For Furcas himself, as long as his boredom was relieved, he didn’t care about the outcome.
But somehow, every one of the King’s movements appeared more painful than anything else to him.
The Corpse King, having returned to the main stage after many long years.
His way of being… his distorted way of living, hadn’t changed in the slightest.
Keeping a half-breed of demon and angel by his side, holding hands with a wolf belonging to the Primordials, and continuing to walk with a dragon, another part of the Primordials, on his back.… Read more
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At that same moment.
Garm’s mouth fell wide open, and Furcas’s eyes widened slightly.
Both of them were looking in the same direction. Even without following their gaze, it was obvious what lay ahead.
“Ah… I see.”
Garm’s small lips trembled. Looking out into the distance, she narrowed her large, moist eyes.
“So that’s what I meant by ‘nostalgic’.”
Nostalgic. Garm had indeed felt that way about some strange magical power.… Read more
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“That corpse… is it a Greater Demon?”
“Yup, yup! Because my—this lowly fellow’s—role is hunting traitors!”
He stabbed the thing he called a Greater Demon’s corpse with his sword.
He looked at the thing, which would have looked like nothing more than a lump of meat if he hadn’t said otherwise, with eyes full of accomplishment.
“It seemed like they were looking for various things… but ‘Evil-Immediate-Slay,’ right!?”
“Traitors…”
“Yeah! It seemed like they were trying to do something using humans!”… Read more
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The carriage carrying us arrived at a place where rubble was scattered about like an ancient ruin.
With the magical lights emitted by the Sleepless Kingdom, Shechem, visible in the distance, the carriage was blocked by debris and came to a halt.
“Good work.”
I stepped down from the carriage, grabbed the scruff of the man who had driven us, froze him, and shattered him.
Casting aside the shards of ice that had turned red, I began to explore the area with Nifl and the others.… Read more
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Chapter 4: The Knight
“Tch… Seriously, this isn’t worth the pay!”
“Stop whining! Just run!”
Several men, their soles stained with blood, panted heavily but showed no sign of stopping.
In the leather bags each of them carried were numerous stolen goods, stuffed to the point of bursting.
“Over here!”
“Oh! Saved at last!”
At the edge of the outskirts of the Sleepless Kingdom, a single carriage waited.
The one waving from the driver’s seat was one of their comrades, who had positioned the carriage exactly as planned.… Read more
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“Assuming that’s the case, the problem is ‘who’ Seere is trying to cooperate with, but…”
She had probably reached this stage while trying to solve it; Kaguya glanced at me as if seeking my opinion.
The only thing that might be a clue is… the content of the nightmares I heard from Zeno.
“According to what I heard, the content of the nightmares is that everyone [saw two giant snakes]… but that’s not much to go on.”… Read more
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“…Then, where is the real Demon King?”
“Who knows? The management of Greater Demons is left entirely to Furcas, and he only appears once every few hundred years.”
“Are you serious… Why didn’t that Goddess tell me any of this…?”
“Hm?”
“No… it’s nothing.”
Complaints inadvertently spilled from my mouth.
Switching my train of thought, I remembered my original purpose.
“I don’t know if this is directly related to the Demon King, but… there’s something I want to ask.”… Read more
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“Corpse King.”
“Tell Garm to just listen to my voice for now. She doesn’t need to follow.”
“Understood.”
I spoke to Nifl, who stood behind me without a trace of presence, and followed the man.
Ah, that’s right.
“Was Garm happy?”
“She was jumping for joy.”
“Good… what about Nidhogg?”
“I do not know. My instincts blocked out those remarks. I cannot hear the voice of that useless dragon from that point on. It is quite comfortable.”… Read more
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“…Wait… seriously…?”
Shink.
Faced with a sword held before her eyes, Linfa neville exhaled as if she had given up.
“…Hizaki, who are you?”
“Not telling. I’m secretive.”
Perhaps because his subordinate had used those words sarcastically against him earlier, his smile was a bit weak.
To confirm his victory, he flicked Linfa neville’s forehead with his finger.
“A mysterious figure who defeated a Level 8 Explorer… sounds pretty cool, right?”
“…………Just a little bit.”
As Linfa neville turned her head away, the referee confirmed her loss of will to fight.… Read more
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“[Kouka]… I’ve never heard of that.”
“Huh? Is Lin being taunted?”
“Sorry, I’m a bit out of touch with the world for reasons…”
“It’s fine, it’s fine! But I think that’s pretty rare, you know?”
“I bet.”
While carrying on a very friendly conversation, the woman raised a pale leg from her crimson cheongsam, bending her knee and moving her body as if she were dancing.
Instead of a warm-up, it was a martial form so perfected it could be mistaken for a dance.… Read more