The Immortal Demon King and the Impaired Hero

When I woke up, the girl was in a rubble and rubble gap.

He suffered large and small wounds all over his body and was in a state of full creativity.

I clearly understand what got me into this situation. A large group of demons attacked the city where the girl lived. Though I was young, I took the sword and fought resolutely to protect the young lord who served as a knight.

"Lady..."

Thoughts that were clouded by pain became clear, and the girl searches for the figure of the Lord. Whip your body screaming at the pain and crawl out of the rubble gap.

It was hell itself in the eyes of the girl who crawled out of the rubble. Firehands are rising everywhere, and what was a building is turned into a pile of rubble, and the chorus of despair and sorrow is echoed by those who survive whether they are lucky or not.

A girl blinded by the appearance of a city ravaged and transformed, without its former shadows or shapes. At the feet of such a girl, a red reservoir of water was formed.

The girl turned her attention to that liquid that erodes her own shoes - she opened her eyes in amazement.

The identity of the red water reservoir was the blood reservoir. And the appearance of a little girl lying in that bloody pile.

The girl, wrapped in clothing decorated to an extent that was not excessive, was a nobleman's courtier and the Lord of the service of the girl who is a knight.

"Lady!"

Raise your scream-stained voice and the girl carefully hugs the Lord. She still has a temperature and is breathing hard. The Lord is still alive.

"Lady! Wake up, lady!"

The girl despairs while desperately calling to see how the Lord is injured. I didn't know because I had fallen on my back, but there was a deep carving of the three main lines as if they had been torn with sharp nails on my back. The wound is too bad. Plus, it's bleeding too much.

There is also no grace for the earliest moment. The Lord will die if we do not receive proper treatment even now.

The girl immediately looks up to call a doctor and despairs again.

There's no way we can get a doctor in this situation where the city collapses and the injured springs from next to next. Before that, there may be a doctor among the survivors. That's why I'm going to another city for a long time. There's no respite. The Lord's condition is on the verge of death for a moment.

The young but wise girl understands that she does not have the help to save the Lord, and falls into despair.

Such a girl's cheek was gently stroked by her hands wet in blood.

"Lilith...... are you okay?"

"Lady!? You're back in consciousness!"

"Yeah... somehow,"

"Lady..."

Despite standing in the abyss of death, Lilith bites her teeth without knowing how to react to the Lord, who smiles the same as usual.

"If I hadn't taken unconsciousness then this would have happened...!"

"That's not true. Lilith... protected me properly"

The girl strokes Lilith's head, who blames herself violently, as if her mother were the Lord to comfort her child.

"Lilith worked hard for me. So don't blame yourself that way"

"Lady...... but"

"Already... then promise me one thing"

The girl tells Lilith to narrow her eyes just a little.

"Live till my minute, and now be strong enough to protect you"

Remaining in a position held up by Lilith, the girl looks out over the world of rubble that used to be the city. In the girl's eyes is the figure of the surviving people.

"Never again, ever be strong enough to let this happen. Promise."

"But my lord is only the lady"

"The husband is gone, so find a new husband again. You'll find someone better than me."

"I don't..."

Lilith's eyes wet in tears trying to deny it. I want to cry at the helplessness that prevents me from connecting and retaining the Lord who is going to death in my arms.

"Look, you don't cry. Beautiful face ruined."

Gently wipe the tears accumulated in her eyes, and the girl laughs at her temperament. Desperately ready for her consciousness to fly in severe pain, she pushes and kills the fear of getting cold from the ends of her body, and the girl keeps smiling.

Don't let your precious knight get lost in the streets. The girl tries to stay smiling until the earliest moment in order not to let revenge walk the hard way, even if by mistake. That's what I can do for Lilith, because it's the only thing I can do.

So...

"... Lilith"

Calling the young knight's name with a weak mosquito ringing voice, not in the ever good tone.

"Sorry......"

That was an apology for what, and sincerity couldn't even be measured by Lilith. However, at the end of the day the girl quietly closed her lid.

Lost power hands strike a blood buildup. The raw heartbeat transmitted from the body to be held stopped completely.

"Lady...? Oh... oh... oh...!"

The cries of the young knight echoed in the rubbled city.

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Time goes back a little.

The sun peeks into your face from the eastern sky, just in time for sunrise. The soldier, who was on guard at the fenced lookout tower protecting Thelmus, finally leaked his defect that it was time to take turns. Next door, the other soldier also rubs his eyes with a colourful look of fatigue.

The soldiers were ruthlessly exhausted because they had been paying some attention here recently to trends in the forest of boundaries. They were also nervous about the unusual air drifting from the boundaries of the forest. I want to lie down in bed and rest fast. Such thoughts were filling the hearts of the soldiers.

I noticed the anomaly was trying to get down from the tower for a change, its arrow tip.

What's that?

Far beyond the boundaries forest, over the demonic continent. A black dot of pomposity and mystery had surfaced, rapidly increasing its number.

"That's..."

And I looked at him with a little grunt.

"Duh, it's a dragon -!?"

Far away and hard to tell, but the identity of the black dots filling the Devil's continent was a herd of dragons.

No, it is a large army of dragons and flying demons to be exact. A strange bird with wings in an insect with wings such as a giant bee or dragonfly. Some demons have the ability to fly without wings or wings.

Those demons are forming a large group and approaching Thelmus. In that reality, the soldier flew his complexion through blue and earthy, halfway screaming to the soldier's quarters for a report.

In addition, the fact that a large number of demons were being invaded by adventurers who had been investigating until the end of the Demonic Continent was approached by the Adventurer Alliance at about the same time.

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Severe bitter air dominates the room.

After changing places from the aisle to the room and hearing the circumstances again from Lilith, Yuka sits back on the bed with a harsh look on her face. Isaiyoi leaked a small sigh into what he still expected, while keeping his back on the appropriate wall.

Sunflower, responding with deafness to Isaiyoi's sigh, skipped a sharp gaze at him,

"This is how the demons disappeared from the forest of boundaries"

Isaiyoi just lets her gaze wander on the floor without looking at Yuka, who asks, "You were aware?" with her eyes. Instead it was Lilith sitting on the bed across from Evening Incense.

"Sounds like it. But I can't believe the demons are attacking us as an army. … the same as ten years ago"

"Ten years ago... That"

Seika, who captured Lilith's verbal butt, turned her gaze to Isaiyoi again to see if there was any verse in mind. The person targeted doesn't know why, and he has a slightly puzzled look.

"Yuka, you seem to know."

"You know... because I've actually seen it"

"Oh well. Then I was wondering if you could hang out with my old story a little bit."

Lilith's expression, saying so, was somewhere frivolous rather than constant, and then seeped with immense emotions that could not be hidden.

Is that sadness or anger, or something else? Either way, Yuka and Isaiyoi had no objection.

"It was ten years ago. A bunch of demons came to the city where I lived. The exact number hasn't been revealed, but it was well over a thousand. There's no way we can counter that number of violence with a single force in the city, and in no time the city was ravaged"

Do you think of the situation at the time, Lilith looks up to the ceiling with a distant eye? Yuka also looks at Lilith with a painful look, either because she has actually seen the damage with her eyes.

"The damage to the city was terrible. Survival is only marginal, and so is less than a few dozen. Most of those who survived lost their families and friends and were desperate."

That's it, Lilith twisted her lips in mockery all the time.

"So far, you'll see, I'm one of those dozen survivors. He's a former knight who's lost everything in his house, his family, and still lives to congratulate him."

"Lilith......"

Evening incense unwittingly calls her name to Lilith, who says things like mocking herself. There was no usual appearance of your son Lilith there.

Seeing how it was, Isaiyoi's chest was a complicated one. Whatever you do, you are the Demon King. I don't know what Lilith thinks, but objectively, she's the best friend of those who attacked her city. I get a headache just thinking about what happens if I find out who I am is the Demon King.

Evening incense's gaze earlier probably wanted to say this.

"Well, let's keep my old story like this."

Lilith pounding her hands to pay off the gloomy air and mending her usual Rin look.

"It's now more of a problem than that. Honestly, the scale of this raid is not comparable to what it was ten years ago. If we do anything wrong, we might even be attacked around the king's capital, Thelmus."

"So, Thelmus..."

"No matter how good Terms is at defense, the numbers are too different. In the meantime, there were reports that demons also had a lot of air power, so that strong barrier doesn't make sense either. Honestly, Thelmus is packed."

"Oh no..."

Evening incense clouds her expression when she is poked at a pure reality.

I guess I had an attachment to the city I've spent quite a bit of time in. But that should be the same for Lilith. Lilith would rather have that thought stronger. Because of that, the tone is flatter than usual.

"The lord of Thelmus is wise. When I realized there was no future in this city, I immediately issued an evacuation order to the residents. The city is in disarray because of that, though. The South Gate is a crowd of fleeing residents."

If you turn your consciousness outside the inn when you are told, you do hear people rushing off and yelling. Looks like Lilith is in quite a panic, as she put it.

"Well, that's the story of the residents. We're talking about adventurers from here."

That said, Lilith turns her eyes to Isaiyoi, who is capable of the front evening incense and the wall.

"Earlier, the Adventurer Alliance issued a mandatory request. The request buys the residents time to get out of the city (...). The rank is D + Adventurers, and those below are turned to the residents' escorts"

"Buying time, that's how many!? I can't do that!"

"Right. Honestly, I didn't think you'd make it home alive. But someone has to do it."

"No... but..."

I wasn't lost in the look on Lilith's face when she was already ready. I can't find a word in trying to recruit anything from Lilith like that, and Sunset will shut up.

"That's where you two are... what do we do?"

"What are we going to do...?"

"Your rank is E (...), which means you're not subject to compulsory requests. But it's impeccable when it comes to strength. So the Alliance officials said it was up to you to decide between buying time and escorting. I'm here to tell you that. Then I ran into the training ground."

Finally, Lilith jokes lightly in an attempt to soothe the air, but Sunset looks to Lilith with a serious look without disturbing her.

"You've decided that. We're going to buy some time."

"- I'm sorry, but we'll let the escorts turn. Lilith."

Isaiyoi, who had never pinched his mouth before, replies blocking Sunset incense's words. Evening incense, punctuated by a void about it, blinks her eyes, and Lilith smiles slightly.

"Ha, ha!? What are you saying?"

"You're the escort. All right, I'll tell the guild."

"Hey Lilith!?"

Evening incense gives a startling voice to Lilith as she tries to unilaterally cut the story off. But Lilith doesn't mind, and this is the end of the story and she leaves the room.

When I passed by Isaiyoi, I said, "Follow Yuka, thank you."

Isaiyoi sighed quietly at the words and held his head when he saw Evening Incense still standing chasing Lilith.