The night in the back alleys is one of the most glamorous and scary places in the Empire.
The reason is that when night comes, the back alley glows so splendidly that other entertainment districts can’t even call it a business card.
Therefore, there are always only two types of death in the back alley: death from pleasure or death through a hole in the body.
– Tub Tub
And now, a woman wearing a robe is passing through the streets of such a back alley.
Whether it be nobles or beggars, men or women, the backstreets are always full of cars, but the backstreets she passes through are exceptionally bleak.
“…Hmm.”
Nevertheless, the woman, who had been looking around, being vigilant in all directions, quietly moved to a bar.
“Who is it?”
When she opened the old door, she was greeted by a man in a neat suit.
“I don’t know who it is, would you like to have some drinks?”
“No, thanks.”
“…Yeah? Then I’ll just eat it.”
With that said, the man unplugged the bottle on the table and quietly began pouring alcohol into the glass in front of him, and the woman who was staring at him then opened her mouth.
“…Please give me the latest news from the Demon King.”
Then the man who looked directly at her like that, grinned, picked up the glass and muttered.
“Someone said… Was it the Demon Lord?”
“Are you going to find out now?”
From that moment on, the woman’s tone of voice changed to arrogance, and the man sitting opposite her looked at her like that, took a drink and opened her mouth.
“Then, let’s do some testing.”
And the next moment, the space around the bar began to change all at once.
The long stretch of road suddenly collapsed and began to soar into the air.
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Eventually, the surrounding buildings, signs, trees and decorations also began to soar into the air, and the surrounding space began to distort.
– Kuwagwagwagwang!!!
When the whole area was half-destroyed, the man in a cold sweat swung his hand vigorously, and then the ‘space’ itself began to attack the woman opposite the man.
“…that’s reckless.”
But she, who was still making a sad expression on her face, said that and lifted a finger.
– Grip Jijik!!!
Then, the space that had attacked her was purged all at once.
“Ma, see you, the Demon King!”
The man, who watched the scene blankly, hurriedly knelt on the floor and started shouting while banging his head.
“The sin of testing the Demon Lord, I will accept it sweetly…”
“Why is that a sin?”
The Demon King, who looked at him with an expression of incomprehension, said with a grin.
“…it took only the effort of lifting one finger. So, it doesn’t matter.”
“Hah…”
“Speak in your original character. It’s very rude to look at.”
Then the man who was lying on his stomach sighed, approached the only desk left in the scorched space, sat down, and opened his mouth.
“Demon Lord, before I give you the news… Can I ask you some questions first?”
“…not yet a demon king, but a successor. Why are your demons so flirtatious?”
“Isn’t that what it is?”
“…well, I’m too lazy to haggle, so feel free to name it.”
When the Demon King gave permission, the man drank again and started asking questions.
“Didn’t the Demon Lord not come out of the Demon King Castle?”
“It did.”
“But the fact that you came out like this… has it finally started?”
When the man asked with a look of anticipation, the Demon King shook his head and answered.
“No. My body is in the Demon Castle. This is just my vessel.”
“…Then, how did you get the power you just had?”
“That’s, your guy isn’t a part-timer. Let’s stop talking about this.”
After the demon king resolutely dismissed it, the man who shook his head for a moment asked the second question.
“Why are you hiding your identity?”
The man looked at her, who had been hiding his identity with elaborate stealth magic until then, and asked a question.
“When the heir was imprisoned in the Demon King Castle, no one could access him, so no one could know the identity of the Demon Lord. But, why are you still hiding your identity?”
“Hmm…”
“It is too much to show my face even once, even to me, the second person in the Demon King’s army.
“Can not be done.”
The Demon King resolutely shook his head, and then the man lowered his head and began to sigh.
“Then, should we continue to have these uncomfortable encounters in the future or receive orders by letter?”
“I have no choice.”
“…can’t you tell me why?”
“I don’t like it.”
As the demon king hit the iron wall, the man sighed for a moment, then looked at her and asked the last question.
“Then, this is the third and final question. Is it true that the Demon King sent the last telegram saying ‘I found a hero’?”
“Yes.”
“Then, please release the information as soon as possible. We, the Demon Lords, will make sure that the hero does not become a stumbling block…”
“…can not do it.”
“yes?”
Hearing that, the Demon King quietly stared at the air and murmured.
“…it’s not that they don’t give information, it’s that they can’t.”
The man who looked at her slightly disappointedly emptied his drink and got up from his seat and said:
“Well, there’s no choice but to follow the words of the great Demon Lord without saying a word.”
After saying that, the man shook his arms and began to restore the area that had been devastated and started talking.
“Then, let’s start reporting.”
“Yeah, let’s try it sometime.”
The eyes of the Demon King who heard such a man’s story were shining with ruby colors.
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“…Oh, what’s the password?”
“Mr. Perloche, the password is not asked by the person trying to come in from the outside, but by the person inside.”
“ah…”
Meanwhile, at that time, a bar in a back alley a bit far from where the Demon King was.
“Everyone, who are you!”
“…these are my three sons.”
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
Perloche, who entered the bar with a foolish look, was looking at Clana with a liberated expression.
“…Hmm? Is it only me and Clana-san today?”
“Irina-san says she’ll be back in a little while… Kania-san…”
“How about Mr. Kania?”
“Uh… you have a business.”
Perloche, who tilted her head for a moment as Clana faltered in her words, sat down and started talking.
“If there’s work, there’s nothing I can do about it. Well then, as always, I’ll start reporting!”
“…yes.”
“First of all, Pope… No, I think I found evidence related to the Demon King from the Pope!”
“okay?”
“Yeah, a few days ago, I started to feel a slight sympathy in the basement of the church.”
Perloche, who had spoken with a slightly nervous expression, began to tilt her head.
“However, when I go to investigate, it disappears like crazy… So when I go out, I start to feel it again… Why doesn’t that happen over and over again?”
“…Suspicious.”
“Yeah! It’s definitely suspicious!”
While Perloche spoke with her eyes shining, Clana crossed her arms and began to mutter.
“Hopefully, we can put pressure on the Pope… Maybe we can tie it up with Frey…”
“…Clana-sama, are you okay by the way?”
“yes?”
Perloche, who looked at Clana like that a little worriedly, gathered all her energy and sent it to Clana and said,
“Dark circles have risen tremendously… If you overdo it…”
“Now is the time to pack.”
Clana, who answered her firmly, began to mutter again while looking at the paper.
“As expected… Even the materials of the Starlight family sent this time are all non-substantial documents. This is probably…”
“yes?”
“it’s nothing.”
After that, Clana, who carefully closed the papers and answered Perloche, smiled and started talking.
“By the way, when do you think Frey will wake up?”
“Um… it’s going to take a while…”
Then Clana replied with a smile.
“Okay, I can reduce his position a little bit more before he wakes up.”
“I’m sorry… I couldn’t be of much help…”
“No. You are fulfilling that role just by holding on to the top of the denomination.”
Clana comforted Perloche, who had a gloomy expression on her face, and then quietly started looking at the night sky from the window.
“…I’ll drop you off soon, Frey.”
In the night sky, a particularly dimly shining star was flickering.
– Profit…
Clana, who had been staring at the stars for a long time, turned her head to the sound of the door opening behind her.
“…hello.”
Then Irina, who was wearing a robe, nodded at her and entered the bar.
“Nice to meet you, Irina-san. With this, our strength has increased by one more person.”
“…that’s right! Irina-san is incredibly strong!”
Irina, who was looking at them vaguely, sat down and asked a question.
“…how much damage did I do to the Demon King?”
“yes?”
“I’m sure it’s not that I couldn’t hurt you, right?”
When Irina asked a question with a slightly anxious expression, Clana answered with a smile.
“Because of your blow, the Demon Lord stopped his march for a week. Thanks to you, precious time was given to evacuate the people of the Empire.”
“…a week?”
Hearing that, Irina began to make a disappointed expression.
“It was an attack of all my soul that poured out all of my magical knowledge and mana. 1000 years ago, it was said that it was a great magic that had a record of making the Demon King in a dying state.”
“…Yes, I did.”
“By the way, was it only a week? Were you unable to capture the Demon King for only a week?”
When Irina asked in a sullen voice, Perloche answered cautiously.
“Well… I heard that when I was captured and killed by the Demon King, it was… quite a fatal wound…”
“…Ugh.”
Irina, who was listening to Perloche, lowered her head for a moment when she calmly talked about her death and began to grind her teeth.
“Hey… Irina-san. I’m asking just in case…”
Clana, who looked at her quietly, carefully asked Irina a question.
“Is there any magic that could cause such a massive regression?”
“Well…”
“No matter how you think about it, it’s strange. Not one person, but as many as four people returned. Maybe, there could be more. So… no matter how much you think about it… Maybe something magical happened?”
When Clana spoke with a serious expression on her face, Irina responded with a slight frown.
“Manipulating space is somehow possible… but there is no magic that manipulates time. Even with ancient magic, that’s impossible.”
“Then, if it’s a prophecy magic that receives memories of the future…”
“It’s the same. There is no magic that can prophesy. Maybe it’s a revelation from the sun god…”
As she said those words, Inira glanced at Ferroche, who was fading away, and then she shook her head and said:
“No, the sun god is just… ugh…!”
Then she suddenly grabbed her head and fell on the table, and Irina and Clana began to look at her with bewildered expressions.
“Why, why?”
“Ugh… I suddenly got a headache…”
“Suddenly?”
“Oh, I’m fine now.”
So Ferroche made a better expression and opened her mouth again.
“Anyway, it’s probably not something the sun god did. Even if a revelation comes, it only comes to me.”
Then Clana, who quietly nodded, sighed and began to organize the story.
“Well, I’m a little concerned, but… Let’s postpone finding the reason for the regression. The important thing now is what to do next.”
Having said that, Clana looked at Irina and Perloche and said.
“…Then, it’s late tonight, so let’s talk about this. Today, let’s focus on the fact that a new power has been added.”
After speaking, Clana got up from her seat and added.
“…I’ll tell Mr. Kania about today’s business. Well then, goodbye everyone.”
After a while, Clana quietly left the store with the three children and began to quietly walk down the street at night.
“Irina-san!”
“yes?”
Irina, who got up from her seat while looking at her quietly, began to tilt her head as Perloche grabbed her and stopped her.
“Would you like to heal that scar…?”
After a while, when Perloche asked a bright question, Irina answered with a slight frown.
“This is a wound I had a long time ago.”
“Um… how did I get hurt? Maybe it’s not because of the curse?”
Then Perloche looked at her wounds carefully and asked the question again.
“It’s not like that, this was when I was young… uh… I mean…”
“…Irina-san?”
“The wolf… the wolf… the Frey…”
Irina, who was stroking her scar and talking gibberish for a while, then shook her head to come to her senses and ended the conversation.
“Anyway, I have no intention of fixing this scar.”
“why?”
“…well, I don’t know either.”
Leaving those words behind, Irina left the bewildered Perloche behind and left the store with a face full of confusion.
“what…”
So, after walking alone for a long time in the back alley at night, she stopped standing tall and began to mutter.
“…this feeling as if something is coming to mind?”
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“Fray… how the hell did this happen…”
So, three months and a day after the ‘People’s Dormitory Attack’ ended,
“Kania, do you know the truth? What the hell happened to this? Tell me. Right now.”
Serena, who came to Frey’s dormitory after a long time and watched him completely ruined, began to push Kania, who was quietly standing next to him.
“…I don’t know.”
“Tell me right now.”
“…sorry.”
But Kania continued to keep her mouth shut, and Serena bowed her head and began to speak in a low voice.
“You know there are a lot of strange things about his condition. So…”
“…I’m not sure where the odds are.”
“Ha, yes?”
Serena, who snorted at Kania’s words, began to speak in a voice full of anger.
“For the past few months, doctors and wizards called me have been rioting in the Imperial Hospital trying to treat him. And then it all failed. You know this?”
“Yes, I know.”
“And, even Saint Ferroche failed to fix him. You know this too, right?”
“…yes.”
“Still, there’s nothing strange about it!?”
In the end, Serena exploded in anger, exhaling a large amount of lunar mana from her body and shouting.
“The Empire’s wizards and doctors say so! But is it true that Saint Perloche can’t heal!?”
“…That is.”
“When I first diagnosed him when he collapsed, he would have woken up in a week!! Of course, that’s a big deal, but… it wasn’t to the point that his body was broken like this!”
“…sorry.”
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Eventually, as Kania bowed her head once more and spoke, Serena stopped her anger and began to look at her quietly.
“…are you going to come out like that until the end?”
Serena, who looked at Kania for such a long time, said with a cold expression on her face.
“If it comes out like this, I can’t stand still…”
– smart
“…I’m here to clean up.”
However, those words were paused for a moment by Irina knocking on the dormitory door.
“Do you really need to clean at a time like this?”
When the door to the room was opened and Irina came in, Serena asked with a slightly nervous expression.
“I made a ‘death oath’ with Mr. Frey, so if you don’t work as a slave, you die.”
“…yes?”
But when Irina gave a very reasonable reason, Serena, who had been stunned for a while, sighed deeply and muttered.
“Why the hell did you take the oath of death, Frey… That’s pretty hard to deal with if caught…”
Irina, who was quietly looking at Serena like that, said with a calm expression on her face.
“Then, I have to clean so I don’t die… Please continue what you two were talking about.”
“”……..””
Then, Kania and Serena, who looked at Irina for a moment, opened their mouths at the same time.
“I think it would be better to go out and talk.”
“Come out. We’ll continue the story there.”
After that, after looking at each other for a while, the two took a deep breath and frowned and went out of the dormitory.
“…sheesh.”
Irina, who wanted to overhear Kania and Serena’s conversation while cleaning, was regretful for a while, then slowly looked back, and then began to explore the surroundings with sharp eyes.
“…By the way, I’ve been feeling quite a bit of strange energy there lately.”
Then, when her eyes touched Frey’s bag, she began to approach it cautiously.
“What… you must have felt something here?”
It was Irina who started to rummage through her bag for a long time, but when she caught only books and dust in her hands, she began to look embarrassed.
“…Well?”
Then, she found a strange space in the upper part of the bag and put her hand in it without much thought…
“Cool!! Cool!!”
“f*ck!!”
Suddenly, Frey jumped out of bed and started coughing, in shock, pulled out his hand and began to stare blankly at him.
“Uh, what’s going on… Young Master!?”
“Fray…!!!”
Then Kania and Serena, who rushed to Irina’s scream, started to run at Frey.
“…Damn, the first thing you see when you open your eyes is the penalty window.”
After waking up, Frey, who continued to stare into the air, soon began to mutter with a disappointed expression.
“Wake up, are you awake?”
Meanwhile, Irina, who muttered with a bewildered expression as she looked at Frey, held a small device with the date written on it.