Vol 3 Chapter 2 (2/2)
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “In that case, I officially call an end to the Kurultai Convening a Kurultai is the personal privilege of the De”
The Baron of Steel: “!”
The Queen of Fairies: “What?”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “Let me make this clear, I will not convene a second Kurultai I have no need for the support of anyone else, unlike that third-rate, illed De You can call me a tyrant or whatever, I don’t care I am different from that rotten woman I am the order of the Demon World, I am beyond all law Do you understand! It’s over… It’s the end My Khans”
“Perhaps you should change that way of thinking”
General of the Pale: “Who is it?”
The De: “Do I really need to introduce myself…”
The Chief Maid: “Your Majesty, don’t push it”
The Feo back”
The De: “I have to do this”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “De…”
East Fortress Base Co!”
The Queen of Fairies: “De!”
General of the Pale: “What?! Why are you here!”
The De this in the capacity of the De is cole person; that authority, and ht, and influence that person now holds, will completely imbalance and prejudice the other Tribes, just as it has done for the ht? You may speak of loyalty and deference, but when a power-crazy Deet this kind of despicable and heinous acts occurring in the World”
Butler: “Scholar…”
The De you”
Butler: “Well, you believed me in the end”
The De: “It’s because of what the Hero said ‘That old man would never kill anyone D-cup and above’ Further poison isn’t really your style, is it?”
Butler: “I’entleman after all, nyohohohohoho”
The Hero: “—So, I suppose your candidature was invalid to begin with My sword belongs to the De, that is explicitly as stated in the contract”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “Black Knight, damn you!”
The De: “Hero!”
The Hero: “Got it!”
The Deiled Prince! If possible, I want him alive But use whatever means you have to!”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “This isn’t over yet!”
Magic buzzes in the air
The Hero: “?!”
The Fey?!”
The Chief Maid: “That’s the ic of the Palace of Death?!”
Explosion
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “Hahahahahaha! Black Knight! Black Knight! Black Knight!!! This is the real strength of the Demon World! Ahahahahaha!!!”
The Hero: “This guy is insane!!!”
Draord, ic buzzes
The Hero: “Char! Spell of Armour!”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “Lightfoot Activate! Curse of Demon Armour! Hex of the Phoenix!”
Explosion
East Fortress Base Couys!”
Aide-de-Cahts?!”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “Noill destroy you, Black Knight! I a! I will root out weakness! The weak one is especially weakened by poison, so anyone at all can kill her!”
The Hero: “What! That’s underhanded!”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “Die, you fool!”
Blast of ic
The Hero: “crap Going by -class!”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “Go! Take down that woman!!!”
Soldiers of the Pale: “Understood! Attack! Attack!”
East Fortress Base Commander: “Horsemen?! Aide-de-Camp!”
Aide-de-Camp: “Yes!”
East Fortress Base Commander: “asse!”
The Baron of Steel: “Demon of the Pale! Where did all these soldiers come from?!”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Ohhhhh! This is too much!” Draws saber
The Hero: “De!”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “damn bird! Get out of the way!”
Swords clashi+ng
The Cyclops: “Ughh… Protect… the De…”
The De: “This body is too…”
The Chief Maid: “Your Majesty!”
The Female Paladin: “Don’t come any closer! I’ll kill you!”
General of the Pale: “Archers! Move up!”
Archers of the Pale move up
East Fortress Base Commander: “There’s too many of them!”
The Chief Maid: “?!”
General of the Pale: “Move closer! Blot out the sun with arrows! All at one go! On my mark!”
Arrows fly through the air
Archer of the Pale: “Eh?”
Bonk
Archer of the Pale: “What was that?”
Bonk
Archer of the Pale: “Hey, you… Pick up your bow”
Bonk
Archer of the Pale: “Your head! Where’s your head?!”
Bonk
Archer of the Pale: “Where?! Where is it co from?!”
Bonk
Archer of the Pale: “I can’t see! My eyes! My eyes!”
Bonk
Archer of the Pale: “Ahhhhhhhhh!”
Bonk
Butler: “Hmm, second-rate soldiers That’s all it took Anyone who dares to point his bow at the De is my enemy”
East Fortress Base Commander: “Just who is that old man, what did he do?”
The Female Paladin: “He shot them”
East Fortress Base Co!”
The Fe actually”
East Fortress Base Coendary Archer?!”
The Female Paladin: “Yeah he is, but I’ve never actually seen him with a bow”
East Fortress Base Co here!”
The Female Paladin: “They died from his Phantom Arrows”
The Hero: “Take this! Lightning Destruction Spell Class One!”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “Hah! Wall of Ice!”
Explosion, ice shattering
Cavalry!”
Cavalryman of the Pale: “Restore the Pale to the throne!”
Horses charging
The Female Paladin: “! This is bad She hasn’t recovered from the poison yet, she’s already at her limit And there are so many of them…”
The Chief Maid: “I will go”
The De: “No… You can’t…”
Cavalry!”
Horses charging
The Fire Dragon Lord: “You damn fools! Shut up!” Roars
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “Hah! Hah… I never expected you would be this good”
The Hero: “Hah… Hah… That’s ht you were just a candidate”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “But it ends here Take this! I will gather allmove Mass Destruction, Complete Annihilation Spell!!!”
The Chief Maid: “?!”
The Hero: “! You won’tObliteration Spell!”
Air crackles with y, explosions all around
East Fortress Base Co?!”
The De: “Hero!”
General of the Pale: “Your Highness!”
Explosion
The Hero: “…Hahh”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “…Hah Hah Hah”
Butler: “Hero, at this rate, the Scholar!”
General of the Pale: “Your Highness, no more”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “…Sound the retreat! Retreat!”
The Hero: “…”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “…I still have my life”
The Hero: “The De was protected, this is my victory”
Sigiled Prince of the Pale: “We now enter a new era of warfare Take pride because it will not last long Soon, the curtains of hell will draw open and you will see! Hahahahahahaha!”
——– The City of the Gate, the Temple of the Lunar Willow
Disciple Engineer: “What is it, we’ve arrived too early”
Disciple Bard: “We’re here to pay our respects”
Disciple Engineer: “A temple? I never knew you were so pious”
Disciple Bard: “I’m not really very pious But since this is the God of Music, I thought we should stop by”
Disciple Engineer: “Is that so?”
Disciple Bard: “The City of the Gate is a Holy Land for a large variety of Gods”
Disciple Engineer: “I see”
Disciple Bard: “It is said that those who hope to do commerce in the City should pray here, to avoidour respects”
Disciple Engineer: “That’s true”
Disciple Bard: “Let’s go then”
Disciple Engineer: “There sure are a lot of Gods”
Disciple Bard: “Yeah, the hills around the city are just carpeted with Temples”
Disciple Engineer: “It’s really quite a”
Disciple Bard: “Though the biggest ones are the God of the Ancients, the Lightning God, the God of Light, and the God of Darkness—”
Disciple Engineer: “And the God of Music?”
Disciple Bard: “Tada! Here he is!”
Disciple Engineer: “…That’s not a temple, that’s just a shrine”
Disciple Bard: “They’re roughly the sa”
Disciple Engineer: “Their construction and scale are completely different”
Disciple Bard: “All that matters is the faith of the believer”
Disciple Engineer: “You yourself just said you weren’t very faithful”
Disciple Bard: “Right then, you should clean it up a bit”
Disciple Engineer: “What are you going to do?”
Disciple Bard: “I’ to play a verse”
Disciple Engineer: “While I do all the manual labour?”
Disciple Bard: “That’s right ♪”
Disciple Engineer: “Well, I guess it’s fine”
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Disciple Engineer: “That being said, you really went straight into this ood at a whole lot of things ere still students”
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Disciple Engineer: “I suppose it’s all relative I’ after all”
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Disciple Engineer: “Heh She’s all caught up in it”
——- The City of the Gate, in front of the Temple of the Lunar Willow
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Disciple Engineer: “You’re still at it”
Disciple Engineer: (If you thought about it… This te The City is completely enveloped by two rivers and nine hills, and on these hills, there are temples)
Disciple Engineer: “There n this”
Disciple Engineer: (Especially the teeous Parapets, I’n such a nice parapet…)
Disciple Engineer: “Umm, eh? Wait There seems to be some paper… Oh, it’s the floor”
Disciple Engineer: (These parapets are almost like the routes between towers Rather than a Temple, this place more resembles a fortress I didn’t think of it that way at first because it was so beautiful It has a with clear fortified supply routes Perhaps this was a sort of open-concept fortification line? No, rather than an open-concept… Perhaps in the past, they were all linked up to form a massive fortification?)
Disciple Engineer: “Just how old are these temples anyway? They look very resilient…”
Disciple Engineer: (…Hmm, now that I think about it, even the two rivers could have been soin with, ere crossing theh to be natural Perhaps, it was some kind of Dike?)
Disciple Engineer: “Perhaps what used to be a brick and stone fortification was covered up by eons ofit looking like this It’s possible It’s possible… I’ve always felt that the City needed soinally supposed to be like…”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Hmm”
Disciple Engineer: “If we did this—”
Draws on dust
Disciple Engineer: “This is the North, so this is where the current e to think that it led to that mountain there, I suppose No, it’s more likely that the lifeline was to the South That wouldelse In other words, the original ate of the City is the South Gate”
Middle Aged Merchant: “It’s there”
Disciple Engineer: “Eh?”
Middle Aged Merchant: “There’s an old road in that direction”
Disciple Engineer: “Really?”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Yes, though it stops halfway in the mountains It splits off from the new road which leads to the Gate”
Disciple Engineer: “Hoide is it? And what of the construction?!”
Middle Aged Merchant: “I’m not sure about the construction, but I would say it is about three times wider than a person As far as I can tell, it’s stone paved”
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Explanation
Parapet: The protruding part of a castle or another construction From these parapets, arrows could be fired at the eneinally made for defensive purposes
Dike: A sort of defensive wall consisting of earth which is piled high to stop water froh as a sort of ready-made moat
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Disciple Engineer: “Stone-paved…”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Are you interested in this?”
Disciple Engineer: “I really want to see it! An old road It’s cut off halfway? Perhaps that is due to some sort of natural disaster It would make sense that there was some kind of natural disaster which buried the old roads and hence new roads had to be conducted That would probably explain why the new roads diverged from the old roads as well”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Mmhmm”
Disciple Engineer: “Sorry, here I aer”
Middle Aged Merchant: “No, no, it was a very interesting conversation”
Disciple Engineer: “I a Disciple As you can see from my horns, I am a member of the Banshee Tribe”
Middle Aged Merchant: “I a merchant in the City of the Gate”
Disciple Engineer: “A travelling merchant You must know the roads very well”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Well, I suppose I have been here and there”
Disciple Engineer: “You must have a very deep passion for your work”
Middle Aged Merchant: “…You are passionate about roads?”
Disciple Engineer: “Well, I aineer”
Middle Aged Merchant: “A civil engineer?”
Disciple Engineer: “Not many know the term I build roads and daing water to crops for irrigation purposes or for growing trees and forests I’ve even changed the shape of ainst natural disasters Of course, these aren’t coe-scale projects”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Roads too?”
Disciple Engineer: “Roads too You may have heard of wild roads, which are roads which naturally relected for a very long time It is said that roads forrass and plants are traround beco it easy to walk on However, if you plan ahead and build well, the roads are even better and can be used for more purposes”
Middle Aged Merchant: “What about bridges?”
Disciple Engineer: “Yeah, bridges are very ioods to cross valleys, rivers, and other otherwise unpassable areas There are bridges on land to cross uneven terrain and bridges over water too Most are made from wood, but stone is really the e from
Wait, actually, at this ties ht? Even if you just reat deal of weight”
Paces around
Middle Aged Merchant: “Umm, excuse me”
Disciple Engineer: “In other words, there are extreth perspective…”
Paces around
Middle Aged Merchant: “Excuse me?!”
Disciple Engineer: “Ah—sorry! I got too carried away, I was talking as if I was in a dream”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Well, if you’re into road and bridge building, I do have a contract that needs fulfilling”
Disciple Engineer: “A contract?”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Yeah, there’s a place which needs a bridge”
Disciple Engineer: “Really?! What kind?”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Well… I haven’t really seen it e between a place where the sky and earth are reversed”
———- The Kurultai, that Night
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “So, how exactly is Her Majesty?”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “I am concerned about that too”
The Hero: “She will live, she must be left alone to recuperate for these teeks For the next few months after, movement will also be inconvenient for her”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “I see…”
The Baron of Steel: “And what of the Pale?”
The Queen of Fairies: “The Pale have quite a large number of troops in the area As soon as they join back with them, they will probably head back to their lands”
East Fortress Base Commander: “So it’s war”
The Baron of Steel: “It’s clear that the Tribe of the Demons of the Pale have betrayed us”
The Cyclops: “Betrayal… is bad…”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “The time to decide this is now”
The Hero: “The De is currently on her sickbed We should wait a while beforeis the result of the Tribe of the Pale going off and ems”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “I agree as well”
The Hero: “Furtherht have soy behind it”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “We have also yet to completely examine the business of the assassin”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Please believeto do with it!”
The Baron of Steel: “To think you would still say such things at this ti who pointed that arrow at the De!”
(This Merchant definitely met with the Tribe of the Pale… Hmm, he had a subordinate behind hi a thin hood… He had a very… strange breathing sound…)
(It et… Like a snake’s…)
East Fortress Base Co else about this”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “What do you mean?”
East Fortress Base Couy who breathes like a snake”
Aide-de-Cah”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Was that the assassin? But this is no proof that he is unrelated to the Silver Tiger Lord or the Tribe of the Fang Even if we discount the intentions of the Silver Tiger Lord, it is clear that at least onehas betrayed us”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “I am the one as betrayed, please believe me!”
East Fortress Base Coan their search four ht he was human After all, the human merchants would definitely have some sort of motive”
Aide-de-Caood idea to draw so ht fan prejudices”
East Fortress Base Commander: “It’s fine It’s better to tell the whole truth After all, we have just joined It would be wrong not to share e know”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “…A human?”
The Hero: “Well… Alright I’ve had enough with this helmet”
Clunk
The Silver Tiger Lord: “You’re a human!”
The Hero: “Yeah, I’m a Human Even today, I don’t completely reside in the Deon Lord, I am a Half-Demon”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Hht! That’s right! Hahahahahahahaha! That explains your power! And your courage! That’s why!”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “Why is a Hu?”
The Hero: “In the Human World, there are those who call me ‘the Hero’”
East Fortress Base Coht you wanted to keep it hidden”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “What!? The Hero?!”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “The est Human!”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Hahahahaha! I see now! That would explain the strength and the ical ability!”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “…And yet I clearly recall the words of conte had for you in that battle”
The Baron of Steel: “You, the Warrior of a Million Blades, single-handedly slaughtered thousands of my Metal Brethren”
The Hero: “Yes… I’m sorry That ar I won’t put it nicely It is natural for most Demons to despise me I killed many of them after all”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “…”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “And I was beginning to wonder just what kind of De behind that Armour…”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “H”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “And just why is the Hero wearing the Black Arenerations of Des It is a treasure of the Demon World, not to be ithout the express per”
The Hero: “I was told to wear it by the De”
The Queen of Fairies: “By the De…?”
The Hero: “—Three years ago, I charged into the De to assassinate the De We were still at bitter ith the Demons, and at the time I believed that the Hu to pillage and slaughter us for evil”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “That is wrong, the ones who attacked were the Humans”
The Hero: “I know that noever, that was a war War puts all sorts of ideas in your head, as well as s and anda in the Hu was inconsequential Deh for me”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “…”
The Hero: “In any case, I charged into the Dee but I never even saw the shadows of the De the place Without any backup, all onCastle And there, I ”
The Baron of Steel: “The De…”
The Hero: “The Deh she kneas here to kill her As you know, she’s weak I understood that as soon as I met her Yeah, she was far weaker than any of the De for me all on her own, ready to receive my attack
“We fought bitterly — but not with swords Rather, ords and ideas, she wagered everything against me Even now, I still do not really understand Had I killed her there and then, ould have happened to the Demon World? What would have happened to the Human World?”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “What do you mean…?”
The Hero: “The De told me that the survival of the torlds depended on each other We hated each otherand were at ith each other but we needed each other too”
East Fortress Base Commander: “…”
The Hero: “The Human World suffers from epidemics and famine… From here, all you can see are the metal and salt in the Human World, but to the Humans who live there, those are not important There is always a lack of food and people die from starvation and malnutrition I’m sorry to put it so bluntly, but it is likely that this was the reason for the ith the Demon World”
Aide-de-Camp: “I suppose you could put it that way…”
The Hero: “On one hand, the Demon World is a blood stained chaotic world However, if you looked at it simply, you would see rich and fertile land Is that not thean end to this infighting and anarchy, it could be seen that the ith the Humans has its uses”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “…”
The Hero: “The Deical Because it was a warped logic And because she was a very logical person”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “That’s…”
The Hero: “However, I fear that the logic rong The Deood reason, because this sort of unsustainable logic is just unfeasible That’s why she set out to solve it at its root cause Deuilty of this too, but shouldn’t we have soer to believe in than the value of the mere incidence of our birth? She wanted to believe that was true”
The Hero: “And that’s where I, as a Human, came in She said she wanted to stop that, that she wanted to see a different future”
Aide-de-Camp: “I… see…”
The Hero: “I am the Hero That is what they call me I was supposed to be the saviour of Hu the Demon World the way I did, I was just ahas sincerely thought this through She has considered the true methods by which to save the De”
The Queen of Fairies: “To think… the De was that sort of person…”
East Fortress Base Commander: “…”
Aide-de-Camp: “…”
The Hero: “As I’ht? How should I say it, this state is coet us anywhere That’s what I think she’s been trying to explain to me The truth is that she’s way too smart, and most of the time I only understand about half of what she tells me The ‘peace’ and ‘prosperity’ she has in round without conflicts… It’s just that war accomplishes little but the slow attrition of our future”
The De in my absence?”
The Chief Maid: “…”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Your Majesty”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Your Majesty”
The De: “I couldn’t really fall asleep…”
The Chief Maid: “Your Majesty”
The Baron of Steel: “How are you feeling!”
The De: “As you can see… I’h at me”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “No, Your Majesty”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “I do not believe anybody wants to laugh at you”
The De what I can do That’s e’re in this state The Hero has been trying to convey et about what he said”
The Hero: “…Des!”
The Deood try However, the Demon World and its traditions are as old as time These Khans bear the responsibilities of their Tribes on their shoulders, and the ht of the entire De to the consensus of the Conference”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Wh…What?!”
The De: “It