Joker Demon
Joker Demon Lokiel. A Middle Rank Demon, and its level is equal to Dominions(alias Warrior Angel) Liplareuran and Destruction Demon Diablo. There’s only a handful of people who succeeded in summoning it throughout history. It’s such a vicious Demon that it had left its mark on history for once single-handedly destroying a small country, and was responsible for a big portion of Hazen＝Heim, who’s touted as the greatest Magician in history, fighting power.
“Kue……”
The Joker Demon makes a sleepy-looking expression while closing its eyes.
“Hahahahahahahaa……this Demon will take you guys――”
Slash
“Eh?”
In an instant.
Before Zelve was finished with his words. The heads of the five Magicians flew and settled in Lokiel’s palm. As it makes an uncanny smile, it makes the lobbed heads into beanbags.
“……good grief. I told you time and time again about the dangers of Summoning Magic, right? It’s because you burrow your head solely in the theory and don’t do any practical that it ends up like this. Furthermore, the Joker Demon of all things”
Asch mutters while glaring at Delta.
“……”
A Middle Rank Demon Summoning, had only been succeeded by five people even in the whole of history. No, there’s probably a larger number if it’s simply the summoning, but they were all, helplessly killed by the Demon. What’s truly difficult is reining in and forming a contract with the Demon. To rein it in, you have to make the preparations so that you can stay alive even if you receive an attack. To form a contract, it’s necessary to offer a sacrifice that corresponds to that.
Delta kept up with his research and constructed the theory perfectly, but he was firm on not performing it in practice. No, he didn’t intend to perform it. There are two reasons. One was the fact that the theory alone is enough to use. Another one is the danger. In the thesis that Hazen＝Heim left behind, the summoning method was written down, but the contracting method wasn’t documented. Regarding that, he couldn’t help but feel something was off.
However, the other research members didn’t realise it, and they performed the summoning according to Zelve’s orders.
In the end, they were helplessly, bestowed with death.
“Kueeeeh……”
“Hii……kill it! Kill this uncanny Demon”
At the same time as Zelve’s command, the soldiers change their target and launch their attacks at Lokiel.
But.
The soldiers that stood before the Joker Demon, their eyes instantly turn vacant, and they lob each others’ heads off.
“Uu……uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
With that strange scenery.
With that abnormal situation.
The soldiers, leave Zelve behind and start fleeing.
However.
The heads of the soldiers that tried to flee, too, scattered one after another. And then, the number of beanbags heads Lokiel made, steadily, steadily increase.
“Hii……hiiiiiiiiiiiiii!”
Zelve shrieks with a pale expression. The Joker Demon that looks at that face in satisfaction, cries ‘Kueeee’ endearingly with a blissed expression.
“……Mira, back down”
Asch responds calmly and brings the butler on the frontlines down.
“Do you have some kind of plan?”
Delta asks him.
“Like hell I do; this country is already done for. We’re escaping. There’s no existence as much of as pain as a Demon without a contract”
It was a Demon he fought once before, but the handler was inexperienced at that time. He managed to narrowly bring it into a draw, but his magic power is currently empty, and he can’t even stand up. Not to mention, a Joker Demon that’s released into the wild is the worst. Until it’s satisfied, humans can do nothing but keep on being ravaged.
“……are you going to abandon them?”
“They ought to receive their retribution. The Senate Leader is the top of this country, right? His failure, is the citizens’ failure. Well, it’d be great if the damages don’t reach all the way to Hogner Magic Academy though”
“The citizens are not at fault”
“They are. Are you going to push all the responsibility to that old man only at a time like this? Just enjoying the benefits that he brought and playing victims and not receiving the retribution of his failure?”
“……Raynes, we’re gonna take Lokiel on here!”
Delta, turns his back to Asch and shouts.
“Of course!”
Shouting that, the Chivalric Order’s Captain stood before the Joker Demon.
