Demon Country’s Response
“Everybody, my apologies for suddenly summoning you. But, thank you for gathering, Seven Demon Generals”
Six Demon Race sit before my eyes, facing each other. Although there’s still one person who hasn’t come yet, I’ll go ahead and start first since they’ll probably come right away. My seven strongest subordinates in this Demon Country Estekia.
“……haa, I’m tiredd〜. Why even I have to be summoned. What a painn. It’s fine for me to sleep, right?”
“Humph, no can do. It’s His Excellency’s orders. He has said for all the Seven Demon Generals who can participate to participate”
The brown man, who sluggishly places his weight on the chair and places his legs on top of the conference table. The man who possesses the name of Sloth, Merga・Belphegor.
The one who sits opposite of Merga and reproaches his grumble is, a well-built silver-haired man. The man who’s the number one swordsman in the Demon Country and who possesses the name of Pride, Delkemedes・Lucifer.
“Fufu, Merga sure is a kid huh”
The one who looks at Merga and smiles seductively is a golden-haired beauty who possesses the name of Lust, Estania・Asmodeus.
“……who cares, I’m hungry”
A purple-haired young girl who places her chin on the table beside her lethargically; the young girl who possesses the name of Gluttony, Belche・Belzebub.
“Pupuu, Merga is a kid means he’s below me, right! Lame lame!”
The brown-haired young boy who points his finger at Merga while laughing is the boy who possesses the name of Envy……no, the tomgirl, Helmy・Leviathan.
The man who’s closing his eyes, folding his arms, and waiting annoyedly beside him is the man who possesses the name Wrath, Gilde・Satan.
And then
“Sorry to keep you waiting”
The one who entered the room is, a golden-haired woman who wore a black military outfit on her entire body, my wife and this country’s Queen, the woman who possesses the name of Greed, Iskarina・Mammon・Estekia.
When Iskarina comes into the room, the Demon Generals who were talking until just now straighten up altogether and go silent. The same also goes for Merga, who was looking sluggish in front of me. Somehow, it’s a shock.
Ruche, who’s standing diagonally behind me and watching this sight, was muffling his voice and laughing. Kuu, I won’t forgive you, Ruche.
“Sorry to keep you waiting, Dear”
“No, I was just right about to start now. Nothing to worry about. Well then, leaving that aside, I’ll start the meeting. Gilde, talk to everybody as well about your report”
“Hah! 3 days ago, I was having a battle with the Holy Kingdom’s Hero party……”
After that, Gilde talks about the fight with the Hero party, about the fact that Libra showed up, and then, about the fact that a mysterious individual appeared and handed a letter to him.
At the initial part of the story of the fight with the Heroes, everybody was having a laugh, but they have a tinge of seriousness around where Libra showed up, and then, they started being wary around where the mysterious individual appeared.
“The person who suddenly appeared, she was a golden-haired woman who wore a black dress. Magic Power along with a pressure that rivals the Demon Lord-sama; she’s no ordinary person”
And then, Gilde, who finished talking, looked over at me. I, who saw that, placed the letter from that individual, that I was handed and read before this meeting, on top of the table.
“This is, the letter handed over by that individual Gilde encountered”
I let them pass around and read the letter that I took out, starting from Iskarina. The contents that were written are about a new country, the Country of Demise, Pandemonium, and a talk about wanting to meet once regarding an alliance.
Apparently, this country is hostile towards the Holy Kingdom, and they’ve already collided with the Angels and such several times. Moreover, they annexed pretty much the whole of the southern country, and furthermore, they mediated the dispute between the Demi-Human Country and the Empire, and it seems even those two countries are their allies.
I’d deem it a lie normally, but there are the Demon Country’s spies lurking in those two countries. I’ve managed to confirm that it’s not a lie with the reports from them.
“……we do not have much involvements with the Empire, but they should be quite a large country according to the rumours. To suppress them and make them an ally. What is this, Country of Demise?”
“I don’t know. But, like they’d written in the letter as well, it seems they want to form a similar alliance with our country, that’s hostile to the Holy Kingdom, and it seems they want to meet once for the sake of that. I’m thinking of accepting this”
Everybody goes silent at my words. I suppose so. It’s an alliance with a new and completely unknown country. Even if we were to meet them, we probably have to be cautious. Besides, there’s also the matter with the mysterious individual. According to Gilde, he was saying that worse come to worst, she might be stronger than me after all. It’s best to be overly careful.
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“……oh, looks like it finally encountered Lig and the others at the Holy Kingdom”
As I’m watching the skeletons’ preparation that’s happening before my eyes blankly, I noticed a sorcery activating inside my head. With this, Lig and Stella’s parents are dead, and my declaration of war reached.
“Hardt-sama, what is the matter?”
“Nn? It seems that finally, the things I sent to the Holy Kingdom, reached the people themselves. With this, we’ll proceed to the next step”
When I shake my head exhaustedly, Mylene stands behind me and rubs my shoulders while making a smile. Mylene’s soft hands feel good. As I’m receiving such a comfortable massage
“Oh, Master, you were here huh. I caught and brought over the aforementioned fellow, you know?”
“Ooh, as expected of Liscia, you work fast huh! Well then, let’s go and have a look, shall we. Thanks, Mylene”
“No no”
I follow Liscia, who walks in front, and Mylene is following behind me with a smile. We follow Liscia and enter the building before our eyes, Anders Kingdom’s Royal Castle.
On both sides of the corridor that we head down, the skeletons are tidying up the broken walls and dirtied ground. They’re one of Nero’s dead spirit squad. Where I headed while looking at them was, the Royal Castle’s yard, and there was a group of men and women tied with ropes over there.
They are, this country’s former King and his relatives. I had them apprehended as they escaped using the escape route that’s passed down the royal family after we attacked the Royal Capital.
The King and the Queen, the Prince and the Princess were trembling and lining up. And then, lining up along with them were, several priests tied up in ropes. These fellows are, the priests who were in this Royal Capital’s church, and the top is an individual who’s also related to me.
……because it was the priest that bestowed me with the oracle, and then, made the village’s fellows stab me as a loyalty test.
