Our demon king is coming. (formerly Mayday A Series)

About 2200 years ago.

Royal Palace of the Kingdom of Cedermund on the North Continent

Torque: Thirteen.

I spent three years in that dark dungeon.

I wasn't treated particularly badly. Dinner, beds, and what to wear were prepared properly, and he gave me books and what to write on paper if I asked.

I had nothing to do, so collecting unnecessary and hard substances, such as dungeon stones and meat bones after meals, was used as magic practice material in front of me.

Because here I recently knitted a way to compress these substances.

Set your aim, lock yourself in a square cube, and when you grip a good hand, they become like sand, like small minerals, smaller or different with the application or subtraction of force.

If you ask me what it is now that I can do this, that's it.

I'm not getting out of here anyway.

It was just a spare time.

Since I was a little girl, I've always liked to practice, train, and excel at what I could do.

One day that I kept doing that, I noticed how strange the house number was and how noisy it was outside.

I can see a lot of pine lights coming down the stairs.

It was the soldiers. That's not what this country belongs to. Soldiers with armor and crests.

I immediately guessed it. The Royal Seidelmund Palace is being attacked by an enemy country.

I was in a place like this, so I didn't know the details, but it's a country that was originally in a state of tension with its neighbors.

It wasn't strange when the war started and when this country lost. Until now, one of the great northern powers of the day, the Finderian Empire, had protected this Seidelmund, but would you say that you have finally let it go? I heard that Finderia's powers have recently suddenly begun to fall. Have the enemy countries attacked this country, aiming there?

Anyway, there are four or five enemy soldiers outside the barn right now. He crawls to the ground and raises his hand.

"Hey, we got a kid locked up in here."

"... Hih... this guy has dark hair, black eyes!!

Outside the barn, they were saying something to each other.

I wondered what to do. He is caught as he is, told that he is the devil's son, followed to the pillars and decided to be executed.

I wanted to use this magic of mine to get out and see what was going on out there, but somehow I can't take that step.

I still remember swearing to the King that I wouldn't leave this place.

"Prince!!!

It was then.

Suddenly a rough voice sounded, and enemy soldiers were knocked down one after the other.

In front of the chamber stood a large man in armor with the crest of this country, with a giant sword.

"... who"

"Prince, I will take you from here"

A very rough looking, middle-aged man.

"What do you mean? What the hell is going on?"

"We are being attacked by the enemy. But don't worry. The king told me to get you out of here."

"What...?

The man unlocked and told me to wear a thick robe, "Come on!!" and shouted to get me out of this place.

I didn't know what it was, but I keep following the guy.

I went out a long time ago, but that wasn't what I knew about the royal palace, it was a battlefield with flames rising from everywhere.

"Why are you doing this..."

"Too many enemy soldiers."

"Where is the enemy country?"

"It's the Gailian Empire. They are adding demons to their soldiers. I'll tell you as much as I can later!! Come on, now just run away!!

………

I looked up at the castle and was confused.

Isn't the castle still full of kings, mothers and Alec?

"No, you can't. I'm with the king too..."

"Prince!!

The man hit me with that big arm.

It was so sudden that I fainted.

Only the flaming orange on the other side of my eyelids, though I knew it somehow, kept my consciousness flying away.

Father... Mother... Alec...

When I woke up, I was wrapped in a blanket, glued around with strings, and wrapped around the big man's back.

"Oh, are you awake, Prince? It was an early horse, so I put it on my back. Dahahahaha."

"... Am I luggage"

When I woke up, it was a meadow with only a short grass growing there. It's cold...... but it's not snowing yet.

"Where am I?"

"It's Halpa Mountain Road to Finderia. No more chasers will come from the royal palace."

"... who the hell are you? What's your name?"

"Oh, I'm late. My name is Dakhaluma Galton. Call me Dach. By the way, what can I call you about the prince? I don't like being in awe. I'd like you to forgive me if I could call you by name."

"... I'm a torque. You can call them as they are. Besides, I'm not a prince anymore.... There's no need to be afraid."

"Right or right. Dahahahahaha"

He's a luxurious, square-faced man with a laugh.

"Dach...... were you a soldier in the royal palace?

"Oh. I became a soldier in the royal palace after you were locked up in the dungeons of that country... the truth is, you're a traveler"

"Traveler?"

"Oh. Originally from the western continent. I arrived at Cedermund while I was going everywhere and became a soldier as I let the king talk about my journey. Next time I go on a journey... they asked me to take you..."

………

Dach's back was huge and overlapped with his father.

"Hey...... what happened to Seidelmund?

"... there's no way we can go back and be sure. One of these days, the information will come in. Well, don't get too sick. It wouldn't have been a good country for you."

"... that's not true."

I don't resent that country.

I'm just saying I was heretical.

"Oh, it's a rabbit"

On the way to the meadow, it seemed that Dach had found a rabbit.

You look so bad, you take out your bow.

"What do you do?

"Take it. Catch it and eat it. You were hungry, too."

"From here!?

When Dach told me to stay tight, he ran his horse and set up a bow.

Naturally the rabbit escapes, but Dach hangs on to it and shoots the bow as it is.

The arrow did, shoot the rabbit.

"Have you never eaten rabbit meat? It's delicious."

………

Dach laughed "Dahahahahaha," and when he sneered the rabbit, he began making the soup lavishly in a small pot. Collect those dead grasses and set them on fire. Dach used the magic of lighting a little flame on his fingertips. In this day and age, this degree of magic was routinely well used.

Some of Dach's travel tools have dried beans and seasonings that he says he got on the eastern continent and mixes them in the soup.

"You brought this stuff in that escape play"

"I go to different countries. I'm ready to leave the country whenever I want."

"... what a guy"

"Here, torque. Try it, it's delicious."

He serves soup in wooden vessels. Soup with beans and rabbit meat, with pepper and chili.

I thought you were pretty hungry after you smelled the smell. More and more, hunger struck me.

One bite, some anxious rabbit meat in your mouth, chew slowly. And I'm surprised it tastes so good, I drink soup.

Warm.

………

I was obsessed and ate next.

Dach also eats guts next door, and adds them to the vessel.

"I knew it was delicious, what about rabbit meat? There are rabbits and foxes on the northern continent, so we catch them and eat a lot."

………

"The rabbit fur is warm, so I'll wrap it around your neck next time. The truth is that foxes are good. Well, sometimes we meet on our journey."

………

"Here, torque, eat more"

Dach took up my vessel with less contents and once again he put on the rabbit meat soup.

"It'll be delicious, torque. Hmm?"

"... ugh, yeah"

Eating meat, answering vaguely. Dach laughed lavishly, continuing to talk about his journey again.

"If it was a journey along the Great River on the eastern continent, I'd eat crocodiles. That's just halfway between chicken and fish. Pretty good."

"... crocodiles?

"Oh. You wouldn't know. My mouth is so big, my teeth are like this, it sucks if they bite me anyway. But it's effective to hit him in the head."

With gestures, Dach tried to tell me how crocodiles were doing, but I didn't really get it at this time.

I'm starting to get interested in other continents.

"... you said you were from the western continent. What kind of place is west?"

"The western continent has no trouble eating. The climate, the mild lands are rich, and there are fewer disputes between nations than there are in the north.... On the contrary, I'm bored to travel."

…………

"Dahahahahaha, torque. Is there anywhere you want to go?

I sipped some warm soup.

It pours into my mouth, into my stomach, into what I think is delicious.

I wonder what it was in that dungeon, no matter how hands-on a meal came out, that I didn't think was tasty.

………

"... torque?

For some reason, there was a glimmer of tears.

Various thoughts were mixed intricately and, above all, delicious soup.

A long time ago when people were on the side, with someone, saying they were going to eat something.

Dach asked me where I wanted to go.

I thought I'd never go outside again, on this me.

Dach took the delightful look he had had a little seriously and looked at me.

"That's a terrible story... I just locked you in the dungeon because you had dark hair and dark eyes"

"But if I hadn't, I wouldn't have been able to keep the country. If you had left me like that, there might have been increased public anxiety and civil unrest. The high-ranking officials may have taken charge of Alec and staged a rebellion. Elements such as anxiety and instability give the enemy a gap to attack.... There was no room in that country for me to be king.... the king did the right thing."

………

Still, in the end, though that country was attacked by the enemy.

Is it because the king kept me alive? As the devil's child, did my ordeal end up pouring down on that country?

"Well, if you go to the East, there are plenty of people like you."

"... Really?

"Oh. Nothing's weird.... It was not uncommon for the countries of the northern continent, especially those along the sea, to war with the countries of the eastern continent in the past, so the scars of that time, or the poor impression of the brunette's black eyes, would have turned into a superstition called the" devil's child ”. A common story."

………

"See, for now, eat. You have to eat when you can."

Dach took away my vessel again and followed the rest of the soup.

I had too many things to think about and it was blurry.

"If you don't eat, I will. Hmm?"

"……………………"

"Dahahahahaha"

Dach's laughter is the opposite of that tranquility in the dungeon of the Royal Palace, so delightful and luxurious.

I wonder what it is.

It's rough but there's no back. It's honest, straight and reassuring somewhere.

"Come on, torque where we're going. You can go anywhere now."

………

Sipping the last sip of soup, I thought.

I'm sure if I never go back to that kingdom again, I wonder where and what the hell I should do.

"To where I can go, to where I can go...... But first, I want to look around this continent."

"... ho. You dare say you will travel on the northern continent"

"I want to know more about this continent"

If it's true, I guess I could have gone to the rich western continent and the eastern continent that's easy for me to live on.

But I dared to stay on this cold, nothing, fierce, demonic continent of war, not very convenient for me.

Dach was laughing at "the guy who likes things," but he got on with it too. Truth is, he was also on his way to the northern continent.

A traveler named Dakhaluma Galton.

I then embark on a journey with Dach to the North.

In my long and long life, the existence of saying Dach is so great.

I don't know what the hell was in it for him to take me on a journey, but he took me out to the white, cold, but wide, free northern world under a covert promise to my father.

I'm sure for me, he was the father, combined with the king and Dach.

It's not so far away that he calls me a stupid son and I call him a stupid father.