Manowa

Far north.

The Tower of the Emperor, a floating fortress that rises above Mount Schmi in the Doma region to the north more than Heyvern. Yukito, the demon king, was among the emperors, the top floor of that building, which is now the root castle of the demons.

"I wasn't there... you say?

In front of that Yukito stands a woman in a white dress wrapped in cold air. And it was Zekku, one of the seven great sins, the devil with the title of lust, kneeling before her.

Today is the day of the regular gathering of the Seven Great Sins. But only Yukito and the woman in the white dress and Zekku were on this occasion.

At the moment the "Seven Great Sins" is the arrogant Diabo is sealed, the jealous Gore and the lazy Zoaral are extinguished, and the angry Gilbert and the Age of Greed are in the middle of each moving around the nations. Therefore, only Zeku of lust was able to attend this time.

Before his eyes is Flame Lady, the second English spirit of Yukito the Evil Demon King.

The day of the gathering was the place where, on behalf of Yukito, whose spirit was broken, two English spirits, Snowdrop and Flame Lady, heard the demons' report and communicated Yukito's will to them.

And Zekwu's report today was about the recovery of the demon Diabo, which had been sealed in Zvara.

"Yes, definitely"

Zekku, who is so afraid, is a demon and at the same time the head of the demon hunt. He is also in a position to manage the purifying Tsuka, which seals the demons and demons captured by the demon hunt, and if it is his companions who have been captured, he has seen the opportunity and freed them, and he has also freed those who are likely to become companions and added them to his men. That is how they had succeeded in producing a demonic organization that could never have existed before.

It was the other day that the sealed heart shell wall of Diabo was delivered to Zeku via Tuvara due to such circumstances. Sister Yuko, who is pointing her suspicion that Zeku is a demon, entered during the demon hunt and also obstructed transportation, but in the end, Diabo's heart shell wall had reached Zeku without merit. But there was a problem with the delivered heart shell wall.

"There was no Diavo within the heart shell wall that was delivered. Probably got away with it at some point..."

This heart shell wall was created as a shelter for dormancy when the demon was wounded and defeated, and was said to boast an absolute strength of defense that would not allow any attack to pass. To this end, the demon hunt cannot destroy the demon, and in the present situation it has to be sealed in its state. Zekku had told me that it had no contents.

He didn't even know you were the head of the demon hunt.

"Dear Left......"

Zekku is somewhat active at the moment, but during the period leading up to the Zegan raid he hid his qualities within his peers as well. If so, it's not surprising that he escaped, but even so to Zeku, he couldn't solve it. That's the same with Flame Lady.

"Still, if you escaped, you can't solve the problem of not contacting us, can you?

"You're right. But it's true he wasn't inside. You can see that Diabo is already back."

Zekku answers that. I don't know what caused it, but from the circumstances, I just think so. After hearing about it, Flame Lady opened her mouth after only a few ideas.

"If so, do we have to wait for Diabo to contact us"

The devil is good at integrating into people's society. It is difficult to carry out the exploration of Diavo in a small number of gestures, because even the same demons are inherently rarely in contact with each other.

"Right. Well, he'll be in touch any time. Or..."

Zekku said that much and opened his mouth with a few ideas.

"Revenge...... maybe you're running to?

"They were a white bunch."

Flame Lady wrinkled between her eyebrows at the nodding Zeku.

A group of whites. A party of adventurers focused on the wind sounds that are players. Until the time of the Zegan raid, it did not appear as that much of a surprise, but at the moment it was the most alarming group.

"If that's the case, you're in trouble."

Flame Lady looked bitter and muttered.

The white group also has high individual strength and a powerful English spirit, which also passes with various powers on top of it. Also, a player is close to a natural enemy to the devil in the first place. So much so that Diabo once painstakingly defended his dominance by sealing it internally, without being able to capture the players either.

But for the demons, the most fearful thing was the wind-sounding power to 'extinguish the soul'. That's an unusual ability to wipe out even the soul inside Yukito, the evil demon king.

"I don't really know how we'd like to intervene."

Zeku returns that to Flame Lady. Interpretation, they are a bunch of adventurers. It's more than just that they're not really on a demon hunt, and if they don't, they won't be harmed.

But if Diabo was awake, Flame Lady thinks he wouldn't take the choice of avoiding the wind noises.

"You think that's gonna hit them?

"I guess it's likely. It was a persistent personality, too."

Zekku laughs bitterly when he says so. Flame Lady, a similar perception, sighed. And even though I think about it, Flame Lady changes the story.

"Well, good. So Hagas' heart still couldn't do it?

In continual questioning, Zekku nodded with a careless face.

"Yes. Unsealing Hagas' heart will still be impossible. You're too strong. I don't know what trick that blue lizard used, but I was wondering if it would be better to proceed if we thought it was impossible to use Hagas' heart."

The raid on the eastern dragon Rizegan took place about six months ago.

It was also a combined test of the Demon Army using the devil, but its original purpose was to capture the heart of Black Dragon Hagas. But it is good to have it, but the strong seal has not been able to lift it even to this day.

"It's inevitable, but it's a total hassle."

Flame Lady frowns and continues her words.

"It's hard to tie Ao up. That, honestly, is more troublesome than the dragon emperor. If so, it's still the only way to cultivate and use your home array."

"Is that the heart of the North Black Weather Gen?"

Flame Lady nods at Zeku's confirmation.

That's what Zeku got when Zegan raided. That was the only thing the devils had that fit in the heart of a dragon at the moment. Some dragon hearts are more powerful than those of the North Black Climate Gen, but when it comes to more than that, the self that resides in the heart is too strong to fit their purpose.

"That's right. The power will fall, but well, that will help."

Zekku says, "Yes, sir," and bows his head. And the necessary conversation here is over, and Flame Lady lowers Zeku.

There won't be a minute left to summon. In just a few moments, Flame Lady saw Yukito sitting on a pedestal and allowing her gaze to swim in the void.

"I want to go home..."

Words leak out of Yukito's mouth gazing at Flame Lady.

A white king who failed in everything 700 years ago, no longer only in the memory of heirlooms and some long-lived species. The end of a player who was neglected by everything and even betrayed by the people who led him or the woman he loved.

It was a man named Yukito who was taken in by the devil, on the contrary, devoured resentment and, at the end of the day, felt touched. It would still have been good if it had died with it, but its spirit is eroded by resentment, and it continues to be kept alive in this way with the power of the devil.

The man who had hope in this world and perhaps even the most attempted to bring people to happiness among the players eventually got everything behind him and still exists in this way in despair.

Normal thinking only went outside via the English Spirit in front of us, and it was an activity at the critical place even during the Zegan raid.

And his consciousness is just pure. I just want to go back to the original world. I didn't want to resent him as one, the last thing he thought was sole.

That was all that stopped him from connecting. And the problem was that he knew the means.

"A return to that world that once was. A world that disappeared in the course of distant times. But all you have to do is give birth without it."

Looking at Yukito, Flame Lady speaks that way.

"Tatsura Kenei failed."

It was about a year ago that I learned the results. That's why they're moving now. To the best of Yukito's knowledge, knowing the complete failure of the players who had the most powerful powers, the demons were accelerating their movements.

"He knew too much. And Yukito doesn't deserve that either."

And Flame Lady reminds me of that little demon.

"Age too... too much time has passed. I don't even know what's wrong with being dyed as a demon. But... if there is one"

Flame Lady thinks. She will disappear soon. Because the English Spirit can only leave for about ten minutes.

"Minaka Rydow"

Flame Lady squeaks at the name of the lazy Zoaral who was plotting to put that body in his armor and empower him, the one he stumbled upon when he was following its trajectory.

"Sealed, untainted memories... if any..."

And Flame Lady vanished.

Only the Evil Demon King was left on the spot. Only the groans were echoing inside the room.