A few days later, Kotaro Fuma will contact you. He gave the hawk a sentence and sent him to Demon Castle. Read the letter attached to the hawk's feet. It was a simple sentence. The style is also like a machine.

"I caught the brave Yuri. I'll take you alive from now on."

He said he would return in a few days, but Kotaro Fuma returned in a day. At that time, Kotaro Fuma was dressed as an adventurer-like man.

Indeed, I want to ask what the man really is, but more than that, I had to talk to the brave.

Have Eve prepare a mask and put it on.

There was a feeling that the brave did not want to see his face, but rather that he had no face to face the boy.

Yuri is dragged by Kobold, an intelligence unit. He was tightened with a rough rope. Apparently there was no injury. Kotaro Fuma did not seem to imitate rough. Slightly soothing, but really slight. He will be sentenced to death. I open my mouth as if to read his tomb.

"Yuri, brave, do you know what you brought here?"

"I understand. Apparently I was a hero. I heard from Kotaro."

"... Yeah, boy, you're a hero with a special effect on me. So you have to give you death."

"Then I have no remorse. Demon King Ashtaroth, I am your natural enemy."

"But isn't it hostile?"

"It's not now, but I'm a hero, one day I'll wake up to that mission."

In fact, Yuri continues.

A few days ago, a gray-haired grandfather in the form of a prophet was told that he was destined to save this world, and he was trained.

Yuri, whose skills improved dramatically, seemed to realize that she was not an "ordinary" person, and this event was not surprising.

It is calm. Even so, it was a childish attitude. Conversely, if you have this attitude, it will be difficult to make a decision. There was something more in my heart than crying and begging for life. But still, I do not change the policy.

Once upon a time, there was a samurai named "Kiyomori Taira" in Japan.

Inside and behind He came from a lowly family who couldn't even get up to his grandfather's generation, but he flourished and stood out in his father's generation.

Utilizing his own wisdom and current, Kiyomori, who achieved credit in the civil war, eventually became the highest rank as a minister. Ascended to the Minister of the Pacific, he was the first samurai to reach the top of Japan.

However, the glorious Heike is about to die.

"I don't have to be a Heike or a person!"

Such a glorious clan was destroyed by a single mistake. The mistake was that he did not kill the child of his nemesis.

Kiyomori Taira did not kill Genji Yoritomo, the legitimate son of Genji's ruler who had fought a bloody struggle in the revolt of Homoto.

It was Minamoto Yoritomo that Kiyomori, who killed his uncle, did not kill him alone. Kiyomori, who received a petition for help from his mother-in-law, did not take Yoritomo's life and only distributed it to the eastern country.

The result is as history tells.

After that, the reign of the Ninja, who could not see the Heike clan's tyranny, followed by the Genji clan's recruitment, destroyed the Heike.

Immediately before his death, Kiyomori fell to high fever and died in the middle of his will.

"Dedicate Yoritomo's neck to my tomb!"

It is a word that curses Yoritomo, who has overturned the rebellion in the eastern country and forgot his favors, but the Heike will be destroyed in Dannoura a few years later.

It is a matter of impermanence and prosperity.

I do not step on Kiyomori Taira. Finally, dying curses of the archenemy was not like a realist. I remember a warlord who did the opposite of Kiyomori. The warlord's name is "Ieyasu Tokugawa". He kills Hidetoyo Toyotomi, an orphan entrusted to him by Hideyoshi Toyotomi.

After winning the battle in Sekigahara and seizing the world, he gradually robbed his power of his family and eventually killed the master, Hideyori.

They attacked Osaka Castle, the residence castle of Hideyori. He had the option of not killing Hideyori and treating him as a local daimyo. However, Ieyasu, who respected Gen Yoritomo and knew his case, was afraid. Eventually, Hideyori wonders if his descendants would threaten the world of Tokugawa. In this way, Ieyasu created the world of Taihei Taihei for 250 years.

I should follow it. You should follow Ieyasu more than Kiyomori. I thought so and closed my eyes, sentenced the hero Yuri to death. Give him the last word.

"... I'm sorry. The Demon King is a bloody road. One day it's time to carry on with that work, so wait for it."

The lid of the hell pot may have been opened for a demon king like me. Yuri also returned quietly. Apparently he was aware of my identity.

"... No," Ashito-san "I said earlier, but I don't hate, because I know you're a good person. I was glad at that time, and I was surprised to see Kotaro show this city, where demons, human beings and sub-humans live in harmony. The king's virtue is oozing out. ''

If such a king's command, you will die.

He finally said,

"I hope I don't want to be a hero in my next life. I wanted to be born in a peaceful and prosperous town like this city."

Yuri, if left to say, was taken to Kobolts. At the execution site in Demon Castle. At 3:00 pm, I heard that the hero Yuri was executed there.

It was my lack of courage to be unable to attend the scene, but nothing was able to do that.

Thus, I made the right choice as a realist and as a Machiavellist.

After confirming Yuri's death, Kotaro of Fuma came to me at a later date and dropped her head to a low profile.

Kotaro Fuma, dressed as a maid in a maid outfit, rubs her head on the ground.

"I saw the resolution of the Demon King Ashito.

I said.

I'm glad the hero swears loyalty, but will he forgive me if he notices the work I've done?

When Kotaro Fuma heads to the intelligence squad, he goes to the elephants, and Eve comes as if it were a replacement.

She murmurs and murmurs.

"I prepared a doll that resembled a Yuri boy, as ordered by her master. It was the doll that was executed."

She insists. I am facing that hardship.

"Thank you.

"If the master's command, the dogs and horses have no trouble. But is it really good to keep the boy alive?"

"It's okay. Yuri's power has been taken away."

I sealed the power of the boy with a magical process. And memories. For now, the power as a hero should not awaken.

"But I may wake up someday ..."

"That's the time, and then I just need to contain it again. I'll put him under the castle and watch him."

"I gave you a house and a job for that."

"Oh, that boy isn't an adventurer in nature. It's better to get a job in his hand while working in a dwarf workshop."

"May be a threat to become muscular"

"Maybe"

I laugh. In response to Eve's joke.

"But the master is really a benevolent king. Not only did he give his life, but also give him work."

"There is a tradition that Ieyasu Tokugawa attacked and destroyed Hideyori, but Hideyori survived and spent his life quietly."

There is a tradition that Shinada Sanada (Yukimura), who should have kept Hideyori until the end and had died, has not actually died and has escaped Hideyori.

A song that sings the tradition is sung.

Sanada, like a demon, takes Hideyori, like a flower, and retreats to Kagoshima

Eve listened to the song, closed her eyes and smiled happily, saying,

"It's a wonderful song"

"Oh, I think so."

In this way, the number of inhabitants increased in my castle town. Yuri, a blacksmith apprentice, works in a dwarf workshop. The other is one of Sengoku's best ninjas, called Kotaro no Fuma. The Demon King Ashtaroth Corps is gradually expanding.

By the way, as an aside, it seems that Kotaro of Fuma felt that I had escaped Yuri.

Later, when asked about today, he stated:

"There is no hobby of serving a king who mercilessly kills a boy."

It seems that he was impressed that I saved the boy to the point where he worked.

He argued, however, that the craftsman seemed too lax from the point of view of the leading ninjas, and that in the future he would leave himself up to this kind of plot.