Lizzis, the billboard daughter of the tavern, was still wiping the table with a sunken look that day.

The liquor store guests, too, feel somewhere short without her smile. Kufal, the cause, has not yet returned.

It is a common perception of all the owners and guests of the tavern that she has a heart for Kufal.

The only people I haven't noticed are the people of the moment. No, Kufal with an aging atmosphere might have noticed, but apparently he knew it and ignored it.

"Ha..."

"You're not back yet, are you, that boy?"

"Kufal-kun? He did say it would be a long time, but I didn't think it would take this long."

Return a slightly foolish mix of words to the drunk you've been talking to and clear up on the table.

Guests who look at her depressed but unable to rest their work hands and think, 'You'll be a good daughter-in-law, it's a waste' and smug.

An adventurer is basically rootless. Whenever I lose my life, it's not weird, and I don't even compensate for the future.

I can't deny her thoughts to such an adventurer, but I can't even do it, I just have to watch.

Because the initial interaction between the two young people was also a healing experience for the guests watching.

That's when the tavern doorbell rang noisily and one adventurer came to the store.

"Ah, there you are...... Mr. Kufal!?

"Hi, Mr. Ridges. It's getting a little long right now."

"I already worried about you! Just keep me posted."

"I'm busy with a lot of things. Oh, this is a souvenir. A vial filled with the sap of a world tree."

"The World Tree came into the labyrinth after a while?

Kufal, who remains in his outfit every time he is thinly dirty, takes the vial out of his nose and passes it to Rigis.

Kfar, diving into the conduit of the world tree, had taken in plenty of its sap into his body. And part of it was packed in a bottle as a souvenir, and given to Rigis.

"Yeah, I have something for Yabo. Do you have more time now than that?

"Oh, yeah, of course I'm available..."

The owner of the liquor store… Rigis flies her gaze towards her father. Of course, it's time to have guests, and there's no way we're free.

But her father, whose daughter was the only one in the family, perceived the thoughts of such a daughter and confined herself to snorting heavily.

"I don't mind. But hurry home."

"Yay! Forgive me, Kufal."

"I'm sorry. Your daughter will pay you back soon."

"I don't care if you take responsibility tomorrow morning."

"Already, if you're a father, stop joking!

Fathers and innkeepers laughing and sending Rizzis, who shook up their fists and showed angry tricks.

Put those people down. Rijs took the apron and left the inn after Kufal.

"Hey, Kufal-kun. Are you okay out of town?

Rijs, who walked with Kufal's lead, had been taken straight out of town.

Neither does this neighborhood leak into the example of other towns, outside the fence is a danger zone. Still, she came along because Kufal had the title of a well-armed adventurer.

Still, worries don't go away.

"It's okay. 'Cause I'm gonna protect you exactly."

"Oh, yeah? Glad to hear it, huh?

As for Kufal, I don't want to scratch one of her sacrificial candidates, so that's all. But Rigis didn't receive it that way.

He is blushing, joining hands in front of his chest and moving his fingers irrevocably. That was conveying her nervousness.

Kufal is the only person who can convey that tension.

With her like that, Kufal was reaching out of town, on a small rocky mountain.

It is where I took Rigis' hand several times and pulled it up and finally got there.

Across Rock Mountain there is nothing to block you to the town, and you can look down on the town from a slightly higher point.

"Wow, you have a view of the town. Kufal, did you want to show me the view here?

"Yeah, we're still in the prep stage. I wonder if it's okay around here. I thought I'd show you something interesting."

"Interesting stuff? I don't know, I'm a little thrilled."

"You're definitely excited. I'll use magic then, just stay away. Yeah, make yourself comfortable there."

Rijs takes a few steps back at Kfar's behest and stands where the round Something is depicted.

And Kfar, when she cast a spell with words she had never heard, a dazzling light was emitted from the direction of the town as well.

"Hey, what!? The town!"

"It's amazing. It's a subpoena that surrounds the whole town. Now we can sacrifice all the people of the city."

"A demon god... no way..."

As Rigis and a human being living in the north, the fear of the demon gods is stained and understood.

Especially the presence of the demon god involved in Reid's death twenty-five years ago was repelled at a level that could no longer be described as contraindicated.

And he says unto his sacrifice, I will dedicate the men of the city. I can't believe that.

"What are you talking about, Kufal... there's your father too! Stop it if you're joking!?

"A joke? Is that what you're joking about? With all that human devotion, you should be able to summon quite a few demons. I don't even need to set my husband up because the goal is to get him to bust into it"

"Stop it! Please... I'm telling you not to, you bastard!

Rijs tried to pack it in Kufal, but his leg could not take a step outside the circle.

It's as if an invisible wall exists there, blocking her from walking.

"Let me out, please!

"No one...? That's amazing, Mr. Ridges. Well done."

"Tell me what..."

Without waiting for Rijs' words to end, Kfar melts his body loosely. No, I went back to what I was like as a slime.

There's just a mass of red and black, amorphous gelatin there. That trembles and speaks in Kfar's voice.

"Mr. Ridges, you're a good man, aren't you?

"Hit, su, slime...... lying, right?

"I'm not lying. This is who I am."

"Oh no... Kufal, I ate you and took you away...!

I had heard that some species of slime called blobs take away the appearance of prey they ate.

Rizzis, who could not believe the change in front of him, remembered the story for a moment.

But when he heard it, Kufal shook his shapely body and gave him a laugh.

"Gufafafafafafafafa, that's an interesting idea. But unfortunately, I was abominable from the start!

"Why... why..."

"What do you think, how did you feel about Slime? Are you desperate? Don't worry, I'll send you to everyone's place soon. Here, take a look."

Kufal extends his arm and points to the town.

Only the wilderness, which emitted a temporarily blurry light that was surrounded by light and eventually disappeared from nothing, was left behind.

The house, the people, the fence, everything disappeared... and instead there was Something.

"Lies, lies, lies...... Dad, no, Dad, no, no, no, no!?

"Like, that scream. It was... whoa, them. Is this the one that caused this, too?

Behind Rigis' blood-soaking scream, Kufal confirms the demon god who appeared in the wilderness. There were more than a hundred swarms of double-sword demon gods there.

Just a demon god who fought each other alone with Reid, that's over a hundred. The only sight I can feel anymore is despair.

Seeing it, Kufal shakes his body with satisfaction.

And there was a figure of Rigis squatting without force behind her back.

"Come on, it's your turn next."

"Let it go, let it go... I'll do it... Kufal, Kufaluuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Rigis slamming a wall that doesn't look crazy. fingers broken on that force, blood scattered, but she doesn't care about any

"Like, that madness, killing, hatred! Fine, the more hateful, the stronger the demon god is called!!

Kufal also activates a summoning spell while screaming. What was at her feet was the Summoning Circle of the Demon God. Specially made to keep your prey from escaping.

That's how Rizzis was wrapped up in light… "It" appeared.

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