The Immortal Demon King and the Impaired Hero

"I don't care who you ask. Do you honestly think you're going to reveal your identity to people you've never known?"

"So is that. I think we've been a little rushed."

Lilith mouths when she asks the shopkeeper to pour the liquor into her empty glass.

"In order, then. Are you some kind of nobleman? Or is it a knight's lineage?"

"Why do you think so?"

"From tricks and words and deeds, I guess. I know you're a very educated person because of what you've done and what you've said. As far as I'm concerned, I'm a nobleman, not a knight. What do you think?"

Isaiyoi honestly admires the details.

It is true that both Isaiyoi and Evening Incense have a certain education in their original worlds, with minimal courtesy. In addition, as for Isaiyoi, there is no shame in being a demon king even though it is a demonic ceremony. There is nothing unnatural about being mistaken for nobility in this world.

But there's no point in Isaiyoi answering Lilith's confident speculation in discipline.

With a gentle smile on his shoulder, Isaiyoi asked back the other way.

"What about you like that? A knight?"

"Discover. I was born into a family of knights."

I don't expect you to respond politely, but I just eat a little.

Seeing Isaiyoi's upset, Lilith spun her words into a mixture of shame.

"I'm still an A-rank adventurer. That's a pretty good name, so if you look it up, you'll find out."

A Rank. A is a step ahead of S in the Adventurer Rank from F to S. What it shows is that you are quite capable. When it was explained to me by Evening Incense at the Inn, I was told that the higher the Adventurer Rank, the higher the attention and expectations from the surroundings.

So much so that Lilith could reasonably sit next to us and then look at us more. Isaiyoi leaked a small sigh convinced of the identity of the jealous gaze that could be directed at him.

"It's hard to be famous."

"It's true. In a way, they've made it better to erase the signs."

Ha, and Isaiyoi could not forbid pity on Lilith, who laughed powerlessly. Notice that. Lilith coughs lightly and returns to the conversation.

"Besides, I told you, can you tell me too?"

"Can you tell such well-known facts in return?"

"You're an asshole. It's a booze table, so one or two of the old stories, okay?"

"Hate, it's not a noble life."

Really, half his life isn't exactly chest-tight. It would rather be a substitute for being bullied and eliminated. Oh, and there's no way I can tell anyone else.

"... Hmm. Well, it's impeccable to force you to hear what you don't want to say, and let's just enjoy the liquor here."

Lilith tilted the glass wide, pulling back at Isaiyoi's will.

"Besides, there's a past that no one wants to know about."

The monologue is probably unconscious. It was quite sad there to hold a glass with my worries floating on its righteous side.

Isaiyoi dared not poke at it, but drank up a second drink.

"... Oops, I'm sorry. This will make the alcohol in the corner taste bad."

Lilith, who drank all at once while trying to behave brightly, turned to Isaiyoi with some deep grin.

"By the way, the truth is, what is your relationship with Isaiyoi and Yuka?"

Isaiyoi opens his mouth wondering if it would be just right for the sake dish as he whines inside.

"Right. Well... a kid worthy of teasing."

"Kid? I didn't feel like I was too old to be away..."

"Oh well what do you say...... it's a sensory thing"

It actually feels like a child because there are hundreds of age differences, but I can't even say that, it takes the form of clouding words.

"Yes, but is it worth the mess... it's getting more and more attractive"

"... wasn't that a joke earlier?"

"Pfft, of course I'm kidding. Don't worry."

I don't know why, it was the first time I've ever said a word I didn't feel safe so far.

"Well, Isaiyoi and Yuka aren't in love, are they?"

"No... why would you ask me that?"

"No, if you're in love, think you should stop giving me water. But..."

With a slightly lowered face and thinking trick, Lilith has looked to Isaiyoi with a serious look that has changed from the previously cared for atmosphere.

"I'm well aware of being selfish. Why don't you let me accompany you on your adventurous activities?"

"... are you after Yukaka?"

"Oh, no! I can't help but suspect him because he was a little too kidding, but he's not..."

Lilith denies it with a wolf in earnest. But soon he realizes his dementia, and when he coughs to deceive, he sees Isaiyoi again with a serious face.

"I don't do any more digging, but I still personally wonder how strong you guys are. That's why, if you're good at it, I want you to kiss the Alliance and rank it up quickly."

"Why is that again?"

"I just wanted to say a few favors for seniors...... but the real deal is different"

Lilith opens her mouth bitterly with her hands on her temples so that she can get a headache.

"The Adventurer Guild is currently understaffed...... no, there are a lot of people, but there are not enough capable adventurers. If I screw up, I'm the only Rank A adventurer in the city of Terms right now."

That is an unusual situation, even for the amateur. Thelmus puts the forest of boundaries ahead of his eyes and nose, so to speak, the front line. Anything would be weird about the fact that Lilith is the only Rank A of adventurers who will be such a city's force of war, especially those who will be powerful.

"You think it's weird? There's a reason for this. A few days ago, the Adventurer's Guild headquarters in Wangdu sent a request to all the city's guilds, and many adventurers went to Wangdu."

That said Lilith took a piece of paper out of her nostalgia and spread it. The paper appeared to be a requisition form for the matter, and it was written about the requisition details and rewards.

Isaiyoi glanced clearly at the request.

"What about this... as a requisition?"

"I don't care if you tell me..."

The requisition Lilith had shown me was blurred with a clear requisition, a substitute that I didn't think was very much a requisition just because the reward and what looked like a royal seal were pressed. And the reward is just as high as an idiot.

"It would be too suspicious, this is..."

"That's what I thought and stayed. But they were all blinded by the reward, and half-hearted people wanted to make sure. Thanks to this, Thelmus' power has fallen apart. I want you to give me a break now that you've got your attention..."

Rank A would also attract a lot of attention from the adventurers around us. Isaiyoi hallucinated his former self at the appearance of Lilith, weak and zero foolishness. He used to be the Demon King too. There was noise about what it was, so I didn't even know how it felt.

Two sighs overlapped.

"So, what do you say? Will you accept my suggestion?"

Lilith asks again as she makes her cheeks slightly reddish and feels physically about whether her drunkenness has turned.

Isaiyoi opens his mouth after much reflection

"… one thing, there are conditions"

"What is it?"

"I don't mind following us. But even if you decide you have the strength to do so, stop filing your rank up with the Alliance."

"... may I ask why?"

Lilith tries to narrow her eyes to surprise and grasp Isaiyoi's sincerity. In contrast, Isaiyoi smiled soberly,

"Evil, I don't want to be your dance."

I said it out loud.

Lilith laughs at Isaiyoi's sarcasm with her mouth half open, but slightly sprayed.

"No, I can't say anything when they say that"

He seems to be trying to hide his mouth and laugh, but his shoulders are trembling and he can't hide it at all. They touched Lilith's harp line somewhat.

In the end, it took a few minutes for Lilith to cure the laughter.

"Well, I laughed so long ago."

I'm glad to hear that.

Lilith smiles brightly and Isaiyoi smiles.

"Well, thank you. Isaiyoi, sir."

"Oh, welcome"

I gave him my hand from either side and held each other.

For some time after this, Isaiyoi and Lilith sipped alcohol and cut it up as the drunkenness began to turn in earnest.

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"You were lucky to get a connection to the Rank A Adventurer."

Walk in a city where people are also neglected while the night breezes cool their bodies lit with alcohol. Lilith and I split up in front of the tavern because the inn was different. At that time, he said, "Wouldn't it be a sending wolf?" and so on, so there was also an interaction in which Isaiyoi had a somnolence and tapped his head lightly.

At that time, for some reason, he was given a murderous gaze from his surroundings, but Isaiyoi tried to ignore it and flush it. Probably a Lilith fan or something.

"Do you accept this as a harm..."

All you have to do is physically give me a hand job and it hurts back. There will be no noticeable obstruction as long as Lilith is on this side, even as she takes some cowardly hands.

Not that it's a problem, but it's a small risk given the return. If we build trust in the tunnel at this rate, we can respond when (...).

Oh, and Isaiyoi sighs small. It won't be my fault that I feel the number of sighs has increased since I met Yuka.

"In the meantime, let's go home"

I find myself pointing my foot toward the inn.

"You're tight..."

Isaiyoi told me to tighten the door, so I can't complain. I just got free until morning.

In the end, Isaiyoi was to roam the city until morning. It was Isaiyoi who almost remembered the structure of the city because of it.