Episode 175
After hearing the unbelievable news, Heizel headed to the scene.
‘Did the hero attack first?’
Heisel didn’t want to admit it, but the hero was suitable for the character of a hero.
So, the only time a hero uses his power is when demons attack or come by himself.
Therefore, when the demons heard that a hero was nearby, they stopped attacking and retreated.
This is because there was only one enemy, the Demon King, that the hero was aiming for.
He was busy gathering allies or building up his strength to face the Demon King, and he couldn’t even pay attention to the local war.
Because of his actions, didn’t Heizel also recognize him as his opponent?
‘Except for his frivolous personality.
His conduct was flawless.
Because the hero did not move recklessly, the demon king did not stir the battlefield while roaming the empire.
It was like an implicit rule between the two.
When the hero comes to defeat him, the demon king accepts his challenge.
But the hero broke it?
“Die-! Hero!”
“If we kill only the warriors, we will win!”
“Don’t back down!”
In the center of the battlefield, a warrior was wielding a sword soaked in blood.
In the midst of the screams, binge drinking, and death of the soldiers, the warrior silently dealt with the demons.
But they couldn’t be his opponents.
My body was torn apart by a single sword, and the moment I opened my eyes, my vision flew into the sky.
Not long after, the half-armed force that charged with the possibility of killing the hero disappeared in an instant.
Even the demons had no choice but to stop at that sight.
Still, they moved. Fear alone was not enough to suppress their fighting spirit.
“•••There is only one person anyway! If you leave out even a little bit of stamina, the Demon King will…!”
Because they were desperate too.
Hazel took the warrior’s sword that struck again and got down in front of them.
“I’m going to face the hero, so everyone back down.”
When he left, the warrior also stopped moving.
“Take the wounded, go back and finish the maintenance.”
The only person who can deal with him is himself.
The hero and the demon king began to collide.
In the aftermath of the violent battle, the soldiers retreated hastily.
Heisel, who was bumping into him, felt strange about the condition of the hero.
‘•••Movement.’
More violent than usual
He was swinging his sword, which he normally could not find a single gap in, and his eyes were also full of blood, so he could not find reason unlike the last time.
After receiving his attack, Heizel took a step back and looked at the hero.
“What do you think? It’s so different from usual…”
“•••It’s different from usual? Ha, ha ha.’,
The warrior burst out laughing as if his words were funny.
Then he stopped laughing and stared at him through his bald head.
“How am I usually?”
Heisel frowned at his actions. Why would he do such a thing a few days ago?
“A warrior of light? A righteous hero? Master of prophecy? Or… the enemy of the Demon King?”
He laughed at what was so funny.
The demon king was not swayed by the appearance of the hero. I just opened my eyes and looked at him.
‘Is it an opportunity?
The current hero is not normal.
So, can’t we just call him a red flag to kill him?
Hazel flew away without a word.
The hero diddge the attack fluently differently from when he just bumped into it.
“•••I just realized it, do you think it will be easy?”
He murmured lowly and raised his head. Then he looked straight at the Demon King and said.
“You have to break the bridle.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Demon Lord. It seems you don’t understand me, so I’ll ask.”
The hero turned around with a smile as usual.
“Have you ever questioned your own life?”
never once?
He left only those words and disappeared.
Two months passed like that. The hero seemed to have disappeared and did not reappear.
Anxiety swarming throughout the empire, the emperor himself declared that the warrior was still alive and was merely training to defeat the demon king.
Only after the proclamation was the anxiety subsided, and the situation of war began to stabilize.
In the meantime, Hazel started working for the demons.
“••• Demon Lord, to be honest, this seems unreasonable.”
“Lilith. Didn’t you tell me to do something for the demons. Are you taunting me with something like this?”
Heisel asked with a smile. like a warrior.
But maybe it’s because she got used to him over the past year.
“No, that’s not it…”
She smiled with a tired face.
Hygel also turned his head to see if there was nothing to be stabbed. On her desk, no, the entire room was full of papers.
“Isn’t it even the work of the Demon Lord that I am in charge of? That’s all… even the work of the city.”
From a certain moment, she was in charge of not only the work inside the Demon Castle, but also the work outside.
“••• Instead of being at the center of power, didn’t you? None of the demons occupied my side like this.”
At the sound of Heisel’s brazen voice, she felt the strength in her eyes.
However, a mischievous smile suddenly appeared on her lips as the conversation was repeated over and over again.
“Really, do you have any intention of letting me go?”
“Let me go? Until I’m alive.”
“…I didn’t even want to go.”
from the beginning.
Half a year has passed since the hero did not appear.
Now the Demon King did not handle the work alone.
His staff always followed him, and he began to care about other things besides war.
“Did you say from here to there?”
“Yes, yes… yes”
“Finish it quickly.”
farming.
“So, you’re going to have to drill a hole in that mountain?”
“••• There is no need to make a big hole. Just one person passes through oh… “
“At least the ogres should be able to get through. Got it.”
construct.
“Is the classification of abilities still there?”
“Hey, we’re almost done! Now, in two months, it will be easier to determine the abilities of the demons.”
“Finish it within a week.”
“•••yes.”
education.
“Can you bring back a face full of scars?”
“It’s hard if it’s an old wound, but it’s not impossible if you have an elixir.”
“•••Hmm, that’s good.”
Medical treatment.
It completely overturns the dead ground and raises the soil buried deep underground.
A job that would take weeks at the most can be completed in less than a day.
Correcting the ability system of demons that were randomly classified.
He was interested in the treatment and recovery of the wounded and the sick.
Some were clumsy and some were unsuccessful.
However, the Demon King has done so many things that it is unbelievable that he has only been interested in conquest until now.
Even Heisel can feel the change in herself.
“Demon-sama, how often is the Empire’s surprise attack…, Demon-sama?”
His new hobby was to see the changed city.
“•••I haven’t heard for a while. What?”
“Isn’t that often the case these days…?”
Heizel shook her head at the concern in her tone.
“No, it’s okay because it’s just a headache for a while. It’s probably because you’ve worked too much.”
“If you’re that worried, leave the rest to you. Can you do that?”
Half a year was a time that could be said to be long if it was long and short if it was short for the development of a relationship.
“Then I’ll take care of it, so I’ll ask you to confirm it later.”
“okay.”
He didn’t look as dignified as before.
He became softer, and he learned how to take care of his feet.
I still wasn’t sure if that was really the right way or the right way.
But he did not regret it.
Unlike before, I didn’t have to worry about it alone.
Unlike the time when he was immersed in endless battles, battlefields, and conquests, he was alive.
Heisel thought that this kind of life would not change in the future.
– Thirty thousand demons retreated by one man!
Until I heard that the hero had reappeared.
As soon as the hero reappeared, the entire battlefield simmered.
Whenever there was a battle, it appeared to boost morale, and when the demon king appeared, it disappeared like a ghost.
“Damage increases rapidly in the Empire using new weapons…”
“The difference in morale just by having a hero on the battlefield…”
“The recently stabilized battlefield •••.”
“What the hell do you want!”
Heisel shouted at the endlessly grim report.
how many times already It was only a day or two that he suffered from increasing damage, and he did not know what countermeasures to take for his appearance that was different from before.
The Demon King closed his eyes.
‘The hero decided to end the war/
– But what about you? Are you planning to stay still?
‘But the hero does not intend to confront me directly.’
-then… you also.
‘me too?’
Wouldn’t it be better to take other measures?
‘Measures… .’
– There was a case where a hero slaughtered demons the other day. What did the hero do that the demon king couldn’t?
Heisel muttered blankly.
“••• Bridle, did you say bridle?”
Yes, if that’s what he wants, he’ll have to do it himself.
“Lilith, don’t worry about the hero and start the attack.”
“•••Yes, I understand.
She opened her mouth as if to say something, then looked at his determined expression and lowered her head.
After that day, the Demon King began to stir up several battlefields.
The strong man said he had the dignity of a strong man, and his behavior changed as if it was the last time he faced a hero.
He dropped the airship that colored the sky to the ground, and burned the entire moving forest of the elves. Hundreds of knights have been shredded’ and skinned the beasts.
Nevertheless, Heisel did not feel strange.
Because it was the hero who changed his behavior first.
“•••Demon Lord, are you all right? You seem to be showing brutality on the battlefield for the fortress…”
“Is there anything strange? The real war has begun.”
Lilith’s complexion darkened as he responded calmly.
Is it because the number of demon victims has increased?
‘I can kill more.’
Then she will be fine.
As the demon king began to act like that, the hero now roamed the battlefield to stop him.
But he had no intention of fighting the hero.
How much damage did they do?
For a month like that, the demon king and the hero were chasing and chasing a tag.
Heizel did her best to deal with the Empire and avoid the Hero, and the Hero stopped various plans and pursued only the Demon King.
Although the behavior of the hero had changed, his behavior did not change.
– I’ve already been beaten up, so should I do it just because I quit?
‘That’s right,
– A hero is only a hypocrite. Conversely, you are truthful.
‘That’s right:
– so… How about completely destroying the human world at this time?
‘that… :
– After all, can’t we live together?
At the same time, Hygel’s skills, which had been stagnant, began to increase. The more he repeated the massacre, the more his skill rose as if he was in the Demon Realm.
Now, when he decided that he would be able to overwhelm even if he faced the hero, he faced the hero.
The hero I saw this time was different from the first time I saw it, and it was different from half a year ago.
A quiet atmosphere revolving around a serious face. What is different; ‘I didn’t know’ but he definitely felt ‘different’
could
“Brave, long time…”
“It’s stained.”
The moment Heisel opened her mouth looking at him like that, he stopped talking.
“••• I didn’t know and act. I was just being swayed.”
There was a feeling of disappointment in the face of the warrior who mumbled an unknown word.
“then”
The pure white sword gleamed under the night sky.
Heisel looked into his eyes and saw a reflection of himself there.
Eyes dyed red and the incense of blood pickled all over the body.
It wasn’t enough to be called a true demon king.
“I won’t help you.”
The pure white warrior rushed in.