Chapter 22 (1/2)

Chapter 22: The Battle Against the Demon King before Lunch

Early afternoon, I was reading Grimoire leisurely.

It was the new Grimoire Ojii-san had, and it was the one brought by the maid Amanda.

Recently, Ojii-san was collecting Grimoires as usual, and when he gets a new Grimoire, he sends it directly to me.

I am reading that right now too. It was a very old, a seasoned Grimoire that has tattered covering.

「Lucio-sama, I will be going to a walk with Coco-chan okay?」

Opening the room’s door, Sylvia showed up.

I can get a glimpse of Coco’s appearance through that door.

My wife Sylvia, and Coco who recently subsided to the pet dog position.

The two of them started to go for walks once a day.

「Take care」

「Uhmm, I have prepared snacks on the kitchen, so please eat it later」

「I got it」

Sylvia said that, and went to for a walk together with Coco.

Inside the room that I was left alone, I read Manga.

I read it to the end.

「What the h.e.l.l is this」

That, I thought.

Honestly, it’s a manga I don’t get. I don’t know what it was trying to say.

Is it surreal gag?

There are parts that are too violent, and even if I read it I couldn’t understand, that kind of manga.

Well I read it for free, and I should have learned magic so I’ll let it be.

Now that I think about it, what magic did I learned from this?

ーーKukuku.

I heard a voice. It was a strange voice.

It was at least not a type that could be heard normally, it was not a voice that is heard by the ear from sound waves.

「Who are you!」

ーーI have my grat.i.tude, you brat. You did a good job releasing me.

「Ha〜? What are you saying. I mean, where the h.e.l.l are you, show yourself」

ーーKukuku. You, you can use magic huh?  What a good timing, I need blood of a magician for my resurrection. I will make you as sacrifice.

「What areーーUwaa!」

The s.p.a.ce was suddenly distorted, and sucked me into it.

The place where I had been sucked into, was a dark place and had nothing on it.

And there, that was there.

A male that grew horns like a goat, and a have an ominous look.

From his whole body, a strange aura is being emitted. It was not human wherever I looked at it.

「Who the h.e.l.l are you!」

「I am the Demon King, Demon King Balthazar」

「Demon King, you say? 」

「That’s right, I was doing that once in this world, but I was overthrown by that d.a.m.ned Hero, and I was sealed in that Grimoire. And after a thousand years, I have been waiting for someone who could decipher the Grimoire and resurrect me」

「……it means, because I read the Grimoire that had not been deciphered for a thousand years, you resurrected huh」

「That is correct. I have my grat.i.tude you brat, because of you, I had been resurrected. The only thing left is to devour your blood and soul, then I can manifest in this world as Demon King again」

How can I say this, normally it would have been a huge disaster.

「Kukuku, wait you humans. Just like a thousand years before, I will fill this world with fear. I’ll start from killing all men, and the recreation of the female human ranch」

……it really would have probably become a disaster.

「Come now, give me your life」

Maou Balthazar reached out his hand, and with those sharply pointed fingers, he attacked me.

「Force Field!」