Maou no Hajimekata

"That's the demon king, the decision-maker who fights him..."

Oulu was haunting his head as he watched Sophia play aloud with Cacca.

I can't imagine either from the look of a toddler pulling around that corner as he twirls up to Lil's body.

"But you, you're too used to treating children like a lecher."

"Well, tell Marie and Alice and Lassie and Anna... come on, I'll get used to it"

With Sophia hanging around her neck, it's the labyrinth-raised kids that Lil fingerfolds and counts. The majority of them are the sons of Oul, who gave birth to the women of the Royal Figurine.

Of course it's not Lil's job to take care of the child, but it was treasured in some way because no matter how much she cried if it was in her hands, which is also a dreamer, the child would fall asleep in peace immediately.

Originally, it was a natural accomplishment to take care of her, who was unusually pitiful to the succubus, even though she fell asleep in doing so.

"Seeing from you like that, do you think Sophia would be a use?

"Hmm, right..."

Ask him to play, and surprisingly, Lil hugs Sophia with a serious look and stares.

"It's about a month now, and you look like you're about three and a half, right? Seventeen in five months at this pace. I think I can handle Oulu enough, and if I look like this, I'll grow up to be a beauty."

"What are you talking about?"

To its conclusion, I thought, Oulu dropped his shoulder disappointingly,

"... well. Three and a half?

I listened to the devil's words and looked up.

"It's a general guideline because the growth of babies varies greatly from one person to another..."

"Didn't you say you were three years old before, Ni?

That was a month ago, just before Tatsuki raided the dungeon.

"Speaking of which, is that right? You grew up sometime."

"It's a good story to finish sometime, fool!

It doesn't mean I didn't take care of Sophia in any way this past month with Oulu. But I hadn't noticed anything about that growth until now. Of course, I knew that when it came to walking in unbridled footsteps, words became more masterful than before, but I saw it as a natural growth of the baby.

But if you think about it, it's obviously odd that it will grow for about a year to six months in a month. If it simply originally grew extremely fast, it would grow abnormally in the short term. Is there any reason for that slow but rapid growth as well? That's what Oul thought.

"That being said... it's not like we've got more magic, and this is natural growth, is it?

Lil shows a small dungeon seed, installed next to the large dungeon seed Sophia is replacing the bed with. It was the seed of those who created the sea dungeon, and now it was a tank that stored the magic of sucking it up from the sea water.

Even so, there is only a small amount of savings. The amount of magic that can be taken in dragon veins and water veins is incomparable. From their modest income, they are spreading the sorcery necessary for their daily lives. All that remained after Oulu rejuvenated the villagers and tenas and created a large water hall was Lil's tearful efforts to save and distribute money.

"What if it's not about magic?"

"What do you mean?

In Lil's arms listening back, Sophia rumbles.

"Yes, sir."

As Lil laughed bitterly and lowered the toddler to the ground, she slammed into a straight line against the wall.

"Stay!"

At the same time, the wall opens like a door, and Sophia jumps at the blonde girl who was beyond it.

"Yes, I'm home. Sophia, thank you for watching this, Lil."

As she hugged it, Marie lowered her head gently to Lil.

"You missed me so much, I knew Marie was better, Sophia was"

Tung and cutely pointy lips, Lil pretends to leak discontent.

At those next moments you're loosening your cheeks when you see a girl who can hold a baby, so it's literally just the tip of your mouth.

"Now this guy noticed Marie's presence before he came in"

When Oul put his hand on Pong and Sophia's head, Sophia happily took that hand and extended the other hand to Marie. If Marie holds that hand, Sophia grins with her parents' hands in both hands.

"Looks like you'd know if you were in the dungeon. If Marie leaves the room, she won't make a scene if she's in the dungeon."

He said he realized it earlier than I did.

That's what Oulu said overlapping to Lil, who breaks up with Sophia's adorability. Speaking of which, Lil also notices the boulder and opens his eyes all the way.

"Speaking of which, you noticed first when Tatsuki came"

Oulu and I don't have a complete picture of the dungeon. You can count to the number of stones rolling in the corner of the dungeon if you want to, but it is beyond human ability to always recognize it.

It takes a lot of concentration to look inside the dungeon, and it's not the kind of thing you can do while doing other tasks. Sophia did it naturally, not being taught by anyone, as she climbed the lil and reached for the corner.

"... Sophia"

Fuji Oulu thinks there is, and he turns his gaze to Sophia and hands on the ground.

"Is this what you can do?

When Oul lifts his palm, the floor deforms as if to follow its hand while overflowing with patchy and magical light, and thrives like a tower.

"Yeah! Sophie, you can do it!

As Sophia nodded as Marie held her, the floor around Oulu burst out of nowhere.

If you try to jump out in a hurry, a stone wall hits Oulu's back.

As the wall covers up the oul while you look, the floor directly below rises and his body is lifted.

From left to right, the trees thrive, and the sea water flows through the ditch at the foot of the owl, making a sound.

"... this is"

And I could do it a little farther away, seeing a chunk like a little toy, Oul understood everything.

This is what he tried to tell us in the future.

"Precision not yet, but well done"

When Oulu descends from the center, which has become like a high ground, he looks down on his knees at a small chunk made on the edge of the room.

"What, this"

Lil also floated around and stared at it, but it just seemed like there were a few neglected things growing out of the ground like an undressed fingertip.

"Don't you see? This is a testament to Sofia's growth over the past month."

But Oulu knew exactly what it was. Making is naive, but positional relationships and numbers are perfectly fitting.

"Did you say Inada? It's a similarity to the village where the tenors live."

"Ah!"

At last, Lil realizes that Oulu has told him so much.

Sophia had created an extremely naive model of the entire dungeon.

"And Sophia recognizes that the village itself is a dungeon. Six months of growth, that's probably why."

To get behind the tena, Oul was slowly putting the Inada village in his own hands this past month. A passage was made underneath the floor, connecting the houses to each other, and the wooden houses were secretly covered with brick walls so as not to be able to hear from the outside. That's how they sent Tena in while she was asleep.

If we change our view of that, we can also say that we took the village as a whole dungeon.

"But... there's no more magic, but there's something about dungeons just spreading and growing?

It was a magically unlikely story. Witchcraft can change the approximate impossibility, but whatever it takes, it takes a former hand - magic.

"Impossible. Yes... If it's common sense here, I've encountered it many times since I came to the New World. Now."

In the first place, the very existence of Sofia is difficult to understand.

"Growth synchronizes with dungeons, grasps this dungeon more than I do, and manipulates it freely. If there's such a thing, it's just one"

Oul hugs Sophia and looks around.

"You're here. This dungeon itself. I made it up and Marie named it. That's why you call me Father and Mother."

Sophia just seems to think she's getting them to play, and she gave him a good chuckle.

'Grow Sophia', the future Oul told me, means tell me to grow a dungeon. If it's the labyrinth of her own will, I see. That's arguably the best weapon for Oulu.

"Then I'll raise you. Make you the best demon king!

Let my son be listed in heaven, and Oul declared so.