An unexpected conversation with the Demon Lord.

Originally, he was supposed to fight on the spot when we met, but for some reason, he wanted to talk to me.

To be honest, I don't know if it's a trap or if I really want to talk about it.

Rather, I was surprised that he called my name normally.

I probably heard it from the corps commander or Ciel Mr./Ms. beside me, but it's usually bad for the heart.

 

"Well, after all, you're not enslaving the dark wizards."

「!?」

"Are you a Black Knight, I heard reports that you sided with the humans...... Okay, so that's interesting."

 

Ferm's face turns pale at the Demon Lord's gaze.

She looks at me and asks for help, but I can't help because I'm in the same position.

Next, the Demon King looks at Nea sitting in a chair with an irreverent look.

 

"And the Necromancer...... No, vampires? If so, is it the daughter of a strange couple who owned the body of an evil dragon? It's also quite unusual."

"Usato, help me."

 

It's only the attitude that is irreverent.

He shrugs his shoulders involuntarily at Nea, whose voice is weak, but he turns his attention to the demon lord who is menacing.

 

"Grr

「…… Wow."

 

In the face of the pressure of the Demon King, Bulllyn screams.

Bulllyn also seems to be under pressure, but he is still brave compared to Nea and Ferm, probably because he is trained by Rose.

Finally, the Demon King looks at me.

 

"After all, you are the most curious."

"I'm a human being."

"Kuku, say something interesting."

 

I'm not saying anything interesting at all.

I said it rather seriously.

However, the Demon King laughs merrily and talks to the maid who is standing by his side.

 

"Ciel, do you think that's a normal person?"

"No, that's ......."

 

Mr./Ms. Ciel glanced at me.

Just as their eyes meet, she sits down on the spot.

 

"Huh!?"

 

I don't know why, but I'm scared.

Why, I don't remember ...... at all! Why am I so scared by this person!?

 

"You're a notorious healing wizard, I didn't expect you to have the ability to imprint emotional wounds on others through images."

"...... video?"

 

What are you talking about?

I don't understand the meaning of the Demon King's words.

 

"From my point of view, you are a mysterious being."

 

The Demon King rests his chin on his crossed hands and looks down at me.

From his gaze, I could feel not hostility, but curiosity about me.

 

"You're a member of the Demon Tribe, especially a dark wizard, why?"

「…… Do you need a reason?"

"Oh, I need it, to gain power? To understand us?"

 

I don't have any idea what to do.

There was no particular reason to have her as a companion in the first place.

When I said that I gained power, I felt like I was able to assimilate after becoming a friend, and if it weren't for Ferm's assimilation, punching and kicking would still be my weapon, eh, to understand the demon race? I don't think it's easy to understand the demons by understanding the extreme examples of Koga and Ferm.

What's the reason?

Oh my gosh, I don't think about anything like this......

 

"Hmm, this is a face that says you don't think anything of it.

"Huh!?"

"Well, it's called unconscious goodness."

 

The Demon Lord, who saw my expression, muttered as he put his hand on his chin.

 

"Then what kind of perception do you have of the Demon Tribe?"

「…… People who live in a tough land."

"Well, that's what you'd say."

 

The answer was probably as expected.

The demon king rests his back on the backrest as if he is bored.

 

"But the vast majority of people except you would say 'enemy.'"

"Yes, I suppose so."

 

No matter how much reason there is, the demon tribe is the one who started the war.

That fact will not go away no matter what, and it should not be allowed.

 

"I suspect that you have been summoned from a different era than when your predecessor was alive, and your lack of knowledge in battle is proof of that."

「……」

"Especially when it comes to you, I even have sympathy for the Demon Clan."

 

Exactly.

I have sympathy for the demon tribe.

But I don't think I'm going to stop here.

 

"When you realized that the Demon Lord's Territory was close to its limit, the Demon Clan had no choice but to fight?"

「…… I didn't expect you to ask me such nonsense."

 

Here, for the first time, the Demon King rolls his eyes in surprise.

He sighed in dismay and turned his eyes to me, a mixture of some disappointment.

 

"If the demon tribe asks humans for help, the humans living on this continent will allow it?"

「……」

"Usato, don't ask me questions that you yourself already know the answer to."

 

Oh, I already know why the demon tribe couldn't do that.

But I just couldn't help but ask.

 

"The reason why the demon tribe had no choice but to rely on me may be due to the friction caused by the conflict I once set up against humans, but there was another reason why I couldn't rely on humans."

「…… Subhuman discrimination"

"That's right, humans were enslaved rather than discriminated against and ostracized by subhumans. Even in this day and age."

 

Among the discrimination against subhumans, the discrimination against beastmen is probably the most prominent.

Kiriha and his friends live in a place away from the public eye in Luxvis.

Amako visited Samaria during her journey and never took off her hood.

Just because the Ringle Kingdom was a special place, discrimination against subhumans is definitely occurring.

 

"It seems to be a little better now, but there are still people who abuse and treat subhumans as slaves, and there is no way that the demon tribe will trust such people and ask for help obediently. If you did it poorly, you could even be treated as a slave."

"Still, why did you attack the Ringle Kingdom first? There would have been more hope there."

"Ah, it's true that in the Ringle Kingdom, there will be almost no discrimination against subhumans, which is something that I have immediately grasped since I woke up in this era."

 

Hearing the Ringle Kingdom, the Demon King looks nostalgic for something.

If it was before the Demon King woke up, would it be the Ringle Kingdom hundreds of years ago?

 

"That country was ruled by a king who took the form of a man even before I was sealed, and even I had a hard time understanding how such a country could have survived in the age of war."

「…… Noh Weather ......"

"Oh, that's a terrible thing to say...... It's a fact."

 

Ferm and Nea twitch their cheeks, but I am relieved by the fact that the country has not changed hundreds of years since it was now.

That's why I was curious about the reason why he attacked the Ringle Kingdom on top of that.

 

"Then why don't you ask the Lingle Kingdom for help?"

"There is no way that a single country can do anything about the sub-human discrimination that is rampant on this continent, and even if it did, the surrounding kingdoms would not allow it. No, before that, the Demon Clan doesn't have time to wait for the human subhumans living on the continent to dissipate."

 

I knew that no matter what, the demons were going to wage war on the humans.

In the first place, the problem was the feud between humans and demons due to the previous battle, and the discrimination against subhumans on the part of humans.

 

"The more I look at it, the more different it is from the previous hero."

"I'm not a hero."

"As an alien, I always thought they were similar because they had beastmen with clairvoyant magic...... You seem to be fundamentally different from him."

 

Well, there is no way that I am the same as the person of hundreds of years ago.

Before he could return the words, the Demon King spoke.

 

"But, yes, I guess we have something in common: we're abnormal."

"Is ...... abnormal?"

"From what you've done so far and what we've just exchanged, I can roughly understand it, and it's just a matter of what you've been doing."

 

…… Why does the Demon King have to say so much?

I'm aware that I'm a weird person, but I'm even told that I'm abnormal.

 

"It's too late to say that Usato is crazy......

"It's crazy that you don't even think twice about someone who hits you with healing magic......."

"It's not normal for people to swing people around and use them as weapons......

 

Why are you being attacked by such enemies and allies?

I wonder if the attack has already begun?

The words of Ferm, Nea, and Ci Mr./Ms.el make my cheeks twitch.

 

"There are similarities, but the crucial differences...... There's the fact that he's given up."

「…… Have you given up?"

"Even in the face of human malice, he still stood by people and tried to find the light, but what he was shown was the ugly nature of human beings and the cruel reality of .......

 

The demon lord looked at me and looked at me as if he had come up with something.

Layers of magic are layered in the hands of the Demon King and rotate.

When I saw this, I got up from my chair and showed my vigilance.

 

"Don't panic, it's just a bit of entertainment, and it's quicker to actually see it than to speak from my mouth."

"What ......!?"

"Evil Dragon, and Samariar, I'm going to show you some of the paths that led to the trouble you've been resolving—the path of the terrible journey that Hisago has taken."

 

The Demon King tosses the magic of his hand into the air.

In an instant, particles that seem to be the magic power of the Demon King rain down in the hall, and they form and color the figure and scenery.

 

"Shall I change the flow of time only in this hall?"

 

Is the Demon King recreating his own memories? What a hassle!

The scenery in the hall changes greatly.

Even the scenery of the past is recreated, and the place where the great hall where the sun shines in from the outside is recreated -- many people are created.

In it, he notices a familiar man kneeling stunned in front of an old man wearing an expensive robe decorated with gold.

 

"——— this person is ......."

 

The appearance of the men was completely different from that of modern people like us.

Armor like the one you see in taiga dramas.

However, his armor was tattered and chipped in places, and he was smeared with a lot of blood.

 

"Brave man, you have now been chosen as the savior of my Hagar kingdom."

"Kyu...... Seishu? What's that...... it?"

 

It's so magical that you feel like you're there.

Summoned Hisago...... No, Mr./Ms. Hisago is stunned, unable to understand the situation he finds himself in.

This is the same situation as when we were summoned.

 

"The Demon King is attacking, and the filthy subhumans are trying to threaten us. You will be on a glorious mission to fight them.'

 

———No, it's not.

What is this disgusting feeling?

No one looked at the people around him, not even the king-like person in front of Mr./Ms. Hisago, who looked like Hisago Mr./Ms..

 

"It was a masterpiece."

 

As he was even feeling nauseous at the strangeness of the scenery in front of him, the Demon King mocked the king in front of Hisago Mr./Ms..

 

"When I heard that the Hero was going to be summoned, I sent a familiar out of curiosity...... Indeed, men of this age were faithful to their own desires."

"Why is it a masterpiece?"

"The Hagar Kingdom didn't need to summon any heroes."

 

What is ———?

No, I ...... that the king of the Hagar Kingdom was there to defeat the Demon King.

 

"From the beginning, the Kingdom of Hagar was such a small country that I couldn't even see at the time, and I think it was probably perceived the same way by other countries at that time."

"Then why ...... summon a hero!"

"You're going to get a fight, aren't you? Rather, where else is the purpose?"

 

That's why they forcibly brought him from another world......

Next to me, who is just stunned, only Nea has a bitter expression on her face.

 

"This was a time when humans were fighting each other for territory, resources, and various things, and the Kingdom of Hagar was not even recognized as a competitor to other kingdoms, and could only play a small part in it."

"But I gained power by successfully summoning a 'hero' named Hisago...... Right?"

"Well, I was an idiot who could get my attention because of that."

 

The Demon King nodded at Nea's words.

I don't know how to express this feeling.

I've experienced this kind of malice several times -- the people who surround Mr./Ms. now are the same as the sorcerers of Samaria.

Trying to take advantage of someone unrelated for their own purposes and dispose of them.

 

"This means that the reason Hisago was summoned to this world in the first place was because it was a consumable item for humans to kill each other."

 

Mr./Ms. Hisago, a hero who was summoned as a completely different position like us.

I could only watch him as he was thrown into such a harsh situation alone.

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Hisago the Brave summoned as a disposable tool.

Since no one will help you and will not teach you anything, the difficulty will be Lunatic from the time of summoning.

 

The story related to Hisago will be slightly different from the book version, but don't worry, it won't affect the main story that much.