Chapter 51 – Periodic Reporting
After breaking up with Kaldrash, the place Camilla headed alone was the demon king’s office.
Originally, her mission was to watch over the gray molecule, Kaldrash.
In the process, she received sex education, she made friends with the Four Heavenly Kings, Dorothea, and many other things happened, but basically, she never forgot a single order given by the Demon Lord.
And she was now on her way to fulfill that order.
Smart-
Arriving at her office, she knocked on her door several times with the permission of her butler, Seneca, and a deep voice came from inside the reporter.
“Come in.”
After taking her permission, she didn’t go in right away, but after checking her own clothes once, Camilla took a small deep breath and opened the door with a determined expression on her face.
Awesome!
At the back of the door, Demon King, who is always suffering from a lot of work, was sitting at the desk in the office.
He fixed his eyes on the pile of papers and said without raising his head.
“If you have something to report, say it there. Even if you look busy, you’re all listening.”
Camilla felt slightly moved by the voice of the demon king she had been hearing for the first time in about a month, but she took her heart and acted as usual.
“Demon King, the great mage Kaldrash has just returned to the Demon Castle.”
After hearing her voice, she must have realized that she was the visitor.
“Camilla!”
The Demon King, who shouted as if he was really happy, left the document he was wrestling with just before and jumped up.
Officially, she has no relationship with Nero the Demon King.
However, Camilla regarded him as her father and Nero as her daughter.
It was such a close relationship that her biological daughter, who knew the relationship between the two, showed jealousy.
The demon king strode forward and grabbed Camilla by the shoulder.
“Are you hurt anywhere?”
Then Camilla meekly nodded her head.
“Yes. I was only in the rear, so there was no reason to get hurt.”
“Then it’s fortunate. I sent you to the eastern front and was worried.”
After saying that, the demon king wiped his chest and invited Camilla to sit down.
Then he asked with a serious expression.
“Yes, what kind of person did Kaldrash look like when you saw him for a month?”
This is an expected question.
And Camilla, who simulated it in her head several times before she came here, was able to answer without hesitation.
“He’s a man who will definitely benefit the demon king’s army in the future.”
Then, the demon king stroked his long beard and admired it.
“Oh, can I hear the reason you rated it that way?”
In response to the question of the demon king Nero, who is like her stepfather, Camilla nodded her head slightly and began to answer like a liquidator.
“He referred to himself as a small person. It was enough to take care of the people around him rather than others who did not even know his face, and he valued practical value rather than fleeting honor.”
“Are you saying you’re not a philanthropist like the hero?”
“Yes. It sounds like you hate serving others for no benefit.”
Kaldrash is a person who doesn’t suit the warrior’s party in many ways.
I didn’t even know that the cutting edge was wrong from the beginning.
Considering his overwhelming power, it must have been an option that the kingdom had no choice but to make.
“Kaldrasche made an overwhelming contribution in this dispatch to the eastern front. Not only did he play a decisive role in the fall of the Hamburg Fortress, which had been impregnable for over a hundred years, but he was also one of the kingdom’s greatest forces, ‘Mage of the Great Ocean’ Louis. Defeating Baron von Bettendorff, that wasn’t enough, I infiltrated the county of Hamburg and single-handedly massacred the margrave and 100 elite soldiers under his command.”
Hearing Camilla’s words, the demon king nodded heavily.
“We have already confirmed that part through the report Dorothea posted. It can only be described as a matter of luck that we brought him to our side.”
From the beginning, Kaldrash’s notoriety was even within the Demon King’s army.
In the past, when he was active as a military magician in the Human and Horse War, he was still in the 5th rank, but he defeated countless officers of the Demon King’s Army with his excellent combat sense and excellent forerunner to read the flow of the battlefield.
Not to mention, the magical art he was known to have learned was the name of Esmeralda, the current tower owner of the Emerald Tower, and its power could only be described as unparalleled.
Literally, state affairs.
Turning him into an enemy, he was a man more terrifying than anyone else.
“Camilla, from your point of view, is Kaldrash someone you can trust?”
Camilla didn’t answer right away, but she thought carefully.
A word of her own could not have a great influence on her choice of the demon lord, but it was because she was the only one in her demon lord’s army to observe Kaldrash from the closest place to her.
And the trouble didn’t last long.
“Yes. He is someone you can trust.”
Camilla said so.
“Why did you decide that?”
“It is said in the study of kings that the easiest person for a ruler to handle is one who is greedy for material things. It is very difficult for a person who believes in abstract things such as honor or faith to satisfy them, but a person who cares about security and prowess is difficult in his own way. If you meet the standard, you will never betray.”
“Is it.”
The Demon King looked at Camilla in front of him as if he was very proud.
“My thoughts are the same as yours. He didn’t defect to the Demon King’s army because he had some ambition. It’s probably because it was ‘beneficial’ to do so. The fact that the warrior party neglected him, who is the backbone of the party, is just one of the many reasons.”
When I put together the reports and what Camilla had heard and seen nearby, it came to the conclusion that he was a very pragmatic person.
So, as long as Nero, the tower of the Demon King’s Army, takes care of it himself, Kaldrash will not betray him.
In the first place, I started with the Gears Scroll saying I would never betray, but it was human psychology that I couldn’t believe it right away.
The Demon King said while stroking his long beard.
“Thanks to you, it seems that the outline is being captured to some extent.”
“I’m glad it was helpful to the Demon King.”
When Camilla said that and politely bowed her back, the demon king smiled happily and recalled the past.
“When I first met you, you were so small that you couldn’t even reach my waist, but now you’re really grown up.”
“…”
Camilla did not hesitate to respond to the demon king’s joke.
“If there are any good men, bring them to me. I will help as far as I can.”
After hearing her words, what passed through Camilla’s mind was the face of Kald Rasch.
In fact, of all the men she knew, Carl Drasch was the only one with whom she harbored feelings worthy of what could be called goodwill.
It is ambiguous to describe it as affection, and it is ambiguous to call it love.
Something unknown and warm was somewhere in her heart.
“All right.”
Hiding her true feelings, Camilla answered dryly with her usual expression.
“Then, you must be tired from coming a long way, so go back and rest. Ah, tell Kaldrash to come slowly tomorrow since he doesn’t need to come today. There’s plenty of time, but there’s no need to rush.”
At the Demon King’s decree to celebrate, Camilla said yes and quietly withdrew.
As she stepped outside her door, Seneca, her goat-headed head of the house, Baphomet, gave her a slight nod.
The owner of the throne changed every time a warrior sent by humans came, but his position as the butler never changed, so Seneca was no different from the hidden power of the Devil Castle.
However, Seneca, who was faithful to his role and devoted himself to serving the demon king, was also respected by all the servants in the castle.
Camilla greeted him politely and walked down the aisle with a slow, steady step.
As she passed by, the servants she encountered greeted her warmly.
It’s because she doesn’t talk much and has a hard impression, but she doesn’t have any problems with interpersonal relationships, so she greets them one by one before finally arriving at the room where Karl Drache is staying.
Smart-
As a servant, she knocked before going inside, but no answer was heard from the room.
When she carefully opened the door and went in, her sword rush, which she had parted with in front of the entrance of the Demon King’s castle just 30 minutes ago, was sleeping face down on the bed with her body still undressed.
After closing the door and entering the room, Camilla was the first to take off her coat, and then she laid her down on the bed.
Short blonde hair and green eyes.
It’s awkward to see a man with an impression like a bad boy who usually doesn’t know where to go, but now he’s quietly keeping his mouth shut with his eyes closed.
Camilla, who covered her with the blanket over him, casually stroked her sleeping face, then took her hand away in surprise.
“…”
Why?
With that question in her mind, she walked to the window to get some fresh air.
‘If there are any good men, bring them to me. I will help as far as I can.’
The words of the demon king suddenly come to mind.
A light blush appeared on Camilla’s face, who always showed little emotion.
