Volume 1 - CH 2.04

Part 4

「Whose permission did you acquire to name yourself in front of me, brat?」

Not only Rem and Shera, even the other adventurers were astonished and stiffened.

Emil expressed a daring smile.

「Permission? Fu, same to you, whose permission did you obtain!? Listen up Demon, you might not know this, but I absolutely love women!」

「Ha?」

「You who put chokers on Rem-chan and Shera-chan and paraded about with them, I won’t forgive you for that! To make those two your slaves, there’s no mistake that you’ve done a lot of evil things!」

From the adventurers, voices that went 「That’s right! That’s right!」 and sympathized with Emil were raised. It seems that at some point, their fight over there had been settled.

There was a misunderstanding made.

Many misunderstandings would be made since he was doing something like a Demon King role play, but Diablo was a pacifist. He didn’t like unnecessary trouble and didn’t want to have conflicts with other people.

And above all, this kind of “believing themselves to be justice and in the right and don’t doubt it” guy was his opponent.

「Don’t make a fuss over something as small as chokers being put on women, you small fry.」

Emil raised one eyebrow.

「Fufun……If you want to release the two of them, come at me with everything you got. So that’s what you’re trying to say!」

That’s totally wrong!

Come to think of it, since he had used the Demon King role play against challengers, there was always a battle after the conversation.

Could it be that it’s not suited for evading trouble?

——But, if I don’t do the Demon King role play, my words won’t come out and turn into replies like 「Ah~……uh~……」 and stuff.

And then, the guy that is self-confident in fighting would misunderstand and go 「You getting cold feet?」 and then start smirking.

There’s no helping it. Let’s give up on persuading him.

Diablo avoided Emil and tried to go to the second floor. Because he was going to be a Magician, he had no business with the Warrior’s examiner.

However, Emil didn’t let him pass through.

「Hold it! You’re not getting away from here until you release the girls!」

Rem made a pained looking face.

Shera also looked like she was perplexed over something.

From the girls’ position, being frank about something like getting the slavery chokers stuck on them from their magic’s failure and then not knowing the method to cancel it was something embarrassing.

In order to request for Celes’ cooperation in searching for the release method, there was a need to talk about it.

However, there was no need to talk about it to other adventurers.

If only Emil didn’t get involved!

He fully understood the reason why Rem and Shera made displeased looking faces when this young man had called out to them. In short, this guy was nosy and obstinate.

Rem opened her mouth.

「……Emil, actually, these chokers are」

Diablo interrupted her words.

He didn’t want to give them any embarrassment.

Failing in their magic and becoming slaves to a Demon of unknown origin——I don’t want that kind of failure story to be talked about in front of other adventurers, is what he thought.

Diablo prepared his staff.

「If you are going to obstruct me, no matter who you are, I just have to kick you out of the way.」

Emil unsheathed his sword.

「The chokers that you forcibly placed on Rem-chan and Shera-chan! I’ll have you remove them! This Emil Byushelbeljel is the guardian of all women! Learn that the great me will not fall in front of women!」

The feeling of accepting a challenge was actually nostalgic.

Against the sword, Diablo unconsciously took some distance. When battling, confronting the opponent with a distance that was advantageous for yourself was something as natural as taking a breath.

——For the opponent, it might look like I’m afraid and shrinking back though.

If he’s level 50, he should be able to use some fairly good 《Martial Arts》.

——He didn’t cancel the horizontal slash!?

He received it with 《The Staff of Tenma》.

Emil made a surprised face.

「Hou, so you stopped my attack! You Magician!」

「Are you not taking me seriously?」

「Don’t look down on me! For the sake of women, I always use all of my strength!」

While saying that, Emil grandly held his sword aloft.

The next Martial Art that was invoked was the “high in power but long in time until it strikes” 《Alpsfall》.

Diablo groaned.

「How could this be……」

Not only were the levels of the people of this world low, their player skills were also shoddy!

Using 《Alpsfall》 at point-blank range is just like saying “please go ahead and hit me”. He couldn’t see it as anything but a spontaneous discharge due to an operating miss.

They were completely insufficient in their research.

Diablo used his staff like a cane and thrust Emil, who had brandished his sword and was full of openings, away.

Translator’s Notes:

[1] Can’t think of a good spelling for this. Original: ビュシェルベルジェール

[2] SP is read as 気力, or energy or vitality.