Volume 2 - CH 1.07

Part 7

They aimed for the Western street’s 《Relief Inn, Twilight Store》, from the Southern District’s shopping district.

Even walking within the jumbled crowd of mixed up people of the Races was something that Diablo had become greatly accustomed to.

──At first, there were too many things that bothered me and I would immediately get tired, but now it’s only as troublesome as walking in Akihabara on a holiday. Huh? That’s pretty troublesome.

The sky was still bright, but it was probably almost time for dinner.

Children getting their hands pulled by their mothers, passing by men on their way back home, overtaking people, getting overtaken by people.

It was peaceful scenery.

Suddenly, Rem talked sounding uneasy.

「……Is it really alright to be this carefree and leisurely……No, I do think that Diablo has a farsighted and deeply-laid plan.」

Shera nodded.

「It kind of, makes you feel impatient, doesn’t it……Especially……I feel like, “even though I’m the cause of all this, is it alright for me to be shopping?”」

Seeing the peaceful state of the town, it probably contrarily looked like it would be crushed by the fact that war was drawing near.

However, he didn’t have any means of stopping it right now.

He had thought of several, but there weren’t any tactics that could stop it with certainty. For that reason, he was in the middle of hastening his various preparations.

Diablo thought that he wanted to lighten the girls’ worries.

But since he himself was a poor talker, he couldn’t speak with them very well.

However, by thinking “if I did it as a Demon King”, he was able to say what he normally couldn’t say.

「There is no need to worry. I had said that I would assist you……Just leave everything to me.」

Those were words filled with self-confidence that would make his original self want to die out of embarrassment if he had said it.

Shera expressed a smile looking delighted.

「What are you doing!?」

Diablo hastily turned around.

Right behind them, there was the Grasswalker twins that attacked them at the inn.

The twins forced Shera down, then carried her on their shoulders.

Although they looked like children, he didn’t know their ages. And then, if they had the STR of a Warrior-type, they were plenty strong.

「Yahh!? L, let me go!」

Shera raised a scream, but they didn’t mind her and carried her off.

──To think that they would attack right in the middle of town like this!

Shera was able to even discover Elves lurking in the forest, but if it’s in the middle of town with a lot of people of the Races, she couldn’t even tell if the people approaching them possessed malice against them or not.

Because of that, Alicia became vigilant and walked at the very back, but walking while maintaining file of their group through a crowd of people was impossible.

It seemed that they aimed for when they were even slightly separated.

Alicia drew her sword.

「I am a State Knight! You Grasswalkers over there, stop right there!」

A Warrior clad in golden armor stood in front of the twins.

Since they had a helmet on, he couldn’t tell who it was. Going by their body, they were Human.