Monster no Goshujin-sama

Thirteen.

Berta was biting her bitter thoughts in a tracking unit that was going a little faster than earlier.

The look on the faces of the metastasizers around them is somewhat stiff.

The cause of this was the contact between Lu Kudo, the Lord of Berta, and Chiya Shimiya Shimiya.

Until now, the two had separately aspired to the 'cornerstone of the world'.

But if they come into contact with each other, even if it was just the force of this tracking team, I don't know if they could advance the fight to their advantage.

With that in mind, they were getting more nervous.

Some of them reacted slightly differently.

When Berta looked at Takahiro Mashima on the other side of her back, she could confirm that she looked strong.

I knew immediately what I was thinking.

Originally, Takahiro Mashima intended to persuade Lu Kudo.

Given the relationship they have built and the emotions they have directed at each other over and over again, that should never have been a bad bet for a minute.

However, if you had joined hands with Shichiya Shimiya Shimiya, persuasion would not necessarily be as good as when dealing with solitude.

I guess that's what you're thinking.

As that gaze turned toward him, Berta disturbed the tempo of running slightly.

"Hey, Berta."

"... what?

"I want your opinion."

The words spoken were sincere.

"What do you think Kudo is going to do?

"It's..."

I kept saying it because I didn't think I'd be asked for an opinion here.

"... okay? Listen to my opinion."

"You're under the command of the Demon King, so you dare say you might direct us in an inconvenient direction?

Returning the snort, Takahiro Mashima loosened his tense face only slightly.

It was a warm smile.

"You don't give a shit. For Kudo and for us. That's about all I know."

The boy said, his eyes rounded.

"What's up?

"... no"

Noticing a slight delay in responding, Berta returned the words briefly.

In fact, it wasn't a big deal.

I just became aware that I was treated very naturally as a companion.

I could honestly admit that fact right now.

I wonder if that's why I was reminded of it naturally.

- I'm relieved. Because I didn't think you were suitable for the demon king's men.

That was the word Yuna Iino put on Berta, who has always thought she was a failure to do something about herself.

- Kudo Lu didn't deserve it as your lord.

- I hate Mashima, because he's the one who cares more about his people than anything else. I think you deserve it. At that guy's place, you're sure to live happily ever after.

Which is not what it deserves.

That only depends on the way you think.

That's when I realized that.

There's nothing absolute about it.

So I asked the king to choose his own way.

Just a little bit.

I was wondering if that would lead to salvation.

And there were events that made me expect that.

- Go for real, Berta.

- From here on out, do everything you can without falsifying yourself.

In my battle with Edgar, it was a conversation I had with the Lord.

At that time, he did acknowledge who he really was, who he was repelling.

I thought something might change.

... but what about reality?

I'm a little less confident right now.

In fact, I remain distant and here I am.

Something like the omen I felt then is no longer far away.

After all, maybe the king doesn't understand his feelings or anything.

Wasn't that an expectation?

I can't believe that something as warm as I'm feeling right now will come into being with the Lord.

Because he's a demon king who wants to destroy the world.

That's another story, though, when it comes to seeing a match of interest with Shinji Jingu, who is not necessarily going to destroy the world.

"You asked me what the king meant."

Berta sighed and answered Takahiro Mashima's question.

"To my mind, the king..."

"… indeed, I have a feeling that I have something here to aim for"

The young man smiled at the answers obtained.

Hope is connected.

"Oh! If so...!

"But"

And the words that went on summed up the momentum youth.

"I'm certainly here as the demon king who destroys the world, but that's not what you call it"

"... Huh?

The young man's expression froze.

The hope plugged in was shadowed.

There's a shadow of hopelessness.

Kudo Lu said with a chilling grin.

"Think calmly. There's no way you can break the world, is there?

"... what!?

A young man peeled his eyes off.

"Hey, what are you talking about! In fact, this is...!

"No. I understand. This world is brittle enough to think about, and if you want to break it, you can break it, right? I don't doubt that."

The boy laughed and admitted to the young man who opened his mouth.

"But that's not what we're talking about now, is it? What I'm talking about is what I've been talking about. Normally, you wouldn't think. I can't believe you can physically destroy this world."

……

"Then wouldn't it be natural for my purpose to be different from what you call 'destroying the world'?"

At least, the time I've been walking as a demon king, Kudo Lu didn't know the fact that this world could be destroyed.

The purpose cannot be 'to physically destroy this world'.

Therefore, the interests of the Shrine are not in line with those of the Shrine.

The only existence that could have been a ghost bill was one that was just deadly.

"Ah... oh..."

A young man who sensed his death and turned pale retreated after greeting him.

But there's no way you can get away with it.

There are monsters all around us.

Kill. Kill. It kills me.

"Hih... ah"

I can play the spirit of a cornered youth.

On the brink of it, I found something with bloody eyes.

"... haha!

At the next moment, the youth were laughing so that they could play.

Jump.

From that hand, a sword was thrown at Kudo Lu.

"Give me a bad scratch!

A screaming Dora slaps her hands off with a changing shadow sword.

Now the youth will have lost their weapons.

But that's fine.

With only a few hours earned, the youth were picking up what was off the ground.

It was a great sword with a strange blade.

"As long as this...!

A magical sword that amputates everything.

It was what the masked man used.

Earlier, when Kudo Lu hit me with a monster, I guess I took it off.

In the Battle of the White Soldiers, the owner who lost this magic tool of his strongest class would not have been safe, but thanks to this, the youth had an eye for survival.

If it is pure combat ability, the youth with average power as Warrior is above the masked man.

Naturally, the consequences of using the same weapon change.

I can do this.

With certainty, the youth clenched the pattern of the sword.

It was the Mad Beast that struck there.

"Gruuuuuuuuuuuu!"

"You're going to die!

Against a roaring beast, the young man wields a sword poured with magic.

The body of the strongest class of beast is covered in rigid bristles that deviate the blade.

The stubborn extreme muscle armor would bounce back such as a half-breed sword.

But this sword doesn't even make such a thing a problem.

To the reversal from the absolute predicament, while remembering the excitement that seemed to blow his nose, the young man let himself make the best possible attack.

With this sword, you don't need power for a blow.

You should be more aware of the connection between attacks than you should be able to wield and empower.

"Grugguoo!"

An irrational beast jumps in, scattering the saliva.

The young man hoisted his corner of mouth as he even remembered pity for a kedamono he knew nothing about.

Swing your sword up to match the fist that will be swung down.

Drop your forearm first and drop your neck with a cut back sword.

If they take down the avant-garde lightly, they can tell you what's going on.

In the meantime, kill Kudo Lu and dump him.

"You idiot!

The blow of the sweep rolled out is only minimally powerful.

Normally, it should be easy to get played, but that's not true only for this one wave.

A strange and vicious blade slashed off the arms of an extremely bent beast.

Such a sight, the young man hallucinated.

"Huh?"

By then, the blade had been played lightly.

The youth must not have figured out what happened until the earliest moment.

The madman's fist was smashing the youth's skull without even slowing down after playing a light blow.

I can't even scream.

A body that lost its life fell behind it.

That was it.

In case, Dora, who remained on guard, exhaled all the time.

"He doesn't love."

I was just prepared for resistance by dealing with four metastasizers, and I clapped myself out.

But she was soon to frown.

Because from the skinny face of the Lord, who was supposed to be the winner, there was no loose will.

"... be careful. It's not over yet."

"Huh?"

At the next moment, there was an anomaly in the corner of the monster that was covering the perimeter.

"Spread out!

"Huh......!?

Kudo gives an immediate order, and Dora goes out of her sentence.

It was just a sudden assault.

A shadow jumped from the top of the tree, waving his sword.

The moment I thought so, the monsters that were around it were finely chopped.

The sword muscle was far from the fluidity of the master, and it just seemed to wield the sword, but it cut the monster's flesh to the bone as if there was no resistance whatsoever.

……

It was the masked man who showed up.

From under the hole that opened right in my eye, my unafraid gaze reflected Kudo Lu's appearance.

It was an unusual situation.

Because what the masked man was lowering in his hand was just a sword, not a magic tool or anything.

Yet the man's sword strike had created terrible damage.

More importantly, the amount of magic felt by the man was different from the previous one.

Definitely had cheats. That's top class, too.

"... I was hoping for a moment"

Pompous, Kudo Lu snapped.

There was no surprise but confusion in that tone.

Because he was breaking the identity of his opponent.

"This is where you've been hiding yourself."

On the boy's mouth, he smiled like he had been torn apart.

"" Absolute Disconnection "Koji Hibiya...!

Explorer's "Absolute Disconnection" Koji Hibiya.

He is one of the two remaining names in that colony and a missing person amid the chaos of the collapse of the colony.

Now there's no point in hiding it, more than that ability is proof.

The man's mask was removed.

A young man's face appeared somewhere with a difficult impression.

This had nothing to do with the situation of being in battle, and even the expedition was perceived as a tough person to stick with.

Its eyes stare at the relative boy.

It might have been natural to do so.

Kudo Lu's condition was not unusual.

"Oh, the king?

It's a sign of so much enthusiasm that Dora wanders around.

A calm, cold smiling mask smashes and scatters.

The anger that had been hidden behind it had been dewy.

With a few exceptions, Kudo Lu has successfully held back emotions such as his anger and hatred.

But this is different.

It's not even the wrath of a demon king resenting the world.

It was The Avenger's Laugh, which finally found the vengeance I was looking for.

"... do it!

An order was given, and the demon army stripped his fangs.