296 Lesson 264

An unexpected conversation with the Demon King.

He was supposed to fight on the spot we met, but he wanted to have a conversation with me.

Honestly, I don't know if it's a trap or if I really want to talk to you.

Instead, I'm usually just surprised you called my name.

Perhaps you heard from the Legion Leader or Mr. Ciel beside you, but it's usually bad for your heart.

"Hmm. After all, you're not subordinating the Dark Wizard"

!?

"Are you the Black Knight? It was reported on the human side... I see, this is interesting"

Ferm blues his face in the sight of the Demon King.

She looks here and asks for help, but I'm in the same position, so I can't help her.

Next, the Demon King sees Nair sitting in a chair in an unsatisfactory manner.

"And Necromancer... no, a vampire? If so, the daughter of a strange couple who owned the body of an evil dragon? This is also very rare."

"Usat, help me"

Is attitude the only thing that doesn't make sense?

Only his voice drops his shoulder unintentionally on weak Nair, but he turns his attention to Burlin, whom the Demon King is intimidating.

"Grrr!"

"... ho"

Before the Demon King's Pressure, a ringing burlin.

Brulin also seems to be under barometric pressure, but still brave compared to Nair and Ferm because Rose is working out.

Finally, the Demon King looks at me.

"After all, you are the most unusual."

"I'm human."

"Kuk, say something funny"

I didn't say anything funny at all.

I rather said it seriously.

But the Demon King laughs joyfully and speaks to the maid holding back beside him.

"Ciel, do you think that's normal?"

"No, it's..."

Look at me, Mr. Ciel.

Just when her gaze fits, she sits out of her hips on the spot.

"Hih!?"

I don't know why, but I'm scared.

Why, I don't remember myself at all...! Why am I so scared of this guy!?

"That's the infamous healing wizard. I didn't know you had the art of carving heartbreaks on other people over video."

"Video…?"

What are you talking about?

I don't understand the meaning of the Demon King's words.

"From what I can tell, you're incredible."

A demon king with his jaw on his assembled hand looks down at me.

From that gaze, I felt curiosity about me, not hostility.

"You are a Demon, and it also has the Dark Wizard as your companion. Why?"

"… do you need a reason?"

"Oh, I need it. To gain strength? To understand us?"

I don't know what to do. I haven't thought about it.

There was no particular reason to keep her company in the first place.

I mean, it feels like we can assimilate after we're buddies, and if we don't assimilate Ferm, we're gonna beat him up the same way, but it's gonna be my weapon, and, uh, to understand the Demons? I don't think it's easy to understand the Demons by understanding the extreme examples of Koga and Ferm.

Is that why?

Yabe, I haven't thought about this much...?

"Hmm, this is your face that you haven't thought about anything. Some of them?"

"Ha!?"

"Well, the one called unconscious goodness"

The demon king, who looked at my expression and guessed, shrugged so as he laid his hand on his chin.

"Then what perception do you have of the Demons?"

"... people living in tough land"

"I guess. That's what you would say."

I guess it was the answer I expected.

A demon king who keeps his back in a boring way.

But the vast majority of people other than you say “enemy."

"Yeah, I guess so."

No matter how many reasons, the Demons are on the side of waging war.

Whatever that fact is, it won't go away, and it can't be forgiven.

"To see, you were summoned from a different time than when the previous brave men lived. And the sweet perception of the battle is proof of that."

……

"Especially when it comes to you, I even have sympathy for the Demons"

Exactly.

I have sympathy for the Demons. [M]

That's why I don't even think it stops here.

"When you realized the Demon King's Realm was close to its limit, did the Demon Clan have no choice but to fight?"

"... I didn't expect you to ask me that crap"

For the first time here, the Demon King turns his eyes to surprise.

With a sigh of awkwardness, he turns his slightly disappointed eyes to me.

"What if the demons asked humans for help, and the humans who live on this continent would allow it?"

……

"Usato, don't ask me questions you already know the answer to."

Yeah, I already know why the Demons couldn't do that.

But I just couldn't help asking.

"Some of the reasons the Demons had to rely on the existence of me would be due to the quarrel I once had with man. But there was another reason why we couldn't rely on humans."

"... subhuman discrimination"

"That's right. Instead of discriminating against and ostracizing subhumans, humans were subordinates. Even in these days."

Prominent among subhuman discrimination would be discrimination against beasts.

Kirija and the others who live in places that have avoided the eyes in Lukvis.

Amako, who visited Samarial during his journey and never removed the hood he wore.

The place called the Kingdom of Lingle was just special, and discrimination against the subpeople is definitely happening.

"It seems somewhat better now, but there are still those who grab and treat the sub-people as slaves. There is no way the Demons would trust such people and honestly seek help. If you were bad, you could have even been treated like a slave."

"Still, why were you the first to attack the kingdom of Ringle? There must still have been hope."

"Oh, and indeed, if the kingdom of Ringle, there would be almost no subethnic discrimination either. It's also something I immediately grasped since I woke up in this day and age"

Heard of the kingdom of Ringle, the demon king shows a sleigh of nostalgia for something.

What if before the Demon King woke up, you mean the kingdom of Ringle hundreds of years ago?

"Because that country was ruled by a king who kept the potent weather intact even before I was sealed. Even I struggled to understand why a country like that survived the war."

"... of, energetic weather..."

"Hih, they're gonna say terrible... but it's true"

Ferm and Nair are pulling their cheeks together, but as far as I'm concerned, I'm relieved by the fact that that country hasn't changed since hundreds of years ago.

That's why I was wondering why you've attacked the kingdom of Ringle on top of that.

"Then even more so, shouldn't I have asked the Kingdom of Lingle for help?"

"There is no way that just one country can manage the subhuman discrimination that spreads to this continent. Even if it did happen, there's no way the kingdoms around you would allow it. No, before that, there's no time for the Demons to wait for the sense of discrimination to disappear among the subhuman people who live on the continent for so long."

I knew it, but no matter what, the Demons were supposed to fight humans.

The problem in the first place was the perseverance between man and the demonic tribe due to the former battle and the subhuman discrimination on the human side.

"The more I look at it, the different it is from previous braves"

I'm not a brave man.

"As an otherworldly man. I just thought you were a similar person because you have a beast man with predictive magic... but you seem different from him from the bottom up"

Well, you can't be the same person I was hundreds of years ago.

Faster than returning that word, the Demon King utters the word.

"But you do. I guess we have something in common."

"Anomaly…?"

"I understand roughly what you have done so far and what you have just said. And the more you name it, the less you're kidding."

... Why do I have to tell the Demon King so much?

I'm aware you're a stranger, but the more they even call you an anomaly...

"I can't believe there's something wrong with Usat now..."

"It's unusual not to have to think about a guy who beats you with healing magic..."

"Isn't it normal for people to wield people and use them as weapons..."

Why are you being attacked by such enemies and allies?

Is the attack already under way?

I pull my cheeks into the words of Fermu, Nair, and Mr. Ciel.

"Whatever the similarity is, the decisive difference... is the fact that he gave up."

"... gave up?"

"Even when exposed to human malice, I was still trying to find standing light on people's side, but what was shown was - the ugly human nature and the reality to cruelty. Anyone who continues to be exposed to malice and still imprisoned by a mission to protect humans, at the end of it..."

The demon king who put it that way gave me a look like he saw me and came up with something.

Multiple layers of witchcraft unfold and spin in the hands of the Demon King.

Having seen it, I rise from my chair and expose my guard.

"Don't panic, it's just a little fun. It would actually be quicker to see than to speak out of my mouth"

"What...!?"

"Evil Dragon, and Samaritan, will lead you to the noise you've solved - let me show you some of the paths of the tragic journey Hisago has followed."

The Demon King throws the magic of his hand into the universe.

Moments, inside the hall, the particles that seem to be the magic of the Demon King pour down, and they shape and colour the shadows and scenery.

"Which will change the course of time only in this hall?"

Is the Demon King recreating his own memories!? What a hassle!?

The view of the hall changes dramatically.

Whether it reproduces even the scenery of the past, or where the great halls where the sunlight plunges in from the outside have been reproduced - many are created.

In it, a familiar man finds himself on his knees in front of an old man wrapping an expensive robe decorated with gold.

"---This guy..."

A man's identity was completely different from that of a modern man like us.

The kind of armor you see in the Great River drama.

But the armor was worn out and lacking by the way, and it was painted on a mate's blood.

"O brave man, you have now been chosen as the savior of my kingdom of Heygal."

"Cucumber..." What the hell...... '

It's like magic enough to be illusory when you're on the spot.

The summoned hissago... No, Mr. Hissago is flabbergasted by his inability to understand the situation in which he was placed.

This is the same situation as when we were summoned...

"The Demon King is about to attack. Dirty sub-people are trying to intimidate us. You will have a prosperous mission to fight them."

——— No, it's not.

What, this disgusting feeling?

Neither the gaze around you, nor even the King-like person in front of Mr. Hisago like no other, has seen Mr. Hisago as one.

It was a masterpiece.

Even feeling nauseated by the different scenery in front of him, the Demon King mocked the king in front of Mr. Hissago.

"When I heard that a valiant summons would take place, I let the intrigued use demon be sent... but by all means, the people of this age were true to their own desires"

"Why, a masterpiece?"

"Because the Kingdom of Haygal did not need to summon brave men or anything else."

——— what?

No, just now the King of the Kingdom of Haegal said to defeat the Demon King...

"It was a smaller country than I had ever seen, even from me at the time, such as the Kingdom of Heygal. Probably the same perception from other countries of that era."

"Then why summon the brave...!"

"It's decided to gain strength, isn't it? Rather, where else is the purpose"

Did you force him from another world for that reason...!?

Nair is the only one with a bitter look next to me who's just grumpy.

"This is a time when humans were contending with each other to take their territories, resources, and all sorts of things. The Kingdom of Haegal was not even recognised as a competitor to other kingdoms, but could only spill finely."

"But by successfully summoning a“ brave man "named Hisago, I gained strength... right?"

"Well, thanks to that, we were both blind to the existence of me."

Demon King nodding at Nair's words.

I don't know what to say about this emotion.

I have experienced this kind of malice on several occasions - now the people surrounding Mr. Hisago are just like the magicians of Samarial.

I try to use and dispose of someone who has nothing to do with my purpose.

"Which means that the reason Hisago was summoned to this world in the first place was because it was a consumable for humans to kill each other"

Just like us, Mr. Hisago, a brave man summoned to a very different position.

All I could do was look at him being thrown into such a harsh situation by myself.