"Sit down. Let's make some tea."

With that said, the Demon King himself pours us tea. That's an intermediate experience.

After sipping the tea we had put in, we started talking to the public.

It's called idling talk before we get down to business.

We talked about the adventures we've been through. The Demon King, who has never left this country outside of diplomacy, listened to us with interest.

When that's over, now the demon king will tell us about the demonic kingdom.

The content told in a heavy voice was a bit hard on the country's history and culture, but I was never tired of wondering if it spoke well. However, when it came to Lori Lori's story, her mouth grew and her cheeks were loose. The gap is amazing.

"…… and well, here's the real deal"

Preceding that, the Gargador embarks slightly.

"I want to beg you, with external wisdom, for advice from me. The country is in a bit of trouble. Why don't you just give us a little help?

Apparently, it's a serious story.

Well, otherwise you wouldn't refuse to accompany your daughter who's so drowning.

Hearing the request of the Gargador, Phyllia shakes her head vertically without hesitation.

"If that's the case, of course I'll cooperate. Hey, Yuri."

"Well, most problems are solved if you have muscles."

"It's great to try to solve problems at the national level with just the strength"

"It's just hard to tell if you're praising me or not... No, you're praising me for this!

"Too bad it came off."

You didn't praise me, I'm sorry.

... or, in retrospect, was he ever praised for saying "that's right"?

I'm starting to think it was all ironic...?

"But well, irony is like a muscle. That's not a bad idea."

"Yuri only has a terribly flexible thought circuit when he ties something to his muscles, doesn't he? The brain is evolving itself."

Saying that, I heard a cookie laugh for a long time. Gargador.

"You're close. I also know Lori likes you guys."

"Ah, su, excuse me...... Let me take a look at the rest of the story."

"Um, then..." and the Demon King speaks.

"There are few people in other countries who know, but there are actually two kinds of demons. The first was born of a demon, a born demon. This is the majority of demons...... it accounts for roughly 80% to 90%. And the second is the demon who was made into a human by demons having power."

"The demon is in the form of a person...? Oh, is that true!?

Phyllia shouts her surprise.

I've never heard of it before.

Because Phyllia is so amazing, I guess it's something that's not well known to the public either, as foreshadowed.

"The demons and demons build the same body between those born from the same dark god, perhaps the same body. The demon in the human form, without exception, has the same two horns and brown skin as the demon."

That's all I said, Gargador lowers the tone of his voice by a step.

"So, what's bothering my mind right now is about the demons that have evolved from demons. In the first place, there's only a handful of demons that can make you a demon from demons. Probably ends his life as a demon. - In other words, only demons with unusual fighting instincts in the Demonic Age become demons. And many of those demons can't escape the feeling of demonic times when they become human, and they smash a surplus of destructive impulses around them. That's the primary cause of insecurity… have you come up with anything to solve this problem?"

The scale of the story was bigger than I thought. Are we really talking about this at national level?

Is it the kind of situation where you want to talk to us about something so important that you want to discuss it, boil it down, and use your cat's hand?

"Well, as an adventurer, the solution to such a problem doesn't come out……"

"Is that so...... no, I guess so. I said I couldn't, I'm sorry. But if you come up with anything, you can tell me or my secretary."

And to the Gargador trying to cut the story off, I say.

"Hey. I want to go talk to those former demons, okay?

"Yu, Yuri!?

"No, I don't even think I can fix it, but you can listen to me as much as you want, okay? That's the quickest way to ask a party."

I'm bored even though I'm in the Devil's Country and I'm just in the castle.

Let's go and listen to Soitulla.