Chapter 244: State of the Devil Continent

Chapter 244: State of the Devil Continent

「Welcome home.」

「We’re back.」

After investigating the two countries, Accuros and Atropolis, Maria met us back at the base.

「Is everyone else back at the Sanctuary?」

「Yes, it looks like they were bored at the base.」

The base built in the Devil Continent was secure, but boring to Akane.

「If I’m not mistaken, Mimir-sama said she would lend books today.」

「Something to kill time might be necessary in the base.」

Kaede hunts monsters in the surrounds if she has time, so she doesn’t need a time killer, but Akane and Lulu-chan were bored in the bare base.

Once everyone was back at the base, we gathered at the table.

「Atropolis is like what you would imagine of a Beastkin country.」Yôur favorite stories on n/o/(v)e/lbin(.)com

「A country of muscle-brains, huh.」

「......yeah, well, that is how it is if put briefly.」

I could not deny the few words Akane used to cut my impression of the Beastkin country short.

「Investigating the state of the habitats of monsters in the entire continent would be too difficult, as such, we have no choice but to gather information at the city-states.」

「It’s just as Sophia says. Is the increase of monsters true? We don’t know if that was the influence of the Evil Spirit.」

「......we have to try searching for a way to return Akira to normal.」

The young boy from her home country who disappeared with Pope Warvaal and the Imperial Princess. Akane wants to do something for that classmate.

Coming to this country, seeing the Succubus clan, Devil clan, and Oni tribe, I vaguely understood what the Divine Empire Sydnia did to Yamato.

They were probably trying to make Mazoku, which possessed high physical and magic power. Yamato had fallen victim to Divine Empire Sydnia’s mad experiments to make an artificial Majin[1].

However, rather than a Majin, he was a Chimera monster. This was likely the effect of the mistaken perceptions of the people in our continent who do not know the Demon Continent and lack of understanding of the Mazoku.

Sydnia’s mad researchers must have had the perception of the Mazoku being people descended from monsters. That was a big mistake. The Devil Clan and Lesser Demons have absolutely no connection. The Oni Tribe and Ogres naturally have absolutely no blood relations. The misguided perception that the Mazoku are a race descended from monsters had given birth to that chimera.

「Takumi-sama, our data is too lacking either way. Wouldn’t it be best to gather information in the remaining countries?」

「......right? Understanding the others’ situation would be better, so let’s do that.」

We decided to continue investigating the countries in the continent. The members would be the same. As for Laeva and the others, I asked them to hunt down monsters in the name of investigating those we don’t know.

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Footnotes:

1. A Majin is someone from the Mazoku.