Maou no Hajimekata

"Welcome back, sir"

"Uhm...... I just left"

Spending three weeks at home and returning to the dungeons of the New World, Oul replied so with a slightly awkward face to Sakya sitting on the floor and bowing his head deeply.

In other words, it was left alone for three weeks.

I wasn't playing with Oulu, but I felt like I could draw attention back if I had been so polite where I had spent time with other women.

"Never mind, Master Hall. Princess, because it's natural."

"Hmmm... the princess has some neglect of those occasions, so"

To the words of Hodeli, Hosseri brothers and sisters to follow, Sakya leaned her neck wonderfully.

"Oh, it's Oulu. Welcome back."

"I just left. Thank you for your hard work while you were away."

You perceived Oul's signs there, and Marie showed herself.

Although she had also returned to her home base several times, she had basically spent time in the New World taking care of Sofia and managing the dungeons.

"What's wrong, Sophie? Dad's home. Okay?

Marie turned around and did her gaze behind the door. Apparently there's Sophia there.

"What? Are you ashamed? Look, come on."

Sophia stared at Oulu with a grumpy look as Marie pulled out her hand and pulled out in front of Oulu.

"Sophie -"

"I can't believe Dad..."

A rock wall surrounds his quadrants, blocking the voice that Oulu tried to call.

At the same time, a magic formation floated at his feet. Bad, it's too late when you think.

Within one hand of eliminating the rock wall and getting out of it, the magic formations exert their power.

"Difficult!

Along with Sophia's words, Oul learned the feeling of his body falling.

The odd floating sensation is due to metastasis.

If you noticed, Oulu had been flown to the forest entrance.

"Sophia guy..."

Even though he was alarmed, Oul worries a little about whether he was angry or impressed by the brilliant handiwork.

"Oulu, are you okay?

I guess I got a call from Marie. Eunice jumped at once.

"Oh. It would have been troublesome if the destination had been in stone or magma"

"Sophia won't go that far with boulders."

"... I hope so"

Why did Sophia go into such outrages?

I don't have any idea, but I don't know exactly.

"They even told me they hated it. I don't know what's gonna happen."

"Mmm. Looks like you're in a bit of a mood."

Eunice smiled bitterly at Oulu, who said it seriously with a serious look.

Oul touches the trees that make up the forest dungeon and tries to interfere by magic.

But the walls of the trees quickly reverted to their original form, only to try to change shape for a moment.

"You're completely taken over."

"It's rare for an oul."

I did not anticipate this situation.

But I couldn't beat my hand. Sophia is the dungeon itself.

What's wrong with that interference? It's stronger than an owl.

"Well, this is a good opportunity. Let's go. Stay with us."

"Ha."

"Yeah."

Eunice turned her eyes round as Hodeli and Hosseri's brothers and sisters appeared in response to Oul's words.

"Where did you come from?

"The moment I was transferred, I jumped in from between the open rocks."

"Protect the princess, if it is her life."

On his knees, in a hard tone, Hodeli answers.

They weren't hiding anything else. Eunice realized she was just killing herself and following Oulu's side as something she didn't.

Even Eunice is so unaware of its existence until they utter the word.

"Well, then -"

Oul looked to the deep woods and said:

"My daughter's dungeon. Attack me head-on."

"What a pleasure."

While going down the forest path, Eunice accidentally mentioned that.

"Oulu used to explore Oulu's labyrinth with Wikia and Faro, didn't he?

"There it is, and there it is."

That was a long time ago. Oul dived into the labyrinth pretending to be a traveling magician in order to appreciate the maze from the adventurer's point of view and to see the adventurer's own sophistication.

"Um, I wanted to follow you, too."

I'm sure you'll appreciate it when you get here.

"So glad"

I don't think I could have prevented an intrusion in a dungeon back then for this little girl laughing in the air.

"This is a serious exploration. We're gonna do everything we can."

"Ugh. I mean, seriously."

Eunice pulls out the sword and flashes it.

By the time Oul noticed, the sword had already subsided in its sheath, and the walls made of branches had fallen apart.

"You mean you can go this way, right?

"Well, yes..."

The durability of the wall has not decreased compared to when Marie and I explored it. Rather, it is ascended by Sophia's reign.

Horribly, Eunice wasn't using her powers.

They tore the walls of the labyrinth with pure strength, speed and skill.

"Speaking for real...... do you really not have to cure your arm?

Oulu asked Hodeli as he walked down the shortcut made by Eunice.

His left arm, eaten by Orochi, remains cut off from the middle of his arms, with only his sleeves shaking.

"I don't mind. It was some immature death who lost his arm."

Oulu was also treated once, but Hodeli cut that arm off quickly.

I can't shake my regenerated arm the same way I used to.

If I had that arm, I would have said it would have been better if I hadn't.

"Well, the defense of this dungeon is not as good as it is. Let's not have a problem."

"Really?

"Oh. First of all, it wasn't an invasion, it was a reconnaissance. I'm not assuming intruders in the first place."

If we burn down the surrounding villages, as we did before, or if we attack down the city, the enemy will soon arrive. But this time, I didn't mean for Oul to do that. Defense is therefore minimal.

Many fools had broken in for it, but Oul thinks.

Tatsuki and Yamatano Orochi...... practically both were like tatsuki.

And here it is.

stroking the wooden walls, Oulu makes a tannic surface.

"You can't even be distracted by these skull walls."

"You're going out of the sky."

Its walls, which are made of many trees, are sufficient to inhibit human passage, but the wind passes freely between them.

"Therefore, we cannot summon such things as demons and warcraft, and we do not gather great power."

"... I don't know about that"

"What?"

It was Hodeli who disputed Oulu's words.

"The hall is very bright and knowledgeable... but I'm not familiar with this one. Ever since ancient times, demons have inhabited the woods."

Pompous and squeaky as Hosseri supplements his brother's words.

"Could that be..."

With the words of Oulu,

"Are you talking about these guys?

Countless stone crushes poured down on them.

Even when it comes to stone crushing, if it hits your head with a big grip, you can easily kill people.

It is more amazing than an arrow in a way.

but.

Oulu's cube automatically expands the fence and plays everything.

Eunice pours like rain, gently turning it in a slight motion.

Chin, I thought I heard a noise. All the stones toward Hodeli were broken and rolled to the ground.

Hosseri takes countless stones with his palms and throws them away from one end.

It was no obstacle to them.

"Hello, you little bastard."

When he pulled it out, Hodeli glanced forward with a single-edged sword.

"You think it's a little ghost?

There he was, about a foot (thirty centimeters) tall, a human-shaped creature with an ugly face.

"Isn't that goblin?"

"But the colors are different."

That resembled the demons Ouls knew well, but the little ones had red skin against the green goblins. The clothes you are wearing are also somewhat Yamato-style.

"Each one of them is not very strong, but be aware that they can flock in large numbers, spin their wisdom, and set traps."

"Isn't that goblin!

Something that flowed through with some kind of clap probably bred independently. Oul stopped thinking about whether the difference in skin was the difference in food or in the climate… etc.

"Fair enough. I know how to handle this."

As he took a step forward, Oul proceeded to walk on the little ones.

As soon as they did, the little ones tried to escape to scatter the spider child... and realized that there was a wall behind them.

Without knowing why they are blocked from exiting, they hesitate, frightened and bewildered by the approaching oul.

But when Oul's feet stepped on the carpet of fallen leaves, his expression was distorted by an evil grin.

Because beneath it, there were their dug pits.

If you drop it into a pit, it doesn't make sense such as physical difference.

Later, throw a stone from the top and spear it till you die.

It's a hilarious and delightful sight to see humans with much bigger bodies than the little ghosts suffer from falling into pits and get poked with spears and fall again in an attempt to climb.

But the prospect of those little ones ended in failure.

Because Oul walked over the fallen leaves as if nothing had happened.

"You're not running away?

Before their bewildered eyes, Oul asked with a low voice that echoed from the bottom of the earth.

Even when it comes to running away, my back is blocked.

The little ones hesitate and try to escape across Oulu's feet.

The body sank into the fallen leaves.

Judgment and countless leaves pour down over the fallen body, and the little ones storm into confusion.

They had no idea why they were the only ones falling into the pit.

The little ghosts try to crawl up holes by stepping on each other's bodies with us first, but they kick each other down, curse each other ugly, poke at each other. Then it's also irresistible.

Still, when I managed to get to the top of the road and try to get my hands on the end of the pit, its fingertips glided in the air with nothing. It's as if there's an invisible wall there.

Repeating it over and over again, the little devils finally realized they couldn't get out of the top, then tried to dig a horizontal hole at the bottom of the hole to escape through the ground.

But the dirt wall, which was supposed to be brittle, did not scratch one, even as it slammed the wax, penetrated the spear, and protruded the nail.

They can't even understand.

The fact that the invisible labyrinth of Oulu (Laburinthos), which has changed into a well shaped shape, has surrounded the entire pit and completely covered the poor little ones, etc.

"Little fools."

Looking down at it, Oul spoke.

"Swear obedience, not to say, etc. It is too much for you. Don't tell me to obey you. It's too much for your heads, my lord."

With his open palms, angry little boys throw stones and weapons in their hands.

But it bounced back, inhibited by the invisible ceiling that blocked the hole, pouring down on the heads of the little ones.

"So just fear me."

Oul bends his extended finger and slowly closes his hand as if grabbing something.

Then, with the roar, the wall at the bottom of the hole where the little ones were moved.

"It doesn't matter if the words don't make sense, if you can't remember your face, if you don't know your name. As long as the blood continues, until the end of your life, fear me."

The little ghosts are slowly crushed by the narrowing hole bottom, but they can't do anything but shudder in fear.

"Sora. Exit."

From Oulu's hand he makes a rattle noise, and the staircase made of cubes stretches out to the bottom of the hole where the little ones are.

The little ones stuck in the cucumbers did not try to climb that staircase as one.

Beyond that, because there are more terrible beings for them than anything else.

"All right. Go."

When Oul is satisfied with the reaction, he orders him to turn his back.

Then the little ones climbed the stairs and ran away, instantly disappearing.