Chapter 209 – Chapter 209 ― The Demon King (4)
Episode 209 ― It’s the Demon King (4)
“Are you here?”
Seeing Sermo, Roan burst into laughter.
Even though he said he would definitely reduce his luggage, Sermo was carrying a large bag on his back.
“Have you ever had to carry a load like this yourself? Aren’t you heavy?”
“Haha, the subtitle is a caution not to suffer as much as possible. Even when I came up here in the capital, I loaded it on a wagon or carried it with me.”
“Even though I told you that Basel is also a place where people live, you don’t have to prepare as much as this…”
Helen was half crying.
Sermo was wearing a normal priest’s outfit instead of the fancy bishop’s uniform seen in the temple.
Soldiers and citizens passing by the gate occasionally passed by, greeting each other or reciting prayers.
“Priest clothes… Are you going to wear it?”
“Ah, that…”
At Roan’s point, the eyes beyond the glasses changed as if they were sullen. Helen also looked back at Roan with an ‘oops’ expression.
“It seems unfamiliar because there are no priests there yet.”
“Ah, sorry. It’s been decades since I’ve worn plain clothes…”
This time, Roan put on an expression of ‘Ahhhhh’.
“… It could be. Great. All right. Then shall we go?”
The three moved on.
As he left the city gates, the bishop tried to put on a sly face, but he couldn’t help the sweat running down his face.
“… Are you okay, Sermo?”
“Yeah, what… It’s been a while since I’ve done such a bad thing, so I’m nervous.”
When Helen asked how she was doing, she made a strange expression.
“Is it bad?”
“Aren’t you crossing the border illegally? First of all, they are the people of Merde.”
Hearing the whispers of the two, Roan walked while standing in front and looked back with a smile.
“The Goddess will not particularly care about human borders. I hope you see her thinking that she helps people who need the power of God.”
Hearing his words, the bishop widened his eyes.
And then, his expression softened.
“Okay, that’s right.”
Sermo nodded his head.
“I guess I was thinking too humanly.”
As if Roan’s words made me ponder something,
Sermo was silent until he left the gate and reached the waypoint near the wall.
“Once we have arrived.”
It’s called a waypoint, but to Bishop Sermo’s eyes, it’s probably the same clearing in the forest as before.
He looked around him in bewilderment.
“Are you arriving?”
“I will use my magic here.”
He was even more shocked.
“Is it magic?!”
“I want you to cover your eyes just in case, Sermo.”
Helen handed over her blindfold.
Holding the soft cloth with both hands, the bishop looked at Roan and Helen blankly, then closed his blindfold as if he understood.
“Okay. It’s something I might tell someone… Whether it’s your own or someone else’s. All right.”
And go.
Suddenly feeling the holy power, his body froze, and soon after, he stopped once more in the climate of Basel, which was clearly cooler than Sprouse.
And Sermo, who quietly removed the blindfold, widened his eyes.
“Huh… Here… Did you move?”
“That’s right.”
Roan nodded and lifted Sermo’s shoulder.
“I will listen. The soldiers will be surprised if someone seeing it for the first time brings this much luggage.”
“Ah, yes… Yes. Thank you.”
Roan grinned.
“Are you ready?”
Sermo, who had been looking at Roan for a while, smiled lightly and nodded his head.
“You mean meeting the demons? Yes. In fact, after Aisen-sama passed away, I prepared my heart. No matter how much demons there are, as long as they can communicate with me, there will be no problem.”
“Hmm. All right. Then.”
And Roan solved the transformation.
Silence.
What broke the silence was the Bishop’s groan.
“… Eww…”
The moment Helen looks at him with worried eyes.
“Aaaaagh!”
A tremendous scream echoed through the forest.
A few birds soared between the bare tree branches covered with calm, barely green leaves.
A groaning sound followed.
It’s the sound of someone armed running.
“Are you all right!”
Among those guarding the forest, a knight and two soldiers appeared at the waypoint.
This is a forest that the emperor personally visits.
It’s impossible to hear screams.
They jumped near the ruins and found only the emperor, the human female knight escorting the emperor, and a stranger.
The human was unadorned, but he was dressed in a very conspicuous white suit, and the emperor, oddly enough, was carrying a large load in his hand.
“Fart… Horns… !”
“Sermo, it would be difficult if you do this already.”
“Did something happen?”
As the knights and soldiers lowered their heads, the bishop’s eyes seemed to pop out, and Helen, who had been soothing Sermo, became restless.
“Why are you carrying heavy things with your own hands? We will move it.”
When the knight gave the soldier a chin, Bondi tried to hand over the bishop’s burden, which Roan was holding, and Roan shook his head.
“It happened. Is my guest You must have been surprised by the move.”
Roan waved his hand and started walking in the lead.
The knights and soldiers groaned once again.
Helen dazedly touched the back of the bishop.
“Sermo.”
“Ah… , Helen.”
Thank god.
Because knights and soldiers wear helmets
Even though you can see how big it is, its face is hidden behind the helmet.
You’d faint to find out these are goblins and trolls.
How would they react if they saw our rich treasurer, the spider-human chancellor, or the vice-captain of the Durahan Knights?
Mmm.
“Would it be all right if I truly used magic?”
“… Please.”
It was a joke, but a serious answer came back.
Eventually they stopped on their way back to the castle. Sermo, who had calmed down, spoke in a calmer tone.
“… He was a man with horns. So did you use magic? I didn’t know.”
“I was a little hurt by the screams.”
The bishop smiled bitterly and apologized.
“As expected, seeing it in person is different from what I thought. I was scared for a while. Sorry.”
Scratching his head, he became even more surprised as he approached the castle gate.
The emperor does not have to pay a pass and go in and out of the city gates. Heading to the door dedicated to the emperor, the knights who already knew his face greeted him with bowed heads without saying anything. Free pass, so to speak.
“… You must be really tall.”
“Yes. Little.”
Roan smiled lightly.
No matter how much you enter the castle through the exclusive door, there are many opportunities to see demons wandering around. Soldiers and knights who do not wear helmets because they are indoors, and citizens entering and leaving Basel through the city gates.
Just before entering the passage dedicated to the emperor.
The bishop stood tall.
He is all kinds of people
He was looking at them, who would have been chased or hunted, saying that if it were Merde, he would be a monster.
“…”
Roan quietly watched Sermo.
His body is trembling slightly.
“It’s amazing. Sermo.”
Helen, who was watching the scene together, saw that Sermo’s tremors had subsided and spoke kindly.
“When I first came here, I was terrified as well.”
A smile appeared on Helen’s face, but her expression was not entirely happy either.
Even the first time she properly faced her demons, she was attacked and captured.
He probably thought he was going to die, so the tension would not be comparable to what the bishop is experiencing right now.
“But, little by little, people in Basel are getting used to humans. Perhaps if you blend in among them with a fearful expression on your face, they will get out of your way with a gruff expression on your face.”
“In a place like this, humans…”
Sermo asked.
“Are you sure you are mixing humans?”
“Sure.”
Helen laughed lightly.
“I will go to the castle first. Change your clothes there and look around more. You will be able to look around safely.”
Sermo gave a puzzled look at Roan’s confident words. Helen said she only laughed silently.
Upon entering the castle, the bishop was once again taken aback by the unfolding scene.
Everyone he encountered in the castle bent his knees and bowed their heads in silence when they saw Roan’s face.
After trembling at the sight of the demons he ran into, he sighed as if he had come back to his senses, took a deep breath, and then Sermo glanced at Roan’s face several times.
“Are you perhaps higher than I imagined?”
Roan just laughed.
“How far have you imagined it?”
“I thought you were a noble, but… Seeing that everyone recognizes him even in the castle, he seems to be a politician. Don’t… If you are enough to represent the will of His Majesty Emperor Evirzio, you may serve as Prime Minister, Chief Secretary, or Chief Chamberlain.”
“Wrong, but good guess.”
Sermo looked at Helen as if asking for her answer, but she couldn’t tell Helen first what her master wouldn’t say.
Helen smiled.
Seeing that mischievous expression, Sermo just scratched his head while laughing ‘heh heh’ as if he was embarrassed.
And Sermo quickly found out the answer by an unimaginable being.
“Where are you going? You wear such modest clothes.”
It was Aranya who ran into them in the hallway.
Helen bowed her head to her,
Sermo was half insane.
He tried to open his mouth, but managed to close it.
Still, he had seen quite a few demons on the way here, so he was conscious enough not to commit rudeness when he saw someone.
“I went outside for a while. To bring guests.”
“Oh my goodness. Oh, this human?”
“Hmm. Yes I can tell you Perhaps he is a priest who will help humans in farming.”
“You are an important person. Nice to see you.”
The thorn on Aranya’s arm snapped.
Roan and Helen knew that it was her habit of doing it unconsciously when thinking, but Sermo flinched again in surprise at the sound.
However, even though it has the body of a terrifying spider, the upper body and the woman’s face are very elegant and beautiful.
Although the outfit is different from human clothes and costumes, it is made of high-quality materials and decorated with fancy decorations that look valuable even at first glance.
When such a noblewoman (how many commoners would wander around her castle?) Showed interest in me and spoke her favor, Sermo barely opened her mouth.
It was the first thing he said to someone he met in the castle.
“Persimmon… Thank you, Lady…”
Although my voice trembled a little,
In any case, a bishop is also a person who preaches and gives lectures in front of others.
His words sounded rather soft.
“It’s Prime Minister. Our demons don’t reveal their names very well. Are they different from humans?”
“Reign… Dear Prime Minister… Do you?!”
When Sermo was surprised, Aranya asked back.
“Are you surprised?”
“Oh, no… To meet such a great person… Because you are beautiful…”
She was gibberish, but Aranya was in a good mood anyway. The wind made the thorns on her legs snap and snap lightly, like the wind shaking again.
“Speaking like that. Ho ho ho… Thank you Then, please look around and go.”
“Yes, yes…”
Aranya greeted her kindly and politely, but Sermo seemed to be getting more and more panicked.
It was because the more he pondered the conversation, the more it became clear who the chancellor would bow his head to and the identity of the person who brought him here.
Finally, Aranya wedged herself in and left.
“Then see you at the next meeting. Your majesty.”
“Lung… Under?”
The gray-haired man looked back at Roan with his mouth open with a bewildered face. Roan smiled awkwardly with an expression of ‘I was caught’.
Somehow, today alone, I have to say this twice.
“Uh, what. Your Majesty. A lot of people say that they are demon lords, don’t they?”
“Sermo!”
The bishop fainted.
