Chapter 267 – The Hero Met the Demon King
“You say you’re going to catch the demon king right away?”
I nodded lightly at Mary’s question.
After Baal died, the demon king moved to the end of the continent and was in a state of crouching.
He must have been hiding because he was hiding somewhere else, but the movements of the monsters were so concentrated in one place that it was strange not to notice them.
“Because it has to come to an end anyway.”
I answered that to Mary, who was looking at me with a worried expression.
Not only her her, but the rest of her party her also seemed to be puzzled by my decision.
The monsters that were causing trouble all over the continent had disappeared, and there were even talks about whether it was necessary to catch the demon king.
Of course, if I hadn’t worked with the Demon God, I wouldn’t have rushed to deal with the Demon King.
‘No matter how embarrassing it is.’
The reason why I decided to quickly deal with the demon lord was because of Lina.
She knew that she and her goddess were separate personalities, but she could n’t help but be concerned.
In addition, I thought that the problem of the goddess would be solved after I defeated the demon king.
“But aren’t you in too much of a hurry? Ready to move the Imperial Army…”
“I don’t need the Imperial Army.”
I answered Mary in a firm voice.
If it were the original me, I might have attracted not only the imperial army, but also the armies of other kingdoms.
For it was my idea that they should obtain their own peace.
Of course, that thought hasn’t changed even now, but as I said, I couldn’t afford to wait for the army to gather.
Moreover, perhaps because of the story of the drunkard, I felt a little resentment towards deliberately dragging other people into the war.
“So you’re saying you’re going alone?”
Mary asked me to stop talking nonsense.
He probably thought that I would deal with the demon lord by myself, just like when I dealt with Baal.
But she was truly on the wrong foot.
“Why do you think you are alone? Do I have friends I can trust?”
I trembled and laughed at Mary like that.
It was true that she and Lina had become awkward because of her affair with the drunkard, or more precisely, because of the goddess, but the exact opposite situation unfolded with the rest of her party.
Even though they were things that I couldn’t remember properly either, but if what the demon said was true, most of them would have been the most precious connections to me at one time.
“Ah…”
“Anyway, all the main characters in the Demon King’s army are either dead or gone. Without them, the Demon King’s army is nothing more than a ragtag.”
I said that to Mary, who still looked worried.
And it wasn’t a lie.
Right now, even Kamara and Karen had the ability to wipe out most groups of monsters by themselves.
“Me too… I want to go with you.”
“What?”
I tilted my head at Mary’s unexpected words and looked at her.
“Me too, your… Because they are colleagues.”
But I let out a chuckle at Mary’s next words her.
She, too, would have known that her own position her could not be with me.
Even so, she only accepted that it was her own way to say such a thing.
“You must go together, but you are not colleagues. Other than you, there are others who remain in the ecliptic. Right now Hazel is like that too.”
“… I know.”
But Mary seemed to be sincere in following me, and she told me with a look full of regret.
Seeing how lovely she looked, I moved closer to Mary.
It was against imperial etiquette to approach her emperor beyond a certain radius, but neither she nor I cared about that.
“I will win and come back.”
I said that as I got down on one knee as if I had become an Imperial Knight and lightly kissed her on the back of her hand.
It was a little embarrassing for her, but it was worth it for her sake.
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“Die! Aaaaang!”
Along with Karen’s groaning her, the magic manifested from her hand her erased the monsters in front of her.
“Crazy, do it in moderation!”
Marian frowned at Karen’s voice her, and began pouring her holy power toward the demons running away.
Demonic spirits exposed to her divine power fell on the spot as if they had been poisoned, shaking her body.
And it wasn’t just Karen and Marian who slaughtered the monsters like that.
In the sky, Camara, who had changed to her original form of her, was literally running amok, and Genoa, Isabella, and Lucille were also doing their part of her.
“When it’s over, you know? The rewards are overdue!”
In addition, Lilith and Velikiya, who had returned from the demon realm, were also easily dealing with the monsters.
As expected, the Demon King’s army without Baal was just a rogue, and I was relieved to see the party subduing them.
“Marian, I won’t leave this to you. I am going to the Demon King.”
I said that to Marian, who was closest to me, and started running between the monsters.
The monsters, who had been subjected to one-sided defeat by my party, showed their teeth and charged at me as I approached.
“The most valuable treasure.”
However, I quickly moved my body and began cutting off the heads of the monsters.
As I ran forward through the road like that, I felt a huge wind blowing behind me.
Before I had time to turn my head, I felt sharp claws gripping my body, and my body began to rise into the air.
– Where are you going?
As I listened to Kamara’s words ringing through her head, I pointed my finger at the small castle beyond the monsters.
The castle, which I don’t know when it was built, was looking perfect for the demon king to hide in, and I was sure that Unis and she would be hiding there.
– I’ll drop you off nearby.
“Thank you.”
I said that to Camara and for a moment I felt like I was flying through the air.
I had already experienced flying on her back, but the feeling of being caught by her feet her was something different.
-You want to handle it alone, right?
Kamara, who dropped me off near the castle, looked down at me and asked.
I nodded her head to her question her, and as if that was enough of an answer, Camara turned her gigantic body her and started flying back to her battlefield.
I looked at Camara like that and ran straight into the castle.
The castle that went into it was quite plausible on the outside, but the inside was literally ruins.
‘Are there no monsters inside?’
Perhaps all the monsters had been placed outside the castle, but the inside was empty and I quickly started running toward the center of the castle.
It was the first castle I had ever been to, but in general, all castles are built similarly.
Without difficulty, I was able to find the largest room located in the center of the castle, and entered it after cutting through the tightly closed door with a sword.
“… Devil.”
And I was able to meet Demon King Unis again there.
The Demon King, who was crouching with his ears covered with a terrified face, started running away by pushing the floor with a terrified face as soon as I appeared.
“Hee! Oh, don’t come!”
As soon as I saw me, I sighed lightly as I looked at the demon king who panicked.
According to the Demon God, was it the most base, unsightly, and selfish soul?
Without any intention of resisting, once I saw the demon king running away, I began to trust his words a little more.
“There is nowhere to run, anyway. Unis.”
At my words, the demon king turned his head and began to look around.
Even the hostility disappeared when he saw Unis confirming that it was blocked in all directions, even though it was the space he had been hiding in so far.
“Again, again… Are you going to kill me?”
Unis shouted at me with an unfair expression.
She, like me, remembers her previous life her, so I could n’t help but know that this was n’t the first time she’d died at my hands her.
“Well?”
I smiled at Unis and replied.
In her previous life her, I put a knife through her throat her, but I didn’t intend to do it right now.
“That’s a lie. I begged you to save me before, but you killed me!”
Perhaps because she thought there was nowhere else to run to anyway, Unis screamed at me.
Come to think of it, in her previous life her, she was just as timid and obsessed with her life her as she is now.
I remembered her kneeling down on me and literally begging for help through her tears and snot her.
‘At that time, I had no intention of listening.’
Naturally, at that time, I killed her without the slightest hesitation, and met her goddess as she was.
But now the situation was different.
I was thinking of meeting the goddess, but there was no reason to kill Unis right away.
I looked at her like that, put the ebony she was wearing around her waist down on the floor and said,
“Seeing what you do, I might save you.”
As I put down my sword, I saw Unis’ eyes filled with fear mixed with wonder and hope.
