Volume 8 - Prologue

Part 1

When he looked up, stars twinkled in between the thriving leaves.

The chirping of insects could be heard.

Diablo then looked down to the ground from the top of the large tree.

He couldn’t see anything. It felt like looking into a bottomless hole.

Since the Elves possessed the night vision ability, they didn’t use torchlights.

Besides, for the residents of this other world, going to sleep at the same time as the sunset and waking up together with the sunrise was normal.

Diablo had also grown accustomed to that custom, and was already sleepy.

──I’ve become pretty healthy now.

His lifestyle in his former world was all about internet games. Since there was also a competition factor in the MMORPG Cross Reverie, night was when the number of participating Players increased.

(Negotiations and collaborations could also be done, but that was far beyond Diablo who was lacking interpersonal skills.)

In those times, he would sleep together with daybreak and wake up just past noon.

The sound of footsteps treading on leaves approached him.

A pig Orc faced Elf stood next to him.

「Your Majesty.」

He called out to him like that.

Diablo had become the new king of the country of Elves──of the Greenwood Kingdom.

For him who had professed himself as a Demon King to become king of the Elves……It had a very strange feeling to it.

Right now, he was at the top of the large tree with was the royal family’s residence.

The pig face that called out to him had the name of Durango.

He had the outward appearance of an Orc, but he was in fact an Elf that an understanding of politics and economics and also excelled in martial arts. He also had a strange secret, but let’s leave that aside.

「Good work today, Your Majesty.」

「Hmph……」

While showing a haughty attitude, Diablo nodded.

「I shall exterminate them.」

Durango panicked.

「N, no! The entirety of the populace has consented to Your Majesty’s enthronement, and there is no mistake that they praise and welcome you! I am terribly, terribly sorry that my words were lacking and agitated your heart!」

「……U, mu?」

Although he nodded from going along with the flow, it was different from the reaction that Diablo expected.

He thought that he would reply saying that he was reliable, or that it was reassuring to hear that.

Durango changed the topic.

「Your Majesty, what you had said about this afternoon’s Demonic Beings, is that true?」

「Hmph……It would not be a lie, that strength was genuine.」

「So it’s as we thought, the Great Demon King Modinalaam has……awakened.」

His voice trembled.

The name Modinalaam had appeared in the MMORPG Cross Reverie as the 《Demon King of Insanity》.

It was a Golden Week limited time event.

In the game, it was an all-rounder type that used both the spear and magic, and was a formidable enemy whose attribute values were abnormally high.

However, its eccentric actions of putting debuffs on itself and giving buffs to the challengers stood out.

Part 2

After a little while, Durango said this.

「Your Majesty, it is about time for your bridal night……Princess Shera……Pardon. I believe the new Queen Shera, is waiting.」

「B, bridal night……you say?」

「The populace is in anticipation for an heir.」

The country of Elves prospered because it had a king. At the same time they welcomed the new king, it was only natural that they would desire his successor. Having lost both of the elder brother princes, and with the death of the previous king, Shera was now the only one that held the royal family’s lineage.

Durango pointed deep into the forest.

「The royal family bedchambers are at the end of this branch. It is on the third large tree over. Seeing as how the Queen Dowager has already changed residences, there is no need to feel reserved.」

──A bridal night!?

「Nonono……Something like children, it’s a bit too early for me……I haven’t mentally prepared for it after all.」

Forgetting the Demon King-like speech and conduct, Diablo turned his back towards it.

However, he himself was the king, and Shera was the queen. It surely wasn’t too early.

At the very least, the Elves were desiring it, and none other than Shera herself even said that she understood it.

Diablo made a dry gulp.

He headed towards the place where the light was lit.

「……Well, this is Shera we’re talking about. She might already be asleep. It seems like she would be.」

The branch shined with magic.

That place was covered with vines that were in a half-spherical shape, and was arranged so that those inside couldn’t be seen from the outside.

There was a bed where grass was piled up.

A dress-figured Shera, was waiting with a nervous expression.

──So she was awake.