Maou no Hajimekata

When Eunice woke up again, it was still a dark stone room and she was put to sleep on the bed.

The sheets, which should have been dusty with sweat and other bodily fluids, had been replaced by a brand new one that was exposed, and for a moment was that a dream, Eunice thought.

But she complains that her memories of being dressed in secret and being loud and good and the slight remaining bodily lights were not dreams or anything else, and she has her head in remorse and shame...

I realized I could hold my head.

As always, I don't see any kind of weapon or protective equipment, and the magic seemed to be sealed, but nothing restrains my body. The room doesn't even have a door on it, and it stays where it leads into the aisle.

Now you can get away...?

Oul appeared from behind the aisle, as if he had read such Eunice's thoughts.

Unexpectedly Eunice sits up and leaves the bed.

"Don't be so vigilant. No more harm."

As Oulu patted his fingers, the floor in the center of the room crept and distorted, moving as if willing, he took the form of a simple table and chair and returned to the stone again.

"I've been asleep all day. I'd be hungry too."

So Oul put the plate he had in his hand on the table.

"... Is it even poisoned?

"If you'd done that on purpose while you were awake, you'd be killing me while I was asleep."

With a surprising Eunice on his ass, Oul just grabs a plate about his seat. Oul himself seemed to intend to take a meal, and there were two dishes served with dishes.

"... that too"

Convinced, Eunice sits across from Oulu. What was served on the plate was the flour worked out and boiled elongated, with a sauce of hiccups.

"Is this pasta? That's unusual."

"You know."

Kokuri and Eunice nod. In regions around here, flour is often baked and eaten, and is not very processed into noodles. Sometimes culture is not rooted in, but sometimes wheat made around here is not very suitable for noodles. Normally, the palate gets really boisterous.

"Mmm, but it's delicious. This is from Dingrad, isn't it? I've never seen this sauce before, but it fits well. Did you pick up the wheat?

"No, wheat is from around here. The texture is improved by being creative in the connection. The sauce is my original."

"Hmmm...... what, eh!?

"Don't scream suddenly. You'd be surprised."

Eunice rides herself out to Oulu protesting with a completely surprised look on her face.

"What, you made this!?

"Yes, but I'm sorry"

The oul is blurred with a blurred look.

"No, because an evil sorcerer cooks and stuff..."

"I know it's evil, but I know it's a mage, but I'm hungry. Lil doesn't eat human food or anything because he's a demon, and there's no way he can make something he doesn't. There's nothing else to make due to lack of manpower, so I'll have to make it.... Besides, cooking resembles a sorcery experiment. Something good inside, isn't it?

Oulu says as he whispers his eyebrows out of his heart and carries his own dish to his mouth.

"... yeah, delicious"

The pasta was entangled in a fork and transported to his mouth, Eunice honestly admits. It was at least several times better than the portable food I was eating during my journey or just something I hunted wild animals and broiled on fire.

"... Well"

Finishing his meal, Eunice finds herself again in a rising oul. To her like that, Oulu sighed in dismay.

"Don't get up like that. I don't think it's harmful anymore. Yesterday's array was' punishment 'for my life. I'm not going to punish you any more."

"Ah... yes, it is"

Eunice is bewildered by her own mind. What I felt in Oulu's words was a great relief.

But just a little behind it, I felt sorry for myself.

To the bewildered unis, Oul adds the words.

"Except if you want to point the blade at me."

To Oulu, who looked with a sharp eye, Eunice pressed silently without returning an answer.

"If you want to stay out of my way, you can leave this labyrinth like this. I'll give you your weapon back, and I'll break the curse. But if you're tired of being hostile, you won't forgive me."

"... why?

Eunice put a confusing light in her eyes and stared at Oulu.

"You're saying... evil sorcerer or something, but I don't feel so bad about it... well, I've done terrible things too, but it's this way that I lost my neck first, and I can't help but be punished... but how can I unilaterally threaten and exploit the innocent villagers?

In Eunice's appeal, Oul put his hand on his mouth to contemplate, and he roared.

"Apparently, there's been a slight misunderstanding."

"Misunderstood...?

Eunice's heart was leaning towards those who believed in Oulu.

Beyond the hand I did to my mouth, unaware that my mouth bends to the shape of a laugh.

"Master Oulu! Sorry, the offering is not ready yet...... as we will be sure to have it by tomorrow night!

"Good, never mind. Originally the offering was promised a day of one. I hope you have it as promised."

When he reached the village, Oul answered Eagle Yang to the villagers who lay flat saying run. Next door, it's accompanied by a varnish. I haven't returned the weapon yet, but I haven't put any kind of restraint on it.

"So what's today..."

"Um. I'm here to see how the fields are. And I was just wondering."

"Tabata?"

In unexpected words Eunice blinks her eyes with a pussy.

"Really! Here you go, then, in a crude village field. Not so bad, but I grew up with Oul-sama's help, and even though winter is close, it's the best abundance of the year. Come on!

Earlier, guided by the villagers, various crops were showing rich fruit. They are all far more gigantic and luminous than those in circulation to the public.

"I'm surprised we'll be here in a week. Come on. Now you can afford to go over the winter. Thanks to the gargoyle you left at the entrance, the goblins and wild dogs won't get their hands on it at all, and thank you very much to Master Oulu."

"Mm-hmm. That's more than anything. Plant turnips during the winter. Turnips grow well in winter, nourish and feed livestock. Even in winter, you can make food stably, so you don't have to strangle it into ham or intestines before winter enters"

"Okay! We'll spread the word quickly to the villagers."

"Mm-hmm. And I've been wondering about that for a while now, but you don't look great. Are you ill?

"Yeah... I think I caught a little cold recently. It'll heal in a couple of days. Come on."

Oulu touches the villagers who let them put their strength on their arms all the time, glowing amber magic from his palms.

"... no. This is a bad epidemic. A massive death minister has been covering this area lately, but that's still the case."

When Oulu takes the crap out of the robe and the bottle, he hands it to the villagers.

"Let me give you this for now. It's a medicine that will boost your health. When something breaks down, mix a spoonful of the liquid in here with water and drink it. The illness will not heal, but you will be spared the loss of your life. I'll bring you some medicine to treat your illness soon."

When the villagers opened their eyes, they received the bottle with their puffy, trembling hands, lying flat on the spot all the way down to earth.

"Ah... thank you! Master Oul is the benefactor of this village!

"Don't be afraid. As long as you reward me, I'll protect you too."

Saying farewell to the villagers, who were even lower in head to Oulu's words, Oulu returned to the dungeon with Eunice.

"Sorry, I misunderstood about Oul!

Back in the dungeon, Eunice bowed her head to Oulu.

"I thought he was forcibly threatening the villagers with force and exploiting them illegally... but his eyes on the villagers' oul were like those of a lord laying good governance....... yeah. Any lord takes taxes, but he doesn't protect such a small village from demons or help increase crops. I knew Oul wasn't evil."

"... it's a little hard when they buy us that far. I will not kill you senselessly, but I will kill you mercilessly, so it is not evil."

This is more than half true. But Eunice shook her head sideways.

"That's... it's natural to punish you if you do something wrong. Besides, Oul wouldn't have killed me, would he?

"It's natural to punish you if you do something wrong," he says, imprinted with hypnosis. Eunice, who originally had a strong sense of justice, swallowed it with little resistance.

"That's what... Are you sure it was you who was guilty?

"That's... yes, it is. You said that yesterday, didn't you?

"But you didn't know I was dealing with the village. Didn't I just try to receive blessings on the fields and protection from demons without letting you kill me and give me a sacrifice?

"That's... well, maybe I didn't have time to explain it because I jumped out in a hurry..."

Eunice tries to shelter the villagers, but he didn't seem as determined as he felt yesterday.

"… so let's make sure"

This is the real deal. Oul shrugged inside out.

Then, after about three days. Oulu was taking Eunice with her sword and visiting the village that she had been asked to crusade Oulu.

At first, Eunice refused to teach Oulu the location of the village, but she promised not to harm the village without her consent, and if she broke the promise, it was evil, and you could do as you please, and gave her the sword, reluctantly convinced.

"Well. I'll wait here. I'll check with those eyes and ears."

Outside the village, Oul pushes Eunice's back.

Eunice heads to the village chief's house with less anxiety. I don't want to think the villagers cheated on themselves, etc. But I also want to believe in Oul. Wasn't there something unfortunate wrong...

Believing so, it was countless killings directed at her as she stepped into the village.

"This guy... he's coming back down!

"Huh...?

"You know what you did!?

The other villagers come together to curse the villagers.

"The fields withered because you killed Master Oul, and the demons killed the livestock!

"Epidemic diseases overflowed and the children died!

"Because of you! Because you did something extra on the side of justice!

People from all over the village gather in front of Eunice and verbally curse.

"What...?

What Eunice imagined was that the villagers misunderstood Oulu... and at worst, as Oulu said, they used Eunice. She is bewildered by unexpected circumstances and inadvertently steps back.

"Are you running away!? Don't be silly!"

One of the villagers picks up the stone that was at his feet and throws it towards Eunice. That didn't hit me, but was it inspired? The villagers started throwing stones at Eunice one after another.

"Give me back the field! Give me my cow back!

"Give me back my child!

"Return Master Oulu! You murderer!

"Oul is not dead, together until just now..."

Eunice desperately tries to elucidate, but it doesn't go to the angry villagers.

"Even this... eat it!

The first man to start throwing a stone throws a big rock of cobwebs towards Eunice. It was easy to avoid, but that would add to the anger of the villagers. I think so, and Eunice meditates her eyes ready for pain.

"What are you doing"

But instead of the pain, it was Oul's voice that poured down.

"Master Oulu! Did he live?!?

The villagers stop throwing stones at Oulu, who stands to shelter Eunice.

"Oulu...... why?

Eunice did not understand what the hell was going on and asked Oulu.

"... I didn't have to ask you, I knew this village had set you up. Gargoyles at the entrance were placed to protect the village, but also to monitor the village at the same time.... but these villagers didn't even tell you that."

As Eunice glanced up, there was a glimmer of blood from Oulu's arm. He took refuge in Eunice and got stoned in the arm.

"All sins have not harmed the villagers in any way since you suffered them. But he stopped the magic he was giving to the field as a price for his sacrifice, he lost control of the gargoyle, and he gave no epidemic medicine to the other villages.... and the villagers thought you were the one who killed me."

"O...... Master Oulu! We have no intention of harming you!

"It's all about the woman's arbitrariness there!

"Master Oulu, have mercy! Even though we stopped, the woman took it upon herself!

Villagers screaming at each other. Use Eunice in a good way, return the palm if it becomes inconvenient, and even rub off the sin and sell it.

"... Eunice. These are the ones who took refuge until you desperately risked your innocence."

"Hahaha...... hahahahahaha!

I couldn't help but be crazy. Unhesitatingly releasing the laughter that creeps up, Eunice pulls out her sword.

"I'm sorry, thank you, Oulu... I was wrong. That 'sin' must be punished!

Eunice heads to the villagers and runs like a whirlwind. If she cares about it, there's nothing wrong with throwing stones or the number of enemies. Villagers who don't have a lot of training can be cut to death instantly.

... but.

Before her swinging white blade captured the villager's body, the villagers were wrapped in a rising flame with no one left, unable to even speak up and instantly desperate.

"Huh...?

Suddenly he distracts himself from the flames that rose at the tip of his nose, and Eunice turns to Oulu.

"Just because they're guilty, it's what the evil ones do to kill them with it. Eunice, you stay straight.... whoever harms you will be eliminated by me. So you stay just."

"Oulu......"

Eunice bursts into tears and rushes over to Oulu to hug her.

"I won't hurt you if I'm the only one. So can you swear you won't hurt me, too?

To Oul's words, Eunice snorts in tears.

"... then, in my name, Ein Sof Oul, I swear I will not harm you."

"In the name of Unisfinia Meredith Le Ella Grandiera,

I swear I won't hurt Oulu and keep loving you!

"... what?

Oulu's dumb voice echoed after the amber light began to surround them.

"Good day. Now for now, a paragraph?

Behind the dungeon. Now I want you to hold it as a sign of your oath, not punishment.

Lil called out to Oulu when Eunice, who had received Oulu's essence about three times, fell asleep in a completely wife-like manner.

"... Oh well, for once... Now Eunice's 'Star of Heroes' has turned into 'Fallen Heroes'. He is a dark hero who does no evil and prefers demons. Yeah, well, you're not gonna get your teeth on me."

Though he made the constraint of not doing harm to the mighty "Star of Heroes" and gained even more power, the look on Oulu's face cannot be dismissed.

"Every trouble has increased all at once..."

Eunice's vow to love was completely out of the math. It was right to make Oulu depend to a certain extent to gain credibility, but I didn't think it would depend that deeply. But if that's all, it's still okay.

"I didn't know you were royal..."

The name Eunice named was a name indicating the direct line of the Grandiera country. I guess it's the last seat with little right to inherit the throne to flirt with this place alone as an adventurer, but it's still obvious that it will be the source of the spark. It's a labyrinth like being broken through by one Eunice. We are still far enough in the dungeon to prevent even when attacked by the Royal Army.

I just want to throw it outside and cut off the edge, but that's not why. Eunice herself will hate it, and forcing her to hate it is because she will be among the 'harms'.

"Well, I'll think about that later...... this time, I think I worked pretty hard?

Nico laughs and Lil says. But my eyes aren't laughing.

Lil didn't accompany Oulu this time because he was running around in the back. Sacubas has several abilities that are not like witchcraft, born and possessed.

For example, the first village to take Eunice. The villagers there were unusually friendly to Oulu because Lil had gone to the village many times in Oulu's appearance applying his ability to transform into the ideal female portrait a man possessed and had a friendly relationship with the villagers.

The villagers in the village who asked Eunice to expel Oulu threw stones at Eunice because Lil manipulated and beat the villagers with his charming abilities. I can't attract and manipulate the "Star of Heroes", but if I'm just a villager, I don't have the ability to manipulate a whole village.

And you can put it on even if it's a 'compulsion' curse as long as you give your consent. For a desired curse is a blessing. Just like men and women who swear to marry each other.

"So I want a reward, my lord."

"Okay, okay.... Here."

They destroyed the warcraft and golem that Eunice summoned, and consumed a great deal of magic to brainwash Eunice. The curse of compulsion is also as powerful as it can be, so its consumption is terrific.

Oul holds the lil as he looks sideways at the largely diminished magic of the dungeon core. There is no magic left to restore health, so we'll have to do something about it later with our own health.

"You have to do it at least four times."

"What are you up to..."

Oul sighed, feeling a hint of a further increase in unexpected troubles.