Maou no Hajimekata

"... bullshit"

Oul told him to throw it away, but his fingertips were weak.

I didn't believe the old woman's words. But if it could be true, you can't kill it. It was a man named Oulu who judged that.

"Doesn't your Lord know best whether it's bullshit or not?

There is no denial from Lil against the words of the old woman.

At least it means you're not lying.

"... what is the consideration. What do you want?"

Oul takes his hand off the old woman's neck as she pounds her tongue.

"Calm down, you're young. I'm not gonna tell you to do anything in exchange for saving her."

Tena said so as she stroked and rubbed her throat.

"For you and your Lord, he is an enemy."

"... the guy?

Tena nods to Oulu, who asks with a strange look.

"The demon king who flattens everything and destroys everything. That's the guy."

"Don't you have a name?

"Yes, but I can't say it. If you call him by name, that's it. He hears it and increases its power."

"Just call your name...... you say?

That was too difficult a concept for Oulu to understand.

I've never even heard of magic like that.

If I can do the same thing to myself, I just keep letting the samurai call me names every day.

"Fair enough. If that existed, I wouldn't bother with him."

Oulu's visit to the New World is a threat investigation, not an invasion. I don't have an in-laws attached to the absurd existence of destroying everything, etc.

I don't think so.

"What does that mean?"

"That's not what I meant. The Lord is destined to fight him. Because that's what Non's foresight tells us."

Oul glanced at the old woman and eventually slowly lowered his back. In conjunction with that motion, the floor rises to shape the chair and support the body of the oul.

"Let's be good. Explain it in detail."

He put his legs together and put a cheek wand on his elbow, and Oul urged him to do so.

"The demon king, who is accustomed to being called him, wants a sacrifice once a year. Have a beautiful, clean daughter."

To Tena's words, Oul made a tannic surface. Because I used to do the same thing myself.

"If you don't give me the sacrifice, the Demon King will destroy this whole area."

"Stupid thing."

That was a candid feeling. It doesn't matter how much you receive if you do that, and it's the extreme of inefficiency, such as destroying one village for one woman. Even the Demon King, who wants the same sacrifice, is decidedly incompatible with the way he did it and Oulu did it.

"And the only young daughter in this village is no longer Utsu."

"Is that why you gave your granddaughter away?!?

Oul stood up and grabbed Tena's chest.

Yutsu is no longer a sober daughter. Because Oulu hated it.

There will be no such thing as forgiveness for a tyrannical demon king who inflicts doom in such a way that he cannot gain a daughter.

In other words, this village is in danger by the hand of Oulu.

"How better than solemnly accepting doom, O demon king"

Not a single complexion, Tena said.

"You......!

"Wait, brave man! That's what I wanted!

Utsu's hands wrap his fists around an unwittingly gripping Oul.

"I've been hearing stories about brave men from my grandmother. And I thought if it was enough to be his sacrifice, I'd be the wife of a brave man."

She stared into his eyes as she held Oul's arm against her chest.

"And it wasn't a mistake."

"... don't say anything unsolicited"

Shake off Yuz's hand, and Oul sits back in his chair.

"So, what does Marie mean when she dies?"

"I told you your lord was destined to fight him. In that battle, the daughter dies. It's also defined as destiny."

Oul finally realized why he was so frustrated when he got to that stage.

"It's ordained - you say?

The fact that the future is set means that the path he has taken so far has also been set. The phrase that what I had chosen and won was simply what had been decided was not acceptable at all.

"Who the hell laid it down? Heaven? If that's the case, I twisted it a long time ago."

To Oulu, who says angrily, but Tena shakes her head.

"It is always people themselves who decide their fate. Young, young, young, young. And that's why we can change that. Otherwise I won't bother to beg the Lord for help like this."

Inside, Oul struck his tongue.

It precedes the thought itself.

That's a bad thing, even if she's not the enemy... no, because she's not the enemy.

"I mean, what you call destiny... an inevitable muscle path even if you know it. I don't know."

"Ranri"

It's understandable that Oul will sooner or later be hostile to 'the guy'. There is no way that demon kings can coexist with each other in conflict with their nature, and if they meet, it will certainly be an enemy. It's inevitable if we're going to expand our forces on each other.

"What happens if we bring Marie back to our home base? Still, will he and they kill this girl?"

"No. It won't."

Oul strokes his chest down on Tena's words, while chewing on you realizing it was just a threat.

"Even if the power of Non can escape, he cannot be defeated. The Lord may defeat him alone, but he cannot avert evil. So let's work with each other and take him down.... That's what I'm talking about."

"I see."

That was an offer that would do neither of us any harm.

The power of Tena's foresight is well tasted by Oul himself.

Above all, its ability is more in line with Oulu's aim of avoiding futile strife as much as possible and of exploring the internal circumstances of this continent.

"If your abilities are real, do you even know how I'd answer them?

"... why not"

That's why Oulu wasn't willing to take this story.

"Asking that means I'm not going to answer the reason. You said fate and fate."

That's all I'm saying, Oul gets up. At the same time, the chair that grew from the floor was grossly distorted and returned to its original flat floor.

"Dear brave man!

"Let go."

Oulu shook off Yuzu's arm, which was stretched out as it was stretched out.

"Don't call me brave or anything. I'm not such a convenient substitute."

That being said, Oul walked away from the scene with Lil and Marie.

"Phew..."

Looking at its back, Tena breathes deeply and deeply.

As soon as I was distracted, the cold sweat I was enjoying blew out of my whole body at once.

"Damn it, I can't stand old bones."

Have a flat attitude no matter what they do or say.

That was the minimum condition for crossing on par with that demon king.

"I was turned down, are you glad, Grandmother"

"Oh. For now, this is your best shot. Without a suggestion..."

No matter how we take the story, there is no future for Oulu to join hands at this point.

"The wedge has already been struck"

But it didn't cut off her path to her imaginary future.

"... Mr. Oulu. Why didn't you cooperate?

On the way home, Marie asked Oulu.

"There are many reasons... simply because I don't trust you"

"But you weren't lying, were you?

"Right. Definitely there. Grandma never lied to me."

Lil takes on Marie's words with her chest stretched out.

"Something got me worried the other way when Lil said that"

"Why not!?

To her like that, Marie turns her suspicious gaze.

"'Cause Lil's pretty accidental."

"Um..."

"If that's what Lil says, there's no mistake"

I don't care what this little girl does, Oul gives a help boat to Lil, who puts his hand on her hips.

"Really?

Surprisingly, Marie turned her eyes round.

Because Oul had an image of Lil saying something about sweet stuffing or cluttered work.

"This guy's my right arm."

Marie is much more breathtaking in the words of a terminal oul.

One arm of the Demon King that unites the continent. On second thought, that means you're in second place throughout the continent. Not to mention Oulu is a thorough meritocracy. Because I'm a wife, I'm not using it heavily because I'm close.

"Lil was an amazing person...?

"At least you can't imagine someone lying to me."

That's what Lil replied, looking rather dazzling if you turn your honest eyes of respect.

"But does that mean that grandma can really see the future?

"Hard to believe, but I guess so"

Oul nods abominably.

I can't even combine reading minds and prophecies to do something similar, but then Lil sees it as a lie. Half the demons would miss it. Trivial rephrasements and unfounded assumptions are also acutely perceived by her now.

That's why Oulu refused to cooperate.

If something like prediction is really possible, it is very dangerous to act with such an opponent. Even if I were to trust and trust her in the future, I wouldn't be able to give her important information. Because giving it in the future and giving it in the present is equivalent to what is predictable.

"Either way, I'm not ignoring this."

To ignore, Tena's story was too important to ignore.

I need more time to work out what to do than to be completely upstairs in terms of information.

Marie, who looked somewhat blurred, realized there was still one.

"Is that it? Then why don't I die?

"You go back to your home dungeon. Tena and I would have told you we wouldn't die."

"What, right?

Oulu sighs at Marie's swallowing, even though it will have to do with her own life and death.

"At least you can ignore us here and suddenly attack us beyond the sea. Even if they attack us, both Eunice and Merizand are based there. I can't get tired of you."

"... Yes"

reluctantly, Marie nods.

Lil is Oul's right arm. Needless to say, Eunice, a hero, even Spina is Oulu's best disciple. Merizand is also an indispensable advisor to Oulu's labyrinth.

The women beside him all have excellent abilities and contribute to the operation of the labyrinth.

Of all that, Marie was the only one, nothing.

I was distracted by a bunch of excellent things and felt like I was in the same position, but I'm not. Finally, she realized it.

Oul opens the door to the dungeon and prompts Marie.

"Welcome back, stay!

Sophia ran over and hugged her as soon as she did.

"Welcome home, Master"

Spina, who watched Sophia while she was away, greets the Ouls in a quiet manner.

"What's up?

Oulu unexpectedly asks how rare she is that she always keeps her iron skin without gaps.

"No, no big deal... just a little rambling on Marie... wanting to see my mom"

If you look at her messy hair, it is clear that it was nowhere near 'a little'.

"... oul sama"

Marie turned around as she hugged Sophia clinging to her feet.

"I knew I couldn't go home. Something I can't leave this girl behind."

The look on the face of a girl who wipes tears accumulated in the eyes of a toddler has no previous childhood, but is full of the determination of the mother to protect my child. Oul once saw the look on his face. It's the same look on Eunice's face holding my child that I just gave birth to.

"I see... you mean that"

Oul squeaks on the tannic side.

"It won't happen."

That word didn't mean Marie wouldn't die if she went back to the dungeon.

Marie herself did not choose to return to the dungeon.