About six hours after Mirage arrived at the training grounds did he finally transferred the last soldier.
「fuuuu, it's done at last。...... I drank too much of that Mana potion, my stomach feels bloated. 」
As he rubs his stomach, Mirage sat down at the spot with a completely exhausted look.
Originally, with Mirage's ability, transferring a few hundred soldiers is an easy task to carry out, so he shouldn't be tired here.
But, because the effects of the mana potions are slow and not instantaneous, it is necessary to pretend to wait for the recovery of magical power.
Surrounded by a few hundred brawny demon king's army soldiers, he pretended to be meditating by drinking mana potions after he transferred several of them, and over time he repeated the same action several times.
The training ground is not at all small, but the temperature and humidity of the surroundings naturally rises when a few hundred people gather.
Most of the soldiers are male demons who have a peculiar odor, on top of that having to drink the bitter liquid uncountable number of times, Mirage's pain is hard to describe.
「 But... I still can't take a rest. I have to go back to the castle and finish the reports. 」
When Mirage says he will go back to the castle, he is referring to his castle, the Shadow Castle.
The Shitenno( 4 heavenly kings) are the heads of a large army, and there are always many documents for their approval.
Although to some extent, it is usually handled by the deputy Astarte, but there are many important cases where the stamp of Mirage, one of the Shitenno( 4 heavenly kings) is needed.
「haa......Gate」
While letting out a voice that sounded tired, he creates a big rift in the space and started moving.
That figure hanging his head appeared so pitiful that it can be hardly related to the dignified image of the Shitenno(4 heavenly kings).
Mirage, who disappeared from the training ground of the Demon Castle, reappeared in his office in the Shadow castle.
「 Good morning, Mirage-Sama. Has the Demon King's order's been fulfilled? 」
As soon as Mirage arrived at his office in the middle of the night, he heard the voice of a girl filled with sarcasm.
The owner of the voice is dressed in a military uniform and is continuously moving her hands while dealing with the documents on the table.
Although she spoke to Mirage, who had transferred, her gaze remained fixed on the documents before her.
「un, Good morning, Tart-Chan. I just finished transferring the soldiers to the fort safely. Anyways, That's an awful lot of documents. Should I help you? 」
Even when he started working as a Human—Falsa, as he had no intention of climbing up the ladder, especially the Administrative position so he didn't go out of his way to know about their treatment.
Even when Falsa became the head of the imperial court mages, although he was rather busy during the daytime, the people around him were careful not to force work on him at night as they feared his magic power.
These circumstances have also helped him, it is possible because of this that he can work as a different race during the day and night, though it has also resulted in him having no time for himself.
「Aaa- is that so, I didn't know that. Without knowing it, I seem to have caused Tart-Chan trouble. I apologize for that, and I'm very sorry. 」
It was quite funny in his outfit, but Mirage bows down to Astarte in a sincere manner.
On the other hand, Astarte is surprised that Mirage, one of the Shitenno( 4 heavenly kings), apologized obediently to his subordinate, her grim expression a little while ago collapsed, and her red eyes are wide open.
「 Nnn, in the first place the Mao-Sama has not questioned or judged any fault in you so it is not necessary to apologize to me. It is necessary to obey the law, but I also know that at times it is not all. If it is Known that, Mirage-Sama one of the Shitenno( 4 Heavenly Kings) bowed his head to me, I will be berated. I will also forget about this matter, so please raise your head quickly」2
After clearing her throat, even though Astarte's words contained her spite, and also as one would expect she was a little uncomfortable as she kept rattling on.
Although Mirage doesn't like to work, he doesn't like to bother others.
In particular, his lazy side is greater, but because he happens to have a feeling of guilt, so he cannot help but reluctantly continuing his current lifestyle.
「 I am glad hearing you say so. Let's put the papers away for now. 」
Mirage takes about half the documents at Astarte's desk, sat on the chair next to her and begins to check the contents of the documents.
Astarte stared at such an appearance of Mirage, rather awkward to be cut off.
「umm... I don't want to say this in this atmosphere, but that document has nothing to do with Mirage-Sama. If you want to help me, please let me handle it. I don't want you to make arbitrary decisions without checking it.」
It's not clear who is the boss.
Mirage returned the document without saying a word, and received an alternative bundle and resumed the confirmation.
The sound of pressing of the stamp, writing of letters and rubbing of paper resounded in the office for a while.
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[1.TL NOTE: in this line and the line before you can see Mirage referring to Demon king as an "evil person "and it can be translated also as "evil human", so I was confused at first whether to use human or person as it would be easy to understand the 2nd sentence if I use "human" but then when I read the exact definition of person(a human being regarded as an individual) I felt that both are well and all the same and I can replace human with person.]
[2.TL NOTE: here you may or may not have noticed that there is no full stop "." at the end of the whole speech, it is because Astarte is still talking and is interrupted in between by Mirage. ]
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