Yomigaeri no Maou

Kann, kann...

The light of the candles that illuminate the darkness is colored as if the place were a path to the Land of the Yellow Springs.

- I know.

The fact that this is the only way that exists for me right now, indeed, to go to death is painfully.

I don't know if that feeling comes from giving up, or because I have some vague prediction.

But I'm sure I won't follow this path again.

At that time, it's probably just the soul...

That's when I thought about it.

"... wait!

From behind, a scream sounded.

Known voice.

I've been dating since I was a little girl, ever since I was mindful, that voice.

I thought it might come.

He said he had a job he was leaving to do, but that kind of thing would throw it out and come, because such a bond does exist with him.

Feeling a deep, twitchy and spreading emotion in my chest for coming, but don't express that feeling outside, I look back at it in the usual way as if it were nothing.

"... what are you doing here?

If it weren't for him, I heard with my ear a cold, harsh voice emanating from my throat so much that I might have trembled.

Is this how I feel right now?

I can confirm that, it was a dark tone of determination.

That would be natural, too.

Now I'm going to destroy myself.

people (human beings) where they are hostile forces to themselves.

Persecute the demons for no reason, the flag of those selfish people.

But when I looked back, that face in my eyes was more like a sinister one, colored by remorse and sadness -.

Until this time today, I felt the mask that I was supposed to be wearing because I had never seen such a look before, or because of my efforts, melt and collapse.

"What are you doing here, you say hello... that's decided. I'll fight with you, too. Next to you. But that's all I came for..."

In front of me was a man with burning red hair, rare to the Demons.

He has a pretty young appearance for his age, but only the color of his eyes was different.

Calm eye glow, held only by things that have gone through a long time.

It even seems like I'm trying to see the inside of it about myself right now in front of him.

In fact, I guess he knows.

How prepared I am to take this path.

That's why he set aside his original job and rushed me here.

I understood that myself.

But that's why I had to ask him to leave here.

Trying to help me is definitely gratifying.

But...

"... don't be impotent. You can't do it, Bacchus... whoever it is besides me can do it from the front with them... yes, as long as there's that woman (...)"

There is no reason why we must fight alone in this castle, where we are originally based.

That's the right thing to do, with all the power of the Demon Clan, to smash it.

But here's why I couldn't do it.

Of course, other personnel are divided to compete with a legion of human beings.

But more than that, the Demons, other than themselves, go on their own because challenging the battle ahead is nothing but suicide.

I stared at Bacchus with a sorry look on his regrettable face.

But this was something I had to say.

Keep talking.

"... that woman (...) is in a people (human), heterogeneous. It's something I don't even know what created that woman or how that thing was born into a human race... maybe it's God's call, as they say. But as someone who can stand before that woman, I know that I was born. That woman's power and mine are, perhaps, a pair of things... I'm sure this battle has been decided since that woman was born... inevitable. So you go back to your position..."

That voice, squeezed out of her throat like a teaser, is much gentler than she thought, and a little surprised that it seems to stick.

It's not what I tell my men, it's what I spun out to tell my friends, so maybe that's how it happened.

So, please, accept my story.

Yeah, I thought.

But Bacchus shook his head,

"Just because I came forward doesn't mean I'll be dead soon! To some extent, it can withstand......! If you slap it in the meantime..."

"Right. That's why he needed an escort. But in this situation, where even that escort has gained God's protection and is wrapped in holy weapons, it's tough on you... understand... my friend."

To the last word I added, Bacchus bit his lips, and small,

"Don't die... Leah"

That's how I shrugged and left the spot.

The demon king Lulsuria-Nord gets his eyeballs hot on the word, then immediately flips his cape to where he should be heading.

"... you can't lose, you can't"

With such determination in his heart, he went to the final battle to decide between a female and a human race.

◆ ◇ ◆ ◇ ◆

"Uncle! It's morning."

Then, with the sound of the curtain being opened, the voice of Illis echoes in his ear.

I opened my eyes all the time, and an unrecognizable ceiling just entered my eyes, and I remembered, oh, that said, that I had changed the inn, or that I had been pushed into one of Yumis' possessions.

Illis is only in the morning, not in a pitch-black frilled dress that seems to take time to wear, as usual, but in a pure white piece that is sooty.

I guess this is one of her bedtime clothes because she was dressed like this last night. It's been getting warmer lately, so maybe it's not even cold in these outfits.

Lulu, by contrast, is a bedtime garment with no general decoration or anything weird.

I've been using about three clothes around for years and am getting blurred to the point where I think it's time to change them.

I thought I'd buy it next time, and Lulu slowly got out of bed and told Illis.

"Morning, Illis. But isn't it a little early...?

To say why this has become such a dialogue, I understand from the position of the sun visible from outside the window that it is time to check the current time zone and call it early morning.

Normally until the sun rises high, it wakes me up after a little more time, even if I don't say so, but rarely and early only today.

You understood what Lulu was trying to say from that sleepy look, Iris said.

"That's what people's (human) bodies are for, they're inconvenient..."

In fact, I used to not have to sleep for a few days, and I wanted to sleep so much, I never did.

People (human beings) apparently need sleep more than ancient demons.

So Lulu became far weaker in the morning than he used to be.

Not only is it bad, but it's also certain that sleeping is a lot more comfortable than it used to be.

I can tell by now that the demonic body was awake somewhere even when I was asleep, and I really never completely fell asleep.

I don't know if that's the point of excellence as a race, but sometimes I think it might be better up now in the sense of a moment of concentration, so I guess it means a racial difference.

"This is a good thing because it feels good to sleep... but what better reason to wake up early than that?

As I was told and remembered, Illis says.

"Oh... I did. Today, I'm going to take a request with the Gayas, so I want you to wake me up at this hour..."

I was still a sleepy head, but that's what Lulu said, I recall.

It's still a while until the martial arts competition.

In the meantime, don't do anything, training threesome, so it was the same for Lulu and Gaya.

Zero rent is the same as each other, but naturally, in order to eat, you need money, and there are other parts of you that you want to spend on your hobby.

Beyond that, I was thinking about getting some kind of request and making some plain money, but Lulu and Illis, who have just become adventurers, don't have the least common knowledge to do that.

It is common for new adventurers who know nothing to go to make up for that part by taking several requests with someone, and if they belong to a family (clan), it is normal to learn from senior adventurers of that family (clan), but Lulu and Illis have decided on the direction to keep that affiliation to themselves until the Martial Arts Games.

By the way, the Adventurer ID doesn't seem to show your clan separately, and you don't have to worry about that, and the Adventurer Union doesn't give you any information about adventurers, so you can rest assured there.

That's why Lulu and the others, as unaffiliated (free) adventurers in the month leading up to the martial arts tournament, were sloppy enough to do it, but Gaya Boy invited me here.

Says we're junior adventurers, and we just got our first request during this time. However, I am well aware because my parents are adventurers for the common knowledge part, which should be called tacit understanding of adventurers, and I have been allowed to follow that request several times. So let's teach newcomers who will be anxious about saying so what they are: adventurer rules.

And that's what I was saying.

Honestly, are you sure you're okay around going away and worrying on your first request? I don't feel like it, except that I have the knowledge and I can use it.

It would also be true that it is true that their parents are quite adventurers and they know something called the basic adventurer rules.

That's what Lulu and Illis decided to get on with their proposal.

It's not a good thing to try it, but as far as the contents of some requisitions that were put up in the Adventurers' Union, beginner adventurers' requests are not like that failing, and there are many simple things that would suffice if you were even careful about the subtle pitfalls that the Gaya boys have done this time.

So I thought if we were careful within our common sense about the part where we say that, maybe we could join the Gaya boys.

The house given to Yumis was a two-story house.

The place is once inside the king's capital, but it is also out of the way, a place where there is no house around.

But that's not true at all if you ask me if it's a terrible house.

Because it was a well maintained, beautiful house, had everything you needed without having to, and all you should buy was about the ingredients, and then everything was ready, that's how it was.

An employee of the Chamber of Commerce in Real Estate Relations, the administrator who handed me over, said to let me know if you need anything, but you can tell me that's not necessary.

And it's the key ingredient, but the problem also doesn't seem to be a problem for a while.

Out of the bedroom with Illis and proceeding to the living room of the house, there is a table for six.

Illis and I were just too big to use it, and that's the size that makes me think I'm going to miss you, but now I was already in a state where three of those six chairs were buried.

"Ooh, you're up! You're interrupting me!

That being said, it was then the boy, Gaya, who raised his hand and greeted Lulu as he laughed at the dinner table with a grinning look on his face as if he did not remember one day or another.

"Good morning..."

Next to it, slightly uncomfortable, or sorry, I lowered my neck slightly to Yuyu, a grown-up cat-based beast tribe (Animazeas) girl who belonged to the same party as him, about the same age as Gaya.

Further next to it sits a long-haired boy with a calm smile opposite Gaya.

"Good morning, Mr. Lulu, Mr. Iris. Do you say you're sorry for the inconvenience Gaya caused you and the treat until breakfast..."

He apologizes while saying that. He was also a boy Sharika who belonged to the same party as Gaya.

It is a balanced party composition: Yuyu is a magician with a slightly dull blonde gaya being a swordsman and cat ears symbolizing being a cat-based beast clan (Animazeas) on his head, and Shalika, with long blue hair that looks weak somewhere in the push, is a healer.

It's going to be better with the addition of another avant-garde here and someone who can take charge of the middle guard, but maybe this is enough for the beginners.

Yuyu or Sharika will work out so the avant-garde can do it too, or maybe......

With that in mind, Lulu replied to their greeting.

"Oh, good morning. Don't worry about it. In the first place, you brought the ingredients for dinner that morning, right? Sorry to bother you."

Yes, all the ingredients for breakfast that line up here now are their bringing in.

To hear the story, their parents told them to take it to Lulu and gave it to them.

The reason for this is an apology for the gaya boy behaving too much to the lululu's.

I was forced to compete in another martial arts tournament, so Lulu and I were told to do enough to teach the adventurers the rules, and I came all the way here last night to grab some vegetables and meat and talk to them about today.

In the meantime, then, the first thing I will do is to take the request early in the morning, and the breakfast is here, and I promise to this day.

Still, around not withdrawing about the martial arts tournament, I don't know, but now it seems rather that Gaya boys have come to see Lulu as a good competitor.

Which could be an intermediate adventurer first, or something like that, so it seems that the fighting tournament has been positioned as one of those battles that will be played many times along the way.

I've always liked being raised to some kind of goal in that way, so I still don't have a problem with it, but I was a little nervous that I would probably show him a lot of things at the martial arts competition.

I wish my heart didn't go pompous, but is that too mindful......

By the way, it was Iris who cooked the ingredients.

When I was in the army, I heard the cooking was well learned, and the detailed work I said this despite being a high-ranking demon was well worn from the time I woke up from the ruins.

Then seven years later, after working mixed up with servants at home, her chore skills are now top notch.

The Gaya boys seem to enjoy themselves with their tongue-in-cheek drums on the dishes made by Illis, so the Lulu also sat in their seats and were mixed up in that conversation.