Maou Gun Saikyou no Majutsushi wa Ningen datta

"Pfft, I didn't feel alive"

That was my frank sentiment after seeing the Demon King.

"What the fuck, it's Ike. Were you nervous without a pattern?"

"It's not even in the pattern, and I'm doing this, but I'm small. The captain would know."

"Hate and you're wearing a mask, so I can't even confirm that look."

"He's got plenty of cold sweat."

"Then when you get back to your place, you can take a bath. If you sweat, you'll feel better."

"Left to you?"

Unexpectedly ask.

"Why didn't you listen to the demon king earlier"

"No, I said you'd reward me, like a thousand gold coins"

"Fool. There's no way you could just give me that kind of money. It also includes military funds given away as lords of the city"

"Lords of the city? Is this me?

"Let's not do anything strange. You're the one who dropped Arsenum. It's only natural to be a lord."

"Really? But are you a lord all of a sudden? Besides, it's from a big city like Arsenum. I wonder if I can do it."

Experience in combat and war has been gained, but it is sappy when it comes to politics and home affairs.

For once, I have been educated, including about the area, by my grandfather, but there is a huge gap between study and practice.

"No, your assignment is not to Arsenum"

Sephiro smiles so badly that he does, and people smile.

"Normally, in the demonic world, when we say 'it depends on the cuts', the cities we take away are occupied and run by ourselves, but Arsenum is an important hub. I gave it to the Demon King and made it my direct jurisdiction."

I think that's a wise decision.

That city should be a key stone for the Demon King's army in the future.

Nobunaga..., - it wasn't. A demon king would surely run it and bring tremendous wealth to the demon king's army.

Also, as a fortified city in the centre of the continent, it should be a pillar of strategy.

I reassured her that she had not been appointed lord of the big city for now, but she told her where I was going as if to bruise it.

"Ike, your assignment is to a city called Ivaris, south of Arsenum."

"Ivaris? Is it? It's a city I haven't heard much about."

"Hmm, from a small city. Your mission will protect the city and double its tax revenues. That's the goal."

"Double......? In the midst of this war, is that also in a front-line city?

"What? You don't like it? You can triple everything."

Disgruntled is also disgruntled, but for the Demon King Army the orders of the superiors were absolute.

I went back to Arsenum, where my men waited, "I'll do it, you can do it."

A trip to the city of Ivaris, commonly known as the Immortal Brigade.

Its size is about 300 troops, a typical Demon King army brigade centered on goblins, trolls and skeletons on oak.

Normally, the Demon King's Army is organized around the same race, vampires for vampires, and wolves for werewolves, but the Immortality Brigade was never particularly organized exclusively by the Immortals.

In the first place, from me, the captain of the regiment, the contents are human.

For once, because of its appearance, it is supposed to be the premier demon clan of the immortals, but my body has not rotted, nor has my flesh or skin fallen off.

First of all, this is happening, but I'm better at attacking magic than necromancy.

What's more, one of our main units, the Skeleton Squad, was also given over by Sephiro, the captain of the regiment.

It's just that they call me the Immortality Brigade or something because I'm the 'looking' Immortality King.

Rather, it was enough to ask Sephiro, the commander of the Legion, to "assign as intelligent and restrained a demon as possible" because he no longer needed immortals.

When we spoke to Ivaris, we greeted the former lord of man first.

A middle-aged nobleman.

A man who survived on condition of disarming and full obedience to the Demonic Nation, his name is Edwald.

He welcomes us, the new rulers, to life.

I've been using the vernacular phrase "still," but ignoring them, I just issued an order.

"I want to fix the walls first"

During the Ivaris offensive, the restoration of the destroyed castle gate, that was the urgent task.

There are two challenges imposed by the Legion Commander, the death and defense of this city and the doubling of tax revenues.

Regardless of the latter, the former was a challenge that I wanted to clean up as soon as possible.

Inspect the castle gate.

"Uhm, it's destroyed by stunning"

Certainly this town should have been commanded and attacked by Sephiro himself.

"... because he doesn't weigh himself. I don't even think about it after the war."

After the occupation, it is only better not to go to the massacre, but after the war, the concept of restoring the castle gate is missing.

She seems to have smashed every castle gate with her biggest magic, Meteor Strike.

No, not if it's just the castle gate.

Its magical aftermath stretched all the way to the perimeter, and just seeing the sight seemed like a sigh of sigh.

Oak's staff member, Giron, sighed as well, agreeing.

"Dear Ike, this is going to take six months to repair..."

"If it takes six months, don't be attacked by humans in the meantime."

"Right. So, think the other way around and leave it like this? If you get attacked on the way to repair it, you lose the whole thing."

I do have that idea.

But the Demon King's Army continues to make fast advances somewhere, but the momentum will be so far.

There are two reasons.

The first is that it is a long way from home and that the supply line is stretched.

The second is that human resistance has become tougher.

Today, our demon king's army is invading a kingdom called Rosalia.

We have already taken control of half of the national territory, but the rate of progress has also slowed down for the reasons mentioned above.

Sometimes we have approached the enemy king's capital and the resistance has intensified, but apparently the Kingdom of Rosalia has formed an alliance with its neighbors and has forced them to conclude an alliance of kings.

Reinforcements are continuously being sent by the neighbouring countries of Rosalia.

An emotion the Demons don't understand, but a guy named Humanity fights together if he's put in a crisis.

They are creatures that join forces and come under attack.

Neighbouring countries may also abandon Rosalia.

I can also ignore that it is other personnel.

But how about after that?

After Rosalia's defeat, we're on our own next.

and naturally imagine it that way, whispering the hand of aid.

That was where we differed from the Demons who were making friends all year round.

- In my view, the demon army's advance will stop here once and for all.

That means this will be the front line in the fight against humans.

With that in mind, there was still no possible option of not restoring the castle gate.

I order Orc's staff, Giron.

"Start restoring the castle gate. Gather your legs and technicians."

"Okay," Giron says, following that order.

"Now procure people and technicians from the city."

Giron even said so naturally, but denies it.

"No, you can't do that. too inefficient."

"Huh? So work sweaty on us, then?

"Trolls with power can help you carry stones. It's just, well, we're not servants, we're rulers. We have to put some bullshit around it."

But that's why it doesn't make sense to force humans to work.

Again, there is no more inefficient system of domination than fear.

Neither humans nor demons demonstrate their abilities unless they work only spontaneously.

Being familiar with it, I ordered Giron.

"First of all, recruit from among the citizens those who work together voluntarily. Promise me you'll pay me back. Whatever this is, I swear by my name, no, by the name of the Demon King, write it on the sign."

"... ha"

Giron asks with a Kyotong face.

"That would secure the technician and half the manpower foot. For what's missing, recruit from the inhabitants of the rear ruling city. They're supposed to come to work."

Again and again, you tell them about the reward.

"And then, as I said earlier, among the brigades, something powerful. Trolls, etc. must work well."

Trolls are big warriors.

Intelligence is about an 8-year-old, but its power should be equivalent to a dump car or a shovel car, by analogy, in modern times.

"Once you've assembled the manpower and technicians, let them work in a 24-hour system."

"In a 24-hour system?

Giron opens his eyes to that big mane.

"But didn't Ike say that humans are an important workforce? There are people who work in such conditions."

"Ahhh, you only have eight hours to make me work. I'll never let you work any more."

"What? Just eight hours? Aren't you going to let me work 24 hours a day?

"Lay down a shift system."

"Rotation (shift)?

Giron doesn't seem to understand.

Well, of course.

The Demons, of course, would be an incomprehensible way of thinking for humans in this world.

Normally, humans in this world wake up with the morning sun and go home when the sun sets.

The Demons have the opposite pattern, but anyway, it's an underdeveloped era of lighting. It's natural to be that kind of cycle of life.

However, the restoration of the walls requires a fire.

Then we'll have to repair it in a 24-hour system.

Gather more people and technicians than usual and divide them into 20 groups, working in order and in turns.

However, working hours are 8 hours a day.

Demon King's Army, but I don't just want to be a black company. I won't let you do any overtime, and I'll give you a proper holiday. If you get injured while you're working, you're going to be compensated.

With this method, you should be able to repair the castle gate three times faster than usual.

It takes more people and more feet than usual, and it takes a lot of fireworks at night, but at this time, I couldn't say anything about the smell.

Some gold coins were given to me by the Demon King.

You won't have a problem behaving in a big way.

Tell Giron about it, who still has a Kyotong face.

This man is an asshole, but he wasn't a fool.

You don't seem to understand my intentions, but you act faithfully to my instructions.

"Yes, sir."

And I finally lowered my head and started getting ready.